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Isn't everything available on youtube for free these days? Or radio etc. I can't imagine paying for music. Unless it's an extremely rare CD I can't find anywhere else.
Until there's a better way for humans and machines to communicate, programming will continue to thrive.

When I say better way, I don't mean touch or type, I mean better connected to our thoughts.
"However, Spotify recorded an operating loss of €165.1m (£119m) in 2014 compared to €91.2m (£65.7m) in 2013, while its net loss nearly trebled from €55.9m (£40.3m) in 2013 to €162.3m (£117m) in 2014."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/11/spotify-fi...
The odd thing is the article references "who pays the bill" as the only similar thing in western society, but most of the examples given (except working without wages) sound like the polite society I grew up in. Perhaps not to the same extent. I'll offer something to a friend, they'll refuse, I'll insist. They'll refuse again if the really don't want what I'm offering, or they'll accept if their refusal was just politeness.
50ish CDs of which at least half you bought because you liked the first single and find out the album is not very good, so they just sit there.

Spotify fills my use case almost perfectly.
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The 3-times rule is still the roughly case in Ireland when you're offered something, and what the "ah go on go on go on" in the TV Show Father Ted was satirising.

What's interesting is when customs collide. For example my German relatives wonder why we keep asking them if they want something when they've already said no, whereas I'm waiting for them to offer another two times before I can say yes.
Your comment said it was a problem that people liked being addicted. If someone wants to quit but can't, they aren't liking being addicted. But for patients that are OK with being addicted (and have the means, like many people on HN do), why is addiction a problem?
Well, lucky me, I don't use Mail App. I'm using the GMail App
That's obviously true, but a round of this size was likely several months in the making even for a company the size of Spotify.
I didn't believe my eyes as I saw the wikipedia link to Taarof listed here :D Even though as I am half persian it made me smile ;)
You'd have to read the entire stack down through the compiler, the libraries, the kernel, and eventually the (whatever is the equivalent of the BIOS these days).

To quote "Reflections on Trusting Trust",

The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did
not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies
that employ people like me.) No amount of
source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you
from using untrusted code.

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Well I can't get a job as a JavaScript developer atm because I have never used any of the new client side frameworks like AngularJS or React. I have only toyed with NodeJS and CouchDB is the only NoSQL database I have tried.

I used to be a Java developer, but haven't monitored the developments of the language and best practices for the last 3 years. Also I don't really like Java anymore.

I ponder getting into Android, but it's Java again, and then I find I have to learn a whole new style language that is almost but not quite like CSS, but seemingly less powerful.

I don't really care about agile development or scrum, another deal breaker for many jobs.

I like data science, but it seems mostly PhDs fresh from university or other young people are being hired for that. I actually enjoy doing Coursera or Udacity courses in data science, but it's not enough.
A low-level safe VM? That exists with PNaCl (Portable Native Client), which of course everybody dislikes as a web technology.
The title is a bit misleading, it could say 'Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization for OS X based on FreeBSD's Bhyve'
I can now see how that can be confusing.

It is a web based product. But we also have an additional (optional) iPhone/Android app to do the automated uploads with.

I might update the images in the near future to include browsers on the screenshots to help highlight further.

Thanks for the idea.
Sorry, it's not obvious at all how the limit came about. That is pretty terrible.
Although I understand your question, it was a very interesting article about an idiomatic social device, human relationships and how you reach open / honest communications level.
I know absolutely nothing about the domain or the problem being solved. My initial reaction to the pricing was that it seems a bit cheap - $5 if they do the manual work and only $4 extra for you to do it? Either it is a very simple and quick process or you are selling yourselves a bit cheap?
I hope so too. I, too, have been a paying Spotify user for a long time and it just drives me crazy. I tried Rdio too but wasn't a fan. All music catalogs being equal, the bar is set pretty low at the moment. I really want to like Spotify too, because they seem like they're trying hard, but the UI and UX just feel terrible to me.
It's also explained on the man page:

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sed - stream editor for filtering and transforming text
I started my secondary income by building a small tool to copy only changed files (search for "copy changed files" on google) and made it free and put it on a website and added a donate button.

I soon got my first donation, and one more, and one more and realized that I had made something that gave enough value to others so that they wanted to give something back.

This made me look for the next product to build, and it ended up being TSR Watermark Image - a windows software that lets you watermark images (doh)

This gave me a (nice) side income of around 1000$/Month until I attended MicroConf in Prauge where I learned enough to 5x that business.

Currently I am pouring the money from the watermarker into the latest product http://timeblock.com that will be the next step in my business adventure, hopefully becoming a SaaS app that can make a 5-6 figure MRR
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I'm in the same boat (not $0, but certainly in the tens of dollars, not more) and for me it is the "or". That is pirated music. Nowadays I either listen to youtube playlists (with ads) or something like Spotify (with ads). So in a way I pay, but just with my time, not money (unless the ads work).
People don't want to pay much 1. because they're cheap, but also 2. because they realise that digital distribution is a near 0-cost business.

