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I don't think you understand how music usually works for most independent bands. As I've helped a couple friends put out independent albums, here's the basics.

A band will put in a long time creating an album: writing the songs, orchestrating, rehearsing, reworking, etc. Then they pay real money for recording, editing and mastering as well as paying an artist and photographer to create the album art. They're also creating marketing materials online and off. This is all for a usually small time period when a new album will sell. And when streaming (which generally makes them next to nothing) will hit its peak. All these costs are front loaded and then there's a usually short time period where the band hopes to make this money back. During this time, the band is spending additional money and time doing marketing and promotion as well.

Apple's deal is a raw one for these artists as they'll lose a good chunk of revenue during that small time period. And it will leech purchases away from iTunes as well. I can guarantee that Apple will have prominent notices within iTunes about which albums are available on Apple Music and suggest that would-be purchasers sign up.

Plus there's the fact that Apple is threatening independent artists with removal from iTunes if they don't agree to stream for free on Apple Music. And the fact that these artists can't just decide to sell the music themselves on their website to iOS users because, thanks to Apple's carefully-designed walled garden, iOS users can't download music from the web or 3rd party apps and add it to their music library like they can on Android.
It's pretty obvious. They are going to take streaming to a whole new level. My dad doesn't know what Spotify is, but has an iPhone and is a couple of clicks away from lighting this service up.

You give away a couple of months, get people hooked and you and reap years of recurring revenues. It's a model that works for drug dealers, razor blade makers (Gilette gives away 5 packs of blades in many schools) and SaaS companies.

I don't really feel too bad for Taylor Swift. She doesn't get a dime from radio airplay as an artist. But she benefits immensely from the marketing and promotional value of having it played.
They are not obviously inefficient and confusing. Many of us, especially the Perl geeks, find them relatively clear when well written.

It's a mini language, and like any language it can be clear or opaque in its meaning depending on the skill and intention of the creator.
It's the weakest part of her argument though as iPhones have a unit cost whereas digital copies of her music do not.

But I think she is very right to refuse to pay for a scheme that is supposed to increase Apple's market share and not hers.
What is fundamentally wrong with a model that essentially works as, "You make money when we make money"? Meanwhile, both sides are contributing resources to the trial - musicians the content, Apple the back-end and a gazillion users. Seems like a pretty fair deal with aligned interests. Apple does not have a moral obligation to use this as a loss leader just because they make a lot of money while many musicians don't...this isn't a charity.

Taylor Swift is a blowhard. I'm tired of her holier-than-thou rhetoric that she's just speaking up on half of other musicians. Yeah right...my bs detector is going bonkers. This is about Taylor Swift (and the idiots involved in the laughable TIDAL) maximizing her earnings, which is perfectly fine. But spare me the music industry's equivalent of "won't someone think of the children?!"
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This is correct. None of this is automatic. It's all opt-in.

I don't believe Wi-Fi Sense is on at all by default (I am pretty sure I had to turn it on), and it explicitly shares only Wi-Fi networks you select, not all of them. You have to go in to your saved Wi-Fi networks and share each one individually. You also have to individually check each list of contacts (Outlook, Skype, Facebook, etc.)

It is absolutely not sharing all your networks automatically with all your Facebook friends.

Here are screenshots (note I'm 99% sure I turned on Wi-Fi Sense):

http://i.imgur.com/bzaK2aT.png
http://i.imgur.com/vnbDkdj.png

I suppose it's ironic the FUD is directed against Microsoft now.
That's a specific (but common) use of the loss-leader strategy, but not the definition.

The strategy itself is to sell something at a loss, to get a lead/marketshare/conversion.
With the market cap and war chest they have, it's incredibly disappointing that Apple expects artists to bear the brunt of Apple's business decision.

For every Taylor Swift there are thousands of artists just scraping by (and thousands more hoping to reach "just scraping by.")

I lose a decent amount of respect for Apple with this call. (And Taylor Swift is hardly the first artist to express disappointment and/or outrage at this "decision" by Apple.)
What's up with americatimes.org?
I recently found an article on this website ( http://americatimes.org/ ) via Google. Whilst reading I noticed a weird adjective. After reading/clicking through the site a bit more I found that basically every article seemed real, but slightly randomized with odd/negative nouns/adjectives.

After some google searches I found it to be copy of the actual magazine website http://businessinsider.com

Then I noticed the frontpage top header still contained a small advertisement for the used Wordpress theme. On top of that there seem to be a whole bunch of artwork load errors/glitches floating around. These seem to have to do with the mirroring process.

