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I listened to a Hanselminutes podcast with the founder of iFixit today - it seems like for electronic products, the repairability / planned obsolescence of products should be a factor in a greed index
How about all the crapware that is installed along with Android on most mobile devices these days? Any plans to do something about that?
>Whatever constitutes "bloat" depends on the context and preferences of a decision maker.

Same goes for whatever constitutes a necessity. I seriously challenge the idea that "websockets" are a must have.

Case in point, their lack haven't prevented tons of PHP, Ruby, Python, etc frameworks (all the tons of them that are not async/event based and can't handle websockets well if at all), from succeeding.

Heck, 1/4 of the web is based on Wordpress (including players like CNN, Forbes, Sony, and NYT blogs) and that doesn't even touch websockets, not to mention not being a proper CMS/framework in lots of other ways.
Meh.. I'm not so sure about this.

Didn't people claim "cheating" back when the first compilers started doing data flow analysis too?
That's what last.fm does. You don't need a paid account for that, just add a last.fm scrobbling plugin to your music stack.
No, it's not unicorns and rainbows. My argument does not rely on the existence of such ceteris paribus firms, my argument is that this will affect decisions to invest on the margin. Maybe right now, the margin is deciding between a great company in the US versus a crap company in Ireland, but the one in Ireland looks more attractive due to tax reasons. This policy change would push it back in the right direction. The point is that because there is a margin somewhere, it must be shifted by these policy decisions.

I don't see myself relying on strong assumptions. I am laying out some simplified models to explain the core mechanisms of what's going on.
Have you tried last.fm?
About time. Based on malware cleanup work I've done in people's homes and asking how they got to them (unscientific, I know), Google AdWords seems like the primary method of malware distribution.

Google has gone out of their way to make AdWords look more and more like a normal search result, and particularly among seniors, it's common to expect that first link is legitimate. It usually isn't.
Just this weekend I helped my mother change TV providers. She went to dish network from at&t uverse.

My original thought was to move internet from uverse to xfinity. But xfinity's web site was so sneaky about up front fees that I abandoned them and kept her internet with uverse.

Cable companies are blatant scammers. The industry deserves to die.
Still you will have to codify in some way what the "common good" is, because some way or another humans must be able to judge if something is against the common good or not. I wonder how someone could possibly do that.

The problem I see is that everyone will have his own idea about that. For some it will be upholding religious morals, for others it will be socialism. Could be really anything.
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Plus it can save articles offline for when you are away from Internet access. Much more useful than just a list of bookrmarks IMO.
Indeed, but in PHP it is at least possible to not use the performance sucker parts of the frameworks.

Java? Not so much.
Plex is also very good alternative to Spotify, if you share your server on public IP.
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Out of interest, are there any other Apps/Websites you'd recommend? I have a 4 y/o sponge who'd eat it up... :D
Wikipedia does have a large, irritating begging banner though, so kinda. I guess.
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..and that's why you get lawyers to plead their clients cases, various chances to appeal a ruling, a separation of legislative and judiciary powers and ultimately even judges that are voted in and given tenure instead of just hired.

Yes, the state humanity finds itself in is a sad one. Patch atop patch atop patch .. for centuries (millenias?) by now. But what can you do? Everything else so far has failed in even more spectacular ways.
As an alternate hypothetical, lets imagine that every multinational happens to be related to a large number of subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Singapore, and Luxembourg. Furthermore, suppose that three quarters of all world-wide corporate profits happen to be booked in these four countries with a minuscule population. Clearly there would be a problem.

So long as there is "greyness" in the allocation of profits among related entities, this will be systematically exploited to maximally shift profit low tax jurisdictions.

Although transfer pricing is a significant component, it is not the only one.

The most obnoxious methods probably relate to hybrid mismatches where corporations exploit differences in two tax codes to take deductions in both countries. This may involve a payment that is treated as interest in one country and a dividend in the other. It may involve an entity that is treated like a flow-through partnership in one country and a corporation in the other.

There is also "treaty shopping" where corporations set up faux corporations in countries with favourable bilateral treaties so they may reduce their tax when shifting profits from country A to the intermediary to country B.
There is real progress on quantum computing: for example http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7573/full/nature1... (arXiv preprint for those without Nature subscription: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5760), but mostly it's about sustaining quantum entanglement between a handful of qubits.

