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It's pretty obvious web radio died because of usurious royalty fees [1] compared to terrestrial broadcast.

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-07-...
I don't expect incoming outsiders to be excited. But I expect them to be open and curious, as opposed to looking for a buzzword. Seriously? Google is buzzword-worthy?
The state takes their money off the top, and the rest goes towards the jackpot. They make money as long as people play the game. They might have made more money by hyping the higher jackpot to get more ticket sales, but it obviously wasn't worth their time.

The people rushing to buy tickets because of that jackpot have the same chances of winning as they would without MIT students buying tickets. They have a reduced amount of time to try and win it, since MIT winning will lower the jackpot, but they're probably better off for it by not throwing their money at the game as much.

The people really losing out are the ones who buy tickets no matter what the jackpot is, and that's only if they win after the jackpot has been lowered. They may have won more money, but if that was their concern, they shouldn't have been playing when the payout was so low.
The fact still remains that Apple made a big promise without analyzing all the legal aspects of it. Most average to big size companies do the reverse of it - Make sure the legalities are in their favor before making big announcements.
Though she has never spoken and exactly how she did it remains a mystery...

The Philadelphia Inquirer figured it out:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/Lotterys_luck...

TL;DR scratch tickets aren't random, rather they are intentionally spaced out. The Texas lottery releases spacing info to the public. Once you have a regular lottery annuity (the first one was luck) you can spend vast sums on lottery tickets and write off your losses, so the public subsidizes your lottery purchases.
Haskell took me a while, because there weren't many great resources on how to write many kinds of "real" code in Haskell. The quality of material is getting steadily better.

I think you've got a good 6-12 months before Haskell is more productive for you than OCaml or a C/Python/Lua stack. If you're coming from Java, you're more productive than you were at 1 month in Haskell (you still know very little Haskell, but you're pwning your former Java-toting self)... but in your case, you already know quite a few high-level languages. So it's not surprising that you get less done in a language that forces you to contend with monads (which aren't as hard as they're made out to be, but they're one more new concept) just to have state. If you're coming from Java, you're more productive in Haskell almost instantaneously, before you really even know it. If you're coming from Python, you're less productive day-by-day because the compiler keeps burning you, but you find long-term development going faster due to fewer code breakages. If you're coming from Ocaml... the short answer is that they're both great languages with more in common than not (although I prefer Haskell) so it's not surprising that it takes a while to get up to your prior speed (because your prior speed is so much higher than that of someone from Java).

Real World Haskell is a good book, though a bit slow and dated. Learn You a Haskell is a decent intro book but it has some gaps. I'm working on a Summer Haskell Course at my company and will be publishing the slides. And Chris Allen recommends the CS 194 course that Penn offers (you can find it online). Resources are out there.
I like using one app at a time, until I have to copy data between 2 apps. Then multitask becomes awesome.
Except that those recommendations are really poor. And it's not clear to me at all that there's any way to scale the incoming dataset large enough to get useful results from it. Netflix might have good algorithms but they are handicapped by the shape of their catalog. Music has a much, much larger selection space and currently nobody has a sufficiently deep usage history to make "if you listened to x, you'll likely listen to y" work.

Anywhere but smack dab in the center of the distribution algorithmic music recommendation engines fail completely (save for Pandora, which has a different small catalog problem.)
This is literally the best content in this thread. I haven'd heard about this but this project is freakin amazing.
Do you go through long periods of productivity where you stop reaching out to or respond to friends as much/at all?
That's the exact reason they designed it that way.

Apple is intended to be a walled garden rather than a true equal platform for the app devs. As much as I like Apple hardware I hate their mobile OS because of this approach of building special integrations for their built in apps that you can't even remove, while denying other app devs access to the full range of device integration, except if you go through their limited API's.
Pretty sure that's available today.

I just say 'Hey Siri play XYZ' on my watch and the music plays on my car stereo.
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You have to click the X at the top left. For some reason it's a popup over the intro page.
I think they were making a huge deal about the first global 24/7 live radio station. Most of the other Internet radio stations I know aren't live 24/7.
Can someone explain what it means for a language like this to be open source?

I sort of get it for Python, means you can download the C files and mess with them.

But isn't Swift written in like Assembly?
They didn't say it was bad, they just said it wasn't a useful signal.

One thing I'm seeing more commonly is where a group of people create github profiles with a handful of projects that are obvious homework assignments, and then open and close a few issues and pull in some trivial changes to each others' repos in order to put a few green dots on their contributor graphs.

