skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I've got one od these colorful, vibrating warnings I would assume it's some adware. Please don't remove main clue that message is legitimate - stylistic consistency with OS.
On startup. It was not connected to a server. I'd be happy to test it again if there's anything I can do to get more useful info to you - it did seem very promising.
The linked paper does not suggest that Martians built nuclear reactors on Mars, which then melted down. The paper suggests that there were "large fireballs in the atmosphere such as Tunguska-like events , with mid-air explosions, but of much greater energy release than Tunguska".
Because the money industry doesn't actually create anything of value, it just moves money around and takes its cut.

Baker? Sure, making cookies adds value to the world. Software? Yeah, writing programs adds something to the world. Holding onto money, lending some of it out, and taking a cut? Not so much.
It's not that -- it's all about the impact of a larger denominator. Individually, the pro-rata share of one user's $9/mo for indie bands (say 1/100 plays = $0.09) will be larger than the 1/2,000,000 (worth $0.0000005) plays in the aggregate.

So basically, my dad, who listens to 60s and 70s music all day on Spotify is mostly compensating top-40 stuff. In the olden days of FM, his listening habits were paid for by the sponsors of the oldies station.
I do know - but customers don't for the most part. So I just used standard and didn't worry about the pennies. It's a lot easier than trying to explain to them that there are two kinds of ounces.
It sounds like you're working really hard to reinvent what Subsonic already achieves. It lets you build your own streaming service, and has apps (with caching) on all mobile platforms.
"But overall, the problem here is not technology: it's capitalism."

Right. Capitalism is designed to maximize shareholder value. A higher standard of living for workers was a side effect. Was.

No other country has a working solution. Japan had their real estate collapse 18 years before the US, and never fully came back. Japan is an innovative country, yet they couldn't crack this problem. They tried heavy infrastructure spending to pump up the economy, and it helped a little.

The golden age for American workers coincides with the Communist period in Russia. That's not coincidental. From the 1920s to the 1970s, capitalism had competition. There was real fear among capitalists that if capitalism didn't deliver the goods to workers, the workers would vote to socialize industries. Britain did that, with the government running the coal, steel, railroad, airline, electric power, and telecommunications industries. It wasn't an unreasonable fear.

So the US had the New Deal under Roosevelt, and strong unions. After WWII, unions worked to keep wages high. There were explicit arrangements in the auto industry requiring wages to track productivity, so workers kept up. The auto and steel industries set the pattern for the rest of the economy. In the 1950s and 1960s, the USSR started to look like a serious economic competitor. The USSR built an atomic bomb, H-bombs, nuclear submarines, and a space program. Communism as a system looked like a threat.

That ended in the early 1980s, as the USSR stopped believing in its own "workers paradise". With fear of competition gone, capitalism could take a much harder line on its workers. It took a while, but now employers can do pretty much anything they want to without fear of retribution.
Looking for C++ developers who love to code
I've got a few startup jobs that I'm really digging right now, they just want pure coders, they're willing to teach the rest. If you've never been in finance before, they couldn't care less and they're not a finance shop, they're a market data provider. Startup atmosphere minus the good looking jerk who runs the place and refers to everyone as bro and expresses delight by saying "Loving it holmes" or "you rock girl." They're an authentic place and write great code.

NYC based.
Can we count being paper millionaires for a while?
It's not just Aaron Swartz (he's wrong about this part).

Many people think the news is completely junk:

http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par...

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/01/the-low-informatio...

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human-...

http://www.stansberryradio.com/James-Altucher/Latest-Episode...
This is a great passage from the Red Queen, that might explain what was happening at the time:

In the ancient empire of the Incas, sex was a heavily regulated industry. The sun-king Atahualpa kept fifteen hundred women in each of many “houses of virgins” throughout his kingdom. They were selected for their beauty and were rarely chosen after the age of eight—to ensure their virginity. But they did not all remain virgins for long: They were the emperor’s concubines. Beneath him, each rank of society afforded a harem of a particular legal size. Great lords had harems of more than seven hundred women. “Principal persons” were allowed fifty women; leaders of vassal nations, thirty; heads of provinces of 100,000 people, twenty; leaders of 1,000 people, fifteen; administrators of 500 people, twelve; governors of 100 people, eight; petty chiefs over 50 men, seven; chiefs of 10 men, five; chiefs of 5 men, three. That left precious few for the average male Indian whose enforced near-celibacy must have driven him to desperate acts, a fact attested to by the severity of the penalties that followed any cuckolding of his seniors. If a man violated one of Atahualpa’s women, he, his wife, his children, his relatives, his servants, his fellow villagers, and all his lamas would be put to death, the village would be destroyed, and the site strewn with stones. As a result, Atahualpa and his nobles had, shall we say, a majority holding in the paternity of the next generation. They systematically dispossessed less privileged men of their genetic share of posterity. Many of the Inca people were the children of powerful men. In the kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa, all women were at the pleasure of the king. Thousands of them were kept in the royal harem for his use, and the remainder he suffered to “marry” the more favored of his subjects. The result was that Dahomean kings were very fecund, while ordinary Dahomean men were often celibate and barren. In the city of Abomey, according to one nineteenth-century visitor, “it would be difficult to find Dahomeans who were not descended from royalty.” The connection between sex and power is a long one.
> Now that the TV news business model (and cable for that matter) is much more mature, it's a race to the bottom.

