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The key quote in this article is 'The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major record labels, declined to comment on the iPod.'

Until the iPod 'recordable' audio devices were Asian products and the content played on them worldwide was by UK and US record companies. Ever heard of DAT? It was a digital audio recorder concept slapped on a stringent copy control system through the AHRA, the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA), basically a law acting as a deterrent for any product to harm the enormous US driven CD market.

Suddenly the manufacturers this time around were also US IT companies. Dell, Microsoft, Intel and others joined the RIAA umbrella with Asian manufacturers at an industry forum called SDMI, a traveling circus that I joined, while working with Universal Music for Panasonic.

But one company at SDMI was missing - Apple. The labels were watching them, later even supporting them with a price of $1 per track rather than $3 offered to the MS-PC systems, but they thought Apple was just an R&D project, irrelevant for the market at large.
I have friends in some of the rental neighborhoods in my locale. How do tenants destroy the outside of houses, make roofs leak, or fail to turn on the heat?
If this qualifies as sexual assault then I have been murdered about 40,000 times between halo and cod. Articles like this do a disservice to actual victims of heinous acts.
It's partially because you can sign in with custom domains. By putting your email address in first, Google can figure out what signin mechanism to use prior to you inputting your password (or not, if you don't need one).

For example, we use Google Apps at work with our custom domain, with an internal SSO server providing authentication services. You enter your email address, the Google page directs you to the internal SSO server, you get a token, take that back to Google, and you get logged in - no password required.
What makes you happier? Easier to drive, better mileage, maintenance costs?
Well, that can’t work out in all cases, obviously. Remember that a significant chunk of the people don’t make 3x of a low rent in many towns.
You do know that Youtube Red exist only in 4 countries[0]?

[0]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en&ref_...
> (servers, wifi base stations, office software, music software)

And how about workstations, high quality monitors, video and photo editing software?

The thing is, while Apple's main focus was never spreadsheets or enterprise SW, it once produced the go-to computers for creative professionals (musicians, photographers, video makers, designers). I believe that Apple is losing its edge in that field, because they are exclusively focusing on consumer devices and software.

The Mac Pro hasn't been updated in years; Aperture has been killed, Final Cut went from being a professional product to a "prosumer" one, Logic still seems to be doing OK but latest updates of Mac OS broke compatibility with many pieces of SW used by musicians (e.g. Ableton, NI Maschine etc), the list could go on...
TBH, I loved the tagline for the first episode: "...invited a swanky wedding. But the trip doesn't go as planned".
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The US was the first to embrace and enforce the radical view that people have rights - and showed that it worked, resulting in an incredible explosion of prosperity reaching to all levels in society.

Propagation of these rights to other countries have resulted in their prosperity as well.

If you need statistics, start with longevity, infant mortality, and average height starting in 1800 to the present.
Huh. I felt the same way about my high school. I suppose I shouldn't be so surprised.

I wonder if it could be feasible to rotate kids through some kind of county/state shared resource with opportunities for "demoing" various specializations. Educational almost-internships for kids, if you will. 180 days/year, 5 days/week = 36 specializations. That's probably not enough time to get much of any feel. Kids pick their top 5 or 10, and spend a year learning about those. You don't necessarily need a specialist teacher for everything, but rather a specialist skilled in teaching research / getting to the bottom of a field/industry. Make the kids teach each other; teacher is basically a facilitator? Too impractical?
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I never really got into usenet (proper news clients) - but I still read (and occasionally participate) on email lists.

Just in case there are some readers here with an interest in news, but unaware - the d-lang forum software is open source, and built around usenet technology:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
I'm not sure I get the point (besides using days for the estimation, which is a good practice). So in the end you are doing it on a fixed-price term, but you're stating a daily rate as well, for scope changes. (Which you'll still have to argue about, and you're still left with the estimation errors and the arguments about the specification errors.)

Or did I miss something? (Or maybe there are a lot of people, who will not state a rate for the out-of-scope work and then they'll get into trouble when trying to ask money for that?)
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The reason I jumped on the ipod wasn't that it was easier to use (but it's true that having a sceen to display the full name of the track was nice), but rather because it had a way better sound quality than any other mp3 players then.

You didn't have major brands doing mp3 players then. In fact in 2001 many people were still using dial up connections. And all the mp3 players were cheap chinese hacks with a massive background noise.
I was spending a lot of weekends fixing little things here and there. The only reason it wasn't costing an arm and a leg is because I was doing the work myself but the parts were crazy expensive.

Also, removing some components that should've been easy was painfully time consuming.
I think you might be looking for Socket AM1, like the Athlon 5350. If you need ECC, get the Asus AM1M-A. None of the boards have more than 2 RAM slots though.

