skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually only half the problem. Classical music is one of the genres where the profit-sharing model doesn't work very well. Spotify pay out every time a track is listened to (IIRC, this is triggered when you're 30s into the track). This works well for pop music, where the songs are short and they are listened to many times by the typical user. It works less well when the "songs" are 45 minutes long and typically only listened to once (famous works are recorded by multiple orchestras and listeners are likely to check out several and perhaps only ever return to their favorite interpretation).

This means that for many it's still more profitable to sell a small amount of CDs than to be on spotify.

I suspect this will change over the years because there's now a very large overlap between those that still listen to CDs, don't use spotify, and listen to classical music.
Scala Collections: Part 1 – Overview of the Hierarchy
Tl;DR James Altucher is a self-promoting jackass. This we've known for a long time. If you ready a paragraph from any of his work, you'll see this very quickly.

Moving on.
What would be so bad about it? Founders already committed to other projects? Leakage of "Ideas"?
Joking, but I'm guessing in practice it would be somewhat true?
Rails: The Cost of Using Ruby Gems
Uh, unless you consider Yishan Wong (former reddit CEO) publicly stating it[1], and Alexis himself admitting it[2] 'speculation', then I think the evidence is solid enough.

[1]: https://np.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0th...

[2]:https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_old...
Also useful. sslscan (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslscan/). Point it to an endpoint and it will tell you all the ciphers and protocols that are accepted, and what the various defaults are, and details about the certificate bound to it. It's available in the Debian/Ubuntu repository for easy installation.
curiously, I'm on fsf-endorsed parabola linux, and of course the soundcloud won't play due to iceweasel's default privacy protections.

Could someone who listened to this podcast enlighten me with brief summary? Mainly, if I only install the open-source vetted software from my package distributor, and don't do silly things like insert untrusted usb devices or run binaries not from my distro's repository, or execute random scrips from the internet, or disable my sudo password, or not keep up-do-date with security patches, and assuming I'm not subject to 0-days, then how does the malware get in?

The only malware I'm aware that I've ever had on linux is from ubuntu installing the amazon search thingie, or from proprietary programs I thought I might try which ended up running stuff I didn't want in the background.
Building a DeepDream Web Service for $5/month with Spot Instances
Took my young son to a cub scout camp this summer. The swim test was just as grueling. My son didn't pass at all even though he has had swim lessons and can swim. He was just too nervous at the testing aspect of it.

I swam two out of two and a half laps, but I didn't pace myself well enough, and I ended up having to stop. Partially, I was out of breath, partially, my shoulder was bothering me due to a healed fracture from a car accident last fall. First time I had done any significant amount of swimming since then and didn't realize how far from 100% I was. Was a bit embarrassing getting the "beginner" swim label, but I had to be a good role model and take my lumps.
The domain search facility there is fantastic. I have my own domain and try to use a different email address for every signup. Luckily that site allows you to do a complete search for @example.com in the 'domain search' tab.
There's no shortage of studies that have been done on the issue. Here's a great New Yorker article[1] from last year that references a number of studies. This blog post[2] links to a couple others and addresses costs/alternatives. A "study of over 40,000 survey responses collected over a decade has found that the benefits for workers are quickly outweighed by the disadvantages"[3]. Here's a Washington Post article[4] discussing Facebook's huge open office layout, another Post piece[5] on office furniture designers realizing (citing multiple studies) "open-plan spaces are actually lousy for workers." A TIME article[6] highlighted decades of research that associated open layouts with "greater employee stress, poorer co-worker relations and reduced satisfaction with the physical environment."

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/currency-tag/the-open-office-trap

[2] http://nathanmarz.com/blog/the-inexplicable-rise-of-open-flo...

[3] http://theconversation.com/open-plan-offices-attract-highest...

[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/g...

[5] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/04...

[6] http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/15/why-the-open-office-is-a-ho...
It is tough to take your post with any authority when you don't spell it correctly - CrossFit.
> "Fact: In today's age of agility, rapid development, minimum viable products, continuous deployment, and short iterations..."

I don't think I would take a job anywhere that held these buzzwords in high regard. They have been discredited time and again as the wankery of company culture.

"age of agility"... No.

"MVP".... No!

"continuous deployment".... kill me now.

You mention stakeholders. At my last job, stakeholders were the biggest problem in the company. I had a desk in an open office, and for some reason that meant the project manager had an open invitation to walk up to my desk repeatedly throughout the day bugging me with brain-dead questions and pointless "standups". Yep, she wanted regular standups even though it was just her and myself for many of the minor projects. Jesus I'm glad I got out of there.

