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Germany (and lots of Europe) was rebuilt at great expense and with considerable willingness to forgive debts or reparations, because, quite rightly, the world realized impsosing draconian penalties on Germany after wwi was a major factor leading to wwii. Even since the end of the wwii, Germany had to have debt forgiven and be bailed out more than once for reckless economic policy. Now I feel like whoever is calling the shots are not just being hypocritical, but downright shortsighted. Greece messed up, but they've paid a hefty price, just tell the creditors they're SOL and are going to have to accept a haircut, forgive a majority of the debt and move on.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a coordinated PR exercise with top artists and Apple.
I mean, that sounds feasible, but I seriously doubt that is what actually occurred. I would give Apple the benefit of the doubt here, until WikiLeaks turns up some incriminating emails or something.
Microsoft Garage Mouse Without Borders
You know this calls for a ttyrec html player...!
First Look: Steve Jobs Trailer
In aerospace, tried-and-true "legacy" systems are much preferred to "state-of-the-art", as newer often means there are more bugs that have yet to be discovered.
Start with a morpheme. That is, the root form of a word. Feel free to link a couple of morphemes together.

Then augment it into something that probably isn't a word (and is both unlikely to be domain squatted and can easily be trademarked).

Example: Accenture. I understand it was supposed to mean 'accent on the future' but it says a lot in one convoluted word: Acc[elerate], A[sc]ent], [s]ure, [tal]ent, etc.

Mix around a few words and cut and chop them. The original morpheme may be lost, but as long as you're happy with the result, that's good.

I use bustaname.com for quickly checking combinations.
I spend huge amounts of time listening to and giving feedback on new ideas and startups.

But I've come to recognise this tone... are you sure you want actual feedback, which is usually negative, or do you want people to just agree with you that your idea is awesome?

Remember, truly disruptive ideas do look unworkable to other people [1].

If you're really a "doer" and you really have a disruptive idea, then you don't need encouragement and you will get nothing but negative feedback. Your next step is to figure out how to make your idea happen on your own and prove everyone wrong.

1: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
There are always three sides in every argument: The ones arguing, and the truth.
I just tried to pin https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/issues/77 with the popup with tags bookmarklet. I get no response from either it or Delicious' bookmarklet. AFAICR this issue is years old - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866522
> think about how many people would have to be "in it" to make it work

TS, her lawyer, some top guys in Apple and their marketing division? It could very realistically be less than 5 people.

I don't say I support the theory, just want to point out that it doesn't take much to write an open letter and then respond to it on Twitter.
It's really bad to curl | sh. You shouldn't do it, and you shouldn't recommend doing it...

The app looks neat though, good job
I use the google alerts service.
Is it possible to deploy to a local IOS device from one of those?
Harvard Admissions Needs ‘Moneyball for Life’
If you build it in Ionic (which was built on top of Cordova), you can get it onto the device via Ionic View. http://view.ionic.io/

There may be other solutions, but this is what I'm currently familiar/playing with.
That's the thing with these type of hyped things. General Fusion is another company that was going to do something 5-7 years ago and has received much funding from energy companies and has yet to put out anything substantial.

http://www.burnabynow.com/news/27-million-for-general-fusion...
"Content Security Policy: The page's settings blocked the loading of a resource at self ("script-src https://assets-cdn.github.com https://collector-cdn.github.com")." for me
Just happened to be waiting for a Elgin 883 movement to finish drying from a clean/rinse cycle. Killing time on HN, and I happen to run across this referral to a video.

Watch repair can be fun, and it really doesn't cost a lot to get into on a hobby level. There's lots of books on watch repair, and most are out of copyright. The debate of mechanical watches comes up every so often. That Bulova watch he takes the Balance Wheel out of will literally last a life time with proper care.

In the video, he mentions he doesn't know how the Bulova Accutron 360 gear is manufactured(you need to inspect it with a 30X scope). I have always been curious about this topic. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the info. I know about watch lathes, and hand turning. I don't know how the factories mass produce these gears, what machines they use.
Trello.com + reportsfortrello.com
Although I dont think this was all intentional (see: letter sent to news companies re: news app), lets play devil's advocate.

It doesn't require everybody to be in on it to execute this. It only requires one entity and that's apple.

Apple pings indie artists they know will get mad. The singer of the brian jonestown massacre is known for his rants. They get a bunch of people pissed off "Free music.. free music..." and wait for it to go viral. Then, flip the script and campaign done.

