skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your music have been heard by more people due to streaming, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was good enough (or the right type of music) for people to pay to come to see you in concert
How so? Your link shows a bit under 200 deaths per 100,000 per year from cancer (hard to read exactly on the graph) whereas the OP shows 185.9. Looks consistent to me.
What Is Growth Hacking? How to Use in Startups?
"Trust fund" is perhaps a bit spun. But if you look at it as a social class issue (yes, the quote says "black", but it sounds like a point about poverty to me), the truth is that an awful lot of young "software entrepreneurs" spend their time living at home: They walk about in their middle class neighborhoods with quality internet access, solid development hardware available on their parents' dime, quiet private bedrooms with nice furniture, and easy access to a private car when needed.

Think of starting the next Facebook in an urban apartment where multiple siblings have to share the bedrooms and laptop and maybe the point will be clearer.
> Let me tell you a story. We only had five Fellows in our first class at Code2040, but they were amazing. We had one Fellow who had a 4.7 out of a 5.0 GPA, was copresident of his school, varsity athlete at MIT. They went through the program and excelled. But when they interviewed at larger companies, they had to do these "whiteboard" interviews, where you're given a coding challenge and you go to the whiteboard and attack it. And our guys didn't get hired, right? They had never done a whiteboard interview. So, in that case, is there something wrong with the fellow, or is there something wrong with the interview process? Folks need to really understand what implicit biases they have. Until they do, the numbers aren't gonna change.

Is he implying that the interview was biased because the coding camp didn't teach people about whiteboard interviews?
> Realistically she has an army of people to handle affairs and things that I couldn't dream of doing.

Again, I think you are falling into the trap of defining "work" globally by what you know locally. Just because she's not having to, say, schedule her own meetings, doesn't preclude her from working.

> We completely differ on the definition of work then.

Undoubtedly we do. Show two people on the internet a word, get three definitions.

> Art takes labor, but it's not work because you're creating something from nothing using a skill that is inherent to the person within.

I'm a programmer, and I meet the above criteria, yet I still feel like I'm working. But again, our definition or "work" is undoubtedly different.

> $84,000 PER WEEK buys a lot of help. It's needed at that level, I get that...but it also only happens due to being part of a system that exists solely to feed itself.

Not sure what this has to do with work.

I think in the end you're more worried about the purity of the "art" or something like that. I have nothing to say about that, because I don't consider myself an artist. Maybe she's a sell out, maybe she's not. I don't know. I don't care honestly. She's a genius in my book, and a hard freakin worker to have built what she has.
> Part of Spotify’s pitch to the music industry has been that its royalties — as low as 0.6 cent per stream, according to the company — will accrue to significant levels as the service grows and as people listen more and more.

> Singling out Pandora, the leading Internet radio outlet, he said that “Wake Me Up” had been played 168 million times in the United States on that service, yet yielded only $12,359 in publishing royalties, of which he kept less than $4,000.

Spotify != Pandora

The answer to your question is in the same sentence as your quotes.
> If I can store everything in RAM, from the OS binaries, to the running processes, it certainly has a kind of elegance to it.

Didn't Palm OS originally work this way? The early devices were too cheap for flash memory for anything more than the base OS, so they just stored everything in battery-backed RAM. If your batteries ran out, your device was wiped and had to be re-synced. Apps were run in-place in RAM. Then they had to hack in a bunch of workarounds when they added flash memory storage.
Not quite the same but something like

https://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney

comes close. Basically only items that can actually be purchased.
Announcing the Winners of the 2014 One-Liner Competition
That still leaves you with the pesky little detail that any kind of surgery has an associated risk of you leaving the hospital in a horizontal position. So you're definitely not going to be taking the risk of swapping your heart out every decade over exercise, you will only do that when there is absolutely no other option.

Elective surgery isn't a good idea. If you can do without, do without.
How the FCC can justify regulating U.S. internet
Its not about making a living, it's about exposure. We live in a world where content created yesterday can go viral today and reach millions of people. Once you have the exposure, you can figure out how to monetize it. More and more, the ability to gain exposure is in the content creator's hands, not a middleman.
She wasn't.

> At our current size, payouts for a top artist like Taylor Swift (before she pulled her catalog) are on track to exceed $6 million a year, and that’s only growing – we expect that number to double again in a year.

https://news.spotify.com/us/2014/11/11/2-billion-and-countin...
Maven MySQL Plugin (for integration testing)
I always agree with this - start by looking at the software you use.

Read the documentation. Are there any inconsistencies or poorly written docs?

Have you run into any bugs or odd behaviour when using the software? If so, reproduce it and write a test case. Once you have written a test case, work on developing a fix.

If you're really stumped, take a look at open issues that people have raised and if they don't appear to have anyone working on them, or no one has opened a pull request, start looking into the issue and try to achieve the above.

