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If you frequently have difficulty in accepting that you might be "good" at things and frequently find ways to explain away your accomplishments, or reasons that someone who compliments you might be mistaken, you should look into this subtle type of depression:
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Does it not have a "park" setting? How does "park" work in a car with an automatic transmission anyway?
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It doesn't fit your description, but the Etymotic hf2 has stood up to normal use just fine for me. Maybe I'm more careful with it than you want to be, I don't know.
Realistically.....yes. There are so many new tech blogs popping up everyday, one of them is going to nail content and insight; but at this point TechCrunch is a sinking ship. Even Mashable has been extremely flakey with content lately. It's all "oh check out this meme" or "top ten comments this week"; there's no real value or insight. It seems like Mashable keeps hiring these flakey interns who have no idea how to write insightful content. TechCrunch on the other hand has been trying out multiple writers every weekend with guest posts. Some of them are really well written, others are not so hot.
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> So, just for Google alone that change could save on the order of 100GB of traffic per day

So say $150 dollars/mo? Or 0.00002% of their profit/year. Come on.

> I don't think the paper provides statistics on how much a prefix dictionary saves over not having one at all.

The paper compares plain, deflate, and deflate + prefix dictionary. Prefix is only a benefit on the first request and response, adding up to 121 on average in their test.
The article is saying that for a child raised (mostly) on commercial-free media (Netflix), advertisements are so intrusive and annoying that the child rejects watching TV outright because of the commercials.

I wonder if this is the kind of stuff that keeps advertising executives up at night. What would happen if everyone under the age of 20 thought like this (assuming that ad-free media sources still exist)?
They did, and I did. I also talked to one of their support people, they said I could record the station/channel as netflix/apple tv. Who knows how that will be processed though...
REST is just a layer of indirection over a regular RPC backend anyway. It may be easier to reason about things like caching and side-effects on the HTTP level. Of course HATEOS is mostly useless, unless you can stay within the general purpose protocols, like AtomPub and extensions.

> RPC's over WebSockets is what will replace REST/Ajax.

If SPDY takes off, there’s hardly any advantage to WS besides push events. Stateless protocols are easier to scale.
The graph in this article shows revenues continuing to go up over the next 3 years... Just at a slower rate. That doesn't sound like "things don't look good" but more like "things don't look as amazing as they did, but still look pretty good." Of course, I have no idea about the validity of the underlying data in that graph... But still, it totally doesn't match up with the analysis of the numbers presented in the text.

Not that I'm a facebook investor or anything... On the contrary... :)
Great, now every HN commenter is going to try to put a trap in all of their comments. I wonder where the line between traps and trolling lies.
Doesn't it have a handbrake?
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>What's the disadvantage in giving something like Bitlocker and UNIX to regular professional users?

The cost. These features cost money to develop and they cost money to support. Imagine if Microsoft was getting calls from everyone who enabled BitLocker and then forgot their password. Enterprise costs a lot more than Home Premium.

>MS's stock hasn't moved in the past decade.

That's a sign of a mature company. They rake in a lot of money. They're no longer "cool" but they're a steady source of a lot of income. And unlike Apple, they actually pay dividends on their stock. [1]

>(and they're not anymore)

I'd like to see some numbers on this, because every number I've seen shows Microsoft in the mid 90% range for computer install base.

>If MS could stream easily, people woudn't be buying Roku boxes, Boxee boxes, PS3's.

And where are people streaming from? Their PC, among other places. Because Vista and 7 have it built in, and XP has the feature as a download.

>Why not just give Access away!

You would make a great businessman.

>If MS had simply given away SQL server licenses, Apache would have never taken off.

Because if there's one thing Apache servers are known for, it's SQL (wtf is this?)

>Why am I shown different deals if i'm a home user, a small business user, a medium size business user, or a larger business user?

Because home users buy one computer. Businesses buy dozens or hundreds.

>Why are my computing needs different if I'm a small business user vs. a medium size business user?

Business machines need to be stable, supported, and perform well for the task they do. Home computers tend to be less stable, less supported, easier to break, but above all closer to bleeding edge and cheaper.

>Why is it such a struggle for me to order a machine with an SSD and 16GB RAM?

Because you can't figure out how to read? Your mouse is broken? Monitor is unplugged? I don't know, you tell me.