It probably isn't a very original insight, but at some point not long ago I realized that every market turns into race to the bottom as it matures.
Please add an RSS feed. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, I'll take a 'firehose' feed if that's all that's available.
Yeah, it isn't clear what timescale they are discussing, but the graphic suggests that a near 1/1 pairing is a very recent phenomenon.
Haven't you heard? Javascript is the NBL :(
He's certainly not afraid to leave his comfort zone and try something completely tangental, like making rockets or working with VR hardware.

He's always been humble, engaging, friendly, and most of all, passionate about what he does without becoming fanatical about it.
> demanding and stressful environment, driven by big egos

The same is true of academia, from what I understand, just less money.
How is this different from OwnCloud?
I think they're more likely thinking two different thoughts.

1. How can I hire great people?

2. How can I create a culture where women aren't discriminated against?
> Silicon Valley isn't trying to fuck over Millennials. Like a paperclip maximizer, it doesn't care either way.

Exactly. People think other people are responsible and have some evil plan, while this is all Moloch's doing. Everyone follows their icentives perfectly, and the combined system drives us down to hell.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I wonder if their earlier transit-oriented title Cities In Motion could be used to design & simulate a mass-transit network for Austin. To be later presented to the city urban transportation council.

(Spring break week traffic has been awesome. Next week: Back to 40 minute commutes.)
Actually, the plan is to start with Dropbox and rolling out support for other cloud services, that's why.. Oh, there are no confirmation emails, I myself hate that.. Only reason email is at the register form is for `Forgot Password`, I've mentioned it in the about page.
This is exacly right, and it's a shame that article pushes the "woo, magic" perspective, instead of using the opportunity to highlight the little-known fact (among the lay public and students) of theoretical phyisics:
it's a about model-building, "dimensions" aren't real except in the sense that a certain mathematical model (with N dimensions) is (a) consistent with experiment, and (b) has a lot of symmetry and simplicity relative to its explanatory/predictive power.
MO(S)P 1999 here.

There's a huge "Shit Happens" factor. One bad decision or major health problem, or just a loss of interest, and you're on a different path and it's hard as hell to fight your way back. Take that out 20 years, and you get the high fall-out rate. It's not that a lot of people fall off "the good track" for one reason; it's a bunch of reasons that affect small numbers of people.

Success is also hard to measure at an individual level. If you're 35 and making $130k as a full professor of mathematics, you're a star. If you're a consultant making $130k working specifically on what you want to work on, you're a success. If you're still a non-shot-caller making $130k at a Silicon Valley company, at 35, then you've failed. We don't really know how people are doing, though. The "web developer in Boston" might be able to pick his projects, or making a lot of money.
Track https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2319

I worked on this for a while, but lost motivation because of the slow development speed. If you’re more motivated, you’re very welcome to pick up where I left and bring this to thousends of users :).
Oh, I looked into it, but if you compare with LaTeX, its pretty simple, but we need references, and footnoes, and complex tables, so we would need an extended version, and preprocess it, and.. might as well use LaTeX.
The Doldrums of Consulting
I think it's pretty telling that comments surrounding an article about artists not complaining about getting paid enough people complain about the only method Spotify can implement other than charging you money for the service.

It's not a rude behavior and is within their right when you utilize their service for free.
I find it very ironic that of course I am learning about this thought-provoking post via one of my go-to news channels, HN. Doesn't the very fact that we are having an interesting online discussion about an idea we hadn't previously given as much attention to, because it came up on HN, serve as an example of exactly why reading the news has value in our lives?
Jeff Minter writes about Atari's legal threats
Business Newspaper Dienas Bizness About ZoomCharts
Youtube can do this becuase they have the whole video before they transcode it, and by then they know its average loudness. TV sets receive the content as they play it, so they can only do this if they play the content with some delay, since they otherwise can't know in advance what the average loudness is going to be. They can of cause cap it at some maximal loudness, but that would also cap the loudness of the loudest section of movies as well, and by that reducing the dynamic range.
The issues of diversity and equality are becoming increasingly harder to ignore for tech companies of all sizes. This is a great reminder to Facebook (and others watching) that they should care.

It's an uphill battle, but one day there will be one female engineer for every male engineer, one female PM for every male PM. And no woman will be afraid to go and do her job.

