skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, you think that, because the major record labels have stepped up their game and started exploiting musicians further and through different channels, the right thing to do is keep feeding them cash?

No. You're putting words in my mouth, and are seemingly incapable of understanding that the works of small, struggling, middle class bands--the kind who have always treated each other well--ALSO get pirated, and that those declining revenues have an impact on their lives.

Bands and labels that are small, indie, and love their audiences are not fighting piracy because they don't want to demonize or create conflict with their fans. Their fans reward them for that by taking money out of their pockets by getting their albums for free from a pirate site instead of paying the actual artists.

And worst of all, they think they're doing the artists a favor by doing it!

Of course bands and labels are releasing music for free now. What other choice do they have?? You can't fight a tsunami. They are making do with less because they have to. That doesn't mean it's objectively a good thing for the industry or the artists.

You're not alone. There is this amazingly powerful Stockholm syndrome where young artists have been convinced by people way outside the music industry (primarily technology) to argue vociferously against their own self-interest.

It's one thing to choose to give away your music for free as marketing--that's always been legal and always will be. And it's not a new or innovative idea...the radio has been doing it for 50 years.

It's another thing if you're trying to sell albums, and the albums are really popular, but you're still not making enough to do basic middle-class things like buy a house, take a vacation, have kids, save for college, etc. Meanwhile, everyone else in the ecosystem gets rich: ISPs, electronics manufacturers, software producers, websites that run ads, etc. Music labels are not the only companies who can exploit musicians.
Pretty nifty map of #indyref tweets over the past 7 days
http://trendsmap.com/v2/Lf62/w
Snowplow 0.9.8 released for mobile analytics
Mainly because the .0000001% if apple users who actually care about this vs. the amount of work to implement isnt worth it business wise.
well done. LOL someone voted this down??? I never understood the anti-humor folks on HN.
I think we're at the top of an S curve. And it's reflected in the stock market:

http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-price/

After 6 years of 0% interest rate, we've clawed our way back to the dot-com bubble, and no higher. Our foot is completely down on the gas pedal, and we're hardly getting anywhere.

What will the next S curve be? Space? AI? I'm not sure, but as things stand, I can't help but chuckle remorsefully when I think back to the exuberance I felt when I read my first Kurzweil book.
Someone in The Verge's comment section noted that this Forbes list will now need to be updated:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/forbes-releases-2014-list-o...
Apple watch, too many choices?
Am I missing something? I don't see an indication that they will be laid off. It really doesn't make any sense to have that kind of staff in Silicon Valley anymore. In reality, it makes no sense to have people in expensive locations like Silicon Valley / SF or NYC at all.
That's a pretty underwhelming case against objects, and equally underwhelming in favor of functional programming.
Private Lux Submarine
Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison Steps Down
It is correct according to most commonly used guidelines for headline capitalization. You were describing how to capitalize stuff in a paragraph, not a headline.

http://www.grammarunderground.com/capitalization-of-headline...
This is extremely useful for my day to day work, thank you!
all the Lisp neophytes either give up or learn to cope with emacs and eventually forget about replacing it.

This is really not true any more. LightTable is great for beginners, and there are more options for Clojure now. I'm developing Cursive, which is becoming pretty popular - Vim also seems to work well, Counterclockwise is good too.
Not to mention that Apple has sold over 800 million iOS devices.
I'm guessing this is a move to protect users and/or Google from malicious apps. I'm not sure how exactly it protects them since it's easy to enter a fake address.

If you care about your privacy I recommend using a 3rd party mailbox (eg UPS Store) for all your mail. I've been using them for almost 10 years. Not only will they protect your home address but they will receive and store shipped items. No more worrying about a package getting stolen or having to be home to sign. This is especially useful if you move regularly and/or travel a lot.
Mojang was bought with money that can't easily be repatriated. Same as Skype, which was purchased with dead money.
PKCS11 and Hardware Security Modules (HSM) have been around for a long time. There's in wide use in companies like NetFlix and Square including "over the network". This is not new.
"1.7 met the needs of the project. We considered 1.8 but decided that it wasn't necessary and that taking on the training costs during development, and fracturing our platform, would not be a good trade-off to make."
> A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the Silicon Valley research lab is closing this Friday, and noted that an undisclosed number of those researchers will be offered jobs at other Microsoft Research labs.