> "create a policy where people can indicate when they're deep in thought on something complex and would prefer not to be distracted"

What policy. Nobody does that.
As of January 2016, MS will only support the most recent version of IE for supported operating systems. It means IE 9 and 11, mostly.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-dat...
It'll start as "better on DirectX 12," there'll be a Crysisesque "DirectX 12 only" game that is the prettiest thing anyone has ever seen, everyone will move and the holdouts can keep playing old games off Steam and GOG if they don't like it.
The only value I can find in this article is that it might be the most brain melting conjecture-filled piece of shit I've ever read. This blogger is nothing but an SJW troll.
I don't know about just copying the executable, but I just copied the entire folder that contains MineSweeper.dll, Minesweeper.exe, and an XML license file over to a VM and was able to run the game from there. The folder is located under C:\Windows\winsxs\ - Just search for the exe and you'll find it.
'retarded' in it's current usage is not offensive. It means "very foolish or stupid."

'retarded' in it's dated usage is offensive, but it wasn't being used in that sense in the repo in question. This dated usage has fortunately fallen pretty much completely out of common usage.

If I tell you "my brother is retarded" you know exactly what I mean because if I had wanted to tell you that my brother has a learning disability I would have used a different word than 'retarded'.
> Plus, you have no idea what time of day the car will be passing through a location.

I don't, but I assume google does.

> So you can't compare the data points over time - they're not taken the same time of day

Not in a simple way, no. But to say it doesn't provide useful information seems odd when the article says

> Independent scientific analysis confirmed that the mobile sensor system worked for collecting street-by-street data, and could improve upon the regional network of sensors operated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Building a Distributed Hypervisor on FreeBSD [video]
In fact, what I wrote is exactly the opposite of that.
Hack your way around the world with free flight layovers
It's being sold on USB sticks this time around.
Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, ... they could have solved the problem long ago. They didn't.
Nothing about routes in the article. I know how to do it with React-Route, but I was hoping it would show other people.

Getting tired of modals (especially for login/signup) that doesn't have a route to it.
Ultimate Guide to Making Strong Passwords
Same Origin Policy would prevent AJAX requests, CSRF attacks thus usually use hidden forms -- window.open achieves the same, but with the opportunity to send multiple requests.
> I am unable to view OP's site at the moment so I'm not sure if you mean there was something on top of her.

No, there was no flotation device blocking the surface in any of the videos.
>The fact that companies have all the right and none of the duty of a normal person in front of the law with the all power money can buy

Can you unpack that for me? I own a corporation and enjoy nothing of what you mention. I fear I'm missing out on something.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=NPE+patent&t=lm
I don't have any knowledge about the efficiency etc. but one possibly relevant note is that sometimes there are government subsidies, so even if there was a situation where it wasn't environmentally better it could still be a financial win for the end user. (I know this scheme was or may still be available in Oxford, I don't know if it was UK-wide or could have been the local council, but I know it wasn't a private company offering the incentives.)
FEATURE REVIEW – Microsoft Windows 10 Part I
You guys may be thinking about two different contexts:

1. calling someone with a disability a retard (which I would never, ever do)

2. using the word "retarded" in a generic sense. For example: I may have called my kids retarded, in exasperation, for doing something nonsensical. Not elegant, but has been used as a figure of speech, of sorts, for ever.

My problem with censoring words (and political correctness in general) is that it is an overly simplistic intent to make the world a gentler place - even if you forbid people from saying/writing certain words, you will not change how they think/behave.

Nobody dares to use the n... word, but there are still a lot of racists (and reverse-racists, it needs to be said) out there. The only way to fix it is education and culture - no other way around it.
This post is really weird. He keeps emphasizing the fact that when he was younger he had no such power, now that he's old he can boss people around, but somehow he puts that under "white privilege". He was white when he was younger.

I would say this is age privilege. No one wants to fuck with old people regardless of race I think.
A lesson I learned 35 years ago playing with real-world interfacing to computers:

There is no such thing as an intermittent
bug, only intermittent symptoms.

I say that because the last sentence in the article is basically the same message in a different context.
So..... Can i have a list of block words in my repo?
You're lucky you never drowned.
The issue of someone else getting censored affects everyone who might also get censored. Being silent about injustice against others, just because it does not affect you, is umwise.
Everpix – Every PossibilityNever Pivoted
> 1. Anyone who can get an add-in pasted corporate software security can also use a better tool outside Excel. In other words: think carefully about the customer.

