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Heres mine:

My proposed business is a centralized website similar to Kickstarter that does the financing for new music albums. With the spread of streaming services, many artists are now making an insufficient amount of money through record sales.

Bands would list the albums they could potentially release (ie their next album, a live album, b sides etc) on a website where once the band has reached their asking price, they will start working on/or release that album. The price listed is not how much the album costs the band to make, but the amount of money that it would take the band to feel sufficiently incentivized to make/release the album. Once the album reaches this point, the band would release the album for free online.

This creates two new streams of revenue - fans who really love an artist (or have lots of money) can contribute proportionally. Additionally, cheap fans that otherwise wouldn't pay for the album would be incentivized to with the hope that the album comes out sooner, or out of fear that it won't be released at all.

You can read more details here: http://danfrank.ca/startup-ideas/
Before VR makes any real headway in the regular Joe Consumer market, it must come down in price dramatically.

The actual VR hardware itself isn't entirely unreasonably priced. But, when combined with some beefy backend hardware, it's approaching "unreasonable" territory.
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It's not good; people use Electron instead of XULRunner because XULRunner was barely maintained. It would randomly stop working on major Firefox releases, and would stay broken for weeks, because nobody noticed or cared that XULRunner didn't work, as long as core Firefox kept working.

Even when it did work, working with XPCOM sucked.

Positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron is the new XULRunner. WIP, doesn't actually work yet. :-(
I tried the Vive, with the TiltBrush game/app, and one shooting one. No haptics.

It was really quite incredible, and I was skeptical coming in. However, it was incredible in a "super high tech sparklers" kind of way, that I'd like everyone to check out once for fun. I don't really see any future in them.
Really cool concept! It would be awesome to put a little gif in the readme of what the interaction is like. Maybe you could use something like https://asciinema.org to record your terminal session?
There was a ton of research of LISP & Smalltalk GC's prior to the advent of the JVM.
Now is a fantastic time for languages. Python and Ruby get you where you need to be fast, and if you get far enough and need to scale, there are a huge number of options, from stalwart holdouts like Java and C# (now on Linux!) to newer languages on rock-solid run times like Clojure and Elixir, to whole new languages like Go and Rust.

All these languages have their advantages and followers, but the thing they all have in common is first-class concurrency, which everyone now realizes they need (and old Erlang devs will tell you "duh").

Honestly, while I write Go almost exclusively anymore, I think Elixr is the most exciting. The more I learn about Beam the more magical it becomes in my eyes, considering just how old and stable it is. Phoenix is a game changer in many ways.
don't forget please :)
The scariest thing about learning history just how much nothing changes.

It's changed a lot. Several thousand years ago, we realized that having a king solves a lot of problems, such as tribal warfare, and squabbles between small groups of people. Pax Romana it might be called, although it was found on a smaller scale before that.

The Greeks appreciated the power of a monarch, but didn't like to be told what to do, and their emphasis on individual freedom eventually led to democracy like the Roman senate. Unfortunately, the roman senate couldn't handle changing demographics very well, and became indolent, corrupt, and useless, so a dictator was an improvement.

Throughout the middle ages, philosophers put a lot of thought into the idea of, "How to find the best monarch?"

Eventually the United States came up with an idea of how to balance the power of state with individual freedom, and put some procedures in place to handle demographic changes, learning from the Roman's failures.

Learning takes centuries, but it definitely happens. The improvements to the legal system since Sumerian times is notable as well.
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Yeah "$35" until they tack on the device fee of $20/month. Which means your cheapest plan, even if you own the phone, is $55.

I'll stick with my inferior $30/mo Virgin Mobile service, I suppose. I got my hopes up thinking Verizon had changed, but $55 at a minimum is just too much when I don't use a lot of data. The main reason I was considering a switch was coverage.
You can't do it for all Google, but if you use Chrome, you can set it as the Omnibox default. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Search -> Manage Search Engines, then add a new row at the bottom that says "Google Verbatim", "verbatim", "https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=%s", hit Done and click "Manage Search Engines" again, then find that row in the list above (alphabetical) and click "Make default". Now everything in the address bar uses verbatim search.
For every gzip setting, it should be possible to find a brotli setting that is both faster and more dense than your chosen gzip setting, i.e., better in every major aspect: computational resource cost, latency in computation and user observed latency.

If you want to try SDCH and already have brotli, why not brotli+SDCH (brotli sandwich) instead of gzip+SDCH?

Also https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/690761954915328000 is an interesting observation
Ok thats a decent point lol..
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As someone who works with Delphi and C++Builder for a job… yeah, it's the single shittiest development environment ever conceived by man, and they charge exorbitant prices for it.