My first thought was that this site might be some school project. But I couldn't find any real clues supporting this. Really only things that pointed away from that idea.
Another theory, much more fun of course, would be that this is some kind of automatically generating anti USA/West propaganda site!
And if you really want to get all tin foil hatty about this. How about this being a new type of a numbers station? Where the 'random' words are inserted in this mirror of another, actually existing, news site and these alterations form some kind of code. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Numbers_station )

Any Thoughts?
What else I found up til now:

The footer on the front page contains a wp-login link in Vietnamese (according to google translate).

A whois gives some weird info ( http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=americatimes.org ) (at least the combination is strange):
Registrant Name:Daniel Costello (too common a name, more on him below)
Registrant Organization:Tammy S Meyer (actually owner of the accompanying address; see below)
Registrant Street: 18853 Leisure Avenue (some pretty remote farm type place: https://www.google.nl/maps/place/18853+Leisure+Ave,+Honey+Cr... )
Registrant City:Honey Creek
Registrant State/Province:IA
Name Server:NS1.VISIONDNS.NET (also Vietnamese)
Email: americatimes@yahoo.com (errrr, yeah..)

A google of the street address turned up some kind of land/parcel registration from the 'Pottawattamie County Assessor', actually registered to the same name, 'Tammy S Meyer': http://pottco.org/x/card?map=on&parcel=764319400002

A search for "americatimes@yahoo.com" turns up only 3 hits, 2 of which the same WHOIS result, but one also containing the name 'Daniel Costello'. This time associated with 'acumium.com', a 'Website Development, Ecommerce, Online Marketing' company. On his company website profile ( http://www.acumium.com/about/meet-our-team/dan-costello.cmsx ) it states the following: "Before Acumium, Dan served in the U.S. Army as a Signals Intelligence Team Leader for almost four years, which explains his focus on Acumium’s security and policies. He left the service as one of the _most highly decorated_ members of the 2nd Armored Calvary."
Now I get this tingly suspicious feeling in my special place. Why would he use a Vietnamese Wordpress?! Or be the Registrant Contact for a domain hosted in Vietnam ?? (123.30.176.66, http://tracert.com/run?host=123.30.176.66&gw=24 ) Or be associated with this website??

This is where things started to get really odd. If you google one of the lines/titles of the articles, you find that the site is an _exact_ mirror (errors and all) of http://usastar.org/. Which whois looks like this:
Registrant Contact
Name: caroline odonnell
Organization: caroline odonnell
Mailing Address: 14915 camarosa drive, pacific palisades CA 90067 US (some crazy ass mansion: https://www.google.nl/maps/@34.03464,-118.521481,3a,76.9y,34... )

After another google search, this mansion was apparently bought by actor Chris O'Donnel (the guy from NCIS LA!): http://www.bergproperties.com/blog/actor-chris-odonnell-pays...
His wife is named Caroline: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000563/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

I love a good conspiracy as much as the next guy, but this is really weirding me out. So where better to ask than HN to get to the bottom of this :D
Any thoughts?
What's wrong with using the chrome dev tools? i.e. https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/device-mode#netwo...
I don't recall exactly.

It would be interesting if someone could dig up the old apple App Store Review Guidelines from whenever Core Location first became available.

Currently it disallows "Apps that use location-based APIs for automatic or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft, or other devices will be rejected".

But I'm fairly certain that at the time it disallowed transportation industry related apps, and specifically mentioned trucking and taxis.

Which was irritating to me because during the dot-bomb at the turn of the century I had been reduced to the role of taxi driver for a time.

And the only way to actually get any fares through dispatch was to bribe everybody and especially the radio guys. I hated it and really had to work hard to make money from people hailing me.

So when I first learned of Core Location, my first thought was "motherfuck taxi dispatch - I can make them irrelevant with iPhones now".

Seriously, I'd love for someone to dredge up the old version of that document so I can read over it again.
I agree that more can be done to increase incentives for manufacturers to produce better packaging. I would caution against outright bans, as that often exacerbates unforeseen circumstances. You might end up encouraging massive deforestation as manufacturers switch en mass to bamboo packaging or suddenly roads are clogged up as truck drivers are told to maintain a maximum 30kph to avoid damaging products. Human systems are ridiculously complex, that was the chief failure of state-directed Communism.

> I don't get to choose how the stuff I buy is packaged

I think an economist would say you do get to choose. You could have chosen a different product that was packaged better. Since the onus is on you to sort out the packaging, you should have incentive to prefer products with packaging that you don't have to manage.
There's a joke that the job of Dev Support is looking up documentation for people too distracted, too stressed, or too stupid to look it up themselves.
I share your sentiment, just a nitpick: from a flawed premise any conclusion, true or false, can be drawn. http://academic.csuohio.edu/polen/LC9_Help/1/14ftv.htm
It's difficult to know for sure but reasonable to assume that at least some of the people streaming for free would have bought the album instead.
The thing is that I suspect the biggest limitation of rapid delivery to exurban and rural locations is insufficient density for distribution depots as opposed to last mile delivery. Where I live is considered exurban but, like the vast majority of the US, I have absolutely no issue with receiving daily deliveries from USPS, UPS, and any number of other delivery services. Indeed, I can get lots of things delivered the next day if I'm willing to pay for it.

