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Finally: I call BS on the idea that Big Beer somehow ruins acquired craft breweries. Goose Island is if anything doing a more consistent and competent job now than they were prior to the acquisition.

If their plan to buy up the distributors succeeds, you should assume the breweries will wind up ruined.

Specifically: if a company doesn't have to compete because it has monopoly power, it stops making much sense for them to spend extra money on competent employees and expensive raw materials for no economic gain.

Once they stop having to compete, expect quality to drop. That's obviously not limited to beer. But it happens time and time again.
I really like the label "sub-prime Unicorn".

I really hope Theranos is not a fraud, I think the concept of rapid diagnostics with minimal source material is critical to scaling health care to the planet as a whole. But having watched people like Affymetrix and other "silicon-meets-organics" concepts go through the process of validation, I have always felt Theranos talks too much about how great they are going to be and how cool their founder is, and not enough about how they are going to get there. My observation is that companies that far ahead of the hype wave are more likely to flame out than ones that start very quietly and intercept the hype wave at or just after product introduction.

Someone is going to figure this space (instant diagnostics through direct inspection) at some point. Still wondering if someone has.
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An alternate view, which is well supported by history, is that while empires are created by war, they are very good at bringing peace and prosperity for long periods of time.

The Roman Empire delivered peace and prosperity to most of the Mediterranean basin for hundreds of years. The British Empire had a similar track record for a much larger area.

So now I'm rooting for the American Empire and the Pax Americana. I would most certainly rather be living in the West (or Westernized parts of Asia), under the aegis of the US military, instead of some third world shithole that does not enjoy security treaties with the Americans.
If I may contribute to the HN self-righteous tone, so sad that the educated tech savvy elite in these forums get so lost in their smug rush to polarized judgements.

Easy to see that Snowden did U.S. citizens a service of exposing where normal checks and balances had failed in the collection of data on Americans. Sure he broke the law to do so, but the benefit is so obvious that a pardon doesn't seem like it should be that politically toxic at all.

Also easy to see that giving huge quantities of unvetted secret information to foreign journalists does with near 100% probability put that information in the hands of the Chinese, Russians, or other bad actors (relative to the U.S.). A journalist is a trivial target, as Snowden would absolutely understand. If it can be shown that there is information that impacts national security negatively, then for that subset of the stolen data he should face prison or even death penalty.
"That culture is that our 'elites', via a wonderful private education, the encouragement of parents, teachers, and other mentors, connections etc, end up in the profession of politics and end up doing quite well in it"

Which is probably a positive thing, we should want the people running our government to come from the top of the pile even if the reason they are at the top is an unfair leg-up early in life.
I have done a lot of alternative med stuff. I know good protocols for how to test the waters, introduce new supplements, figure out what they are doing, etc. I would not use the service you are offering. It sounds to me like you are asking me to be a guinea pig.

To make this useful, I think you need to do the following things:

1) Educate people on good practices generally. Your current site looks to me to be an invitation to be someone's guinea pig and pay for the privilege instead of being paid.

2) Offer doubleblinded kits for a wide variety of supplements that people can choose from. The one supplement you are currently offering is one I never heard of. So I don't care. But I might care if you offered me the chance to pick and choose from a list of supplements.

I am no longer taking supplements, but I did take a lot of supplements at one time. I can see a service like this having a use for people, but not in its current format.

Also, I would remove the phrase "self experimentation." That sounds incredibly Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde to me. "Self testing" might be okay, but that's a terrible phrase and should be stricken from company vocabulary.
Happened to me too yesterday on fresh windows 7 SP1 x64 install.
Why let the user hide it if you're going to unhide it again later ?
I feel like you're misunderstanding the situation to be honest...

>As far as they are concerned fake and real plays are not much different

This is flagrantly false given that they do care whether plays are legitimate because they do want to be able to verify with advertisers that plays are served to credible clients...

Are you implying that Spotify would expect that advertisers are stupid/inept enough to not notice when a large number of ads are served to fake/bot consumers?

Spotify as a company has the prerogative of acting with integrity in these situations if only for future maintainability/acquisition of relationships with advertisers.

Even if an advertiser was inept enough to not notice their ads were served largely to bots the value of those ads would still ultimately be lowered by them being served to bots. e.g. if 1000 ads are served and 500 are sent to bots, the overall value of each clicked ad is eventually lowered by 50%. This is assuming an advertiser is so inept they aren't measuring clicks per served ad, which doesn't even occur.

