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This. I signed up for spotify for the convinience and it is far too expensive, but it did help me actually find artists that I cared to hear.

However they also have some pretty giant omissions and even for the top tier track they are very hostile to their users, which means I am looking for something better.
I have trouble believing that commercial venues make the majority of the plays on Spotify.
I add links to my site and blog posts when they are relevant to the discussion, unlike Austin's link here, which is actually contrary to the point raised in Swartz article.

My site is not a competitor to Grasswire. Grasswire is an attempt to fact check news streams. Newslines is a news archive with no fact checking at all. As I said, I used to run a fact-checking site, so I have some experience in the area, and a continuing interest in how fact-checking may work.

I am interested in all of the new news entrants, and you will see my comments on posts about Infobitt, Grasswire, Inside.com and other sites in many places across the net. That said, I have not directly criticized his site, and only said that I think fact checking in general is over rated. Unfortunately, Austen has taken my comments as a personal attack on him. He should grow a thicker skin.

I think getting feedback, positive or negative, from the community is extremely valuable. Your observation that my site is "a celebrity gossip engine" is useful to me, even though you intended it as an insult. Thanks.
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Like Dropbox...

I'm kind of curious what the legality is of using a competitor's trademarked name/brand in your marketing or presentation?
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> the freedom of a tenured professor

Well, one disadvantage of academia is that you don't really get to choose where to live, even if your CV is quite good. Indeed, there are a number of academic couples that make crazy long-distance commuter marriages work because they weren't able to get jobs at the same institution (or in the same city).
I thought it would be interesting to get some kind of historical fix on whether this is really an unfair rate per song, and if so by how much. I'm also curious as to whether "per play" is really the right metric: if I sold you a CD and it sucked, you'd almost never play it so that rate might seem high... but be unimportant because you'd sell so few CDs. How does that translate to the Spotify model?

Maybe this is obvious to others? But not to me.
Agreed. It would make it possible for a much more democratic music system where the dedication of your fans matters more than sheer numbers.
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Perhaps, these days you're right -- assuming you want to only support mainstream architectures. These days you can mostly rely on all mainstream architectures to do something sensible with e.g. signed integer overflow[1] or excessive shifting, but that wasn't necessarily the case when most of C++ was standardized. As an example of a similar nature -- as I'm sure you know -- Rust has chosen to not abort/panic on signed overflow although almost all instances of such are most probably plain logic errors and could lead to security problems[2]. As far as I could understand, this was for performance reasons. Granted, this is not quite as disastrous for general program correctness as UB, but it can lead to security bugs.

Point being: Underspecification can give you a lot of leeway in how you do something -- and that can be hugely valuable in practice.

Just as an aside: Personally I tend to prefer safety over performance, but I was persuaded that UB is valuable by comments that Chandler Carruth of Clang (and now ISO C++ committee) fame made about UB actually being essential to optimization in C++. Sorry, can't remember where, exactly, those comments were made.

[1] Everybody's probably using two's-complement (for good reasons).

[2] Not nearly as easily as plain buffer overflows, but there have been a fair few of these that have been exploitable.
If you like the sound of second one check out 'The Week'. It's a news Magazine that comes out once a week. It's the only paper news I read.
Agreed. The tax paying public now gets to share in the scientific results it has paid for.
Funny thing is, before the age of throw away electronics, one could get schematics for just about anything. Today I was fixing a Lambda (now TDK) high voltage supply. The service manual has detailed schematics, parts lists, and trouble shooting procedures. All Agilent and Tektronix equipment had service manuals. One could even go to Sears and buy parts to fix the toys they sold.

I don't know if it's really manufacturers trying to protect their IP, or just not wanting to spend resources on publishing schematics and dealing with the questions from the public.
Yes, this is also my story from the turn of the century. I still work in startups, but also I jump out of planes for fun. Money like the kind in this thread has nothing to do with my life choices anymore.
"The site gained users’ trust by offering a feature known as “multi-signature transactions,” designed to prevent exactly the sort of bitcoin theft its administrators are now accused of."

Seems like the site's differentiating feature was multiparty escrow transactions but weren't used often due to hassle?
Here's the explanation and documentation: https://github.com/fiatjaf/geojson (basically just reference a file)

Other examples:

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* http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/geojson/?type=terrain&src=http://raw...

* http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/geojson/?url=https://gist.githubuser...
When she does it it's data entry; when he does it it's programming?

The blatant unrepentant sexism in this thread, not just you but a bunch of other people, is disturbing.
Are we now at a point with headline writing where the word "This" is going to be inserted into a headline, regardless of whether it sounds silly or not, just because that's what everyone else is doing?
In my experience the taxis in Berlin are not that expensive. 15 euros from Tegel to Schöneberg. That doesn't really get you enough gas to get to Hamburg, let alone compensate any other cost of vehicle.

