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`do` isn’t always the verb, though.

@JoeBloggs should !do #CakeBaking

vs

@JoeBloggs should !bake #Cake

EDIT: oh, I see, you tagging verbs more generally. I disagree. It adds context.

@JoeBloggs #Contract by Friday.

What about the contract? Review, sign, amend, shred?
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The top address that appears in the dropdown list when I type 'news' is this site. Other hits show up, but the vast majority are related to something 'new' instead.

I used to be a serious news junky, keeping track of everything that happened related to politics or the latest war. I'd even research what was happening regarding local politics in the place I was traveling to just in case the topic came up while I was with some people from that area. I monitored RSS feeds from various news outlets and blogs from others who also watched the news, and over time it became impossible for me to keep up with it.

After that point of realization (that it was impossible for me to keep up with all this information), I then realized that it really didn't matter anyway! The world did not end, my favored side didn't win any less and my most hated side didn't win any more... I just had more time to focus on things that really mattered to me. I probably now have a better state of well-being on top of it all.
As long as you don't lie about what you're doing ...
"...I think it means, as all other aspects of life, there are distinct clusters of people in this field, with little cross cluster exchange. Either you are in that group in which all of you make money or you are in the group that you and your friends none make much money...." -alimoeeny

This is probably the best take I've read on what is going on. There ARE people who make a lot of money on equity, even as employees. The issue is that there are a lot more people who make nothing. This is actually what is supposed to happen. After all, most businesses fail.

If you made money through equity... then obviously the friends you worked with at that company made money too. And if you didn't... then your friends, who were at the same company, probably made nothing as well.

Just as a matter of full disclosure, I've had two SUPER nice exits. I got them by NOT going out to Silicon Valley to try the internet startup route though. I stayed in the midwest and went the medical imaging route. The thing is this, there were't 1000 other companies doing the same thing. So the odds of winning were much higher. So my personal advice would be to look at the KIND of company you're getting equity from. Molecular Imaging startup??? Yeah... you're probably gonna want as much equity as possible. Yet Another Consumer Web/SmartApp startup??? Your odds of that equity being lucrative are much lower, you should plan accordingly.

Either way, it's basically a lottery ticket. I got really lucky a couple of times. Others won't. But it's basically all down to luck of the draw. I just drew a straw from a pool with very few lots. Whereas the people in the Silicon Valley-Web/SmartApp industry draw straws from a pool with millions of lots. In both cases, luck is probably a pretty big factor.
Actually, if it reduces the living standard and opportunities of the majority of people, that's pretty much the definition of 'evil'. We don't know if that's the actual outcome yet, but we should be aware of the possibility and make choices to try to avoid it.
I could never understand how this is possible. If you have a child, wouldn't it be natural to speak to her in your native tongue? I would NEVER speak to my child in anything other than English, even if I lived in France, if only to avoid propagating non-native grammatical errors.
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>I'll repeat - SpaceX literally has a goal of colonising Mars.

This is like saying that Facebook's goal is to give the 3rd world free internet. Its lofty PR speak. SpaceX only exist as a COTS beneficiary from NASA welfare to build rockets to LEO. It is literally incapable of doing anything else as it doesnt have the customers (who is paying $200 billion for that on way ticket to Mars exactly)?

Again, this is the marketing sci-fi smokescream Musk is good at. He fanservices what manboys wants to hear and they delightfully repeat his marketing for him as he sells luxury electric cars with poor range to the 1% and does the occasional LEO lift.

Years from now there will be a lot research into Muskmania. Why people bought into such a self-promoter and how well marketing works, especially on people who think they're immune to it is going to spill a lot of ink. It won't matter, we'll just move onto the next guy who promises things we refuse to cast a critical eye towards.
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I came here to say the same thing. This move probably has everything to do with making sure people don't have to constantly change the volume when shifting between music videos and random amateur cat videos. The simple fact is YouTube can't change the average loudness of a given audio track without applying some form of 'destructive' processing, either compression or expansion. A more dynamic track will always be on average, quieter than a less dynamic track. Re-processing a bunch of audio tracks with just normalization does not change their average loudness, unless of course they are selectively applying compression to audio they find in need of a boost.
I don't know of any industry that pays out of generosity. They pay for talent because they have to to get it.
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Different people value the features of premium differently, no different than the market for any other good or service.

For instance, it is probably true that to some people $5 dollars a month is nothing compared to the torture of listening to a single ad ever.
Choice of symbol has some degree of being arbitrary and I only preferred '@' for when because we (at least in USA) often specify time that way. E.g. "meet for lunch @2:00pm". However, I can see that '@' might feel like a fragment of an email address John@xyz.com.