The Google/D-Wave stuff is largely without substance, but makes for nice, breathless media reports. See http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2555 for an explanation of the latest report.
I take back what I said. To get to scale you probably need advertising to get there. The more I think about it though, you probably could get to $3000/mo with SEO.
>prevented tons of PHP, Ruby, Python,etc frameworks

Django is adding websockets support using the $150K grant from Mozilla. Rails is adding websockets support in the next version with ActionCable. Phoenix and Play frameworks have great support for websockets. Websockets are an integral part of node ecosystem.

Your websockets "challenge" is not based on facts.
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A prime example of how law creates the criminals in the first place. We could live in perfect peace without this brain fart.
That part is literally quoted further down in the article and it makes me wonder why all the focus is on the choice of rope with respect to being used in a swivel joint set-up earlier in the article. They might as well have left that out, it's a whole pile of data but it does not actually seem to have been a factor in the accident at all.
You're right about the placebo effect, I'm sure I once read about a study that found patients reported better pain relief from the pills with fancy packaging. As you said, we're dealing with pain relief which is inherently subjective, so the placebo effect matters.
Very simple: put a paywall up.

I mean, I know you wont because you're afraid you'll find exactly how little your content is worth and you want to continue making those sweet advertising €€€ but perhaps you should consider moving to a business that doesn't rely on selling the people who are interested in your content to the highest bidder.
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I am not sure whether this is a problem that can be solved entirely with software. Oftentimes it is not so obvious what's the relationship between what you have and what you'd like to discover.

In fact, one of the biggest issues I have with current methods is that they recommend me more of the same. When I look for new music I want - to some extend - something that is unlike what I've heard before.

Say you listen to Blue Lines by Massive Attack. Chances are, the recommendation engine will recommend you Portishead or Morcheeba. (User likes genre trip hop? let's play more trip hop). But maybe I'd like to explore different forms of UK rap music now...
> The quantum computing era is coming… fast

No, it's not coming. It will stay there where it is now - huge corporations that rule the world and governments. This will just build huge precipice between small companies and people who will run AMD64 for next 20 years and corporations that in 20 years will already have something that will replace quantum computers. We all will be ruled by a few computers. Google technologically runs away from their competitors. Google will gather more data, process it faster, more accurate, will gather more data... Poor will become poorer and rich will be richer. It's not coming fast, not in our direction.
Should we even call these "knockoffs" anymore. By now, the tubescreamer circuit is practically mythological in guitar hacker circles. There are thousands of builds from one-off basement projects to commercial runs like this. It's more like a retelling of a favorite story.
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Well Wordpress long came without any caching at all, dunno if that's changed by now. Drupal in contrast comes with its own DB caching.

Both can be plugged into memcache and friends, and if done right you can put in Cloudflare or other frontend caching systems in front.

Biggest performance +1, though, is enabling php opcache.
I got my PhD in physics in the early 90s. Already by that time, it was widely known among students that we weren't all going to get tenure track jobs. We understood the numbers. It was called the "birth control problem."

I told my dad about it. He's a PhD scientist, and spent his career in industry. He told me that the "birth control problem" was already known in the 1950s, and that it was never a slam dunk that a PhD would get into a decent academic research career.
Sadly, one must investigate original sources, otherwise we get soundbite-knowledge. Here's a blogpost written by a core Clojure contributor that starts: "Occasionally I hear someone say that the Clojure community is against testing." (http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/08/31/clojure-and-testing/)

Or take this discussion on testing: "Finally, testing is greatly facilitated by design. Ideal testing takes some design constraints, some specification and turns it into tests as opposed to sort of embodying design inside tests. That's inside out. But again, that's something we have to work more at. Stems like Quick Check are interesting because you're basically starting with propositions about your system, which reflect the design and saying you write the tests, computer." (https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...)
I don't like the tone of the opening anecdote

> Had Linda been more confident, we'd have won.

It appears that Linda kept being right. Regardless, the captain kept not choosing her answers. Perhaps being a poor captain led to the team's defeat, not Linda failing to assert herself properly. Afterall, a good captain should have experience in the world of pub quizzes, and one would expect that he might have seen this sort of situation before. Failing that, based with the empirical evidence of Linda being right often, he probably should have picked her answers more frequently.

