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Not having type casts everywhere.
I'm a little bit confused about why there's such a negative reaction to this on HN - it seems like a pretty reasonable statement to make, no?

"Too dangerous" is sophistry that is rightly derided when used for unquantified fear-mongering elsewhere and this is barely different.

I can't wait for the future where I don't have to drive, and safer is an attractive selling point too. But there is a level of risk associated with road travel, a level society has largely deemed acceptable (otherwise speed limits would be lower). Musk putting this in his cross-hairs is a disappointing choice of sales tactic.
Oh but it did. All our ancestors had to do was failing to guide the economy through the tremendous productivity gains offered by mass manufacturing. To paraphrase Jacques Fresco, they had empty factories and starving unemployed. This makes no sense!
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I just want to point out that many of the line textures can also be made with repeating-linear-gradient() from CSS, perhaps more efficiently so.
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If the OP criticized JavaScript, I would have been interested in reading it. He didn't. He merely waved his hands at the strawman "JavaScript sucks" and parrotted back a bunch of already well-known alternatives.

I don't take issue with the OP criticizing JavaScript - I take issues with the article for lacking substance and with the 20 upvoters who signaled it would be a good use of time to read.
"should" - not the best verb, but cool idea nonetheless.
I've read all of Robert Monroe's books on out-of-body experiences and I'm convinced OBEs are a dream-type state. Especially his later books when he discuses his conversations with other beings and trying to ignore sexual urges (erections are common in REM sleep).
>to run that suite you still need a Microsoft OS

False. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/office-university
Let's say we never had "the news", and we all decided we needed to help society understand and react to novel events. Would we invent newspapers and cable channels? I don't think so.

When modern institutions realize they have an information distribution problem, they don't get a bunch of ink-stained, dubiously sober arts graduates with no special qualifications, and tell them to write stories. They pay people to do regularly updated dashboards or reports with charts and graphs, establish information reporting networks and hierarchies, institutionalize whistleblowers, schedule mandatory periodical reviews of how certain projects are going, that sort of thing.

The human element is necessary but journalistic "storytelling" is just a euphemism for titillation or reinforcement of certain narratives. With minor exceptions, I'm not sure it was ever any different.
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I think it depends on who the artist is. For the most popular the artists wouldn't be complaining about being paid too little.

Either way if a formula change, distributing earnings based on an individual user instead of the whole pool, means the popular songs would earn far less.

It also means if someone listens to one song that would earn more than someone who loves music and pays the same thing!

I would argue the formula isn't wrong its difficult comparing an total Audio CD sales vs a lifetime NPV of music played on Spotify for an author.
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424 :(

Oh well, refactoring and crypto work is certainly more important. Congrats on the release.
You could try Panzura or Nasuni. They both have file locking and are targeted at use cases like you describe.
Sorry about that. I did not receive any lump sum. I have the standard options setup and I received a (much smaller) equity grant that vests over 4 years starting at the date of the acquisition.
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Are you saying the service by itself is responsible for an increase in the utilization rate for a class of transportation (ie, the car)?

If that's the case, then did people stop ridding bikes? Taking the bus? Or did (many) people start using uber instead of other taxi companies because of the price difference (due to uber not paying for all the licenses and insurances other transport companies are subjected to)?

If the later is the case, then regulation exists to discourage unfair competition.
Have a look at Activision/Blizzard. They built essentially the same thing (Origin/Uplay) but being very customer friendly about it and have had crazy success with Battle.net.
> your own bullshit bias

> shut the fuck up

This is not allowed on Hacker News. If you can't comment civilly, please don't comment here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Interesting idea. The main issue is that location matters. Most of the value of high value real estate is in the location. (This is why a 4BR house in Rochester NY costs 1/20th what it would cost in Manhattan or SF)

People would rather live in an old house with good schools and close to work (say Palo Alto or Los Altos) than new houses a significant drive away.

You can't tell someone "Take a risk on the schools, get a bigger commute, and pay up" but you can say "Get a nice new apartment, roll the dice on the schools, but save a lot of money and buy a nice car for the commute"
You could merge the two ideas to meet in the middle. 35% based on total revenue and 35% based on used revenue.
>If you're living within a corrupt, self-serving political system (we are)

[Citation Needed]
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Is it actually the case that signing record contracts was always a bad deal for artists? I was under the impression that they reduced risk for artists who could then use money from the contract as a more stable source of income to pay for, say, childcare expenses.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I would like MORE bus service and cities are generally run by fear of screwing up or looking stupid. It would be nice if enterprising people could start new routes, and then once they prove profitable then they would be turned over to the city who would use their own rolling stock to run the route.

