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Ask HN: What do you think will happen to Ticketmaster in the next decade?
I'm looking for educated guesses, perhaps proposals for new alternatives to the current process of purchasing (concert/sports) tickets from the online selling giant known as Ticket Master.

Is this a problem perhaps a start-up can tackle? Is it as easy as creating a new system with say 'virtual tickets'? Ones that don't need to be printed, rather an app on your phone that gets scanned at the venue? Obviously there's a ton of unanswered questions but I'm looking for input from the HN community as a whole, I know I'm not the only person annoyed with Ticket Master's practices.

I'm not looking for immediate solutions because I know it will take a while to really combat the issue, where do you see Ticket Master in 10 years? (2027) How will the entire live-event/ticket purchasing process look in a few years time? Will we still be losing out on ticket sales to robots buying in bulk like today?

I really appreciate any input!
Nitpick, the pluralization phoneme in English is /z/, not /s/. To see this, note that we can have an [s] sound following a voiced sound at the end of a word, (eg. floss vs flaws), but never have a [z] sound following an unvoiced sound at the end of a word.

More relevantly, the difference between phonemic and phonetic representations can normally be derived from the phonetic context. For example, in the -s example mentioned above, English has a general rule that a /z/ sound following an unvoiced sound at the end of a word becomes [s]. Further, these rules come naturally to (native) speakers, so it is likely that we would not need to teach them much when we teach reading.

>meet and meat.

While this is a nice property, it seems like we only have it for some homophones by chance, not anything productive. Further, there is no productive way of knowing which writing is which meaning.

> The 'th' digraph (retained in all spelling reforms I've been aware of) actually represents two distinct phonemes.

This is a valid critism of existing attempts, but is probably a reflection of their pragmatic nature. If the ambiguity doesn't end up being a problem, then it is not worth introducing a new digraph to fix it. Most of the fixes in spelling reforms have been focused on removing oddities from the spelling system, instead of adding them to better accommodate the spoken system. Incidently, if we were to fix this, I would recomand adding the "dh" digraph for ð (as d is the voiced counterpart of t).

> dʒ sound is not attested in English

Judge

>the places where it does come up (e.g., vision)

How do you pronounce "vision". I only recal hearing it with the "ʒ" fricative, the "dʒ" affricative sounds weird.

The bigger problem with spelling reform is is simple momentum. Adults already know the current spelling at a fairly deep level, so retraining them would be a massive effort for a payoff that they themselves would likely never see.

Additionally, spelling reform would not be a one-time thing. As the language continues to drift, we will likely need a new set of reforms every few generations.
What regulation? Insider trading requires actual insiders; non-insiders are generally allowed to trade on non-public information.
I don't think the ends of splitting from Britain in any way justified the decision of allowing slavery to occur.
It's possible to profit from increased volatility without knowing the direction of the move.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/040515/h...
I had the opposite experience, I had to disable all hardware offload to get it to work correctly on XenServer.
> When analysts start to throw in the towel on a company, that is not a good sign.

I've been led to believe that is the exact opposite of the truth. Isn't the consensus most bullish at the top and most bearish at the bottom? Its almost self evident that a stock is most hated when it is low and most liked when it is high. That's not to say that it can't go lower and so from a short term trading perspective it might not be good, but at some point the sellers will be exhausted and shorts will have to be covered and the trend will reverse. Unless Twitter they are so broke that they are going out of business, at some point it will become a good buy.
The example that is cited in my family is the Seaboard Air Line company, whose stock experienced a short surge in popularity in the late 1920s after Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. The only problem was that the company was a railroad, first founded in the early 1800s. The "air line" part of its name was a reference to direct route from point A to point B, 'as the crow flies'.
Fantasy Feuds, a multiplayer rts/capture the flag type web app with a custom game engine. Someday I'll add projectiles and a user database.

http://fantasyfeuds.com/

https://github.com/wmaillard/FantasyFeuds
That's a really interesting problem that I haven't thought as much about as I should. Do you know of any articles that cover the strangling of small businesses in more detail?
Show HN: Big Data with Purpose: How We Calculated the Fines of 1.55M Laws
The gamification of the games platform. People will buy games just for the trading cards. The more trading cards you have, the better your odds of completing a set and turning it in for XP and leveling up your Steam account, unlocking new profile and friends list features.
I write multi threaded code, but many of the tools I use are not multi threaded.
I just want to put this out there: There are many fields outside of computer science and engineering where the average salary is not very high, and yet those fields have a desperate need of talent, not just because there is some niche thing only someone from outside can do, but also because the number of people going into the field are dangerously low.
Open source or didn't happen.
A spoof is about orders, not trades. Those are two very different things.
I second that, and hope that you might find a way to build pfSense on the most recent pf. (I know, if I want that, shut up and hack.)
Don't you look for the best doctor when choosing healthcare? Often, the best doctors cost more money since they have limited time.