I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding why spotify _does_ have to maintain the credibility of those ad clicks/listens/etc...
So far as I can tell, the presidential pardon system is used primarily for insider villans, not outsider heroes. Such as "Scooter" Libby.
Where is the jump? Something was done in the past, why shouldn't we continue doing so? I of course assumed that the initial comment expressed some degree of endorsement and did not just state facts.
> Obviously icebergs don't have that much under the water

The popular notion that 90% is underwater is approximately correct: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=iipHowMuchOfAnIcebergIs.... Or are you claiming that the picture in question doesn't represent a 10/90 split?
Younger me hated beer. I thought it tasted awful but drank it as that was what kids did in the country. I gave up drinking after college because I just couldn't stand the taste of beer, the smell even made me nauseous. Fast forward to my late 30's, moved to Austin and on a whim one night tried a locally brewed stout. It was amazing. I realized I liked beer but just hated the mainstream stuff, what my father calls 'green beer'. So yeah, I guess now I am a beer snob. I look forward to pay day when I can visit the largest store in the area and become overwhelmed with the varieties available to me. I like saisons, farm ales, porters and stouts. Nothing produced by the larger breweries even comes close to a Tank 7.
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This is a nice post that mirrors a lot of the thoughts I had when learning Haskell. I especially agree about his point on position dependant partial functions -- I think the idea of a placeholder symbol (maybe _) that you can put in place of an argument to make it partial would make it a lot cleaner.

One quibble though -- he complains about the ugliness of infix functions, but misses that you can define your own infix operators, with their own precedence rules! Just put parentheses around the symbol(s) when defining the function, and it becomes infix by default.
Unfortunately signals like that would get swamped by the effects of oral and gastric flora. This is how Helicobacter pylori is detected, in fact.
Divide an conquer is the oldest trick in the book (except maybe knock them on the head with a bigger rock than they can hit you on the head with).

Imperial China repeatedly followed the same policy of trying to keep the outlying nomadic peoples fractured and prevented from uniting under a single leader. The results for the Chinese state were not good when Turkish, Mongol, or Manchu leaders were able to unite the disparate clans under a single banner, to give another example.
Dear Soroush, I think it's just way too early for you to play with Haskell. Spend months or years with Scala/Ocaml and only then Haskell(please note, that doesn't mean Haskell is better or whatever comparable to those languages).
> yet a languages is usually definitely one or the other

Not necessarily true. C# has the dynamic keyword that bypasses the static typing and Java has the concept of Dynamic Proxies.
I agree. The scaling of entire industries never looks pretty, but the end result is a better world.
No, I think the GP meant WP.
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Blender may be one of the most successful and best run Artistic/Media projects in Open Source.

It manages to pack a lot of power in a very small package. And the Open Movie/Open Game projects help to drive the direction of the Application with concrete goals. Personally I think it's one of the media production suites out there for the hobbyist. The power + price (free) can't be beat for the non-professional.
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(I misread. It's 8/100th of a cent. Much more realistic.)

Artists on Spotify earn 8 cents each time their song is played? That figure seems really, really high to me.

I'm not especially surprised this is possible, but it comes as a huge shock that it would be financially profitable for someone.

A quick glance at some other articles (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/03/how-much-m...) shows drastically different figures:

"For example, Spotify says that its average payout for a stream to labels and publishers is between $0.006 and $0.0084 but Information Is Beautiful suggests that the average payment to an artist from the label portion of that is $0.001128 – this being what a signed artist receives after the label's share."

This would make it much more expensive to run a botnet through AWS than any potential profits it could generate.

Some other thoughts after reading more closely:

- It's surprising that the minimum listen time required for payout is 30 seconds when average song length is 3 minutes (or even higher? A reported 3m 45s: http://www.statcrunch.com/5.0/viewreport.php?reportid=28647&...). Is listening to 3/18th of a song really enough to warrant payout? Maybe.

- The opening sentence isn't all that truthful. It's implying that an average user is just going to open Spotify, mute it, and go to sleep. That means they won't be there to skip every 30 seconds. So, we fall back to the 3 minute average. Assuming you sleep for 8 hours that means you're only going to get 160 plays or ~12 cents not 72.
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His work was secret - even from other hypnotists. So I don't think anyone would be able to confirm anything. But I will say that I had reason to trust what he was describing - especially given his expertise.
About #6:

Discovery Channel used to have a show named Brewmasters, which followed Dog Fish Head through a large part of their process, showed what happened when things went bad, etc. However the show was canceled midseason because of pressure from an unnamed "big beer" manufacturer; at the time Budweiser was a major sponsor of Discovery Channel. A shame really, I very much enjoyed that show.
Life hacks? This is just a list of apps, just about all of which are available by default on the iPhone.
Personal anecdote: I have worked in about many C-family languages such as C, C++, Java, JS, Scala and others. I had looked at Erlang a few times but felt that the syntax was not very approachable. However, I found Elixir to be extremely approachable even though I have no experience with Ruby/Python.