This would enable the people starting the bus route to then do market analysis and use the same buses to go start yet another new route which could then either be profitable or not, and then get taken over or not. So you're organizing the company to take the risk and that means the city doesn't have to, which means that some kind of progress might get made in less than a person's lifetime.

Yes I do realize that profit != socially useful in all contexts. But I think in this case if a bus route can be run profitably there's going to be a substantial correlation with useful, because I can't think of a way that buses have been able to hack capitalism to extract rents without doing any useful work.
Why are light listeners like the example paying for Spotify? Shouldn't they just stick to the free version rather than going for premium?

Following this suggested model, free users listening wouldn't help the artists at all - is that really desirable?
It's also fair to say that the cracks are bigger (or, to be generous, an unknown width) with a non-regulated service

No, that's not a fair assessment at all - the evidence doesn't bear that out. Just because the government isn't doing the regulating doesn't mean there is no regulation. Uber at the very least does background/license checks, and the aforementioned ongoing quality rating. It's not a free-for-all.

There's also an article[1] straight from the horse's mouth about a statistically-significant reduction in taxi crime in Chicago after Uber set up shop there. Obvious bias, but I don't see anything obviously bad with their data.

Every taxi I've been in has a number to call, commonly mandated and staffed by a public agency (whose records are therefore public), when you have a problem.

As previously mentioned, a complaint based model will necessarily be less accurate than an automatic or passive rating model - people will in general not take action to complain unless they both had an awful experience and have the time to do so. I get the feeling that the response to this will be "a bad rating does not ensure action" - but neither does a call to the public agency.

If I complain about too many taxi drivers, every other taxi driver will still pick me up.

Does Uber actually do this? They rate you immediately at drop off, presumably before you rate them. (I never got the rating prompt until after the driver had left)

How does the driver know of the history of your ratings of other drivers?

If there's short term construction, or a particular corridor is always busy at an unusual time of day, my driver will already know about it, because there's a good chance he's been driving in this city for years.

Who the heck do you think most Uber drivers are? Taking a shot in the dark here, but probably residents of the city they drive in.

..And if he hasn't, the competition to become a driver is fierce enough that he is highly motivated to be the best taxi driver he can be.

What do you think will happen to the ratings of a slow driver who makes someone late to their destination, or drives with a dirty car, or has a bad attitude? I'm going to take another shot in the dark here, but knowing what I know of the rating system, I'd wager that will get a driver drummed out of Uber a lot faster than the same behavior would get a driver dismissed from a regular taxi outfit.

I really do not get this argument - the feedback and ongoing quality checks by the rideshare companies is necessarily more immediate and more tied to actual everyday conditions and performance than the spot checks that can be performed by even the most scrupulous and well intentioned government agency.

Everything else you said was varying degrees of spot on.

[1]: http://blog.uber.com/chicagotaxicrime
Awesome. I was actually just searching yesterday for a self-hosted snippet solution similar to Github Gists. Great job, Bitbucket!
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At least for google play music, it will pop up a window if you don't interact with the web page for a few hours.
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Text Editors VS IDEs it's more of a question of what tools do you use to accomplish specific tasks. Although most of my day is spent in a feature rich IDE, I do spend a descent about of time in a text editor for small things.

I prefer SublimeText as a TextEditor. I've been trying to use Atom, but haven't made the complete switch.

I've been playing with WebStorm because I think JetBrains products are #KickAss.

I would recommend to using the best tool for the job/task you're working on. If you're doing .NET Development, then Visual Studio would be your tool of choice.

If you're doing web development for MEAN or LAMP or anything else, you're probably use a combination of SublimeText/Atom and something like WebStorm.

I suggest trying to use as many tools as you can and see which ones work best for you and your workflow. It's always a good thing to know how to use more than one tool.
That is my understanding as well; in particular, a lot of popular mythologies about artists "recouping" and being stiffed on royalties seem to be just that: mythological.

Here's a good post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850935
Wouldn't you have had to (if a free user) listen to commercials during this? Wouldn't that sort-of defeat the purpose of the silence?