Spending more on housing is difficult because the location component of a house usually effects the price as much or more as the quality/size of the house itself.
Ford bets $1B on self-driving car startup
Microsoft did "fine" for a very long time too under Ballmer.
Invoicing hacks to make more money as a designer
connecting Borsuk-Ulam topology theorem to discrete math [3Blue1Brown]
They have, but specs are a more authoritative standard than a reference implementation.
OK well I never heard of "Spirit Cooking" until now, and now that I've googled it I'm not sure why anyone would care that John Podesta does it. It's certainly not why I voted Green. If you polled voters in my 80% Trump county, I doubt you'd find a single person who had heard of this thing.

Innuendo isn't some magic spell that requires eye of newt and leak of email. There was lots of innuendo about other candidates too. I especially loved how they piled on poor Johnson for forgetting the name of some benighted hellhole he had no plans to invade, ever. If the Russians' plan was a Xanatos Gambit of let's phish Podesta, then we'll publish his dinner invitations, ...., then Hillary will lose? And that worked? In that case they're smart enough to own us no matter what we do.
Ask HN: Are there any markets for independent VR development?
Things like an App Store for VR, or a particular platform's portal to software sales for the VR market.
And start American companies.
Dota 2 is in the last decade. I think that counts!
Thank you (I'm in the wallabag core team).

About "the Pocket extension injects code into certain sites", can you give me more details please?
Why You Should Throw Out Your Scale
Hey dangoldin,

Don't hesitate to ping us on gitter.im/wallabag/wallabag if you still have any problems.
The price trends of food and healthcare couldn't be more different. There's clearly something more than agricultural subsidies at work explaining the difference, given healthcare receives many fold more subsidies. In fact, it's possible that receiving compatively little in sibsidies is one reason that food prices have declined. An even more likely explanation for the price decline of food is that consumers are incentivizes to bargain hunt when buying food, since doing so reduces what they pay, and thus a real consumer-driven market, that rewards efficiency, exists in food. In healthcare, with private/government insurance, there is no incentive for consumers to bargain hunt.

Another factor that likely contributes to the divergence in prices is that healthcare is heavily regulated while food production is not anywhere near as constrained by government mandates.
Also in CA, LAUSD I believe runs their schools year round. And that district alone has larger attendance and budgets than many entire states. But being both urban and higher cost, high attendance, and year-round has a weight that shifts the calculations for CA such that I suspect you can't do a back of the envelope calc and get an easy comparison.
Then I don't think original comment was productive: you think the cost increase can be explained by quality improvements; Alexander expressed skepticism on that point, by suggesting how the products offered cannot be explained through a reasonable model of consumer preferences. As much as people value bigger homes, do they value them so much as to pay 10x more for 2x the size even when technology should be improving that?

As much as people value better health care, are they actually making a conscious, understandable tradeoff between money and actually-better health care on the metrics they really want?

You then mocked that as "fundamentally wrong", "stylized facts" without quoting the specific part where he reduced it to a thought experiment (take 70s health care + $8000) or addressing the logic there.
I think this is kind of a thumbtack solution to a more systemic issue. Self-deception, in my opinion, never works: you have to force yourself to be slightly dumber than you are.

The other reason why it doesn't work in the long-term is that you will always be working on things that are adjacent to what's truly important.

Clairvoyance is a better solution. Ever get stuck in a circular argument? After a while, you realize its going nowhere and you walk away. Procrastination, at least in my mind, is almost the same thing. If I let myself observe the mundane things I do, I'll eventually get sick of myself and stop doing it.

Success in dealing with procrastination really a question how viscerally you feel a dead-end coming, and also making the necessary adjustments to remove triggers if its difficult to stop yourself in the act.
When transistors stop shrinking- whether that's at 10, 5 or 7nm- the limit is going to be economic, not physical. Intel probably could make a chip with 1nm transistors; the question is whether it would ever deliver a positive ROI, since

- the R&D and the fabs would probably cost a zillion dollars, in a shrinking market for high-performance CPUs

- yields would probably be very low, even as the process matured - this problem is becoming more and more pronounced with the latest generations

- the advantages over the current chips would not be great; note svantana's comment about diminishing returns with the most recent process shrink
Amazing - thank you.
> I'm using Instapaper exclusively due to their "download to .mobi" functionality

Like wallabag does.
And you can also export into pdf, csv, txt, epub, json, xml.
Scientists create first 3-D synchronized-beating heart tissue
Stop fearing haskell
Was partly a victim of external circumstances as well. It got federal approval in 1985, and might have eventually had an evacuation plan approved (over opposition) if Chernobyl hadn't happened in 1986, at which point nobody was willing to take on the political cost of pushing it through.
this is what's shocking to me - I will confess, I partly started this thread to investigate whether there was an opportunity to start a company around making web front-end development suck less. The fact that we hand-write the most fine-grained basic stuff in 2017 is odd for such a technical industry. Shoot me an email (my address is in my profile) if you'd like to check it out when it's ready!
Best bet would be to get someone who doesn't know what they're doing, will overpay, and bungle the post acquisition.