Now, just don't get me started about the prices of regulated taxes in Helsinki, or the largely unregulated taxis in Stockholm, where you really have to be careful.
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Just one more reason not to watch normal television.
Take a minute to imagine if this 1:1 ratio "dream" comes true...

Sally Programmer is working for Company X. One day, she gets an offer from Company Y. So she quits her job at Company X. What does Company X do? They start a search for a new programmer, of course. Oh... but they need to maintain their 1:1 quota... so for this round, only female applicants will be screened. Joe Coder sends in his resume. Sorry, Joe... they're only hiring women today.

Congratulations, you just traded one discrimination for another. And this new discrimination cuts both ways. Next time, after Bob Builder quits, Company X would not be screening female applicants. (Imagine how the world would lose their shit right now if a company posted an ad: "Wanted ~ Programmer (males only please)".

Edit: Oh snap! We forgot to mention, Sally is also Indian. There is a racial quota too. So Company X needs to hire an Indian woman.

Edit 2: Well, isn't this embarrassing... turns out Sally is also gay. Company X needs to hire a gay Indian woman to maintain that ratio too.

Edit 3: Son of a ... We were just informed that Sally also suffered from Spina Bifida. Company X says "screw it!" and decides to just pay the fine and hire the most qualified person because that makes more sense than trying to find another gay, handicapped Indian woman to replace Sally.
Pareidolia is a thing. And the Face on Mars is the top example on Wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

Yes, that rock is almost certainly just a naturally occurring anomaly. People are built to find faces, even in things that aren't actually faces.
This is the same problem that any unlimited service has to deal with. Why does a user who downloads 10GB of data per month on their cable modem have to pay the same price as a user who downloads 300GB? They're subsidizing his usage! Why should I have to pay the same price as everyone else for Netflix when I really only ever watch House of Cards?

The reason Spotify specifically works this way is because any other reimbursement model is untenable in the streaming world. Rev share works "off the top" because the overhead of managing reimbursement (specifically the audit overhead) at the subscriber level would wipe away too much margin. Pandora had an overly complicated revenue sharing scheme and it nearly bankrupted the company until they moved to a model closer to Spotify's.

But more specifically, revenue share works this way because that's how it's defined in the contracts that both the major label and the indie label signed. If the indie labels thought it was a terrible idea, they wouldn't have signed it. Most indie artists anymore simply expect to make next to nothing on distribution and playback of their music: they make their money on the live shows.
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Millisecond differences? No you don't.
The Novena open-source laptop was designed in Altium, so all of its source files are in that format. As a result, someone took up the effort to make an Altium to KiCAD converter: http://www.kosagi.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=65
We warn about mailing cash to dubious/untrustworthy recipients.

But paying a very trustworthy merchant by mailing cash would probably be fine in terms of risk of theft: mailing a $100 bill is no different than mailing a $100 item, yet people ship millions of $100+ items every day through the postal system and few get stolen.

It's just stupid to mail cash because faster ways of sending money exist.
I've never so strongly wanted to simultaneously up-vote and down-vote a comment.
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I think there is space for a programming between C and C++. C - as much as I like it - makes it far to easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ fixes some of these, but adds a whole new arsenal of appendage-mutilating features that even many experiences C++ programmers admit takes a long time to master.

Is it possible to create a language that fixes what C gets wrong while keeping what C gets right without becoming C++? There have been a number of attempts and none seem to have stuck, except for Go (IMHO). Java tried, and it did not fail altogether, IMHO, but it comes with yet another set of problems, mainly a tendency to lure programmers into over-engineering their solutions (the same, IMHO, goes for C#, which is kind of a sweet language at it core, but that becomes very hard to see among to tangled mess that is the .Net framework).
Yes, in that it uses structured light (like the Kinect), rather than time-of-flight. I think that the interesting part of this is that they seem to be planning to provide the hardware to OEMs for incorporation into laptops etc.

It seems a shame that those chose to demo IR illumination ("seeing in the dark") over the real depth sensing ability of the device. The idea of using structured light is really interesting - see http://users.dickinson.edu/~jmac/selected-talks/kinect.pdf.