Sad really.
That is already true if you go with other languages/frameworks to develop on OSX.
Have you ever used iTunes Radio? I find it to be better than Pandora for connecting and discovering hidden gems that I don't know about. I'm guessing Apple Music will use the same kind of 'genius' information.
It's just a question of time.

You can have an active social life and be creatively productive. But you have to schedule.

The more time I poured into IT, the better I got. When it was a 24/7 thing, I left all my mates at school behind. When I started playing guitar, going to parties and play too many games, the others caught up.

Now I'm mediocre at all of those things, but I've seen a bit more of the world.

If you put your time in as few things as possible, one can be "social activity" and you still can be a creative mastermind.
I'm not sure I can follow you here. What is ugly, Hoare logic? What does it mean to "build a whole language around Hoare logic"? What in your opinion are the alternatives to Hoare-style program logics that are general-purpose enough to work for arbitrary programming languages?
Author here. The term 'Ally' is often used to describe men supporting diversity (especially gender diversity) in technology. Some examples: the ADA initiative does an 'Ally Skills Workshop' and the Grace Hopper Conference had a "Male Ally Panel".
In order to have automatic device compatibility we've built this whole web platform, paying huge prices along the way in speed, data size, etc, but it's all worth it because you can deploy your application instantly and everyone will be able to use it with a consistent experience across all devices and platforms.

Then they go and try to re-do something probably a dozen layers deeper than the frontend application code they used; scrolling - and will probably be surprised to learn there are compatibility problems!
Open Source, this is indeed a very good start.
I wonder where the official open source repo will be hosted?
Then both passwords get captured on the front end.

There's no benefit to multiple accounts unless the more important one is used much more rarely.
I think that this comment addresses that pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679557

If you are doing a business deal where you are confident the person you struck the deal with is in control of going forward then I think that the obligations and the relationship is very different. If the local bank lends you the money and you have a long-running relationship with the person you signed the papers with there is more of your personal bond attached to it. If you find out a week later that the loan has been sold off to another institution you are receiving the message that the relationship you thought you had with the original lender (and that person you met in that office) is quite different from the one you thought you were going to have. (They have, in your words, suddenly given you an extra job!)
The problem is that it is very expensive for Pandora to onboard new content, as compared to a pure recommendation engine approach. They'll never have the depth of catalog to make it anything more than a curiosity.
There are open source ssh clients (I wrote one called hterm a while back). So you could compile it yourself. I agree that being able to check signatures would be nice though.
To be fair "ONE MORE THING!" slot was always for the most important thing of the moment. .
> pinning a massive culture shift away from ancient mythos on something as particular as copyright law

I don't understand how you got from the article to this. The article's claim is more like there isn't enough of a culture shift, because ever-extending copyright terms means nothing is ending up in the public domain anymore.
Applying a pretense of mathematical rigor is an appeal to authority - the timeless purity of mathematical truth. there are countless historic examples of false rigor to justify immoral behavior as moral - it's the heart of pseudoscience.

I am flatly making a non-utilitarian argument for the morality of not making assumptions. That doesn't mean, however, that a rigorous application of utilitarian morality would not come to the same conclusions. I've made good arguments that your utilitarian equation is inadequate, and will arrive at false conclusions. You can think about those shortcomings, or argue that they aren't (as you did with your third point here), or you can write my argument off as mushy do-gooding because it's not "utilitarian".

Ignoring my criticism because it's not intrinsically utilitarian would be utilitarian. It would not, however, be rigorous.

Utilitarianism without rigor breaks down, almost inevitably. See the problem?
Just to provide an alternative view, I listen to Spotify in my house, but in the car I almost always listen to XM. There is something attractive about not needing to think about what is going to play.
SS is just very basic. It's great at getting you going but competitive athletes use more advanced programs.

I personally use college football lifting programs. These are built to get the maximum out of athletes in the span of four years and focus on building an all-around athletic strength, not just maxing out the big three lifts. Because of the nature of football, the competitiveness, and the revenue it generates, the lifting programs have to be on the cutting edge. The strength programs tend to be shared only within football circles. The teams keep meticulous track of players' maxes and are constantly tweaking their programs and collaborating with other strength and conditioning experts to get the maximum out of their players. And they actually have the data where they can compare success of last year's program with this year's with a hundred or so data points, which allows them to make faster iterations on their programs.