It's actually gotten so bad that my company is opting to migrate to C# for future development, in spite of our long investment in Delphi.
Elixir Introduces many new concepts to Erlang. I think it adds to the complexity of language. Erlang is enable to do all with a bit more functional code. Overall I agree that Erlang based frameworks are game changer.
I take your point, but that's really not a great comparison. I somehow doubt Segway sold 100k units in a couple of months on their initial release, and definitely not many would have been directly bought by regular consumers.

I think what you said would have made sense a few years ago, the Palmer Luckey's kickstarter was first created. But right now, I'm pretty sure it's way past Segway territory. Not quite iphone 1 level yet, but perhaps equivalent to the first huge blocky cell phones. Still took a few years for cell phones to miniaturize and become cheap enough for everyone to own one, I'd say that's where we are with VR/AR right now.
Can you expand on what this means? I'm curious to learn more.
> If the programmer wants to parallelize a function, he/she must designate it as such and assign some weighted value to it that corresponds to an execution priority.

It looks like most of that ability is meant to be handed straight to the programmer, not the compiler.
Not sure I understand your question, but sharing personal experience (including family experience) in good faith is more than fine.
A lot of compiler people thought Itanic was dumb because it put things into hardware that the compiler could handle efficiently without hardware help. SWARM doesn't appear to make that mistake at all. It's unclear to me if Swarm can be take advantage of without explicit compiler directives, but that's a different issue.
Wish I could answer and say you're welcome, but I agree with you. It seems to be some dubious why and no how. Dubious in that he gave an arbitrary and unsubstantiated 500ms benchmark for Python.
Tangentially: independent of the truth of this article, the volume of criticism of China's economy from Western media is hilarious in contrast to propaganda reported verbatim from the USA: the "slow recovery"; metrics that are hollow once the surface is scratched (e.g. jobs numbers comprising large below-full-time service sector, new housing starts with growing shared-residence numbers). Never mind bankrupt cities, territories, and soon states; inflation; and the national debt.
Wow, congrats. That's impressive. Good for you. A couple questions:

How did you maintain correct ratios throughout the day?
Did you do this under a doctors supervision?
Cool idea, though I'd sooner suspect most "supernatural" phenomena are more easily explained-- with fewer assumptions and suppositions-- by simple psychology, misinterpretation, fallacy, drugs, sleep paralysis, fear, rationalization, or attention-seeking, without any need to appeal to multiple consciousnesses or neurons with agency.
Well, It was version 1! I will try to explain more and more in coming days. I wrote these articles for mind rest and between my coding sessions.
Or both, in a fast sequence :/
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It's worse because personal attack (such as name-calling) toward a fellow community member is more destructive of the community. Both are bad, though.
The system is designed in such a way that such a scenario doesn't happen, because once you indicate an unwillingness to open that door - you aren't expected to ever open that door (and you're unlikely to be offered the opportunity). You will just continue to operate at the level of your last door opening. This isn't unique to SF, you see this sort of continuous evaluation occur in the corporate world as well.

That is how you end up with a spectrum of SF groups, where some are tasked with difficult but clearly whitehat missions (the bulk of well known SF), illegal but debatably moral grayhat (some known SF but mostly units operating under cover designations), and finally the blackhats that rise to Hollywood level evil (basically Apocalypse Now with no paperwork). So for a late career SEAL the probabilities are pretty good for someone to land between lawful-good and neutral-good. Those are infinitely better odds than what you'd get with some random businessman.

I'd probably share your concern if the military was full of utilitarian statists, but strangely enough it is the direct opposite... well, except for flag officers - they can get a little kooky.
It does room scale just fine with the touch, by all accounts. I've used the vive and own a rift. I'm pretty happy with it. The display in the rift is better and it's more comfortable.
If I recall correctly (it's been a while since I looked at the Convention and the specific implementation verbiage), aircraft carriers are explicitly verboten, but, as you say, non-riparian states also have a tonnage limit on capitol ships which further limits freedom of transit. (Plus some further restrictions on submarines, but those aren't germane here.)

In addition, if the US, NATO or France attempted to unilaterally redefine a carrier as a non-carrier capitol ship for purposes of navigation, it would be considered a hostile diplomatic act by Russia, so that also sets limits of its own sort. During the Cold War, of course, it wasn't as important an issue, Turkey being the only NATO Black Sea state (note: since I'm not looking at a map right now, that might not be completely correct). No NATO carrier was going to transit the straits except in a case of war, at which point the Convention would be the least of our problems.
It's a start. I already have my apartment mocked up in Sketchup, and I imagine it's not that hard to import that. It'll be hack-y at first, but it seems like a very achievable target for professional interior designers, etc. The tech could easily trickle down.
> It's like children mistreated by their parents in their youth who will carry their psychological trauma from the childhood through the years and that would detrimentally affect their lives until they get some professional help from a skilled counselor.

