skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the problem I have. It does not search what I ask it to search, sometimes even after using Verbatim.

And if no results are found, Google, please tell me "no results found" rather than giving me junk to scan to figure why did Google return me all this when it does not even have the keywords I asked for. I do not like to type a + before every keyword.
I can make you happy then, the last four albums I bought:
"So", by Peter Gabriel,
"Trouble Man", by Marvin Gaye,
"Impending Joy", by Algorhythmical,
"The Next Day", by David Bowie.
It is. People wandering around with stupid glasses with no lenses in them. Fixie bikes everywhere.
I've never listened to Beats, so I can't say first hand.

However, the general sentiment from the audiophile community is that they are not terrible headphones, but you can get much much better for your money. Especially if you want transparency in your audio equipment(ie: doesn't cut/boost certain parts of the audio spectrum).

http://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/search?q=beats&restrict_s...
I'm a music producer and a dj(minimal/tech house and hiphop),this is definetly not professional gear.

People buy them because of the brand not because of the qualitity of the headphones. And yes you can get way better headphones for half the price.

I have nothing against Beats and i'm happy for the team.But it's just not worth the price for a professional or someone that actually cares about high fidelity.

It would be like buying a low end Huawei phone at the price of a high end Samsung phone just because Dr Dre is endorsing it.
I had to stop drinking mate due to the sugar content (diabetes). I now favor black teas (like Earl Gray). I get the same "leveled" energy from teas.
Trader Joe's, the American grocery chain, sells Yerba Mate tea, now, as well...it's everywhere.
This is not about some value-laden speculation whether the humankind "should" have stayed hunter-gatherers or not (as if that sort of a question makes any sense whatsoever). It's about a simple question of facts: Were individual subsistence farmers on average less healthful than hunter-gatherers? The evidence seems to indicate that yes, they were.
15,000 plays over 90 days is an average of 166 plays/day. Despite his "Grammy nominated" status, he's not making much effort to market his music.
How do these digital services compare with radio? For example, if a radio station plays your song and 1,000,000 people hear it, do they pay you more than 1,000,0000 individual Pandora plays? Those numbers on your statement are for much smaller audiences than regular radio.
Here's the actual article:
http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

And here are previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687354

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681621

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679055

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673047

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825 <- Comments
Which pieces of music are your reference points and why?
Automate it?
I've been with artists in the studio and in post-production... a point that most audiophiles miss is this: Who says the artists knew what the hell they were doing?
>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.

Maybe they should actually try using the product instead of relying on automated algorithms to generate metrics when they evaluate changes. For example, it's quite obvious that something is going wrong with the prioritisation of name place text for the UK at the moment: http://imgur.com/kL0GHfe (for the non-UK readers, no there is not a large important city called "Town Centre", Edinburgh is far larger than Kirkcaldy, Birmingham is the second largest city in the country and not labeled at all).

I'm quite curious about how much real human testing they actually do. I've always had the impression that testing by actual humans is the antithesis of Google culture (automate everything and reduce everything to comparable numerical metrics).
What percentage of the internet would even understand what you just suggested, much less know how to do it?

Also, you'd have to see a massive amount of value in not signing up to Bitly to offset the hours you'd spend creating a vastly inferior hack job on your own.
This reminds me slightly of the scene in the movie "Office Space" when the consultants were interviewing one of the employees and he was discussing "People Skills".
Issue 137692
I thought this would be about the new mobile version, which unlike the prior "upgrade" is actually an upgrade. The prior mobile version ruined what was a great program. Hopefully that they're moving in the right direction with mobile will mean the desktop version will improve too.
If valid, this would be a nice way of amassing a huge patent portfolio whilst spending very little on lawyers' fees (with the potential added benefit of exposing possible grounds for invalidating competing patents if you get your applications turned down)
I appreciate the sentiment, and like to buy albums that really "click" with me. (not so much the one song at a time)

But I like internet radio to find those albums. Local FM radio plays a very limited selection, vs streaming where I can hear really cool albums from 5 or 10 years ago that I would have never heard otherwise.

That said, the author should probably consider streaming services as "advertisement", and try to sell recordings and concert tickets.
Seinfeld already did it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd9ma2UVLHM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/17/spotify-r...
I've had this concept rolling around in my head occasionally...the best path in becoming a better programmer is to sincerely desire to automate yourself out of your job.

