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Ask HN: Dare/Illegal growth hacking ideas on top of your mind?
Something of sort of Airbnb-craigslist or more Illegal stuff here.
Because it's not expected to be developed in the open ever and will therefore never be useful for production apps?
Byte Buddy is a code generation library for creating Java classes at runtime
Remind me: can you declare a Java interface with a method signature that returns the same type as the class that eventually implements the interface? You wouldn't want the map method on mappable to simply return another Mappable, because that could be any other Mappable (i.e. a CustomList could implement map to return a CustomTree, when the functor concept requires it to return another CustomList).
C code runs lightyears faster (aka. uses less power) than java.

First of all, it's not lightyears, usually only a factor of two. Secondly, iOS apps are usually written in Objective C, which uses dynamic binding, sacrificing part of C's performance.

5) iOS uses the GPU rather than the CPU to do most rendering tasks,

So does Android:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-...

8) Timer coalescing allows the CPU to sleep more

The Linux kernel has timer coalescing (since 2.8.28).
>austerianism?? Where? Japan is overspending by large amounts every single year

Where is this opinion being held? Right ^^^ fucking ^^^ here.

Where is it being implemented?

Here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/japan-s-government-...

And the consumption tax hike.

Many among the Japanese elites (not to mention American and European) feel the same way as you. Even among the neoconservatives they're somewhat schizophrenic about spending.
Well, they're not mapping them to optionals, but to "forced unwrapped". This is how the superview property of NSView is declared:

var superview: NSView! { get }

In a workspace:

var view = NSView( frame: NSRect(x: 10, y: 10, width: 300, height: 100)) -> NSView

view.superview -> nil

So now I have a nil in Swift that is not wrapped in an optional. No compiler warnings, boom! And of course, no way to catch exceptions, so BOOM!
I think it might be closed source. The site looks identical to Popcorn Time, but it's not clear if this is a fork of the original application or a new one based on it.
I dont play anymore but the only reason I load Facebook is to see posts from my guild members on our guild page. My "friends", which is mostly acquaintances and long lost relatives, rarely post anything that entertains me but I really enjoy the smaller knit group that posts more raw and relatable things. I thing google has something going for it focusing on circles. Now if only i could get passed the naming scandal and the fact I dont want another Facebook to deal with.
Replying because I don't think the explanations you've got so far are easy enough to read || accurate. Here's my understanding:

Supercritical steam is a special form of steam that can not be described as a gas or a liquid. It's somewhere between the two: molecules aren't bunched together in dense clusters that settle at the bottom of a container (as they are in a liquid), but they also aren't flying all over the place individually in a low density vapour (as they are in a gas).

How's that possible? Water molecules have relatively strong intermolecular attractive forces between neighbouring molecules. They like to stick together, even though there's no permanent connection between them. They are like mini-magnetised marbles. This explains why water has a much higher boiling point than most tri-atomic molecules.

When you increase the temperature of liquid water, the molecules in the liquid vibrate and move around within the liquid, and as you cross the boiling point, the vibration and movement of the molecules is so great that they are able to escape the pull of their attractive interactions with their neighbours en masse. When this happens, the molecules shoot off into the vapour, where there is an (almost) unlimited amount of space for them to shoot around in.

Now consider what happens when you do this at high pressure. High pressure essentially means that there are lots of molecules in the gas phase moving around really quickly. Now, when the temperature gets high enough that molecules have enough energy to overcome their attractive interactions with neighbouring molecules, they leave the pack: but this time with nowhere to go to. The pressure is so high in the 'gas' phase (i.e. there are so many other molecules up there) that they are forced to just bump around where the liquid was but at extremely high speeds. This type of behaviour is pretty difficult to distinguish from the behaviour in the high pressure 'gas' -- in fact, after the system has time to equilibriate, they are exactly the same.

Clearly then, the transition from 'liquid' to 'gas' at this point is pretty much indistinguishable. The liquid may begin to display the molecular kinetic behaviour of a gas, but the density stays the same.

The end result is: When the pressure and temperature is high enough, to onlookers it appears as if the entirety of the fluid is half way between a liquid and a gas, and is stable in that state. That's called a supercritical fluid.
But let me ask you this. If The NYT is 'winning at journalism', why is its readership falling significantly? If their daily report is smart and engaging, why are they failing to get its journalism to its readers? If its product is 'the world's best journalism', why does it have a problem growing its audience? You can't be the world's best and fail at the same time.

Of course you can. In fact, that's the normal order of things, because people don't want the best -- they want mid-lowbrow. Ask every starving genius writer/artist. If this logic were correct then crack is the "best" product in the world. Everyone who tries it wants more, so much so that it's physically hard to stop.