What other tools are available? A lot of technical people don't choose Excel, but come into situations where Excel has been relied upon historically and the non-technical people do not want to move away from it. So I could see such a plugin having value in these situations (non-technical people continue to use the spreadsheet as-is, while the programmer improves it via the plugin), which I would imagine are quite common (I have been in this situation before).

> Users don't buy plugins in larger businesses, etc.

Fact or opinion?
When we put both my young kids through swim lessons, they were taught with "bubbles", little foam blocks that are strapped to the middle of the back, and the number of bubbles are reduced as their proficiency increases. That left their arms and chest free to work on actual swimming form. When working on kicks, they held on to little floating dumbell bars.
The potential backlash to VSO likely isn't worth it -- but maybe there is a way to politically navigate that.
Why this needs to be done as one giant agreement seems crazy...

A relevant example where this could be a good thing; I'd love for tech businesses in London to be as easy to invest in for Silicon Valley investors as local tech companies - this would be amazing for investors, London startup scene etc. - maybe it would require a special sort of company and also an easy way to move a company to CA if needed.

There are loads of things in TTIP to hate but the above example would be a better use of these bureaucrats time and something that would be easy to pass and help lots of businesses grow!
A society like North Korea is Darwinian in this regard.

If you're a good little citizen, you starve to death. If you're bad at breaking the rules, you go to the reeducation camps or to the firing squad. I'm sure that the example of former friends and family gives them ample motivation to learn good OPSEC.
Similar thing for Japanese music.

Should I search for 椎名林檎, the Japanese spelling, Shiina Ringo, the transliteration following standard transliteration rules, or Sheena Ringo, the transliteration that the artist has chosen herself? (It's the latter, which was unknown to me)

Moreover, you might be searching for the phonetic spelling using Japanese kana, しいなりんご. That's a lot for a system to handle. Maybe Chinese people will search for her using simplified characters (not for this one in particular, but definitely others)
No, they aren't. Git means "bastard", which I find awfully discriminatory towards people brought up by single parents. How will they ever feel comfortable in contributing to open source if all open source development happens on Github?
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/4260/windows-10-...
I will also not be upgrading immediately, though in a few months, not (almost) a year from now.
German scientists confirm NASA results of propellantless 'impossible' EM drive
When a company hires you they are getting: your availability to work, and your capacity to work.

When problems are well defined (you have workable requirements) then you availability becomes less important, so your capacity to work becomes relatively more important.

When problems are not well defined or written down, then availability becomes more important, and capacity for work less important.

Given that most startups are working on simple CRUD apps, where their most difficult problems usually stem from their own poor organizational skills (poor build procedures, badly configured servers, technical debt in the code) rather than a difficult problem domain it seems clear to me that availability would become more important to employers than capacity for work.

Also managers prefer to be able to _see_ people working. (Never mind that the work being done in a bullpen is not productive.)

Open offices are like hives: filled with busy looking, low cost replaceable drones.

tl;dr: Maybe open offices are popular because most startups aren't working on hard problems.
The action creators where a real pain point for me.

I'm coming from MVC where actions are the methods of controllers. But in Flux they are objects passed to the dispatcher and the functions who create them aren't actions, but actions creators.

But I have to say, I got my first impression of React/Flux from a project that was already using it (Redux) in production with a big chunk of integration code around it.
The target drive on Windows 7 and 8 has to be at least the size of the previous one, which includes even the partitions which aren't copied. It seems nothing changed on 10 regarding that.
Quite apart from LDs, there's something wrong with a medical system that allows doctors to decide who they want to resuscitate.
You won't catch me defending open offices, but they're even worse when they're full and the meeting rooms are booked all the time. I even frequently can't attend a standup or other meeting because someone is in the room who shouldn't be. And of course they're always on a phone call with a customer, or some other thing that can't be interrupted.

I used to work from home, for 4 years. It's hard to deal with all the stupid shit you put up with in offices.
A Dream Undone: Inside the 50-year Campaign to Roll Back the Voting Rights Act
Summary execution is pretty expedient, especially if you don't care about the facts.
No idea if this is right, but I imagine that's how long it takes to get the word out to start tracking this number, after which the actual tracking happens quickly.
I think some of the votes are fake. Look at the names on some submissions.
You should implement a way to verify each vote, right now the scores can be easily manipulated.
This is actually a very important observation. The entire modus operandi of patent trolls is to go after the weak. Let's not kid ourselves when suggesting incompetent lawyers can't gain competence.
Representable Functors
The Difference Between Junior, Mid-Level, and Senior Data Scientist Jobs
now that you mention, it pops memory read error every time I shut it down.
Code Academy as Career Game Changer
Why Spree Commerce Is Better Than Magento
Brace yourself boys and girls!
> Instead I have to have the Xbox brand shoved in my face at every opportunity?