We're still so far from this dream...
wget is blocked on that URL, any specific reason?

wget --user-agent="Not wget" http://w8rbt.org/patches/sshlog.patch

works.
1. $ git clone https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope

2. Change title to monadsNews

3. $ meteor deploy monadsNews.meteor.com

4. Profit?
Or as someone wrote on HN once, and which is also probably my favourite quote from here, "No job is the goal. No money is the problem.".

EDIT: 'nostromo @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8987008
IPv6: still a bridesmaid
If you're just saying that they're not perfectly identical, then that's obvious, you've said nothing. What I'm replying to is your implication that they're vastly different. Science shows that they're not as vastly different as the education system assumes.
^W, ^U, ^C, ^S, ^Q, ^Z, etc are handled by the terminal driver. See stty -a
From when giving stuff for free to people helps them?
How will they learn to save and organize their lives?
Social welfare was never a solution to ANY problem when provided long term to the same people.
Instead of giving for free lets do this - ask people to work for 8 hours a week cleaning streets etc - and IN EXCHANGE their water bills will be paid off.
Doesn't bother me. I reinvent a lot of things. Doing it myself lets me fine-tune the interface and hook it into other projects.

Also, I've learned that reinvention often takes less time than learning someone else's service. If the API is really clean and useful, maybe it's worthwhile, but in most cases, it's not. If only because the vast majority of the time, I'm expected to use what's effectively a beta. I can write beta software too!

For this service specifically, just because I can self-host won't make it any easier to move off of it. Moving from iTunes to Google Play was pretty easy once I grabbed a library off of RubyGems to hook into iTunes. I'd have a coding task to do to move off this too. My own software can have everything I need, so I won't ever need to move off, just write translation layers. It's more work up front, but buys me a lot of flexibility down the road.
Uber "just moves money around and takes a cut", same with AirBNB, and so any other marketplace.
I disagree. If you want to get people engaged with the level of unemployment in the country, showing them a chart of unemployment figures are not going to engage them much. Dashboards, charts, etc. are great for engaging people in things they already care about.

Instead, a journalist can contextualise those jobs figures and explain why someone you don't know being out of work can affect your life. Narrative is, and always has been, a method of engaging people.

Never mind the fact that journalists also uncover data themselves. Formalising whistleblowers is all very well, but you still want someone to investigate. Take yesterday's story of a Congressman who claimed more miles in expenses than his car had driven - that was a reporter querying FOIL records to match up the numbers. Two completely different data sets in different governmental bodies. There would be no whistleblower there. Who heads up these information reporting networks, the government? What about government corruption?

What you are describing sounds ideal - but that's exactly what it is, an ideal. Very few real life systems work like that.
That's a really cool app but it just meant to write entries and store it as our wish. But this was more of an journal which records all my ongoing entries and have a visual representation of all of them at one place.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/

The earliest evidence located by QI appeared in January 1933 in a periodical called “Army, Navy & Air Force Gazette” based in Great Britain. A passage attributed to German General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord described the placing of officers into four classes.
This is definitely the case.

Sometimes you get lucky and get a mid 6-fig payout (me and a friend did in a medium-sized acquisition), but most of the money I and most of my friends make is from RSUs, high salary, and year-end bonuses that are actually somewhat tied to company performance.

Playing the lottery is all well and good, but a stable high-paying job will yield a higher EV.

Honestly, in this field, even a $1m payout isn't hugely life changing. By your late 20s you should be making at least 150k/yr + bonuses/etc, and with proper investment you'll be fine for retirement.
I'm not convinced that top-funded tech companies don't still pay great salaries AND give a small smattering of stock options....to keep the employees motivated and to attract the level of talent they need to succeed.
There's some audio content that fits Spotify model better, since it's optimized for endless replays

* dance/electronic

* elevator music

* toddler songs (audience loves hearing that same song for 1,000th time)

On the other end of the spectrum you have audio content that is intended to be listened to once, with extremes being audio books and radio news.

An artist optimizing for endless replays would do well on Spotify: "E.D.M. artists like Avicii and David Guetta are seeing payouts in the millions. Avicii’s “Wake Me Up,” the most streamed song on Spotify, has more than three hundred million spins, which, using Spotify’s benchmark per-stream rate, would be worth about two million dollars to the rights holders." http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/revenue-streams

But it's not perfect model for every artist out there.
One other hypothesis I can think of is the advent of barbarian warfare. Many parts of the old testament details how brutal life was, where various tribes are constantly at war and conquering other tribes.

