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Why would you bother to come back after being kicked in the teeth, to a platform that is now stagnating, showing little signs of growth and has no obvious revenue model for app developers?

This is the cart before the horse. They need to fix Twitter so that people want to develop for it again, not say "Hey, here's this downtrodden mess, come and make it better for us!"
This reminds me of a small study Katherine Bennett at Art Center has been working on http://www.designinvestigations.com/blog/2015/10/19/experien...

To gather sample data they simply texted participants asking them to take a photo of what they are doing and describe current conditions.

It occurred to me from reading her post that there is room for much better ethnographic tools on smartphones that could allow for much bigger crowd-sourced studies. Correlating that data with ResearchKit could also be fascinating.
That would be solid business sense. If developers are successful on Twitter's platform, they wouldn't easily leave for the next shiny thing. Customers also would benefit, as products won't disappear overnight because twitter cut off access. It is a win-win for everyone.
I think the biggest problem was that nobody took it seriously, and I'm not really sure why. It was easily as good, if not better, than the iPods of the time. I definitely don't think it was an issue of timing though. the iPhone's capacity at launch (8GB) was a joke compared to dedicated players at the time. And music streaming services weren't all the popular. Plus even if they had been, it would be a year until we saw a 3rd party app store on the iPhone.
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Or does it mean that if you don't subscribe that you'll see less content?
It's to ensure that they're only used where visibility is unexpectedly poor; not just where some unqualified local road planner thinks people should stop.

The one near my mum's house is on a junction where the 500+ year old building on the corner is very close to the road (which you can see as you approach), and where the building bulges out round the corner (which you can't see — roll through the junction from that direction and you don't have time to see if it's clear).
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If they had announced that developers can make twitter client apps and display foreign services (e.g. instagram) in the same stream with the tweets without limit to the number of end users, I would be interested. I just assume this is a statement to the shareholders and will have very little effect on developers.
The industrialization of agriculture has made clear inroads on the problem of world hunger and has markedly increased the quality of food from the time when all farming was manual labor.
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They added this today, too: https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
Yeah. The first thing I thought "YouTube is getting into porn, now?". Unfortunate branding, here.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
Prior to iOS 6, The bundled YouTube app let you play videos in the background, similar to music/audio apps.
There's bad and worse, naturally occurring dust including asbestos (more on that a head) while isn't good isn't necessarily a major health risk because we've evolved to live on this planet that well has dust.

While Asbestos isn't good the 2 types of Asbestos that actually pose a major health risk Amosite and Crocidolite are also the modern types of Asbestos that were discovered in the 19th century.

Serpentine which is the most common and oldest types of Asbestos while still being classified as a potential risk isn't a major health risk. You are exposed to natural sources of Asbestos every day, it's one of the oldest materials we've used, and it's a great analogy for nano materials because until very recent modern times when Asbestos production kicked off a new methods to produce longer and tougher Asbestos fibers it wasn't a major health risk.

The risky needle fibers that are known for giving people "asbestos lungs" aren't the common natural occurrence of Asbestos that we've been exposed too during most of our existence as a species, including the 5000 thousands or so years we've been using it. They are a product of modern manufacturing techniques just like nano-particles are a product of more recent manufacturing and engineering.
If I subscribe, will it remove the preroll ads while watching YouTube on Apple TV? Because I like to occasionally set up playlists of educational content for my kids to watch for a bit, but far too often an inappropriate ad has played in the middle of the playlist, driving me nuts.
Maybe that's why I enjoy my Nexus 7 tablet so much. I have never owned a laptop, nor do I want one. I want a tablet so I can get to IMDB with a largish screen while sitting on the couch, not so I can do work.
Don't forget that many enterprises end up replacing their own staff completely with people on the consultancy payroll. Apparently it can make the company look better on wall street's books? So the end result is that 1 and 2 become the same people. ISPs are rife with this.
Why is this article on hacker news? What does it have to do with this community? I am just wondering how it fits in to the vision of what HN is supposed to be. Or do I not understand what it is?
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How do you configure to use Mongo with SSL? The mongod server is rejecting connections from metabase as it never tries to connect using that.
Venmo is an objectively worse experience to Square Cash in every way. Bank accounts rather than debit cards, difficult Facebook-linked discovery, stupid social networking integration, obtuse UI.

Square Cash is beautiful, elegant, and effortless. I encourage my friends to use it over Venmo whenever I can. Unfortunately, Venmo is wildly more popular among people I know.
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Yes,

I wish Netflix had music videos channels, and for an extra $5/month optional Spotify audio channels built in.
Im just curious, do people know that the original is actually "You wouldn't steal a car?"