That would imply that these are layoffs.
It was the use of flashcards, specifically.
But I got the feeling that the other sectors need IT for advancement.

IT just has to get on a level that it's full power can be used by everyone.
These layoffs remind me of when Yahoo did the same with Yahoo Research. You know what happened next... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-google-hiring-re...
Ilya is one of the greatest hackers I know and the idea is great. Go Ilya, make any device powered by voice!
> Here's one take on why it's dismissed by many: While sci-fi addresses intellectual concepts well, often its other elements are weak. This applies especially to characters, who frequently are no more than walking, talking representatives of those concepts.

IMHO this hasn't been a problem for a few decades now. Elizabeth Bear, Charles Stross, Greg Bear, lots of popular Sci-Fi authors focus heavily on characters.
I looked at Erlang for a while and I liked it. Now I want to learn Elixir. However I ask myself why one should prefer it over Scala+Akka
I think the great thing about IcedCoffeeScript + the ESC library is how it fits into more complicated flow logic, while allowing easy refactoring. Max doesn't really get into the otherwise impossible examples in his post.

Even if you're firing off RPC's awaiting in the middle of a loop or switch statement, you can move logic around just by shifting individual lines. Consider how simple this looks:

for user_id in user_ids
await load_user user_id, esc defer user
user.whatever()
# etc., with user

Writing that in plain Coffee or JS is impossible; using a pure async library is sort of possible but impossible to refactor.
That's fantastic news for the Stellar team!

Curious as to what features he'll be working on.
Hippo in the Chicago River – Any CGI Experts Here?
This pitch-deck is a beauty
Citrix Acquires Virtual, an Android and iOS Virtualization Company
Ask HN: Did you get an email about Uber Anchorage?
I was in Anchorage AK last month. I tried to get an Uber and none were to be found. Today I got an email about the launch of Uber Anchorage. I'm wondering if Uber used my prior attempt to seed a database of locations I would be interested in. I have not received any other launch notices about Uber.
MXToolbox is a windows based app
Being afraid of the future is for pansies. I think pansies grow in England, right?
> speculative (AirBnB increases rental property prices for everyone)

Far from speculative - it's a rather straightforward result from the basic economic principles at play. And even if you hesitate to draw conclusions based on reasoning from first principles alone (which you should), there have been a few studies which have measured this effect empirically.

Keep in mind that the economic impact of hotels (both illegal and legal) on nearby rent has been well studied[0], so unless there is a reason to believe that Airbnb specifically is unique, the default assumption should be that they will have this effect too.

It's not a smoking gun, no, but it's far from speculative if both inductive and deductive reasoning support that conclusion.

[0] Especially zoning, which is a distinct but very related issue.
I think the name "transducers" is a little unfortunate only in that it sounds very foreign to most coders, leading the concept to potentially be ignored. Don't let the name "transducers" or the relation to Clojure scare you off; you don't have to know either thing to understand how transducers can be useful.
Does this include Jaron Lanier and his team?
Robot writers collect and analyze data and turn them into readable narratives
Because we wanted flying cars and all we got was online payments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8334970
I was able to see several dozen slides.

They aren't very convenient, but keep in mind that the slides are merely a byproduct. They are in a form that was designed for giving the presentation, not in a form that was designed for reading on the website. The speech is missing. I tend to prefer video recordings of talks (like confreaks) to looking at slides by themselves.
Self-Driving would classify under transportation.
> While sci-fi addresses intellectual concepts well, often its other elements are weak. This applies especially to characters, who frequently are no more than walking, talking representatives of those concepts.