Alternatively, if the product has a feature gap that you think would be valuable, contact the maintainer and see if they agree. If they agree, then ask if you can start working on it and get the feature merged back into the core software.
What is a vector? There is nothing that says a vector has to be a sequentially stored array. If you agree that the interface is a vector interface, then it "is" a vector.
Apologies for the self-plug, but you might find http://pgexercises.com/ useful for the SQL side of learning Postgres. In terms of rest of the concepts, the Postgres documentation is actually really rather good!
Yahoo acquires Brightroll for $640 million
Long-term effects of marijuana use linked to complex neuroadaptive processes
Been a while since music business class, but here is what I remember:

Radio stations don't pay per play. They buy a blanket license from performing rights organizations. Then those organizations listen to sample data and divvy out payments to publishers according to what their sample data says.
Play Grand Prix Go
Some people will continue to be paid to sit and think. The remaining employed people will be moving about using a mobile device and interacting with a sensor and beacon-suffused work environment. Perhaps we can have a 30 hour work week and have more time for physical activity.
They were tried in many US cities in the 1970s. And very very few of them succeeded. Most of them ended up looking like the abandoned sets for some bad sci-fi film.
The level at which the public good being served does not outweigh the psychological damage done to citizens.
mike_hearn beat me to it. See his post for a citation (and some other numbers).
I don't see the relevance of the quote. It only states the changes and not why other changes were not made.
OT, but why people in this page often refer to Taylor Swift as "Taylor"[0][1][2][3][4]?

I have never noticed this sort of first name usage before.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8592523
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8592325
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8592395
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8592393
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8592276
> If you go to those five schools, the percentage of minorities and the percentage of women is X and Y. Let's say it's 3% and 10%.

I am also miffed at that kind of elitism and parochialism.

That being said, both of those numbers are very low for general enrollment at top universities. MIT is a little over half male and about a third white. Even if you don't count Asians (I guess they're not minorities?), 3% and 10% are extremely lowball estimates. Or are we talking only about students with software-related majors? Does anyone have stats that describe the demographic breakdown for computer science majors?

Source:
http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/students/diversity.html
I'm with you.

In "The Omnivore's Dilemma", Michael Pollan mentions a type of mushroom that blooms only after a forest fire. It has a symbiotic relationship with the nearby trees, and when they die, it blooms and releases its spores to fly off in search of other places to live.
Hi imaginenore, are you talking about the situation in which we earn less on our assets than we owe in our liabilities? In this case we would use our capital buffer.
You will die of old age long before this society is even possible.
This is actually pretty dang neat. Raised my eyebrow at 3d triangle, but it wasn't what I expected, and I really like the laser pulse.
Um, it's not really "legal advice". That's just how it is.

It's not rocket science. Here's what the FBI has to say about the issue: http://www.fbi.gov/foia/requesting-fbi-records

The CIA, NSA, an just about every other agency have the same information on their site. It's also on Wikipedia.
That is really odd (unless I'm also missing something). It should be trivial to implement a count.
I thought your whole objection was that these acts were not crimes, but should be.
Yes, the Nazis were bad. How insightful.
It would be nice if the results got some UX love (at least sort answers by popularity).

Correlation between the answers to "If you were to leave tech" question also wn't hurt.

Finds:
- The most frustrating thing is not seeing the career path. I guess it's for men too.
- Around half of respondents need help in fighting imposter syndrome. This is weird. I mean, we all sometimes doubt ourself, but there's nobody better than us there.

",hbmnbvh" provided as an employer - any luck in decoding that? I thought this is cyrillic in the wrong keyboard layout but it resolves to garbage too.
As did Captain America: The Winter Solder (even better, they had multiple flying carriers) :)
An ugly word – regulation – but it made the internet fast and inexpensive in South Korea and elsewhere. Now ranked No. 17 in the world and sinking, the U.S. needs a remedy.

Understanding the background of net neutrality, which is often described as tearfully boring, isn’t the exclusive domain of policy analysts and regulators. Here’s the short form version, explaining the tall poles holding up the tent of net neutrality.http://goo.gl/tudwWe
> The same is true with native code optimising.

This is rubbish. If I use custom assembler then that's what gets run. Even if I use C code then I know what the result will be since I can actually check.

> The paths should be identical for both failure and success states. That's fundamentally how you "fix" timing attacks.

That's certainly the ideal. But it's impossible - one result will succeed the other won't. The aim is to make sure both take the same time which is an achievable goal, however to do this you need to know what will execute. You might have that guarantee in practice on a particular JVM for example, but the whole point of using something like a JIT is that it will be smart about optimising stuff based on what actually happens. That's normally great, but this is a situation where all that needed is predictability not performance.
A related question I have for some time: Can you hijack/join an existing DHT? For example, use the Bittorrent DHT (which is large and bootstrapped) to implement this "phone list"? Would that be parasitic or symbiotic?
The other bias that shows up is the different requirements portrayed to people based on their race. There was a recent article about how this was done in Lousiana to keep an apartment community predominantly white.