Instead of backing up a system via GUI every week, figure out the API calls needed to hook up via a script. After a few weeks of triggering that script by hand, write a cron job and a logger that logs the relevant transactions. After awhile of manually SSHing into the backup server to verify the existence of those backups, write some kind of litmus test that fails if the backups were corrupted. Instead of checking the log every once in awhile, have it email you (and just to be safe, use other kinds of push notifications too ) when success or failure happens. And instead of lackadaisically running emergency drills to see that the backups do work, write a automated deployment system that runs off of those backups, and put that in a cron job.

At the end of all that, you still should want to be "the human". You should still want to SSH in manually, check the checksums, deploy from backup on a lazy Friday just to make sure...but those are intentional actions...not just some repetitive drill you do because you have to. And if something does go clusterfuck, you're still there to handle things.

So the test is: now that you've automated the robot-part of your work...which, the fact that you could automate it means it would have been automated some day...what do you feel free to do now? Does your company have the foresight to reward you, both in salary, and in discretion to pursue projects that truly require human insight and expertise? Or is the culture such that it's just better to keep your automated-workflow to yourself, and spend the day surfing the internet? Not that either of those choices are wrong...I mean, when I'm near retirement age, I will definitely choose the latter happily...but if that first option of moving ahead isn't available, then that's a sign that you might have to open your horizons.

Of course, if you can't automate any of your work...congratulations, it just might mean you're working on exciting, non-repetitive things that (...for now) require the best of human insight and intelligence.

edit: forgot to add the best bit...no matter what the outcome at the end of the automation process, you'll still have become a better developer by just building it out. I think 99% of my experience and knowledge of the command-line (and also, much-needed appreciation of functional design) grew out of an impatience with perfectly good GUIs. Just one of the other upsides to being a programmer...you can appreciably lessen your own workload so directly through improvement of your personal craftsmanship.
I think Black Books[0] sums this phenomenon up nicely...

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVGdhAetJaQ
Another factor is that the incremental cost of listening to something new is $0. When I'm looking for something new I just move the Mog radio slider all the way to "similar artists" and wait for something new/interesting to pop up and from there can explore their entire discography if I'm so inclined.
I've always hated paying for music (CDs/LPs) before figuring out how much I'm gonna like it. I currently subscribe to spotify but dislike how apparently so little revenue goes back to the artists I love.

I've often thought on a revolutionary model to turn the music industry on it's head, from the current gatekeeper/distributer model (which tries to fight against the 'promiscuity' of digital content) to a 'charitable' model, whereby a non-profit, trusted organization accepts a periodic donation from me and distributes royalties based on my actual listening history over a period of time (which could be adjustable at donation time if I prefer to give my money to an all-time favorite artist, or conversely to a new artist I want to hear more from).

The trusted organization would be where I'd go to download my open-source, torrenting music player & music discovery apps.

For this to work, you'd have to reinvent how to attribute a piece of music to an artist properly, in my ideal world middle men would be cut out, and the money would go directly to the composer/performer. The hard part, but the key to making me want to donate.
I think this + other examples show that money is in live performances for artists. The end.
>Only drinkable thing from Germany

They do have one or two beers that are quite drinkable.
Great post! Can't wait to see where .NET Native will go.
U.S. tech firms routinely denying Canada’s requests for personal data
Yes, this is the best http server framework of Golang.
My employee next to me is working hard. I'm in elinks in terminal on HN and on IRC, with vertical split of htop in tmux. He thinks I'm working hard too, with all those numbers, columns, scrolling output and blinking cursor.

I feel so bad right now. I'm going to go actually work.
> "...work is valuable in itself."

This is it. We have been fed a lie that "work" has intrinsic value and that people who don't want to work constantly are somehow inferior or immoral. Worse, "work" has come to be associated more with occupying a particular area in space during particular times than with actually accomplishing anything.

I work relatively little (I'm 31 and I've literally never worked 40 hours a week) and I've actually had people ask me, incredulously, what exactly I DO all the time if I'm not working. As though there aren't a million wonderful things to do at any given time and I'm wasting my life by NOT "working" more. Very sad.
Could someone tell me what are the pros and cons of MSIL vs. native? The article introduction (I did not read the rest) only talks about the benefits of native. But if there were only benefits, why Microsoft would have gone to MSIL in the first place. Apologies if I am missing something obvious.
Chrome GUI is great ... if you never used Opera.
Non pay-walled version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
The less tech savvy users that are unhappy about the Australis UI changes don't know who they can complain to or where they can complain. I think that the backlash from power users has been lessened because addons (Classic Theme Restorer and Classic Toolbar Buttons) can successfully undo the distasteful and unnecessary Australis UI changes. It is telling that one of the best rated extensions for FF is an addon that undoes supposedly positive changes.

