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Amazon offered them a deal. Amazon made the terms of that deal super clear by putting it in bold type. Shifty Jelly accepted that deal. Calling that cheating is beyond comprehension.
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I don't remember what it was, but I was aed when it was explained- my trainer got hacked & pulled the plug before he could make a clean getaway. He left behind something we all thought was clever in class.
I always disable Ctrl-S with "stty -ixon" in .zshrc / .bashrc. Then, I remap Vim's Ctrl-S with "save/ write"

in .vimrc

nn <C-s> :w<CR>

vn <C-s> :w<CR>

ino <C-s> <ESC>:w<CR>
They already ignore the fossil record as evidence of human evolution, which is accepted by an overwhelming majority of the scientific community as completely valid.

I think any amount of evidence will have no effect on them.
Good news! If TechStars keeps improving at that speed, Y Combinator will need to make improvements as well in order to stay first.
“AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”
Common sense is the unsolicited opinion offered by a bystander, usually in hindsight and starting with the phrase "It's common sense that ..."
I asked Carmack and others, he hated my idea and said it was silly.† I still think it's the right way to go. I think we should physically have CPU's that you can hand a binary you don't trust, off of the Internet, to and nothing bad can happen.

Read that again. CPU's should be able to be given a binary blob, and nothing bad can happen. It should be native speed because it's running on the actual metal. Like a hardware CPU, for the web.

A multigigaherz processor cannot render an 8-bit (that is 0-255 here) processor running at 1.79 MHz with a whopping 2 kB of RAM that is orders of magnitude slower: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624483

This is insanity. It's time for new hardware, that you can say "go wild" to by typing in an http address. 90% of the reason for enduring this slowness is security. (It's okay to interpret javascript - what's the worst that will happen. It's not okay to agree to run any binary regardless of what will be in it.)

It's time for Intel to make chips that you can hand to a website and say, "go wild". I think reinventing C in Javascript at 10% of performance (generously), is what is silly. Running Mario at a bit too slow to be called "perfect" is what is silly. It's 2015. Light travels 10 centimeters between clock cycles, with cores at 3 GHz. Do we really have to spend three billion cycles every second, on interpreting javascript?

† "Dedicated hardware would be silly – the current hardware can do secure sandboxing just fine. Cross platform compatibility is an issue with a lot of possible solutions; dedicated hardware would be a far worse case."
It makes zero sense from a logical point of view

No, it makes a lot of sense. Treating all species the same would make very little sense. Do bacteria have the same rights as lice which have the same rights as mice which have the same rights as dogs which have the same rights as whales?

In reality, it is a scale. How much we care about an animal varies depending on how big it is, how intelligent it is, what it is capable of and how it interacts with our lives. To pretend every species is the same is just wilfully naive.
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Are you talking mostly about users of your free tier? Have you considered getting rid of it in lieu of a free trial on the paid plans?
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I've known individuals pay the difference between foreign tax and US federal tax, but I'm not so sure that also applies to corporations. I'll need to research that.

You really can't start dictating the terms of contract agreements between domestic and foreign entities with regard to "royalties" or other such payments. It would adversely affect any other companies as well that are not subsidiaries. And before you attempt to limit the rules to "subsidiaries" consider that although "Apple Ireland" is somehow affiliated with "Apple, Inc" in the US, they are wholly separate companies with a contract to behave in certain ways. Should Apple Ireland, being a separate company, decide to 'go rogue' breaking the contract and doing whatever they will with all 'their' money, they just get cut off from the Apple, Inc ecosystem and a new entity is created that will play the game correctly.

So how do you force "Apple, Inc" which is a separate company from all the other "Apple $PLACE" around the world to pay tax on money that, legally, it doesn't have ... without also adversely affecting any number of smaller companies that couldn't possibly bear such a tax burden?
I pay shy of $5/mo for a VPS to run a BNC with my preferred config and serve a few files.

If someone prefers IRCCloud or Slack's features and support, it can absolutely be worth more than the sum of bandwidth, storage, and CPU.
Yes. Simple. There is code [interface implementations] and data [structs]. Elementary. Except that our industry went on a wild goose chase, declared that everything is an object and everything that isn't an object doesn't matter, then rallied around a programming language with poor support for data. 25 years of walking on one foot. Time to discover we have two feet and start running.
"We're using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry,"

Companies that describe their computer systems as state-of-the-art probably usually have legacy mainframes with duct tape patches.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately, because some people in my life are exhibiting a great lack of common sense.

I think common sense is the ability to correctly prioritize possible solutions to problems, or to prioritize desires vs needs vs abilities.