I know this isn't your point, but you might be happy to learn that Xbox Music and Xbox Video have been renamed in Windows 10 to "Groove Music" and "Video", respectively. According to Microsoft, most users thought "I don't have an Xbox, why would I want to use Xbox Music?" — so they rebranded those apps.
How to Be Agile When Creating Content
The Most Common Marketing Mistakes Made by Startups
Seems like whoever picks up SF should at least consider converting it into a GitLab OSS installation!
How is Google Contributor working? I could use it with an US credit card (even though I live in Brazil), but I am still very afraid of enabling it, disabling my uBlock for Google, being tracked and continuing to see most ads, specially the most obnoxious ones.

However, I believe the idea to be a very good one. If Google guaranteed no ads at all, on their site or in other site, I would compromise giving them this tracking, as the their interests on my personal data interests would likely change if the commercial part of the deal is out of the table. However, this demands no adverts at all, and no selling of personal information at all. Hard to see Google going for it.
Something is a disaster because you don't like it?
This is, I believe, the more correct answer. There are so many different assets being delivered for every URL that it degrades the performance of desktop browsers, let alone mobile ones. HTTP/2 will help somewhat, but the overarching problem -- megs of cruft for every KB of content -- will remain.
20 teams.
I never had to use one.

On the other hand, I don't know much about them so I don't even get the idea that I could use them in a UI design.
The whois query works with his Microsoft example but I get a malformed request error when trying it with some of the newer domain extensions like .ninja
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Building ad support into the browser sounds like a great idea, except it's not strategically a good idea for any of the browser vendors. There's a constant struggle between advertisers, publishers and browser/platform developers for data -- not to mention a huge conflict of interest with Google (and to a lesser extent Apple).

The reason ad networks are so bloated is because web advertising as it currently stands has a measurement problem: if I display an ad, I have no way of knowing if a reader even saw it. This is why you rarely see ads displayed below the fold; and when they are, they're wrapped in a bunch of JavaScript or Flash to ensure they're not tracking displays for ads that were never seen. Advertisers literally want pixel-level tracking of page scroll, mouse movement, etc. and they use all this bulky JavaScript to collect it. Do you think it's a good idea to let the browsers report this information? Because if not, the advertisers are going to inject as much JavaScript as they can to use every workaround to collect as much data as possible.

This also ignores the fact that Google is the head honcho of online advertising. Google can (and probably does) collect much of this information from inside Chrome. They would be violently opposed to sharing this data with their competition, because proprietary data like this enables them to charge a premium for ads they place. Advertising is all about proprietary data sources, and the moment something becomes commoditized it loses most of its value. Considering Google makes something like 95% of its revenue from its network of proprietary user data, they would never engage in any sort of browser ad placement unless it funneled money through them (which their competitors would never go for).
I find https://testssl.sh/ particularly useful
Ah good point. Couldnt they of just included fake images or iframes instead?
Blockchain technology will erode (your) bank's borders
Nope, thank goodness.
Automatic visual image enhancement for your web application
Better speakers might allow for more detail at lower volume. I use a pair of studio monitors, and it's so much better than cranking up the volume.
That's actually true. Communism was suppose to be the next step after socialism. In communism we would abolish money, and people would take from stores only according to their needs. So we were taught in elementary school :)
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Regardless what google policy says: the way to get the phone number is via:
TelephonyManager.getLine1Number()[1]

Which returns "null" unless the operator actually stores the phone number in the SIM so it can be read from there (also it can be modified to be anything). While technically possible, I have not seen it in practice for long time (since 2010 or so).

On iPhone it's not possible for an application to obtain the phone number[2]. There was a semi-hack doing so and Apple rejected the applications off the store and closed the loop. (reading SBFormattedPhoneNumber)[3]. In 2013 there was another exploit to obtain it but it has been addressed as well.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/Tel...
[2]: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GNa4Vc3ODuxxxxrQCg#... --it's google search with the reject terms
[3]: https://www.cocoanetics.com/2009/11/forbidden-fruit-apple-ap...
Spreadsheets, APIs, and Funding via Blockspring
Moss and misunderstandings
I'm not commenting on this particular case, but in general I reject such arguments.

This isn't censorship of the type that is illegal or not allowed.

Neither is posting something offensive. Have you thought about that? Yes, GitHub owns the servers. If you haven't notices already, someone owns every single piece of the Internet.

people are choosing to die on some pretty ridiculous hills.

If you just ignore it, censorship and selective enforcement becomes a socially acceptable practice through sheer repetition and groupthink.