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> They even ship a js interpreter with OpenJDK since 1.6... why bother if Java is so much better and easier to use?

Because

> And also conflating a bug in Chrome with a language deficiency seems fallacious.

It's not a Chrome bug, it's a missing feature in every existing Javascript implementation that only Chrome is bothering to add (though hopefully other implementers will follow suit shortly)
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I know of a couple, but it's rare. You're much more likely to make money in a hedge fund. Year-end bonuses (profit-sharing) are a much better model, at least for employees, than startup equity, which is usually a retention carrot for after the company is bought and dies. Unless you become an executive, you have to get very lucky to have that kind of outcome.

The million-dollar houses are mostly being bought by investors and well-connected career startup executives who take almost no risk. Engineers are renters in the Valley.
By "taking them to task", he means "complain ineffectually". He can complain ineffectually about Silicon Valley just as loudly as he can complain ineffectually about Wall Street.
> I think if we look at the history of adoption of technology, a lot of it is driven by the top 1% endorsing it.

I suppose this might be true but it's rather hard to quantify. I don't recall ever choosing to invest in and master a language from a celebrity endorsement. Some people might have -- I can't say. But it obviously does have merit because of the responses Carmack's tweet solicited so I don't disagree.

I just found that the majority of responses were of this patronizing sort. If Carmack is amongst the top 1% of programmers, as you say, and is a minor celebrity as we both know then it seems disingenuous to immediately ask him, "Why not Haskell/Erlang/Clojure/Whatever-my-favorite-X-is?" Given his previous essays on functional programming and his move to adopt C++ I think it's safe to say he knows what he's doing and picked Racket for good reasons (even if it's as simple as, "I like it."). I made the tribe observation when it became apparent to me that perhaps they were jealous that Carmack didn't pick their tribe and bring his celebrity power along to them.

I find that kind of sad and funny. I'm more curious as to what he's building than what language he's using to do it with. There are interesting things to talk about wrt the system he's building and the run-time he's building it on but that seems to go over the majority of peoples' heads. Even as a newcomer to the Racket ecosystem I think Carmack will have quite a lot to teach us as he develops this system: about Racket, the language VM, system architecture, his process, etc.

So when I said, "As if it matters what language Carmack decides to use," what I was implying was that he probably has reasons and it's more interesting to know what those are. He could have continued writing it in C++, Haskell, anything... it's what he does choose, as opposed to the multitude of choices he didn't make, that is interesting here in my opinion.
Serious question: how much do you actually know about Steve Albini? Are you a Big Black fan? Are you at all acquainted with the Chicago punk scene he's from? Have you read anything else he's written, for instance about any band not from that scene? Or, for that matter, any of the story of his business relationship with the labels? And you know how he makes his money, right? (hint: not by touring Shellac).

(I am an unabashed and somewhat obsessive Albini fan).

I think at this point you can safely assume that anyone writing an opinion about the music industry has read that old Albini zine post.

If you'd read Lowery's post, I think you'd see that he in several ways rebuts it.
That would be great. It is a little annoying having to click around to make changes and click back to check it again after say adjusting your power budget. If it was semi transparent when not in focus and solid when in focus that could be a good way to make non intrusive. anyways I will keep an eye out for it.
One place I worked had a coding standard based around hungarian notation. For some reason I hated it, but I kind of like Perl's sigils.
"Only 36% of college grads have jobs that pay at least $45,000... after adjusting for inflation"

! 45k? And here I thought my 30K job in mid 90's after college was a windfall.
> But in 20 years they'll probably be much better.

Historically when people play the "wait, in 20 years it'll be here" they're universally wrong. According to futurists from the 1990s we'd have the immortality pill, jet packs, Mars colonies, cancer cure, diabetes cure, extinct animal revival, etc by now.

In 2035 Musk will be at retirement age, so why is he selling us on this concept now? Obviously, these guys want to push a product out soon and that product is flawed and not remotely ready for, say, Chicago traffic. I'm sure its wonderful on the Google campus, but that's not my world.

I think Musk, being a business man, has an agenda here. Its to keep Tesla's largely failed experiment in electric cars going via hype and promises. Everything he says exists to raise the value of his company. The same way he ironically badmouthed "strong" AI recently to discredit robotic space mission funding that would challenge the manned launches SpaceX plans to profit from.

I think its funny that Musk flip-flops on AI so easily. Good in cars, bad in space, when in reality the opposite is true. I think the more extremist Musk gets in the pressm the more we're seeing problems at Tesla and his other companies. Take at look a TSLA stock from a 1 year perspective, not to mention their $108m losses this past quarter and $300m loss in the past year. Things have been very bad there. Musk is just trying to keep it alive via hype and showmanship.

