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you know, there are a couple of nice things about AirBnB that $COMPETITOR from Cuba can't easily match. For instance, first-world travelers are already quite willing to trust it with their credit cards. For another, it has global renown and doesn't need to advertise heavily to be found.
hooking this up to clojurescript was also pretty simple thanks to browserify and their h api. surprised the clj community hasnt explored it mote.
That's a good point. Maybe the comparison with Mac wasn't such a good one.

Nevertheless, I still think there's something to admire from a business perspective.
Beats licensed their name to bunch of computer manufacturers and included some kind of software equalizer presets that would make the sound more 'Beats-like'. As far as I can tell Beats had nothing to do with the actual audio hardware.
That ratio is the same as any EE program in the USA. 66% of the class will flunk out within 2 years. From my experience, only about 20% remained at the end of 4 years.
It's stupid. Tesla manufactures a couple of cars with an insignificant volume in less than a handful of countries.

When they are building at Toyota volumes with their diverse product range then I will be impressed.
Similar to Psycology by Dr. Phil - it's not for everyone but there is a market.
Patent-retaliation clauses are common, but the React one is a bit unusual. The one in the GPLv3 is typical: if you sue someone who uses gcc (whether it's the FSF or a third-party user), alleging that they are infringing some of your patents through their use of gcc, then your license to gcc auto-terminates. The justification is something like: if you inhibit others' free use of this software through litigation, then you can't use it freely either (at least, until the situation is resolved).

The Facebook retaliation clause differs in two respects:

1. It protects only Facebook, but extends that protection to disputes unrelated to the software. Your React license is terminated if you ever end up in patent litigation with Facebook or a subsidiary, regardless of whether it involves React or not. But it is not terminated if you initiate patent litigation against third-party React users, unlike the GPLv3 termination. So it's not strictly a stronger or weaker retaliation clause in this respect, but I think a "worse" one.

2. Your React license is terminated if you challenge the validity of any Facebook patent, even if no lawsuit is involved (e.g. filing an USPTO challenge), and regardless of whether it involves React. As I read it, this covers even defensive patent challenges, e.g. if Facebook sues you over a patent, and you respond by challenging the patent's validity, then your React license is terminated. This part is particularly nasty imo.
Cloud9 Collaboration mode is also open source: https://github.com/c9/c9.ide.collab (Same code that's used on http://c9.io which can be used for free). Has chat and ability to work with multiple files out of the box.
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Me too. I own some Bose QuietComfort 15 which have made my work life much better because of the active noise cancelling, and they have made my flights more comfortable.

But with that said, I would not wear them in public. Apart from walking around in traffic with noise-cancelling, which is dangerous, the headphones looks a bit big on your head, so I use the headphones that came with my iPhone.
Because it is a european company falling under european jurisdiction?
I've said it the last time this popped up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236862) but when you have a dominant monopoly position, you can't always safely do what "everyone else" does. Antitrust laws are tricky like that. Nobody cares when Apple bundles a browser and media player with its OS.
No, we bash Beats because they are an inferior overpriced product. I'm no audiophile, but I do like to think of myself as a savvy consumer, so when I hear some 14 year old saying "Beats are better" I just might tell him that he can get something way better for the same price. I hate seeing people get duped by marketing. That story is not hypothetical, by the way.
You'll actually find it's pretty complicated to measure earnings in Europe. In London you could happily be earning $200,000 - $300,000 with IT skills, avoid tax, keep 90% of that, and have the state benefits.

Simply stated, because of the high levels of tax and rife avoidance, it's probably quite difficult to quantify earnings in London, for example.
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thanks Amezarak, good points.

i think striving for net exporter is only a race to the bottom if you use one tool to get there. but if a country innovates their way there, is it not a race to the top?

germany finally bent a bit letting the eurozone printing money. i like to see it as germany trying to steer the eurozone into real economic growth rather than fake growth (unleashing new money at a low interest rate(. everyone is applauding the us econmic recovery, but it is not real growth, and they will have to pay the debt piper some day.

i generally agree universities are bloated and to expensive, gravy trains for some, huge financial burdens to most.

i was a community college kid who transferred to a 4 year.
They are the same.