Reliance on third party addons for functionality is almost always a step backwards, but it is possible to run the latest Nightly with the pre-Australis UI.
As far as I know (at least that was the case ~2 years ago) Spotify would be profitable if they chose to, but reinvested as much as they could into a higher market penetration insetad.

Also, about spotify and finance:
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/5070561/spotifys-finan...
Google somehow manages to make UI's worse and worse as the time progresses. Gtalk was nice, was turned into unusable mess which is Hangouts. Youtube got worse with comments and annoying force feeding of real name policy. Maps got way worse after the recent upgrade for reasons you described. GMail as well made some anti-user changes (like for example being unable to log-in from different account if there is a cookie from previous login but also some choices in inbox itself).
I wonder if there is some evil UI design department within Google because they are very consistent at messing up once good and user friendly services.
And how to suceed at board level - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WGrmTJnfIg
The Nordic countries have a combined population of 26 million, less than a tenth of the US 318 million.

So, assuming similar abilities and a naive random model, out of every research area's top labs, the US should have twelve fold representation compared to the Nordic countries.

There is some concentration in some niches in these countries, as there is probably elsewhere as well.

I think in general the US society and atmosphere is much more stratified than here. Also because of the larger "pool", the "peak" is bigger. The top research labs or top companies get the top people and give almost unlimited resources. But that is relevant to only a small percentage anyway.

Discussion about limiting freedoms and state guidance is quite hard.

In my view, basically anything the state (or city or your neighbordhood council or whatever) does, limits your freedom in some way. Hence we can start from the fact that our freedoms are already limited.
This article http://www.dailydot.com/technology/apple-beats-jimmy-iovine-... speculates that the main attractions for Apple are the streaming service and the deal-making juice, which makes sense to me.
Wow, I can't understand it, why hasn't anyone informed all these corporations that they are wasting so much money paying people to do nothing? Why hasn't anyone at these companies realised what's going on? It's crazy, there must be incredible competitive advantages to be had with all the savings up for grabs - just think of how much cheaper they could make their products, they could undercut the competition like crazy!

Man, you know what, I don't why this Graeber guy hasn't gotten there first, but I reckon I'm just gunna go break the good news - I bet I can charge top dollar for my advice too, these companies are gunna be so blown away, hehehe I'm gunna be rich!!
Less is more, right? Right?!?
I'm a lot more curious about what the point of this is. Beats is about more than just headphones - they have the branded audio systems in some laptops and I think phones - but I didn't realize any of it was technically compelling. I thought they were all sales and marketing. Apple doesn't really need any help with that, do they?
Kind of interesting to get insight into how much of a handicap color blindness is via the revealed preference of whether you'd she'll out $X for them. A different article, David Pogue:

"The highlight came on Day 4 of my tests, when my kids discovered a rainbow arcing across the sky...

Then I put on the glasses. Unbelievable! ... I don’t mind admitting, I felt a surge of emotion. It was like a peek into a world I knew existed, but had never been allowed to see...

So would I pay $600 for these glasses?

The truth is, I don’t consider colorblindness much of a handicap..."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/pogue/2013/08/15/glasses-tha...
The amount of paperwork required to keep track of this is more costly that the $4.20 cents or whatever of revenues. Even as a minimum wage worker, its not even worth it to bother. Why bother spending 30 minutes looking over this stuff and filing it for taxes? That is the sign of hugely dis-functional micro-payments model (unfortunately).
Report: Journalists Are Miserable, Liberal, Over-Educated
The thing I'd like to know is, is there anything that we can do for this? you found the prior art quickly, so it is clear that the patent should not be valid but is there anything citizens can do to point this out? is there any way of invalidating a patent once it's been awarded short of legal action?

As far as I know there is no recourse other than legal action (which is incredibly costly) once a patent has been granted which I think is part of the problem of these ridiculous patents being granted in the first place.
It doesn't fully contradict your point, but FWIW, Applicants do have to pay the USPTO $1,200 to $1,700 (with some exceptions) every other time they send the application back in. And of course, "changing some parts" typically involves reducing the scope of rights you're seeking, which most folks would regard as progress for the public's interest.
Run, Joe, Run: Why Democrats Need a Biden Candidacy
You should actually feel bad if the two of you are working on the same thing.
I switched to Bing Maps a month or so ago. It's not as good as the old Google Maps -- there's less detailed information -- but at least the basic functionality works. Can't say that for the new Google Maps.
When you have 32-bit pointers, 2^32 isn't a random limit.
The prices put down during the pirate bay trial, it was claimed that artists lost between 20-30$ per watched performance.