But again, i think they just did a good job of turning this nightmare into a positive.
We had a semester-long required course in high school (usually taken as a freshman) called "Career and Family" which focused on a re-hash of sex ed. and information on the dangers of drug abuse. We also had a semester-long required course in economics which focused more on the stock market and macroeconomics.

Way back in 4th/5th grade we had an hour or so each day for a couple of weeks focused on things like balancing a checkbook, but it was probably a bit too early on to do much good beyond reinforcing the required math skills. Then again, cooking was something I learned a year or two earlier in a summer-school class, so maybe some things do stick at that age.
That's what negotiating from the position of strength means.
What does that say about Google's non-response to similar musician letters about YouTube Music terms?
I think programs written in dynamic languages are generally harder to optimize because they're more likely to take advantage of complex features. Since these languages often compile to C, you can obviously write the same program in C, but you aren't as likely to.
There is also http://synergy-project.org/. It works in Linux and Mac OS X as well as Windows. You might have to fuss with it a bit to set it up but once it's up it works.
I think there are more dangers in adopting superstitions.
High Energy Electron Confinement in a Magnetic Cusp Configuration
Yep. But it went nowhere, as far I know.
I've been a spotify premium subscriber for a number of years now, and been happy with it. Apple music seems interesting, and more competition is good, however there isn't much that makes me want to switch just yet.

While Apple has a lot of things going for it, SaaS hasn't ever been their strong suit. Spotify's entire business is streaming music. Apple's streaming music service is a small fraction.
Amusingly, a Scion is what I got. The year that I bought it, Toyota was selling the Yaris in Canada but not in the US. From what I could tell, the Corolla, Yaris, and Scion, were all cut from the same cloth. I did look at other makes too, but the Scion was priced to move.

A minor selling point was that Scion's options were all dealer-installed, meaning I could have a stripped down model without waiting for one, or having to haggle. I think that I may have bought the cheapest new car on the market at the time.

My only gripe is that it's noisy when driving at highway speeds, something that I don't do very often.
Totally agree. I just wanted to refute the argument that whether artists go unpaid doesn't matter because more of the pain will fall on the labels, which is a popular but fallacious argument.
even that first sentence executes perfect product placement. 'blah blah my album, 1989, blah blah new streaming service, Apple Music'
50%+of+Modern+Languages+Are+in+Danger+of+Extinction+|+blog.Mova.Club
What is this sort of thing typically used for?
Even though I admit that my current projects are in PHP, I also know that there is nothing that you can do in PHP that you could not do in another programming language. Just out of curiosity, why does it have to be PHP?
So...
Ad researchers have rebranded Gen Y??
That's kind of funny.

(Also shows how much attention I was paying. I thought there were Boomers, X's, Y's, and Millenials)
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Who the hell would invade us? There's no-one even close. This is pretty bizarre

Australia is one of the richest countries in the world because we imported a decent work ethic and have lots of natural resources. We also core very highly on "great places to live" lists because we all live close to the beach.

It's awesome here, and if we can just get rid of the catholic idiot in charge and get someone in who understands about the intertubes and the NBN and why investing in tech is a good idea then we're all set :)
"It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t.

Different people need different kinds of management. Be adaptable to figure out what drives each person’s best performance."

This juxtaposition is deliberate irony, right?
NaCl?
The idea that working 9-5 is ipso facto "coasting" is absurd.

If you actually need people to work long hours, then ... you aren't doing it right.
Apple Says “We Hear You Taylor Swift”, Will Pay Musicians During Free Trial
Scion FR-S / Subaru BRZ should be exempted from all of this, of course (Similar to the Corvette vs. all Chevys, or the Viper and Dodge). If I were in the market for a petrol car right now, those would be on the shortlist. I'd pay a slight premium for the Subaru due to brand identity, but they're the same car.
>gizmodo

yeah nah, I'm good thanks. i can already tell that this is going to be:

1. a headache caused by "too many notifications"

2. some kind of neck pain because they look down at their phones too much

3. they bumped their heads on something because they weren't looking where they were going

4. a combination of all of the above
Occam's Razor, man… the problem with conspiracy theories is that they require everything to work flawlessly and EVERYONE to keep their mouths shut. nonsense.
great simulator
I can't up vote this enough. I've worked for three startups - two of which failed fast and the other which lingered on and was always about to "make it big." I had dropped out of college and by the time you're on your third fail and looking for a job you realize nobody cares at that point how many failed startups you've worked for and all the cool, leading-edge, things you were doing. All they care about is you don't have a degree.

Don't worry though - you'll find someone to take a chance on you. After all good developers are hard to find, and they're going to underpay you anyway because you don't have a degree.