I think the larger lesson here is that confidence is a good thing, but relying on it solely can fail miserably as a substitute for having actual knowledge about something.
Yeah, but this discussion was not very fruitful. Just language-bashing.
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I have been using Subsonic.org on my servers since 2009. It has and still is serving me very well.
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To mine, too...
I agree with your last remark. Regardless of the letter of the law, any ML researcher who could possibly win such competition should clearly understand its spirit. They had to know that they were training on the test data, a cardinal sin in machine learning.
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> Still feels weird to not be able to turn on live TV in the background

I think that even older generations are starting to realize that the cable bill is pretty much paying for a white noise generator at this point - computers and phones/tablets have so much to occupy attention and time that all it's going to take is a person saying aloud "Why am I paying $X to not watch TV?"
Exactly

The cord was cut. It was not an issue of internal torques or swivels.

Unless the helicopter rescue rope was made of a higher shearing strength material that would have gone through the harness without being cut it wouldn't have mattered
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Probably just because the stuff has no value in the first place. Add in a secondary market and insurance should be obtainable. (Not that many would or should obtain it.)
The recommendations are usually on point, but to my knowledge, there's no way to say "I don't like this artist, stop recommending it". I have quite a few of those, that I should like based on my tastes but for some reason I don't.
Then I guess we're in total agreement ;)
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Author here. Did this mostly as an exercise to learn React and Webpack, and to finally understand the bit hacks going on in CIDR notation.

Source on Github: https://github.com/yuvadm/cidr.xyz
Don't worry, Comcast and company will quickly fix this by making any kind of streaming prohibitively expensive on their internet connections.
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Can we just go ahead and blame Religion and lack of proper contraception education on this?
This is interesting, but how would it compare against something like Plex (that handles video and transcoding as well as music, but not open source) or Boombox (just music and also open source).
County Implementations can vary from to the letter of the law and its intent or a trivial implementation which has been neutered by local lobbying.

Look at how TUPE is implemented across the EU and you will see how this works compare the Uk and Spain
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Yes, like pretty much everything, this rule gets hairy when you zoom in on it enough. That's why, e.g., medicine has the concept of Quality-adjusted life years (QALY), to capture the intuition that it's better to live 10 years in perfect happiness than 15 years in agonizing pain, etc. However, I think the principle is generally sound, and if you oppose the option that would lead to less deaths, you have to show what society loses that's more important than the lives saved (and yes, it happens; for instance, car traffic in general is society trading some loss of lives for huge boost in convenience and economic prosperity).
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Thata a bit of a leap to go from "they hand out free hardware" to "they bribe staff with free hardware."
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> Honest question: do you not consider caching to be a normal part of a dynamic web application?

We should not be needing bare metal servers with 4 GHz CPUs to serve a non-interactive site with ~4000 visitors a day. Yet, without full-page caching (i.e., bypass Wordpress/PHP entirely and serve .html files straight from nginx), the servers would melt under the load.

Rendering twenty images and forty text fields out of database should not take several seconds on a modern server. Yet, Wordpress has no problems taking a dozen seconds even under light load conditions – mind you, that's time purely spent in PHP, for rendering, not on the database.
Comcast owns NBCUniversal, so they also own a big chunk of content; they're in a position where they can effectively sink Netflix from both ends by also raising the price Netflix pays for content.
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I am taking over a legacy implementation of Google Sign-In and trying to switch it to the new 8.3 one (because asking for 'get contacts' just suck terribly).
I don't really need a lib such as easy google though, I would have preferred more documentation on how it is recommended to handle some basic use cases.

For example : login in a first loginActivity then logout in another. Am I supposed to keep the GoogleApiClient somewhere at Application scope or to recreate it in each screen where I want to interact with it ?
I find it interesting that this is described as a Spotify clone. To me, Spotify is a large music library that I can pay a subscription to access, with advanced (arguably) discovery features. This on the other hand is a web based player and streaming server. I wouldn't describe them as the same at all.

Is this really how people view Spotify?