The music industry can't pretend it's still offering the same value to artists and customers as it did in the pre-internet age. They haven't adjusted to that, and that's their error.
"Catholic" means "Christian" (well, "church universal", really), although it's often used as a shorthand for "Roman Catholic", being a subset of Catholicism.

Sometimes the distinction is made by a lower case leading "c" for the church universal, and an upper case leading "C" for shorthand of "Roman Catholic".

Here's a Lutheran church using the term in this way: http://web.archive.org/web/20081203192002/http://www.elca.or...
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How many jobs in the past hundred years required or would have been made easier if the people doing them understood the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem? How many jobs over the next 100 years will require or be made a lot easier by knowing how to program?
We need to talk about intuition in UX
Really interesting article, sounds like a fun adventure. Couple of points:

1.) "0x12b9b0a5. This equals 314159269 in decimal. Yep, that’s the first 8 digits of pi right there" -- actually, it's not. The first 8 digits of pi are 3.14159265, it's not clear why the Microsoft developers ended with a 9 instead of a 5, perhaps a mistake? perhaps to help with coprime-ness?

2.) The "ANSI C" version uses mbstowcs which isn't any kind of ANSI C function I've ever heard of.

Fantastic article, really enjoyed reading, many thanks.
Thanks. Pricing is always a tough subject. Patio11 would tell us to charge more - but this is a B2C model - so our client base will be price sensitive to some degree.

The pricing is "per property". So some current customers have 10-20 properties, and in those circumstances the price can add up to be relatively higher.

It is an area we will be paying very close attention to. Part of the problem is we have some "assumptions/theories" on aspects relating to this - but we are trying to gather "data" to make informed decisions.

So this pricing seemed like a good sweet spot to start with, and we can take it from there...
I use Spotify Free, i.e. with ads and what I find interesting that most (paid) ads are from Universal Music. So they pay for ads so you listen to their content (targets are playlist with crap pop music). Weird.
Yeah, but it still takes time to set up a new server, launch it, update the DNS. And you lose all the data since the last backup.
There's an old joke I heard as a child in India: a kid who is going to attend a birthday party of a friend is instructed by his mother to refuse three times before accepting any food offered to him. When he is finally offered cake (after a long wait), all he can do is yell "NO NO NO" before grabbing the plate.
I grew up relatively poor, but have managed to work my way out of it.

The reasons behind being poor and staying poor are complex.

But one of the common themes is basically poor impulse control, and growing up seeing more examples of this than examples of what good impulse control looks like can be profoundly influential.

When my wife and I were first married we were among the poorest I've ever been. We had a very small, very spare apartment, and I wanted a couch...bad, because it seemed that we needed one. My wife (who grew up in a fairly wealthy family) simply put her foot down and we simply sat on the floor for the first two years.

It kind of sucked, but there was at least one-time where the money we would have spent on a couch ended up keeping a roof over our heads and she was proven correct.

The friends I grew up with, who remain poor, struggle to make rent, but have top of the line smart phones with expensive plans, buy new furniture constantly, have apartments full of sports memorabilia or expensive knife and sword collections and so on. Many of them have buried themselves into MMOs, often paying for multiple accounts and multiple computers to use them with.

I know people who got into a local college, decided not to pay the tuition so they could instead outfit themselves in head-to-toe suits of armor so they could walk around the local Renaissance festivals, and then lost the entire suit when they couldn't pay the bill on the self-storage place they were storing it all in.
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.

You could grind up all the current radioactive waste into particles and pump it into the atmosphere on purpose, and nuclear would still likely cause less harm than most of the alternatives.

The problem with nuclear is fear and politics.

And most of the management "problems" with nuclear is down to exactly that too. We have plants that generate more waste than necessary because of cold war politics. We have storage "problems" because of irrational levels of fear of the risks.

Meanwhile we keep burning coal that continues to shower us in radioactivity and other nastiness sufficient to do as much damage (including deaths) as a Chernobyl sized incident every couple of year or more.
Thank you for that - you just made me snort coffee through my nose ...

In fact, I had to resort to a calculator to check my arithmetic, something I haven't had to do in a long time. I checked my calendar to make sure it really is 2015, and then:

$ eq 2015-1989
> 26

So the World Wide Web was invented 26 years ago, which is less than 30 years.

