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I am answering to that comment, not the specifics in the article:

> watching a baseball game is like poking your eye with an icepick. there are too many breaks, too many commercials; thus too slow of a pace. they need to pick it up so that a game is shorter and the action is constant. viewers don't have that long of an attention.

I'd say the same about any sport for which rule modifications only benefit TV viewers or people with financial incentives.
imagine if you didn't have to tell the airline your identity until the day of the flight (eliminating change fees). I'm guessing airline ticket prices would (ultimately) become less volatile with the introduction of ticket brokers.
>I'd observe, unless I'm way, way more out of the music loop than I realize, that the correct terms are that they are almost always things that can be distributed separately, and very few "albums" have more than a faint trace of coherence between the songs.

Who said that an album has to be coherent, or follow a narrative flow, for the distribution model to be justified? That's an entirely subjective way of seeing it - not invalid, but also not relevant to the question. There are probably plenty of people who would consider most of The Wall to be crap as well - and that coherence to be rambling nonsense (note: I loved the Wall, but I also really liked the Division Bell so what do I know?). My point is, there's nothing 'broken' about the model, even if there may be more convenient models available.
Sounds like an ok idea, but "GhostTunes" and an icon of a ghost? Very strange branding. The site's UI doesn't help either.
Uhh yes it is. I have iCloud right in front of me. Both the desktop and iPhone ones have "Photo backup" and "Camera roll" respectively turned on initially.

You have to go to iCloud -> Storage and Backup -> Manage Storage -> Camera Roll to turn it off.

Unless you mean that iCloud backup itself is not turned on by default, which is accurate. But the way you worded it it reads like if you have iCloud backup, it won't backup photos until you expressly tell it to which is inaccurate.
And how would that work? Let's assume I wrote BrainFuckStandardMD, the implementation for Brainfuck. I would base it solely on the spec published as Common Markdown. I would not in any way use the copyrighted code as basis for my implementation, so it is not derived from it. I don't use the name markdown, so that even the ficticious claim to a trademark would be void. On what grounds would he sue me?
If you use the subway twice a day, 5 times a week, you're only one round-trip per month away from break-even on a monthly unlimited. So unless you really never do anything else, its a pretty sensible option.
Oh! Like an expiration date for the expiration date!
What would be the "huge conflict of interest" with an academic in this role?
The Android ecosystem is so fragmented. I've had an Android phone since the Nexus One (in which I RMA'd 3 of them in the span of a year). Here I am on a Nexus 4 and it's had its fair share of problems. Namely random restarts, freezing, volume buttons non responsive, etc. The battery life pales in comparison to all my friends with iPhones, so I'm really excited to be switching to the iPhone for the first time.

I don't need to hack my phone which I feel like is what everyone always sells Android as e.g. "It's so customizable", "can you do X on an iPhone?". I want to make phone calls. And use maps.

I heavily use Google Voice, but from what I hear, it's being rendered obsolete in favor of hangouts (which I'm very opposed to).
The first Moto G had no NFC though. Don't know if this one does yet. But NFC will very soon be a 'must have' feature.
Yeah that argument falls really flat. He doesn't play entire albums at his concerts, nor does he force radio stations to play his entire album (and he record separate versions for the radio as opposed to what is on the album, generally cutting out the last verse). But no, you can't buy it the way he himself performs it or allows it to be replayed.
I read the article but I couldn't find any advantages to the consumer or did I miss something?

As it stands: the service seems to bring nothing to the table agains the stores (Apple, Amazon, Google) or streaming services (Beats, Spotify, Rdio) or indie artists (Bandcamp).
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I amended my comment - I really wasn't trying to be pedantic about the word but I can see my use of it has generated more noise than I would have liked.
More evidence of the Windows Phone app gap: FTC doesn't bother to sue Microsoft
That's a very extensive list of org files you have there :)

I bypass org-agenda for mobile viewing by scheduling a job to call org-html-export-to-html on each .org file. Dropbox mobile works well for viewing the exported HTML. There is zero hassle once the script is running.

Here's the rake script I use: https://gist.github.com/shoover/d75a58074be9894bfc54. The core emacs batch command for html export is simple enough. The rake-isms are there to find all the .org files in the given directories and check timestamps. There is optional elisp to deal with loading my latest org-mode and not the built-in one. The INDEX business was added to deal with MobileOrg but I no longer use that. Read-only HTML in Dropbox is good enough for me.

Agreed that internal linking is a pain point. I just use `C-c l` and suffer the dead links.

Agreed regarding remote editing. Gmail drafts "transport" are what I end up using. It's not terrible but could be better.
Uber for hiring a undocumented worker/day laborer. Sometimes I hire these guys[0,1] and I have to go pick them up [2], try to find one that speaks decent English, negotiate pricing, explain the job, and manage the quality of work[3].