The tilde '~' because UNIX/Linux alias for user's home directory. Hence the "who". I do admit that's a meaningless reason for any mainstream audience.
At least for the desktop software, they detect if you turn the volume down quickly, and pause the commercial. Spotify has pretty rude behavior towards their free users, but I suppose they want to push everyone to subscribe.
There's a lot of bias in how each of us remembers these things, but one thing we can say for sure is that HN has always been about a lot more than tech and startups, because that's why it was launched in the first place:

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
Actually Newtonian Conic Sections is how we (humans) calculated orbital, and interplanetary trajectories up until the 1980's.

There weren't powerful enough computers to model full Eisenstein N-Bodies Systems until actually very recently (also its complete over kill for inner-solar system travel). Relativity is really complex math, and even modern computer clusters struggle to model very complex systems.

Yes we sent astronauts to the moon using KSP math.
The ads the article quotes make me sad.

- “This is the reason celebrities are confident even without their makeup”

- “Everyone but you has done it”
I have a newer, faster thinkpad given to me by my company but I still use my 6 year old macbook. I'm really more of an OSX fan vs Windows now. I could probably get by on Ubuntu or something if I really wanted to. I'm just not a fan of the aesthetics of the thinkpad, which might seems weird but it plays a part of why I don't use it. It's heavy, and ugly, and has hooks sticking of the screen.

I never found the keyboard to be much better than others but I have heard many others say it is great so maybe I'm the exception. I use a daskey mechincal on my gaming PC and it's pretty great. The track pad sucks compared to Apple's even though they are made by the same people.

I'll give you service ability (though my old macbook was upgradable). I'm really surprised I haven't had battery issues after 6 years. Being an IBMer we always had to order Lenovos. I think that is changes with our Apple deal. You could get a macbook through some exception but soon they will be available and supported for all employees. I've also heard there is a Toshiba option available though I'm not sure who would pick that over a ThinkPad.
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I have no idea and that is a really good question. So, let's round and say $7.00 a month goes to artists[1]. What is an expected percentage of time fans will listen to the artist's music (25%?) and how many thousand fans does the artist have?

I would imagine Taylor Swift with Blank Space might have cleaned up. Is there a source of public data on this?

1) as in all the people who get paid off the artist's music including, hopefully, the artist
What do you mean by electron-based signal transmission technology? If you're talking remote control, those signals will be photon based. If you're talking internal control, electrons on wires move pretty fast and many cars already utilize them. Is there much latency difference between mechanically closing the throttle with your foot and signaling a servo to close the throttle? Presumably some situations can be analyzed by a processor and trigger the servo before the human controller has even been able to consciously perceive a scene.
Could you share how you did it ?
I'm not clear on what the difference would be, from his explanation. Is he splitting by "artists listened to ignoring count of times streamed"? (So someone who listens to only vulfpeck 1000 times and Daft Punk once pays each $5)

Or is it "for each user, divide their $10 by the number of streams they played and pay that to the copyright holder of the streams played?" So the more streams you listen to the less artists get paid for that?
Reminds me of the AutoCAD patterns, back in school.
There is a sense in which the part of a self-driving car that is licensed will be driving many cars at once.

(There will of course be something like 1 instance of it per vehicle, I'm commenting on the semantic awkwardness, not trying to be pedantic)
Like others in this thread, I naively assumed this was how Spotify already worked, and wondered why the payouts tended to be so low. Now it makes sense, and puts the numbers here (http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/) in context.

Realistically, it would be both hard to change structurally and a hard sell for major labels to give up what is effectively a subsidy of popular music by indie fans. Let’s take the author’s thought experiment to its logical extreme:

Imagine “Terry” listened to just one obscure band for the entire month of February. $7 of his $10 subscription fee is going to artists, but let’s say he’s also the only fan of that band on Spotify. So that band has effectively zero percent of Spotify’s plays for the month, meaning that the band gets effectively zero percent of Spotify’s monthly revenue.

Terry thinks $7 went to his favorite band, but it actually got divided up among February’s top 40, with only a fraction of a fraction of a cent going to the band!
> Road traffic accidents are something like the 10th most common cause of death worldwide. It's clearly a rather dangerous activity.

I just want to note here that if you look at the same statistics in countries that have implemented better driver training programs, its clear that there is still leaps and bounds of efforts we can take to address the concerns of safety without outlawing the practice completely.
> I don't understand why people would want to do mathematics in imperative languages.

R isn't exactly what I'd call your typical imperative language. It's more like the love child of APL and Scheme, with random bits thrown in by a bunch of statisticians.

