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> Typesafe does the marketing, and as a business they'll never sell their technology short, even if what you say is closer to the truth wrt to specialization.

I don't think that's selling it short. Accurately describing your product only prevents people who aren't really your target -- like me -- from being disappointed and telling the world about it, while it helps attract precisely those people who would be most excited about it.

Also, I think Typesafe realize now that there is not much money to be made in developing and supporting a programming language (ironically, there is some to be made -- though not too much -- supporting specialist languages; see Ada and Matlab). That's why they want to change their name, right?

> no users = no dice; doubt either will grab much mindshare in the near-term.

That's splitting hairs a bit; Scala doesn't exactly have mass appeal either. We're talking about the difference between tiny and small.

> I doubt Kotlin will be able to deliver the same guarantees, but if it can, watch out Oracle.

I know they're trying to. Also, I know Oracle actively encourages alternative JVM languages. Their product is the Java platform, which currently -- to be honest -- is not too far from being the same as Java the language (all alternative JVM languages combined don't amount to 10%, or possibly even 5% of the JVM ecosystem). But they wouldn't mind if that changes. Their research team working on Graal, HotSpot's next-gen JIT, coming to OpenJDK in Java 9, spends as much time on making sure it runs Ruby, R, C, Python, and JavaScript well as it does on making sure it runs Java well. I know Oracle's Java team isn't all too happy about it, but I also know that that's what Oracle wants.
See also: IKEA OR DEATH: http://ikeaordeath.com/

Can you tell the difference between a death metal band and IKEA furniture? It's harder than it sounds.
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No mention of Avocado Oil? I find this oil tastes great and looks like it has a ~500F smoke point. It's similarly "good for you" like Olive oil and is relatively inexpensive at Costco (though nowhere near as cheap as Canola or Peanut oil).
The "OK Google" voice feature for Chrome is opt-in, not enabled by default.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=500922#c...
Citi offers this.
Good point. I routinely pay $2.49 per track over at Beatport for DRM free 320 kbps quality. Can I find the same music on iTunes or Amazon? Sometimes, but there's a premium that Beatport can demand through having exclusive / niche content, which seems lost in the context of this discusstion (more or less).
How much money does one song really makes through ads per person? I don't think it's anywhere close to $1.50.
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Yup : and they even mock themselves for having done so : http://www.economist.com/node/9465026
It's hit the news, so you don't have to read HN to be aware of it. It's also quite easy to disable auto downloading of MMS if given instructions.
Right. This is part of it. Real estate is still the largest purchase most people make in their lifetime, and there are tons of things to deal with: inspections, title companies, escrow accounts, taxes, etc.

I'm overgeneralizing, but if you're selling a home and you're not wealthy, you are terrified to make a mistake that could wipe out a big chunk of your net worth if you screw up the sale, so you use a broker. If you're wealthy, you don't care about the 6% fee, and luxury brokers have already sold you on the value proposition of extra marketing and hand-holding from the days when you weren't as well off and buying your first home.
Peanut oil is used a lot for frying fish in the south.

Another popular southern pastime is dunking a frozen turkey into a few gallons of boiling peanut oil, but it can be pretty bad for your health (ie: skin burns, house fire, etc.). Most people do this only once, and thereafter thaw the turkey before frying.
It's not only about the VPN leak. WebRTC also leaks internal IP addresses which provide additional entropy that can be used for fingerprinting.
> the maximum landing weight which typically is larger than the maximum takeoff weight.

I assume this was a typo and you mean that the max landing weight is typically less than the max takeoff weight.
What else would you call BDM?
I own albums from just about every band I saw as I was scrolling through. Even knowing what they're supposed to say, I still can't read some of them.
Yes and no - streaming and iTunes are pretty good for most things "mainstream" music. Soundcloud though: there's no excuse for them at least not to _try_. Just like for her, ads and passive aggressive song selection are killing the experience.

Then for content at large, there's pretty much everything to do. Not surprised if Stripe and ApplePay, both focused on this micro-amount market, take it all.
It's funny how much they subtitle their post here "Content, not Chrome", yet in the most recent version of Chrome they removed the ability to disable the "People" menu. The bug for this [0] has been marked wontfix, saying it's "working as intended". Depending on how long your profile name is, that's an awful lot of chrome taking up space from your content...

[0] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=496829
> I'm currently working at a cable TV company

Look at netflix share prices. Then look at your cable company's. Then look back at netflix. It's on a horse. (OK, the pun is stupid, sorry).

I don't pretend that it's all rainbows and butterflies. It sucks a lot of the time, and I share your pain. My point is, that on a large scale, industry does move when users want it to be. Slowly, painfully, but this is happening.