The sad truth is that quality and popularity rarely intersect, especially when it comes to intellectual "goods" or art. In fact, producing the best quality in those fields is almost a certain assurance of failure. I would say, "you can't be the world's best and succeed at the same time".

This is also why advertising is failing for newspapers. In a digital world where intent is paramount for advertisers, it's far more valuable to target your advertisers for when people are looking for something specifically, rather than the random 'I don't know what I'm going to get' that we see from the newspapers.

Advertising is failing for newspapers because the revenue it generates is lower than the cost of production, and the revenues are low because of competition with sites that have low production costs.

On social channels, we define what we are interested in by following people and brands that match what we care about.

Yes, and unfortunately quality newspapers and magazines are directed at people with broad horizons and open minds that trust the editors' choices. At people who think, "if the NY Times thinks it's newsworthy then I'd better read it". That actually used to work once.

Following The New York Times on Twitter is just like paging through a print newspaper. Each tweet is about something completely unrelated to the tweets before it. And this is the opposite of why people usually follow people and brands online.

Yes because people are crack addicts. That's what works in the market, but that's not necessarily what's "good" for us.

Today, the newspapers' editorial focus is to create random packages of news.

Yes, well unfortunately that's what the world is. A random package of events.

They are all over the place, and as such there is nothing that we as viewers can connect with. There is no momentum, passion, or reason for watching any of these videos.

With that I actually agree. Of course, if they were to create the journalism they really wish to, they'd fail even harder, but that's another matter.
Phinergy claims an energy density of 8kWh/kg here:

http://www.phinergy.com/default.asp?catid={00658B18-2755-468...

The following ComputerWorld article is related, but it's worse than the linked
article that nkurz submitted.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248966/Electric_car_...

EDIT: The two Alcoa press releases are below, but they don't add much:

http://www.alcoa.com/canada/en/news/releases/2014_phinergy.a...

http://www.alcoa.com/car_truck/en/news/releases/2014_02_05_A...
In my country McDonald's employees with degree aren't uncommon.
Yeah, this cracks me up, too. I'm still learning the basics of Rust and so there is a high chance that it's just me being stupid. Strings are not just Strings in Rust land so there was plenty of room for me to fail :)

I created a ticket to check all usage of Strings in the entire code base. You might want to track it for further progress on that.

https://github.com/cburgdorf/Floor/issues/12
> Communism is defined by a complete lack of freedom to change the status quo.

Um, no. No, it's not. At all.
The funny part for me was how after I got into windwaker, I immediately thought it was my favorite zelda game lol.

Kinda glad to see the tide turn :) OoT was pretty epic too, but WW is more fun to play. Maybe I just like the whole sailing+pirates thing too much.
Communism is defined by a complete lack of freedom to change the status quo.

I agree that the comparison to communism is silly, but not for this reason. Ultimately, communism is about how the economy is structured, one important feature being that there is no private ownership of capital (though other forms of private property are okay). In other words, a world of capitalist consolidation/monopolies is indeed nothing like communism.

There could (and should) still be freedom to change the status quo in a communist economic system though.

Edit to add:

Consolidation only persists where it is either an effective way to deliver value (Walmart)

Putting Walmart in parenthesis here is a bit dishonest. Almost every kind of business benefits from consolidation, because of economies of scale. You might just as well have put Burger King, KFC, or any other chain of anything into parenthesis.

Same is true in the high-tech industry, by the way. Just look at the big players in the web, but also count the number of remaining chip foundries on the planet.

In all those cases, power is concentrated into few hands, which we know to be problematic from history.
> A lot of businesses used the consumption tax increase to raise prices.

That. And the government encouraged it. In 2004, a law made it obligatory to display prices with consumption tax included (税込み). That obligation was lifted 6 months ago. Guess what happened as a result. Displayed prices didn't change. Products at 1000 yens tax included (税込み) are now 1000 yens without tax (税抜き). 1080 yens out of consumer pockets, instead of 1029. 8% increase instead of ~3%. The flip side is that this makes for better margins for businesses.

Even businesses that did absorb the tax increase now claim to do a bigger favor than they are actually doing (that is, their 1000 yens service is still 1000 yens, but they advertize it's 1000 instead of 1080)

I haven't seen much of the kind of prices increases you describe, though.
Never buy, lease, or otherwise pursue a brand new car, unless you have money to burn and a hang up. The fact you posted makes me believe otherwise...
Assuming buying "hardly used", buy. Most of the loss has been eaten by the previous owner.
>Consolidation only persists where it is either an effective way to deliver value (Walmart) or regulatory capture has occured (eg taxi licences, car dealerships). Todays consolidated behemoth is tomorrows has-been company - as long as the laws allow them to fall apart when they can no longer innovate and compete.