Tesla is really starting to feel like Segway. Musk, for all his merits, is probably best as a space guy and should stick to that. Space needs big thinkers and big disruptors. This is a field where we need good AI and a cost cutting approach, not cars. Focusing on making the best car, in this day and age, is like focusing on making the best horse and buggy 100 years ago. Shame he is wasting so much talent and capital on this quixotic endeavor, especially considering Detroit and Tokyo have their own affordable electrics, if anyone is interested in buying them in the age of the BRICS nations demanding less oil and the price of oil falling to historic lows.
That's pretty sensible rule of thumb, but even safer one would be not build any products around other service's API unless you are explicitly paying them money for access.
Or narratively describes the product to customers already accustomed to the value add of product x, but need ancillary features and benefits not present in x. I'm of the opinion that comparing one product to another only devalues the one if the other is objectively a bad product.
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Brandenburg's been focused on this for a while, here is his 2011 theory that it was a natural fission reactor:

EVIDENCE FOR A LARGE, NATURAL, PALEO-NUCLEAR REACTOR ON MARS. J. E. Brandenburg

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1097.pdf

However, over time he has been getting deeper and deeper into pseudoscience. It was covered in Pharyngula a while back:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/11/22/the-two-faces-...
That’s not how Spotify works, though. According to the link above:

Every time somebody listens to a song on Spotify it generates payments, but Spotify does not calculate royalties based upon a fixed “per play” rate.

Unless there are some secret deals being struck for fixed per-stream royalties that Spotify isn’t admitting to publicly, every rightsholder gets a percentage of monthly revenue. Which sounds fair, until you consider long-tail producers and consumers, for whom the marketplace is distorted by this model.

Your buffet analogy isn’t really apt here because streams aren’t limited resources, and they all have the same effective wholesale cost to Spotify (again, assuming no secret deals).
This.
Sim City 4 is maybe the only 3D management/strategy game I have loved. Unlike most 3D sequels of 2D games (like Rollercoaster Tycoon III, much more profound than the II, but vulgar, unattractive, charmless), Sim City kept all its charm typical of the 2D era. The modern games have lost the cuteness so present in the old strategy/management games like Transport Tycoon, Theme Hospital, etc. This cuteness was important to me because it allowed to play in a satirical way, or in a non-realistic way.
To be honest, I don't know if I would have loved this new game when I was a child, I remember being first attracted by the colorful graphics and the funny councilmen. My cities were like a full world, closed and unique, not like Paris or London but like Springfield or Duckburg. Sim City (or Caesar III, Pharaoh) allowed me to learn how to manage a city, but also to imagine stories.
> the ultimate unanswered question

Answer: 42.
My children (ages 5 and 3) were born and raised in Germany. We only speak spanish at home. They both went to day-care very early.

Today they speak like natives. When they play alone or between them, they do it in german, and while I defend myself in german quite good, he corrects me all the time, especially with the right pronunciation.

Sad true is, lot of people, including educators are ignorant about multilinguism. They did at some point ask me and my wife to speak german at home with them because they were behind with the language.

I will not even mention stupid ideas politicians have had about the topic.
No, a terrible job of running a business is what Amanda Palmer did by trying to pay musicians in beer. I'm not a Pomplamoose fan or advocate, but they capitalized better than most could hope for - you know, like The Rembrants? I think you're arguing from a highly biased outlook in that you cite 1% of artists which cater to a monied audience (teenagers dependent on parents, Baby Boomers who have achieved success to afford $50-250 tickets) specifically to discount the realistic percentage that 80% of artists who make any money doing music don't actually make a living doing it.
I 100% agree that there has always been sensationalism in journalism - that's nothing new. But back then the volume of print media was limited by physical factors - it was expensive to get an article in print. The new economics of media has fundamentally changed the business models. There was no print equivalent of Buzzfeed for example.

My point is that the barrier to entry for shoddy journalism is so low that articles like this are flooding the medium more than ever.
Can someone please glue this to the top? The whole discussion here is one big straw-man.
Who is the "we" that is doing the inventing? The News God[1] with the power to correct perverse incentives and keep prisoners from defecting? Doesn't exist. The committee of Folks Who Care About Policy And Represent a Broad Cross-Section of Society but Don't Get into Stupid Arguments? Doesn't exist.

Even if they did, an organization would discover that they could get more views and exert more power using titilatory stories. What you propose is not a stable Nash Equilibrium.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

EDIT: re-read and that seems to be kinda your point. Apologies if it is and I'm oddly argumentative.

To continue, one reason why organizations use stories is that stories are one of the data structures more efficiently-implemented in our minds.
I don't see any problem with that. We shall downvote uninteresting submissions and upvote good ones. It is irreleveant why they were submitted.
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Some small players might not either. It might be working in some small players' favour that less active users are subsidising active users.
Sorry about that! We just got a huge spike in traffic from HN and VentureBeat so are trying to handle the demand.
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> In fact, they’re moving in circles in 4 dimensions. But when these circles are projected down to 3-dimensional space, they become ellipses!