We're talking about streaming audio over the internet, though. I don't think one listen of a song brings in $20 in revenue (advertising and subscriber fees).
They should be something you know extremely well, have heard on most equipment you've owned, and reflect your listening. Ideally it will have bits that challenge the equipment.

Beck - Paper Tiger (on Sea Change) about 3 minutes 15 seconds in.

Because of the combination of rich and deep bass combined with delicate strings. Single speaker systems (headphones) struggle with reproducing bass at the the same as reproducing treble.

Charlatans - Page One (on Between 10th and 11th) the first minute

It's an example of massive over-production. It's left the sound stripped and clinical, and anything less than a faithful reproduction sounds terrible. This one track exposes compression artifacts really well, the top-end becomes washed out and blurred.

Belle and Sebastian - Me and the Major (on If You're Feeling Sinister) the end of the track

I've seen them live over 100 times, been in their studio and rehearsal space, worked with them. I know his voice, how it should sound, and I know that this record did not go through great post production (or much of an amateur post production either). The mouth organ bits at the end are not controlled very well and cause systems to clip the peaks, it can be uncomfortable to listen to, and is made worse by a less than great reproduction.

I tend to also throw in Nirvana, Led Zep, Beethoven, Chopin, and some dodgy pop music. But what I look for there is mostly whether the equipment isn't killing the thing I love.
I don't think that's true on the payouts front (I'll get to that in a second).

Yes, if you listen less, the artist you listen to get more. Which I don't think is a bad thing, because theoretically using the current system if everyone listens to less, all the artists get more per play.

This system, while not perfect, gives your money to the artists you listen to and support, as opposed to helping give lots of money to artists you probably couldn't give a damn about.

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As for the payouts, I don't think you did your math...

Example:

Person A listens to four songs by Artist 1.

Person B listens to five songs by Artist 2.

Person C listens to two songs by Artist 1, and four songs by Artist 2.

Assuming that $10 goes directly to the artists from each listener, in the huge pot system, artist 1 is played six times, and artist two is played nine times. Artist 1 gets $12, and artist 2 gets $18.

In the individual distribution, artist 1 gets ~$13.33, and artist 2 gets ~$16.77
It's a good thing that I didn't say anything about "automated algorithms used to generate metrics", then...
This was machine-aided human evaluation.

Search quality evaluation can't really be done without humans in the loop. If you had an algorithm that could distinguish between a good result and a bad result, you wouldn't use it to evaluate results. You'd use it to generate the results.
Is my job a bullshit job? No, but...

I'm miserably reminded every week when I do my TPS^H^H^H timesheet just what proportion of my job is bullshit activity that I have to get through so that I can get to the part where I am actually going to work on something that will matter to someone. ("Look! I actually spent almost 10 hours this week [designing/] writing [/testing] code!") Knowing what needs doing is of course important, but after the third time of hearing it, it's time to shut up and go to work, people!

So many meetings, so many... (sobs bitterly in corner)
Beats has a streaming service that Apple has previously shown interest in as well as people with contacts in the music industry.
I was praising Google Now for its potential. I agree that some of the proffered help can be silly.

I find the most useful alerts come from the automated reading of my email; for example: plane schedules and also information on package delivery.

So, I really do believe that Google Now has a lot of potential, but I have concerns about privacy also.
Could the same effect be achieved in software for computer displays?
Net Neutrality is Wrong
My theory would be that people of all ages who don't know much about computers will always say slightly odd things about computers. I think this is the same phenomenon as when people say that their OS is Dell, or that they user Internet when they mean a web browser.
This Cat Is a Shepherd
Great to see more number of 'scientific' posts sprouting on HN these days!
And the dark cloud behind that: Congress selling patent extensions to the highest bidder. Although I suppose it's eventually going to devolve to Congress being on retainer.
Regarding common mistake #5, when using enumerate(mylist), mylist can be modified::

for i, x in enumerate(numbers):
if odd(x):
del numbers[i]
Not who you were replying to, but a simple left-click for "what's here?" works for me on a Chromebook running Chrome 33.0.1750.152
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I think it's pretty much a given that we will be able to pack enough computing power into a phone to make it useful for average day to day internet/office tasks (arguably we are already there).

Whether that platform will be built out of a phone I don't know but it's probably likely as economies of scale on phone production do drive down the price of the hardware.

It's not going to replace a computer for everyone though (I like my three screens too much for that) but I could see the utility.
Out of curiosity, how are you able to work as little as you do?