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I've been using this for the last 4 or 5 hours. I'm not in the US but have a dormant US iTunes Account so I was able to download it through that.

Design: Really slick. I like the Rdio app but recently it's been getting a bit confusing. I've always hated the Spotify app even though I was a paying customer since it first arrived in the UK. The Beats app admittedly has a lot going on but I found it pretty easy to navigate and the artist page layout is quite nice.

Features: The artist page actually recommends playlists to help you get introduced to a new artist or the 'deep cuts' of an artist you already know which I find quite nice.

Creating playlists is simple and unlike Spotify you can set a cover image and a description.

The sentence based playlist feature (mad libs for music) works ok. It hasn't thrown up anything completely wrong and I expect it'll get better over time.

The home page is kind of the best part of the app. It presents you with albums and playlists you might like and seems pretty good at recommending stuff.

Overall I think they have two things up on everyone else: design and playlists. On Spotify and Rdio finding good playlists is difficult. Spotify has been getting better at this but it isn't great yet. Beats seems to have spent a lot of time crafting A LOT of really great playlists and they seem to be where I'm spending most of my time. The human curation thing seems to have worked.

At this point it's hard to tell who'll come out ahead. Beats is ad-free but subscription only. If they can convince people to pay for it (and I think they might be able to through brand power/marketing) I think it'll be a good thing for artists and might take away some of the stigma streaming music services have with them. I think I'm going to continue using it as my main service but at the moment I don't know how they will charge for it. It comes with a 7 day free trial. Currently it's pretty easy to get around the US only limitations but if their payment system restricts sales to US addresses I won't be able to use it until it expands to the UK.
Excuse me.

Inductive coupling means a couple of inductances interact with each other. This is the reason it is called "coupling". And yes, this interaction means photons, depending of the frequency of the resonator of higher or lower frequency.

They use a medium, a channel, the most efficient one is ferrite, but it could be the air, that usually it is very inefficient because the electromagnetic radiation escapes and is absorbed by other elements or just dissipated.

You could improve efficiency making it use resonance, that is you trick your design so in normal circumstances you reuse the electromagnetic energy that is reflected by the geometry of the space.

The problem (of all open systems instead of closed circuits)is what happens when your body acts as a lower impedance for this radiation than the medium. It could in fact absorb a big amount of energy on a very small amount of time.

Geometry of the body is very complex, small parts of your body could resonate with some frequencies, and when there is noise like in transitories you add lots of frequencies.
Very nice. Pricing is very attractive. May need to use this in the future.
I suggest investigating systemd then. It isn't bloated. See for instance http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/06/09/systemd-bloa.... There are a lot of different parts to it.

Note the time of the blog. Saying systemd is bloated is IMO so 2013 :P
>And my point is that you can't take Snowden's assertions at face value.

Good thing we aren't taking them at face value, seeing as the CIA spokesman lightly corroborates his account rather than your assertion that he was fired for attempting to access and steal classified materials at the CIA.

And while we're on the subject of "moles," neither the internal NSA investigation nor the FBI investigation has found anything supporting your conspiracy theory to date.
I'm currently building out a Altcoin(scrypt) mining setup, I started w/ 1 7950 @ $8/day.

I'm reinvesting this week on 3x R9 270s, with a goal of buying new hardware w/ all my earnings for 2 months.

Doing a calculation using a loop, and tallying up daily earnings, and subtracting new hardware when x = cost of new gfx card, I calculated in 90 days I'd be earning 120 per day passively.

I'm also wanting to sell 'shovels' so to speak, pre-made rigs, and mining contracts. Eventually I'll diversify some and get an asic when I can afford it.
To that end, the Teaching, Learning, and Advising Committee, which originally brought teaching evaluations online, will take up the question of how to respond to these developments, and the appropriate members of the IT staff, along with the University Registrar, will review our responses to violations of University policy.