If you have a Microcenter nearby, you can get a $40 discount on an AM1 bundle deal. The motherboard and CPU end up being about $40 total. It makes a decent little Unix server.

The Intel J1800/J1900/J2900 boards are pretty cheap too but no ECC. Also, Asrock just announced its Goldmont-based J4205 board.
>Extrapolating the analysis beyond the human knockouts study leads to an estimate that only 3,000 human genes are actually needed to build a healthy human.

Genes are hyperparameters in the beginning of a dynamical process that creates a person.

There is relatively straight forward path from DNA -> RNA -> primary structure of proteins.

Complexity starts with more complex folding, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure and their conformations and changes (can be affected by the state cell is in or environment)

Another source of complexity is the gene regulatory network (GRN). GRN can be modeled as recurrent neural network or stochastic gene network. Genes are like neurons and their activity level is their state. Gene activity is modified by (noisy) activity or inactivity of other genes which have nonlinear inhibitory and excitatory effects on others. The state of the cell is dynamic recurrent process that can implement complex logic and respond to external and internal stimuli. How much it can learn and adapt is interesting question.

Our microbiome, epigenetic factors, environment and the path person takes in life can change how genes express themselves trough this process.
I got a free Rio 500 from the website PointClick during the height of .com insanity. That thing was easily one of the greatest consumer electronics products of all time.

Does anyone know the inside story of what ever happened to that product line? I read that Diamond sold the assets, but didn't find anything beyond that. (Though I would note that their earlier model, the PMP300, looks suspiciously like the first iPod.)
Not true. If you have self employment income you can do a SEP IRA. That's something like 25% or up to 53k, which ever is less.
Pretty sure my co only covers Dolphin and NOT Orca strikes.
Wouldn't it also hide increases of "injured by a sea creature" that could be more useful in policy making.
If they do, hopefully they'll support the Apple Pencil as well.
Its principles also hold up for drivers in China. Guess the chinese love copying american things right down to driving just as badly :-D

Anyway, jokes aside, this has a lot more uses than proof we are all bad drivers. I can this being a great simple way to show queues in a factory/shop/office coffee machine . Awesome work and i wish i as 5% as good at coding to be able to do this when on holiday. On my hols i would be lucky to get past hello world. Kudos to this guy.
publishers still charging as if they still incur the full physical production and distribution costs

I haven't worked out the numbers to figure out whether there's really parity here, but the physical production and distribution costs are now borne by computing and network infrastructure.
And sound quality.
Isn't there an OS X service that does the same, text wise? Was always amazed at that yonks ago
"comparing it to a traditional watch and holding to the same standards is not a position of common sense"

Totally agree, the old Nokia phones used to last entire week with a single charge, I don't see people hanging on to it.

I've seen many skeptics who end up actually likeing smart watches after using them.
"In retrospect, it would've been a better decision to do fewer things with the first version of Model X," Musk said in February. "I think there was some hubris there with the X,"

Says the guy that wants to fly a rocket to mars next? Musk is the news story that I can't stop watching. Thankfully he's using that power for better ends than Trump!
It does actually conclude that you can't hurt yourself.
Your view is pretty common -- lots of shorts like to post about why they're shorting Tesla all over the Internet -- and appears to have nothing to do with the article we're supposed to be discussing.
> How society changes around it.
> [a classic old film] is completely blind to any social change. The wife is still a housewife, the husband still goes to work and so on.

This is an exceptionally good point.
What other organization qualifies? There are 2billlion more people in the world directly because of the US. Many have longer legacy's but few have for example removed polio from the world. China and England both played major roles in Smallpox's demise, but you quickly find only major nationstates are in the running.

It's hard to think of world issues on this scale, but we are making a lot of progress as a species. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_di...

PS: US had a major role in the Green Revolution which does have downsides, but as saved more lives than all the 20th century was combined. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution the world population was 2.5 billion in 1950.
Buying shares of TSLA doesn't put money in TSLA's pocket anymore than buying a PUT on TSLA takes money from their pocket.
Yes, overall, it is simpler but a lot of the complex electronics have to be replaced if they break. None of it is really end user serviceable.
"Lampshading" existed as a term used by writers etc. well before TV Tropes came along. I'm pretty sure I first heard it on Usenet in the 90s in a newsgroup primarily for SF writers, where it was well understood. Many terms on TV Tropes are pretty recent, but a lot were already established elsewhere.
Ask HN: What is your personal opinion about GitHub stars?
Starring a Github repository has some interesting connotations attached with it. Github uses it for ranking repository popularity while stating it's use a form of bookmarking.