There is actually a huge potential to improve the worker side of the current status quo. Right now, these guys have a ton of idle time[4] and there is a pricing opportunity[5]. There's a lot of other opportunities in this, I've been mulling it over for the past few years, I can build it just don't want to market/grow it[6]

[0] for projects that I don't necessarily need a contractor for
[1] or, work that a regular contractor doesn't do, like; my lawn guy doesn't clean gutters, my housekeeper doesn't clean windows
[2] taking them home is worse - they're probably dirty & sweaty and I don't that in my car
[3] can't have high expectations, these are generalists don't expect them to do high quality tile or carpentry
[4] they sit in front of hardware stores for hours just waiting, some days they have no work, there is never a guarantee of work
[5] they would take less money for guaranteed work, they could build a reputation and charge more for work, they could have their own transportation; saving the buyer the hassle of playing taxi service (often the buyer is a contractor, not a lone home owner like me)
[6] if you do, let's talk
> The Android ecosystem is so fragmented.

Like Symbian, Series30, Series40, -DOS, NIX, Windows, ....
OK, maybe I didn't make myself clear. Basically I am just saying that a "useless" pure functional language as characterised by Peyton Jones is equivalent to a souped-up desk calculator. You type an expression in (a form of IO provided by the runtime), you press Enter, and you get a value back. This is far from useless, nothing to he ashamed of. A "classic" bit of functional programming like Hutton's solution of the Countdown problem requires nothing more.
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/bib.html#countdown

I reckon a lot of people want to use that kind of machine, though it rules out systems programming.
See for example the requirements expressed in this article:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/calculemus
Not really, because your re-investments could be profit-destroying. If you earn 100 dollars of profit and gave to investors, the investors now have $100. If you reinvest $100, the investors have a bet that some time in the future they will have more than $100. Clearly, the two are different.
Honestly that's actually genius. Just pre-charge 1c to a Credit Card (which you won't need to refund as it is a pre-charge, not a charge) which will allow you to verify the name, address, and so on.

The only limitation of this concept is: People who don't own cards and under-age people who couldn't own them. It is possible to JUST use iTunes etc with just gift cards.
Ditto. Small(er) phones are getting harder and harder to find. If I could find a phone the same size as my Sony Xperia Ray with upgraded guts, I'd be ecstatic.

Even so the G has been great for me as well. I hope the new one has a better camera, that's really the Achilles heel of v1.
In my experience the lower level classes increase flexibility, maintainability, and sanity of your css. It's what allows bootstrap to be such a powerful tool for so many products.

Using a conceptually high-level naming scheme won't scale very well as your team and site grows. Eventually someone will say, I need a large rounded button, I can use the .buy class for this contact form. Or perhaps your team is very disciplined but ends up with 10-15 different ways of specifying large rounded buttons.

You'll potentially end up where .buy makes sense in two different contexts which will then increase the complexity of your css:

button.buy {...}
h1.buy {...}

Having .button .button-rounded .button-large helps you keep your css simple allows it to be remixed and reused in ways you haven't planned for yet.

Not to say semantic classes are wrong, I like them, but I have yet to see a system for it that doesn't break down after a certain size for a project/team.
Agree, you're right on honoring the term once it's been agreed to. Lazy conflation on my part.

I'm not sure I follow how the valuation is retroactively renegotiated. Later investors can't dilute an angel unfairly without diluting the founders unfairly too. In cases where the investor dilutes the angel but issues new shares to founders, the angel can simply veto the financing, right? Or are you saying a 5MM premoney valuation with pro-rata rights would be worth vastly less without pro-rata, so much so, that it's a nonstarter?
The way chickens are raised today is awful, but I don't feel like there is anything we can really do, because the industry is an absolute giant.
"Are you saying the video predates the IO monad? I don't think that's true."

No, I'm not saying that. Listen to the video...

(3:34): Nevertheless, we put up with that embarrasment for many years until we figured out how to combine, in a single language, a single programming (...), we can combine effectful computations with effect-free ones, without making them pollute each other, right. The type system keeps them apart.

(...) Can't quite make out this word, "methodology" perhaps?

In any case, as you can hopefully see from reading that quote, SPJ is talking about the situation with Haskell in the past. Until they worked out how to do effectful computation in a pure functional language Haskell was basically useless, after they worked it out then Haskell was not useless. Do you understand what SPJ was saying now?
That could be due to:

1. Different laws (i.e. liquor law says no expired IDs)

2. Overly cautious liquor retailers who don't want to lose their license because of an overly zealous gov't official
States should experiment with embedding a RFID or similar that outputs the expiration date digitally. Renewals are done online and updated to the RFID (electronic chip) by a dongle attached to the phone or other connection method. Data should be encrypted.

Maybe that would reduce the # of expired IDs?