May as well ask people to play some more normal 30s songs and turn off their speakers, avoid being delisted as a non-album.
That's strange. Did it segfault on startup or while running? Was it connected to a server at the time?
(I am one of the guys behind opp.io)

What's Hungarian about it? :)

When is definitely important, we have it on our roadmap. We picked @who because of @mention. Does it come natural to you?
I wonder if stash is going to get this feature in the nearest future.
Attribution is apparently not clear:
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My first startup job put me barely at the beginning of the range you're talking about. Honestly I thought we could have made it further on our own but I didn't really have much of a choice, but in retrospect it probably was the best thing we could have done for ourselves and our other employees.

I guess the working hard for 5-10 years bit and taking it easy for the rest of your life is fine and all, but I think I would go insane if I didn't have work to do.
>I don't think there is a single society which can cope with a strong heterogenity in the genotype

I'm afraid we will "cope" the way it happened before: the stronger/wealthier wealthier/healthier will control the rest. But this time it will be even more subtle. To some extent it already happens.
Erik, how would you phrase it?
I hear you, I also was a bit confused with seeing the article on the front page of HN.
Given the similarity in pattern (starting near the camera along the edge) do you really think this is caused by user error? Do you think that everyone is cleaning their screen in the same wrong way in the same area of the screen?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

> Hungarian notation is an identifier naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of a variable or function indicates its type or intended use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation#Relation_to_...

> For example, in some forms of BASIC, name$ names a string and count% names an integer. The major difference [...] is that sigils declare the type of the variable to the compiler, while Hungarian notation is purely a naming scheme not enforced by the compiler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)
From the ZDNet article you linked:

> The additional detail about free upgrades for "non-genuine" (i.e., pirated) copies of Windows was a surprise, and it leaves multiple unanswered questions. Earlier, Microsoft said that consumer PCs running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 would be entitled to free upgrades to Windows 10 for the first year after the product is released. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed via email that the plan to allow free upgrades for non-genuine copies of Windows applies to all markets and is not limited to China.

So it's not limited to China. But there are other "unanswered questions." I think it's prudent to wait for those to be answered, rather than assuming based on early news reports. Windows 10 isn't out until some nebulous summer launch anyway.
Wow, talk about lost opportunity. I can only assume you're willing to talk about leaving so much money on the table because you got some other windfall a few years later!
I should've done this last night, now that I see that this ended up on front page for a while.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-10...

http://www.thelancet.com/pb/assets/raw/Lancet/stories/audio/...
a lot of top engineers are understandably going ot be risk-averse about taking low-salary for equity in a company that most likely will not work out... this however is not good for vc firms, because for their investments to work out they need to be able to hire the best hackers (away from places like google and facebook) . this makes me thikn there might be value in vc firms having hackers on their books, hired guns if you will. where the hacker gets a stable income from the vc firm and multiple attempts at joining different start-ups.. across each individual hackers' 2/3 attempts annd the portfolio of hackers,,,, the massive ten million dollar options could be spread around a bit more, to make it more attractive for top hackers to take the risk and join a start-up

crucially this would also allow investors to take some of the sunk cost risk out of funding a start-up which is the employees wages..
+1 for WHEN. I like the ~ for When since a lot of dates are ballpark estimates, at least in planning stage.
The task rabbit economy model. If they had leaned into that dystopia, it might have been a fascinating city building syndicate game.
I am surprised that nobody mentions the great performance of Google's V8 engine here...
On broadcast TV, or maybe on Cable TV. Advertisers play the same games at Spotify, Youtube, etc.
I agree wholeheartedly. The news is no longer interesting and relevant to me, it's merely all the bad things happening all over the world.

i.e. the headline might be about a train crash on the other side of the world, rather than some good story that happened in my own country.

I spent two weeks above the Arctic Circle in September hiking and camping, with no access to the world [1]. When coming back along the road, my car radio was continually searching for a station, and it eventually locked onto one randomly. The first words I heard from "the world" after two weeks were "ISIS Threat".

It turned it off and didn't turn it back on for the rest of the 8 hour drive home.

[1] If you're curious, it looks like this http://theroadchoseme.com/the-dempster-highway
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"There's a reason why the financial industry has to pay the highest salaries. It's surely not out of generosity."

They are one of few who can afford to pay higher, and give all kinds of perks. Everybody wants the best of breed to work for them, don't we? On the other side, while searching for a job, the lure of neat cashflow is a strong persuator for many.

