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This is great news for Spotify, but a bit frustrating for me and I am sure plenty of others as individual investors.

So many great companies I am passionate about are just too hard to invest in before they go public. And you're in way too late at IPO stage.

I keenly start following these types of companies a lot earlier than most of the general public, and I can bet I'm much more emotionally invested into seeing them succeed than a broker in a 100 story building ever will be. I understand their business models and want to give them money to help them grow.

SpaceX is one example - all the investment banks have first rights on new issues and even waving a respectable amount at them doesn't help. And it's too difficult to get a feel for whether you are getting a "fair deal" on second market so to me it's not really a viable option even though the service is good in theory.

Awesome, and frustrating, at the same time!
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> the transparency and accountability of governments has increased in response to many of those exact same services

please don't pretend the problem is solved because small parts of it came out in the open two years ago.

very little has changed, and the battle is still ahead.

Google might have publicly stood up against government spying in particular (hey, who wouldn't be pissed off if the gov hacked and tapped into your private internal networks), but they are not at all innocent in the War on Privacy, when it comes to their own goals (whether that be advertising, stakeholder value or even their current good-guys motto like "organizing the world's information") they are willing to do exactly the same things.

we're heading towards a future where mega-corporations like Google, Apple, Unilever (etc etc) will be entities operating on the same level and scale as nation-states. indeed cyberpunk professed.

so it doesn't make sense to me at all to trust Google any more with my private data than I would trust the US, or the Dutch government / secret service.

or let's put it another way, because I just happen to have not been born a US citizen, it means that according the USA, I have no right to privacy at all (I've seen people argue this even on HN). the USA is in a unique position because almost all Internet traffic passes through a US network at some point, and my data is completely fair game for the NSA to slurp up, process and store in any way they see fit.

now, my smartphone happens to be Android. so in this future, similar to a US citizen, my data would be protected by whatever little rights Google's privacy policy provides me. but not Apple's privacy policy. so any time I'd message an iPhone user ... get it? but it gets even crazier, because I sent my message with WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, of course the network is US territory, and so my bits spread around the world like glitter lipstick.

and all the while, just like today, everybody keeps arguing that it's okay to slurp the other's data, because their parent-entity needs that data to protect them. that idea, that very US-vs-THEM reasoning, is why mega-corporations and branding (as we've seen since the early 80s, described by Naomi Klein) are pretty much the same phenomenon. it wasn't quite as obvious back then, but it's the new nationalism for the new nation-states. "Google can have my data, because I'm a Googlian", "it's okay that Apple steals their data to protect us, because they are not iPeople, like us"
I think you and nostromo describes the situation well from a European, or British, perspective and I think this is different from the US perspective covered in the article. I think the cultures around material status symbols are very different, and social mobility too. In Europe the signals are around things which can't easily be changed over one or even two generations, so material wealth has a different purpose.
ed, by Ken Thompson. It's actually extremely useful for this one specific task of editing particular lines in a large file. There's also sed if you want to perform arbitrary search and replace.
One of the comments in the Gecko bug links to a post by Chromium developer James Robinson, which explains a lot of the technical details quite clearly: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/Hn3...
If you want to write for IBM mainframes that's great, but if you want to write stuff in modern ecosystems there's a shed-load to learn. It's not about the underlying ideas of the fundamental technology, it's all the crap you need to learn to glue it together and make it run on science-fiction devices.

And I've programmed in Smalltalk, Simula, Lisp (of various flavors), ML, Miranda, C, BCPL, MCPL, Occam, zed (probably not the one you're thinking of), BASIC (probably not the one you're thinking of), ForTran (probably not the one you're thinking of, or that one either) and more, and to me, there's a great deal to learn to get to Haskell, OCaml, etc., and even more to learn to get into the current ecosystems.
Viloud.tv – Create a TV channel from multiple sources in an embeddable player
PM Modi to launch India’s biggest labour laws revamp, focus on manufacturing
Modi and Hasina have the opportunity to strengthen bilateral ties
May I ask the meaning and origin of the verb McKeithing?
Expecting Spotify to make a profit is like expecting a blockbuster movie to generate a profit. Show business isn't normal business.
After downgrading to version 0.9.7.x, all UI/UX problems I had are gone. I'm pretty satisfied with their old client.