I see my company pulling a similar stunt. Employees are strictly hired through a recruiting firm and only after passing the interview do we bother to have them actually submit an actual application where the gender & ethnicity stats are collected. I suppose this enables us to be able to say, "we have hired 100% of all black/hispanic/asian/etc people that have ever applied to our corporation. There is no way that we are racist at all. We can't help it that 99.9999% of applicants ever, were white."
Resveratrol is a good start along with regular exercise.

Yeah down vote the guy that had a stroke playing hockey, then started taking Resveratrol and was back on the ice 90 days later playing against Division 1 and ex-Pro players at a high level again.

Resveratrol is the real-deal, I know from personal experience.
That's an interesting point of view. Maybe the Network is the computer after all. Sun had it right.

Whatever the message being passed along, the network doesn't seem to be harmed at all. Maybe it is the prime beneficiary of this interconnection and passes chemicals around just to make sure it has the resources of the trees at its disposal in the future. And it manages those resources carefully to ensure they don't use up all the nutrients in the soil too fast.

Interesting point of view.
can you talk more bout it? ;_;
> These two are equivalent earning streams for artists (ignoring the money that record labels siphon away), but I get more value out of the second option (2). And the difference is huge!

You get more value out of option #2, but I doubt the artists do.

This attitude is what I believe is really wrong with these streaming services: the value of the product being created is being significantly devalued. If you can't get it as part of the $10 / month you've decided you're willing to spend for access to 'all music', then you're just going to rip it off. Because Spotify does such a good job providing so much good music for so little money to individual listeners, they now balk at the idea of paying a real fair value for this work.

As an artist, she has every right to decide how much her music is worth and choose how she wants it distributed and paid for. I think these kinds of things are important once in a while to establish what the appropriate pricing levels and artist compensation should be.
This is called the pipeline fallacy and ignores that companies hire at dramatically lower rates (0%-2% for blacks, 2%-3% for latinos) than there are graduates (4%-8%, depending on your source) for a given underrepresented background
Essentially. This is part of a culture pass he speaks about. If he were really exposed to the tech community, he would realize that whiteboard interviews tend to be pretty widespread.
(First off, yes, this is very cool :-))

This strikes me as an ingenious way to promote a service like Crowdcast. Even if the speakers are being paid for their time, the thousands (potentially?) of developers who will get to know about the product through what is essentially a live demo will be very valuable. And it raises money for charity. Assuming the technology holds up, this really does seem like a win-win :-)
The good that came out of this is that GNOME now have tons of money from donations that they're going to put to use improving the GNOME desktop. Woo!
Whilst GNOME has not fully disclosed the information, which has been disgust for months at Board Meetings, I would stand by the evil comment. Groupon, the massive for profit organisation, made a conscious decision ("Not only did Groupon refuse ...")to basically say FU to GNOME. They then used their position as a major organisation to try and coerce them into an unacceptable situation("alternative branding options") which included filling more trademark applications.

I would, and do, call them bullies and bullies are evil.
Sure, maybe for Taylor Swift. Today. But she's in a position that literally no more than a handful of artists are in at any given moment.

For anyone else, the numbers and the equations are radically different.
Interactive map of the Berlin Wall – 25 years after
It will be crammed into around 10 hrs. Take each season of Game of Thrones, for example.
> I've hired a fair number of people, college educated (UK top schools), 1 from a top tier US university and a whole scala of other levels of education, all the way to none.

Did you mean to say "scale" here?
As I understand it, FOIA requests on living individuals will be denied. If you create a business, and there is a file on that business, and you send a FOIA request it will be acknowledged… but odds are they won't have anything on the entity.

FOIA requests are not magic. It's just a way for people to see things like declassified National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs).

If you send a FOIA request on a living individual you usually get either denied outright or sent back documents that are completely redacted to respect the privacy of that individual (even if that individual is you). This is what Privacy Act requests are for.
The initiative motivation for XIXI is to help the people who lost loved ones to feel better by using a denial coping mechanism.
I think he's fairly explicitly stating that whiteboard reviews are probably bogus. I don't think that's too controversial of a position to hold these days.

I think he's also saying that whiteboard interviews probably disadvantage people from atypical backgrounds. I think that's probable. I've seen people with good resumes struggle in whiteboard interviews due to what I guess are communication and confidence issues.
You can email me, also.
JENNY BOLTION'S NATURAL BREAST ENHANCEMENT BEFORE AND AFTER
No, I meant scala. It's not just a programming language :)

scala(Noun)

Ladder; sequence.

http://www.definitions.net/definition/scala
Yeah, my dokku server has been up for over a year and has only gone down completely once, due to a third-party plugin. Very satisfied so far!

