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I would just like to bring up the fact that the accounts TimJYoung and crimsonalucard were both created 1891 days ago and are both intently arguing in favor of copyright protections. I don't really have good arguments against them (although my gut feeling is to disagree), and I'm not really trying to make a point, just found it suspicious.

Honestly, I'm not sure what the answer is with copying. But I have a strong belief that everybody should be able to enjoy all information and media, whether or not they have a relatively limitless supply of cash to blow.

I'm learning a lot about plurals there...Media is a plural of medium...This should have been obvious but I never thought about it.

I've occasionally discovered new music from the SoundCloud recommended tracks, but at this point I follow so many users that I barely have time to keep up with what they are posting/reposting. As with virtually all social networks, the users are the content creators. Not only do they actually create the content (they might not), the bulk of what you get from them is their likes and repost.

If I catch up on my SoundCloud stream (posts/reposts) I'll switch over to somebody's list of likes. Some of my favorite producers are buried in their passion for music 24/7 and have upwards of 1000 likes to listen through.

Recommended tracks are nice, and it's something to fill the void if you are low on content from people you follow, but in my opinion it's not that much better than going out and seeking new music and artists in other ways. I'm sure as SoundCloud improves the algorithm though it could automate some of the behaviors I'm doing manually (e.g. playing content from and following users whose content is liked/reposted by the users I follow). It might be doing this already, if maybe only indirectly, I guess I just like having control. One of the most annoying things I'm afraid it could do is promote sponsored music. I love listening to music that people are passionate about, not music that is funded by large amounts of money.

More capable than 2.4GHz? It's not so much about reflections, but going through solid objects. I imagined the larger wavelength of 2.4GHz dissipates less when travelling through solid objects, but this is hardly scientific. I also read stuff from internet searches that seemed to confirm this, but I don't remember nor have a link to a scientific explanation.

Before even reading your post I highlighted his name, right clicked, and searched on Google. It took me longer to read your post than it did to do that and get plenty of information.

"Credits: Federico Faggin, in many ways, including 4001 prototypes"

And credits to Masatoshi Shima most of all (initially from Busicom but came to work at Intel and was mostly responsible for the 8080 as well, then the Z80).

I think the fact that he started businesses in those fields is somewhat self explanatory. What's so special about paypal, other than it was there for the rise of Internet 2.0 / ebay or whatever? Getting into coal and mobile phones before the past decade when both of these have exploded in growth is the same kind of thing.

Warning: I am neither a skilled nor experienced programmer. I would say the kernel of programming languages is more practically something like C, assembly, or machine language. Kernel implies containing the core functionality, the building blocks. Van Roy's kernel language does seem to contain core ideas for ideal programming languages, even though it doesn't seem to translate well to existing hardware / machine language.

After reading a bit about it I started to think of it as pseudocode for programming languages, and I thought I'd share some results from my searching based on that idea [1].

"In terms of the kernel language itself, it is in fact its own programming language, a sort of "runnable pseudocode" that is executable in the Mozart/Oz platform."

Here's an interesting link I found by searching for database pseudocode [2]. This delves into the topic of "NoSQL", which might be helpful in your database basics research, but it also covers other database basics.

I am also not very skilled nor experienced with databases, but based on your request, one database that comes to mind for me is Berkeley DB. It is the building block for lots of other technologies, and is also considered one of the origins of the NoSQL concept. Here's a recent relevant discussion that probably made me think of it [3] (that and it is the basis for a distributed filesystem I'm studying). Also, check out the Wikipedia for it, and (maybe obvious to you already) searching site:news.ycombinator.com on Google can get you a lot more interesting discussions on any topic.

Here's one more random link I found [4], just because it has a lot of summaries on different types of NoSQL databases.

Again, this is all far from expert advice, which is probably really what you need, but I thought I'd just share with you what I found in my attempt to understand this "kernel language" concept and apply it to databases.

[1] http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/02/23/notes-on-teaching-with-...

[2] http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/09/01/what-is-a-nosql-dat...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10148242

[another old one] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613638

[4] http://bigdata-madesimple.com/a-deep-dive-into-nosql-a-compl...

The family name lineage is definitely important in Japan as well. Just look at all the Japanese companies named after their founder's family names e.g. Toyota (Toyoda), Mazda (Matsuda), Honda. Also, their main form of religion, Shinto, is basically the worship of ancestors.

Ahh...Should have read my own link... They are quite oldschool indeed. Re-branding and restricting the service to games does indeed make sense coming from those days, and Google kind of has an unfair advantage by having so many eyes on it that they can enforce the rules necessary for allowing people to live stream whatever they want.

