skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the parent but I agree completely with him. First of all YouTube content is monotised by video ads which you won't be able to see with this. Secondly their statement that: "... listening to music should always be free and available to everyone, and that only owning it should bare a cost" is nothing but greedy and entitled. Nobody has the right to decide that something someone else has spent time and money creating should be available for free without the creators having a say.

Not to mention the fact that the music industry has made music incredibly cheap and available over the last few years. $10 per month for access to most of the music ever recorded on all your devices is an incredible deal. And it's available to almost everyone in the world via streaming services like Deezer (which is available in over 180 countries).
PURP and ROYAL – SHE WET (OFFICIAL TWERK VIDEO) [SEXY RUSSIAN TWERK]
Given how stringent Germany is with regard to copyright laws and adding huge fees to everything played anywhere I'm amazed Spotify made it here, but it has and I use it every day.
Underwater Twerking
me too! for music there are good and paid consumer solutions. i like popcorn, because they are (at least i hope) pushing the movie industry into the right direction...
I find it slightly disturbing that the author doesn't consider a lack of CS knowledge to be a big problem. I would hope that a teacher would have strong knowledge of CS theory, at a level beyond what they teach. So just undergrad level knowledge would suffice in this case. In addition I would hope for reasonably strong practical knowledge of the language they teach.

I'm not saying that a teacher needs to go and learn rust/go/swift, but if you are teaching python you should it well.
How Raneto got to the front page of Hacker News for $0
That is inspired. I use VsVim and remap certain keyboard chords that I rely heavily on, whereas the rest of my office have very vanilla setups. Days where my settings are the baseline would be glorious.
>> "Besides this, it is not at all clear that private sharing of digital information is automatically detrimental to musicians."

Seems like this would be pretty easy to work out. Look at the amount of money musicians made 30 years ago and compare it with today.

>> "Whereas it used to be the case that you needed a record deal signed with a major label to have anyone even hear your music, these days you can become a major star, making a comfortable living off your music without ever signing a contract with a major label."

This needs to be proven. Show me some of these big stars. If I look through the top 100 albums or singles I doubt I'll find 5 that have done it without the help of a label.
Atheist who can't quite get rid of religious fear? Why reinvent Jesus when you can reinvent Yahweh! http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
Ask HN: I use excel to develop code. Is this rational?
While a blogger, I develop and update few lists of ~50 links in HTML. I develop it in excel, it allows for example to alphabetically sort the list and take easy track of items already present. I'm not a professional programmer but is this rational? Besides excel I use sublime text.
Generative Art will take off when it doesn't require expressing the code through conventional programming language syntax. A visual, interactive programming environment like those advocated by Bret Victor [1] would be ideal for artists without a technical background.

NodeBox, mentioned below, have some characteristics of this, although it doesn't seem to allow the artist to create new abstractions without resorting back to Python.

[1] in Stop Drawing Dead Fish. http://vimeo.com/64895205
Yep, just upgraded mine to Mavericks and had absolutely no issues. You just need to make sure you buy components that are tried and tested by the hackintosh community.
Isn't that effectively mandatory parole review after a set time period?
They could be connecting the accounts to some sort of mobile NFC payment system, like google wallet's "tap and pay".
This one has always intrigued me, especially the modifications done to get it to perform that well:

http://www.59fiattestcar.com/
Something like this happened with the Macintosh trademark as well -- Apple had to buy the right to the name from McIntosh Laboratory, which made high-end audio gear. [1]

[1] http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/30-years-mac-how-macintos...
Human-level AI is not such a worthy goal. In a few years when self-driving cars are more common, we will be thankful that they aren't using human-like AI, otherwise they will get in wrecks for all kinds of preventable reasons. The human mind is highly irrational, though the general public scoffs at that statement. We are very dependent on our chemical state.
> Why? Is your income limited by lack of discoverability or lack of people willing to put in money for it?

I'm going to go with both. There has always been a host of undiscovered talent out there that never make it "big", ie: can sustain themselves and their families by doing music full time. (See Rodriguez and Searching for Sugar Man on how this goes), this goes back way before the Internet.

> Even if people were willing to pay for good music, many would prefer to just browse the free alternatives because there are tons of good musicians willing to race to the bottom.

This is exactly the problem. Were willing to pay for good music? This is the exact thing the parent is complaining about. Younger folk think it is for some reason not normal to pay someone else for their hard earned talent and work they put in to entertain you. There has always been a "race to the bottom". Some would say The Monkees were the poor man's Beatles, etc.

