skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2e5ZibypDk .

That said, it's not Dre's first entry into Apple's orbit. He has two entries in Isaacson's /Steve Jobs/.
It was a quarterly royalty statement, but I have to agree in principle. 15,000 plays doesn't sound like a whole lot across a large Spotify audience, which has tens of millions of members. That's just a random play of a piece here or there, not some kind of often-requested following.
For you it isn't cheaper. For someone who listens to a lot of different kinds of music, and finds 12 albums (or even ~120 songs) a year that they like, it's about even either way.

It can also be rather convenient: you don't have to load up all your music on a device, and if you ever feel like listening to something new, it's really easy to find. But if you're only updating your music library three or four times a year, it's not a big deal.

You also probably didn't need to boot up a virtual machine every time you wanted to sync your phone... But that's a different problem.

Streaming services also typically have a radio feature, where you can specify a song and say "play more things like this". Which I've found is both nice on the "just give me something to listen to" level and useful for finding new music.
$20 or $30 per performance? Is that what they're making off of each YouTube stream? That's a ridiculous claim. Back in the pre-digital era like the 90's singles were $9 for a CD single. And those usually came with 3 songs, even counting for inflation I don't think that math adds up, and that's for purchasing a song.

$4 for 14k performances of a streamed song seems totally reasonable to me. If you own the song 100% then charge more.
This isn't your average company, though. It's Mozilla. Their main product is a completely open-source browser, and nearly 100% of their decision making is done out in the open, with the community's input being a massive part of it. So, while I agree with your assessment when it comes to most companies that can act like that, this is different in my opinion.
I'm not sure if it's completely standard, but my royalties have always been 10% of wholesale (which usually works out to about 5% of retail). Amazon will pay out 5%-10% referral fees depending on the item and how good an affiliate you are. Also, you can often earn royalties for other items bought in the same session, so Amazon could well be a lot more lucrative.
I think you misread. They claimed 20-30 _dollars_ per performance. not cents.
> Also, many startups consider security to be a waste of time

Do you have evidence to support this?

I wouldn't say that security is considered a waste of time.

It is, however is a trade-off[1] between money, time, and other resources, things that, generally speaking, start-ups tend to be short on.

I worked for a startup that provided multifactor authentication using biometrics (amongst others), and almost all of our business came after publicized (and not publicized) breaches, from both large and small firms.

[1]https://www.schneier.com/essay-155.html
Man, would I love to hear what the only 3 or 4 "good" albums were last year.
The other day I was comparing which cities had which fast food restaurants, and how many. I zoomed in to Philadelphia and searched for "Wendies" (yes, misspelled). I suddenly found myself looking at the address of an unrelated store in Trenton, NJ. I tried it again, and it worked as expected.

I don't know what they have done to the search in maps, but that sort of thing has been happening to me frequently these days with that product. It is almost never consistent, perhaps relying on the exact zoom and position, or perhaps correcting itself when correct results hit the cache.. I don't really know. It's inconsistency makes me think that I am losing my mind sometimes. What I am sure of is that something is rotten in the state of Google Maps.
I don't listen to the same music all the time. I massively enjoy Pandora. Just pick a genre and it's done.
He said $30, not $0.30. Which makes it $420,000. Which is almost half a million dollars.

Of course, if the $30 figure is off, and it was really only $0.30 a performance you're right.
Seth Roberts – Cause of Death
Armen Chakmakian (the author) only has one song available on Spotify – on a compilation called “Buddha-Bar.” He only has 26 followers.
There aren't enough billionaires for this to translate into meaningful savings, if it's mostly billionaires who don't bother.
Really?

When I last looked into it, there had to be some strange stuff to be done, to call JS from Dart and Dart from JS.

It just didn't felt as naturally as in TypeScript or LiveScript.
Yes...you and I are in agreeance here...and to be fair to the government, I would argue 99% of clients don't exactly know what they need. I'm not arguing that Drupal is always wrong, or that it is inherently bad...I'm arguing that it provides too much for what users actually need...that it was dropped for Wordpress is an indication that they thought Drupal itself could be the data-handling platform. Hell, they probably don't even need WordPress and could probably do much of it in Jekyll or some other static deployment.