Listen, complain all you want, but it makes sense from a business standpoint. If you can't wrap your head what Microsoft is doing, just take a step back and realize that there are really only two options for Windows 7: Home and Professional. That's all you need to know.

And I don't want to hear you say "why do they even make semi trucks?! Now I can't figure out if I need an 18-wheeler or a scooter!"

[1]https://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/StockSplit/default....
Their advertising is less broken.

I'd still rather pay for GMail instead of seeing ads.
Could not agree more. No-frills styling (i.e. kinda fug but durable plastic), extremely comfortable for long periods of time, over-ear doesn't leak a lot of sound into your surroundings, nice low-end punch, and otherwise flat enough for basic multitrack mixing work.
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> It's advertising.

Agreed. It's simply a bad business model; you're the product, not the customer, etc. It also has a hugely distorted effect on content production, incentivizing shows to shoot for safe returns and broad appeal instead of monetizing hardcore fans of innovative niche programming. Put simply, I want businesses to care whether they have my money, not my eyeballs.

I cut most forms of advertising out of my life 7-8 years ago: no radio, no broadcast TV, and FlashBlock+AdBlock. Once you do so, it's hard to go back. (Although YouTube's trend towards more and more video ads is getting frustrating; I wish I could throw $20/month at YouTube Pro or something to make it go away.)
Well isn't it almost the only windows phone out there that doesn't feel experimental and a quick hack job?

I have a lumia and like it a lot better than android, but the screen feels incredibly lo-rez compared to my iphone 4 so surfing the web is a little bit painful. Also the browser is a little bit buggy. But over all a really good effort.
Free Fall? I have not seen any numbers to support that statement, they may not be growing as quickly which is understandable as they get closer to the cap of total internet users however their numbers are not negative (yet).
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I'll spend any free ad budget on FB before any other network, simply because I _know_ I'll profit from it - the risk is far lower and the margin far higher.

After reading that, I went to your HN profile, where you write, "Entrepreneur and rabble-rouser with an eye for monetization and innovative business concepts. Tempered by the reality of being an affiliate marketer for 3+ years. Forged in the fire of having to compete tooth and nail to succeed in that industry. Prone to writing silly and/or odd descriptions of himself. Named his company after his cat."

I still don't know what industry you are in, but I suppose different businesses in different industries get different results from Facebook ads. I don't know either how Facebook compares to the great majority of places to sell advertisements online, but isn't it possible that your experience is exceptional, and that there aren't enough businesses like yours to sustain a business with the expenses Facebook has?
There is no line, trapping is trolling. The result as far as HN is concerned is the same: High noise-to-signal ratio in the discussions.
> The paper compares plain, deflate, and deflate + prefix dictionary. Prefix is only a benefit on the first request and response, adding up to 121 on average in their test.

As far as I can tell, it seems to compare plain, deflate with SPDY's current prefix dictionary, and deflate with the paper's proposed prefix dictionary.
Isn't this really about the dichotomy between owner/manager and worker?

Many systems we built are specified by the managers of the workers. And of course they want lots metrics and fail safes and all kinds of extras the result in a really crufty system.

So the workers try all they can to "route around the damage" of such a system. And the workers aren't happy, but the management is, because for the first time, they can really see what is going on in the business.

This isn't a software issue, this is a fundamental split between management's and worker's interest.

If you think you are going to solve that with some fancy UI design and the latest touch screen hardware, well...I wish you luck.
Well there is a reason Apple is great at Apple stuff and Microsoft is great at Microsoft stuff. I wouldn't have it any other way.

The true problem is that the media/forums pick up on MS news and run the controversy without actually thinking. It gets page views and upvotes, why stop? MS bashing is the tabloid news of the tech world. Doesn't make a lot of sense most of the time, but damn is it a hot seller.
Correct. The problem isn't the difficulty, it's the education.

In my own project (SproutCore), we've used Ruby-based buildtools since 2007, and there is unanimous support to move to Node, precisely because running a modern Ruby stack requires so much education.

We want to spend time in our IRC channel on SproutCore itself, not Ruby and it's myriad problems (all of which have "fixes" that "aren't so hard").

We're also moving to Node because the performance of the Ruby tools sucks, despite three rewrites (one by a member of the Rails core team, so not Ruby n00bs).