That doesn't hold up to reality, as proven by what has happen ed with banks, hospitals, and health insurance over the past 30 years (regulations make entry a bit more capital-intense, but if you have enough willpower and minimum capital you can start a bank).

>It's a misunderstanding to think that competition requires many players to be effective.

It's part of a definition of a free market : atomicity of actors. In a free market, no single actor can influence price.

>I'll be the first to admit that the last part is the most difficult to achieve, but it's no reason to abandon the concept of the game.

The concept of the game involves an infinite amount of really tiny boxers, not two world champions. All the math around free markets bringing prosperity is based around this fact (among a couple other prerequisites). You can't just abandon it.

Anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws are basically the most pro-free-market laws we can make.
I used to think the same thing until I read a review for LED lightbulbs on one of their sister sites, The Sweethome [http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-led-lightbulb/]. The review in question sounds like an infomercial for Cree and DesigningwithLEDs.com. It definitely made me question how impartial The Wirecutter and it's sister sites really is.
Doubt it. Armed forces world wide have been touting the free education policy for decades. The man is still the man, man. ;)

Hipster discussion aside, mad props to Starbucks - even if I'll still never drink that flavorless milky crap again. (I think Starbucks might be different here?)
Yeah those look cool, and nope those were in the gamecube version too.

fwiw you can usually pick those spears up after you beat the guards lol
Floors author here. I'm glad to see other folks jumping on that train beside me :)

Iron looks smart and I might steal some ideas or code along the way. I come in peace :)
Consolidation is also favored by cheap money (yes, back to money monopoly thingy). Above some threshold and especially if you are in good relations with a bank, it is far easier to buy your competitors and dismantle them by selling their assets than to compete with them. It's ironic how in the failed communist centralized economies, the economic policy was dictated by "elected" nomenklatura and it was BAD, while in the "free/democratic" market economies the control is held by unaccountable private banks and nobody worries much.
A lot of cinemas / cinema chains are called -plex too. I don't disagree that it's a bit uncreative to pick a name like that but it's not uncommon in that area to have a -plex name.
This subthread is going down the toilet, which is unfortunate because it had the ingredients for an interesting conversation but then devolved into moralizing.

Something I've learned in 15 years of marriage: it's hard enough to maintain comity and charity in debates with someone who shares almost all of your values and principles, and with whose background you are thoroughly acquainted. A big part of that is that we use slightly different words and framings to convey ideas, but (I think perhaps due to combinatoric explosions) we can hear dramatically different things from each other as the little mismatches stack up. For me, this seems unsurprisingly to be especially the case in abstract discussions.

So I think there's little hope in sustaining a moral debate 3 comments deep on a thread with a stranger on HN, and I think we'd all be a little better off if we stopped pretending we could.
I am sure this depends on which country and which state you live in.

I'm from Australia and the tax ramifications are quite interesting with both options.
I did all the calculations on a normal lease vs. novated lease vs. outright purchase.
Since I am on the road for work and I can deduct vehicle expenses and depreciation. So it works out okay to get a new car.
It is still throwing away lots of money, but because of the tax deductions it is less painful.

I have taken out a novated lease, and also bought outright with finance from a bank.
In the end I worked out that novated leases are a waste of money if you are able to deduct car expenses yourself. Since I only benefit from a component part of the monthly expenses being paid pre-tax. (another benefit is that you dont pay GST on any expenses).
Buying outright is fine if you don't have any need for the money, but I was better off putting the money in my mortgage offset and being charged interest - that interest is deductible along with the expenses that go along with the car.

Edit: Again, this really only applies to you if you can deduct car related expenses from your income tax.
Floors author here. I'm glad Chris Morgan answered already because there isn't much I could have told you about that. I'm relying on all the great groundwork Chris already put into rust-http. Keep an eye on http://teepee.rs/. It will soon become the more advanced replacement of rust-http.
Abstract from the paper:

"Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance. Advocates of goal setting have had a substantial impact on research, management education, and management practice. In this article, we argue that the beneficial effects of goal setting have been overstated and that systematic harm caused by goal setting has been largely ignored. We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a narrow focus that neglects non-goal areas, a rise in unethical behavior, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation. Rather than dispensing goal setting as a benign, over-the-counter treatment for motivation, managers and scholars need to conceptualize goal setting as a prescription-strength medication that requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals."
As I understand it, these types of batteries are not rechargeable. They would need to be taken back to a factory and be recycled.