I used Drupal back in the 5.x days and thought it was pretty swell, but that was when I was a rookie developer who had almost no real full-stack dev experience. Now I can't think of a single use case in which Drupal's purported feature set is needed that would not be better fulfilled by just going to Django/Rails. The hackery that seemingly has to be done to meet clients' perceived needs almost eliminates whatever advantage Drupal in terms of a community of knowledgable developers to hire from. And I would question whether there are really more Drupal-only developers than Rails-only developers (certainly, there are way more Wordpress developers).
I suppose an interesting comparison is the Gangnam Style video on Youtube, which has 2 billion views. If he had 2bn plays rather than 15,000 he'd have made $560,000, which doesn't really sound like that much to me considering Gangnam Style's the most viewed video on Youtube of all time. (I realise the revenue you'd get from the Youtube video is different).
I'd agree that HN isn't the place generalized advocacy and that the same should be actively discouraged if it happens more than rarely, but, for specific cases such as this one, HN users have a relevant and appropriate interest. Technology patents directly affect HN users' lives and businesses. Furthermore, HN users are particularly well-suited to have educated and well-informed opinions on this particular matter; much more so than most of the general public. It is such an obscure area that interested parties cannot reasonably expect the general public to properly protect their interests.

So, if not here on HN, then where?
In the Chicago area, there are two populations of Canada Goose, one migratory. There was a concern that their population was going to grow substantially, but it was discovered that it had flattened out.

Someone then discovered that the growing population of coyotes in the area were going after the eggs, and the population as a result has stablized.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/are-beats-by...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdbn_pmxFic&t=3m0s
Aghh, that completely slipped my mind.

I agree that it's very interesting, and its probably very telling as to the group of people that is probably going to be best equipped to addressing the problem without having to hack away at traditional means that have thus proven themselves highly ineffective/slow moving at this point.

I think that means there is probably going to be a subset of that audience that would participate in something like that but with more focus on individuals and pressuring the patent office to act through some means (email,tax,phone calls, transparency on a systemic issue with some data). I guess this could be a spin on civic engagement.
Well, you're not taking those people's money in the first place. The justification for including them in both calculations is so that there are no discontinuities in the system where producing a little more of value for others means taking home a lot less in resources for yourself (like many means-tested programs).
This is a strange proposal. Assuming everyone paid a fixed subscription fee and listened to the same amount of music each, the artist payouts would work out exactly the same.

In practice people vary in their usage of these services. Basically the artists you listen to would get paid more per play if you didn't use the service much. (i.e., if I only fired up Spotify once this month, listened to one track, then the artist gets my full $14 for one play)
+1 for Bing maps [shudders]. I tried yahoo maps and it is nearly as crappy as the new google maps...hell, Apple maps is superior to the new google maps...and I didn't see that coming.
Exceptions don't change how open they are. Companies as successful as Quora joining YC is great for YC and the alumni.

The main reason I'm interested in the ownership amount is that other companies applying to YC should understand whether their valuation at a recent round is fair for YC to get, or if even Quora thought 7% is worth it.

If I were to apply to YC with my startup YesGraph (which took a large seed a year ago), this would be a really important question, especially considering I'm an alum and already how everything else works.
How about instead of using a crappy word that attempts to tar a nebulous ill-defined group of people, you just point out the issues you have with it. No need for the "hipster" straw-man, as far as I'm concerned, and I agree with your points. "Hipster" is over-done, and from where I'm sitting those who use it pejoratively come across as elitist.
> I have no idea how to create a link to what I'm looking at in Google Maps (app on iPhone).

I voiced this complaint about the new desktop/browser version of google maps on here a few months ago. FWIW, apparently the permalink functionality has been removed because the address bar is now updated on the fly, so whatever is in the address bar is now always your permalink. This of course is not communicated to the user anywhere that I can see.

I don't know if this helps you on iOS or not.
That's a weird point of view. If we continued to hunt and gather and didn't develop agriculture, we'd be extinct or like any other common animal.

In my mind, existing is healthy than not existing.
It's still a bit scary that they're apparently using some ad-hoc KDF (key derivation function) built from bcrypt and HMAC. bcrypt is a decent KDF, but there are several ways to make a bad KDF from a combination of bcrypt and HMAC. For instance, concatenating bcrypt(salt, pw) and HMAC-SHA512(salt, pw) makes guessing passwords way too fast.

I'm hoping that all they've done is use bcrypt(salt, HMAC-SHA256(salt, pw)) to get around the bcrypt 72 character limit. However, using scrypt would have been better.
I would read this article but I am busily typing my name over and over into a word document.
I disagree.

I mostly use web browser for browsing. Not for staying in this on that setup menu, not for looking at tabs and windows.

Chrome managed to move the bloat away and move the important thing to front.

I don't really see the parallel with the new Google Maps.
I was just wondering the same. I tried a couple of my colleagues headphones when I had left me own at home. He seemed annoyed at me for preferring the 30 euro ones over the 100 euro noise cancelling ones, but I preferred the sound that came from them.
There's no information about how they work in OP's link, but the manufacturers site explains it(although I still found it a little difficult to grasp).

Basically, they cut out some parts of the spectrum where the cones in a colour blind eye overlap a lot.