The Node tooling? It's so fast that we can literally rebuild the entire project from scratch every time we reload the app and still load everything into the browser in under a second. Oh, and it took about a day to write. :/

That, to me, is why Node is taking off. The "I can get shit done quickly" factor is very high, the resulting code runs very fast, and the community is large, energetic, and helpful. Plus, pretty much everyone has to use JavaScript today.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Though as one of those "data guys" I have actually received my own fair share of the reverse criticism. How could I, as a data monkey, be able to write anything close to clean, sensible code?
I'll add myself as a data point:

When at the Picplum office: Sennheiser HD-650's ( http://paulstamatiou.com/sennheiser-hd-650-headphones ) hooked up to a FiiO E10 USB DAC. My cofounder has HD-555's hooked up to a (much more expensive) Peachtree Audio Nova amp. These HD's are open air so you can definitely hear what we're both listening to. We might have to switch to closed once we start growing the team so we dont annoy others.

As for when I'm on the go, I have Etymotic hf3 earbuds with comply P-series foam tips. These sit very deep in the ear for maximum isolation though they can be uncomfortable to those not used to this style of earbud. You must also change the foam out every 3 months for a good fit.
> Folks are already paying the amount that commercial-free TV would cost

Not even close. Take the entire amount of advertising $$ spent on TV ($100B+) and divide by the folks watching. That is the money that people would have to shell out one way or another.
...and then buy the cheapest pair of Sony earbuds that come with one of those spinny cases:

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-MDR-E828LP-Fontopia-Earbuds-Windi...
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The title "TV" refers to a physical medium. If it meant "the commercial-supported major networks", then perhaps it should have said that.

Nonetheless, it is understood that children notice change. If you give your child maple syrup when they're accustomed to Aunt Jemima, they will ask you what it is. They will probably ask for their Aunt Jemima back. Children are not savants supplying higher information (and I say that as a very proud parent of four of them): They are creatures of routine and habit. A day later they would happily enjoy maple syrup, rejecting their old standby.

There just isn't anything profound or particularly insightful about that observation. It doesn't merit the "TV is broken" bit.
You don't need web sockets to do this. Check out ext.direct. It does exactly this over xhr. I do something similar, with json-rpc as intermediate.

The problem with REST is that people try to wrap rpc-style api's in a restful container, and it just doesn't do that well enough.
I've listened to Grados, various Sennheiser, etc.. and they're all fine. Good even. But there's just one thing I don't get about the "headphone scene".

I've done various things as a musician over the last 15 years, and the cans you see EVERYWHERE are the Sony MDR-7506. Period.

If it is good enough to mix and master, if it is good enough to monitor professional vocalists in the studio, it is good enough for you! These cans represent the music as it was intended to be heard. (And, subjectively, they sound fantastic.)

There seem to sometime be arguments about "reference" vs. enjoyment, and things being "too neutral" in studio cans, but I dunno. The cynical side of it seems (to me) to be a sort of hobby-justification for spending more than $99 on a pair of headphones.

Granted, taste matters and comfort matters. But arguments appealing to some kind of vague "quality"--I just don't buy it. The studio spent $50,000 on their mixing board. If they needed to spent $500 (vs. $100) on their cans, they'd do it. But they often don't.
My Etymotics ($~300 MSRP, $~200 online), were used every day at my desk for about four years, taken home on weekends for bike rides, traveled to various locations around the world, and one wire finally gave out in Japan after five years of near-daily use. Etymotic repaired and updated them for $50. My typical packing method is to just wind them around my iPod.
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Ask HN: How to build a better how-to site
Hello Hacker News, big fans of you guys and Ycombinator, of course. I would like the help of the community on a project I'm starting... still at the beginning, but will keep you posted with the progress.

I'm building a how-to website in Croatia. There's very little competition in this space and a lot of demand by searchers for these kind of articles, so I figure that starting a professional site is ideal.

I already have essentially "howto.com" in my language, so domain naming is not a problem.

Here are my plans for the website:
- hire a hick-ass design firm and spend 5-10k to have something sexier than eHow or Wikihow today
- pay freelancers U$3-5 (a lot more here than in the US) to write articles that have more than 1k searches in Google or that users ask us to (what's the fastest way to do this?)
- have edit buttons on every page so that user can add content (it will have to be approved by us initially)
- do standard SEO stuff and build profiles in major social networks, spending some money to build up Facebook page

I want help on ideas to build the best (and most profitable, obviously) how-to website in my country.