If you look the numbers that college football players can put up in olys and powerlifting, so many of them technically qualify for nationals in those sports. Even though lifting isn't their main focus. For example, my brother played D-I ball and had a 1,604 lb three lift total by his junior year. That's 243 lbs higher than the collegiate powerlifting qualifier for nationals (in his weight class) and he was by no means a freakish outlier for his team or conference strength-wise. Maybe only a bit above average for a lineman.
They're never the first but they've always been take huge leaps forward with their products. The iPod and iPhone were light-years ahead of the competition at release. The iPad was as well though to a lesser extent. The Apple Watch is the first big product they've announced that wasn't clearly better than the competition.
Swift will probably be integrated into LLVM which uses a mix of MIT and BSD called NCSA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois/NCSA_Ope...
I use Google Music for 7.99/mo (introductory price).
He also cofounded Beats with Dr Dre and sold it to Apple.

Many speculated that was partially a talent acquisition, to get him working on projects exactly like this.
I'v really enjoyed seeing what companies such as tradecraft have doing around this sort tactic http://tradecrafted.com/ - check them out.
Yes, I understand that, the expertise point is very pertinent indeed. I am not against using available engines at all.

My main point is still that this should be a decision that you make when starting a project, not one that has presumably been made for you. Team members expertise, project cost, for how long you'll be using the tech you're developing, etc. should all be taken into account.

A practical example: Imagine trying to optimize loading times when the whole resource system is a massive generic thing that has been made for you. Now imagine having to support a new platform. You could be in a bind simply because you're using third-party tech (especially if closed-source).
Love love love Spectacle.

https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
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You don't need to build a "whole language" around any kind of logic for it to be sufficiently verifiable. Types are useful, but it's not necessarily an all-or-nothing question. There are non-type-based verification tools (symbolic execution and deduction), and tests complete the picture. A language that doesn't let you write a program unless you yourself have worked hard to prove to the compiler that it's correct may be more trouble than it's worth. Verification does not necessarily have to be a part of compilation, and it does not necessarily require the proof to be spelled out in code.
Of course, for many web sites, the events are not independent.

If I visit one page, I'm likely to visit several more. If I see an interesting page, I'm likely to forward it to friends. If I happen to have 1M twitter followers, my visit could spark a cascade of visits.

Unless your models of site visits are very good (good enough to verify independence), you would need to examine logs to determine if effects like those above kick you completely out of a domain where independence is a good approximation.

Note, time-dependence (a non-constant but deterministic rate λ(t)), is usually easy to cope with. Lack of independence is much harder, because then you are left with Cox processes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_process) and worse.
It's funny how much of Apple functionality is tightly coupled with US. In my city (capital of my country) Apple Maps are worthless, Siri suggestions are worthless, PayPass is worthless, Apple Pay is worthless, iTunes Movies are not available, Bookstore is not available. Now streaming will be worthless too, because mobile data plan for 1 GB per month costs more than this Apple Stream (though I might listen to it at home or at work, but I prefer to listen music in car or while walking, so it's less attractive).
Or BetterSnapTool, Cinch or Divvy. Lots of options here, all better than what OSX offers by default.
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> We call them datacenters for a reason.

And there are many of them, some owned by companies that use them exclusively, some conglomerations of many different providers but owned by yet another party. How is this centralization? I still think you're just arguing that we've compartmentalized certain services to sets of companies, for the most part, but even that isn't centralization, because there are multiple distinct companies using multiple distinct networks and in many cases they are presenting multiple distinct capabilities. Not having something handled at the end point does not mean it's centralized, there's a very large middle ground here, and that's where we are currently at. I'm not sure I see any evidence that we are moving away from that towards actual centralization.

> When I received mail in '95 or so the machine receiving it was the workstation I wrote the reply on.

And many people that used POP3 continued to do so well into the 2000's. It's silly to run a mail server on your workstation. I know, I did it for years myself. You run into all sorts of stupid problems related to your workstation not being always on, badly configured backup MX servers, and other issues. We don't do it anymore not because we were forced out of it (you can still do it now), but because there are solutions that are better for most use cases, and we opt for those.

We don't all wash our own cars, or do our own plumbing, or even clean our own houses. Some people do, some people pay others to do that work. The fact they pay others doesn't mean we've moved towards centralizing those services. There isn't some national bureau of plumbing that is our only recourse when the toilet is clogged and we don't want to fix it ourselves.
"...but it tells me that you're committed to your online presence..."