When that happens, its often intentional -- that is, the characters exist as vehicles to explore the interplay of the concepts as such, and are not intended to be anything else. Its an approach with a fairly long history (thousands of years) in writing.

OTOH, there's lots of scifi that isn't like that, either intentionally or accidentally.
This is exactly what we are trying to prevent. We believe there should be some semblance of identity in the internet. For the exact opposite of this post, check out bluecheck.me
Extending AngularJS 1.3 expression syntax to reuse watches
The cold war having gone by the tipping point was also a very large factor. This tied into the moonrace, and the spin off innovations from that.

As a side note, It has always annoyed me that there's a loud contingent of people that object to human space travel on the basis it's not the most efficient way to conduct science, because that is not the point of it. It is a signal of intent, throwing the baton far into the future and hoping to reach it and somehow making it, with innumerable side benefits. What we've lost is the entire will for moonshots, and no one in society is engaged in anything like it.

Sometimes I'm an ultra libertarian too, but I suspect the reason Thiel wouldn't follow this reasoning is purely on the basis of who was doing the spending in that era.
this is awesome!!! Placemeter is the company ever!!! So legit!
1970 is about the end of the Apollo programme, and I presume the end of the massive government spending on science and engineering that went with it.

You're right, a libertarian view of this is way off the mark.
No expert, but logic dictates otherwise.
Behind the Curtain of the HealthCare.gov Rollout [pdf]
Purely out of interest, do you have a link for any of these studies? It seems like an obvious economic conclusion, but I'd be interested in seeing to what extent.

Personally, no one in my building is subletting, but I did an airbnb search and was surprised by the number of apartments available in my area
The questions provided cover everything in a business plan so it's interesting to see the overlap with a plain old business plan and an agile question-answer based template.
Thoughts on Rust and Go
Enjoying some well-deserved privacy and quiet time to read books?

[pure speculation on my part of course]
I hope you're not still talking cruise ships here! Those folks are often paying high prices by the minute or by the megabyte for access: you'd be pretty literally stealing from your neighbors in that situation. (The moral issue for pay-by-the-day systems is one step further removed, but I think it's still real.)
I don't know that making Scotland pay in the short term is all that smart and could significantly backfire on the English elite just like every single thing they have said and done in the last couple days has. Scotland separating from the UK seems like quite the devaluation of the Significantly Less United Kingdom. I wonder if this temporary and manufactured boosting of the Pound is not a kind of mania before a dump. There is essentially no way for England to prevent Scotland from simply pegging their currency to the Pound and currency is little more than a quantification of confidence. Will the markets be all that confident in the UK with out Scottish natural resources; especially if the English get a little too snobby and make Scotland invalidate sharing agreements?
Why Scotland's Referendum Ballot Is Biased
There has been plenty of innovation.

When mature, electric vehicles mean the cost of fuel is essentially zero. Whenever there has a been a massive drop in energy costs, there has also been an economic boom. Electric vehicles also mean no more air pollution from vehicles which means a healthier population and fewer medical bills. Then you have the whole AI thing which promises to drastically reduce, if not eliminate, accidents as well as reduce traffic congestion.

SpaceX is getting pretty damn close to a reusable rocket which will drastically reduce the cost of entering orbit. If that happens, then it is likely that space will become a viable market for private enterprise: tourism, mining, etc.

There is a lot of work going on in energy including some designs for fusion that should be commercially viable. I don't know what is going to happen with energy, but there are way too many people working on it for nothing significant to happen in the near future.

In healthcare, it seems like every few days I am reading about a person being cured of blindness with stem cells, growing or 3D printing an organ in a lab, or some new insight into how the body ages.