Even several generations of warfare, where each village sacked involved killing the men and abducting the women, would filter out y-chromosomes to see such a large disparity.
Please: Listen, Question and Provide Feedback
Teach yourself Scheme in fixnum days
Ask HN: What is happening to stock market now?
It's not really subconscious. https://twitter.com/ebekiel/status/573627588708446208 https://recode.net/2015/03/16/the-most-dangerous-meme-in-the...
The myopia boom
I just remember most entry level jobs being well under 30K in the mid 90s. College degree, major city, etc.
I can't find any info on the person being sued, but his firstname suggest Indian ancestry. So there seems to be this case, Ellen Pao's and Vic Gundotra at Google? Coincidence?
yep, he abhors the finance industry:

Andrew says:
March 18, 2015 at 9:41 am

Nick:

You ask why I said “That’s too bad” after learning that Gregg is a vice president at Goldman Sachs.

Perhaps the best analogy is, what if you knew someone who was one of the top high school basketball prospects in the country, but instead of ending up in the NBA he made a career as a sports hustler, using trick bets to make money off suckers. This is not a perfect analogy, as this sort of sports betting is illegal, I guess, but the point is that it’s sad to see a great talent that is being used neither in its pure form or for scientific progress or the public good.
Not Your Father's Career Path: The New World of IT Career Development
Sounds like a job for a version control system like perforce (it deals well with large binary files, supports locking and is free for up to 20 users)
First idea that come in to the mind? Lets open its grave and mess around with bones...
Was this really necessary?
Idioglossia, very common among twins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioglossia
The non-free licensing[0] of this article is a proof of RMS' hypocrisy. I am even more surprised he used a CC license and not a GNU backed license...

[0]: "Copyright 2015 Richard Stallman. Released under Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 3.0 license"
Yes, both. There's a Model 28 teletype with all the options on eBay right now for $25.[1] But that model weighs about 300 pounds, it's in Orlando, FL, and you have to pick it up.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TELETYPE-MACHINE-MODEL-28-ASR-COMPLE...
Rust is usable with an extremely minimal runtime that approximates having no runtime at all (with #[no_std]). There are a few intrinsics you have to define, but none of them involve memory allocation. It also has a core crate that does not expose anything that requires allocation.
I'm interested,
I'm a C/C++ Software Engineer, I have a working experience of 4 years, and simply I love C++ and I love to code, currently I live in dallas/texas.
"Didn't recoup" doesn't necessarily mean the label didn't get its money back.

More commonly it means that artist royalties - which are a small proportion of label income - don't exceed the initial advance.

Book publishing works the same way. Labels/publishers can be comfortably in profit on a project, but the system is set up to make sure that artists don't get a share of that profit.

Now - labels played all kinds of games to make sure they paid artists as little as possible, up to and including outright lies about the sales and income. (Some writers have discovered that publishers sometimes still try this.)

Even so, most traditional label deals were far more generous to artists than today's streaming deals. Labels also spent significant money on PR, publicity, and payola, which Spotify and YouTube obviously don't.

Even fairly minor bands could live comfortably for a few years from radio play and royalties from a single mid-list album. Top sellers could afford castles, private jets, and custom-built recording studios.

This was partly a feature of scarcity, when there were far fewer artists selling music to a public that was more interested in music.

But it was also a direct result of more generous accounting/royalty options, and the fact that once artists crossed a certain threshold they had enough spare capital to start developing alternative stand-alone businesses.
Unless you have some hard evidence that Indian men are more sexist than other men then, yes, coincidence.
Like 'llamataboot I think that ultimately it's a feedback loop, but come to think of it, it's hard to deny how technology changes society. Look at agriculture, or printing press.

Moreover, society itself doesn't really control itself, it's just a big group of agents with different goals and ideas, that all follow incentive structures. It seems much easier for a new technology to change the society than for the society to decide "what sorts of technologies it builds".
Killing the llamas is one step too far.
> [...] SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 [...]

Do we still need these? Aren't they extremely ancient? Is there any old client that only support these protocol versions and has no security issues, or is out-of-support?
If you're a long-time reader you should've known that the downvote button requires a minimum amount of karma. Or at least you'd know that it's inappropriate to derail an HN topic when there are abundant Google results on your question.
>so louder music sounds better and sell more

So, actually, there's not much evidence that points to this. We see albums with good dynamic range selling just as well as ones with shitty dynamic range that is louder.

The FM radio has long normalized volume for songs - so the only places this mattered was on purchased CDs.

It's some weird feedback loop. The initial input was true - to a point, humans think louder things sound better - but that idea has now been as distorted as the audio tracks they're putting out.
Old geezer here: Does anyone know how often the songs on a CD are played? If I spent $10 on a CD, what was that likely to generate per-play? (I'm old enough that I remember taping LPs and then listening to the tapes -- which was a near-universal practice amongst the folks I knew.)

My guess is that great albums got listened to a lot -- driving down the revenue "per play" but generating great word of mouth and lots of net record/cd sales. How much of that applies to Spotify?