Why do you feel an online presence is important to an employment candidate?
lol, the point of the parable is to remember that you work to live, not live to work. I was responding to your parent post, that was basically just harping that the parable was a bit simplified.
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I already pay for Spotify Pro and will continue to do so. Nothing about Apple Music really stands out as a better service for my uses.
Before talking about doing 'revoluationary' things in the music industry, I would love it if iTunes reliably had the music I paid for every time I opened it up instead of a greyed out list item with an ambiguous cloud icon next to it.
This is a pretty interesting question: Microsoft has CodePlex, but has also been using GitHub quite a bit lately. Will Apple put Swift as part of http://www.opensource.apple.com/, or start using GitHub? https://github.com/apple seems to be squatted...
I'm excited about Apple News, only if it can beat Flipboard. I used to love it now my feed is getting filled with all kinds of garbage I'm not interested in (i.e. conspiracy theories I guess because I read articles about space?). If Apple News is just slightly better than Flipboard I'm in.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions - I'd personally get a 15" because of the flexibility it provides. Also because of the "envy" factor, which is nearly impossible to discount.
Yep, just commenting on the "and I've heard of that name before" portion. I think The Force Unleashed has a bigger cultural awareness than the draft movie scripts.
I want private conversations with my friends that my parents and teachers can't read. I want to be able to be a teen and do stupid things and talk about sex without having to have an awkward conversation with "adults" later.

I really don't care if the NSA reads them, to be quite honest, since I don't really know them and they're not really going to have much to do with anything. I'm not a terrorist, I'm not going to be flagged. And I know that my parents and teachers can't access the NSA's data banks.

Surveillance is different than privacy. Please don't confuse the two.
im saying those with a propensity to build such systems invariably choose strongly typed languages and in those languages that is the culture and the language encourages it.

Eg.rewriting base classes to use IWritableStream instead of looking up the write method and calling it.
(I have the same 'windows everywhere, all just partially visible' approach that the parent commenters have).

I can't see how this app (and other layout managers) would help this workflow. I don't move or resize windows. They are all where I want them to be, albeit stacked on top of each other. You click (or keypress) to pick the window you want to use, then use it. No window movement necessary.
> But that concept of focusing on a single task without distractions is still something worth remembering.

Apple has a habit of pooh-poohing any idea that they don't currently support right up until the moment that they do support that idea.
they were the first to capitalize on the pretentious side of smart watches. the other manufacturers were trying to sell function in the form where as Apple put the function well behind the form. I figure once they did the gold iPhone all bets were off on how far they would exploit this audience
Starting with "microservices" is a mistake IMO. Start with a monolith because you'll get to market much faster in almost every case. When(if) you run into scale problems then consider breaking off pieces into separate services.

Why would you want to introduce network overhead and sockets into your system if you don't have to?
>I don't quite understand why they put so much emphasis on 24/7 radio. First, I knew few (younger) people who listen to radio.

This can change if there's a enticing offering. Ads, endless automated playlists and crappy programming are not very interesting even for older people. But someone with a unique radio program can potentially get a large following -- like EDM DJs have.

>Second, it's technically not that impressive.

A social service is not about the technology anyway.

>But most importantly: music is very divisive and tastes differ greatly.

That's rather a problem with endless fragmentation than something nice and desirable. Music can also be a uniting force -- and in the past it was, with people able to listen to many genres, not just celebrate their small corner of the music world.
Spotify has done a far, far better of integration with devices like Home Theater receivers than Apple has. Airplay works on my receiver, but Spotify is awesome. Fire up a playlist on the laptop, close it, switch to my phone, it can now control the playlist I started on the phone which is now running on the receiver.

The receiver itself plays the music directly rather than being streamed from the device I started playing on. Nifty.
Yes. Please don't dignify trolls with attention. Instead, flag the comment (by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag') and move on.
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On the other hand, Google Now on Android (voice commands/voice search) is extremely handy and useful for me and many of my friends here. They seem to do it all the time.
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Yes it was. I think the main difference this time will be integration with Twitter and Facebook. If the artists know that what they post on it can show up in Facebook and/or Twitter they'd be more likely to use it. We'll see. It could flop like Ping, or it might not.
At the risk of sounding snarky: why do you need to know?
It was a very un-Apple-like presentation. Apple has a reputation for rehearsing presentations many times. The presentations are critiqued in order to make sure they are clear and to the point.

These presenters didn't fit the usual model. They acted like hadn't rehearsed much (Iovine in particular). It was wildly unclear what, exactly, they were talking about. Lots of abstract hand-waving instead of keeping things concrete and clear.

I'm mystified how this happened.
This is neat, but the registers on the right are painfully unreadable on my screen, with tiny text and contrasts either too dark or too bright in a way that makes my eyes glaze over them.