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Why do the superrich spend most of their time around their own types. Would it not be much more fun to hang out with people who didn't have their level of wealth so they could really show off and everyone would come out better.
> But if you are passionate about making a change in the world

For most, a job is about surviving in this world.
I have my regex alternative version, currently in development, with C like syntax. Here is approximate sketch, how it looks. Goal is, that from this syntax I can get full, hierarchical AST for programming languages parsing:
http://pastebin.com/CFZf306p
- until it's done, some smaller details can change.

Idea is that it can build multiple layers of matched items. In this example, layer 0 is "pattern lines"
then on top of this, gets mapped tokens representation at "parttern tokens".

and lastly, over lines and tokens goes AST objects, which are represented by language code.

Hierarchy and context-based patterns referencing and construction can be easily achieved.

Ideally, I would like to build this with realtime update feature, when used in source code editor. In IDE, when I write some characters in code, these changes propagate into parsed layers objects and updates what is needed.
Taylor Swift can withhold her music from streaming services because she's a PHENOMENON who can still shift albums via iTunes (and even physically) because people want her music. Artists starting out don't have that luxury and, increasingly, their music won't get the listens if it's not on streaming services.

Did you read the post where she explains what is her goal for doing this? Here is the relevant part:

This is not about me. Thankfully I am on my fifth album and can support myself, my band, crew, and entire management team by playing live shows. This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt. This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field…but will not get paid for a quarter of a year’s worth of plays on his or her songs.
Taylor is pulling her music because those small artists can't. She's making a statement, and because she's such a phenomenon her statement is likely to at least be heard.
How is wanting to be paid being "greedy?" Give me 10% of your salary please. If you refuse, it's clear you're just greedy.
This is not a coincidence when you see what percentage of the Australian population is of Irish decent.
"Taking a risk for getting richer by having a freedom for doing what you love".

(Freedom) Working for others could be fine if you are key person, because others will listen for you, otherwise you are treated just yet another (hard) worker. You don't have freedom, that's fine in business, they understand their business well.

(Rich) Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Ellison, Gates, Jobs, Jack Ma, you name it, all of them are founders, sure some others can get richer by joining later, but you should work really really hard in order to be a key person in a well established Corp.

(Risk) You might lose lots of things, not just money and founders love to take a risk, they are driven by adrenaline :)

(Passion) You are going to do things what you love, because that would be yours. when you don't have motivation you don't care and you will work, because that's yours. when you are tired, you take little rest and you will work again, because its yours. In hard days, you will find a way, because that's yours. But when you are working for someone, you don't always feel this, you might quit anytime, but when that's yours you are not going to quit easily ;)
US taxes contribute more to violent deaths and unnecessary punishments/imprisonments per dollar than taxes paid in most other countries. The US spends a greater proportion of GDP on "defense" than almost all other Western countries, so a tax dollar paid in the US is more likely to contribute to "defense" and less likely to contribute to education, healthcare or whatnot than a tax dollar paid in e.g. Sweden or Holland. Similarly, the US has 25% of the world's prison population yet only 5% of its total population, so necessarily spends a relatively higher percentage of tax dollars on incarceration.

There are actually people who do everything they can to minimise their tax liability in order to reduce the money spent on things they consider unjust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance.

Every dollar not paid in US tax is a dollar that won't contribute to blowing up people in the Middle East who have the misfortune of being in proximity to suspected terrorists (tens of thousands of people over the past decade) [1]. Similarly, every dollar not paid in US tax is a dollar that won't be spent putting poor people in prison for smoking a weed that causes less violence in a decade than alcohol causes in a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...
I hope you do realize companies get paid handsomely to properly manage PR and make people believe they are actually the person they are representing, writing the PR. Or do you also believe Obama writes his own speeches? In fact, you believing she actually wrote that is exactly why those PR companies are in business.
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Where is the western world has lower tax rates than the US?