That's when you're going to go back to school. Now it's going to be a lot harder than it was the first time, at least it was for me. You'll probably be married (I was). Probably have a mortgage (I did). In other words, up and quitting your job so you can become a full-time student probably isn't going to be an option. So you're going to take morning and evening classes. You're not going to have your pick of the classes either - you're going to settle for classes you need to graduate that's offered at a time you can take them. Oh and group projects are going to be a real bear. Trust me on that one. Hang in there, you'll get your degree. But it won't be all it could have been due to all the concessions you've been forced to make along the way.

My own son is starting his Sophomore year in college as a Math & Computer Science double major and he's about to turn 19 in a few weeks. By the way he was 3 when I graduated - he attended my graduation. I'll give you the same advice I've given him. One, computer science isn't enough. You really need the math. Software development is much more a commodity skill than it used to be and now the key differentiator is your mathematical and analysis skills. Two, be thinking about an advanced degree, not just stopping after your undergraduate education. Three, you need to be doing internships and working on interesting problems during your education. Finally, when you graduate you'll have the skills and know-how to make a startup succeed and you'll have plenty experience to allow you to derive creative solutions to problems.

Good luck!
that's pretty impressive! how do you make sure you're not getting too specialized within the company and are actually advancing your cs knowledge instead of the product knowledge?
PNaCL was a Chrome only project. According to the announcement, the PNaCL team is teaming up to create a truely multi-vendor solution. "Having both the PNaCl team and the V8 team from Google, along with key people from Microsoft and the asm.js and Emscripten gurus from Mozilla, collaborating closely once everyone saw the light, has been inspiring."
https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/
I don't believe the conspiracy theory that they colluded with Taylor Swift either. But I don't think they would have had to - she's been fairly vocal about free streaming the last couple months, this reaction should have been easily expected.

Far more likely than apple planning this with her is apple anticipating her reaction (or if not her, somebody. Jay Z likes to make noise about streaming royalties too). Either they get a reaction from a celebrity and get to dominate the news cycles with their new product for a while, or they get to set a new precedent of not paying artists. Either way, apple wins.
If she's smart, she'll still hold out. 1/2 a cent per play won't add up to anywhere near as much as her sales are.

Correction: That estimate was based on the average Spotify rate over the last few years. Apple has now said that the rate will be different during the trial and isn't being made public.
did they ever say they wouldn't?
It's too bad, larger artists pulling their listings during that period could have given less listened-to artists more promotion.
Does TS really have to know? I think her outrage would be more believable if she didn't.
Where is the evidence for this claim?

"It got out of that slump thanks to the euro, which created a boom in southern Europe, and thus generated export markets for Germany. "

Germany's biggest trade partners are France, US, UK and China.

https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/NationalEconomyEnvir...

Germany's improvements have more to do with Germany's changes to industrial --(relations) reform than to do with Southern Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept

-- edit added (relatations) to the sentence.
Discussion on talk-polywell.org here: http://talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5425
The Umbrella Reinvented
I learned a little about Green Bank because it's on the test for the Ham Radio Extra exam:

E1F06 [97.3]

What is the National Radio Quiet Zone?

An area surrounding the National Radio Astronomy Observatory The National Radio Astronomy Observatory sites are located in Green Bank West Virginia, Socorro New Mexico, and Charlottesville NC.
Eddy Cue clarified that artists will not be paid at the streaming rate they are paid during users paid memberships. They will be paid at a different rate that isn't being disclosed:
http://recode.net/2015/06/21/apple-says-it-will-pay-taylor-s...

Also: "Cue says Apple will keep the existing royalty rates it has already hammered out with the three major music labels for subscribers."
The danger in adopting a superstition is that it would lead to a contradiction. Total but naive disbelief leads to a contradiction, unless you allow for an exception. In other words, critical thinking is not that simple. That is why we have methods such as science and math to help us with that. Naive forms of disbelief probably are superstitions.
How is this wonky? You want high performing code without the overhead of the compile and dl of the ascii format. JS has done an amazing job up until now, but as more people move their code to client side only, it's becoming clearer that there are better ways to build the web applications.

Or maybe this is a non problem, because everything will become native again on the mobile devices. No more html, no more Dom.
I have to admit that I ended up skimming over the rest of the article after the false choice of "unicorn or nothing" that the author characterized about SV. Even limited to YC companies, what percentage are unicorns? And is every company expected to be a unicorn? The vast majority of YC companies are moderate successes or moderate failures.

