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2012? How about 1967, the year the 1-800 number was invented. The web is "free" because the other side is footing the bill.

Quick, review the Amazon S3 bandwidth pricing chart!

Now calculate how much bandwidth you're using via the idiotic model of copying the same song you're listening to ten times a day, ten times. Multiply that by ten hours or however long you're sitting there with headphones on taking money out of Fred Wilson's pocket while you pretend you're coding the next great site that's going to put money back into it.

Author states that SoundCloud is "made up mostly of music connoisseurs who would gladly pay for service." Ha!

The sad reality of the music business is that there's a very narrow age range when most people are "really into music" and it tends to correspond with a period of time when those people don't have very much money to spend.

Now that I have money to spend, I simply do not have time to waddle through the anti-curated wasteland that is SoundCloud. Slap enough ads on it (especially ones that directly get in the way of trying to discover something to listen to) and you've guaranteed I won't go there.
If they restrict WebRTC then they restrict decentralization and that would move Mozilla out of the Freedom column and into the Fascism column with Microsoft.
>the fact is everyone is hedging their bets and are diversified in a way (within tech)

That is in no way diversification. And the correlation of investments within the tech world, when shit hits the fan, will be 1.

>real revenues and profits

Which of the companies are making profits?

Look, I'm not calling for Tech Crash 2.0 either, but some people seem oblivious to how these things go down when they....go down.
I genuinely can't read some of those. And I'm a bit of a metaller...
I would love to hear your story on what you think are the most important traits. I have tons of friends who consider themselves non-technical and would love to share with them this story.
I've been waiting for something like this, it looks great! I hope it can work with "babel-node" without any hiccups, so I can keep my server on ES6.
That is simply because most people have their credit card info saved in Amazon already. And people are lazy.

And yeah I would be reluctant to use my credit card on a shady looking website but I don't even think twice about using my card at shady looking businesses. For example, just last week, I bought tacos from a taco stand inside gas station.

Was site shady looking or just unknown? For me as long as site has valid certs & professional UI, I am usually fine with it. Also if you are using credit card, you are not liable for any fraudulent charges.
Yes, in 1981.
1100 deaths because of ingestion of rapeseed oil not suitable for human consumption.
"Here's a radical idea: pay for the services you love to use."

Here's another radical idea: trying to understand why people are unwilling to pay.

To me it's pretty obvious. People don't value those things they're supposed to "love" enough to pay for them. They don't actually "love" them, they're just induced necessities. If the whole Internet was turned into a pay-it-or-leave-it model, I wouldn't be surprised if most people just left it.

However, it this rare to see someone considering this possibility. It's much easier to discard users as being "cheap" or "freeloaders" than to think the all-so-important content on the Internet is just an extra on people's lives.

The article does make the point that other types of monetization besides ads or paywalls should be pursued.
As much as anti-broker vitriol is popular here on HN, whether you agree with it or not, brokers do provide a service. Whether or not that service is valuable to you is entirely another question.

When I moved to NYC I ended up using a broker. We saw like 12 apartments in 2 afternoons. I liked one and had it by the end of the week. As it happened, before it was generally advertised and while it was still being renovated.

This was a HUGE time saving. And this right here is the key thing. How much is your time worth?

I've lived in other cities where apartment hunting is typically direct (either to the owner or, more commonly, to the owner's management company). In certain areas and at certain times an apartment showing might have 50 people show up, 20 of whom put in an application.

This is an incredible waste of everybody's time. Companies need to vet more applications (or just arbitrarily pick some to scrutinize, discarding the rest). Apartment hunters need to go to more viewings and fill out more applications.

A good broker should be able to find you an apartment relatively quickly and, as it happens in NYC at least, for a good price. If not, they're not doing their job.

There are also buildings in NYC that are all rental and fit the model of complexes in other cities where there is a management company that manages all of them. You can simply inquire as to availability (or even find it on a website).

The problem in NYC at least is that there's a lot of pokey apartments that don't fit this model (mine was in a walkup of ~15 apartments over 5 floors).

I got a good deal on my apartment and amortized over the time I was there, had I paid for the broker (I didn't), it would've been a good deal.

Many services exist that allow you to trade your money for your time. Brokers are one of them.
Noticed a bug. Murderdolls and The Black Dahlia Murder are included as 'metal'.
Pick the one with the most black?
One of authors is here.

Redis saves data to the disk by default but this can be turned off. That's what we did. GUIDs of connected users are stored in memory with expiration by the 10 min timeout.