In other words, death by committee.
For future reference, you can italicize a selection on Hacker News by surrounding text with asterisks.
Workaholism? Our team might have more problems with alcoholism. Oh wait, maybe it's just me on the team with the problem.
Instead of hand-waving about the conductivity of air, what would have helped is a citation that clearly states how hot the heating element of toasters themselves get. (Really. Because I could not find a good cite either :-P)

The best I coud do was wiki answers: The heating element of toasters reaches 1100 - 1200 F [1].

If the answers.com link is not trustworthy, consider this: The most common alloy used for the heating elements in toasters is Nichrome [2]. Nichrome is used because it has a "high" melting point of 2550 F [3].

Not only does the temperature range required by this patent not make toast, it would melt the heating element in most toasters. The spec of the patent itself requires some kind of halogen lamp heaters.

It's pretty clearly not a "patent on toast". "Burnt to a crisp" toast, maybe, but not toast.

1. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_hot_does_a_toaster_get

2. http://www.toaster.org/works.html

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichrome
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You may find this interesting:

http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/WhyEconomistsShunSimul...
Why would there be a very suspicious "lying about wearing a condom" charge leveled at Assange with multiple super-powers demanding justice for an unnamed swedish woman, coincidentally right when he's pissing off those super-powers? Sounds like silly spy movie stuff, like COINTELPRO or something, stuff that would never happen in the real world.

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. There really are people out there playing the game for those stakes, and most of us aren't idealistic or dumb enough to jump into their game.
Yes, I couldn't see the bit that actually constituted an apology.
We obviously can't beat Google in that case :) That's also why it's priced to be way more affordable. It does however happen that Geocodio is more accurate than Google Maps - try for example "8895 Highway 29 South, 30646" (Address of a CVS store) on Google Maps and Geocodio.
My gf did couple of CSS animations(icons, js components etc) over the years. Then we published them to Envato marketplace and got some monthly income around 100USD per month.
See link (referral): http://themeforest.net/item/animated-404-or-maintainance-pag...
So it sounds like to me that they are going to eventually take down the detailed evaluations and end it all. Did anyone else get that feeling?
You can have transparency without security, but at least you then know you don't have security, and can act accordingly.
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By "everywhere" it is meant "only in the United States".
I mean a legal opinion on this matter. Pointing to a random distribution is not enough. They might be doing something that they shouldn't have.

Try to be concrete, just "FUD FUD FUD" is not impressive as an answer.
I like the price point about $1/1000records. Just curious to hear how you arrived at this price point.
Making the creator's beliefs (including hidden assumptions) completely clear is valuable all by itself. But in addition to revealing the creator's beliefs it also reveals arithmetic errors, which are quite common in poorly specified verbal models.

For an example of the latter, observe this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7042469
> preventing him from having conversation with any non-US intelligence agencies,

How would they do this?
Hey! I actually know a "Dante Marcelo"! (but both as given names, he's known as Marcelo). But he's from Argentina (where Marcelo is a relatively common name), not from Italy
Hmmm. I reckon I'm quite good at choosing the music I want to listen to. Not sure I want to pay some one (or a service) to select music for me.
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Julian Assange: What they believe
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One flaw with this model is that the value of money is not absolute, it is relative to the price of goods and services. Furthermore, the rate of circulation of money is directly related to the amount of economic activity taking place in the society (since each transaction represents an economic event), and economic activity creates wealth as PG says.

I once tried to develop a similar theory to the link, by applying the principles of statistical mechanics, and treating the rate of circulation of money as the temperature, and each actor's amount of economic activity as their kinetic energy. It seemed like a neat approach but it has it's flaws obviously.
I work at SmartyStreets, where we've learned that geocoding is very, very difficult, so I definitely feel your pain! We started with basic Census Bureau stuff and it's definitely complicated, and accuracy can be spotty. (We've since worked with other data vendors to improve the accuracy.) It's too bad we don't all have little cars to roam the country with and manually collect rooftop-level data like Google does.