"There are two types of red-green color blindness: deutans and protans. Deutans, which are 75% of cases, have a defect in the green cone cells. In this case, the defect causes the green cone cell to be spectrally shifted towards red. Green becomes more like yellow. Protans, which are 25% of cases, have a defect in the red cone cells. In this case, the defect causes the red cone cell to be spectrally shifted towards green. Red becomes darker and more like orange.

These spectral shifts degrade the quality of color information sent to the brain. Some colors like blue and yellow are not affected, but shades of green, orange, brown, red, pink and purple are muddled and washed out. If the color blindness is strong, it can be difficult to correctly name these colors, causing problems with jobs and many everyday tasks. People with red-green color blindness can usually see between 10,000 to 100,000 shades of color.

The EnChroma Cx uses a special extra-strength version of the Digital Color Boost™ coating. By removing the wavelengths of light where overlap is occurring between the red and green cone cells, the spectral shift can be reversed, amplifying the color signal sent to the brain. The result is that colors appear to be brighter and more pure. Thousands more shades can be seen. Colors can be recognized more quickly and with less confusion. For many, the effect is a profound emotional experience."

http://enchroma.com/technology/how-it-works/
This may answer some of people questions regarding the cause of his death, questions found on his blog and also on this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658414
I suspect otherwise. We'll never know how much the record company makes (Hollywood accounting), but there's no reason to believe they're giving him half the take. I'd be shocked if he even got 10%, it's probably more like 3%. And they're not just getting 97% of his, but 97% of everyone's.
Artists who look at these services as anything but free advertisement for themselves so that they can get media sales, increased concert attendance, or notoriety that can translate to other gigs (like Armen Chakmakian who claims that his real job is writing music for television) are going to be perpetually disappointed.
A faster sub-string search algorithm (strstr())
I bet I can slam a "No." stamp down on stacks of paper faster than a lawyer can generate stacks of paper.

At the very least I have postal service latency on my side.
I'm not sure who calls themselves an audiophile, but would guess that most people would call me one (music industry background, more money spent on stereo equipment than computer equipment, etc).

I've used two pairs of Beats headphones and disliked both. I guess the best way to describe it is that they sounded non-neutral... they change the audio.

When I try stereo equipment I have a few pieces of music I always return to and I know well, my reference points. I, and most audiophiles, shoot for equipment that is as neutral as possible, that introduces nothing new into the recording whilst reproducing the recording as faithfully as possible.

If you're asking audiophiles what equates to good, the answer will be neutrality; not modifying the audio at all. Usually this means introducing no warmth where there was none, no harshness where there was none, emphasising nothing that wasn't originally emphasised in the recording and studio, etc. You shouldn't hear the equipment used for reproduction in the music that you're reproducing.

Beats headphones are a bit like a Mega-Bass switch on old Walkman systems. What they do to the audio isn't enjoyable if you tend to like things with acoustic sections, folk music, classical, jazz, and rock.

But... for House music, Hip Hop and other club beats the changes may actually be something you enjoy and seek as they reproduce an element of how you enjoy music (closer to the memory of the club, or a loud car stereo than a perfect recording).

They are crap, for want of a better word, because they change the music noticeably. But you've got to realise this is super-subjective stuff as some people want those changes.

They are also crap, probably the right word this time, because the material choice at this price point is pretty dire. But hey, they made plastic a luxury thing again, you could argue there's some brilliance there too. Most issues around durability come from the choice of materials.

As to whether they're crap full stop... well, no.

If you like the big beats of clubs, reverberating bass that dominates, and you rank the iconic fashion statement above durability (because fashion isn't designed to last anyway)... then Beats aren't a bad choice.
"Kids these days" is rarely strictly about age.

It's usually about a class of people who have helped to design the systems we have at present and who are therefore heavily invested in those systems in a variety of ways reacting negatively to a class of people attempting to help design new systems that they will one day defend due to their investment in them.

The idea that UX was better in the 1980s kind of gives you away here.
Fun to read her 1976 description of what sounds like SOA or microservices (http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html) - for her networking = modem over POTS and server = minicomputer but otherwise it's pretty similar.
At first I was thinking "$4 for 14k plays sounds pretty good!", but then I did a little math.

If I listen to a streaming service for 10 hours a week (seems like a plausible average?), that's about 800 songs per month. So I'm probably paying in the range of a penny per song listened to. If I played 14k songs, that's $140. So only 3% is going to the artist[1], which does actually seem fairly low.

To put it another way, he's making the same amount of my subscription as the credit card company is.

1 - We have no idea how much he's previously been paid via advances, etc.
It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one that feels this way. Search for local businesses has become nearly impossible. Whether it's failing to return anything or results that are wholly irrelevant, search and particularly maps have taken a large step backward.