Edit: answered above.
By that logic, Jobs didn't write http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ or his "thoughts on music" (which seem to have disappeared from Apple.com), either.
It depends on how much uptake you get, doesn't it? For example, I spend less than $10/mo on apps (and for that matter, music too). If that's the case for enough users who get the new deal, this would be a net gain for developers. I think that's why you get developers(/musicians) to agree to it.
I'd like to mention another local success story. Hidden away in Fisherman's Bend in Melbourne is Blackmagic Design (http://www.blackmagicdesign.com). 99% of sales are overseas and they compete with the likes of Canon and Sony. The company was grown organically without any external funding, and does engineering and industrial design in-house. This is not an easy thing to do (hardware is expensive to develop!) but it can be done.

disclaimer: I used to work for Blackmagic
You really think Amazon paying per page turned for Kindle Unlimited is "the final blow to the paper book market"?
Do you really believe that? Or is that maybe carefully crafted language to fend off the parent's valid argument?

Plenty of creators currently put their music on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Youtube and more, and get exposure that way without getting paid.

The choice is really up to the artist. I do agree that Apple has the ability to pay artists during the 3-month trial, but should they have to? I don't know..

btw not saying I have the answer here, but as parent said, the current landscape doesn't really line up with her argument much.
I just use terminator terminal, multi-terminal grid. One terminal per server showing htop via ssh.

http://gnometerminator.blogspot.com.au/p/introduction.html

http://hisham.hm/htop/
This whole "pay nothing" idea is strange to see on HN.

Apple developed the software, is footing the server, power, bandwidth, and ops bills for three months all for free. The labels are chipping in their content for three months.

Sounds like everyone is bringing something to the table. Apple is incurring real costs. The labels, not so much.

Three kinds of customers will try the service:

People who buy their music: these will either become long term subscribers or not like the service and buy the songs they want anyway. Perhaps slightly delayed.

People who currently freeload: no loss for the trial. Possible huge win if they subscribe.

People using another streaming service: this is where the labels might actually give something. If a customer cancels their existing service while trying Apple's that will reduce the label's take by up to ~25% for the year. Month alignment and a comparison period will both drop this.

I suspect the third category is not the target audience. A small loss on service switchers is worth the big win for the labels in converting freeloaders to customers.
No Taylor for Apple Music
No one forces you to memorize every possible mnemonic, you remember the basic stuff that you use all the time, than you learn a bit more when you need it. And there is google for the rest, just like with everything else. And I seriously doubt that it could be made simpler and clearer for everyone, because we all come from different backgrounds and work on different things and our brains are by now hardwired to quickly handle different syntaxes. So it is a huge undertaking to rewrite something as complex as regexp to a completely new syntax and yet clearer and simpler to the majority of devs. Which of course doesn't mean one shouldn't try...
does Taylor Swift herself have full autonomy over determining how/when her music can be played?
> You've built up this imaginary view of the world where every woman is just waiting to catch you out.

You've really got to stop doing that. I've already explained this isn't about women in particular. This is about a culture of guilty-until-proven-innocent in cases where one is being charged with having thoughts or intentions that offend the purveyors of grievance culture. A good example is this very conversation. Your tactic here, over and over again, has been to try and put me on the defensive, as if I have to prove I'm not a sexist.

Just stop it. This is a poisonous way to talk to people. You're only sowing division.
Taylor can easily get on radio playlists. Unknown artists cannot. They CAN get on Apple music, spotify, etc. There's no way to get known beyond local clubs without the free exposure.
Given the volume cap of Apple and the formulas they can pop out stating "after three months of free use, x users will convert into paying users resulting in y revenu and z profit for you" to record labels, all it boils down is record labels willing to believe Apple their predictions and whether they are happy with that y in return of 3 months of upfront payment.
Could you explain the downvotes? I'm new to HN and would like to learn.
Per the RIAA, the entire recorded music industry in the US recorded under $7 Billion in revenue in 2014. Apple has north of $20 Billion in cash in the US. There are likely many reasons for Apple to make the move they did, but it is unlikely cash on hand was one of them.
I have always been impressed by Blackmagic. Yes the key to success here is to bootstrap. If you go down this path Australia is one of the better places in the world to do it.
Wow, chillax boy!

