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"Western civilization" is not a useful concept so is falling out of use
JavaScript Basics: One-way data binding
What are the degrees of freedom in the spec that are resulting in millions of permutations of optional features?
And it went from the largest colonial empire / power in the world to an island voting to get out of the EU in a few decades.

Sure they're still Britain but it changed a lot. (it also apply to France, Germany, Belgium, and probably a lot more)
For those like me looking for a bit of retro nostalgia but with some modern conveniences, I discovered a laptop version of the spectrum being made now with new parts:
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Pretty sure a high percentage of these listeners are using free tier. And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.

Their music collection is one of the worst among all services present in India. Lots of major international records are not available. Regional music collection is not good. Only the mainstream/popular content is available.
Bought the premium subscription on very first day of launch. Tried using it for few days. Found major stuff missing.

Cancelled and got the refund. Kudos to them for prompt service on this.

But very bad in comparison to Apple Music and other Indian services.
Apple Music costs similar for individual account and much cheaper with a family account, has much better International and Indian collection and really good playlists collections, at least in India.
I watched a video on this subject a while ago; it posited that while Netflix will be able to increase their profit margins, because they pay a fixed amount for licenses (and now their own content), whereas Spotify has a pay-per-play structure. Meaning, Netflix's profit margins are flexible, while Spotify's will grow and shrink equally to their subscriber count.

Which is fine of course, as long as it's sustainable AND artists earn a fair amount. Which for Spotify is debatable, in that as an artist you can't make a living off Spotify unless you have millions of streams.
I’m not convinced this is biased. The GP says it’s common (in whatever market they are in) for house buyers to get help with a down payment (up to 20%) from parents, not that it is common for people to be offered that help from their parents. One could suppose that those people who don’t get help are less likely to be homebuyers and so aren’t included in GP’s anecdote.
Its not going to happen in the future either, There is never going to be a desktop motherboard that delivers full spec (100W) USB3 power delivery to say, 6 ports at once, or a laptop even capable of delivering to 1.

The USB spec is too ambitious and its inevitable that some use cases are mutually incompatible.
I picked the name because the parts themselves are indeed what you said but when provided in combination it's a bit of a mean thing to say to say to the other team as you proclaim your easy victory in the context of online games. Sometimes it's also used ironically after the end of a long drawn out game that quite obviously wasn't easy for either side.

However, I was aware of that and decided to instead embrace it as a tongue in cheek kind of thing as I wanted to make a love2d clone and love is all about nice things so I wanted to make a game framework with all of the mean things. Hence why the logo is a salt shaker.

I never thought icefox would grow ggez into what it is otherwise I might have picked a less mean theme but maybe not. :)
I think the poster probably refers to the basic math of the number of subscriptions/size of the market.
I would think the feeling that marketing as a whole, and advertising as part of it was a large social negative was prevalent enough that one would not have to explain it even if not everyone agrees.

I mean it's common enough that Bill Hicks on the subject is pretty much a meme by this point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

I'm not saying I necessarily agree, but if someone says
advertising is a cancer on society or something like that I would not be like - whoa what particular belief system has led him to conclude this?!? - I would think, huh, they have that set of beliefs regarding advertising and marketing.
Show HN: Postgres Temporal Tables and Logical Replication
https://github.com/Bank-Builder/temporal_journey

This journey is an exploration of time range data using history tables in a scenario where micro-services (PostgreSQL database) rely on logical replication to an eventually consistent canonical database.
Importance of Responsive Websites
I wanted to see an architecture diagram :’(
More specifically, there is not continuity that would make it one big civilization. Later civilizations copied things like legal system from the romans and inherited language. a lot of the seeming continuity is due to renaissance copying the "classics"
I do use my computer in my lap; the strain is minimal and has no real effect on durability. That's like a couple of ounces of weight–there's no no way that will permanently damage the cable.
Most cancer researchers aren't working on curing cancer! Rather they're working on fabricating for themselves an impressive history of published papers using p-hacking. RP:CB has been trying to reproduce many landmark cancer studies and found that 1) the majority do not reproduce or only partially reproduce and 2) that the authors of the original papers are generally hostile to attempts to reproduce their work.
Why is Apple so resistant to making repairable products? What is the obsessiveness with making ever thinner products?