Um, no. They are moving in 3 dimensions and when they are projected down to 2-dimensional space they become ellipses.
Far be it for me to suggest to another how to raise their child. If it were up to me I'd so totally stick with it. The insane pace of development in these early years will never happen again. Another language is another life. The mind is also very good at adaptation, so anything you teach incorrectly today will auto-align/correct when your son is older and experiences that culture for real. What you're doing takes courage. Respect.
Or you could buy a Synology like I did and forget paying rent per user. Integrates with LDAP. Comes with a ton of useful software but I bought it mostly for CloudStation and a local file server for large files/collections we didn't want to keep on our workstations or laptops. CloudStation provides remote file sync which we are using to replace Dropbox. Also you can hook up your IP security cams, run a mail server, ftp, iTunes server, whatever... nice web based UX. I'm thinking of buying another smaller one for home.
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Microsoft was an example where it's owners became billionaires and they're employees became millionaires.
This article is the right side of an important issue poorly defended and abysmally presented.

Silicon Valley isn't trying to fuck over Millennials. Like a paperclip maximizer, it doesn't care either way.
I'm new here. Can you summarize "Paul Graham's hacker startup thesis?" for me? (Or point me to an appropriate manifesto, whatever). Would like to read your last sentence in context... thanks
I don't understand the authors point of view.

My toddler is teaching me Spanish.

I am not being left behind, I am simply catching up.
Scholarly Markdown is very much a group of like-minded people, and we had a workshop with lots of good discussions in June 2013 (http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/06/17/what-is-scholarly-ma...). What it has not been until the recent effort by timtylin is a specific set of tools, or spec.

Everyone seems to have an opinion on how to do this right, and that is part of the reason why the whole concept is pretty fragmented. Some of my thoughts:

Pandoc is the markdown converter that comes closest to what most people need, so I am happy to stick with it. I personally don't think that a fork is viable, things are already hard enough as it is.

Scholarly markdown is a solution for 80% of use cases, people writing math-heavy texts are probably better of sticking with Latex.

Scholarly markdown needs to be a community effort, I don't see any other way on how this can succeed
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His proposition may sound simple to him, but it really isn't.

It becomes very hard to ensure you are being paid properly in his proposed scenario, I would personally expect it would create even more controversy, or extremely long payment records every month for artists.

For instance say we have 500 paid users. Lets call them user1 through user500. Each user listens to the same number of songs a month as the value following the word user in their name. Then we have 500 different rates at which artists are paid for their song playing ranging from the entire monthly fee to 1/500th the monthly fee. Therefore providing a full accounting of each of those rates would be necessary for an artist to understand why they got paid more the month they had a single play than the month they had 400 plays.

To be fair assuming the minimum song length on Spotify is 30 seconds this record provided to artists would have a max length of (31 * 24 * 60 * 2)+1 = 89281 items for premium users plus items for add supported users if they did not overlap exactly in rate. Assuming all Premium users paid the same rate, which is not the case.

Edit: I ignored the 0 listen use case, as well as spotify's 30% cut to simplify an already complicated 'simple proposal'. I also forgot to account for daylight savings time in which a day can have 25 hours.
Neat. the dollar sign also has eight segments to it, so it is literally pieces of eight.
The sentence, "The truth is this: I think Noa is raising us as much as we are raising her." and the paragraph it heads really resonated with me as a parent of a young child.

Upon seeing the title, I expected the article to be about the unknown languages infants sometimes seem to invent. We speak two languages to our son, but my wife and I both understand each language quite well. Our son was very vocal as an infant, but less than half of his words were English or Portuguese. He's nearly three now, but he'll still use some of his invented words to unnecessarily lengthen phrases. I imagine this is to mimic adults who express themselves with more words. He may believe that longer phrases are given more consideration as he tends to do this more often when making a request with a small chance of success, like asking for another treat after being told he can only have one.
Fascinating stuff, I'd like to know more.

Does anyone know a better source?

I found the original article but sadly not freely available. This psmag.com article is thin and the graph of the data is so small I can't read much off of it. Google couldn't find any larger versions of the graph.
When I told John Tate I was thinking of switching out of mathematics, his response was in effect "Good heavens! If there's anything else you can imagine doing, don't stay in math!" I later read that Wittgenstein had famously said something similar about philosophy. (Context: I was 19 years old and finishing up my PhD in math at Harvard. In that small department, Tate was not one of the professors I knew well.)