+1 on the versioned API endpoint... when we released ours nearly 8 years ago, versioning APIs wasn't really a thing yet. We're paying that technical debt off now as we vigorously rewrite and improve our service.

Quick feedback: Links on the FAQ page are hard to distinguish from regular text.

Good luck with the project!
I mined a bunch of coins two years ago but now I mine scrypt altcoins which turn a better profit with GPUs than btc. I also run day trading bots which trade with my cryptocurrency portfolio in general, including bitcoin, litecoin, ad et al.

So at least one person is definitely getting passive income this way, and I'm almost sure I'm not alone.
US Standard S3 region is geographically redundant. It routes to both Northern Virginia and "facilities in the Pacific Northwest." This redundancy is why it does not provide read-after-write consistency like the other regions.
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> Sounds like silly spy movie stuff, like COINTELPRO or something, stuff that would never happen in the real world.

Abusing the justice process to push a political agenda? Yeah, that never happens.
Its an explanation of the cop-space overlay from "Halting State" by Stross (who comments here occasionally). And a zillion other fictional examples.

I don't find it interesting to read iteration #2352 of re-explaining a concept from heavily discussed several year old sci fi to a "popular audience". Although probably the people attracted to the story will be precisely the type who already read Halting State and others.

Theres an even older sci fi explanation of augmented reality, I don't remember the author or title but it was along the lines of an airline mfgr story. Vaguely 90s era, female management perspective, "outsourcing drama", near future setting. So as the A+P mechanics looked at the aircraft, they saw the blueprint.

Now what would be really cool is if the dev has an account here and posts a stereotypical "show HN" or "ask HN". Or a review of the guy's app.
Thanks! Yes, I haven't really seen a lot of other services that provides batch geocoding as an API endpoint.

We have mostly been running tests against the Google Maps API, and from a totally random sample of 100 address, 90 of them were within a mile from the Google Maps API returned location (Most of them were actually within 0.01 mile).

I'm not sure how we would compare to OpenStreetMaps and Data Science Toolkit since our data source is different (US Census Bureau). - But the obvious reason why we provide this as a SaaS, is that you don't have to host anything yourself, or juggle around with gigabytes of boundary data. We handle all the mess.
Tumblr's a bit restrictive, but it's a simple option if you just want to publish quick posts of simple text and pictures. Blogger's a bit more powerful and you can do whatever you want on your own Wordpress. You'll miss out on some network effects though.
Current passive income for me - blog and niche sites with articles (ads e.g. http://www.flagshipstorelondon.com/), e-commerce business (sales), ETFs (investments), and teaching a skill.

Flagship stores - I went around taking pictures of the best of the best stores for the top retail brands in London and made a directory. Created page on Blogger.

Ecommerce business is my best passive income. It's a physical product I really wanted so I made it. It's a map of London but made in the historic style. http://www.wellingtonstravel.com

I still need to spend time on it because I am customer service, legal, accounting, finance, marketing, IT, R&D, and operations. I have outsourced manufacturing and fulfillment to someone I found on https://sortedlocal.com/ and Amazon's FBA. It's great because it's more money and something I'm passionate about but it definitely takes 5-7 hours a week.

The teaching one is interesting in particular because it leverages your strengths, improves your communication, and is probably something you really enjoy since you took the time to get good at it (i.e. sailing, swimming, kettlebell workouts, or even English). I wrote a post about teaching English (http://www.taigeair.com/websites-to-help-you-teach-english-o...) for people who complained they couldn't find a job so did nothing all day, but they could be teaching a special skill which is what I did when I became unemployed. I learned code, created a few websites, interviewed, and taught swimming.

And rental income is good but definitely, not very passive...

Lastly, I'm developing a really cool website for helping people sleep which I can see being profitable.