The Asus XTION is a good alternative to the Kinect if you're looking to get into this sort of technology, as it requires no external power source (unlike the Kinect). There is also the Creative Senz3D, which uses time-of-flight rather than structure light, but I haven't had a chance to play with one (http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Gesture-Recognition-Personal-...).
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Not really, though I don't claim this has been a truly scientific study. :-)

Generally, the principle relies on "if it's not important [1], people don't talk about it". In other words, anything someone directly or indirectly mentions to me may be of value, everything else is just soundtrack. [2]

Further, I often find that news that does matter comes to me from the likes of a more considered periodical; I learnt a lot of fact-based detail regarding the Alberta oil sands from National Geographic, and I learn about peace process break downs from twitter users I follow far quicker and with less bias than from mainstream media outlets.

Local news tends to be handled by random people I meet on the street. It's effective so far!

[1] This is an overly burdened word in this context. Darfur is very important, but we rarely hear about it, for example. What I mean in this context is "relevant enough to daily life to stop me in my tracks and get my attention". It's worth highlighting here that a lot of very important news doesn't make it to us via mainstream media because mainstream media selects for sales and / or target audience bias / interests, ergo in that sense, I'm actually NOT hearing about important things by tuning in to traditional mainstream media.

[2] People murdering each other due to orders from invisible people in the sky is going to be a soundtrack to my life thanks to the era I live in. I know this happens. It will continue to happen for my life at least. No, I don't need daily reminders of this universal constant. The way I conduct my life and my advocacy against such acts will not be altered because I don't get those daily reminders.
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I am an early employee at worldpackers, if you have any questions and all that stuff...
Well said.

I mean...

This.
Thanks for the link. I didn't know something like this existed.
Or more likely that you're buying a round of beers for everyone in the bar, and are just frankly exhausted by the continuing flood of entitled recipients complaining about the quality and/or usefulness of the beer.
Important that 20% time can be beneficial to your entire team. And this doesn't have to be absolutely free, it can be tangentially related to something that at least sort of aligns to your company - whether internal (support, communication, internal fun) or external (product, trying new platforms / technologies).

And it doesn't have to start at 20%; if your core product can't afford everybody to take 20% time toward interesting things, then 10%.
OpenSSH is certainly the standard amongst SSH servers, however, I'm curious if there are serious alternatives that offer something missing in OpenSSH? I know there's a patch floating around that allowed some buffer to be configurable and boosted `scp` performance, for example, but I'm curious if there are other servers that offer anything else interesting.
Zipper merging is good when a lane ends, but that's not what I'm talking about. Attempting a zipper merge into a turn lane at the last moment is a really bad idea, because by attempting to do so you will block a travel lane that other people will want to use for going straight. This slows them down at best, and causes crashes if you're unlucky.

Merge at the last moment when your lane ends. Do not merge at the last moment when you need to get into a turn lane. These are different scenarios.
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So I browsed the comment thread, and you are the first "disagree" I found. I am going to join you here.

I think one of the most wrong thing in the article is this statement.

> Indeed, reading a voter’s guide is much better: there’s no recency bias (where you only remember the crimes reported in the past couple months), you get to hear both sides of the story after the investigation has died down, you can actually think about the issues instead of worrying about the politics.

Yea, no... A big fat screaming no. A voter guide is a propaganda piece that has ZERO substance. Maybe for the propositions they give a little bit of pros and cons, but for the candidates, they give you nothing. The only way you can discern who is a lying asshole is by following the news. Maybe the conclusion will be they are all lying assholes, but at least you'll be informed of that.

I also think that saying I don't follow the news because it does not personally affect me is short-sighted and self-fish.

For example, those Christians minorities getting slaughtered by ISIS has nothing to do with me. But hearing their stories and learning about them through the news will certainly teach me a bit of compassion that I will need in some random tangential decisions I make later.
>One of my problems with feminism is that it elevates women to a priviliged status while leaving males with low status behind

I disagree. You're confusing Misandry and Feminism.
Very good. That's probably an important factor.
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Cropped version, and other imagery of the region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_%28region_of_Mars%29#....
As stated in the top portion of the thread, the original paper is completely not horsesh!t. It is a reformulation of a 3 dimensional problem in 4 dimensions that significantly simplifies the specific calculations/relationships of interest.
Does the design community, which expects job candidates to have a portfolio of work in order to be considered for a position, have these same debates that we have in software engineering?
On the other hand, that's exactly what Dropbox for business would cost you, but you don't get the luxury of trying it for free. Also, if a startup is >30 people, they probably have enough $ to afford to pay. 30 people is very, very liberal.
I had never heard of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolfing
I guess you mean declension. Are you a Spanish speaker? It's a mistake I usually make too, being the expected translation of "declinación".

Yes, it's comparable to declension, though Hungarian notation is prefix and not part of the syntax, while declension is postfix and has syntactic meaning.
Uhh, yeah? I don't see anything. I can't even find where I'm supposed to see a face. If it's that hard, perhaps what you are taking as obvious is simply because you've already identified it as a face so are subconsciously looking for it?