You did overlook the ";)", right? I did not intend to pluck that string of yours. Sorry about that.
Well, you can buy apps - which also applies to albums/music.
There's the E2 visa (http://www.quora.com/How-can-the-E2-visa-help-US-aliens-to-w...), or if you have an established company outside the US you could use the L1 visa (intra-company transfer/opening a new office).
I imagine Apple's argument is:

(1) They bring an enormous number of new subscribers and that this 3 month trial maximizes revenue for everyone including the artist.

(2) they pay a slightly higher royaly share than spotify in part because of this longer trial.

(3) Apple shares revenue with the artist in the same 70/30 split we see elsewhere and the 30% is the finders fee they get for delivering many of their x hundred million users to the service. Since there's no revenue in the first 3 months, 70% of $0 is $0. Apple eats the bandwidth/server costs of the service in this time with no revenue coming in.

(4) Spotify paid users are fairly happy with that service and won't all switch to Apple Music overnight and the same with people who buy music and radio so it's not like all the money these artist's see turns off for 3 months. The free trial effect will be heavily staggered as a steady stream of users signs up over years.
And they say Apple cares about artists and content creators...
I must say I'm shocked by the state of recycling in the UK. People keep putting stuff into the wrong bins as if they can't read.
The labels and artists have already incurred the costs to produce the content, their costs do exist.

Apple built a service that wouldn't exist without the content. The content would still exist on other services without Apple though.
> [Steam] a platform that is in many ways quite anti-creator

Without wanting triggering an argument here...would you mind giving me a 3 sentence summary of what aspect of it is anti-creator?
I had a quick look, and the only visual studio specific part I could see was building GLEW/GLFW from source, which is done using cmake. you just replace the setup of the headers/libs/paths with whatever platform you're using.
Currently I just use pingdom to check availability, but I'm really interested on other people needs, so I'm more interested on a related set of questions:

What would your ideal monitoring system have? Would it be web based? terminal based? Zero install effort or full customizability? What would you like to monitor? Just monitoring? Alerting too? Just servers or also containers?
I was curious and looked up this claim. Turns out PolitiFact looked into it: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/sep/09/...

The conclusion:

Bolling said the United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free
world." He was referring to the statutory rate, meaning the rate before
deductions. On that score, he’s right: The United States does have the highest
statutory rate among developed countries. However, the United States’ corporate
tax rate doesn’t appear to be the highest once deductions and other exclusions
are taken into account.

I found it an interesting article so I decided to share.
Why would someone put more than 9-5 if they are not paid overtime and they don't have shares at the company? I don't get it. Also, working 9-5 absolutely doesn't mean that person is unmotivated.

Maybe it's an American thing but here in EU most people won't work for free.
I find this hopelessly naive. Yes she said that. Why is she only pulling 1989? Not her other albums? It seems the most likely true answer is "because that one is still selling strong so it is in her interests to do so."
> Getting a windowing library operating properly is a struggle in itself,

What's so difficult about linking against a lib/including some headers and pasting the code snippets? The only part I really had problems with was figuring out that I needed glew, and why it wouldn't work on osx with the core profile .
What would you tell Youtube or Soundcloud? They also foot the bill.

Apple is placing the value of artists work at $0 in a bid gain market share. It should be them who incurs the full cost not the artist.

When the music is offered on free, the prime beneficiary is Apple.
Oh why are we peddling to whining by people who have too much money and airtime already?
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> artists have already incurred the costs to produce the content, their costs do exist.

no one is arguing that their costs don't exist, but that they have nothing to lose to put it on. It's not like the artist will somehow have a lower cost by _not_ putting it up.
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This is great, it reminds me of codingbat for practicing basic python and Java syntax.
What I'm appalled in Ireland is how people are negative about it.

1 - Company bureaucracy is one of the most lightweight in Europe (make that the world) http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings

2 - European time zone. Not bad for doing business in the US or China/Japan

3 - It is part of EU and the potential consumer market is the whole of it. Localisation may be an issue though, still, the UK is a huge market as well.

The biggest thing people lack is ambition.
> I don't know whether Scott is comparing Australia to UK/US or to other more latin countries like Spain or France.

Both Spain and France are European countries.
what would happen if someone made a processor that only executed mov instructions, which would be extremely simple, and presumably would be really goddamn fast.