Politics is just marketing with taxes and nuclear weapons.
Yeah. I just don't understand why lead can't be turned into an unstable element by bombarding it with neutrons.
Yup! Pretty good for the price, too. TKL is actually a minus for me, but given how much I like the keyboard I got over it ;)
Let's make an analogy with trees. You can't burn a living tree outright. Or so you'd think. But once there is enough energy around a forest fire can jump from crown to crown faster than you'd imagine possible outrunning the ground fire. This will continue until the fire runs out of fuel or the conditions change enough to put it out.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/crown+fire

There is so much energy in the system that the burning crown of one tree dries out the matter in the crown of the next to the point where it can be combusted in an extremely short time, contrary to ordinary conditions when lighting 'wet wood' appears not to work.

The whole point was that Teller thought that the reaction might be self sustaining once the activation energy was reached.

Think about it: someone made the call to ignore that possibility and pull the trigger on deployment even if they weren't sure about the outcome. Possibly the single most irresponsible deed in the history of man.
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I'm really enjoying the V-Moda Crossfade M-100! Tons of bass.

Head-fi.org (the biggest, most active forum for headphone people that I know of) has some good (although overwhelmingly long) threads on the topic, such as: http://www.head-fi.org/t/716711/the-best-bass-headphones-are...
> Dyslexia-friendly typography (no justification, no hyphens, preferably fonts with distinct glyphs)

That's fascinating, I didn't know that was a thing. Could you point out any good resources for learning about it?
They should consider switching, but the criteria needs to be outlined and weighted by the actual customer.

It all comes down to migration and maintenance costs and appetite for risk.

The primary question is will I get what I need on budget in the shortest time frame with option ABC or option XYZ?

The secondary questions are:

* If I need to extend the integration in 6 months with this solution what will it cost
and how long will it take and do I have flexibility in who can do the work?
* Can I upgrade to the next major version of ABC or XYZ and reasonably expect that my custom integration will keep working.
Why do people think these services are "free"?
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Here are a couple videos of MIRV re-entry tests - basically what it'd look like before having a really bad day. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDTnszCQC0 http://theaviationist.com/2013/12/27/russia-icbm-test-kura/
Why is buying headphones based on their audio quality superior to buying headphones based on their aesthetics?
It is not about it being completely free. The whole point is how 235€ or even 1000€ per semester is nothing compared to tens of thousands americans pay in tuiton. Top universities in the US like MIT and Stanford charge over $40000 per year. With half of that you could comfortably live as a student in Germany for a year with all expenses paid. I live as a student in Germany on 650€/mo. That's less than $10000 a year.
You should check your premise. With companies like Bose and Bang & Olufson around for several decades, it's hard to imagine how your claim that they entered a market where every company was focused on sound quality first could be true.

The ingenious thing that Beats by Dre did was market the Bose sound and product to fans of hip hop, R&B, and pop electronica. All three of these genres, with their particularly die-hard listening audience, had never been able to be penetrated by a prior audio product besides extremely cheap Skullcandy offerings and the like. The profit margins are considerably higher on a $300 pair of headphones than on a $25 pair of headphones - especially if the Skullcandy and Beats by Dre options are capable of providing an equally-high fidelity output.

As an audio engineer, this of course makes me sad. But it is indeed genius.
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I wonder if the same terminology would have been used if Iran or North Korea had conclusively perpetrated this attack.
Wow, I'm really sorry to have to do this after your wrote such a detailed comic, but it is clear you don't have even the most basic understanding of what money is. You commit the most elementary fallacy out there, and worse, it is central to your whole argument. Worse still, you continually harp on "basic errors" and the difference between good and bad economists, while being a quintessential example of a bad economist who makes basic errors.

The most egregious, obvious, and deep-cutting error is that you equate money with wealth, which is made obvious when you contrast "investing in the economy" with "just sitting on the money" as if these were two different things. Money is not goods and services; money is a claim on goods and services. Therefore, hoarding or "just sitting on" money is not hoarding goods and services, but closer to the opposite. It is deliberately not commanding the goods and services one's money could command, freeing up those goods and services to be used by others. Hoarding money is a kind of anti-hoarding of resources; it's exactly equivalent to investing in an index fund over the entire economy.

For his reason, your whole argument is confused. Please consider the nature of money more carefully and stop misleading people.

Note: I'm opposed to the TPP, but most certainly not because it promotes "free trade."
"The map also doesn't show fall out"

It's an option you can select - you can also set wind speed and direction (drag the windsock icon about). You also need to make sure it is a ground burst as an air burst won't produce much fallout.
Nice sockpuppet.
With all those battery innovations(at the research stage) we keep hearing in the news, how can building a huge factory be considered a stable investment ? at some point in the future,won't something come that will need different manufacturing methods ?
sigh $14 in components for a $100 product seems like a really tight margin and not exploitation to me. The tooling chain for these things (injection molding, etc.) is really expensive.