Plus there is plenty of pretty clever people in banking crowd (maybe some of them don't use their talent to max or in a way they would find fulfilling, but that's another topic).
Wait and see, if it's really a manufacturing defect as it so obviously seems to be, that goes back to ~2012 era (and hasn't been fixed in the newest model like you and I have), they'll likely end up fixing it free when and if it happens to ours, and/or fully compensate for any repairs we have to pay for.

They should of course be investigating and reacting faster when possible serious defects show up, but this won't be the first (or even the 5th) time they've run a free repair/replacement program for machines out of warranty, assuming that's what ends up happening (and I think it will).
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Please don't make HN threads worse by going on about how bad they are.

This would be a fine comment if it were just the first paragraph and didn't begin with "Haha, grow up".
IPO's are not public in the sense that they make public who gets what (except at the top levels), they are an initial public offering of stock.

How many % is allocated to employees is a very complicated process depending on how much dilution happens and if any down-rounds have happened, or funding needed to be done in a rush (look at say Box ...)

I believe VC's generally want an options pool for non-founders/early employees of around 15-25% but every company is going to be a bit different.
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It bugs me an unreasonable amount when people misuse eg.

> In places like e.g. Germany, you have...

This is not the correct way to do it, and it makes it look as though you're trying too hard. You're using a fancy latin word, but you're using it wrong.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g.

The way to write that sentence would have been:

In other places around the world e.g. Germany, you have...

Sorry for the rant. I see this on HN all the time. It's not just you. It's unreasonable for me to be annoyed by it and even moreso if I do nothing to address it.
Makes perfect sense to me. If you look at our culture now there is always that one male all the females in a group tend to go for.

Same for males there's always that 1 mega hotie you want to meet.

The only difference is even average females can have any guy they want while the same doesn't apply to guys.

The advent of agriculture gave females the ability to support their children more easily without the help of males and the more desirable males could have more offspring with so much food available.

Basically less females had to settle for second best to have offspring.
I haven't looked to see where they got it, but Wikipedia gives a figure of 7.6 deaths / billion km, in terms of vehicle miles, not passenger miles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...

That's ~ 12 deaths / billion miles. So there is a big discrepancy with the figure stated by astazangasta. Passenger vs vehicle will make up for some if it, but even an assumption like 4 people per vehicle mile still puts it at 3 vs 30.

(this isn't really a response to your comment, but it seems like a good place in the thread to put it)
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Spotify has me and all I know spending 9x12=108 per year on just music. If anyone expected any of us to ever spend more than this, they are very wrong. Even if we go back to the golden days of CD sales, I doubt the average consumer spent more than this, but I might be terribly wrong. I'm sure I wouldn't.
This ends up really useful if you want to run a different operating system at the same time. It might make it possible to run Windows RT and Linux at the same time on the RPi2 (or as the author is wanting, NetBSD and Linux). This is something that cannot be done by a container system. For practical setups though, you are correct you'll get a better experience with the lower overhead of a container system and likely better support. Being able to work around the hardware issue on the RPi2 though to enable this is something I didn't think was really doable. Congrats to the author, this is a really great development.
I don't think I agree with this.

Road traffic accidents are something like the 10th most common cause of death worldwide. It's clearly a rather dangerous activity.

The idea that we have 'deemed acceptable' the risk involved is only the case where the risk cannot be lowered without compromising other goals (e.g. fast travel).

In a hypothetical future where autonomous cars are widespread and much safer, the tradeoff changes – it suddenly becomes possible to have both fast and safe travel, with the proviso that humans can't be in change cars.

I'm not going to argue that this is a good thing, because I don't know. But it's not fair to say that it's fear-mongering – it's objectively true that cars kill loads of people, and quite possible that non-autonomous vehicles will be banned or at least heavily regulated in the future.
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> Some classes of people will do well, and some will lose out.

If he's right about the automation part (I think he is), and if we're as stupid as we were in the 1930s, then the class of people who do well is likely to be quite smaller than the class of people who lose out big time.

Automation is wonderful. Destroying jobs is amazing. For most jobs, anyway. The only awful thing about that is the loss of revenue. And the stigmatization of the unemployed.

With technology that destroys more jobs than it creates, we don't have many solutions. We could generalise the 4 days work-week. Then 3 days… Or we could try unconditional basic income. Both, maybe? Or, we can wait until we're all deep in the poo, such that we get an increasing number of violent uprisings, leading to revolutions or fascism. Again.
JIRA does allow you to link issues and create subtasks; you mentioned that you're experience wasn't that great with JIRA. Can you elaborate what problems you were facing?