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They have a superior music listening & discovering functionality to any other competitor by a mile. Is there really anything else needed? I can't see how such a superior product can fail. But it just seems there are so many people in the music industry that are living in the past and are slowing down the pace instead of everyone going all in on it.
If Spotify had 10x their subscribers no one would question the model. The problem is that it takes too long time to get to those numbers due to all the friction.
So $random chinese hackers seen from chinese/taiwanese IP space duped Google into allowing the installation of these systems?

Mission accomplished!
I have a friend who's a very talented backing musician who tours around playing guitar for the latest TV contest winners

"Session musician" is a good gig to get, but it's like "pro athlete" in that there aren't enough of that kind of job to make a difference.
Your recollection of the story is a little off, but it's close. The
story you mentioned was from 5 years ago (2009). It was mentioned in a
blog post in 20011 [1] and again in a podcast in 2012 [2]. It involved
Patrick McKenzie (a.k.a "patio11" [3]) and Thomas Ptacek (a.k.a "tptacek"
[4]). They are two of the most prolific contributors to HN [5].

Needless to say, times change. At present, Patrick's consulting rate is
somewhere north of $30K a week [6], and dare I say it, I'm sure he's
worth every penny of it for the right companies.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/07/08/business-psychology/
[2] http://productpeople.tv/2012/12/26/patio11-part2/
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574541
Do think a company like 10x would be more helpful for freelancers vs people looking for salaried employment? In the latter case I can easily see an experienced and talented person interviewing at multiple places and choosing the best fit.

Seen in this light, the comments from Chris Fry and Sam Altman make sense. If you're looking for employment, have a very good resume and a good network you might not need an agent. However, they don't seem to be considering the case of freelancers who need to spend a large amount of time finding clients.

Given that I haven't worked as a freelancer this is something I know little to nothing about. Hence the question.

Cheers and all the best with your work!
Not only that, but simply keeping an existing system from crushing itself under its' own weight...

Knowing how/where you can effectively add caching, or even pre-aggregated data into an existing system can be the difference between a system going under, and being able to keep the single-instance database server from collapsing your business while a new system can be established.
If it is not worth it for the artists, why are they participating on Spotify? I think it is their problem to work out. It's not my job to work out the finances of artists.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I think in theory the economics could work, as people spend roughly the same on Spotify as they would have spend for music otherwise. How the money is being distributed is for the artists to negotiate. And of course it also depends on the distribution costs Spotify has, and the efficiency of their operation.
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I'm patiently waiting for this release like I might wait for a good new film or a game. Don't think I was ever that 'excited' (if I can use that word) by a database point release.

I needed a document database/RDBMS hybrid combo for a piece of work I want to do, and was going to default to MongoDB but once I heard of 9.4 I decided to wait and see how it pans out.
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Notice the 29 hour-a-week job? Healthcare, anyone?
The issue is that if you have two packages installed, and both use "libs" as their top-level package, they'll collide. Use "projectname.common" instead.
Dunno, I've seen the QT near a major university... plenty of market for things on a stick (or a roller/bun) so to speak.

If you would need 8 lesser devs to do what 2-3 very skilled devs can do, for only 2x-3x the amount.. you'd be surprised what the differences are... I've cleaned up enough code to know the difference.
> No serious economist believes the old wives tale about deflation keeping consumers on the sidelines while they wait to save 1 cent (or yen) on a can of soda next year.

A serious economist is able to differentiate between goods that can (and will) be delayed an a consumable like a can of soda. Cars are an example of a consumer good where consumption observably is affected by deflation.
Well, I would blink. I use Spotify only for discovering music. Once I like an album, I get it physically or on iTunes.

I think they could tie it to hours / month. A cheap, limited account for people like me, and an unlimited one for hardcore consumers.
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The one that generates the most semantic, ad-useful data will survive.
Actually LaTeX was invented to be a typesetting DSL. As someone who has taught TeX and LaTeX and written my own software on top of TeX, I have come across this question very often. Basic TeX is not meant to be high level at all. LaTeX hides the complexity of 95% of the typesetting needs.
Really? It's not like research is being performed where the answer (and how long to find it) is unknown.

Two months, with two experienced engineers should totally be enough. Sure it's not going to have all the bells and whistles but it should at least be a very very good better than MVP.
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Having ability to forward requests to an actual API of my service seems to be nice-to-have feature. (Especially for 5512 and 5513 ports, where actual correct 200 OK responses are expected.)