I could keep going, but I am tired of typing letters. The point is that "Every other sector has gone cold or even backwards since ~1970" is a false statement.
This is great. Would be nice if it came with a facebook, twitter, and gmail account.
How often do companies that end up doing a round below the original cap ( effectively a down round ) actually recover and do well? Does this really matter? Seems like it is such a big risk to investors to invest below the cap that they should be appropriately compensated for it, which is what the discount accomplishes
I wrote something like that but distributing torrents.
Wrote it AGES ago : http://netrogenic.com/dnstorrent/
Oracle's Larry Ellison steps down
Yes, but how much depends on how elastic supply is, which is always an important consideration with real estate.

http://peakwatch.typepad.com/photos/research_images/fixed_su...
He owns an island.
He will be on the Core team which focuses on stellard. We will be publishing a roadmap shortly. Thanks!
I have fond memories reading stories about Meridian 59. "Virtual" marriages and the likes in german game magazines. I think the publisher of PC Games, Computec Media, had the rights to publish (and run) the game in germany. In hindsight the articles probably were just barely disguised advertising. ;)

I was about 13-14 at the time and obviously had no pocket money to spare, so I never played the game.
LOL - the guy invites up to three friends to curate looks for him for a given occasion with a timeline and budget
If rumors/leaks are true, the Skype investment was going to be rewarded by 3 letter agencies via contracts and who knows what else.
> Architect a completely different approach to change the cost equation. (Throw software at the problem instead of hardware.)

I'll bite: what does that sentence even mean? How did Tesla "architect" a different approach to the "cost equation" of manufacturing, sourcing, and assembling the parts of an automobile? What are they "throwing" software at?
That game franchise will generate more revenue and employ more people than the purchase price. It'll be a real cash cow.
Whether you - as a programmer writing them - realize it or not, many complex web apps would benefit greatly from Erlang concurrency, distributed computing and fault tolerance support. Every time I'm forced to use Celery or multiprocessing or a cronjob - and that happens quite often in nontrivial projects - I wish I worked with Erlang.

I learned to love Erlang some time ago and its various quirks are mostly invisible to me, as I generally know them well and am working around them reflexively. However, I recognize that for people who don't know Erlang yet, Elixir provides a much easier path to obtaining full power of Erlang VM and ecosystem. It can also benefit more experienced erlangers, as it improves some Erlang features and then adds some totally new ones.

Elixir is a language which makes Erlang better suited to high-level, glue-like scripting purposes, while still providing full access to things Erlang does exceptionally well. In a way it's an effort to make Erlang reach outside of its specific niche by making many things traditionally hard or unpopular in Erlang easy to do in Elixir.

In short, if you're a serious programmer who works on anything that has a server or is related to network in some way (which includes all web apps, most mobile apps backends, all IM software, many different services like Dropbox and many more) - you owe it to yourself to try Elixir out. Now that the "awkward syntax" and many (admittedly) irritating quirks of Erlang are gone and you're left with just the good parts you have really no reason not to learn and use it.
to be honest there needs to be a threshold that renters have to pass before they qualify as a hotel for tax purposes. does a straight rental require a hotel tax payment or other onerous tax? Do they have to obtain a business license before they are truly liable to pay the tax? I am not clear on the idea that AirBnB can pay a tax on behalf of the home owner / property owner. How is this law worded?

Can those paying hotel taxes charge off wear and tear, capital expenses as a hotel could? It seems as this only benefits the taxing authority and not much else.
That is a nice demo! My wife is teaching optics right now, this looks like something she could have her students explore with to get intuition for what happens in different situations.
Thanks. I prefer to install one map app due to my low storage iPhone. :(

Since I can not uninstall iOS map, so if you can only pick one, you choose Waze over GMaps? Or GMaps and Waze are more complimentary for each other?

Thanks.
Ellison will still be around? This sounds like when Putin and Medvedev swapped being president and prime minister of Russia.
It isn't generally that bad and if something wants 25 separate route tld's I often browse away.
The final Larry Ellison scorecard: Oracle stock is up 89,640% since he took the company public in March 1986.

https://twitter.com/dkberman/status/512700128801464320
An Open Source LIFX Wave Switch
> When mature, electric vehicles mean the cost of fuel is essentially zero. Whenever there has a been a massive drop in energy costs, there has also been an economic boom.