In Illinois, I updated my DL by paying online and receiving a sticker that I would apply to the card. Convert this system digitally.
Hey, I think you might be slightly confused on some terminology.

Pro-rata is about investing MORE money into the company when you raise a round, to avoid being diluted. It's not something you can get "above".

I think you're talking about liquidity preferences here, which are a separate issue. You could get returns "above and beyond" liquidity preferences, so I'm guessing that's what your investors are actually talking about.
Because then your attacker knows that your buffer had something in it of value.
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NFC has 'must have' next year for the last 5+ years.
Voice is being slowly integrated into hangouts.
I'm a virgin but I've seen other people experience problems as a result of sexual relations. I can definitively say sex is NOT worth the trouble! Just meditate guys!
New Time Tracking/Invoice Software with Big Hopes
Funny, I had a blast writing a 30 page report with R Markdown, which is extended to hell and back (Math support, tables, graphics, whatnot).
And what 14 year old wrote this?
That depends on the screen technology. 24p looks great on plasmas. I'm pretty sure modern LCDs refresh at a multiple of 24, and can natively refresh at 24 FPS when they detect 24p content. No idea about this specific TV though.
There are niche-case advantages. Some artists (Tool comes to mind) refuse to sell on iTunes etc for the reason mentioned in the article: they only want to sell albums. Currently their only option (that I'm aware of) is to not sell digital music, or sell it through their own website.

So the advantage to the consumer would be that if GhostTunes catches on, we might at least have the convenience and price advantages of being able to buy these artists' music digitally, instead of having to choose between physical media, piracy, or going without.

For 99+% of artists currently selling music? No clear advantage.
No, in fact my post expressly says why they expire.

I am asking why third parties (i.e. not the DMV) take the license expiry so seriously, even in cases where it makes no sense to do so.
Interesting to see that this story has 5 points in 5 minutes whereas the same link submitted an hour ago has still 1 point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274640
I can't edit my original reply anymore, but after checking out the machines for myself in person, I really do think the author only outsmarted his own OCD. You can refill your card with a credit card with any value greater than or equal to a dollar using the "Other Amounts" UI path. Machines will also take coins as small as 5 cents. People in the booths will take any amount. In most cases, that should allow you to zero out your card or come really close if you really wanted to. Knowing that, I feel his points rest on confusion based on historical pricing changes and the 5% bonus.

First off, the bonus. For my purposes, I will call it "free", but as one response was so happy to point out, nothing is truly free, but I won't debate whether something should be provided at-cost or not here. However you feel, $2.5 is the price for one ride, and anything below that from the perspective of the buyer is essentially gratis. Assuming the bonuses were not there, for all three default payment paths, you would have $1.5 remaining. And hey, the lowest amount you can refill with happens to be a dollar! $1.5 + $1 = $2.5 = one perfectly balanced card.

Now for the price change. Cards were free, so essentially you really were paying for a balanced amount that would leave you with no remainder. Again, ignoring the bonus, you were essentially putting $10, $20, and $40 on your card - all values perfectly divisible by $2.50. Now cards cost a dollar. That's a different debate, but that explains the $1.5 pre-bonus dangler.

He goes on to mention, "If they really wanted to fix the issue, they could ask “How much do you want on your MetroCard” instead of “How much do you want to pay”. But don’t count on those changes coming to a MetroCard Vending Machine near you anytime soon, given how lucrative the current set up is."

But prior to the one dollar surcharge, that is essentially what it was doing. It's been updated to reflect the dollar surcharge, and it has always elected not to show the final amount + bonus. Including the bonus would be just confusing, especially if you were trying to pay with cash/coins. "Oh hey, I want $10 to be on my card, including the bonus." "Okay, please enter $9.524" Yes, that's right, it's not an even $9.5. 10 / 1.05 = 9.5238~

If there's any "answer" here, it's that they wanted the cheapest/smallest amount of software updates that they could get away with using their original software/ui.
Perhaps I am dense but how else could you possibly interpret the quote that I cited?

Suggesting - even if lightly - that Bezos is running Amazon for "fun" and as a "lifestyle business", especially in the light of the great analysis done above it, indicates that the author looks at any business that has very long term goals as inferior to those who are solely focused on turning profits back to shareholders.
But the point is, the seller can sell in whatever way he likes. I'm sure most of them can do math and realize they'll lose sales by not selling singles.

While I get that people are very attached to music, I don't really get why people care so much about being able to buy a single from an artist who doesn't want to sell it to them that way (which is distinct from a label not wanting to sell music that way against the wishes of the artists).

Just to be clear, I buy mostly singles in the era of the ITMS, but if some artists don't want my money, then I don't give it to them. There are already plenty of other great songs out there by people who will gladly sell me their songs as singles. Missing out on a few songs in my daily playlist is far from being the end of the world.
> I listened to a talk by Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, where he was explaining that Amazon's entire strategy is to build an infrastructure for itself, then rent that infrastructure out to its competitors.