I've been thinking, that services like spotify could give users way to script their own music discovery. Fiddle with different properties to discover random music or very specific genres. Ability to exclude popular artists, etc.
Did anyone else read: "[...] is a Persian form of civility emphasizing both deference and social rank, similar to the Chinese art of etiquette, lmao"
CRiSP was pretty good at that.
Swift and Metal GPU Programming on OS X 10.11 / El Capitan
>Despite how bad we are at dealing with it, more people die from solar (or pretty much any other alternative form of power generation) per unit of energy generated through e.g. installation and maintenance accidents.

Citation please.

Also I'd like to know if the numbers are in any way significant compared to overall construction work accidents.
Does this joke of an editor still spy on you with Google Analytics? Things like this (and MongoDB) really make me want to get out of this industry. The amount of pointless wheel-reinvention that goes on simply due to fashion and short attention spans is (or ought to be) scandalous.
> to everybody except irrational people like scribu

please.
I think the sibling comments are showing that if you want to have the inconvenience of binding your music to physical artefacts, you might as well buy records, which have nicer sleeves. Then you can continue to listen to the music on Spotify, apart from those special occasions when you bring out the record and listen specifically to it.
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...Until you notice that some licensing deal has ended and some albums you love have been pulled of the service. It happens.

I don't care for physical media either but I buy everything I like as digital lossless audio. Not owning my music wouldn't work for me. Not that it has to be like this for everyone, it's just something to be aware of.
Alternative medicine fake doctor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_McKeith#Diagnostic_tec... "the awful poo lady". A phrase for grovelling through log files. Anyone in the UK will understand the term immediately.
Well it might be an alternative to virtualbox for boot2docker.
"Americans overestimate social class mobility" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115...
I've used Spotify since 2008. The recent UI change really ruining the experience. I believe they are using Chromium now.

Spotify uses 1GB of ram, and every 10 seconds the CPU usage spikes to max. The UI is so unresponsive, Firefox is more responsive while restoring a session of 100 tabs.

I no longer pay for Spotify. The free version is litterd with malware ads, on par with SourceForge.

They've also remvoed 70% of it's original features.

The UX of Spotify has been regressing since 2011.
Snooping masts dragnet Londoners' phone conversations
I wish the parameters were url parameters. Comparing simulations would have been possible.

(I'm currently running a conventional war scenario -- bombers and fighters only - no icbms or sats).
I share that frustration. Also the assumption that increasing sleep time by 10% would be helpful - 10% of zero is still zero. My last marathon of chronic insomnia was 96 hours without sleep. Not being restless in bed, but just not sleeping at all. I'm about to start CBT for this but I'm skeptical, given that it's related to a medical problem for which I'm still awaiting treatment.
I've been trying out Light Table recently, and it seems to have no problems with large files (and generally feels much more snappy in use compared to Atom).

I just tried a bundled 3MB+ .js file and it loaded practically instantaneously. Even opening a 10MB+ .mp3 file (for science!) didn't result in any delay longer than a second. Whereas opening the same files on the latest Atom took a good 5 seconds for the .js and 10 seconds for the .mp3 (and it looks like Atom had to give up on doing syntax highlighting on the .js file, whereas Light Table did not). These tests were all performed on a rather modest Core M processor, so YMMV.

AFAIK, both Atom and Light Table are built on Electron and web technologies (Light Table uses ClojureScript but at the end of the day they both compile down to HTML/JS/CSS).

So my takeaway from this is: Atom's performance woes are most likely not intrinsic to the web-based platform it's built on, but are rather results of implementation flaws of Atom itself.

http://lighttable.com/
I'd take a look at the Gaurdian's (Newspaper) web team's presentation on this: Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/patrickhamann/breaking-news-at-1000m...

Video: https://vimeo.com/100505617
So you can edit your files on GitHub?
How does that even...

If they're not treating filenames as strings - and nothing but strings - then it could have some pretty surprising security implications, possibly to running arbitrary code just by opening files or directories with certain contents?
Because of extensibility concerns and the sheer number of JavaScript developers? I'd agree if you say it's not a good compromise, but it is one nevertheless.
Sadly, what you say is only a small aspect of Advertising, or should I say, marketing? The major share of it is manipulative and geared towards creating a need or preferences towards a particular product.

My argument is that, we as a society, should grew some form of resistance against such manipulations. Why? Because when a society responds to manipulation and marketing much better than the actual quality of the product, where is the incentive for the companies to improve the quality of the actual product? Hence all the efforts that should ideally go towards the creation of a better product goes into more aggressive marketing.

One can already see this happening with the blockbuster movies. Big studios start hyping up big releases as early as 2 years and continue to maintain the hype by releasing trailer and trailers of trailers, articles about how the director is a master of the craft and how the movie is going to be insane. But when you see the movie, it will be often mediocre. But the movie will be a hit regardless.