It's true that I can't get Instacart of some of the other same-day delivery services found in urban areas but then there's not enough density of the right kind of customers to support a Whole Foods store either. (I can get Peapod though I don't much care for it.)

All of which is a long way of saying that I don't really see the non-niche problem that even an idealized drone delivery system aims to solve.

>Post Office self-driving van goes past without stopping while drone shuttles packages to doorsteps a quarter of a kilometer away)

Even this is largely a solved problem. Private roads in rural areas usually have some sort of lockbox at the end of the road.
That is a great question that I'm also curious to hear the answer. She seems to be signed with Universal, how come does she have fine-grained control over her publishing rights unlike most other artists? Or are these actually moves by the labels using her to earn sympathy from the public?
I am no historian, but back in the 90s Perl was filling the niche of "the duct tape of the Internet" and systems administration language. I used it.

I think three things contributed to its downfall:

1) Perl 6

2) the huge inflow of people into Unix who were not keen on Perl's ultra-Unixy wackiness (let's borrow from bash, awk, regexps and everything under the sun! - fun but not exactly welcoming to require newcomers to learn the entire cultural history of Unix to learn your language)

3) the fact that sysadmin work was quickly graduating from writing scripts that send angry emails when users fill their 20MB home directory quota into managing serious, distributed system that serve as crucial infrastructure, for which the non-wackiness of Python was a better cultural fit (particularly when the role of developer and sysadmin started to merge)

It's not so much that people started rewriting their Perl scripts, it's more like the newcomers who weren't doing Perl soon outnumbered those who were.
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Ask HN: Is C/C++ really faster than Python?
I have seen many people saying they choose C/C++ over Python during programming challenges because the performance of Python is lesser compared to C/C++. How correct is this fact?

If Python is actually slower compared to C/C++, how much slower is it when we implement the same algorithm in C/C++?

Is it really necessary to use only C/C++ and not Python when solving some questions which involve a lot of computation?
"(...) a large organization could only avoid slowing down if they avoided tree structure (...) I suspect there are already some highly partitionable businesses that lean this way. But I don't know any technology companies that have done it."

Isn't this what Valve has done?
What is 'common sense'?
...the banana peels and grass clippings degrading in landfills that by some estimates have become the nation’s third-biggest source of methane gas contributing to global warming. Composting is partly credited with the success...

This seems to imply that if these items were in a compost bin instead of a landfill they wouldn't be producing that methane? That seems implausible to me; is there a reasonable explanation?
I think you haven't quantified the artists' opportunity costs. The idea is a customer may swap a streaming service which pays artists for Apple's streaming service which doesn't pay artists. Therefore artists may be losing money they otherwise would have typically made.
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Oh, working for teams directly is often a joke. Many MLB clubs are not, though. One club is packed with PhDs in their sports science department. They are an exception. The brunt of the great work is being done in private practice.
But I think this is the weakest part of the article :

"And since human nature limits the size of group that can work together, the only
way I can imagine for larger groups to avoid tree structure would be to have no
structure: to have each group actually be independent, and to work together the way
components of a market economy do."

There's a reason for that . Ronald Coase in his Theory of the firm explained that the reason we don't have an arrangement like pg describes above is that

"According to Ronald Coase, people begin to organise their production in firms
when the transaction cost of coordinating production through the market exchange,
given imperfect information, is greater than within the firm .."

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

Sometimes , I think that the zeitgeist has swung too far in favour towards being an entrepreneur instead of working for someone and making something awesome.
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I was picturing bank robbers climbing into the 'getaway drone' and making a swift exit.
Artists who's songs are played on the radio are paid for every time it's played on air. Or did I get your last sentence wrong there?
> They will have a lower profit

You have zero evidence of this. We don't know and may not know for a number of years whether Apple Music is more profitable for artists (or not) than competitor services.
This is very black and white. This is a great "business" move for apple, but morally reprehensible.

This is a big business asking the "little people" to work for free. Completely unfair.
"it would need to pay taxes on the cash it is holding outside the US"

Oh, the horror.
The term you're looking for here is "formal power series".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_power_series
That's astonishing. I'd be interested in seeing some more statistics on the amount of lobbying vs market size compared to other industries (e.g. Transportation, Hospitality, Pharma).
It's not content producers, it's content right holders. Presumably they entered into this deal freely.