The parent is complaining that it is or should be somehow acceptable or normal that you get to listen to his product for free, even if it is against his wishes. Just because you can easily copy his entire music catalog in 3 minutes over the Internet doesn't change the fact that he should be able to charge you to listen to an album that took months to create.

> How can I, as a consumer, get to listen to your music if not for free on YouTube?

Contact the artist? Ask to buy their cd / 12" / mp3 / whatever from their online service?
Nobody Goes to Art School to Make Money, so Fuck Off
I'm pretty sure "lack of constant annoyance" is a killer feature for most people. At least it is for me.
I agree.

If I'm not mistaken, Google got sued for providing short excerpts of news from various news outlets and decided to settle out of court.
Edit: I can't read.
It could very well be an age thing, because I myself and friends of similar age (25-30) use both 'at', and 'apenstaartje', although primarily the former.
If it works for you, by all means, YES! That's the only relevant question to ask in situations like these.

Changing it to some other platform without a good reason is what would not be rational. Spreadsheets have their uses and this is one of them.
Lavaboom.com has similar goals but is based in Germany. It's also webmail. I'm one of the co-founders if you have any queries.
>> "I don't believe that a monetary incentive is necessary for good art."

It's not necessary but it's important. I'll explain how:

1) If artists can not earn money from their art the need a full time job to support themselves, provide food and shelter and pay the bills.

2) They will also need some of this money to pay for equipment and in the case of musicians studio time, sound engineers, mastering engineers, designers (for album art) etc.

3) They will need to spend some of their free time (after work) online managing their social media, promoting their music etc.

4) With the very little time they have left they need to write songs, record demos, make time (somehow) for a few days in the studio and then distribute the music.

If things were like this in the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's we would not have some of the great albums we have today. Art takes time. If the artist has to do all of the above it leaves very little time for the actual art and we get mediocre art. We might get some good art. It's unlikely we will get great art.
>A pictogram…, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.

By this definition, @ is not a pictogram just because it is named for a pictorial resemblance. It must convey meaning through that pictorial resemblance. A "monkey tail" or "elephant trunk" or "sea snail" does not convey the meaning of "at", unless I'm missing some cultural context.

木, on the other hand, conveys the meaning of "tree" through visual representation of roots below the ground and branches on top [1].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8
I'm also not a professional programmer, but I used to do a lot of data analytics for a large company which required lots of SQL.

I often used excel to track my code and keep it organized. Part of this is that most of my work was done in excel; the SQL queries were just to get the data workable. But, so many things would change and it was easy to use the concatenate features of excel to change variable names, table names, and stuff like that.
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Flooding the Market with H1B Visas – More Immigration Reform Insanity
Beware Detached Detail
opening the .rtf as text indicates the former, unless he's a super, super genius who can hide exploit code in plain sight.
But enabling private communication is not the same as a public free for all. Some information should use private communication, but not be shared publicly, some examples that comes to mind is credit card numbers or private encryption keys.
Proof of bandwidth is an innovate idea in the cryptocurrency space, but it seems a weak point is "make money selling them on the exchange".

If that is their only value - if there is no economy built around them and they have no purchasing power on their own - then they'd only see a brief pump-and-dump rise/fall like any other new altcoin.

Certainly it's an experiment worth trying, but if its sole value is in its potential for exchange, I don't see anything preventing it from becoming yet another short-lived altcoin.

Then again, the same could be said of many coins out there now that have been lingering whole weeks* without dropping to 0 value

1. some have even been surviving for months...
Bike Bags and Bicycle Rain Covers
I haven't read either man's work, but the article makes me wonder whether they might be like the blind men trying to describe the elephant -- each has got a piece of the picture. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Except tor network is already available for free...
Omi – split bills with friends and keep a running balance
Open source darwin has failed. That is the problem.
> There is functionally no chance of that software bug ever getting patched; card vendors don't care about older versions of their technology,

Well, is that an OpenGL issue? Wouldn't you get that very same problem with D3D?

> reasonably-performant way

I don't understand. How can you objectively define such thing? Doesn't it depend on the workload? If you're pushing 3 tris per frame, any feature can be labeled as reasonably performing, but if you have 300M, can any card these days maintain reasonable framerate even on the most basic settings? I am exagerating on purpose; some apps will require a very small amount of work on each stage of rendering, and could reasonably afford any extra pass, even if software implemented. And in other cases (which might be the majority), it doesn't cut work. I don't see how there could be an objective way of deciding if a feature is sufficiently performant. Your example is telling: an application as complex as F.E.A.R. Should clearly make its benchmarks (or keep a database) to decide which feature can be included without hurting performances. And even then, players have also different perceptions of what constitutes playability.