I'd like to hear how much time you spent or are spending on these side projects. Also I heard babies are a time and money sink. So I'd be interested in hearing about people doing side projects/passive income with kids.
Dammit, what's a young, recently divorced fashion pre-cog to do?

One minute you're riding high on top of the world, pushing your monopoly of addictive multi player hallucinogenic Can-D on a global social network of Mars colonists, who get hooked on your freemium layouts, then blow all their money on in-app purchases of miniature virtual fashion accessories and appliances for their avatars.

Then all of a sudden, some tri-stigmatic transhumanly evolved hipster bastard comes along with the even more addictive alien hallucinogenic Chew-Z imported from the Prox system, and not only hooks all of your users and dries up your downloadable content business, but actually provides infinitely better one-on-one real time online customer service.

I mean, what kind of a dick head move is that??!

http://totaldickhead.blogspot.nl/2008/10/back-with-vengeance...
Windows NT was a business (as opposed to consumer) OS, and included both Server and Workstation versions. 2000 was the direct successor to NT and filled the same role.
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Thanks!
How does your mobile define how you work? - Computer Business Review
Great blog post! We obviously also use address interpolation to determine the exact location.
Russian first names (not Cyrillic) are very strange: "Innocent Korovin" - really? Russian (cyrillic) seem more realistic though.
10 Steps to Optimal SaaS Pricing
>> "Their entire value claim is based around the idea that not just an algorithm is picking the music, humans are involved too. That's great, who cares?"

I care if they can produce better playlists that way. As a Spotify user for many years I can honestly say that after just a few hours with Beats I find the playlists are a lot better and a lot easier to find. They are recommend loads to me and most are ones I like.

My favourite thing is that if I visit an artist page and I haven't listened to them before it has an 'Intro to [artist name]" playlist. If I do know the artist it also has a 'Deep cuts' playlist. I've also seen '[Artist name]: influences' playlists which are an interesting idea. NB: I doubt they have these playlists for every artist but they've been there on most I've searched so far.

I don't get any of that on Spotify. Most of the playlists I get recommended on Spotify are "Hangover songs", "Workout mix", "Christmas tunes" etc. etc. They are nice but a lot less useful.
Just a thought: will Newtonian dynamics not introduce a significant error over these speeds and distances? I believe that Newton's physics are just a simplification of Einsteins Relativity. I am obviously not a physicist, so I hope somebody can straighten me out.

Also I am not sure that we know all the weights of the celestial bodies with enough precision not the introduce an error while performing a 'slingshot'. Rosetta has propulsion and my guess it that it can be used to actively correct small mistakes in positioning.
So what you're saying is, you'd pardon someone who broke a law against torture and saved lives by so doing. After all, the torturer "[broke] a law to bring light to greater wrongdoings", and "the only just thing to do is pardon the original transgression."

(If you reply at all, you will of course weasel out of this with "torture never works and you're a horrible person besides", but I find it amusing enough, to point out that your argument easily justifies torture, that I'll do so despite the near certainty you'll dodge the point instead of considering it.)
I wrote a trading simulator app for iOS. It's not a huge earner, but does give me some pocket money. It's not exactly passive either since I still develop on it, but I would probably be doing it anyway - the fact people buy it is just a bonus.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spoof-trader-trading-simulat...
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Anyone connected to Direct Edge can send an order flagged as HideNotSlide. Everyone is playing on an even field with respect to that order type.

HideNotSlide does not cause an order to "jump to the top of the order cue[sic]." It preserves your order entry time at a price that is contra the NBBO if there is not an order at Direct Edge at the NBBO (if there is an order at Direct Edge at the NBBO the incoming HideNotSlide order is filled).