Compare today with 10 years ago. It is a more appropriate time frame to evaluate change in such gigantic industries. Did you try to buy games online then? Movies? Music? How was your user experience? iTunes fails me often (and as a DJ who uses it for library management, it hurst a lot), but the ability to hear song on the radio and buy it in scope of 20 seconds is awesome. Or, nowadays, just add it to my library without actually buying and evaluate whether I should buy it later at home.
Atari didn't approve cartridges. That's exactly how something like Custer's Revenge got made.

Nintendo didn't just approve cartridges by attaching a sticker to them, there was a protection chip inside (sold to the manufacturer by Nintendo) that allowed access to the NES. The reverse-engineering of this chip led to lawsuits:

https://goo.gl/Cy736g
The URL said it all: https://oneplus.net/hype <- HYPE
This is definitely true. Hence why you should ALWAYS be tasting your food as you are cooking it...not just at the end, but during the process, adjusting your seasonings. Again, Harold McGee does a better job than I, but the points at which one adds, say, salt to a dish, actually make a difference in the outcome of the final flavor.

And remember: you can always add more flavor, but you can never take away when cooking. That's another good rule of thumb.

So a lot of us here are tech inclined and, I think, startup inclined. Think of cooking and learning to cook this way: it is an experiment. You are learning. The fastest way to learn is to talk with people who have done it before (follow the recipe). If you're smart and want to learn really fast, each time you make a recipe, you'll make little notes to yourself about what you learned or noticed about the different ingredients. Then, next time you make the dish, you can tweak it (pivot your idea). If it works, you've learned something that will probably stick with you for a long time.

Have fun in the kitchen guys.
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Why do we have to "disrupt" the apartment brokers. Why cant they just compete with them? The goal of his technology should not be to put them out of business, but to offer an alternative.
It's funny, because probably is more relevant to think the problem the other way.

What happens when leaders know that, no matter what, never are going to be "targeted" by their own automatic military?
> I'm not going to risk $1.50 to an unknown website.

Is that really what you wanted to say?

Because before you wrote this, I was under the impression that you don't want to risk your credit card details (and therefore risk the overhead that fraud or a hack on that site would cause you). But the if the problem is a whole $1.50, then I simply don't understand what difference the counterparty in this transaction makes.
This... really isn't true. Very expensive markets are still markets - you are, for example, very unlikely to find a taker for a studio 5th-floor walkup on the Lower East Side for $5k.

NYC rents are pretty nutty, but it is still a market, and pricing pressure is still very aggressive in this market. The volume that exists in the market, and the similarities and substitutability of apartments (one walkup is largely like another) all serve to apply more pricing pressure.
> He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers -- not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.

Not sure what I was expecting.
OMG, kids with rich parents have it easy? Who knew? Does this author not realize that normal people have been saving money for generations? Not everyone makes millions right out of school. This isn't specific to "Millennials", my post-baby-boomer parents did the same thing. My dad got some money to go to school for the first couple years but still worked all throughout college and had loans until he was 30 something when he was still an engineer. My mom was given nothing while in school. She worked throughout college and lived at home. While you really can't do this anymore, it shows that she was able to become successful without rich parents. Even if she had to get loans, she still would have been able to work through school and pay the loans off while living at home. She just wouldn't have been able to move out of her dad's house sooner.

I love how the media always portrays "Millenials". We are either poor as shit, doing better than our parents, dumb as fuck, smartest generation ever, the hardest workers, or the laziest people. Any time you see an article referencing "Millenials", it's best to just ignore whatever opinion the author has.
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The Hollywood Reporter had the scoop apparently and has a few more details.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/happy-birthday-laws...
> I don't think it's a problem with $1.50 in absolute terms. It's $1.50 compared to $0.99 from other vendors.

Yes, but if you only have the $1.50 option for buying a song you supposedly love, it simply makes no sense to refuse because other places sell other songs for $0.99, especially considering the massive value for a measly amount of money you get either way.
Does that really matter? It uses conditional compilation (only on amd64 CPUs) and even if it does not have optimized assembly for other CPUs, just having the benefit on amd64 alone is useful.
That's true, but the scenario you are thinking of is one in which the higher ups order a massacre and the soldier on the ground refuses to carry out the order. I believe that the more frequent case is when soldiers on the ground are having to make split second life and death decisions, quite possibly panicking themselves. If they get it wrong, they're dead.

An AI can make split second decisions without panicking and without any consideration for its own "survival". For any mistakes an AI makes, those higher up will get the blame (ideally), not some 20 year old who was scared for his own life when he made the decision to kill everyone on that overloaded truck because he it wouldn't stop 10 seconds earlier.