I think scalability does not hurt privacy. It's nice to have 10 servers with 40GB memory instead of one with 4GB. Connections between servers can be encrypted with TLS.
I read a piece by Elon Musk, who was saying that electric planes - whilst very far away - are the future of air travel. Why? Because they will allow planes to fly higher - increasing efficiency and speed. Apparently the normal 30,000 feet cruising altitude is not higher because the reduced oxygen levels at higher altitudes impact the gasoline combustion too much. Even at 30,000 feet the air is thick as soup at cruising speed, and that's why planes have not got faster for the last 50 years. Go higher, as electrics could do, and you reduce the air pressure further and could fly faster and more efficiently. Who knows when battery technology will be advanced enough, but it sounds like a goal worth shooting for (as well as the other benefits of noise reduction and environment concerns)
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So the way Werner Vogels explained it at the AWS Summit in NYC recently, Aurora is built from scratch and is MySQL compatible, but it is not a fork. He mentioned that they broke it down into components which are each built on pre-existing AWS services - for example, the storage layer just DynamoDB which I thought was really interesting.
Why in the world would you design such a system that deliberately fails to explain its decisions?
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Not to plug but here is Vice News coverage of the el chapo escape along with a more detailed view of how they construct the tunnels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh3RHV5G1Fc
Who put the USB port on the outside? The article made it seem like they didnt need to use the USB port for normal operations (unlocking/locking). So why didnt they face it toward the safe or disable access somehow until the safe is unlocked. I'm not going to even touch on the Windows XP issue.
The UX challenged has been solved, though; there are multiple well known websites selling music and which allow you to bundle all songs in a single order. You just can't force the artist to use them.
What about python, whitespace is significant there
"Private valuations aren't based on current revenues, they're betting on future revenues."

Private valuations aren't unique in this aspect. All prices are based on expectations of claims on future cash flows.
Until you really start thinking about the structural and economic reasons for these changes occurring, you'll be stuck at "but why?" forever. It's not much fun to think about, though.
The connection is in the "why". Why do website switch to an ad-based revenue model ? (and so, against their initial will). Because the people running it needs money. If you have a basic income, it's easier for people to run websites for free without ads.
If he his helping Nestlé beeing more responsible about environment, how is it amoral ?

Do you honnestly think this guy is actually burning trees, laughing in a jaccuzy full of dollar bills ?

Joke aside, they hired this guy because they need environment experts, which is a step in the right direction cause it means they start to care.
A Change in Consumer Habits: From On-Demand to Do-It-For-Me
I don't know whether this is impressive or not. It's not like they took three robots, told them the puzzle and they started thinking and talking. It depends on how they actually implemented it. With prolog it would take 30 minutes to have something like this, given that you know the puzzle and what you want the robots to do.

No self-awareness was there for sure, though, and I feel whatever they did won't really traspose to anything else easily, so I don't think the result is particularly impressive.

OTOH, the algorithm itself could be new and more performant of whatever Prolog could do, and that would be an achievement. But not really with respect to AI.
I have not idea: But could this be why Planes will often dump fuel for a turn back.
When I switched to a keto diet I researched what kinds of oil to cook with and came to similar conclusions. I ditched all of the veggy oils in my pantry except olive oil. I buy a small tub of grass fed beef tallow that lasts about 3 months. A teaspoon for sautéing goes a long way.

Typically I combine an animal fat like the tallow, or butter with some olive oil when cooking. Occasionally I'll get fancy and buy goose or duck fat. Sometimes it's a pat of butter, or a scoop of coconut oil.

The food tastes better, and I feel better. It was hard to unlearn all of the bad science that came out of the last few decades about saturated fats, but hopefully I'll end up being better off for it.
I've moved 5 times in Chicago in the last 5 years, and each time I tried a broker but it was a miserable experience. I ended up finding a place on craigslist each time.

I'm looking to move to NYC soon and I all I see are $1500 broker fees the tenant has to pay. Its pretty insane.
I'm pretty sure canola is not the most common used in America, soy (sold as "vegetable oil") is; and, as others have noted, they do address canola by its other name, rapeseed.
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> Here in the UK there seems to be an alarming story every few months about how we barely have more than a few days' stock.

That's how they drive up supply. When it gets too low here in the US they'll actually use phone banks to call regular donors to ask them to come in. I'd imagine the UK has something similar.

> if The Simpsons is even slightly realistic (!) sometimes people in the US give blood for cash?

I believe it's illegal to pay donors for blood, but plasma donation can be paid. It's problematic. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/blood-mone...
Planes usually fly around for a bit dumping fuel if they need to turn back.
The baseband such as it exists in wireless routers either doesn't run code (ath9k) or relies on the host CPU to upload a firmware image. None of the radios have their own non-volatile storage for their firmware.
Graffiti transforms your existing models into a GraphQL schema
You see apartment-finding startups all the time here in NYC. The problem to finding a good apartment isn't that there isn't a good interface, it's that a lot of the listings are given exclusively to brokers, and even if you find the apartment yourself, your still paying the broker fee.