Edit: interestingly, the product itself doesn't mention Spotify anywhere.
My understanding is that it is both.

This really is a real breakthrough in quantum computing. Specifically for an approach called 'quantum annealing' which is one of many (there is at least one other) possible approaches to quantum computing.

This result is a breakthrough in two ways.

1: It demonstrates real quantum effects in the D-Wave computer. It had been hotly debated, by experts in quantum computing, whether the D-Wave actually used quantum effects in its computations.
2: It shows a real speedup for a very specific instance of a very specific algorithm. This is great news, and a very good result, for the people working on the D-Wave.

This is just a news story because

1: The D-Wave is much, 100 million times!, faster than the same algorithm running on a conventional computer. But there are algorithms you can run on a conventional computer which are equivalent (If someone could clarify how equivalent they are that would be great) which are as fast as the D-Wave. So they chose an algorithm which is good for the D-Wave and terrible on a classical computer.
2: The problem instance they chose is very artificial and it isn't clear that the speed up wouldn't disappear if they tried to run actual real world instances of the problem.

I would conclude that this is a great result. It increases the understanding of quantum computing. That is very exciting. The D-Wave doesn't appear to be practically useful. Yet.

(I am not even the beginning of an expert in this, everything I wrote above comes from the link below)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2555
Also :

http://jooby.org/

http://www.ninjaframework.org/

But the leader of the recent Java web frameworks really seem to be Vert.x ( http://vertx.io/ ) which I have started to use recently and like a lot so far.
This article didn't seem like an angry screed about what companies "should" do, so much as a pragmatic strategy to bring in more tax revenue and improve the U.S. economy.
Fruit trees is a good start. One of my ideas is to grow food on every roof in the city/suburb and use 1/3 of each lot as a well-insulated greenhouse. Then fruit and nut trees in abundant parks.

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I've solved this in my house and a friends house with a bunch of Airport Expresses and a multi channel amplifier.

1 Airport Express for each zone - I have 3 currently - Patio, 1st floor, 2nd floor. (installed 6 in my friends house)

Each "zone" is a named Airplay point on each Airport Express

Airport Express connects to the multi channel amp via headphone > RCA left / right > RCA left right to 1 RCA

Then the amp is hard wired to each in wall speaker.

iOS devices can only stream to 1 Airplay point at a time but iTunes / OS X can stream to multiple at a time.

So the wife or I could be cooking in the kitchen, listening to 1 stream and the party can be outside on the patio listening to another stream

Not cheap at $100 (ish) per Airport Express + amp + speakers but by far cheaper then Sonos and their in wall speakers - not book shelf so theres no clutter.

It's cool to stream from iTunes and fill the entire house with 1 synced stream.
Of which PHP 7 now equals/ surpasses in performance in a lot of areas.
The fix works only for Firefox-based browsers, because it makes use of inline script tag filtering[1] which does not work on chromium, because it does not support `beforescriptexecute`[2]. The work around for Chromium-based browsers is to wholesale block inline script for the page, at the cost of probably breaking some functionality on the page.

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It's probably still time to be dusting off lamport signatures.
No problem! Wow, this sounds fancy, gotta read this!
>Here are a few specific examples

[shows a few screenshots of things that would never happen with an ad blocker]
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Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707442
It's a visual clone.
It's version is 0.2.0 which is low. Authors generally use the 0.x series of numbers to indicate that their software "isn't ready" or "production quality" and breaking api changes might come. So if you want to encourage mass-adoption of Mithril, you ought to bump the version number to 1.x.
I think it's more about the UI - which looks near-identical to Spotify's.
Well, the characters are useless by themselves. I made myself a deck that contains both kanji and the words made from these kanji [1]. This way I can learn how to read the characters within various words, although it would take much longer to learn all the kanji. I'm currently only up to the 4th grade level or so after many months of learning, but the ones I did learn, I feel like I know them pretty well and can easily read them in various contexts.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/831167744
Does it have 30 million tracks?
Great article, I'm really enjoying the R&D going into vr at the moment and are even investing in the field myself by making VRDB.com. Despite that I believe there is going to be significant pressure from investors who are not necessarily VR enthusiasts and might not enjoy the ride as much. Let's just hope it isn't to the detriment of the future potential of VR
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