I remember starting a job 2014 and choosing a macbook 2012, because of the macbook 2012 being more repairable. It seems to have served me well. Still using it, might consider upgrading to macbook 2015. But won't go beyond that before I hear from others that the current hardware issues have been resolved or the macbook turn more repairable.

Apple has definitely lost some of my trust.

I also wonder why Apple stick with their butterfly keyboard despite it having all of these issues. I would really appreciate any insight into this from you or any other Apple employee.

EDIT: To me having products that are not repairable goes quite counter to the narrative of doing your best for sustainability.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to check your competitors, customers, providers?
Škoda Vision IV
I was gifted a discarded zx81 - cos some of the keys didnt work. a kid in my class rewired it with touch-phone buttons :) fun times ..
I'm literally stuck with

> Unable to communicate with server. Saving is not possible at the moment.

How does anyone actually /like/ atlassian products is beyond me. I honestly cannot think of any other software that makes me as frustrated.
How ? What is the truth that media ignores, and Govt. Looks away for self interest ? I am not a customer of JIO, but glad they forced by current operator to reduce the price to match theirs and improve their quality of service because of fear of loosing customer to Jio. I'm happy that Jio exist.
How I hacked learning new language through hip hop
There was a hyped report where they said they recovered over 2204 lbs of gold from their hardware, this number quoted in every news story:
https://www.geek.com/apple/apples-recycling-program-recovere...

2204 lbs is 1000kg converted to lbs, rounded down. If that's not a marketing number I don't know what is
> Video streaming services like Netflix are a joke in comparison.

Netflix realised quite rapidly that it was a fools errand to try to have everything.

Given the choice between paying top dollar for every blockbuster film (which engage people for two hours at a time), Netflix invested in TV series and producing its own material, which works out cheaper and keeps people watching for much much longer. Netflix's movie catalogue has shrunk since 2010 (mostly due to Epix moving its films over to Hulu), but the TV inventory has tripled.

Netflix also benefits from TV/movies being more fungible, and with a better long tail than music. If Netflix doesn't have a TV show or movie, you'll likely find something else you want to watch. If Spotify doesn't have Taylor Swift, it doesn't have Taylor Swift.
Assholes. I would have just chargebacked the damn thing if they pulled that shit on me.

Edit: this sort of denialism makes me feel dirty owning an iphone.
Taiwanese spy looks back on killing that led to end of Taiwan's martial law
They share their origin in the same political entity, but have clearly different cultures and developed in different directions. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire had a massive impact on Western Europe.

There's also the medieval Holy Roman Empire which was officially a continuation of the Western Roman Empire, and at odds with the Byzantine Empire because they considered themselves the only legitimate Roman Empire, and these are all related but clearly different cultures.

And then there's the vikings which were clearly a different culture, arguably a different civilisation, but infused themselves in every corner of Europe, from England to Russia to Sicily and Byzantium.

Civilisations do not have clear boundaries, both geographically and temporally, and you certainly can't equate them with empires. I think civilisations rarely truly collapse (except under the impact of invasion or colonialism maybe), but they do change, and sometimes dramatically. The collapse of empires is sometimes dramatic, as in the case of the Western Roman Empire, and sometimes barely noticeable, as in the case of the Holy Roman Empire.
I don't mind the "-gates" : issues are bound to arise. The only way to avoid "-gates" is to stop producing and selling anything at all.
Modifying a manufacturing process to correct a flaw is not always easy and can take some time, so I understand the "We'll fix it in a later iteration" stance.

I think the real issue here is the failure of Apple to acknowledge the technical flaw. That, and the the poor customer service. If it's a design issue, it should be covered in the warranty : it would be costly on a short term perspective, but in this specific case I think it would be worth it, as it would keep customers happy with the brand.
So could we see the return of square windows to aircraft? This would allow that right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
May be you forgot the context I mentioned it in. We have to look for alternatives when there is no definitive one present for the time being.

He's been curing patients for past 20 years with diet changes alone. So, I am impressed with his results and shared his idea. Doing a study on it and not using it until you study is your problem. In other words, I sense your worry of how your medicine will react since it's posion (full of unnatural chemicals) compared to a natural food item in it's unaltered form which is being used in daily food consumption in many cultures. Are you suggesting people taking medicine to stop eating food on a daily basis? I never suggested to stop any medication.