I often see people incorrectly prioritize solutions because they let their emotion and desires get in the way. When this happens, usually something bad happens and the person making the decision gets exasperated. Do they look to the root cause (their incorrect priorities)? Never. They always find an external cause or ignore the failure.

It's incredibly frustrating to watch this happen in someone else.
Missed your question. Working with Marvel API was not bad. They have really good interface for testing endpoints so they make it easy to create and test objects. Accessing large sets of data where you have hundreds of issues would timeout sometimes, so you just have to rerun it number of times. Its a new API but so far they have done pretty good job. Overall I liked working with Marvel API.
Well look at that - good on Apple for correcting course and doing the right thing.
> One of the things that rankles the greybeards is when people think over-hyped tools like Docker are original creations and they don't acknowledge that containerization has been around for a long time.

That does rankle the greybears, but a question: why does it matter? Why does it matter that they "acknowledge that containerization has been around for a long time"? I think it's a reaction to the invading of their space by younger, hipper folk, who don't know how to set up sendmail and don't know perl, etc, etc. That is, the "get off my lawn" crowd.

While I get that feeling a lot myself, esp as I get older, I try hard to push it down. What gives me the right to say that X is shit because the Xers don't know about the V and the W that came before?

Secondly, I'll challenge your assertion that containers have been around for a long time. I am of course familiar with chroots, Solaris Zones, FreeBSD jails, the LXC stuff that's more recent but still significantly predates Docker, etc.

However, Docker is more than prettier LXC. It's also a distribution format and a run-time for that format, and a suite of tools that works well with it. Look at Kubernetes and look at the state of the art in 2005. Not even close!
The market determines prices based on what people are willing to pay. Apparently the companies who are paying Slack $5/month think it's a good value, since they've chosen Slack over all the alternatives. They may even buy it for purely intangible reasons, like their employees enjoy using it and thus communicate more effectively.

If you think you can offer the same services that Slack does for $1 a month, maybe you have an opportunity to start a business that successfully competes with them.

You talk about a "fair exchange of value". Is it fair for Apple to charge you a 50% markup on an iPhone? Is it fair for Starbucks to charge $4 for a latte? Do you know of any for-profit business that sets its prices based on an abstract notion of fairness rather than supply and demand? If your company was fortunate enough to make a 50% profit next year, would you offer to return some of it to your customers?
This seems like a far more specific attack - simulating a Netflix user within the app is completely different than injecting ads arbitrarily at the router-level.
>one of my neighbors. How did he do this?

It might not even be your neighbor. Could be a virus she has or something. I'd ask your neighbors though, if you think any look like the type that would do this.
are you absolutely certain you weren't phished? how did you know it was your neighbor's IP? Do other people have access to your account? maybe they clicked something they shouldn't have
> The team acknowledges that the project is in its earliest stages, and many key challenges remain before a viable prototype can be built.

There you go. Fusion be a harsh mistress.

I would put my money on Thorium reactors, to be honest.
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They're using difference in humidity... wow, inventive.
Although I don't necessarily disagree with you, none of these things are particularly difficult to implement. In fact, most of it could be done very easily if you had a client that could render/inject markdown. Git and trello bots are very easy to write -- almost kata level scope.
Famous last words, but surely this is not hard given that there are 3rd party libraries for everything you need... I'm almost tempted...
I'm just paranoid but also back up your HDD and perhaps even do DVD backup of your most important files.

If your router is hacked as suggested in a sister thread then possibly it is has managed to modify a download to get a virus on your computer like the CryptoLocker.
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I haven't come across any meaningful news on this project since the article linked here. I search every month or so. I do that with several projects that had a moment of hype.

I've thought about setting up a small site for it. Tracking promising sci/tech stories with unknown likelihood to ever actually come about. It's the kind of thing I have a natural interest in, as I think it's where the cool things happen.

Is there such a site? Dedicated to tracking the status of these kinds of things on an ongoing basis?
Haha, saw this while working on my own android client!

Some pointers:

* Your story list is incredibly crowded and the text/background colors are too similar.

* Your store screenshots: don't need the Pull to refresh image (which, by the way seems like the wrong color). Also, don't know what the image with the empty list items is.