I'm just one example, but I sublet from an individual owner in a co-op (in the Village). For giving the unit to a broker (for free, since the broker usually collects on the renter, not the landlord), he didn't have to fly up here from Miami and show the unit, figure out how to run a credit check, schedule my interview with the co-op, have me fill out a pile of forms, etc. Instead, he simply received a copy of the contract, signed and returned.

Point being: NYC has a ~1% vacancy rate, so there's little incentive for things to change on the sell side. Anything that requires a landlord to change their behavior is a tough sell.
Agreed. God forbid a tiny independent site gain any traction.
No see http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=90&pagei... or
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_3...

They are only certified to the maximum landing weight which typically is lower than the maximum takeoff weight. When an overweight landing (ie. the weight is higher then maximum landing weight) occurs engineers have to perform a thorough inspection of the plane structure - landing gear, spars, wings, wingbox

EDIT: thanks ForHackernews
Agreed. God forbid a tiny independent site gain some traction over Amazon or iTunes.
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Considering the nerd obsession with bacon, I'm surprised no one has mentioned reclaimed bacon grease? Or does that get lumped in with lard?
You're correct. I used the word "home" because that's typically where these devices are used and the market that will be most effected. The FCC makes no distinction between devices meant for home use vs. other markets.
10+ years ago I was at a public library with terminals that were in kiosk mode with IE in fullscreen, hidden start menu etc. I used a paperclip to eject the cd drive, put in a CD with autorun, and voila, visible start menu and was able to get to the internet from IE
It's weird. When we like what they say, it's "this guy is really smart. You should listen." When we don't like what they say, it's "experts should stick to what they know. Don't be fooled by appeal to authority."
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I'm all for free and open internet, but that's free as in speech. A lot of this is complaining about how her favorite stuff on the internet is too expensive or supported by an ad model. Kind of sucks I guess, but hardly a travesty. Its entirely possible that her favorite web services had unsustainable financials back in 2012 and they are in the process of figuring out how to build a revenue stream to keep themselves going.
> I read a piece by Elon Musk, who was saying that electric planes - whilst very far away - are the future of air travel. Why? Because they will allow planes to fly higher - increasing efficiency and speed.

That's a meaningless/nonsensical assertion. If we're going to ignore basically everything we can also state that nuclear is the future of air travel (and that's actually a more sensible statement, nuclear fuel has ridiculous specific energy).
Perhaps it could be helpful for the international audience to explain what a 'broker' is.

Here in Aus at least, we deal with Real Estate Agents, who act as a middleman between the owner of the property and the tenant. They handle pretty much everything (inspections, repairs, collecting rent, marketing etc) so the owner just receives money (for a commission of course).

Is this the same in the US? Where would a broker fit into all of this.
// edit: sense of humour failure. I care too much about blocking spam :)

Sorry, but this is harder for humans than bots.

The logos are quite distinct and not randomly deformed, so it's easy for even a simple image recognition algorithms to tell them apart.

And the set is very small (for this problem anything smaller than millions is very small), so it's feasible to manually tag enough images for bots to brute force it.
And people above a certain age! ;-)
I just ordered a Kobo Aura H20, on which I intend to install KOReader (Kindle/Kobo Open Reader) for an improved PDF reading experience.
Goldman Sachs is a complex place, with lots of competing interests inside. I see a few things going on here...

1 - Goldman Sachs wants to be able to offer it's investors access to tech companies. This used to be access to IPOs, and now it's access to pre-IPO.

2 - Goldman Sachs is trading for their own position too.

3 - Goldman Sachs is an IT company at heart. Their IT department is bigger than their Fixed Income department. They write their own databases and programming languages from scratch. (I'm not saying whether this is a good idea or not.) They want to be attached to the bleeding edge of Silicon Valley technology, and money is their way in.

None of this is nefarious or evil.
"provide a service", or "hoard what you are looking for"?

Having done both, I saw very little value added when I went through a broker.

Anecdotally, when I moved to Cambridge many years ago, I managed to see a good number of rooms in one day, so I don't really see any time saving, except for the broker organizing it for you a bit.
I recommend not being on Android 5.x.
Is a good band name, though.
There is a nice opportunity if you can cut out rental brokers and apartment locators, but you really only see these types of brokers in a few markets: Boston, Chicago, Miami, NY, and some locators throughout the southern US.

People who live in these cities feel like the problem of rental brokers is worse than it actually is.