EDIT: I was thinking of switching it over to Deis, but it needs a minimum of 2gb of ram, with a suggested amount of 4gb...not a great fit for my 512mb DO droplet :(
On the other hand, by the time this report was written the F-15 programme already existed, and the hypothetical scenario it starts off with involves a sortie from Europe to the Middle East to engage MIG-21s, which sounds like something well within the F-15's capabilities, especially with air-to-air refuelling.
That's a pretty poor coding camp that doesn't prepare students for the decades-old standard interview process.
I wish they would properly frame it as a social class issue. I try to read past it, but it still rankles when they present it as race. I didn't have it as hard as some kids do, but not every white kid has/had a trust fund, fast internet, fast computers...
That scene was obviously not trying to be rigidly scientific. Either he died and what followed was his death dream, or the hyper advanced civilization that can control gravity manipulated the black hole so he could survive. Technology looks like magic to the unknowing.
I see, I understand that fundamentally chemicals are signals. I guess what I meant was: could they use this basic "computation model" to pass complex messages? For example, provided a plant is aware of it's distance from another nearby connected plant, could it indicate via chemical signals that the soil is richer here, grow your roots in this direction, conversely, the soil is toxic here, grow your roots in the opposite direction?
How many of you use a Linux distro as your primary desktop OS?
Which distro do you use?

What advantage do you see for using a Linux distro as your primary desktop OS rather than Mac or Windows?

Is there anything other OSs can change/add that will make you move towards non Linux OSs?
Being so used to GPS, it's hard to wrap my head around that.

With an easily affordable consumer electronic device that can fit in my pocket, I have better navigational abilities than the absolute best money could buy until a handful of decades ago.
I think you are wrong about the F15 which was designed as a pure fighter with the slogan "not a pound for air-to-ground" - http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-15.htm later, bomber capability was retrofitted on.

A better example would be the Tornado used by the RAF which is a true fighter-bomber.
Well, I can tell you that not only did I not graduate from an elite school, I didn't even graduate from college. I've never had a problem finding work at startups. Very rarely does anyone care -- it's always about whether or not you have the necessary skills.
This whole argument is about whether putting your music on Spotify makes more money than keeping it off. The quote you started with is specifically about compensation.

Edit: If you're using Spotify for exposure, why get paid for plays? And why would you be happy that listeners can "keep" the music instead of buying it somewhere for more money? Spotify seems like the worst of both worlds.
Provocate dog with a potato chips – Fun:)
"No, in America people pretty much never shoot each other. I've heard there is this perception in other countries that you constantly have people shooting each other in America, but actually you don't."

Interesting. This is technically incorrect, in a way that would leave it more misleading if corrected naively.

Any given American almost never gets shot or shot at, and any given American almost never shoots another. Partly because of the size of our population (and partly for some other reasons) it is pretty frequently the case that some American shoots another. That is not incompatible with it being not being a significant risk.
I stole the concept from tg3 who made this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6674987

Don't worry though, I got his blessing before making this site.
Typic is looking for an Android developer to be based in Colombia
If you mean: after a certain number of comments have been lifted by the community out of [dead] status, the account could also be lifted out of banned status, then I agree—we'd like to try that. Effectively, this would give the community control over banning and unbanning.

We wouldn't call these "dead" or "banned"; we'd probably introduce new statuses like "flagged" or "moderated" or something like that. The current form of banning would be reserved for obvious cases of spam, etc.
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> Think of starting the next Facebook in an urban apartment where multiple siblings have to share the bedrooms and laptop and maybe the point will be clearer.

Or from a rural trailer park. Racial demographics aside, rural areas are consistently the poorest areas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_poverty#Case_study:_Unite...

...and especially poignant here, poor kids in rural areas have dial-up internet at best and no city libraries or internet cafes to walk to. And the smart and driven ones have no access to STEM magnet schools.
Is the Economy obese?
probably. but if it's safe to say, that every heart stops working after a given period of time, what else can you do?

die while on a plane when it suddenly stops or switch the heart planned while you are still healthy?
Pandora for education, Curiosity.com, raises $6M from several big Chicago VCs
City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 20 Years Later
"We hire from these five schools, period,"

This is a strange thing for them to do. I know on occasion that they do hire immigrants; who certainly did not go to "these five schools".
Patent trolls have been getting trounced in court for the last few months, especially in NY and CA. I suspect RPX is offering patent troll insurance now because their payout risk (exposure?) is now much lower.

The RPX insurance might still be a good idea. Just be sure to re-evaluate the current state of patent troll risk before you buy a $10,000 policy.