* The story number seems unnecessary, and has too much priority on the list item

Looks like a good start though, let me know if you've got any questions!
If you're using Chrome, I found Pinput to be the best of the bunch: https://github.com/1000ch/pinput
It's great that they turned this around so quickly. I guess they realised that having people talking about the service for the music instead of the payment model would be better for them...
Actually not that surprising, Taylor Swift was featured heavily in Apple's promo video (first album art featured), so clearly contracts were in place. TS was Apple's secret weapon and could be a key differentiator from Spotify. (TS has no music on Spotify.) I think TS was in a really good bargaining position. If she had pulled out, it would have been a big loss for Apple Music. Smart Move.
I think their conclusion - that the advice they got just didn't fit for their games - is a little too neat, and leaves out a couple of factors that were absolutely in their control (pricing, for instance).
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I am surprised and impressed with how quickly Apple did this about-face. I am also a little surprised that twitter was the medium they choose to announce it.
The extraordinarily cynical side of me wonders if this is all just a massive co-branding PR exercise to dominate the news cycle with "Taylor Swift", "Apple", "Free Music", "Apple Music." Highly unlikely because it's not the type of underhanded marketing that Apple engages in, but man - All I've been reading about, seeing in my twitter feed, is talk about the 90 Day free Music Trial with Apple coming up.

This has been far, far better marketing exercise than their WWDC keynote.
I thought the EU had a parliament elected by the people of all the various constituencies of Europe.
> Apple will always make sure Artists are Paid

You mean, except until yesterday where your plans said otherwise ? :)
I'm really glad to hear that they changed their minds on this one, though it's sad they needed public shaming to do the right thing. Most people don't really appreciate how hard it is to make money with music, nor the insane amount of time and effort that goes into even a single, professional quality song. This isn't a win for the big name, Taylor Swift type artists, but rather the ones she mentioned in her blog post that are just trying to make ends meet, where every penny and possible source of income counts.
I wish he put ", period." at the end of that Tweet.
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What type "looks like" that?
That's a breathtaking amount of influence Swift just demonstrated.

With a blog post she just modified the behavior of the world's most valuable corporation ($729 billion at last check).
Spotify is truly fucked if Apple is going to pay during the free trial AND pay higher overall royalties. When the negotiations come up again with Spotify, who is already running increasing losses, things will just get worse.
I would like to see a Call Me Maybe-style test of the automatic failover from one disruptor to the next. At 6 million TPS I don't see how they could stay exactly in sync. Is the output queue allowed to emit duplicates?
Well, this is the future of the music industry. It's an incredibly sound ivestment to increase the buy-in of major players to increase the overall long-term viability of the product. It's kind of a "duh", but to be fair many companies miss the "duh"
That's some tidy Javascript code. I'm mostly using Firefox these days, unfortunately.
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This sounds like a great idea. I'll check back on you in a month to see if you've actually developed it. ;)
Yes, and IIRC (from the presentation I went to, and for those that don't know) the resource allocation doesn't have to be the whole cluster, they can split it up and run smaller less scalable jobs across just a portion of the hardware. In fact I think they said the vast majority of the jobs are unable to consume the entire cluster.

AKA its AWS for HPC.

Also AFAIK, that has been the model at TACC for at least a decade, maybe longer.
Good for Apple. It's too bad it needed a really high profile artist to come out against it, but I'm glad they could listen and make the right choice.

Taylor Swift has previously not put her music on other streaming services (despite them paying artists during the trial period); I wonder if she'll consider Apple Music for streaming now that they've changed their terms on this point (and if she does, will she also put her music on other streaming services?).
It seems most likely that Greece will exit. It makes the most sense. Your moral hazard argument is correct, if Greece is forgiven, then other politicians in Italy and other weaker countries will sense an opportunity; one that cannot be allowed financially. It allows Greece to survive and the euro to continue. The issue still remains with the euro, that there is a common currency and no common planning. That the euro has survived so long is a testament to the integrated economies of Europe and that their planning is typically similar as a consequence. However, only a unified planning commission can let it survive much longer.
Most musicians are poor. A couple get rich, but not because of music sales but rather concerts and tours.

What weird stuff for people to say. Nothing in life is free... Successful people almost always have to work hard for it.
These rah-rah pollyanna stories never take things like inflation into account. In the fifty years of my life, the S&P 500 stock index has increased less that 3% per annum when adjusted for inflation. The table presented in the article doesn't even model a return rate that low.

IOW, the article author is simply making a well-used pitch to sell stocks to rubes, no different than shown in "Wolf of Wall Street."
> I am also a little surprised that twitter was the medium they choose to announce it.

That way they can be brief and don't have to expand on the nuances of the issue. People would rather hear "We were wrong and we've fixed the problem" rather than: "We planned the service to balance human/monetary factors such as x and y, but due to bad PR we've changed the way we're doing z. We thought it was a good idea originally because...".
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I'm not sure if I'm more amazed by how slow that is or how fast it is.