Now that I have some exposure to Elixir and various FP concepts as implemented in Erlang/BEAM I can grok Erlang code without much effort even though I have no formally read its syntax.

So, long story short: Everyone is different, if you're interested in Erlang/BEAM it doesn't matter whether you start with Elixir or Erlang.
It's flattering that you have no recourse but to retroactively reject/ignore all my statements based on identity politics. You have not yet clarified regarding "sharing classified information with Chinese or Russians", either.

I'm also uncertain of how exactly I have forcefully instructed anyone, unless you consider speech to be aggression.

That said, though I am not of U.S. nationality neither by jus soli nor jus sanguinis, I do reside in the United States at present. Stay classy with your throwaway account.
Can't tell if you are being sarcastic.
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Nice demo, folks who've looked at wall sized Gigapixel image prints have had fun with this for a while. What is depressing of course is that a few of these in blimp hovering at 79,000' would make for "easy" real time surveillance of a large city. And make the DARPA ISIS project[1] much more cost effective.

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/go/6236/
Just got mine yesterday :) excited to try it out… but so far my experience with the steam controller on windows 10 has produced too many blue screens of death for me to keep trying.
I agree that a good static typing system gives you a lot more (especially regarding the "correctness" of programs when the type system can be escaped), but regarding your second point there's this quote from the linked page:

"Ravi extends Lua with static typing for greater performance under JIT compilation."

This project appears to be an optionally-typed superset of Lua WITH a modified runtime to support better typed JIT compilation.
>The US has fought ISIS from day one

http://www.infowars.com/you-do-realize-that-the-u-s-funded-a...
Europe is more densely populated and the cultures tend to be less "mobile", so people don't need to transport as much stuff as far, and Europe has more old infrastructure with narrow streets, so larger vehicles are not practical; the US has space galore, and was a generally wealthier place during the period of highway and suburb construction.

people need to stop thinking that Americans are so different than Europeans, and especially that there is so much superego-tic morality attached to everything we each do.
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So how many students get into Stanford with the attestation that their parent's didn't helicopter parent them? I challenge every student to put as their first sentence on their essays, "I am not the product of helicopter parenting." followed by a list of all their accomplishments, goals, and dreams and see if it gets them into $top_school.
This is not the fault of the scientific and medical establishment. They investigate phenomenon and publish what they can learn. The media does a poor job in explaining the subtleties of what they have learned, and food and supplement companies latch on to these misunderstandings to market "health" products.
Again that's a matter of interpretation and classification, many people do not classify Star Wars as scifi but rather as high fantasy because of the force.

And i don't consider A Scanner Darkly to be pure scifi, just like most of Dick's other works, it's fiction for sure but not necessarily scientific.
Plus, you never know how many people get their entire address book stolen by Facebook without consent (or a drive-by "can facebook app access your contacts?" button that immediately uploads your entire address book back to the mothership; or a linkedin connection/scraping or call record logging on android or half a dozen other aggregate info dump methods people aren't privy to).

I'm surprised facebook hasn't tried to create their own spyware-infused browser and computer platform yet. Millions of facebook users think "facebook" is the entire Internet anyway. Not far removed from just giving over your entire life to them.
It never occurred to us at the time that the stuff was worth saving and I left USSR soon after.
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Actual paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/13/E1569.full

The idea (from 5 minutes of skimming plus watching the little 3min tutorial) seems to be that any multi-dimensional time series implicitly contains all the information necessary to reconstruct it entirely within a single dimension. The authors show an example of a 3-dimensional time series with a butterfly-type pattern that you can reconstruct just by looking at the values of X(t) and then using X(t-a) and X(t-2a) as the other dimensions. Not sure how that leads to prediction-- can someone explain that part?
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Your comment was almost as long as the page you're complaining about. Maybe channel your time into writing something useful instead of just complaining that what others do isn't good enough.

Your complaints were all about on the first page. There are a lot more pages, and decent enough content on subsequent pages.
Obviously, his work was very secret. He shared some of the techniques with some of his students - and there are more steps involved than normal hypnosis. You can believe it or not. As for "anxiety" - well, have you looked around at our world recently? Wars, aggression, suffering, struggling, greed. One might argue that we should rationally be feeling more than "anxiety".
I'd say yes efficiency since Diesel engines are also about twice as efficient as gasoline engines.