I am more than willing to contact him, will you be able to fund the study?
Why the hell does that music player need to know my location every goddamn time I open it is beyond me.
When I saw the article title that's what I expected it to be about.

Then I saw your comment and thought "oh, it's going to be about the subtleties of different temperaments and how you get to choose which intervals are how far off from sounding right".

Turns out it's actually telling you that there are 12 semitones per octave, all representing the same ratio of frequencies. Ah well.
Yeah, no, it's pretty badly wrong.

Sometimes you will see a journalist say something that's just _technically_ wrong, in an "Um... actually" kind of way. Like saying there are 4 billion "Internet addresses". Yeah it's actually 2^32 and those are IPv4 addresses, and anyway some are in reserved classes we can never use and... We shouldn't care about these cases, it's fun to make a big deal as a _nerd_ but it's not a real problem.

But here they are misleading people as to the general purpose of a CA.

The CA doesn't in fact promise "traffic will not be intercepted" and how could they. The CA promises that their subscriber proved to them that they know a private key to which the corresponding public key is in the certificate, and that they control the things (usually FQDNs) named in the certificate.

Insurance, as another poster points out, is basically worthless. In fact it's worthless in multiple independent ways, it's deliberately engineered to _be_ worthless. For consumer insurance that would be illegal in many countries (taking people's money to "insure" against a risk that won't happen is prohibited in those countries), but they don't sell it to consumers, they sell it to the Certificate Authority and non-individuals are more free to make bad decisions since nobody important will get hurt.
I like Gaana more, It seems to me, it has bigger collection than Saavn. Their business model ( pay for download, free to listen online ) failed completely because of Jio, still they are surviving somehow. Please also buy Gaana, while you guys are at it.
On that note, allow me to announce the pre-open of the closed beta for my new bot software, with latency improvements never seen before, direct access to the suppliers' datacenters and a proven 20% increase in the chance to make a successful purchase!

I'll be offering access keys for $2000 per key, on the coming Thursday, 13:00 UTC.

Unfortunately, the supply will be limited to 5 access keys in total, allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. I cannot say when (or even if) there will ever be more access keys available.

Good luck, guys!

(Disclaimer: This post is satire and does not constitute an actual announcement.)
Since the frequency doubles every 12 half steps, that means that the frequency of any note is the twelfth root of two times the frequency of the one before it. That's really all you need to know.

(of course this doesn't account for octave stretching that is typically done on acoustic pianos)
"It never became the mother tongue for any of those people."

Italy, France, Spain, Romania, Portugal all speak a variation of 'Latin'.
Does tap-to-click really get in the way if you turn it on but don't want to use it? Are you 'tapping' as your finger comes down onto the trackpad to move? That action should be detected and ignored, IMO. I'm only saying this as a tap-to-click user. I can't stand using someone's keyboard if they've turned it off — there I am, tapping away, looking like an idiot ...
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>My friends held their friends in their arms without medical care as they died because a government and medical association did nothing.

Was there any help to be gained from private medical institutions? Or was that also impossible because the government has to allow for treatments?
The Troika Laundromat
I myself love monolithic. But the CI is a mess.

I'm using Jenkins. So right now I don't have a way to force build specific directory :(. It build entire thing :(. Anyone knows how to solve these problem? I have a Rails app, Go services, iOS, Android all in same repo..

It's interesting that we're moving into a microservice architecture but we try to consolidate the code base into one.
Ross Darcy (Sales Director) of Ripple Will Take a Stage at Dublin Tech Summit
Question. Is there any researh that show negative health effects on humans with micro plastics in their stool?
I don't understand a couple of things from this answer.

> 127.0.0.1 and localhost are local addresses to the server, not the end user system.

If localhost is relative to the server, then a browser running on an end user device cannot access it due to unroutable IP in the first place, obviating the problem, which is not the case, seeing that the bug is open in Firefox.

> Private addresses cannot be accessed over the public internet.

That makes sense, the 127.0.0.0/8 space is routed only to localhost.