Please, your analogy just doesn't make any sense. Just because someone is stubborn and doesn't want to relearn something doesn't make it professor fault. Nor does it mean he/she suffered child mistreatment.
Parents beating their children leads to mental illnesses if the right genes are present. You are reducing child abuse to banality.
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I, for one, am waiting for GitS style chat rooms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKi7YyuamI
Looking forward to the follow up!
Hi. This is my first post here; I hope my contribution is worth something.

This is fascinating!

I was unaware of the "dot" thing in gmail addresses. I created my Google address including the dot and assumed it was a unique identifier.

Occasionally I've received emails addressed to the non-dotted version and have wondered whether I'm being targeted for identity theft. I've received signup verifications for online services and, once, a legal letter demanding payment on an invoice for a person with my same name, whom I do know to be a real person living in my city, though not whether he is blood-related.
I think you missed the gigantic "Download" button you see when you first open up the page.

That said, probably still won't use it. Too much whitespace and too shiny for my liking
Hardware startup scene is doing well. Lots of Kickstarters here. But the idea we have Western style Makerspaces or Makers...no. Chinese are willing to invest a lot in education. But much less in a hobby. So the few real spaces are about classes for kids. But between classes you can go to TGN or Litchee Lab and use their laser cutter. Although I have not yet.
It's just some timeshare on the mainframe
> But, the shell is a bunch of nontrivial things to learn.

Yeah but if you're gonna learn this trade, you kinda gotta learn these things eventually, so why settle for a pacifier indefinitely?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12046062
I agree that the Vive Basestations are a hassle to setup, they do have an advantage of not having to take up a USB port and not having to be connected to your computer compared to the Oculus cameras. The Touch controllers will come with a second camera which I think is required.

I agree with you that the Oculus is more comfortable most of the time, unless you have glasses. The Vive has enough space to accommodate glasses, but I could not get the Rift on comfortably, though they fit fine in my older DK2.
Thank god the scripts are open source. You can actually read them and figure out what they do. Shocking!
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This appears superficial, and that this is paid as well with no (visible) published open source turns me off. The mistakes in the GIF communicate that this was a slapped-together product.

Additionally, requiring mouse clicks for a visual replacement of the alias command with a few extra bells and whistles is not the greatest appeal to a community of developers.

I hope that the fact that this was written in Go does not outweigh its shortcomings in the eyes of HN.
I have been asking myself this very question.
What's dead about its main product? From a monetization and innovation point of view, it seems about as dead as, say, Google's search product.
Maybe starved is too strong a term. I think we're both trying to make the same point - a new medium can exist, but it doesn't mean that the old media go away. You might just use them less. The idea of a new medium replacing an older medium 1-for-1 doesn't make much sense.

That said, the amount of attention people can pay to all media is essentially finite, and new media decreases the hold of old media. In a very real way the internet is killing print newspapers, by drastically reducing the amount of attention that is paid to them.

Likewise, if you look at printed books, they are much less important than they were 100 years ago, largely due to radio, television, movies, computers, and the internet.
"Since the USSR and Russia has had little opportunity to build these skills, and none to test them in combat, any strike missions from the Kuznetsov would be limited and mostly for show."

This fact impacted the Sino carrier program [0] so much that it the Sino scrapping of the RAN, HMAS Melbourne (R21) [1] in 1980, was delayed to study the steam catapult system. It was launched as a Majestic Class in 1943 and retro-fitted to launch the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.

Uncle served on the Melbourne and I got to take a look around the Melbourne just before RIMPAC78. Two years later it was scrapped. and towed off to China.

Reference

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Chinese_aircraft_carrie...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Melbourne_(R21)
I don't think "Academia" that doesn't teach critical thinking and only practices its authority over students should be called academic institution.
So I can download it for free, or I can buy "1 year free update" for $10.

They need a much better explanation of what exactly I'm paying for, and what I'm limited to with the free version.
The password hashing algorithm outlined is really not best practise, only 7 rounds and the use of SHA-256 which is a general cryptographic hash, not a password specific one.

The correct answer to password hashing is still mostly "just use bcrypt", or even better, scrypt or argon2. Failing that PBKDF2 with enough rounds is not terrible, if you have to. All of these algorithms should to be tuned to require as much processing power as you can afford.

