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I hate the Mail because it encourages the worst in its audience. I have to believe that if the people that read it and I could reach a compromise if we weren't being so polarized by their reading material.

Being "greedy, cynical, childish and shallow, blaming others" are all vices at the end of the day (FYI despite the tone of my comment here, I'm actually not religious).

I agree totally that Murdoch is worse, but I think the Mail does hold more sway in a vocal area of the population with political power. The fact that they never acknowledge their hypocrisy or the damage they do I think is also offensive on an intellectual level that the Sun et al never quite reach as they're so cartoon-like.

That sounds familiar. I know somebody who worked on our student paper that swallowed their beliefs to go and work for the Mail because it was the only paper still hiring. Not believing in it doesn't absolve you from being complicit in it, though.

This is a fascinating article, but I can't help thinking that I wish they were more technically incompetent so it harmed their business. The Daily Mail has to be one of the most repugnant media organizations and if there is ever a justification for using the word 'evil' in relation to an institution then they are it.

Seems similar in theory (if perhaps not in execution) to the open source epub.js project[0].

[0]http://fchasen.github.io/epub.js/

There's an amazing section in the documentary Food, Inc. that deals with the consequences of this in the US. Genuinely disturbing, hopefully this is overturned or at least protested against before it can be enforced.

I'm not sure I fully understand - clearly this is a LinkedIn competitor, but is it pulling data from their API or is it a standalone service?

The idea that being employed gives your day-to-day life structure and meaning is hardly a new one, and the rest of the post just came across as a bit smug.

Also noted that after clicking through the Amazon affiliate link the top review on the book also used the Nietzsche quote seen later in the article.

I think there's a lot to be said (socially, psychologically) on the subject of millennials having trouble finding work, but there's plenty of better journalistic pieces that appear on HN already.

At the risk of crossing the streams, this reminds me of the 4Chan thread also currently on the front page- "Actually interesting post [0 comments]".

A very good article, I wish more people I knew had the patience to read it. Perhaps then they'd get as upset as I am about all the NSA revelations.

Edit: That all came off as a bit pompous. What I meant was, it's hard to get people to care about their online privacy if they're not fully aware what they've given away, and I think this article covers that well.

When I got the email from Eventbrite, my first thought was "oh cool, nice to know they're taking these things seriously", closely followed by "wait, this is really creepy". Still not sure if this is a good thing or not.

Absolutely. Work a day job and freelance etc., on the side, but I'm free to drop the extra work if it gets too much and just live off a decent day job. Here in the UK it's tending more and more toward the US model, and I'm not a fan at all... luckily work for a small company that respects their employees :)

A better comparison would be reviewing a song by uploading it to Soundcloud and then using the 'annotate at this timestamp' feature to review it. If you didn't have permission to do so (as far as I know, Soundcloud has no licences in place) then you would be infringing copyright, and a takedown could be fairly issued. This is functionally the same due to the dual-licence nature of music copyrights.

@alex_c is right: the recorded iteration of the song is one licence, and the music and lyrics (covered by the publishing licence) is another. If Rap Genius haven't licensed the music and lyrics, then it's no different legally to filesharing mp3s.

Whatever the intent of Rap Genius, at the end of the day, if they're using material that somebody else has the publishing rights to without asking permission, then they need to pay or take it down. Simple as that.

Exactly what I was wondering, especially as it's still not up after a couple of reloads.

Taking a day out now and then is the best advice I think you can give - if you're the sort of person that's always hustling you sometimes get guilty about it, but that one day on the sofa playing video games a month will keep you sane. (Or watching films, reading, whatever you use to take your mind off things)

That's why you use IRC :)

This is unbelievably creepy, most of all the 'free trial' part - how is this going to be monetized? Who would pay? Why?

Is there a mailing list to track this project? I can't see any way of monitoring updates on the page.

> The evidence seems to be that the bigger the government, the wider the gap between the rich and the poor. This might sound counter-intuitive, but that's the date we have.

Could you please link to this evidence? Certainly that doesn't seem to be the case in Europe, and in terms of relative equality in the 20th Century United Kingdom, I think it's the reverse, thanks to big government expansions such as the NHS.

Should probably be updated to reflect the year of the post.

Thanks. Think I prefer to keep my editor and git actions separate but appreciate the reply.

What does this have over say, git gutter, which gives me at-a-glance change information to my current file?

For newer artists though it used to be that labels offered tour support to help with costs. Now, a lot of smaller bands doing national tours that I've spoke to are instead of taking their pay from merch sold while on tour instead using that money to cover costs.

I think the bit that is very galling to everybody that works on the ground floor of the industry - that is, the writers, micro-labels, PRs etc that see the artists starting out - is that people keep talking about these majors as if they are the whole industry. The micro-labels, independent and DIY acts are a big part of how the industry works now, especially for new acts versus established ones.

The big labels might have taken a hit, but general consumption patterns have hit smaller artists, venues and labels as bad if not worse, if only because their size of revenue was smaller to begin with.

I don't think music is a dying art form, but the age of larger 'alternative' music having a look-in versus the lowest-common-denominator dross on the radio is definitely on its way out.

One thing that graph completely fails to address is the fact that economies of scale have massively driven all the good news there. For example, having a massive back catalogue means you can earn more from Spotify or Rdio. Good news for the biggest players, bad news for everyone else.

That's what I thought, read all the way to the end and didn't even find out what the actual threat was. Ridiculous.

Except that after tax and council tax, and energy bills and phone bill (internet and mobile), there is no way you would have that £6.6k in London. It'd be possible in another part of the UK maybe, but not trivial by any means.

Totally agree, I've done other jobs that are so many orders of magnitude worse than programming that it doesn't bear thinking about. For all its flaws, coding rocks as a career.

1. A close friend had gone to Berkeley to do an information masters - he was self taught and suggested I give it a try. I didn't like my job and when Google Glass was announced I decided to actually quit and find something part-time so I could study. Thus Codecademy, Lynda.com and then countless paper books after I got a taste for the whole thing. I did the Udacity CS101 MOOC as well, just because the lecture series of CS fundamentals seemed like a good idea.

I also found coding meetups in my city and bothered my friends who were professional developers with lots of questions. My friend at Berkeley in particular is definitely owed a few beers...

[edit] One of the most important things about the 'how' of learning to code is finding out that you enjoy it. If you don't have the gumption to put in late nights to fix things or study after your day job in the evening, then you won't see it through.

2. July 2012.

3. I did some freelance work from about six months in, but got a full-time job in June of this year.