Any plans on that?
> > The expectation of deflation is deeply rooted in regular folks. Everyone is waiting to spend on large items, just not right now.
> And this is exactly why some inflation (caused by QE and a falling yen) would be a good thing - delays in consumer spending are a classic pitfall of deflation.

Waiting until house prices fall isn't a sign of deflation - it's a sign of overpriced housing. Especially compared with the rent yields, vs. rent yields elsewhere in the world (grandparent compared them to Seattle). And it's definitely a good thing - I'm part of the millennial generation, and one of our main issues is that we simply don't have the money to buy property (even to live in), because older people have more money saved up, so they can bid more, hence a bubble (this is what happened in Europe, I assume it's similar in Japan).
Signing your opinion with your nick or name has nothing to do with doxing. It's not like we're talking about his address and SSN. But if you don't like the word "vitriol", use "FUD" instead, because that's what it is. There are lots of things about MS SQL one could point out and say: hey, this is broken. But the vast number of statements on that page are empty, misleading or simply untrue.

That being said, I don't think this site is that harmful. People who'd eat this content up won't read it (tl;dr) and people who do read it will most likely have their own opinion anyway. It's not an authoritative source people tend to trust like, say, Wikipedia, so I'm not bothered about it personally.
If you saw INTERSTELLAR and are still confused, this should clear things up
The fucus on the misspelled "hello wowrl" of the article is funny: nobody cares about it in a (especially FOSS) IT live presentation.
Can the same index also efficiently find where screen_size > 37?
Not really an alternative to classic LaTeX (scientific articles, homework and college / university work) but for database publishing (XML -> PDF):

https://github.com/speedata/publisher

manual:

http://speedata.github.io/publisher/manual/index.html

built on top of (Lua)TeX.
"> Amazon, has returned less in profits in its 17-year life as a public company than cloud competitors ... earn in a single quarter."

Another way of writing this is, "Amazon has focussed on continual growth over the last 17 years, and had demonstrated that is willing to put all of it's assets, revenue, and cash to chasing that growth. It's public cloud competitors, hamstrung by the expectations of wall-street, are unable to provide that same level of focus, and must instead return profits to shareholders in the form of share buybacks, and dividends - restrictions that Amazon has so far been able to avoid."

Amazon is a ruthless, relentless company. They certainly aren't taking those profits and sending them to their employees/executives in the form of perks and boondoggles. Everything they do is to pursue growth, at any costs.
The artist's contract with labels is not the consumers responsibility.

If you compare the price of spotify with average consumer behavior, you see that money spent on spotify is in every sense more than reasonable. Many album deals in the past have had pennies on the album reach the artist, so I fail to understand your argument that spotify is cheating artist. But that logic Walmart are cheating artist who doesn't have a fair record deal.

If artist don't receive money from consumer spending it is the label that is cheating the artist, not the distributor.
Lyx is a WYSIWYG editor for Latex. It shows you quick typesetting in the WYSIWYG editor, but you can compile the underlying Latex document for beautiful typesetting.
For the Dutchies, a report which aired on Dutch TV a few weeks ago: http://journalistiek.npo.nl/dossiers/ouderenzorg/290_84312-r...
Well, Spotify bribed the labels by giving them ownership. This, notably, appears to have zero chance of flowing through to the artists. So said artists are right to feel aggrieved.
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The 10X productivity thing may be a myth. What I've seen in 35+ years programming is developers fall into three broad categories:

1. Can't get anything done on schedule or in budget.
2. May eventually get something done, late and over budget.
3. Delivers what the customer needs on time and within budget.

The first two groups just cost the customer time and money, create uncertainty and stress for the customer, and may or may not deliver something of value. A better developer doesn't have to be 10x better (however that is measured). They only have to deliver what the customer needs within the time and budget parameters.

From the customer's point of view the relevant scale is not 1 - 5 - 10 times productivity from the developer. The relevant scale is 0 - 1, where anything much less than 1 means their business problems weren't addressed in a useful way. It doesn't really matter that one programmer had 10x more commits on GitHub than another programmer if the customer can't ship packages because the programmer didn't correctly add shipping charges to the invoice (real example).

Anyone who is freelancing, leading a project or team, or calling themselves a ninja, rockstar, wizard, etc. should not be surprised or indignant that customers don't understand their requirements and usually can't communicate their needs in a complete and consistent format. That problem has been known since the 1950s. Blaming the customer is not an option. An effective developer will concentrate on business needs, ask the questions and get the answers, and work with the customer to nail down requirements.