The whole "there's no Australian Secret or Pets.com" really sounded like sour grapes to me. Do Texans (people from a region of similar population size and GDP to Australia) boast about their lack of spectacular technology company failures?

Why not just say, "Australia is bloody awesome, it's home, and we've decided to stay for that reason. We're living proof you can flourish as a startup in Victoria. It turns out that we decided that we didn't want to move to the Bay Area."? I'd really be interested in the details of how they actually got it to work (marketing, customer relationships, developers).

That being said, I'm very grateful that they posted a blog about it. I've found Australian companies to be fairly tight-lipped in comparison. The more exposure there is to Australian technology companies, the more opportunities for customers and investors will materialize.
This point of view, written by someone over 50, ignores the fact that many baby-boomers still want to see themselves the same way they did in their 20s and 30s, making the advertising nearly as effective on them. At the very least, the data is not showing that they are being driven away by the advertising, and it is not showing that anyone is more effective with baby-boomers by specifically targeting them with campaigns that would not be effective with millennials.
Also, over at /r/apple it became 'fact' that it would actually be illegal for Apple to have a three month free trial due to anti-competitive behaviour - it could be seen as them using their large cash resources to dump or flood the market to gain an unfair advantage.

Wearing my altruistic tin-foil-hat, I would argue that Apple wanted to pay indie artists all along (because it's art and they respect them!), but were afraid of the antitrust implications of doing that (re: ebooks litigation). So they made this deal (of not paying artists) to go public, knowing it will 'backfire' and Apple would have the grounds to 'reverse' their decision and pay artists.
The mechanism by which Germany has benefited at the expense of other Euro countries is the large trade surplus vs exchange rates.

Normally a big country's currency will appreciate once they start running prolonged large trade surpluses, but the Euro has enabled Germany to keep siphoning in wealth in a way that wasn't possible before the Euro. Similarly pre-Euro the southern countries would have seen their currencies depreciate and get a break in competitiveness.

Hartz is also part of it, Germany has kept labour costs down while southern countries in the same currency area experienced high inflation due to masses of cheap money coming in again due to the Euro.

And of course Germany has been leading the austerity brigade in response to the crisis.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/04/03...
I'm using .co domain for couple of my side projects [0] and they rank well. So, from SEO point of vew, it's as good as .com.

[0] http://portchecker.co
The last time I counted, I think there were more packages between PLaneT and pkgs.racket-lang.org than Chicken eggs. Also, Chicken relies on eggs to provide a lot of things that the Racket standard library contains.
You can already hand a binary that runs on the CPU and let it do whatever it wants, the problem is that said binary needs to interface with other components of the system. Specifically it needs to be able to ask for input, modify said input and output it somehow.

It is those points, where it interacts with other sub-systems to display things to the user or receive input from the user that things get dangerous. Even with IPC there is the possibility that there may be a security issue processing the content.

NaCL and others try to solve part of the problem by making it easier to sandbox the application by limiting what it can do, but there is still an interface into the real world.
Thanks for the feedback.

* I was trying to imitate the web interface. That's why it seems crowded. I agree it should change.

* I was trying to get the screenshots of functionality since I only have one screen yet. (color changes after each cycle)

* Story numbers won't make the next release.

Thanks for the pointers. Do you mind sharing your client?
Btw any pointers on how to get more feedback?
Projecting crying babies onto pollution is a great way to sell air purifiers
By your logic: non-disclosure/secrecy agreements would never work either.
The site would be awesome. On a more immediate note, have any of the project you're tracking ever taken off or turned out to live up to the hype?
71.5% of the monthly premium, which would work out to a difference of about a hundredth of a cent per stream. So, instead of an average $0.005 per stream, it'll be $0.0051 per stream. (I think that's what spofity averaged the last few years)
I had this happen on my router. It hijacked the DNS for google-analytics.com and fed in some javascript that, on click, opened ad popups.
I was able to solve it by hardcoding the DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and haven't had any other problems.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9756017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9756009
"Pay artists" has a lot of room for interpretation. What does that mean? (I work at Pandora, so I see this as an overly simple response.)
Visa Systems Issues
http://recode.net/2015/06/15/heres-what-happens-to-your-10-a...

"Apple won’t pay music owners anything for the songs that are streamed during Apple Music’s three-month trial period, a bone of contention with music labels during negotiations for the new service. But Kondrk says Apple’s payouts are a few percentage points higher than the industry standard, in part to account for the lengthy trial period; most paid subscription services offer a free one-month trial."
Addicted to the cult. What can I say, fellow inmate?
That's during the free trial period. The higher rates remain once people are paid subscribers.