I agree with you: multiple standards, multiple vendors, multiple products, the fallout is "struggling compatibilities" at worst, "varying performances" at best. But that's a common point between D3D and OpenGL, not a divergence. Am I missing something?
But if you don't like the food he might get a smaller tip and the chef is not listening to his recommendation. If the waiter mentions the scallops without you asking he is probably being told to push them. Then if you ask for his recommendation and he mentions the scallops again, just ask him to recommend something other than the scallops.

I don't actually do this myself, but I've had enough bad experiences with restaurant food that I am considering it.
But this is a throwing the baby out with the bath water scenario. Here no-one, even the deserving, gets any money.

While we'd all like a situation where those who've added most value get the lions share of the reward, this solution takes us from them getting a small percentage to them getting nothing. That seems to me to be worse rather than better.
My understanding is that pacemakers, insulin pumps, and such have only limited short-range wireless capability. It's not exactly a 3G connection with a public facing IP address.

As long as you still need proximity and individual targeting, I think it's not a paradigm shift in murder.
The large volume of vulnerabilities coming out of OpenSSL are worrying, but it likely reflects the increased effort being put into auditing and fuzzing the code after Heartbleed. What is more worrying is the many other critical pieces of software that have nowhere near the level of scrutiny that OpenSSL is receiving currently.
Yep, Jabber, ChatStep, Adium, all used by Lavaboom staff. Lavaboom wouldn't be possible without OpenSource. You now have loads of privacy startups building from the groundwork done by OpenSource developers.
I was introduced to Processing and MaxMsp [1] in a college course where I was tasked in creating generative art and sound installations. I had no programming experience and I agree it was easy to pick up and definitely drove my interest in programming. I think its a great way for artists to get started in something that can become very complex

[1] http://cycling74.com/products/max/ as an aside there is an open source version of MaxMSP called puredata that was also excellent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data
Early adopters of Bitcoin had similar idealistic motivations, but I don't think the financial rewards hurt.
What's the price of the beautiful little monster? It would help complete the awesome picture.
That's great - don't punish users - but I still have no idea from their actual website landing page (kivo.com) what kivo is...

Something for uploading and making annotations on slides?

Why do I want to do that?

So however easy or un-punishing "it" is, is really irrelevant.
And that's actually been the industry's best response to it all - move the monetization to the thing you can't copy.

My concern is for authors, game designers and others for whom there is no such substitution possible.
I assumed it was written by someone not using their first language and found it endearing as a result. Have to admit that wondering if it's written by an algorithm gives me an opposite reaction.
"That is, what if everyone were allowed to go down to the car dealership whenever they wanted and pick out any new model, free of charge and drive it home?"

"At this, Levitt and Dubner expected the prime minister to "light up" and say: "I see your point about the free healthcare we are doling out!" They expected him to embrace their behaviouralist argument that no one places a value on anything unless they are charged for it. In fact Cameron said nothing at all, but "the smile left his eyes", there was a quick handshake and he "hurried off to find a less ridiculous set of people with whom to meet"."

Sigh. Let me unpack this for you. The light left his eyes and he hurried off not because he was freaked out by your argument, per se, but because he realized that you didn't realize that you were an election prop, and that you were supposed to smile, say what helped him get elected by giving him the veneer of Scientific Authority (TM), then bask in the afterglow and get some money thrown your way for some research or something, and probably get to write some public report that he would promise to read and make some noise about. You'd have been given a gravy train ticket for the duration of this deal. Also you'd be expected to explain to the press why his pet theory or proposal was fully rational and explained by your economics, and why by implication everyone who is against it are dumb and maybe a little evil people standing in the way of Science and Progress for the UK. Regardless of whether any of that was true.

Instead, you showed that you were naive enough to believe that he had any actual interest in his options being constrained by science or rationality, that you were actually taken in by his transparent rhetoric, and lo, you were discarded as soon as was convenient. He probably also significantly lowered his intelligence estimate of you.

This is not cynicism. This is politics. It's just how it works, and anyone who would care to challenge me with this theory being cynical and incorrect (and don't forget the "incorrect" part), I invite you to come up with an alternate theory as to why they were shuffled off stage so quickly, if Cameron's initial enthusiasm for science was genuine.