What's Yahoo's M&A department's phone number?
Valve's corporate philosophy seems to go completely against any sort of regulation. This is reflected in their management/leadership structure (or famous lack there-of).

It seems pretty clear to me that their plans are to rely on the market to moderate this stuff.
> having the pressure of a car behind you - perhaps honking because it wants you to go

Don't let assholes stress you. The honk shouldn't be used for that, plus you can take as much time as you need to make sure you're driving safely.
I see your point. But in that case, why not just pay somewhat more, but not SF-level, salaries to the top talent in remote locations? Its a win-win for both - the employer and the talented folks.

Anecdotally, I heard this is what Google and Uber did in Pittsburgh.
I've always found it odd that some people don't consider tough decisions like those admirable. To me, the point is George Washington was able to make tough decisions---which unarguably harmed many people---in order that the nation succeed in the future.

I think reasoning along the lines of "this decision negatively affects X group in an immediately unjust way, therefore it shouldn't be done" is naïve and conceited. People who use this type of reasoning are either knowingly playing the "I'm more moral than you" card and incidentally causing a net worse situation in the future, or they are just naïve and don't understand that local immorality can lead to net positives in the future.
I respectfully disagree. Buffer needs to fully commit to a single path forward. The cofounders disagreed on which path to take. Rather than going with a compromise that would certainly fail, one of them left so that the company might succeed.

You might, perhaps, say "a case of differing visions - neither known to be better than the other", because at this point they really don't know which approach will work best. But I don't see anything insincere in this post. They need to fully commit to a single vision. The former cofounder did the right thing by leaving and making space for someone else who does share the vision to step in.
Sure, but they can also reduce your salary at any time. So it's a bit unfair to consider salary any "more real" than vesting RSUs.

I just mean your claim "stocks and bonus are nice, but you dare not count on them until after you get them" is false because you can't "count on" salary coming either.
So you are telling me that the taste of wine does not change over time as it is exposed to oxygen? Hum, I guess I should call all my chemistry professors and tell them what shame all that chemistry is.

You can find studies that say anything. I would agree that a large number of people including experts can get it wrong, on the other hand a spectrum anazlizer will prove that the make up of a wine changes as it is exposed to air and those changes is something your taste and nose can dectect.

Also I have sat a completley blind tastings and watch as some where able to ID the grape (or mix) and the region it was from.

I suggest you try it for yourself. Go buy Pinot Noir from let's say Burgundy France, CA Santa Cruz and Washington State. 2 different bottles from each area. Then take one set and taste taking care to note how they are different. Then have someone open the 2nd set from the same region and pour a taste of each. You should easily be able to pick which wine was from which region based on what you learned from the first tasting. This is no different then anything else that picks up the characteristics of the input. Grass fed beef vs corn fed for example.

I promise you if you open a 62 1st growth and let us sit for an hour and then open the same bottle and pour a glass from each I will be able to tell you which is which. Heck the color of the wine even changes a bit as it is oxidized.
Similar question to the other person: I applied via your portal a while ago. Want to talk?
Well then, I guess I am not a True Scotsman.

I am not passionate about programming, yet I program computers. I use the tools that programming algorithms provide in order to do the things that I want to do.

Sometimes that is for work. I model some bio-thingy in Matlab, or I use Arduino soft/hardware to generate said data, I do stats automatically, I manage the website and do fun stuff with it, etc.

Sometimes I program 'for fun'. I use Markov and RNN analysis for side projects, I do non-textual analysis on stuff I want to look at, I manage my home via smart-home hardware, I play video-games or sports games and then use various python programs to analyze stuff I want to look at.

I am not passionate about the act of programming anymore than the act of soldering or using a socket wrench. Programming is a method, a tool, that I use for my passions.

So what does this make me?
Or `display: table` and `display: table-cell` so you can use a `<div>` instead of the dreaded `<table>` tag.
At $39 + 6n per month, the price is min 45/mo. Cheaper than Wells Fargo's 65/mo, but not free/close to free like I thought may be available with a starter plan somewhere for 1-2 people on.