That said, I shudder at the thought of a world in which people get killed by machines who will never be whistleblowers, who do not go home with post traumatic stress disorder, telling everyone how horrible war really is.
They just might accept PayPal though.
Even funnier that the money is the banks' once it goes into the safe. So once again the reason to rob a bank is "that's were the money is" except here you can do it with a usb widget. If the money stays in the safe overnight (how often do the Brinks people come?) it's a pretty easy score.
NFC is useless in the UK anyway. I've had it on my phones since 2011 and used it about three times - never for anything 'important' (like paying for something).

Yes, I know I could buy and program my own tags, but I have no need to, I'd just like to be able to buy a packet of bananas from the Co-op without having to carry my wallet around.
If the only way you could get to Hacker News was over a dial-up connection, would you switch to dial-up or would you just go to a different site that loads a broadband speed?

Waiting two days to then have to deal with the unpleasant experience of getting a physical CD sucks. Wait two days, then rip the CD, then move the file to your phone... or just find other music you like that can be immediately downloaded. I love music but there are very few individual songs I would do that for.
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There should be a name for this phenomenon. It appears that any service that attempts to remain un-gated eventually will be forced to run ads in order to stay afloat. The ads become more prevalent over time, until an equilibrium is reached. The service is now barely tolerable, with just a high enough content/ad ratio to keep you around but not high enough that the experience is actually pleasant. Say, Pandora, for example. Call it "the dismal equilibrium" or something.
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Google + murdered the Blogger community when it expected us to migrate there while at the same time forgoing our followers widget and Google Reader to keep in contact with others.

As such, I've deleted my old Google + profile and started over with a new one. I enjoy sharing on the internet, but too many fragments tied together paints a picture of me I don't want to share.
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> I'm not sure it's ignoring everything - as this article states, electric planes exist today

Prop toys exist, not "future of aviation" anything. Props being an other issue, electric planes means no turbofans.

> Batteries are also improving

Batteries are not improving at a rate which would increase their specific energy by 2 orders of magnitude (the difference between the specific energy of the best batteries available today and bog-standard jet fuel) in any sort of interesting timescale. And that's before considering environmental issues, most batteries don't appreciates temperatures of -20C and below.

> thanks to Musk

That's a joke right? Tesla's battery innovations are related to manufacturing efficiency and structural sharing.

> So whilst far away, it's an extrapolation from our current position.

It's not extrapolation it's daydreaming based on what is basically magical thinking. It's less of an extrapolation than dyson spheres are.

> Nuclear planes don't exist today in any form

Nuclear planes were demonstrably feasible (if not necessarily smart) in the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95LAL
If paywalls don't work, and ads don't work, some kind of metered-browsing would be a solution. It's so far away from happening, it's hardly worth discussing, but imagine this:

* let's say soundcloud could charge $.0001 (or something) for every pageview (or play, or some other interaction that the website chooses)

* this fee is mostly transparent to the user, they've signed up once, and have access to all metered sites

* the user would deposit money in an account ahead of time to use for the metered sites

* the metering could be built-in to web browsers to display when you're on a metered site using a standard graphic (like how the lock is a standard symbol for a secure connection)
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I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed. Users (and perhaps more important, companies) do, in fact, want web browsers to do everything. Even traditionally heavyweight applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop are shifting to the web.

Whether that's a good idea or not is certainly open to debate, but pretending that it's not happening isn't the answer.
You couldn't possibly have thought this was going to be a helpful comment to anyone when you posted it.
Does DD-WRT modify the image? don't they work with the original broadcom firmware?
No, they care. When it was discovered that a target had once applied for citizenship, rendering him an USPER and thus off limits, Alexander had the man's file printed out, erased from the system, and then burned it in front of the entire NOC to make a point.

Yes, their procedural controls suck. Yes, "collect it all" is likely an illegal mantra. And if someone bad gets their hands on this data the result could be horrific. But right now, it's being mainly used to target and neutralize actual foreign terrorist threats.
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Yeah another Aussie struggling to understand what a broker is in this context.

I think they literally just look through rental listings for you then tell you which one you should look at, then you go to the Real Estate Agent as usual to rent it? Seems a bit ridiculous if so.
Correlative:

Auto enthusiast site commenters claiming "If Manufacturer A would build this car with X motor, Y drivetrain, and at Z price, I'd totally buy that!" or "If only Manufacturer B would bring Car XYZ to the US it would be a huge hit!"