> a SSL terminating reverse proxy

If the proxy endpoint is on the localhost, it looks the same to the browser as any other local service before a connection attempt. If the proxy cannot certify that it matches the website (using a SSL cert?), then it's indistinguishable from any actual local service, and therefore should not be accessible by default.

EDIT: I genuinely do not understand what those sentences mean in the context of that discussion - they seem to be using terms not in a way I've always seen them used.
> Why is Apple so resistant to making repairable products? What is the obsessiveness with making ever thinner products?

I think the two are not connected. I think that they don't really care that much about repairable products, despite what they say, even internally, because as Upton Sinclair said:

> “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Regarding the thinness angle, I used to think the same way. But their focus on thin (and also small) does drive the industry forward.

Random example from the present day: smartphones are becoming thinner and thinner. As a result, now we can almost have a pocketable flexible device. Besides the AMOLED tech needing to be invented, the device would be no use if each half of the flexible display would be 20mm thick. You couldn't realistically carry around a 4cm thick device (proof: we don't really carry books in our pockets). Well you could, if you were an NBA player wearing cargo pants. But everyone else couldn't, realistically.

Making devices smaller makes them more portable and users don't really care about marginal computing power gains as they do about marginal portability increases. VR/AR tech needs more computing power and better software but it also desperately needs a portability boost.
I didn't have time to read the article.
I'm kind of fascinated by the source code of this developer i found a couple years ago when exploring ECS: https://github.com/DaanVanYperen

Lots of interesting game-jam entries cranked out quickly using "pure" ECS : many small components, many small systems. Playable versions of some are here - http://www.mostlyoriginal.net/
Same thing in my case. I had a few mishaps - one guy didn't terminate the trip once I got off, so I got overcharged, another failed to pick me up to begin with (!), but started a trip anyway, etc. In every case the issue was financially resolved in terms of hours.
Why then has iOS tracked our frequently visited locations by default for years?

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-see-your-iphone-locat...
Glad to see this, I think all US based internet companies, ( not only the giant ones but small ones too ) should grab the Indian market which, because if Jio, growing at many folds. Couple of years back, It was not possible to watch movie online, and now, each individual in my family has 3 GB / Day data plan, so much to the point where we hardly turn on the tv. same can also be possible to infrastructure and industrial / corporate products. I can see in couple of years all major Enterprise software running in cloud for majority of Indian industry.
FB/Google rose on merit, becoming bigger with equity dilution. Now there's a community aware about the ills that come with monopolies, (i.e. power to lobby, throw weight around on users and the government) and so choose to dislike the company (or in extreme cases boycott their products).

Coming to Jio, their parent company Reliance is the biggest business group of India (the promoter is the 5th richest person in the world). The group is infamous for being corrupt in the business community and the number of questionable instances cannot even be counted. My company has done business with Reliance in the past and has never received payments for the same.

India being a lot more corrupt as a nation gives this company powers that would be unfathomable in developed nations. Just for a few small instances: this company has on many occasions changed regulation just to benefit their business model (or disruption) by sheer political clout. Even in case of Jio, the telecom interconnect charges in India were made 0, and will be changed again when Jio is in a position to benefit from them. And this is just 1 rule change. Vodafone's CEO has openly appealed that India's telecom authorities appear to be working for the interest of Jio only.

This topic is just too big to summarise, it needs a multiple volume book. You're not gonna believe this, but a few authors who have tried to write on the way this group has come up have been banned in India, this probably gives you an idea about how dangerous this group could be. Reliance's books are not believable, debts are irrational, business practices are unethical, etc, etc and the list will go on.
It's a collector's market, so the answer is, err, yes.

Some buy them to wear; some buy them to put them on a shelf; some buy them to seal them and resell them down the line.
>I'm good at JavaScript, not biochemistry. How will I be curing cancer? Trick the cancer cells into calling undefined as a function?

No, that's how we get cancer in the first place. You need to trick it into calling a defined termination function.
In my experience Apple Music is really good. I have found almost all songs I have searched for. Everything including very old regional songs to international indie artists and Japanese anime openings.
PS. Suits soundtrack was one of the very first things I searched for and found many playlists with most tracks on it. And tunefind actually provides direct links to Apple Music so that you can immediately add it to your library.
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> Where do you go that doesn't have Lyft, but has Uber?

Everywhere other than the US and Canada?