I'm also a fan of storing another random value somewhere separate from the salt/password hash, which is incorporated into the hashing scheme. You might store the salt/password hash in the database, and the other random value on the application servers. This means if your database is compromised (i.e. though SQL injection), hashes can't be cracked without also compromising an application server.
Same here. This just reflected to me that I seem to have locked down my 'privacy' controls better than I thought. YouTube is the only Google service using my recorded activity for ads or recommendations, but I actually like the recommendations.
Not sure what you mean, the benefits of separate browser profiles are huge and obvious - separate tracking for logins, sessions, etc. Before profiles came along my wife and I just used different browsers - otherwise we'd have spent all our time logging out of and back into facebook and twitter and so on. Profiles fixes that.

You can even make desktop shortcuts to launch Chrome with a given profile, so in practice it's like having two different apps. I guess you could launch one instance and swap users but we don't bother.
I should have been more explicit. I'm wishing for a less discontinuous shell-learning-path, meaning to say that you'd stick with Go Terminal_ until you found you wanted something that zsh or tmux or whatever offered you.

Everything I've learned in programming I've learned that way: do something the repetitive way until I notice it, then research or do something better.
I heard their Weissman score was off the charts.
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The web is popular because HTML is sloppy. Your XHTML3 stuff is never going to work. It failed before it will fail again.
Have you written any code to that effect? I've been trying to think through how booting up dependencies might work (for things like integration tests).

I have aspirations for QA (https://github.com/ajbouh/qa) to learn this trick, but it needs some lambda-specific smarts before it gets there.
I wonder if this could be handled more easily by making memory smarter. The timestamps they talk about are really just lamport clocks I think. If ram used that on writes for atomic updates, then you could throw a fault (similar to a numerical overflow). Then compilers/code could just give devs a way to directly handle this. An OS could be designed to use this to reschedule threads, etc.

Seems like this would be a more incremental option than requiring a full new architecture to be designed.
>Python and Ruby get you where you need to be fast,

My experience with Go has been that it is almost as easy to get it up and running just as fast as with Python.
I always wonder if this "no one wrote down vowels" thing was really because these languages were spoken without vowels.

The issue with your theory is the numerous counterexamples of languages from the same region which did not (and in fact still do not in plenty of cases) include vowel indicators in their writing systems, but nonetheless spoke and still speak the vowels.

Also, Egyptian is known to have included "determinative" hieroglyphs for cases where the reading would otherwise be ambiguous; the determinative allowed words with the same consonant structure but different vowels to be distinguished from each other (though the determinative itself did not encode a vowel; instead it indicated what type or category of thing the preceding word was, which allowed the reader to choose the correct option).

Plus your example of a vowel-less word is from a language which does have vowels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuxalk_language#Vowels
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You are correct. I missed read that question.

If you select an easy passphrase for your key, it's similar to selecting a weak password for your bank account when your bank doesn't enforce password constraints. Buyer beware.

An ideal solution would be a two-factor key encryption. That would require the two-factor key to unlock the private key. There might be something out there like that. I haven't looked though.
You can just regularly delete your search history.
"It will take a direct hit with nuclear weapon on the datacenter for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page."

Should read:

"It will take a direct hit with multiple nuclear weapons on all the data centers in an AWS region for Amazon to change icon to red on service status page."

Not sure if I'm pointing out how good Amazons AZ/region model is or how bad they are at updating the status page. :)
>I'm sorry but, why should I care about this person?

I am the only English speaking, local Maker from Shenzhen accessible online.

I have more Open Source models posted on Thingiverse than any other mainland Chinese person.

I have posted large amounts of spherical 360º video documenting the local hardware scene in far greater detail than anyone else to date. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIwvGxjEKaE&list=PLzGeUG3dR0... )

I don't think I am very special. But there is a lot less relevant stuff posted every day that you do not go out of your way to attack and any of these should be of interest to HN whether I was male or female.
http://www.piedpiper.com/

EDIT: Not sure why this was downvoted? If he's genuinely not familiar with the show, it answers his question.
Why wouldn't Facebook just build a store to capture more spoils (where they presumably take a percentage)?
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Yes, it just avoids all the boilerplate needed with watchify.

On a side note I generally agree with you on "modern" build systems. However when a project becomes complex, with lots tasks and multiple environments, custom logic is needed. Only executing simple command line tools is not enough. Being able to both run tasks and logic at the same place (gulpfile) becomes handy.
I've held off on the VR sets because, imho, the games are just not there yet. My decision turns on one thing: I want a proper flightsim. Not mariocart in the sky. I'm talking JanesF15 with a fully interactive cockpit. I want to be able to look over my own shoulder and see a wing. I want to look left and see the runway I'm about to turn onto. The day that happens, then the VR headset will be the least of my purchases. Pedals, a throttle suite ... perhaps a special chair. Until then, inflating balloons and riding roller coasters just won't win me over.

I don't see why this hasn't happened yet. Flightsims, which lock the player into a chair anyway, would seem the perfect vehicle for VR.