We've known for a long time that we are hardwired to recognize faces in sets of items that are definitely not faces, so why is it so hard to believe that you're falling prey to the same thing?
Funny you mention "serfs"... wondering if you were referring to Serf City[1], which predated Caesar 3 by five years but had the same agent system of serfs carrying goods between waypoints. I'd completely forgotten about the game until you mentioned "serfs", but I spent a good chunk of 1995-96 playing it on a (barely capable) Tandy 1000 RL in my basement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_%28video_game%29
I doubt it. The business overhead of distributing payment this way is enormous. Right now, Spotify just runs a report that takes some top level numbers, splits them out by copyright owner and divides a single pool of money. This means they manage only as many pools of money as they have copyright owners.

If they start doing it the way OP suggests, they DRAMATICALLY increase the number of pools of money they manage (and thus, would need to audit). They'd now be managing (number of copyright owners) * (number of subscribers) pools of money, which is a lot more. Additionally, they likely have some errors in their data, and the impact of an error in this scheme is huge.

tldr: It's too much work for too little money. Improved technology will not change anything because it's a finance process problem, and finance processes have to be regularly audited. The more complicated it is, the more expensive it is to audit.
>Prototyping requires a back and forth costing many thousands of dollars.

This is a problem that is being rapidly solved in the OSHW community, with low cost PCB prototyping services such as OSH Park and similar. Something of the complexity of a laptop motherboard may still be in the thousands of dollars range, but a large variety of hardware is now incredibly affordable.
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Images taken later with better (higher resolution) equipment demonstrate the "face on Mars" is an optical illusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)#.22Fac...
Translation: Cisco have now just completely gotten in bed with the NSA and the kit is backdoored before it even leaves the factory. There is no way the NSA would stand for someone as big and "establishment" as Cisco to get away with this sort of raspberry and Cisco desperately need some positive coverage to try and earn their trust back.
I'll try to create one. Your can follow a curated Twitter-account of Nomadler in a meanwhile - https://twitter.com/nomadler
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I am not a competitor (see post above).
assume I have a "good" mod, lots of people download it, which as far as I understand is a "subscription" in steam workshop terms, somebody breaks into my account and uploads a malicious update, now everybody will download the malicious update instead: unless there was a way to tie a code audit to a specific module that you download it seems like this would still be risky
I can't imagine how a font acts across browser/OS differences is predictable enough to sanely/safely make decisions about kerning
I wonder if this presents an opportunity for someone to set up an app just for this?

Like GitHub but for publishing scientific data and code.
Do you mean the rock about 40% down the image, at the bottom corner of a lighter colored diamond of terrain? Because all I see is an "eye" and maybe a mouth and none of it looks particularly sculpted/carved. I've seen more face-like images in the random shadows on my ceiling.
The bitcoin model alone doesn't fit buying drugs online. The purpose of escrow is a mutually agreeable middleman to facilitate a transaction, especially when parties that do not trust each-other can not exchange goods and payment in person.
Excellent question. If you're in a position to contribute to OSS and earn less than that salary, you're likely living in another country where that salary is one of relative affluence (affording you the luxury of time to contribute to open source).
This is a nice balance of the trade offs of the various concurrency primitives in Python.

Greenlets for lightweight concurrency, threads for preemptive concurrency and processes for parallelism / isolation.
You might find it worth while to investigate mosh[0] as an alternative to OpenSSH.

[0] - https://mosh.mit.edu/
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I absolutely love this game, been playing this for a week now and cannot get enough of this game. My city is now really big (population of 175k).I have not played the latest city sim games, but have played the old games back in the day (like pharoah , pharoah2 ,sim city4 etc). Its amazing that this runs on Unity, supported to run on Windows, Mac OS AND Linux !
Not to mention its very reasonably priced at $30. Having the ability to start of with unlimted money (one of the mods available at release) makes this game really have a very low barrier to entry. You still have to unlock the unique buildings and monuments however. Speaking of unique buildings, to unlock some of them , you need to intentionally cause damage to your city (like cause 50% unemployment or have avg garbage pile up increase). I found myself trying to have throwaway districts intentionally built to be discarded once the unique building is unlocked. unlimited money after all :)
all in all, great game, absolutely recommend this, however be prepared to lose a lot of productivity for a while ! you are warned.
This was an incredibly well written article. I didn't realize who had written it until it referenced the GPLv3. The arguments are convincing enough that I'm going to use GPLv3 rather than the Apache 2.0 license for my future open hardware work.