I doubt "HFT" would be dramatically limited by a transaction tax. I believe that it would lower trading volume by some amount and widen the bid/ask by some amount. The number of "HFT" firms and their trading habits would look mostly the same though.
Our infrastructure is pretty efficient, making us able to keep our operating costs low. We wanted to have a pricing point that was below any other similar services we could find.
You bought a product. You did NOT contract a developer. Your expectations do not reflect this.
I just installed Box to take advantage of the free 50gb. The one critical thing I think Box is missing over Dropbox is being able to take advantage of sym links. Until then, Box is a boy among men.
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Make users pay to access your beta product
The underlying runtime technology -- node-webkit -- seems pretty interesting.

This particular workflow would be more interesting to me if it was clearer that you could pick and choose your tools. I don't want to use Angular, Jade, or Coffeescript (for example). And (as per another thread) a workflow that included an out-of-box offline data storage option would be nice.

As I understand it, if I don't use tools that have a "compilation" phase, my workflow using node-webkit would be to save my files and restart node-webkit, right?
Beats are EQ'd to increase the volume of the high and low end frequencies.

These frequencies sound good to human ears.

So, when someone compares Beats to non-Beats, they hear that those frequencies are louder and the very fact that there is a noticeable difference is enough to create the illusion in some gullible people that Beats 'sound better'

Of course, in the long run, they don't.
Well, there are three things to think about. There's the current open market price of something, there's the actual subjective value of something, and there's the subjective value that the buyer hopes something will end up having before the transaction is made.

Poor people are certainly sometimes bitten by lack of savy, but more often bitten by the exigencies of their lives pushing them towards shorter planning horizons.
| Its not more distracted, its more honest.

In my experience, it is more distracted. When someone is deep in the mental zone of authoring an email, or caught up in an IM chat, and I just need to ask them if they agree with a technical decision or not, they are definitely too distracted to be effective.

| Trust me when I say most of the people pretending to stare at old fashioned paper are spacing out, thinking about the weekend, shopping lists, daydreaming, etc.

Yes, that is definitely human nature - but it's far easier (IMO) to get someone's attention from a daydream than it is from a screen of blinking notifications.

| What we need is a meetingless office not a paperless office.

I disagree. There are times and places for meetings. Sure, frequent meetings are painful and need to be culled back, but there are just times that you need to sit down with real people and talk through something.
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There's a problem with Belgium: it generates street names in flemish for cities in the french speaking part of the country. Makes it obvious the address is fake.
Yes, Woz was and still is truly humble, kind and accessible, to the core.

When I was a kid, he autographed my Apple ][ reference manual (the new spiral bound one that replaced the old Red Book, with the fold-out schematics and 6502 assembly monitor rom listings in the back), "Have fun with your Apple ][. -Woz".

A short, to the point, motivational, practical call to action. I sure did!
Same for French names. Last names are okay, but first names aren't French at all for most of them.
I think maybe you had a list of all possible names, but you didn't take into account that some of them are more frequent than others ?
...is a civil offence I believe.
In Scala 2.10 there is the ??? alias which throws a NotImplemented exception.

It's really nice for stubbing out code that otherwise needs to compile.
Ah interesting, thanks! I didn't see that meta-region mentioned on the Pricing page (http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/). Is it priced the same as the two lower-cost U.S. regions (N. Virginia / Oregon) that it apparently overlays?
Dan, I love your date range picker. I use it all the time. Thanks.
I think it's worth pointing out the most politically salient missing feature.

All the people who are on the blue line have enough money to start changing the rules of the market. For example persuading government to grant them a special licence, or bail out their company or letting them bank offshore.

As this is HN I should point out that I don't think this is an argument for no government, just against political funding.
$400 a month for 2 machines? You should be making a lot more... I just got started a month ago as a hobby, using MiddleCoin pool which converts/paysout in Bitcoin, --w/ 1 high-end gfx card(7950), I'm earning 200/month. I just reinvested 700 to start building out my rig, which will have 5x R9 270's and a hashrate of 2250 per machine. I currently make .0125 per khs per day. So this one machine will be worth $28/day.

I do wish I'd held onto my dogecoins though, I would've made a LOT more if I hadn't kept pumping/dumping.