Not that these are a great product, but I don't see them outright ripping anyone off.
Do you shop at supermarkets? If the store isn't Whole Foods, chances are that the checkout aisle is racked with People Magazine, US, and goes on down from there.
Hey, but apple computers have a great operating system and they do perform very well.

Now read about the comparison of beats with other headphones - or listen yourself - and tell me where the match is?

While Apple stuff has become a fashion statement, it also performs. Apple products look good because they are very well designed and made. Beats on the other hand don't perform, at least not sound quality wise. And they are certainly not very well made. Carefully designed, this may be true.

The better comparison for beats would be H&M (or Zara, or Mango or whatever is fashionable now). Cheap fashion that attracts easily, to throw away.
I agree with you, suburbs were not invented in the "new world" but these countries made them popular, probably with the individual dream of a better life and particular conditions as land availability or cheap oil that leaded to the development of single housing to almost everybody.

I'm sure you agree also that suburbs in "old world" (Europe) don't have such a massive presence that they completely imply a certain lifestyle.
If I'm the kind of person who buys expensive stuff to signal my membership, then buying Beats headphones is being myself, no?
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Great story out of the Midwest for a usually quiet company in the tech press -

> "Hudl charges around $1,400 a year per high school and
college team. That allowed it to build software-as-a-service business that won $30 million in revenue in 2014."

- Founded in 2006
- Funding to date: $3m
- 290 employees across four offices
- David Graff, co-founder, has been CEO since start
- Besides nearly every high school football team in the US, customers include NFL team, NBA teams, and 13 of 20 Premier League football clubs
Bose invented the game that Beats perfected. Bose are over-priced for the sound you get but "just work". Beats just added the fashion element.
Peer-review is traditionally blinded, so that the identity of the reviewers is kept secret (but the identity of the authors is known to the reviewers). However, a few journals have experimented with other schemes, like open peer review or double blind peer review.
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Your SSL certificate is invalid:

https://koans.heroku.com/

edit:

this works though:

https://koans.herokuapp.com/en
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> Whilst I dislike Beats, I admire them a lot. They entered a market where every company was focusing on sound quality first

Haven’t people been having this exact same conversation about Bose for decades? Shitty quality, but aesthetics, a few whizzy features, and a lot of marketing that breathlessly claims they “sound better?”

Also Bang and Olufsen. Middling sound but beautiful aesthetics, and a price tag to make them the haute couture of audio?

I would say that Bose spent a lot of money trying to make their headphones aesthetically pleasing, but dealt with an aging market. Younger buyers naturally view Bose as something their parents would own.

It seems to me that the success of Beats really comes down to demographics. In fashion, it is difficult for a brand to jump generations, so there’s a natural opportunity for new brands to establish themselves with a younger generation.

Beats did everything right to take advantage of great timing.
PG was writing about PR and the ability to place stories. This is different from native advertising. PR can place stories because, as PG points out, the news media is lazy and needs to feed the beast.

Native advertising is the reporting being actually bought and paying directly. Native advertising is a natural outcome of a struggling business model - they looked at what they were doing around PR and concluded that they could make actual revenue on it.
I could certainly be wrong! That said, I don't see Google themselves really committing to such an effort (there are definitely business incentives to do it, but it sounds like a terrible technical burden). There could be third-party products that make it happen, but from my experience they would likely either be expensive or result in a janky product (or both).
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There was Brian's (CEO) tweet in December reacting to White House news. It took three months and they made it happen.

https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/545597231164706816
On the web Google is in the ad business, and their business is collecting personal information about anyone that touches them as a means for selling more expensive ads.

Historically Google was also a big group of people many of which are engineers who were quite free to direct their work. Lately it is mostly the first description that applies.
There is no competitor, it's an initiative from the state cuba. It's also not like it is heavily advertised. It just was basically the only option until now. I frequently use airbnb, so i know that it's great. Just saying that Cuba the state already had that kind of offering for years, as a fact.
I question your invocation of Occam's Razor here. Between:

1) the attack is perpetrated by the entity the evidence suggests and

2) the attack was prepetrated by another entity who cleverly used infrastructure of the first entity to frame them for it,

applying Occam's Razor would suggest situation #1 in lieu of evidence to the contrary.
You're quite ignorant. I suggest you visit these places prior to placing judgement on them.