Is this a dick move from Apple? Sure. But the day I'll be arguing on behalf of music labels and distributors is the day the hell freezes over. Their situation is entirely of their own making.
Changing the laws requires a sizable investment in lobbyists and bribe money before any ROI can be achieved. Most individuals simply don't have enough taxable income to make the investment worthwhile. Megacorps do. The situation is not morally symmetrical and not practically symmetrical.
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They "only" have about 22 BILLION in American cash! They can raise capital in the bond market in perpetuity secured against all their global cash. There's demand for debt like Apple's. SO, they absolutely, unequivocally, unquestionably can pay the artists. This is a business decision based on greed - just like leading a wage suppression cartel. They are not too poor!
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I have seen a few. These two are the mostly recently updated and seem to be maintained:

https://github.com/luxifer/dokku-redis-plugin

https://github.com/ohardy/dokku-redis

The first one has 10 open issues, one of which seems to be potentially worrying from a security perspective (specifically this one https://github.com/luxifer/dokku-redis-plugin/issues/35 <dokku-redis exposed on 0.0.0.0 / public interface>).

Anyone here have experience and can point me towards the most stable one to use please?
> My understanding is some cities separate it at the dump. If true that seems like a much larger win. It will likely be correct far more often and only a few entities to check up on that they're doing it right.

The submitted article is about seperation at the dump, and how it doesn't work.
I was affected and compromised by this.

In response I was given 18 months of credit monitoring, where during registration it confirmed my identity by asking me questions like "What street did you grow up on?" and "What city does your nearest sibling live in?"

I find that pretty ironic. I'm just grateful that I don't have children yet.
Exactly. It's no problem at all for someone who knows what they're doing, and this guy clearly isn't a really technical person, but Windows 10 is a consumer product. It's 2015 - make your damn computers easier to use.
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How did this get upvoted? This article is horribly written and full of mostly irrelevant information, presented as if it's an argument against aspartame.
If you're comfortable with ES5, one option is to paste examples into the Babel REPL here:

https://babeljs.io/repl/

This will give you a familiar reference for what is going on, and quickly. It also translates the JSX which could be a good or bad thing depending on your preference. Running your own instance offline allows for a lot more customization.
If there are loopholes allowing corporations to not actually pay their taxes and the capital gains tax rate is a fraction of the income tax rate, is it really fair to call it double taxation?
> There's the fact that Apple is threatening independent artists with removal from iTunes.

Wrong. Apple has unequivocally stated that this isn't happening.

> iOS users can't download music from the web

Wrong. You can just add it using iTunes.
They can almost certainly borrow against their foreign holdings.
This seems like an ideal situation for pay by the piece, which would have probably increased productivity per hour (not necessarily per dollar of pay) even more. Also it would have rewarded specialists and reduced the turnover implied by 50 people in line. I wonder why that wasn't attempted.
And when asked during his last AMA BillG said he would stop, lean down and pick up any money he saw on the ground. But then he'd give it to his foundation.
So that will be a final salary pension then :-) is that 1/30 or 1/40 accrual rate.
It was, until one of the biggest "little people" started writing on her tumblr how she would have none of it.
See "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" at http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ for a head-to-head comparison of various small programs as measured across a wide number of language implementations. Do be careful that a "language" has no performance, only implementations of the language. For example, different implementations of Python may differ by an order of magnitude on a given task, as might different C compilers. Java and Javascript used to be considered slow languages, but the effective billions of dollars of R&D improved the implementations.

The overall solution space is complex. For example, development time on Python is about 1/2 that of C++ (the classic paper is http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer... - is there something more recent?). Since algorithms can trump raw performance, it may be that in 8 hours its possible to develop a more sophisticated implementation in Python which outperforms the naive implementation in C++.

In the late 1990s, when people started using Python for traditional supercomputing problems, the phrase was to use Python to "steer" the low-level code written in a faster language. For example, NumPy is a Python API which uses C/ Fortran/ assembly code at lower levels for doing array calculations. Thus, only some people need to be skilled in both levels, while most can focus on writing Python code. The actual code has parts written in multiple languages, and not "only C/C++".
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Added benefit of this article - one of the best explanations of RSS that I've read.
every business actually.
If credit cards represent a xx% of your business, then you would be pretty screwed to lose that. Brick and Mortar would have it worse because of lower net margins.
I didn't downvote but can see that some people might, in addition to what was previously mentioned, be upset by the vagueries of "From my experience with people that work there..." We don't know you - how many people do you know who have worked there? What were there roles (or thereabouts)? It's just so vague that I can't really derive any value from your post.
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But Google’s attempt to overturn the gag order was denied by magistrate judge Ivan D. Davis in February 2011. The company launched an appeal against that decision, but this too was rebuffed, in March 2011, by District Court judge Thomas Selby Ellis, III.

Anyone have the actual decisions that were given? I can't seem to fine them.
I agree - Apple should pay for it, but I don't think they will unless this causes some uproar (which it could).