If history is any indicator, no, those types of vehicles will not sell well. Recently I've seen the discussion around the Chevrolet SS (Holden import), because while on paper it's on par with other performance sedans, it's selling very poorly. Granted, it had low expectations by GM, but it's just an example of this mentality / vocal minority over-inflating their self-importance in the grand scheme of things.
There is a working business model that does not rely on ads: Kickstarter.

The problem with making everything subscription-based is that it changes the dynamic of the website. A lot.

An interesting experiment would be to allow people to pay not just for themselves, but for a few others as well. I.e. you've seen something good, you pay to get rid of ads for that item and it removes ads for N other people as well. Sure, there will be free-riders. That's the point. I postulate that those free-riders would be the people would otherwise not use the platform at all.
It would be really exciting to have something like Google Contributor go mainstream: https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

Basically, solving this problem by allow users to set up a prepaid fund with Google and have them deduct website ad revenue from there instead of showing me an ad -- and have it work everywhere Google ads are displayed.
While the article goes into the more technical reasons for not using Docker in production, the practical reason "Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production" is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The advantages of Docker do not necessarily outweigh the opportunity cost of rewriting the startup's entire infrastructure.

Docker will likely be more prevalent in a few years with startups who have built their infrastructure form the ground up.
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If micro transactions break into public awareness it might get significantly better. There could be a joint meter app like mint to track usage. You could just sort by a few things like recent cash flow and trivially manage your transactions at scale. Transactions should be tied directly to user level constructs like playing a song or a period of time in a game. These should have consistent costs so that the user can form reasonable expectations without needing to sign off on every transaction. You don't think about how much water costs every time you use the faucet but you're aware enough not to just leave it on. That's the only mental cost that's ultimately necessary.
Amazon hasn't made a profit only because they've chosen to re-invest every penny of profit they would make back into the company. If they were forced to show a profit next year, they could pretty easily make a few cuts here and there and produce a profit.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/09/07/the-inter...
The recent moves to turn the browser into its own OS are worrying. The problem I see is that no one seems to care. Its full steam ahead and its only later do we realize that these new feature and standards are trivial to abuse. I really wish there was some kind of web mission statement on where browsers are going instead of this kitchen sink approach.

I have no idea what the W3C is thinking. I don't think even the W3C knows what its thinking. Its just being reactionary; trying to turn HTML5 into a "flash killer" and shoving feature after feature into the spec. I don't want to piss on progress, but I think privacy and security concerns get a backseat with W3C members, especially Google, whose very existence is dependent on finding information about users to sell to advertisers. Soon we'll need sandboxing and privacy apps to wrap our browsers in. I really hope Mozilla leads the way to pushing back on this recent mad push of thoughtless progress. A more moderate approach would be very much welcome and having more "off by default" options for easily abused features like P2P in the browser, which is what webrtc really is, makes sense.

Right now I had no idea what my browser is capable of. Can it silently turn on my camera and microphone? Probably. Can it make all sorts of crazy p2p connections to various servers/clients silently? Probably. Its all a little scary.
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Wikipedia says:

Black Dahlia Murder is melodic death metal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Dahlia_Murder_%28ban...

and Murderdolls are horror punk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderdolls
Big surprise, right?
Regulators who don't take into account possible unintended consequences of their regulations should be stripped of regulatory authority.
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KDE Plasma, by far.
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I would have preferred no response to "thanks for writing in, here's why you're wrong."
I support solar energy because of my Tea Party beliefs – not despite them
At least here, you can make a CC for each payment. It's a simple form: input max amount, click continue, get CC number.

Here in Portugal we also have the kind of payments you're talking about, but it's not particularly easier than the VCC system.
Yes, and they charge you 8-15% for this service in NYC.
I recognized the Devin Townsend Project logo, but it won't accept "Devin Townsend Project", "Devin Townsend", "DTP", or "dtp".
For these kind of purchases, I have a credit card that allows me to credit virtual card numbers with a limit and expiration that I can set. I'll set the limit to the order amount. If they try to charge more, the transaction is declined.

That, along with the ability to contest charges (chargebacks), makes it a lot less risky.
I've done that with my entire music collection. I have only ever bought one MP3 in my entire life. The rest of it is ripped from the CDs that I have bought. If the artist has gone to the effort of recording, mixing, mastering and designing sleeve notes and documenting who took part in the process, then that's really something worth buying.

If we only consider music to be as valuable as background white noise, then downloading it without the associated archive of data is probably worth it. But I think the entire process is worth more, which is why I'll buy it and wait the "forever" of 2 days for a CD to arrive.

I can't believe people consider 2 days for postage for a CD to be a long time. Is this a generation of "I want it NOW NOW NOW NOW" that I am surrounded with?