Another example. When you can influence doctors and can make then write prescriptions of your companies drug, does it make sense to spend more money improving the drug or spend a fraction of that amount, increasing marketing towards the doctors?

So I think if we grow more susceptible to such manipulations, the quality of things will continue to go down..
The one-liner at the top of README.md is actually the answer to the "what is it?" question.

Whether this is good front-page marketing is above my pay grade, of course ... it may well not be.
How do you get design?

1 - You respect designers

2 - You let them do their thing

3 - You guide them and is welcoming of (backend) changes that are pro-usability

4 - You avoid "thinking like an engineer" or "users are stupid" mentality

5 - You don't alienate them by A/B testing between 50 shades of blue
Capricorn Horoscope july 2015
Really glad to see someone using Hypervisor.framework, looks like it has a lot of potential. Fusion/Parallels always seem far too heavyweight to me.
I think a lot depends on what your income level is. If you have any interest in music, having a well curated music service is trivially worth $10/month, particularly to avoid the hassle of trying to track down good tracks of what you are interested in, deal with ads, etc...

And, the good news is that as paid-for-streaming starts to take off, it creates an ongoing revenue model for artists, ensuring that the labels/artists have incentives to create great new music.

And, between Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, Beats/Apple Music, Rhapsody, Rdio, google Music, Apple Radio Stations, Beats 1, iheartradio (ironically, my favorite) - lots of competition.
I do not know, if it is really true, it is just how I perceive it here in Germany. Seems plausible taking into account, that Germany both has the second lowest birth rate worldwide and a relatively large middle class.

You can see the social status as a vector of social indicators that together define which class you belong to. The "> 3 kids" indicator assigns or strengthens your assignment to a class, depending on which other indicators you have.
There are couple of books by Leo Rosten, Joy of Yiddish and Joy of Yinglish, that teaches Yiddish words through jokes and anecdotes. It used be my bedside reading for an year! Once you learn Yiddish words and the phrases, the sitcom dialogues started making more sense (like "from your lips to God's ears" or such turn of phrase).
OK. That's freaking awesome. I like seeing FreeBSD technology being brought into the mainstream in OS X. (I don't even use OS X, but this is cool.)
For exactly that reason (I am poor at mind-reading plus I do value honesty over civility) I like the Bay Area style: you can ask for anything, but you should never expect positive answer for a given.

In particular, when I offer a couch, or payment, or a snack, then I mean it (sometimes I made this explicit). And if someone said "no" but wanted to say "yes", well, it's their problem, not mine.
Apple already transformed the music business once and is trying do it again
There is a (perhaps less intense?) version of this operating in the Slavic nations. I notice it in Poland. Especially the rule of 3. A host offers you food and drink 3 times, and you are suppose to refuse it a few times, and only if they keep offering should you think that they are serious.

Likewise, if you have Poles over for dinner, you might ask "Would you like more wine?" My American friends will say "yes" if they want more wine, but the Poles will say "No". Then you have to insist, "Please have more wine!" and they say "No" again, and this goes for a few rounds before they accept the wine.
Reminds me of Minestorm on the Vectrex!
Pre-digital age distribution: 1. create master-copies. 2. Send master-copies (physically!) to the various printing plants. 3. print as many copies as you think it will be reasonable to sell. 4. hire security to prevent leaks of pre-release albums from the plant 5. send the media through your distribution-network, by trucks, trains, planes and boats to world-wide storage-facilities while waiting for a synchronized world-wide release. 6. send copies to actual brick and mortar stores, who may or may not sell all copies (I can't recall if they have the right to return unsold items.)

Remember that all those transports, plants and storage facilities not only cost money to establish, but cost money to keep running too. Unsold media kept in storage is now waste you need to pay to dispose of. And you paid to get it there in the first place. This is a loss-factor you need to factor into all actual sales.

Now compare this to the digital age: 1. Create a master-copy. 2. Encode in a format understood by HW decoders commonly found in consumer-devices (i.e. MP3/ACC) 3. Put on a webserver. 4. No distribution-network needed. You're on the internet, remember? 5. Bandwidth costs per sold copy: $0.000000000000000000000000000000001

I'm not an industry insider so I obviously don't know the concrete numbers, but it doesn't take a mastermind to arrive at the conclusion that operating in a pre-digital age was expensive and provided a valuable service. Thus warranting a significant markup.

In the internet age none of those services are needed nor wanted. Now they're just a middleman wanting money based on a historical role.