I, too, find myself falling behind. I don't know what a "container" might be, and I certainly don't know what "docker" is. I don't know how to write an app, and I've never seen code that uses react.js

In fact, with a few exceptions I don't know what any of these are:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JavaScript_libraries

I have programmed in Python, Ruby, and Haskell, but if you think nothing has fundamentally changed in the last 30 years, good for you.
> To be a mensch was the pinnacle of her moral code, and it didn’t matter that it meant “man.” Women could be mensches, too...

Nitpick: "Mensch" is actually gender-neutral (in Standard German it just means "person" or "human being", not "man" (which is "Mann").
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If you are willing to put up with the ads.
It's really not very dangerous, even in the worst case, compared to the alternatives for baseline power.

Supposing we just ignored the radioactivity and did nothing, compare the number of deaths and environmental damage per kwh to what business as usual for any alternative would cause (coal mining? Oil drilling? Flooding land for hydro-electric? Mining the stuff that solar panels are made of?).
Yes, this is pretty bad for Apple, I wonder if they find a way to extort this poor man to remove it.

I also liked the fact YouTube started to play "New iOS 8 Mail App: Here's Why It Is Impressive!" video automatically after that video.
> Indians not saying "thank you" as much as the Americans or the English

Yes, cultural differences are sometimes strange.

Here in Germany most people are rather short-spoken. So if a German is nice to me, he probably likes me, otherwise he would not make the effort.

When I talk to English people, it feels like they are talking like Germans who like me, even if they just are like this to everyone. This feels very strange if I just met them or if they tell me unpleasant things. I often feel a bit deceived.
There's a reason I stick to vim, which treats multi-gigabyte files as a supported use case. (My daily use case: McKeithing through bloody huge log files.)
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This is great, is it possible to make it work with Docker?

Edit: Yes, it is.

Edit2: It is possible, but whether is it worth it or not is still a question. xhyve is a supervisor after all, you still need to boot a vm to use Docker. So if you like me, thought for a second that this can make containers in OSX a reality, don't get excited too early.
imagine trying to do it in HTML

The question on my mind is, why do it in HTML? Especially if you're going to wrap that browser in something that approximates a desktop app anyway.

Imagine if designers tried to do everything in PowerPoint for some unknown reason. "3D animation? Yeah, we can do it in PowerPoint with this incredible hack that makes slides sort of like faces on a mesh..."

That's how it is with HTML today.
Your customers are the owners of buy-to-let properties, right?

I would not consider them B2C. They are running businesses. They will be used to paying for professional services to handle the paperwork your software handles. How much does that cost per property per month? You should price your offering in the same range.
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Bhyve is FreeBSDs...? I don't follow how it is misleading.
> The first 8 digits of pi are 3.14159265

Those are the first 9 digits if you count 3 - the 9 at the end is the 9th digit, not the 8th, so the first 8 digits are correct. You're correct about the ANSI C part though, it's actually C99 - I've corrected that part. Thanks.
I see this exactly the other way around: paying for a service like Spotify allows me to experience almost any music I want to, and discover much more, at any time and place I desire without having heaps of plastic discs collecting dust in my home.

For me the lasting value of experiencing music in an efficient and uncluttered way far outweighs that of physical media.
I pay Spotify for usability and UX. Google Music might be couple of euros cheaper but the UI is worse (especially on mobile). Piracy and saving files to different devices takes time and effort, streaming is easy. Hunting down good quality uploads and creating playlists based on albums on Youtube? No way.
As someone who has a lot of sleep problems due to physical problems, I find it frustrating that insomnia seems almost always assumed to be always a psychological issue.
For some people curation and editorial responsibility is considered a valuable feature. Time spent hunting for freebies is time I could spend otherwise - i.e. saving me time to find the thing I want is something that provides me value that I am willing to pay for.
One of the many "benefits" of reading daily mail articles is you can go to the comments section and be utterly confused.

>Time travels like a tube returning inside itself. It can do this as many times as the space between the tube wall allows. Like when you take a rubber glove off.

What?
So this is why all of google's pages are suddenly much harder to navigate/use.
When you create an AAAA alias record in Route 53 and point it to a VPC load balancer, it gives out an IPv6 address. It does only mention A record in the load balancer description's DNS Name field, so I don't know what to make of it.
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Ask HN: What's the best duration for a free trial for a PaaS?
Hi

I'm working on a PaaS project and I need to have a built-in trial. The most common trial period I've seen is 14 days. What's so magic about this number? Is it the two full weeks? But why?

Anyway, I want to squeeze the trial period a bit down and optimize for a better conversion rate. Also, a shorter trial period saves me cash hardware-wise as I'm bootstrapping this project. This PaaS requires one to change DNS. So I need to account for DNS changes ("propagation"). So if I allocate 2 full days for DNS and one weekend, all amounts to 9 days. Is 9 days too short?