Loops are almost never used in R, since pretty much everything is a vector (or some sort of data structure made of vectors), you simply apply functions to vectors and it maps over the whole thing.

Of course, the C, C++ and Fortran bits are 'imperative', which is kind of the structure you describe anyway (functional, vectorized R language which calls down to a bunch of C/Fortran functions).
anecdote time: recently i my closest friends happen to be all musicians. I often try to get their opinion on piracy and online radios while selfishly trying to see a product idea... and their general opinion on online radios is that spotify is the god among them and that i'm evil and killing their industry for using pandora.
Yep! Currently it has some graphics performance issues on Linux, but it's perfectly playable and they're actively trying to improve it.
@opp.io should !describe the #product before dumping you to a signup screen. I'm not grabbing headphones just to watch a video slowly describe what can be conveyed in text.
I think the general answer to this question is deceptively simple, and has two parts: 1) many of the most important regulations are preventative and relate to issues that are invisible to the average passenger (driver qualifications and training, insurance, vehicle maintenance, etc.). 2) The harm that many taxi regulations seek to prevent is disproportionate to the disciplining effect on operators of a single poor review. A serious accident, for example, will typically only affect a single rider (or group of riders) who can, at most give a zero-star review. I cannot see how the possibility of a single zero-star review out of hundreds would give a driver any incentive to do anything that costs a significant amount of money -- after all, many Uber drivers probably are used to getting the occasional bad review for no reason at all.

Edit: Bonus reason #3 -- Situations may arise where the government wants to prevent driver behavior that many riders will approve of, for example, to protect other drivers and pedestrians. For example, the government might want to use licensing to impose an extra stiff penalty on taxi drivers who violate traffic laws (i.e., license revocation or suspension). Passengers may approve of this sort of behavior if it was intended to get them to their destination faster.
IIRC, it got axed as a separate product but some features from it were carried over into NTFS. Similar to how Courier was killed, but they used what they learned from it to build the Surface platform.
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> Is option number 1 "Use JavaScript Carefully" really that hard?

Writing larger applications in a team isn't impossible with JavaScript. It's just needlessly difficult.

Well, even if it's just me, after a few hundred lines of JS, I really start to miss proper tooling.

ES6 did at least add some structure and tooling hooks with classes, modules, default parameters, and named parameters (via destructuring). However, it's nowhere near the kind of tooling you get with TypeScript or Dart.

Optional types are really handy. Just add some types to the signatures of your functions and you get massive tooling benefits (and basic documentation).
It's not much, compared to other expenses, yes. But that's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying that someone is much more likely to look around for alternatives to do something if an expanse suddenly pops up than if an expense gradually does.
Gold, silver, and diamonds are quite literally valued by an open market. You can call a broker and buy them for what the whole world has agreed is a fair price.

A piece of jewelry's wholesale value is determined by adding up the market value of its constituent components and then adding a workmanship premium. In an ideal world, consumers could buy and sell jewelry in the same way.
I program in Java and JavaScript on a daily basis, though neither one is my favorite language. Force me to choose, and I'll grit my teeth and take Java for the sake of static types. But Java today is not clearly ahead.

High level languages should have either lightweight objects/dictionaries or tuples (my preference is for both, but you can get by with just one). Java lacks both to this day.

And even "big flaw" is a pretty big understatement about the impact of higher order functions.
Perhaps you'd understand if people discounted your comment slightly because of your apparent close relationship with YC, then?

They have the best interests of founders in mind only insofar as their pocketbooks and reputation benefit from it. That's at best an intersection that doesn't contain all the elements in both sets.

Disclaimer: I'm a pretty cynical and skeptical person by nature. I'm especially suspicious when people with a lot of money at risk say, well, just about anything. My experiences have lead me to believe that it is an extremely rare individual who will not go to great lengths to protect and accumulate his wealth, even to an extent that many would consider sociopathic, and further that this trait is amplified geometrically as wealth is accumulated.
You include the word like normal, I'm saying tagging it isn't going to be helpful in the long run. Not to mention you're already including the word "should" and now a bang too? Could have very simple language detection to identify the verb if that's the goal.

Tagging things implicitly groups them and imbues the ability to search/filter/organize by them. I just have a hard time envisioning a useful scenario in which you're looking at "Show me the # of taks by verb used"
It sounds to like the solution to your problem is to use a service that does verify those things. If you don't like the risks of Uber, don't use it. The reality is the risk is pretty low, most people recognize that, and are fine with it.
So all the dunces are in confederacy against Silicon Valley?
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The invention of monogamy is what brought about the 4-5 female to male reproduction ratio.
Licensed Use of Master — $0.00668

I can imagine this licensing fee differs largely and contributes heavily to Vulfpeck's anecdote.
Sure, touring and sponsorships are extraordinarily profitable for artists. Those able to attract an audience or fill venues.