I'd like to know how energy efficient the recycling stage would be. I've not seen that information anywhere so far.
Wow. Good job!
Unfortunately I lost my TI-84, I'm tempted to try KnightOS on an emulator on an android tablet, running in an emulator on my laptop.
It always did look amazing. To be honest every new Zelda since has seemed like a downgrade in terms of graphics and animation. Just wait till you get to swaying platforms over lava lakes!
I want it for music. Would be perfect for parties as an alternative to spotify, grooveshark etc.

Need queuing and support for a bunch of weird open formats and then we're good to go.
Keynesianism lauds government monopoly power; while neoclassicism and Austrianism foster private monopoly power. Both are evil.

At least in the case of government, you may feel that it is evil, but it is necessary [0]. So the more pragmatic and productive approach would be to think about how this monopoly power could be used to further prosperity and equity of the people.

Today, the Left favors reforms to give government more monopoly power. While the Right favors reforms that give firms more monopoly power.

I think both those characterizations are a bit simplistic. Look at the discussion surrounding surveillance, secret courts and the police state, for example.

[0] This is true even within the economy: having a common measure of value is important for doing business, so you need currencies to have large scopes. Whoever ultimately controls a currency necessarily has a lot of monopoly power. So the question is not whether such powers exist, but how they should be structured subject to goals that we need to set for ourselves as a society.
Building A Game: Under Constraints
Comcast reselling Wifi network through Skype.
> Consolidation only persists where it is either an effective way to deliver value (Walmart) or regulatory capture has occured (eg taxi licences, car dealerships).

Value for whom?

The problem is that "effective way to deliver value" is measured in terms of corporate profit (value to shareholders), not in terms of the actual thing being produced. So firms can produce less value to the economy at-large (fewer flights, worse beer, etc.), at greater cost to the consumer/supply chain, and still increase value.

The entire article is indicting this setup, where companies screw over their customers and suppliers in order to produce value for a few already very wealthy individuals who hold large stakes in the corporation.

This is how low-competitive environments work. Period. And it's not commie nonsense (unless Goldman Sachs are part of a massive commie conspiracy). From the article:

Goldman Sachs in February published a research memo advising investors to seek out “oligopolistic market structure[s]” in which “a smaller set of relevant peers faces lower competitive intensity, greater stickiness and pricing power with customers due to reduced choice, scale cost benefits including stronger leverage over suppliers, and higher barriers to new entrants all at once.”

> In many cases, you only need two players and threat of entry to any others for competition to be successful at optimal use of resources.

First of all, there's not much of a threat to entry when one or two companies own the entire market and there's a huge cost to entry. Have you seen many airline start-ups in the past half century or so?

Furthermore, it's possible to price like a monopoly when you only have one or two major competitors and everyone is part of a gentleman's agreement. Implicit, of course, but these aren't pricing cartels in the same sense that PACs don't coordinate with political campaigns.

The boxing match analogy is inherently flawed because these companies can still win big without wiping out all their competition. There is no gold medal when everyone's happy splitting the enormous pot of gold.

In fact, most seem to desire a situation where they have one "friendly" competitor so that they get all the perks of monopolistic position via an implicit gentleman's agreement on pricing, while still having the luxury of pointing across the street whenever regulators come around.
For most people, life can't be a constant progression to higher status jobs, with ever greater pay. Stuff gets in the way.

Maybe they find a cieling - there is a limmit to how much highschool teachers get paid, and also by definintion only a small proportion get to be principal.

I think you are writing from a mindset where people make progress from 18 -> 65 and sign they 'are less' than a younger person is tragic failiure.

Instead, remember those people retraining are the most willing to change. They are happier to step back to entry level in a new career than be stuck higher up in a dead end or dieing role. Hope you are like those people.

I guess i'm trying to convince you to let go of that mindset. Some day your life will go a bit wrong, happens to everyone. And if you are realistic and forgiving about what you expect from yourself, the blow won't knock you down.
Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security
$40-billion missile defense system proves unreliable - Los Angeles Times
It's quite funny how little people know about communism, why it appeared, how it developed and what influence it had over capitalism & why it collapsed although less than 25 years passed since its collapse.
It seems more or less like a popcorn time copy. It uses the node modules peerflix (https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix), read-torrent (https://github.com/mafintosh/read-torrent) and socket-io (http://socket.io) for example. You can read the source code if you download the mac version and open Contents/Resources/app.nw inside the Isoplex package. But it is a good question why it is not on github.
This is a rant, but there's something to it. Seeing as how the article is about the New York Times, and how real "quality journalism" is bold, "publishing the truth that someone does not want told" here's some more about how the NYT is not as bold and independent a journalistic establishment as it might be:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-nyti...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/glenn-greenwald-michae...
Quartz: a gem for calling Golang code from Ruby