Should I buy out my competition, transfer their articles to my website and increase their pageviews by my better domain, SEO, design and marketing?

Do you think I need angels like YC to mentor and invest, or should I just put my money (like 50k) and run my site myself?

eHow/Wikihow/etc. readers and users, what major flaws do you see on the website? How can I make my site better?

I appreciate the feedback. Thanks a bunch,
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FB will always be able to monetize their users. It's just a question of what premium. Since most people on FB have no intent on buying anything, the amount they can net per user is very very small compared to Google. In a sense, it's just like a glorified TribalFusion, where eyeballs are worth .01 each.
Let me give you a sneak peek into an investor's mind:

"Slow, sustainable growth? SELL!"
And this is why I groan when Samsung easily dismisses rumors that Apple is about to enter the TV space.

The UX around TVs is horrific right now, and people put up with it because that's how it is. There's enormous room for a dramatic UX improvement and it doesn't seem like the incumbents realize this.
They're not as rare as you might think. More than a few of us know about gog.com, DOSBox and the like...
Your examples reveal that you don't get the point. Using a for loop instead of a higher-level abstraction like reduce or sum is a lot like using lambda calculus instead of a summation in mathematics. We're trying to climb out of the Turing tarpit here by introducing useful abstractions, just like the summation operator was once introduced to make mathematics easier.
> no radio

There's definitely quality non-profit radio stations (NPR affiliates, for example) depending on where you live. At worst you get the fund drives that are annoying (but understandable) for a week.

EDIT: This assumes you're in the U.S., though.
If you watch two entire seasons in a month, you have a problem :)
My two year old loves Word World on PBS.
So what is the usecase of this project?
You missed the part where they say that it's fine if you plug it in in less than 30 days.

I've had plenty of devices nearly bricked (only working with an external power source, battery lasts seconds/minutes) by leaving them unattended for months. My 1st gen iPod dies in less than an hour after being left at 0% charge for a few weeks.
The rumour is unfounded because you have to try really hard to get to that state. You can leave your car in storage or at the airport for weeks as long as it has enough charge to hold, and even if you get to 0% charge you still have 30 days to plug it in before all is lost.
Sure, I guess if you fundamentally misunderstand MVC but not in the real world.

You don't have render your view on the server, using a js framework is perfectly fine in MVC. There are plenty of rails plugins to make this even easier and I whole-heartedly disagree with, "Rails-style MVC frameworks have a horrible routing solution for RESTFul JSON APIs". Rails has simple routing that works great for restful resources and auto renders json that can be easily overridden.

Having a unified/standardized REST interface for web services would no doubt be nice, but it's existence has little to nothing to do with MVC.
OK. TechCrunch is not one of the absolute worst websites ever to grace the internet, its employees are not the dregs of our industry, and contemplating the opportunities available to those who worked on it definitely does not give me a god damn ulcer. Under no circumstances is the world a worse place in every single way for its existence.
Yes, AOL will turn it into another pointless blog like Engadget where all the news is just 2nd or 3rd hand link-bait stuffed with SEO-bait.

No, because the authors are smart enough to realize The AOL Way of journalism doesn't have to be a one-time payment so they're setting up new sites for AOL to buy. Those blogs will carry the TC torch until they return to AOL.
Since your evidence is anecdotal I'll point out that there have been a number of "unhappy ending" stories regarding Facebook advertising on the front page of HN over the last year and a half. Perhaps your niche works well with their offerings, but it seems like you're the exception and not the rule.
Park usually does two things--it slips a fixed tooth (pawl) into a gear on the output shaft of the transmission, effectively locking the driven wheels (i.e. front wheels on a front wheel drive car.) It will also unload the gears of the transmission the same as the neutral setting. This is why on some AT cars, the idle speed will creep up a tiny bit after put in PARK or NEUTRAL.
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Absolutely right, this point is crucial. Kickstarter funds projects by voluntary and democraticly (by which I mean by citizens) means, while the government does it forcefully (taxes) and undemocratically (politicians deciding).
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I've had my ER4's for eight years now. They're the only headphone I've heard that sounds almost exactly like my beloved NHT 2.5i speakers. After listening to the Etymotics, virtually all other headphones sound wildly inaccurate, and the ones which claim to have great bass response just sound muddy and distorted.