And, no sarcasm, plaudits for refusing to follow along and be corrupted. I hope this article is itself a bit of a fashionable pose about how as an incorruptible scientist the thought of taking a dirty ticket to the gravy train simply never crossed your mind, though, because the alternative would be... unflattering.
Yes, the current situation is (probably) bad.

The Core Infrastructure Initiative is starting to address that: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-...
CVE-2014-0224 looks the worst of this bunch.

It seems openssl will accept ChangeCipherSpec messages much too early. CCS in TLS means "we've finished handshake/renegotiation and will now start using the new keys".

It looks likely that a MITM can send CCS to both ends during handshake, and have them agree on the empty master secret (and therefore trivial application data encryption keys). This is pretty bad as far as TLS bugs go (as bad as "goto fail", but not as bad as "heartbleed").

Given that accepting TLS messages only within the right constraints is fundamental to correctness of TLS and openssl seemingly can't get this right (this, and heartbeat messages before/during handshake), it seems likely this isn't the last problem of this kind.
Perfectly legal doesn't mean that TLA agencies won't be interested in who's running the nodes.
Ask HN: Any franchise for starting a web development consultancy?
I want to start my own web development consultancy. I was wondering if there was a franchise model I could pursue to get started?
Here's the article talking about it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/29/us-softbank-tmobil...

"Deutsche Telekom may also be more accommodating with Softbank regarding a break-up fee than it was with AT&T, the sources said. That is because T-Mobile is likely to be the surviving brand and its CEO, John Legere, is likely to lead the new combined company, thus avoiding a loss of subscribers and momentum it had to contend with during the drawn out regulatory process with AT&T, two of the sources said."
Weird that the NY Times would make such obvious mistakes.

AT&T Wireless and AT&T are separate companies (AT&T Wireless is not buying DirectTV)

The same with Verizon and Verizon Wireless.

They discussed four different companies as if they were two.
> First of all YouTube content is monotised by video ads

None of that money goes to the artist... that goes to google... So you are okay with someone else making money of the free labour of artists, but not someone NOT making money of the free labour of artists. Interesting position.

> Nobody has the right to decide that something someone else has spent time and money creating should be available for free without the creators having a say.

The creator does have a say. They can not release the content, they can DMCA the youtube videos, etc etc.

Who decided that you should pay for culture? Who has the right to decide such thing? If society disagrees with that decision is that not another "piece of culture" ?
Our team use it to collaborate with clients on work we're doing for them
Searching for vulnerabilities is just like mining for gold: you go for the richest veins first and OpenSSL is deployed widely enough and in enough places where it really matters that it is currently a priority item.

I guess until a couple of weeks ago OpenSSL was 'one of many other critical pieces of software that have nowhere near the level of scrutiny that WordPress (and I know you don't meant Wordpress) is receiving currently'. So we'll see a re-focusing on other software when people feel that either the OpenSSL well of exploits has at least temporarily dried up or when something else that is crucial breaks.

But as long as vulnerabilities in OpenSSL are discovered at this rate it seems to be an effort well-spent, and we will all reap the benefit of that effort.

Heartbleed really shook the IT world, I don't know anybody in operations that was not affected by it. (And I can hear them collectively sighing right now). If there was a Richter scale for exploits it would have rated a '9'.

It's a bit like the news cycle, these things tend to burn out. But right now OpenSSL exploits are very much in the spotlight, and guarantee almost instant fame for the person discovering one. So I think we'll see a few more of these before it will quiet down. (I actually hope that we won't see more of these but given the past couple of weeks that hope is not very realistic).
This just isn't true.

I run a relay, and I interact with all sorts of Tor users on irc.oftc.net #tor

In fact, there are lots of relay operators and regular tor users there on IRC, and some of them get pretty chatty.

It's good to interact with and get to know the community you're involved with.
There are those that prefer form over function. There are others that don't.
How many Firefox extensions do people use?
Herman Millar Mirra chair.

I prefer them to the Aeron - a higher back makes them good for people with longer torsos.
Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America
Unfortunately no,

No WebRTC audio/video or data!
You can still use open source commercially. Make it GPLv3 or something, if you wanna tie the hands of anyone who uses it
Wow. I had a really shitty commute this morning, and this just made my morning so much better.
But you could just as easily claim you run a relay and no one would know that you don't.
Any reason for the Delaware LLC vs a (your resident state) LLC? I thought Delaware was really only requested for S and C corp structures accepting outside investment.
This is such a obvious insight that I wonder why more companies don't "get it".