The US and Canada are vast geographically and culturally spanning countries with an absolutely huge and diverse population. To simply say that everyone in these countries is a consumer-whore is inaccurate and dishonest.
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"the damages are rather underwelming"

Not sure I would agree with that - a single 800kt detonation over Manhattan looks pretty bad to me and a realistic attack would probably have had many tens of warheads used.

Here is a rather jolly 1980's BBC documentary that spends a lot of time looking at the effects of a single 1Mt warhead on London:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vejorfkdgwU

Of course, it does finish by noting that a real attack would have multiple ground and air bursts.

[NB UK("pretty bad") == NonUK("utterly appalling")]
Or the ultimate in form-over-function: women's footwear.
Here in Florida mobile home parks used to be common, to the point of being 50% of housing in some counties. My entire life they've been tearing them down, sometimes to build expensive stuff, whether residential or commercial, oftentimes because the community politicians want to eliminate any low-cost housing to upscale "their" community. Poor people aren't represented by the government at any level; the economic top third is precisely represented.
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Not sure about Mithril but React certainly does not force you to re-render everything every time. Bypassing re-rendering when unnecessary is what `shouldComponentUpdate` is for, and while React can't switch it on by default because that would require making lots of unwarranted assumptions about the applications it's used for, nothing stops you from setting up a default `shouldComponentUpdate` based on your own system's invariants.

That's why Om is faster than React out of the box even though it's implemented on top of React: it can makes assumptions the generic React can't (namely that all component state is immutable and provided through the component's cursor) and can thus set up a fast and generic `shouldComponentUpdate`.
Probably not. Most homelessness is due to either mental illness and substance abuse or due to a shortage of affordable housing in places where jobs are available - typically dense cities where the only way to add housing within reasonable commute distance of the jobs is to build upwards, not building inexpensive 1-story buildings on vacant land.

Furthermore, both types of homeless tend to congregate in places where there's a density of social services available because they rely on those services for food, clothing, health care, or assistance seeking employment, in addition to shelter. Those areas tend not to be within walking distance (for the vast majority who also lack cars) of anywhere that has space to build dozens or hundreds of these tiny houses.

There are plenty of places in this country that have a ton of vacant housing stock, and even some of those have a homelessness problem (see also: Detroit). The problems underlying homelessness are far more complicated than the size of the houses we build.
as a consumer its ridiculous. as a technologist and nearly lifelong musician its offensive.
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it costs Beats a mere $14 to make according to some experts

I'm reasonably sure that Beats does not actually design nor make these headphones - they chose a design already produced by one of the many Chinese manufacturers, using existing parts, and asked for their brand to be put on it. This is common among many brands and is known as "OEM". Look at these, for example:

http://www.ovleng.com/index.php?m=index&a=productList&id=34

The extreme bass was also not something Beats invented - these generic/OEM manufacturers were producing headphones with the same type of sound before Beats, because of the general impression among most people that more bass means stronger, more powerful sound and therefore is more desirable. Beats just took this "generic cheap high-bass headphone" sound and used marketing to turn it into a fashion statement.
> People go to extraordinary lengths to join groups and send this membership signal...

> It's dumb, but it is what it is, and people wrap an awful lot of their identity up in their chosen tribe rather than just being themselves.

Cough. Written on Hacker News, but not Reddit or Digg or Facebook. Cough.

C’mon, we’re sitting right in the middle of a tribe. Even writing that Sennheisers sound better is sending a tribal signal. That’s why people write it instead of just buying a pair and listening to them in private.
Why is a mix of the songs (with extra bass) less "truthful" than the mix made by the record company employee? Both are valid interpretations of the music. If you prefer the former, why shouldn't you listen to it?
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Brilliant advertising.
It is probably the case (but not guaranteed) that a court would read "makes any claim" a bit more narrowly to mean only legal claims, not blog posts. It's a common phrase used in e.g. statutes as a term of art, and usually taken as narrower than a phrase like "expresses a view". However it would almost certainly still include USPTO administrative challenges (e.g. challenging a patent by demonstrating prior art), which is still a big problem.
I don't dispute the existence of such places. My claim is that it is extremely rare, and in the majority of firms the lack of technology culture is not only not seen as a problem but is enshrined in macho pride and insistence that the lack of technology culture is indicative of some difficult constraints that finance poses from a first principles point of view, constraints which weenie technology culturalists can't stomach.
right - the marketed.