This was the game played by John D. Rockefeller. He had so much infrastructure built up by the time they split up Standard Oil, that each new state Standard Oil immediately had everything it needed to keep operations going and the breakup was essentially a bunch of paperwork. As a stockholder in all of the new firms, Rockefeller's net worth tripled, from ~300m to ~900 million.

To make this strategy work, you need mountains of cash. In his salad days, Rockefeller cultivated excellent relationships with bankers, who would stop him on the streets of Cleveland and ask him if he needed money. Eventually he decided to buy up Cleveland's entire refining industry, an event that became known as the Cleveland Massacre.

John offered three choices to rival refiners, cash, Standard Oil stock, or to get crushed. He leveraged his extensive railroad connections and infrastructure to bury competitors, for one thing he owned virtually all the oil tank rail cars, without which you couldn't sell your products because you couldn't move them efficiently.

The right choice was to have taken stock, which would have made you fabulously wealthy. If you were any good at the oil business at all, he would also offer you a job, which again would have eventually made you very very rich. He had an insatiable hunger for quality staff. It was never a good idea to bet against Rockefeller.
I always figured that they just didn't really want to be in that business. It creates a conflict with the other phone manufacturers as well. From Google's point of view having a robust Android ecosystem is more important than building phones.
Wouldn't returning the passed memory block through the return fix the optimization issue?
You are ethically obligated to follow the terms of a contract that you carefully and deliberately sign.

How could it be otherwise? Virtually nobody is in a position to casually and efficiently use the courts to enforce contract terms.

A contract documents a promise. Promises must be kept.
Unless you don't live in America, in which case you can't purchase it.
Harvard Business Review on bundling vs unbundling: http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-b...

> What’s becoming clear as time passes, though, is that this is not a one-way process. Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. But new bundles keep appearing.

> Why is this? Well, maybe because there are “only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.”
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People have been saying that NFC will take off any day now for years. I've used Google Wallet with NFC. It's worse than handing over my credit card.
A desk calculator manipulates state, does it not?
In an era (which is coming to an end) of fabulously cheap money though - I suggest you and read the intelligent investor by graham and re think your view that profits an dividends don't matter
Oh you really showed me!
I second this. It is my only phone, and aside from the camera, it is a great phone at an awesome price.

There has been a lot of discussion of screen size in the Moto X thread [0], and I tend to agree that the old Moto G's screen size was great. I previously had a Galaxy S3 and did not mind the larger screen, but after switching to the smaller Moto G screen, I much prefer the 4.5". It is still big enough, but the battery life is far better. My cursory checking of the battery stats for both phones showed that generally the screen use was the driving factor in battery life, so I was happy to make the tradeoff to a smaller screen in exchange for a longer-lasting charge.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8272745
> It's important to make the video available to the public but I believe it should only be made available with a court order.

This is the same problem. There isn't going to be a court order when you're attempting to prosecute the police.

> Otherwise, people will start to fear calling the police for help because their personal problems will be streaming live to the world.

If people are going to fear calling the police, it's because they murder people and their pets and then prosecute them for their drugs. I fear calling the police because of their brutality and lack of accountability, so I think this is still an upgrade.
your comment is at best a gross exaggeration. They are making money, but they are re-investing that money at a crazy rate into new businesses. That represents a huge bet, which their shareholders are willing to take on. The alternative would be to pay out cashflow from operations to shareholders in the form of dividends, or grow slower. But look at the stock price over the last 5 years - clearly, investors want to take on the bet
You can buy individual tracks on GhostTunes, it's just not the way they're promoting things. It's just a marketing and user experience strategy to encourage album purchases, not refusing to sell singles. Personally, I think it's a good idea: it's better for the artist to be able to sell whole albums, and as a listener, I resist the urge to buy singles because when I listen to entire albums, I discover great tracks that weren't obvious gems on first listen. If I can't find more than one or two songs I like from an artist, I guess I'm just not a fan.
There has been a distortion in the markets lately with the value of cash. Over the long term, buying a share of any company (Amazon, Intel, Walmart) has to give a return to the holder of that share. Otherwise, you are trading cash to hold onto a piece of paper and get it returned back as cash when you sell it.

This invalidates the time value of money. In other words, if I am not getting a quarterly/annual dividend (ie a profit payout) on a stock, over the long term there is no incentive to hold onto that stock, because I could get a dividend from a different stock or some other investment in general.
I could be wrong, but Coolpad looks large (like a Note) whereas Moto G is small and easy to operate with one hand - which I prefer. Also, when I Google Coolpad 7320 my purchase options are eBay or AliExpress - and that's fine for many people, but I like to recommend a phone to a customer that they can walk into a retail store or Amazon and get easily. There's something to be said for that.