I only every see it as 'download' in comments.
Too little, too late. But thanks for the important lesson of not building something on Twitter's platform when the rug can be pulled out from under you. That lesson applies to other platforms too.
It's surprisingly hard to settle a dinner bill between 8 people who only have $20 bills, and no one actually goes inside the bank branch to get other denominations (or buys anything with cash to get change).
Exactly - how can you hurt the Windows brand when the whole point of the product was to commoditize the hardware to bring the cost of the total solution - hardware + software - down in price? Microsoft's goal has always been to encourage and in some cases even mandate interoperability. That's typically been thought of as a good thing, but you can't be surprised when hardware makers do everything they can to cut corners - when you're selling a commodity you can't charge anything above the prevailing marginal cost of production. The only path to success is to ruthlessly cut the cost of production.
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This seems like it's almost too small of a world view. When twitter pulled the rug out, it informed a shift in thinking, everywhere. Not just with twitter.

The wisdom became "Don't build your business on another one." and twitter was the primary example of why not. For twitter to turn around and say "Ok, we made some mistakes, and we want to develop that trust again." is misunderstanding what happened.

twitter changed the conventional wisdom, not just wisdom about twitter.
Courts charge money for court fees and fines. In many cases, if you don't pay those fees, you could be imprisoned. In an effort to increase blood donations, the court temporarily accepted blood donation receipts in lieu of cash.

I don't have a problem with this. In effect, the court is paying people (by forgiving debt) to donate blood.

It sounds like a) it was poorly worded by the judge and b) people didn't understand. He should have said, "If you're unable to pay your court fees or fines today, you may be imprisoned." (Something he probably says every day.) Then, "Please note that we're accepting blood donation receipts in lieu of cash for court fees and fines today."
I recently trialed both Google Play Music and Spotify. While pricing is the same, I found that for my needs Google had a better offering - being able to upload my personal library was something I definitely wanted, and the radios/suggestions seem to give me more of what I want than Spotify did.
What do you think should be here? Why, specifically, do you think this doesn't fit?
It seems that the Docker issue is memory overflow in container. I tried to run the docker image in a 512mb Digitalocean droplet that already runs several processes that also consume memory so I think it's expected considering Metabase runs on JVM.
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To give an idea how much Kappa is spammed in Twitch chat, here is a wordcloud from the chat of a popular Twitch streamer: http://i.imgur.com/ntoEaLt.png

Kappa dominates over all other emotes and even simple words such as "is"
If the YouTube app on Apple TV is made by and still supported by Google, then yes, probably.
"...additionally predicts things that we know to be false."

What, specifically did the Tychonic system predict that was known to be false in the early 17th century? As far as I know, the interpretations of its model were kind of a mess, but the model itself was fine, up to the precision of then-known instruments.
>You only get one chance to make a first impression.

Same problem they are facing with the massive number of users that tried Twitter and abandoned it. Much easier to acquire a new user than to re-acquire an old user that has already decided against.
"From now on, when we hose developers, we will do so in an unambiguous and predictable manner."
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It's not just Twitter. Most popular APIs tend to regulate and constrain use as they grow popular. This has dissuaded developers, and certainly startups from building products on top of APIs. VCs do not like companies depending on third party APIs either, due to the fact that they may be arm twisted by the API service.

Twitter's attitude towards developers is potentially impacting the uptake of libraries like Fabric, despite having nothing to do with their API. What Twitter may have a shot at, as a result of this effort is to get usage of their libraries like Fabric on par standing ground with libraries and products like Parse from Facebook.
The recent Standford ETL talk by Jeff Seibert (Senior Director of Product at Twitter) provides some insight into the development of the Twitter API's/SDK (Fabric). Overall, I thought it was one of the better and more practical talks.

http://goo.gl/WfAiPU
To your last fear... we're using a noscript > meta element combination to refresh/replace to a noscript.html page for users without JS... same for old Ie (conditional comment) for that matter.

Higher in the thread there's a reference to a Full Stack Redux Totorial that looks really good so far, only skimmed it... as a starter point.

Your state is best as one big state tree passed through components as props... your events/dispatchers can then trigger requests to load from stores... these stores then signal when data is loaded, which can trigger an update to state, which causes an update/render to your ui. The Redux workflow is a distillation of the flux framework overall, and might be an easier place to start, and stay with.

As for local storage, your stores can use local/session storage to save information locally for requests... for that matter, you could save your current state to session storage in case of a reload/refresh, etc.