The laws of physics get in the way. It's essentially the same reason why clock frequencies have stopped going up.
Many of these points are correct, but a little comment on #1: Often you don't care about the whole structure, you just need some small piece of data from a middle of a huge document. One common example is a spider that collects a price of some product from a 200+KB webpage. You just need those few digits and don't care about the head or title or the structure of dom or anything else. In such cases (and it's very common task for people working on data extractions) no complex parsers can ever compete with the regexp in terms of speed and memory footprint. And if you need to parse a few millions of products that performance gain is a huge deal. So don't underestimate the power of regexp when properly used...
Because that is the one streaming services are most interested in getting so it gives her the most leverage.
If you don't need the promotion hold your music off for 3 months. If you do, go for it. Problem solved?

Maybe there was some sort exclusivity thing but it doesn't make sense that artists would have to take it or leave it now.

Also, someone with her streaming numbers is basically the only kind of artist that would even care. Streaming royalties are really low unless you have really huge numbers so while she stands to potentially lose significant revenue in 3 months tons of artists won't.
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Except they do have something to lose if they put it on. They will have a lower profit if listeners that would subscribe to another paying service or buy their music switch to Apple streaming.
Everyone who signs up has 3 months free trial from that day, not that the first 3 months of the service (since it goes live) are free for everyone.
This (Used to work for the largest of them all) and one of the slowest internet speeds of the western worlds.
Almost everything in Australia is a monopoly: kmart, target, the biggest grocery chain are all owned by one company. 90% of the internet infrastructure is owned by a single company. Yet people dont react because real estate exposure.
Are there even any artists that agree to this?
The first three months of Apple Music will essentially be “free music from artists who would give away their music for free”.
There is a good historical background article on the whole TTY subsystem here:

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

It mentions what XON/XOFF, as well as what all the other control characters do.
Well I apologize for being a consistent jerk, and I certainly appreciate your feedback. I'll try to upgrade the attitude.
Yep. The Blazing Saddles model of employment was the norm for a very long time. Life was cheap.
I know I'm late to the conversation, but Bruce Schneier posted an update on the Lawfare website: http://www.lawfareblog.com/do-russians-and-chinese-have-snow...
Barring burst growth in serial computing power (the way I understand, a time-lock cannot be broken faster by throwing more parallel cores at it), I think this will work great!
Yes, in Japan we've had near misses from careless operators.

https://youtu.be/uvA6dReF6-I?t=291
I can totally relate to the points made in this article. I have worked in 6 different startups in the past 4 years in Australia (Brisbane and Sydney) as an Engineer - All at different stages of growth. I also hang out with the startup crowd in Sydney (I've been invited to a couple of events and was able to talk with founders/CEOs and engineers of some of these startups).

One thing that really stands out about Australia is that tech startups here last a long time (they don't seem to ever 'run out of money'). Investors are patient and they invest cautiously; in fact, if they like your idea, they will 'keep tabs' on you and they won't invest a single dollar until you have some meaningful numbers to show them - And by numbers that means either decent revenue (yes, REVENUE) or exceptional user growth (coupled with a clear monetization plan).

That's both good and bad. It means it's very difficult for early starters to get funding in Australia, but it means that once you do get that funding, you can expect the investor to stick around. I have worked for 2 startups which had been operating on a modest loss for 5+ years - One of them had almost no growth and little potential (in my opinion), the other had modest growth but high potential. These startups don't seem to have problems raising further rounds of capital year after year.

I found that Australian startups are lean and have a low marketing budget - They tend to spend everything on the product and generally don't like hiring sales people or paying for advertising unless it gives them an immediate, measurable return - They don't spend money just to create hype.

Australian founders tend to dismiss the importance of advertising - They believe that if they put all the focus on product development, that eventually, the product will become so good that it will just blow away the competition (who have wasted all of their funding on advertising).

US startups generate a massive amount of noise in the market - Spending on advertising at the moment would just create more white-noise - You won't get a return on that. At least that's the general belief.
This isn't the first time Apple has screwed over independent/small content producers (HN 1682 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896189
She absolutely didn't write that, she has an entire PR firm at her disposal. The same way most politicians do not write any of their speeches. Do you really think most "stars" directly manage their "own" tumblr,facebook or twitter accounts? of course not.