The Eagles made $100 million last year; Springsteen $81 million; Bon Jovi $81 million; Calvin Harris $66 million; Toby Keith $65m; Taylor Swift $64m; Bruno Mars $60m; Pink $52m; Roger Waters $46m; ... Muse $34m, Gaga $30m, this list just keeps going.

Michael Buble made $1+ million per tour date in 2014 (making $51 million overall).

From the info I can find, there are at least 100 individual artists making over $5 million per year.
Same. I went from spending $0 on recorded music to $15 a month (Spotify family plan so my gf and I can use it simultaneously).
Big international companies are free to work within the law of the land. They can work on changing it. They can look for loop holes.

Uber does none of that, and the only reason why they can afford that is because they're incorporated elsewhere and have deep pockets.

If they cared for the markets they enter, they would have realized that in Germany the 'monopoly' story is factually false. They might even have realized that the regulations provide a loop hole that they could use to start operating in some counties/cities to prove that their service is useful.

They did none of that. Just grandstanding, posturing, and then crying like babies about how everybody is unfair to them when they're held to the same standards as everyone else.

This isn't even about prices (the ones our elected officials set for taxis are quite reasonable, and they don't feature 'surge pricing'). It's about Uber's conduct.
The IMO was not held in 1980.
Would be pretty cool to have colinux on WinRT if you wanted to go the other way.

There were also some demos of Android and Windows CE running on the same hardware before ARM had intentional hardware virtualization support.
I'm a little late to the party, but I had to pipe in: my experience is identical to yours. I used the Kinesis for about two years.

Further, I did NOT use my Kinesis for eight years (it sat in its box after a move) and then I plugged it into a laptop the other day and... was astounded to find that I didn't even have to look at it to start typing immediately, even the thumb keys!
Any test of students' abilities whose efficacy can be substantially weakened by leaking is, from its very design, just not a good test.

Even my HS teachers (who designed their entire curriculum -- front to back) were hip to this. They said "Yeah, we know some students have photocopies of midterms from previous years. But we mix up our questions enough that we're not too worried about it. Plus, a student who would waste his or her time with rote memorization just isn't going to understand the material conceptually, and will certainly bomb the essay questions."

(What? You're not letting your teachers design their own curricula? Or they're not able to? Then you have a much worse problem on your hands than students trading answers to multiple-guess exams).
While you are correct (sorry, I missed the extra stuff), my point was that noname microfibre cloths (~$0.70) and less overpriced cleaners (~$1/oz) are just one click away on Amazon...
Clipper should work, no? You can use it on AC Transit, BART, MUNI, Caltrain, &c.? It's a stored value card, rather than a monthly pass, but that's hardly a problem.
The art department just makes things pretty. They don't have much to do with the simulations folks, aside from being asked for assets for specific actions (car driving, person walking, etc).

SC5 might have been really pretty, but the agent simulation was entry level CS at best. As others have noted, sims woke up and drove to the closest available job regardless of past behavior for example.
What I suspect happens is that most Spotify consumers are undiscerning and use it as either a radio substitute or for playing whatever their friends are listening to (which is going to be "Top 40" almost by definition). So like everything else it's profitable for the big acts and not for anyone else.
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Nice. I like it. I just replied to you too. I couldn't see any error messages when I ran a modified example with errors.
Two things:

1) I think Ek is right - there isn't much money in the consumption of music. I do believe music is extremely effective at getting people's attention, but outside of that, it's value is much lower than we currently give it credit for.

2) I'm reminded of the TED Talk by Clay Shirky on institutions vs collaboration[0] where he explains power law distribution (watch from 6:01 onward specifically) with regard to photos of Iraq on Flickr. He says (paraphrased) "that figure at the bottom at 10 photos per photographer is a lie. it doesn't matter...the top 10% of the most prolific photographers account for almost 75% of the photos. 80% of the contributors are below the average amount of contributions" This is Spotify in a nutshell. People wan't access to all of the rap music in the world even if they are only going to actually consume 20% of it, so that in the rare chance they listen to one song of the other 80% that it's still made available. In other words, the overall utility of Spotify's system is only valid when it's whole, but the individuals who are necessary for it to be whole are unevenly distributed (in this case number of plays). So the argument then becomes who needs who more?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw&t=361