As for router... not all SPAs need to change routing... It makes it a bit more complicated, and your stores can/should be your interaction with data that may be available locally or via server.
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Man, why is it so expensive? To test my wife and I would be nearly $400. I mean sure, it might help me be able to pre-treat any known trait based disease but still.. If all they are doing is running some DNA through a database, seems like the cost should getting lower, not higher.
It reminded me of Bono's brand.
This article is in response to a previous article. In which she openly complained about a 1% experience.

>In my experience, 99% of men and women in the tech industry are decent and genuinely well-meaning people.

And 1% of people are terrible people. The end.

If I wrote an article about how awful a minority of women are in the tech community to LGBT I'd be harassed by a number of feminists and an even larger amount of trolls. But I'm a realist who knows terrible people won't be going away anytime soon and don't let the few vehement assholes ruin things for me.

She's shown that 1% of a population can cause her enough frustration to write an article. Queue the trolls. Give them attention and they'll come.
VMware can do the same.
It's been $199 CAD for at least a year or more now. I got mine when it was on a sale for $99.

I guess the US version has been priced differently?
Let's look at the advantages of using software under "permissive" licenses for those companies:
- embedding somebody else's code in a closed source product and potentially compete against it
- patenting somebody else's code and potentially sue the author

For the upstream author losing this type of hostile users my using AGPL might be a good idea.
Drawing eye with pen tablet first time, to much exciting
Do you mean a backdoor into a sub-only revenue model for YouTube? You already had to pay for a Play Music subscription. The only part about it that was free was radio mode.
Yeah, I've read that page. It doesn't explain what makes /dev/random better than /dev/urandom. I'm not trying to be obtuse: I'm telling you, the Linux kernel maintainer and architect for random/urandom also believes that urandom is inappropriate for long-term keys on Linux, and he is also wrong. So that particular argument from authority is not compelling to me.

From what I can tell, the situation on Solaris is very similar to that on Linux:

* there are two separate pools that service random and urandom,

* but both use very similar generators (in particular, both use CSPRNG DRBG constructions);

* some additional care is taken in random's case to ensure initialization (a good thing)

* but that care doesn't matter once this system is fully booted,

* and random is more aggressive about reseeding,

* but that only matters for post-compromise forward-secrecy, the need for which in this case implies you are completely boned anyways.

I'm standing by what I said before: use urandom, to the exclusion of all other generators, very much including Solaris.
that's the joke. Some explanation here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piracy-its-a-crime
paper was from 2010

video: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi10-0/reverse-tracerout...

tool demo (was) at http://revtr.cs.washington.edu
He should apologize a bit more sincerely to the developers he just laid off.
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I wish I had known about this too. Would love to help any way I can from Miami. @buritica, email me brian at refreshmiami .com to see how we can help.
Oh, so another cycle starts. Here's a note I took back earlier, around the time of the original Twitter fiasco, pasted straight from my quotes file:

* Sovereign from Mass Effect on using someone else's technology

"Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays,
our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths
we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You
exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."

Strangely, it seems to describe recent (2012/2013) situation with
API of Twitter perfectly.
Isn't this just how taxes work, essentially?

Retailers sell you an item for $x then charge you $x * (1 + tax%) at the checkout to cover local taxes. If you live in an area with high tax, you'll pay more. So in the app world, if you buy apps on the Apple store you pay more taxes.
The wisdom became "Don't build your business on another one."

That wisdom is WAY older than twitter. It may have become a fashionable meme again because of Twitter, but platform risk has been around probably about as long as computing. Certainly the idea goes back at least as far as the infamous DOS/Lotus 1-2-3 dustup. Google "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run" for example. Note that whether or not Microsoft actually tried to break Lotus 1-2-3 isn't the point. I'm just saying people have been aware of, and talking about, these kinds of risks for a LONG time.
That's a good question. I know the Twitch equivalent, Turbo, lets users count as ad impressions for paying streamers while not making them watch ads.
That would be awesome. The rebirth of MTV. Properly done.
I'm pretty pessimistic about the project - a lot of what stresses people out is the sort of thing that's quite difficult to explicitly model and identify. I'm thinking of things along the lines of "the way that guy looks at me", or a statement that's nice on the surface but has a bullshit implication of "haha your life has issues" that's hard to deal with. It's also very difficult to know that the trees and houses that you walk past on your way to public transit makes a difference in your stress levels.

The likely result is that it'll take note of some of the thirty or so life variables that are easiest to measure, and whether or not changing those will actually help with stress depends on the thousands of others that are much less legible.
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> I'm wondering what is so difficult about this task.

Well, conceptually it sounds simple. But it is certainly a complex engineering problem. You are forgetting building conforming actuators and sensors, controlling these, image registration, the low margin for error, classification performance, real-time processing, etc. etc.