But the first sentence is wrong -- it only means the cost of energy for a vehicle is equal to the cost of the same energy on the electric grid, plus the cost of wear on the onboard storage system (battery, etc.)

Unless your definition of "mature" for electric vehicles includes existing in a world where energy costs on the electric grid are essentially zero (which is a whole lot bigger of an advance than electric vehicles, and applies a lot more broadly!), mature electric vehicle technology doesn't mean that the energy cost for vehicles in essentially zero, either.
The end of the cold war also meant the end of battling propagandas between east and west. Maybe what we're feeling is a result of no one telling us stories any more, and not a result of any real change.
Demonstrating once again that tech companies really don't "get" succession planning :-) I'm kind of half joking, if you look at a bunch of 'old school' BigCorps, the progression is (CEO->Chairman, SVPx -> CEO, VPx -> SVPx) and then the Chairman of the board retires and the CEO takes on both roles Chairman and CEO, priming the pump for the next cycle.

Co-CEOs have so far been an experiment in disaster, something about not having an ultimate authority seems to really crimp organizations. I wish Oracle well but they have a lot of challenges to overcome, if I were a share holder I wouldn't be all that pleased with this arrangement as it seems to basically leave all the same people in place with all the same problems (Amazon/Google EC2/GCE, MySQL vs NoSQL vs expensive Oracle, Cheap Clusters with High Reliablity vs Expensive Servers, Etc.)
I remember using these scripts years ago when wifi hotspots used to charge obscene amounts of money...
Bandwidth.com being a wholesale carrier of VoIP services is the primary carrier for Twilio, Plivo, Google Voice, etc...

Bandwidth delivers SMS over SMPP. Initially the MMS launch was due for mid October, seems they launched it ahead of time.

In the following weeks you'll see lots of different providers announcing their MMS capability.

Bandwidth should get the credit for their brilliant work.
Hit <space> to advance slides. I was also confused when scrolling only showed me three.
That's because our medical system isn't for-profit, so we only get blood tests when they're medically necessary and not just for convenience.
> Our youth has been aching for a way to connect

The grammar mistake on the second "slide" sort of ruined it for me.
Doomed Fireball – What If John Gruber Would Fall in Love with Samsung
Am I the only one who doesn't think $11M is really going to move the needle for SF OR AirBnB?
Some people tried IIRC but they never got very far. One reason could be that syntactic abstraction is generally not in great demand, but could be something else entirely. Also, take a look at Sweet.js
Sutro's experience at FutureAdvisor
I agree with your point, but I think an interesting aspect is that a shift toward pushing our transportation energy through the grid might (maybe) lead to some additional economies of scale that could bring down energy costs more broadly. That said, there might instead be diseconomies of scale that dominate - so certainly not a sure thing.
Surely there's room enough for both? People who want to be anonymous, and those who want to be verifiable? Why does anonymity need to be 'prevented'?
The $99 version is the fire HD which has an LCD display (with backlight)
The thing that's strange is that it seems like they could write a one-two sentence to every of these questions without much trouble.
I think the article unfairly bashes rail transport by singling out coal. If you read Warren Buffett's writings, his investment in rail was mostly due to being able to move something 500 miles on one gallon of diesel fuel. Regardless of what is being carried, there are very few things that efficient. Coal sucks, but but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater there.

As for the science section, claiming that productivity per scientist is <1% of what it was in 1920s is absolutely laughable. Look at some of the really large projects humanity pulled off like sequencing the human genome for good examples.

Interesting article, but seems to be a pretty pessimistic outlook.
It's very hard to tell from that brief, offhand comment whether there's any substance behind it. I'd be delighted to hear more of your thoughts.
All this FP revolt kind of start to remind me Whitehead's and Russell's attempt to invent a formal system which would be paradox free...
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i was just kinda bored here , that's why i posted that blog
i hoped you liked it , it's getting viral :))