When I get involved with a broken/stalled project the first thing I do is ask the customer to make a short list of the problems and missing features in decreasing priority order. What I always get, without exception, are business requirements, not technical glitches. The root cause of a missing business requirement may be technical (e.g. failed PCI compliance audit because of vulnerable PHP code), but all the customer cares about is the business requirement. It doesn't matter if I am 10x faster or smarter than whomever was working on the code before as long as I can fix the problem.
No, it's a necessary consequence of the fact that the observable macrostates we care about can be composed of many, many ontologically-basic microstates in any reductionist ontology. If you live in a world where large things are composed of small things that run according to fixed rules, with causality being more fundamental the further into the small you go, then any observable "question" will have low Kolmogorov complexity compared to the total information necessary to write down the exact micro-state of the system you're asking the question about, which means simpler "questions" or "concepts" will capture larger portions of the fundamental particles' configuration-space.
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In summary, Japan is in absolutely no danger of defaulting under current conditions, without even taking the additional step of "printing more money" to pay its future debts.

That statement is far more reasonable than 'It's literally impossible for Japan to default on their debts', which is false. Japan could default on debts if it chose to (many countries have in the past).
Of course, any feedback is welcomed!
> That does not mean it hurts the economy as a whole.

The only way for that not to hurt the economy would be finding a way to persuade the consumer to put all the money saved by delaying this specific consumption into goods that cannot be delayed. If I just saved $10k by not buying a new car, you won't be able to persuade me to buy a motorcycle instead, as that buy would be delayable in the same way.
The UK will never be able to foster the same atmosphere as Silicon Valley. We're a conservative bunch and always will be; it's almost embedded in our culture. This isn't a problem because it means we're more prudent when it comes to investing hence why we rarely get VC/Angel investment for startups unless they have an already successful business model.

The best way to put it is: In the UK we mostly invest in 1 - n whereas in Silicon Valley they also invest in 0 - 1. After all, it's the birthplace of true capitalism.
You have pointed indeed real situations about outsourcing to a programmer. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
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It is presumably being down-voted because it is off-topic; This is not a post about web design.

Sure, CSS is on-topic on HN, just like this article about cryptography is on-topic. However, commenting on the HTTPS certificate particulars of a site with a blog post about CSS would be similarly off-topic in a discussion about that blog post :)

(Personally, I am on the fence about the appropriateness of the comment, but I hope I have shed some light on why others would down-vote it)
I've currently got a toy language on the go (learning LLVM) and decided to have generators/coroutines as a core part of the language.

What I realized is that a function's stack frame is little more than a struct living on the stack - once you have that it makes coroutines somewhat more straightforward to encapsulate. There are some oddities (e.g. the callee's frame is hoisted to the caller's frame, or you sometimes need the frame living on the heap).

I put some pseudo-c together as an end-goal for the toy compiler[1]. Thought this is an interesting approach, comments are appreciated.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jcdickinson/af7fabf37c808d8e5814
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Biflation is a thing.
Their rockstars are actually getting 85% of that hourly rate?

Many contracting firms are taking anywhere from 50-75% if the rate they are charging.
They're spending on different things, e.g. bailing out banks, which has the net effect of less spending for investments/services/wages.
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This reply is in direct contradiction to your first reply to me, which was a write-off of my laughing at the situation.
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> They have a superior music listening & discovering functionality to any other competitor by a mile.

How is their discovery any better than anyone else's? And how is the player better than anyone else's? I like Spotify, but the only perk I see is that I can play any song without directly paying for it.... What am I missing?
You have right. From what you are saying, i understand that in some ideal conditions, meeting THAT coder might help you a lot. Otherwise, it will just be a loss of time and money. Thank you for your thoughts!
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I understand. Well than, hope he will do a right job for you!
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This is true, and it's still most readily manifested in the way that entrepreneurs are viewed and treated in this country - as crazy outcasts, who are best avoided, as you might catch the horrendous disease of independent thought.
There is ASCIIDOC and ASCIIDOCTOR http://asciidoctor.org/
I wrote my thesis with it. If you want to publish HTML, it's great. For PDF the current way to go it is to compile to DocBook and from DocBook to PDF. But there a ASCIIDOC to PDF renderer in the works.
I think 10X is a good fit for freelancers, but that's what I do. I've been offered full-time jobs after contracting/freelancing; I think freelancing is a good way to bypass the recruiting/hiring/HR process if you have an "in" at the company or get placed by an agent/consultancy. Some companies can attract enough good people because of their sex appeal and signup packages (Facebook, Google, Twitter). Most companies aren't so sexy and can't afford lavish signing bonuses or offer the kinds of perks you get at Google.