But also diesel engines have so much more torque you don't have to wring the piss out of the engine to get moving. With diesel you get most torque at 1500 rpm but for a gasoline engine you're revving it to 5000 rpm to get any torque, and burning more fuel.

Less rpm less engine wear too but most diesel engines are built very well to handle the compression ignition.

Diesel are also better in wet weather compared to gasoline engines although gas engines are better than the used to be.

I think people in the US still imagine a diesel with visible exhaust spewing out soot something from 30 years ago.
> As far as they are concerned fake and real plays are not much different beyond maintaining credibility with their advertisers.

No real desire to argue the semantics of what I wrote. This is bizarre. Anyhow, the difference is that one situation is an issue of perception and the other is of actual fraud. Not sure why you think perception and reality are identical things.
Advertisers may or may not care. Many are indeed both stupid and inept. Their clients should care, but may not be technically savvy or aware enough to care. Fragmentation in advertising also makes accountability a lot harder.

Spotify definitely has to care in the long run, but it may be better for their chances of making it through that IPO window to see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil until someone forces it upon them. If it worked for Facebook and Twitter, why wouldn't it work for Spotify?

Honestly, this is one of the reasons why 'free' services provide such low value to advertisers unless there's world class fraud fighting capability at the company. If the service is paid, it's significantly more expensive to generate fake traffic. But that'd be bad for the loosey goosey user numbers (AKA 1990s era 'eyeballs') that so excite momentum investors.
This is the first time I've seen anyone complain about positional arguments. While I can see the point of such a complaint (and its arguably even worse in Haskell, where there's application-order confusion at the same time), my impression is that the larger body of programmers are still miffed whenever they have to explicitly name a type- explicitly handing every argument of every function to a specific named field sounds deeply onerous by comparison!

I suspect the next Holy Wars in programmer practice will revolve around "how much can we get away with not writing out?"
> I thought we were all in agreement that Python would be the only programming language that maintains structure through whitespace so that we could all ceaselessly make fun of it.

Haskell and its whitespace sensitivity are older than Python.
And Russians develop a lot the ZX Spectrum architecture (and keep doing)
artists’ take for ad-supported listeners was **0.08** cents per song

Actually, it's 8 hundredths of a cent per song, which is more in line with other sources on that.
You misread it, it says

"was 0.08 cents per song", that's 8/100th of a cent, not 8/100th of a dollar
It's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used as a creative. It has everything. Just as an example, people are constantly talking about how there's "no good video editors for linux" but not realizing that Blender itself has a built in full-featured video editor.

The Python API could use a little work, and takes some getting used to, but it's also incredibly powerful. You can generate geometry from a Python script. You can script movement..anything.
But of a no brainer for these companies. They've built their audience based on riding the new tech/social wave. When the market shifts (either from Apple, Google, or just time), new media should be well-positioned to disrupt the incumbents.
"AB InBev and SABMiller spend a total of $500 billion annually on sports sponsorships" That can't possibly be right! I read in an earlier article that their revenue last year was "only" 26 billion or so.
I dont know how it is in other countries, but here in Quebec we basically have a few different kind of macro/micro beers:
1. Big beer like molson, coors or imported stuff
2. Quebec macros like Boreale that are similar to the big stuff in taste but less omnipresent
3. Companies that make beers like micro but have more of a macro scale of distribution: Unibroue, alchimiste, st-ambroise
4. Microbreweries whose beer can be bought in specialised stores, specialised restaurants and (recently!) supermarkets.
5. Local microbreweries with little to no distribution

As I grew up I steadily shifted from # 1 to only drinking # 4 and # 5 (with the occasional # 3 or # 2, but only if there is nothing else). So I doubt that we will be seeing our favorite beers go away, the market if just too diversified!
Spotify is shit for artists. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar.
Blender also has one of the most god awful UIs I have ever had the displeasure of working with. And it's not even the fact the UI is bad. It's the fact that when you tell someone in the Blender community that you don't like the UI they usually say "well once you understand why it's made that way you'll get it" which is pretty much saying "once you understand it you'll understand it" which is redundant.

/rant
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I get a little annoyed when people talk about how _actual_ implementations of algorithms are just a pedantic detail - no. A language that can do neat tricks for a not-actually implementation of an algorithm which a lot of people then blindly take as a great example of its 'elegance', while requiring a lot of ugliness for a _real_ working implementation, is demonstrating something important I think.

It reminds me a bit of marketing claims vs. reality for a product.
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I suspect yes, that was one of the reasons. They were likely lacking CAD tools for VLSI design.