There's a great market opportunity here. (Really) old guard companies like YP still haven't responded to the shift and I infer from Google's backslide that it's not a priority for them.

We can't buy everything from Amazon (esp. Hachette books!)
We'll never know how much the record company makes

But he said that he's the label as well and he included that statement in the post. The total was only a little over twice as much as he was paid as the artist.
> As for Wordpress's alleged speed problems, I haven't had any trouble.

It does not support caching out of the box and MySQL has, for a long time, had poor behaviour for workloads involving tables with TEXT fields.

By the way, learn about db-error.php. Might as well never have a problem in style.
For a blog posts around the same topic in the book world:

http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/225.html
I didn't downvote you, but I think that's an exceedingly narrow view of causality. We've all been inspired by books, films, games, teachers, etc. If we go on to do great things, we owe a debt to everything that got us to where we go.
Would it be valid for me to submit my own patent application, with the exact same wording as amazon's, but substituting "50mm lens" in place of "85mm lens"?

I dont know how patent law works, so I'm honestly asking.. if the narrowness of the claims makes it okay, wont we eventually end up with hundreds of patents covering the entire space of possible configurations?
"Idle reminder: recorded music is not a very big industry."

https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/464949346497085440
I've had it the traditional way, but it's more efficient at the office to use a French press.
Not sure, did a little digging, and it should be http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-a-german-soda-became-ha...
They posted a video response on their Indiegogo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgPbBAa6dj0

As I understand it, there are two reasons as to why they've turned to crowdfunding. One, large funding bodies are more concerned with the vaccine's clinical trials right now, and will worry about scale up of vaccine production when the time comes. Two, with respect to reason one (and the ignorance of the aforementioned funding bodies), Sanaria wants to do all it can to keep vaccine production costs down and vaccine supply high so that the eventual price/dose in a developing context is as low as possible, hence the development of a dissection robot.

The CEO has also mentioned on various interviews/IAmA that the price/dose for the US Military and avg. Western traveler will be significantly more expensive in order to help keep the price down for underserved populations. (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1k164k/iama_stephen_l_...)
Did Armen's royalty statement sheet list streaming, radio, or both? Curious if he gets the same whether I stream it on demand or whether I listen to a local affiliate broadcast on the radio (?)
It's not the idea to put the ads in. It's the fake pretense of doing that for the sake of users. Just re-read the original announcement [0]. It is so disingenuous, it hurts. Then see the line I quoted above. It got the exact same problem - it's disingenuous. The issues with the announcement were not with the language.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...
Ha.
the picture is the best part:
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=08676045&homeurl=http%3A%...
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I personally don't mind particularly either. They do it, Ill start building firefox myself without it. no big deal.

...but I think its pretty clear not everyone agreed it was a good idea, to put it mildly.
I guess it depends on where you buy the album and in what format. Last time I bought a CD it was still over $10, so anything that can give you variety at under $30/yr should be cheaper.

The other nice thing about a streaming service is that you may get exposed to something you didn't know you liked.

I was about to quote the annual Pandora One price as being less than the cost of 3 CDs, but evidently I missed where the annual option was nixed due to several increases in SoundExchange royalty rates.
Thanks for the reply, but I would be more interested in a soda with artificial sweetener. It would be great if they made a Club Mate variant without sugar
The neutrality point is kind of interesting because if the sound engineers start adjusting recordings to sound best though Beats headphones (or other audio 'enhancers'), then the recording will actually sound 'worse than intended' if it's listened to through a neutral system....
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I wonder how long it will be before Mozilla are in real danger of losing control of the browser they call Firefox, if they continue on their recent trajectory. We're talking about Open Source here, so it is always possible to fork it under different branding, and a few groups already have for one reason or another.

Of course, in reality, forking and then establishing the fork as a mainstream replacement that aligns more closely with the traditional advantages of Firefox would be a huge undertaking. For any new browser to gain traction outside of geek communities would surely require both a substantial user base and substantial support from the development community.

But it's been done before, even for large and high profile projects, when the existing corporate stewardship wasn't getting the job done: the LibreOffice/OpenOffice split is the first example that comes to mind. If I were this week's CEO at Mozilla, I would consider a mainstream fork to be at least a plausible threat by now.
> A witch hunt would involve gaming the reporting system to hassle people for irrelevant reasons.

Specifically I would say that a witch hunt is characterized by an assumption of guilt, combined with a high false-positive rate, combined with offers for leniency if the accused points their finger at others. That's how the House Un-American Activities Commission did it, and those are the parallels between the HUAC and Salem that Arthur Miller identified.

Merely accusing somebody of doing their job poorly isn't anything like a witch hunt.
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