They will have to slim down. Significantly.
It is not "taxes of others". It is simply taxes.

You are obliged to give taxes for welfare so that the poor have incentive to sign into the social contract and don't confiscate your private property. Consider it payment for your lifestyle. What incentive would this person not to kill you and take your wealth were she not getting welfare?
Every time I hear this quote, I remember that this quote is about people, so the author, whoever he was, defined himself as small.
So, zodiac signs have some meaning after all? :D
Plan for change – go ahead of the curve
I had to use Google Music as the wifi at my old work, which was supplied by the local uni, had blocked Spotify.

This means I'm pretty invested in it right now, but god damn they just totally fucked up the desktop interface too with a material redesign. Everytime you open it, you have to click the burger icon just to see the menu. You can no longer view your present playlist in a permanent window, only in a popup. I add a lot of artists to my thumbs up playlist on a whim and then listen to it on shuffle, so like to see what I just listened to/is coming up. And now it's loads of clicking instead of an alt-tab. All the artist photos are now inexplicably circles making it hard to distinguish them by scanning.

Google cannot design anything. They keep getting worse, even as they employ designers. Everything they touch recently they make the UX worse in their quest to turn everything into a tablet interface, aka material.
This confused me quite a bit as well. "Wait, what? There's such a thing as a blocking quicksort? Maybe with mutexes or something, but this is JavaScript..."

Apparently "non-blocking" is used here to mean roughly the opposite of what it normally means (that your computation doesn't slow down the I/O). Oddly enough, this seems kind of reasonable for interactive programs: the I/O is the more important part, so it's the thing you want to not interfere with.

It's still a little confusing.
Hyman Rickover was a power-grabbing, egocentric fool who stymied miniaturization and development of alternatives that didn't enhance his influence.

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/19...
Why do you want the CPU pegged at 100%? What benefit does that provide?

Edit: ok I read some background, assume you mean it should be unclamped?
People look at e.g. Node.js and think it's a "new" "technology" or even in some cases "platform". In reality it's a well-known Reactor Pattern with some package management running on a not-very-slow virtual machine using exclusively a weakly typed dynamic language which takes years to update with features.
The linked article's title says "connection", the article says "correlation".

A phrase later in the articles shows that further study may find a connection; implying that they don't have one already.

A more accurate HN link title is "Study could help scientists uncover new disease risk factors pertaining to birth date".
They assume it's an environmental factor but I wouldn't be so sure.

It's certainly possible that this bias is more related to parents behaviour. Some parents would conceive in August resulting in their children being born in May.... Other parents would conceive in January resulting in children being born in October. People which conceive during different seasons might be different both genetically and behaviourally which could influence offspring's health by means of genetic factors but also habits learned from their parents during childhood (dietary choices for example).

Or not.
These are pretty good tips, and I would add one. This was the tipping point for me, when I started to notice that I was becoming an actual, honest to God, better programmer..when I stopped thinking of the work I was doing in terms of what design patterns and cool new tech I could use to finish a story and started thinking in terms of "how is the work that I'm doing bringing value to the business, and what can I do to maximize that value at a relatively low cost".
Strictly speaking, Kg is a "kelvin gram".

Kilogram (kg) is especially handy, because it's practically same as 1 liter of water, which is 10 cm^3.

It's indeed rather difficult to calculate duration of time. Quick, how many minutes between 6h:37m and 19h:12m?

Angles are simple if you just use radians.
As a sysadmin, I feel an obligation to know about these things so I have sufficient warning of the next trendy maintenance burden that's coming down the track. This is how I credit my HN reading as real work ;-)
Actually a better way to deal with the world is to chip in and honestly reap the benefits of hundreds of years of civilisation, industrialisation and the general improvement in quality of life.

I mean we can all have that attitude, live off the land and be rebellious but the price we pay for that is a collapse in all the benefits participating in society brings.

I doubt you've ever actually tried living like this. I spend a good amount of my spare time tending an allotment and a large garden (as a context switch) and it's hard work just to get some vegetables for leisurely eating, not just to feed yourself with all the other concerns of life as well. My potatoes got rot a couple of years ago; that would have been famine historically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

I'm not sure she could or would even consider digging trenches for your squashes and I'm not sure you would even though you're spurting idealism.
The reason is pretty simple: LibreSSL isn't available/packaged on the distributions we care about, and we don't have the will, money or knowledge to do it ourselves. (with my VS hat on)

We are positive to merging any code changes necessary to get it running with libressl though.