I personally feel that starring is one of the most underutilized features. How do you interact with a project once you star it? Do you revisit them often? Does a project's # stars signal reliability / adoption / hotness?
This is true, but in drop tunings (and most alternate guitar tunings) the instrument is still usually tuned to 440 Hz - each string is just tuned to a different note in a 440 Hz scale.
You're looking for: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/prefer-const

It does exactly what you describe :)
I agree with your take on newspapers: they try and capture the attention of a layman audience. As such, their work can be simplified to the point of impropriety from time to time.

I'm less inclined to agree with your opinion on academic research, however. Systems of peer review--and softer systems, like those of repute amongst colleagues--are in place for the express purpose of eliminating biases and errors across research works.

In the social sciences, there is a great amount of care that goes into ensuring that:
1. Data is handled properly
2. Future inquiries are sound

Whether or not that care happened in this body of work is up for debate.
If you're self employed you're your own employer. I've been making SEP contributions for years using my freelance income. I also have a full time job.
I've only watched "Nosedive" of the new set, and it has had more of an impact than any of the other episodes. I find it the closest to "real" and "frightening" of the bunch - only the first episode is closer in terms of "This is possible", but it wasn't nearly as existentially terrifying.
Yeah, reading up and this was an ignorant thought on my part.
Don't linkbait titles, even ironically, if you aren't getting upvotes on your submissions.
It's pretty funny to think that somewhere in my insurance record is the code W2202XA.
This is such a tough read. :o(
How many Tesla insiders knew reliability would be poor before the first customer picked up a Model X?

Certainly it was known by many of the key engineers, possibly some in management, but the interesting question is did Musk himself know?

It's hard to believe he would knowingly tarnish the brand by delivering the least reliable SUV in America to customers.

On the other hand, it was already 18 months late - the pressure from all sides to deliver must have been enormous, with people on the edge of burnout.

As a purist, it's easy to say hold out as long as needed and don't compromise, but at some point it could have become a duke nukem forever scenario.

Pick your poison.
It depends on which 2FA method you use, and there's an associated time window. The TOTP method (Google Authenticator App) of a rotating number must be used within a window of at most a few minutes -- new numbers are generated every 30 seconds, so they could use that if they logged in immediately.

If you use U2F, then the domain name difference will mean that the U2F key can never match unless the attacker has control over DNS and is issued a Google.com SSL certificate by an authority the target's computer trusts.
In moderation, short positions help markets function better by discouraging speculative bubbles. How those affects combine for TSLA I won't claim to know. But the popular notion that short positions are inherently harmful is incorrect.
Stars certainly influence how people perceive a repo. If there are no stars, then I'm less likely to look at it. The problem is that it's also a catch-22. If you have a lot of stars, more people look, and more people star. It's self fulfilling, definitely not a perfect system.
Pretty sure that Jobs believed the iPod would attract people into Mac ecosystem and Windows compatibility was completely out of the question.

"While it seems a given that the iPod was to be made compatible with Windows, Jobs was very resistant to the idea. At one point he said that Windows users would get to use the iPod "over my dead body". After continued convincing, Jobs gave up: "Screw it," he said at one meeting where they showed him the analysis. "I'm sick of listening to you assholes. Go do whatever the hell you want.""[1]

That one phase, go do whatever the hell you want, literally changed the world. Win32 iTunes led the way for the success of the iPod and eventually the development of the iPhone. Think about the alternative path for a moment.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/25/steve-jobs-biography-wha...
Resident aliens (legal immigrants) are eligible for many of the public benefit programs UBI is prepared to replace, so it would be unsurprising if they were included in UBI.
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For those who aren't aware, Monopoly and its predecessors were actually designed to demonstrate the effects of income inequality:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-landlords-game/
I know it doesn't compete with DNS directly, but the addressing in IPFS[1] is a game changer, and the sooner it ships as a recognized protocol in browsers, the better.

Browsers still support dated protocols like FTP[2], which shows you how much browsers need to catch up.

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/10/05/ipfs-content-addressed-v...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp#Web_browser_support
he stated he was camping the production line, if this is true then how could he not know. maybe they were counting on buyers of the X to be so enthralled they would over look the issues? I know reading the forums you do get some rabid sycophants who defend about anything, get off the forums into the wild and it can be sillier.

I was simply shocked someone actually defended having their axles replaced. The only X at work has misaligned door handles, front to passenger are so off its just odd looking.
Great signal for what?
Ah yes, I do remember the Ron Paul surge.
Everyone I've known who has had a smartwatch has basically liked it (including people who have Android Wear smartwatches).

Only one person I've known who's had a smartwatch has told me that they were worth the money. In general, the consensus has been "Given that I have it, I like it. But it's not a big enough deal to be worth several hundred dollars."
> If you want a traditional watch, then get a traditional watch - comparing it to a traditional watch and holding to the same standards is not a position of common sense...