Oh the world we live in: playing minesweeper in a graphical OS running in a javascript x86 emulator.
The only message I ever really got from Scion marketing is "CHEAP."
Aren't most BMWs sold in the US made in the US, though? Germany does need a strong european market to keep its manufacturing sector healthy.
I hope everyone realizes that withholding 1989 was about a windowing strategy to maximize overall revenue from iTunes downloads/CD sales. Now they've essentially called her bluff and she'll have to cut that short when her music is still selling like crazy 8 months later.
Does anyone has numbers on Apple Music royalties? how do they fare against Spotify, Rdio and the like?
> Maybe I have other things outside of work that are far more important to me than trying to ensure that the company that I'll have a 0.025% equity stake in in four years becomes the next unicorn

Sadly, you're not that important to the success of the company. You can quit tomorrow and they would find a replacement in due time and continue on.

Also, it's highly unlikely that the founder and CEO is going to end up a multimillionaire even if you were a high performing software engineer.

> What's in it for me?

How about not wasting your life? I mean dude, you're spending at least 40 hours a week working. Why not find something you love doing?
This is gold:
"OPM CIO Donna Seymour said that systems couldn't simply have encryption added because some of them were over 20 years old and written in COBOL."
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First sentence of her letter was "I write this to explain why I’ll be holding back my album, 1989, from the new streaming service, Apple Music."

So now, she needs to allow it on Apple Music or she'll look like a jerk. Apple will have this album that no other streaming service has, and they got a ton of press for it.

Probably worked out pretty well for them.
They're higher at 71.5% in the US and 73% in the rest of the world.

http://recode.net/2015/06/15/heres-what-happens-to-your-10-a...
Wow, this analysis just seems right. They sign a deal with TS, get her to be "outraged" then Apple does a 180 and then says it will pay the artists.

TS looks good and Apple gets a shitload of free press for their new music service.

I feel dumber everyday I don't see this stuff happening.
This is what IRC if for numb nuts.
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Hi! I'm working on a startup and I have a lot of tasks of various types that need organizing.

Especially - list of features to build, bugs to fix, ideas to consider.

I'm wondering which tools do you use for organizing that?

What in your opinion is the best system?
If you are open to hybrid apps, you can do it with Phonegap. Use their online build service to build your project, develop locally.
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I can't recall ever having a problem pinning stuff from github. Just to sanity check my own memory, I tried it just now. It worked fine.

edit: and this was using the 'popup with tags' bookmarklet from pinboard's howto page [1]

[1] https://pinboard.in/howto/
Record labels attack Apple deals that would leave them 'completely screwed'

Independents claim they could be forced out of business by free trial of new streaming service and withold popular artists such as Adele

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...

This was the british press about 5 days ago, so I don't think it was that cynical. TS seems to have been the straw tha nudged the issue over the top.

Losing adele and taylor swift starts to give the product a black eye at some stage.

Apple has $$$$ plenty in the bank to subsidze a 3 month operating loss (or whatever).
Now you're talking about uncommon sense.
You don't really think this is the case, do you?

It's like any conspiracy theory: think about how many people would have to be "in it" to make it work. Then think, what are the chances of none of them, ever letting anything slip. To anyone. Ever.

The chances are almost zero. People talk. The damage - to Swift, to Apple - it's just too large.

Therefore, this is not what you think it is. There is no deeper story here. Apple screwed up, Swift is influential, they probably thought they could get a bit of good PR from changing their minds, and they did. End of story.
Placebos can only affect psych/neuro (and possibly hormonal) conditions, which is the brain is biologically capable of changing things. Not all illnesses are susceptible to placebo.
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Individual activities are precisely not what we're talking about, and at any rate you're wrong even at the level of an individual.
Statements of total disbelief
The problem with a statement such as 'I do not believe anything' is that it is contradictory. If you really do not believe anything, you also do not believe the statement in which you just said exactly that. There is danger in adopting contradictions. The principle of explosion allows every possible other statement to become true. In other words, a naive statement of total disbelief is in fact, exactly the opposite of what it looks like. Valid statements of disbelief must allow for at least one exception. You could, for example, say: 'I do not believe anything except for this very statement'. That would almost work, if this statement did not suffer from infinite recursion.

Since a statement of complete disbelief must contain at least one correctly-chosen exception, it is paradoxically also a strong statement of belief, exactly in that one exception. Example: 'I do not believe in any gods except for the one true god'. Then, what about 'I do not believe in any unicorns except for the one true unicorn?' Here, it depends on the definition of unicorn. In terms of the lambda calculus, both statements will most likely turn out to be alpha-equivalent. Only the form of what you say, really matters.

Atheists also disbelieve in any gods, but they would probably want to use another exception to keep their total disbelief consistent. What alternative exception do atheists propose?
As someone who worked on Open Mind Common Sense as a freshman, I should warn y'all that it accepted submissions from random people on the Internet and so contains many statements that are patently ridiculous.
One might say that their previous position was tone deaf
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This is a lot of talk and hype for something that hasn't been built yet.