In fact, I often feel pangs about not staying in academia. On the other hand, I've been able to carve out a life with a big dose of public intellectual -- for want of a better or less pretentious term -- so that's cool too. E.g., I'm repeatedly told that my blog is "required reading" for grad students in the relevant areas of computer science ...
I'm hitting this point right now. After years of maintaining an mp3 collection I jumped ship to Spotify to try it out and loved it. It was great that I no longer had to spend any time to get access to the music I loved. Also community playlists were awesome (Especially the Top X Hit playlists that were updated monthly). Spotify even supported Last.FM, I was in heaven... Until Spotify didn't have that 1 song, or that 1 cd, or that 1 artist. That coupled with CONSTANTLY turning explicit music on my playlists to the "clean"/"radio edit" versions pissed me off to no end (I know why this is happening and I find it completely unacceptable).

For the last few months I've been using SoundCloud (Still paying for Spotify for every now and then or when a friend requests a song) for mashups (which are nowhere to be found on Spotify) but the SoundCloud iPhone is shit. It looks nice but whenever iOS knocks it out of memory it forgets where you were were and takes you back to the home screen (Which for long mashups sucks a lot). Furthermore it seems WAY more finicky with network connections than Spotify was. I have to turn off Wifi when I get in my car (from home -> work and from work -> home) because if I don't then SC will try to load over Wifi and I drive out of range almost immediately. Then I have to kill the app and re-launch (and re-navigate to where I was) before it will use my LTE connection. Also the mobile app doesn't scrobble to last.fm (neither does the website but I have chrome extentions for that).

I decided, literally a couple hours ago, that I was sick of this and decided to go back to maintaining my own music collection. I've got to do some research on how best to do this (Subsonic or similar on my home server and an iPhone/OS X that let's me stream+cache and scrobble to last.fm) but I believe it will all pay off in the end. I've found that all of these services (Netflix/Hulu/Spotify/Rdio/etc) are great for getting started but that all comes at a cost and it WILL bite you in the ass one day.
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http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=30&year1=1995&y...

$30k in 1995 is around $45k now adjusted for inflation.

One important factor to remember is that the cost of education has risen a lot (even in real terms) since the 90's. A student graduating today is way more likely to carry a substantial student debt so that money just doesn't go as far as it used to once you factor in wealth.
Relevant:

Luddite (noun) : one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest;

From Wikipedia : The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-replacing machinery from 1811 to 1817. The stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms introduced during the Industrial Revolution threatened to replace the artisans with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work.
Does anyone have any information on how Google Music does it?

I love Google Music, and don't understand why everyone's so hopped up on Spotify, just because they were "first" to market (and they weren't).
While I generally agree the article is a hyperbolic polemic (I mean, really, "Third, we can elect leaders who are vocal about holding Silicon Valley accountable for their power over the entire American workforce, including white-collar employees"... what does that even mean?!), the concerns about the "sharing economy" are pretty reasonable.

Ultimately, these companies can easily trick folks into undervaluing their own labour. Now, I grant you, the folks involved are free to make that decision. But at minimum it should be an educated decision, and this is where the role of government or organized labour institutions can play an important role.

Meanwhile, long-term, we are almost certainly going down the path of increasing automation, and that means we must, as a society, have an open discussion about what that means, and what might need to be put into place to try and mitigate some of the downsides (which is, of course, why the concept of a minimum basic income has re-entered the popular discourse). That's not to say that this trend is a necessarily evil one. We shouldn't be trying to preserve the jobs of the poor buggy whip makers. But it may very well mean a sea change in the way society views work, government assistance and the social safety net, health care, pensions and old age support, etc.
I'm almost certain free users pay out a lower rate, payout information from Zoe Keating has confirmed that there is a somewhat large disparity between rates even within the same country with no explanation attached, there's only 1 or 2 things it could be. Radio payouts are lower because it constitutes a 'radio play' and therefore gets less than a premium user playing the song on demand so there's definitely variance within the payout rates.
It is also useful for embedded devices with small flash/ROM.
I wish more people saw this the way that you do. You're right. Destroying "work", that is no longer needed, benefits society. It's a widespread loss of income that causes everything to go to hell. The two don't need to be correlated.
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Thankfully, we only used KSP math, and not KSP engineering.
Just because I'm harsh doesn't mean I don't love you guys :)
> But there's an impedance mismatch here. The copyright holders are being paid per-play but the users are paying all-you-can-eat. That's always going to be an imbalance. The only way to "fix" that would be to charge "Terry" a cent per listen like a jukebox.

Or split Terry's money between the artists they actually listen to.
I know this is about Warren, but I have a question...

Is it me, or is Bill Gates the coolest person ever after relinquishing his duties at Microsoft?

He seems so at peace with everything (except for his charities and philanthropic efforts of course).
When will we get an HN for monads?
What level did you join? IC (Dev, Prod), Management, Sr Management?