If you want to use an agent or consulting firm to get interviews at multiple companies you are probably better off finding a truly talented and connected recruiter -- they do exist. Ask everyone you know, including hiring managers, for referrals to good recruiters and see which names keep coming up.

Some companies don't use recruiters or consulting firms, they do their own hiring. If you've identified one or a few companies you really want to work for the best way to get interviewed is to know someone who works there.
i know :) hence the big nose smiley
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"Finally the Flix/Netflix Roulette API will feature localization (finally), this will include all current regions Netflix is supported in and any future ones (its literally checking every second to see if a new country gets added)"
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Nifty sublime plugin that makes copy&pasting code from SO a lot easier
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I imagine most who care have already found an invite, but just in case, I'll offer. I've got 10, pm with an email address to invite if you'd like one.
Simple: because of Java.
This is not true, you can specify package directories in setup.py.

See https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html#listing...
> Is that actually true? Is inflation really worse than default? I mean, we don't have any samples from "advanced" economies, but from the what I've seen, high inflation, in the long run, doesn't seem to be that much worse for economic health than default.

I grew up in an Eastern-European post-communist country which was very badly affected by inflation in the '90s (it ran in the high double-digits for almost all the decade, and in one year it actually surpassed 100%). Let me tell you that to see your life-savings absolutely annihilated in a matter of 2-3 years it's much, much, much worse than deflation. Japan got into the current mess after 20 years and it still manages to build Maglev trains and to be an economic power, but in a country affected by very high inflation all that goes out of the window (see the Soviet Union implosion).

And anecdotal recollection, I remember when my parents had asked me to be the one in charge of answering the family's phone (I was 14 or 15), and to tell whomever was calling that they were not home (they had borrowed money from lots of their friends to buy food and to pay for basic apartment maintenance and there is no-way to pay it back). One day a lady judge called, asking my parents to pay back the money they owned her because she did not have money to buy bread. Now, you can imagine that in a country where even judges cannot afford to buy bread for their family things are worse than worse.
> Women are massively under-used in Japan. There's no need for immigration as long as there is a large untapped segment of the population not actively employed.

How would that help? People who are not employed (not "unemployed", but they simply don't need to work) still spend money (that their working relatives make), so by having them enter the workforce, you would not increase consumption at all, while reducing the average wage (making it impossible for a single working spouse to sustain a family).
It's fine. Whether or not you like it is a matter of preference[1], but design-wise it works well. If you couldn't change the size in your browser then it'd be a problem, but you can, and the page still flows well even if you crank the type size up to 2 or 3 times the size.

[1] Design being how it works, not what it looks like. Your comment is really about aesthetics rather than design per se.
That's nice, but why stop at being a package manager? Why not also replace the build tool (make et al.)?

If all the functional machinery is in place, this would be perfect for a build tool.
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how me the countries in Europe that have substantially reduced government spending over the last six years.
In fact, spending as a % of GDP has increased.> Show me the countries in Europe that have substantially reduced government spending over the last six years.

>In fact, spending as a % of GDP has increased.

Because e.g. in Greece, GDP shrank over 30% in the last 5 years. Have you ever looked at the things a country spends its taxes on? How should it out-save it shrinkage without destroying the very infrastructure it's economy needs to flourish?

> cato.org

Cato is good PR agency, but you should not take them seriously on anything economics-related. Just look who works there, I wasn't able to find a single phd in economics there, only public relations staff (people who studied politics, sociology etc, practically no one who actually did research in any field before working there).
It's not.

Price-inflation means our purchasing power decreases. We're all better off if we get moar stuff for our money instead of less, but governments would like us to believe the opposite.

We ordinary people clearly don't benefit from inflation, but who does? -Might it be the same people who are telling us inflation is good?
I know some of the latex3 people, and I know they are working on it. It is not a frontend code (for example such thing as \tableofcontents), but currently purely backend stuff.

A lot of latex2e packages are using latex3 in the background (for example fontspec).
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It's funny, when trying to get funded I spoke to so many angels and VC's who would bemoan the lack of any Facebook / Google / Twitter level exits.

Those businesses would never have gotten funding if they were based in London.

We ended up not getting funding, and I had to move on. I second the other comments here on the conservative nature of London investors, the most common comment we heard was "come back when you're making money".