Applying the principle of capitalism, if it was simple to design and if a market and technology enables it, then it should already exist. In this case, the market obviously exists (e.g. farm worker demand in fruit industry), so if the solution doesn't already exist, then it is highly likely to be because the problem isn't simple to solve and/or the technology is inadequate.
Not sure how much I agree there... I think the goal is to get away from kitchen sink libraries, react's rendering flow allows for an interaction style that doesn't typically need something like jQuery...

For that matter, I'm surprised they don't have standard polyfills that include fetch, which combined with babel (async/await ftw) make your workflows much easier to reason with.
Well this article is a bit click baity.

The original article they reference is from 2012 and talks about the API changes and Twitter's choice to shut down apps it feels are competing with its own app.

All I got out of the current article was Jack trying to woo developers back without any hint of what exactly they're changing to be more developer friendly. If I was burned by them in 2012, I doubt this would get rid of any lingering doubts I had about working on their platform.
And it will be predictable indeed.
> Going forward, the company says it will improve its communication with developers. “We want to make sure that we have a great relationship with our developers, an open and honest relationship with our developers,” he said.

I'm curious why this kind of language hasn't fallen out of favor. It sounds so completely empty to me, I have to assume it does for everyone else.
Perfect example of the HN bubble.
Huh. I'm running it on a Linux machine with a Core i5 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210M CPU @ 2.60GHz according to /proc/cpuinfo), and it's a bit CPU-intensive (it makes my laptop's fan kick into gear) but it's smooth and responsive and everything obviously works the way it's supposed to. Doesn't even come close to eating a gig of RAM, out of the eight I have.

Firefox 41.0.2 on Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (3.19.0-31-generic), on a LinuxCertified.com LC2430E. (Good laptop. No Microsoft tax. Yes, that is a blatant plug. So's this WebGL demo.)
What reason is there that these paid journals need to exist?

Apparently there are tons of BS papers in them anyway, so what exactly is it that the scientist is paying the journal for if not for good peer review? It seems to me that the journals provide very little that a free online version wouldn't do better.
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The fact that this is included with Google Play Music is awesome, and really represents a great value for ten bucks a month (or $8 for long time customers).

Also, 'Red' is a much better name than 'Music Key.'
Not always, it's sometimes used by gay partners in Japan as an alternative to marriage since they cannot legally marry. It's exactly the same situation as the one described in this article.

And like the article, it's not an ideal solution.
Yes, they reduced the price to $99 in the US back in 2012.
I'm interested if they changed the model on this too. The current model encourages lots of low quality videos instead of encouraging well-produced, high quality video. If this simply pays the content creators in the same way that ads on youtube work, then I'm probably not very interested in the fee.
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Why are so many developers naive about this?

Twitter has a responsibility to its employees & shareholders to turn a profit. In some stages, courting developers will make sense, and in others, not. A lot of developers are taking it like a jilted lover. This is a business relationship, and it is neither personal nor permanent. If you can build on their platform today, reap the success while it lasts. For some of you, that uncertainty is not worth the investment. Great! Just stop expecting Twitter to sacrifice business health to keep one group of partners happy.
I recommend you check out the Surface Pro 4. The new hinge (implemented on the Pro 3) is quite versatile, and I have used it on my lap without much hassle.
Their branding is horrifying.

YouTube Red, Music Key, Google Android Play Music All Access Subscription, etc.

Don't get me wrong, the actual service they provide is good, and Music Key (advert free YouTube music videos) was a nice value add. This too will only expand Music Key into other videos.

I do worry a little bit that long term Google Music subscribers will wind up seeing price increases to pay for YouTube Red. If all I want is JUST Google Music, then all I should have to pay for is JUST Google Music, and that is fine today as there are no price increases, but ask me again when the first price rise is announced a few months from now.
> To answer your question, everyone interested in paying much lower salaries to their workforce may decide to locate a factory in Romania. Market size, cost of operation, infrastructure, neighboring markets, and many more factors play an important role in such decisions.

Of course there are many factors that go into it. What matters is how the country stacks up on balance.

Countries that stack up unfavorably have no financial capacity to address their shortcomings because you can't build infrastructure or education with no money and governments can't collect money with no tax base. What they can do is lower taxes to attract investment so they can get 5% of something instead of 30% of nothing.

Their primary alternative for attracting investment is to abandon safety and environmental regulations, which is not better.
lol, good point. what are the concrete steps they are taking to change?
How I love corporate speak.

At least he didn't "blame the victim" and make like everything is the developers fault.