The big opportunity is to disrupt buy/sell-side brokers. Many, many companies have tried, and yet in 2004 when Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, etc. were getting off the ground, about 90% of people in the US used a broker to sell their home. In 2014, it was still 90%.

The internet has unchanged the position and power of brokers in the US for a variety of reasons - but a big one that all startups miss is the pain of getting accurate data.

In the last decade, the startups that have become ~$1b companies in real estate all support or augment brokers (Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, Costar, Loopnet, etc.) and companies that aim for massive disruption go out of business in a couple years.

Sometimes during a gold rush, you are better off selling pick axes to miners.
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The number of tunnels seem excessive, I don't know the drug numbers but let's use people.

A tunnel large enough to walk though could send 10 people a minute without problem. While 24/7 would be near impossible to achieve, it’s 600 people an hour, 14,400 people a day, and up to 5,256,000 people per year.
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It's not free. A would be tenant will compare prices inclusive of broker's fees, so he could probably charge a slightly higher rent without a broker.
Human drone pilots, and gunners in manned aircraft are much better at making such assessments than any current technology-- yet they do not do so, and kill people who really it appears shouldn't be killed, including those you mention.

If we can make humans do it, I suspect whatever is controlling future craft would do it too, especially if programming is much easier than it is to program humans to be murderers.
Something that has always bothered me about advertisements isn't that companies are creating/using them it was that they actually work! The reason ads are everywhere is because they make money, LOTS of money. In 2010 it was estimated by "statista.com" (http://www.statista.com/statistics/237797/total-global-adver...) that the advertisement industry made 495 billion U.S. Dollars ranking it higher then Retail or Oil/Gas according to outdated "Wikipedia" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...). So my point is the crux of the problem is more to do with our (global) society then it does the evil plot of an industry. The best weapon against ads is to stop making them profitable. Bad flash or obnoxious java applets make money! Having a stupid mascot walk across the page offering to help makes money! Forcing people to watch and listen to ads just to see the cute kitten play with yarn makes money! Why wouldn't it be littered everywhere? Case in point: SPAM. That Viagra email poorly written and incorrectly translated actually makes the pharmaceutical companies money! Sad, real sad.
Microtransactions have a minimum mental cost to the user. This is why even the services that could track your actual consumption and bill you to the penny don't.
and that's all there is right now..
Is there any reason you're not approaching the team for inclusion into stdlib (for more than just the crc32 bit)? If it's really drop-in and passes all tests then I can imagine it would be an easy sell.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-dev
Umm, we already have machines that can kill people if someone "left out a semicolon". Airplane autopilots, medical equipment, car computers, etc.
Not saying this makes it OK, but that isn't the reason. Life-critical code isn't a new thing.
We need to use the internet less and get outside.
If you can find a way to monetise the enormous amount of new content that's being produced right now - in excess of 10,000 feature films a year - then you have the potential to make a vast amount of money.

Discoverability and marketplaces are the key problems for film at the moment. There are other groups working on that problem, but so far it remains unresolved.

I wrote a bit about this on Charles Stross's blog a while ago - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/06/hugh-han...
Fuck, I just realized this piece of trash wrote his own version of "she was asking for it."
I used craigslist for years in Silicon Valley. It either put me in contact directly with the landlord, or the on-site property management.
Nice. I love the idea to REPL to a live node application.

But I would be a little afraid to use it in production though, if there's a security breach the attacker could just pretty much do anything.
This is an amazing article, that is crying out for a big budget feature film. I wonder whether authorizing the work of efforts like this would justify bringing back Letters of Marque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
How about building your own platform?
Your post is a clear indicator that there is a space left in the market for services that deliver your model, without all the marketing bullshit and bigdata hype. How about a google with a proper query interface (not just +,-,")? How about a social platform for organising parties, without farmville and like this and like that? How about a platform where i can buy whole seasons of game of thrones for download or stream as soon they get released? Or how a bout a twitter for 30 seconds voice messages, that cost you a dollar for every extra minute? There is lots of money to earn. Sure i might be stupid for sharing these ideas, but id rather have them become reality instead of suffering from this dumbing down of the internet to become the TV 2.0. Yes i am paranoid, and i think i have right to be, as a member of a political party that once had the goal to preserve the beneficial part of the internet, which has now become just another political party with most of its delegates being the usual representatives of the 48 laws of power.
The NYC middlemen do a lot: They bribe doormen and janitors, they screen for "undesirables" that owners don't want in the building, they make you wait long times....

Apartment hunting in NYC is one of the sleaziest businesses out there. The brokers make bankers look clean. I applaud any effort to cut them out of the system.