Thanks!
Unfortunately, the letter published by Nature is paywalled after the first page. Science Daily has a write-up at [1] which is also probably more accessible to non-specialists.

Agree with you on the daily mail. A really terrible source, and I have it null routed on my machine. Any chance of the mods changing the link and title?

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150527103110.ht...
Similarly, even in my little and very western country of the Netherlands, there are definitely places where this is part of the regular custom.
Absolutely spot on. One of the things my wife taught me, and allowed me to escape from my poor environs was to simply stop trying to fulfill expectations of the poor people I grew up with and re-purpose the skills I had for being poor into skills that I could use to generate wealth.

"You don't get rich by spending money" she used to say.

It helped that she grew up fairly wealthy, but her parents had pulled themselves out of abject poverty within their own lifetimes -- they still had the kinds of ingrained penny-minding skills they grew up with, but had used it towards positive effect.

For the first two years of my marriage, we sat on the floor, ate off of a re-purposed used coffee table somebody gave to use for free. For the first year we slept on an old mattress on the floor until in the second year we finally bought a bedroom set that was ridiculously discounted and that allowed us to move our clothes into some kind of organization.

It felt weird having friends over, since we couldn't offer them anyplace to sit but the floor, but you get over it.
It explicitly says: xhyve may make a good solution for running Docker on your Mac, for instance.
And not only time but mental and physical space as well.
How long ago was this? I just opened a 40MB SQL file in Sublime Text2 and it took less than 40 seconds to open. Once open, editing and scrolling takes no time at all and searching takes maybe a second or 2. Doing a replace on a sting that appeared in every line took about 90 seconds.

I agree the Sublime Text isn't as good as some other editors when it comes to large files, but 50 MB is generally not a problem
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to misattribute it to Voltaire.

— Voltaire
pi begins: 3.141592653589 - I miscounted 8 instead of 9, but the number is still wrong.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. He's saying the first 8 digits of that are the first 8 digits of pi, although the 9th is incorrect. Got it.
Funny how "untrendy" editors like Emacs (from the 70s!) handles 50MB files and larger without even raising an eyebrow, while all the "modern" editors seem crippled when asked to to do the same things.

I'll stick to what works, thank you.
As at least one study and plenty of anecdata has shown, music helps a lot of people with their work performance. The ROI on that $10/mo should be pretty good for your average developer. Spotify radio and playlists make easy to discover new music or listen to music you like without spending any time curating playlists etc.

If you think of the time spent to find and buy 720 songs, at just one minute each, that's 12 hours spent just buying songs. The value of spotify is wasting no time or money on acquiring or managing a music library.
Which comment do you mean? Ctrl-F for "threshold" and "dressing to impress" didn't yield anything. Skimming the first three comments didn't either.

Also what's the point? I don't really agree with "knowing <X> = privilege" but let's say it's true. Then what? Does that change what should be the best decision? Does it change how we react on incomplete information?

Knowing that there is a threshold at which returns start to diminish is a good point, because it tells you to look for clues of when to stop spending on status symbols. Having an expensive watch might help you, but the $60k watch might not improve your situations 10x of what a $6k watch would do.

Now if we add that the knowledge of the threshold is privilege, what does it change? Of course the person who has that knowledge makes better decisions. But knowing that it is a privilege to know that threshold doesn't give any more change to the decision making process. Or at least I don't see it.
As a logo I really like 4.1 and 4.2. But I'm not sure they sit well specifically within the iPhone home screen. 2.2 is your best choice for that specific use case. Perhaps a blend of the two?
I fail to see how these companies will ever turn a profit. I can't imagine their market growing exponentially bigger than it already is.

I'm an entrepreneur in the non tech domain, and profitability is the first thing we look for, not the last. Somehow, tech companies manage to survive for years without making any profits, which is weird t me
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Blending in is only a question of having the app icon next to similar ones in colour and design.
Also it could make it harder to find.
I think the best practice is to make your icon stand out and not blend in. Which might be a bit interesting for an app about anonymity. :)
Being able to signal that you are respectable is very important, especially if you are a member of a minority group that faces constant stereotyping, and I think the author makes this point very vividly.

However, the way you signal that you are respectable is not through conspicuous consumption, but through things like accent, education, knowledge of social norms, shared friendship networks, etc. Poor minorities are definitely underprivileged when it comes to those things - and this is a very serious issue, but spending on things like expensive Nikes or a Gucci bag won't suddenly ingratiate you to authorities or the upper social classes. If anything, the 'ghetto fab' aesthetic specifically rejects the restrained and minimalistic taste displayed by members of the elite.

So - I think the author makes a very good point that minorities face lots of difficulties and stereotyping, but she tries to make conspicuous consumption seem far more noble than it is... people buy expensive jewelry as a status marker within their own tribe, not as a way to better themselves.