Can I ask how long you've been using them for and if your experience has been great?
here's a non-flexbox solution, but the parent element has to have a set height:

.parent {
position: relative;
}

.child {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
Do you realize, that guis, and gui designers have been around since before the internet? Do you realize that smart programmers working on their own dime don't use gui designers, not out of desire for job security, but for real technical reasons? Do you think that Richard Stallman and the GNU freaks don't use GUI designers out of desire for job security? That's an insane notion, given that many free software developers don't have traditional jobs by choice.
Well, you could have trusted third-party arbiters who would evaluate whether or not to release the funds on delivery of the good or service. But that brings on a whole new level of reputation-economy things you have to think about.
Becoming a Kubernetes Maintainer
Most programmers are not very good at visual thinking IME. I have a bet with myself that by 2025 natural language processing will be good enough (combined with other UI tools) for designers to explain what they want directly to the computer and a great many programmers are going to be sitting around wondering what the hell happened.
Speaking about collaboration, most Linux epoch tools don't have a real collaboration and only synchronize files. Current web apps are much more oriented to conflict-free synchronization. Markdown Tree also is.

Now if you can format branches in Markdown, drag & drop images and other files, keep documentation, study notes, code examples and simultaneously write information with a few more colleagues - that's quite useful I think.

Next version of Markdown Tree should support various embeds like: Youtube, codepen.io, Google maps, etc. That would allow to have a nice workspace for various kinds of tasks. And only web apps are capable of it too.
> It's a simple case of letting the market decide who's got rare and valuable skills.

With company-tied commitments, high transaction costs, lotteries, field of expertise limitations? Markets gone wild!

> If you don't command an unusually high salary, your skills aren't that rare or aren't so essential to the company.

This is a union-style wage argument. If the company would like to hire you below what the union makes, the company should not be able to and you would not qualify to work in this field.
Most products I've seen are "good enough" and have trade-offs with their competition. Infrequently have I seen a product that's head and shoulders above.

So companies get the checkboxes in features, then when I'm deciding between the finalists, stuff like this is a tie-break.

In other words, company culture is a differentiator, especially in a commodity product market.
> It's maybe possible that you could glitch the save data in a way that the game would crash or misbehave just from trying to read it, though

Exactly. Most console games tend to treat saved game data as non-hostile, because they assume that only their own code will write it; buggy loaders that crash on corrupted data are not uncommon. (This has changed with more recent consoles, after multiple cases of saved game exploits used for jailbreaking; see, for instance, http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Category:Homebrew_exploits .) Memory-corruption bugs in games can overwrite saved games in ways that lead to such issues.
I never have problems opening office documents except when they contain complex macros it either hangs opening or the formats a bit of a mess.

If they are producing their documents in Open office I am very surprised they are having compatibility issues a large city like this would generally dictate the formats/terms to its suppliers and contractors.
The majority of cars in the UK are manual (ie not automatic) gears. Consequently that forewarning gives the driver something to do as it does take a second or two to get into gear.
SafeStack first, but that's where we're headed. There is still a lot of clean-up.
If the arbitrator hits the "approve payout" (or "deny payout") API endpoint (or however this works), the e-currency gets cyber-delivered (or not) into my VR-wallet or whatever. I mentioned in another comment the headache that reputation systems required would bring.
Who is personally accountable to repay government debt? Taxpayers. The politicians that assume debt are not accountable to repay it. that is all I meant by that comment.

The federal government has a hand in underwriting mortgage financing (they own Fannie and Freddie, and they keep the profits from those entities).

The Student Loans are personal loans, underwritten by the federal government.

I am not saying the federal government should never do these things, or that these programs are the root of all evil. However, the federal government has been generous with these programs. I think the incentives of providing easy money through debt to the economy are easy in the short term, and that this cost-disease is one of the long-term results.

If debt is akin to borrowing from the future, then maybe we borrow from the future at the future's level of inflation.
I tend to disagree with this line of thinking. You want minds that think outside the norm and not just blindly follow ideals. You want minds that, for e.g Sergey Brin of Google, who aren't only thinking America First but are instead thinking of how to move humanity as a whole forward. You want those minds residing here in the United States.
Fix What Is Broken: Bringing Technocracy to America
49.2% of NYTimes site traffic is from China, a country which blocks the NYTimes
Ask HN: How should Twitter win back Wall Street
Pruning branches is an important part of growing a decision tree. Don't cut down the tree if some branches went in the wrong direction.
Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On
A complaint against boomers is that they pulled up the ladder for upward mobility. That they benefited from cheap education, a booming economy, relatively cheap houses and stock market and fully funded social security and medicare. Whereas millennials have to face expensive education, stagnant economy and uncertain prospects for social security / medicare.

If that's the case, we should welcome parent->children transfer of wealth to balance out the situation of two generations, no? Some people might prefer government to do this, but that is just a different mechanism (with lots of political opposition) to achieve the same end goal - wealth transfer from boomers to millennials.