I don't think this is accurate. Someone brought up a comparison of smartphone to a Nokia phone, but this is not the same kind of comparison. A smartphone greatly simplified user interface and made accessing the internet and sharing much easier, and also created new ways of interacting (swiping etc). Whereas, the watch seems to be very featureful sure, but the internet is already accessible using your phone. And the added worry of carrying yet another charger when traveling (and the horror of losing it...). Now, a traditional watch, you don't worry about it for YEARS, not a week. Its mostly another ornament, like a cap or a shirt.

It may be a difference in temperament. But personally, I like to reduce things in my life which require any form of attention: because I forget things very easily (or am just too lazy to do them).

Also, this may not apply to everyone, but there is simply too many beautifully crafted wristwatches out there for me to ever seriously consider a smartwatch.
Patriotism and self-interest aren't mutually exclusive.

I'd also like to add that wanting the country you live in to be safer and stronger against inside threats is also patriotism and self-interest. In my experience people also generally prefer to be secure in their person, property and privacy against those that would exploit them.

Of course how we each value and prioritise these things will skew our definition of patriotism and our perception of actors like Snowden.
To be fair, I suspect you would get at least a few people willing to pay for such a game, especially if it looked at least decent on Steam or in a Kickstarter campaign.

People wanted a new Banjo-Kazooie, we're getting A Hat in Time and Yooka-Laylee (among about 20 others). People wanted a new Mega Man, so there are games like Mighty No 9, Recore and Azure Striker Gunvolt. If there's a style of play that's died down a bit in recent years, it's pretty likely there's an audience.

So yeah, it's probably not hopeless. There likely is at least some semblance of an audience for an old school style FPS game with less cutscenes, maze like levels and a more arcade like feel to it all.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to say, but there are problems with these kind of batteries overheating, especially on recharging. Pumping electricity through a material produces heat. If it has nowhere to go then you end up with a fire and toxic fumes. The solution on airplanes being to put the battery in a sealed metal box with a pipe to vent any toxic fumes to the outside of the hull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...
Upvoting this because of the Katamari Damacy shout out!

Unrelated, but did you ever play Nobi Nobi Boy from the same creator?
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Sure, but it's like slavery--you don't end slavery by making EVERYONE into a slave!
I'm not familiar with this situation, but if what you're saying is true, I can see where the perception came from. The unfortunate reality is that the Internet is full of sites which just copy-paste an existing popular site (Stack Overflow, various fandom wikis, etc.) and slap a bunch of ads on it hoping to make some fly-by-night profit. If I had came across ATT, I absolutely would've assumed that's what it was and would not have taken the time to read their FAQ explaining otherwise.
> One extreme downside of thinking of your home as an investment vehicle is how poorly it is diversified. It is almost exactly directly correlated to the local job market...and to macro trends like the MBS issues we saw in 2008.

This is what I cannot understand about people who advocate buying homes in the United States for small-time investors - how can you not see this? How does it make any sense to divert almost all of your cash flow into a single, massively leveraged, illiquid investment? Miss a few payments on your mortgage and you are totally wiped out (and without a place to live!). At least stocks can bounce back and maybe you can get 30% back on bad bonds. And no one is stopping you from holding cash or TIPS.

If you are wealthy and a house is a small part of your portfolio the impact of the possible downsides is qualitatively different, but as a small-time investor tying up most of my wealth into home ownership on the hope that "house prices always go up" (which really means treating the future generation as suckers that will pay inflated prices for your home) and that the risk of mortgage default does not exist does not make sense to me.
I used to think exactly like you until recently. Something happened that changed my thinking completely: I come into a position of power, and I was actually inclined to push my personal believes "policy". There was no personal benefits. Maybe not much benefits for the counter-party I was acting for.

I used to think people act completely on self-interest. Well, they do run daily for self-interest but you'll be surprised how much they want to push their "policies"/"believes". And some of them do go really long extra miles and put huge efforts.

Now, Tim Cook might be in for financial reasons. But I'll be surprised if his experiences didn't affect his decision making a LOT.
Exactly. The U.S. is a pretty great place for innovation, liberal democratic values, and we haven't even committed genocide since at least the 1890s. We've had universal suffrage for nearly a century (some exclusions may apply, see states for black-out dates). And we promote civil rights around the world in all of the countries except the ones where we're propping up a dictator.

I guess my point is that America is a great thing with some serious problems. Not unlike some codebases I could mention. I don't know that blind nationalism is good for anything other than making you feel good, but patriotism isn't all bad. America is the best kludge ever.