It's interesting to think about how many different ways video streaming platforms have been shaped into different audiences (private/public, contacts/strangers, content based or not, self[users/mods]/central/third-party moderation). It makes sense for Youtube and Google's reputation that they didn't get into it earlier on, but I still respect Youtube for the culture it has created, even before getting bought by Google. I don't know when it all started, but gameplay video subscriptions are a huge part of their content (I'm sure there are some good sources on this), and with the huge audience, content creators motivated by $$$ really early on.

The urge to share gameplay is something that has existed in everybody long ago. I myself was wishing I had better hardware for recording gameplay back in my early college years and uploaded a video 2006. I had also partaken in some live streaming of gameplay as far back as 2009 on different services.

Youtube introduced live streaming in April 2011 [1], while Twitch launched in June 2011 [2]. Sure, adoption of live streaming on Youtube has been slow, but it has been there. Twitch just came and made it targeted to gaming. I'd say having live streaming available for anything is actually a greater feat, Twitch just made it easier for users to discover and use.

There has been a gaming videos culture on Youtube long before Twitch existed, and Twitch's audience would undeniably be much smaller without it.

[1] http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/1746247/google-rolli...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch.tv

Artists can pay for rent, food, etc. without selling copyright-protected products. We already see this thriving today. Artists are supported by their fans by selling tickets to shows and merchandise. I would argue that you have less trust in free market capitalism if you have to depend on copyright.

Since I have to constantly see relevant xkcd links, I'll go ahead and post a relevant mimi and eunice link :)

http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/08/23/legal-fictions/

Very interesting perspective. During my internship I was mainly focused on our testing and had pretty basic tasks, although I was moved around a lot to shadow different employees so I was able to learn about the entire spectrum of preparation, testing, and examination of parts that took place. The employees actually creating and modifying the design of the parts had much more responsibility (these were mainly the full time engineers), and although they still got their hands dirty in the lab with us, I did get a glimpse of their interactions with customers through morning meetings when they had to describe how their meetings went and how they dressed up in fancy clothes and spent entire days away to visit with them. My Japanese was not nearly good enough to begin working on designs or with customers, although some interns from my school were able to reach that level.

I worked for a connector company in Japan (JST) for my co-op during undergrad, and continued to work for them in Michigan for a couple of years. Without listening to the podcast, I can already say that the attention to detail and quality in Japan is incredible. American connector companies no doubt perform the same testing, but in Japan each employee has a very specific focus and will work relentlessly on that. They also have a large pool of contract workers to perform these tedious tasks, and sadly their job stability is not fantastic... In my 6 months there I went to at least 4 goodbye parties for laid off contract workers. On top of that, working 8am ~ 6 or 7pm minimum is the norm. While I was there I was the only one that would leave at 5pm (I was forced to) while everybody else would take a 30 minute lunch-like break then get back to work, sometimes until 11pm. Although, they at least would mostly all leave on Friday after a 30 minute clean-up period at 5pm.

American employees tend to have wider responsibilities and probably wouldn't be able to handle the relentless dedication to detail that is expected of Japanese employees. Even though my office in Michigan was the same company and had access to the same parts as Japan to sell to American car companies, our work force just did not compare to Japan in its devout dedication to the customer and making sure that parts are perfect in every detail, down to plastic packaging and boxing that they are shipped out with.

Loyal to the winners, helping the winners dominate.

I know nothing about the topic (besides English of course which is my native, I have only studied Spanish and Japanese), but this reminded me of a graphic I've seen: http://mentalfloss.com/article/59665/feast-your-eyes-beautif...

I don't know the reasons why, but on my phone on both Chrome and Firefox the text size is drastically different between comments. I ended up going with the Dolphin browser for HN because it maintains a consistent text size, but I changed the settings on the browser to use the maximum text size. The main negative with this has been certain unzoomable pages having a paragraph less than the width of my phone and only showing a few words per line, causing me to have to scroll constantly as I read. Unless the content is really good, I normally just skip these. As long as they are zoomable, there hasn't been forced white space / margins added to the paragraph (shortening the already too short paragraph width, apparently gleaned from my phone screen size), or the text is reasonably sized (not too big), other pages work just fine though. Also, the Dolphin gesture feature is fun! (I have HN set to a y gesture)

On a side note, some of the best experiences I've personally had browsing on my phone have been through VNC, if I have a good network connection. I realize that a lot of the processing gets offloaded from the phone this way, but I would really just like a more desktop-like experience on my phone. I have always been annoyed by apps that are basically just websites...The browser is often the only app I need. And mobile websites just frustrate me because they often take away features of the desktop version or make me have to use it in a completely different way and make it obnoxiously difficult to switch back (some random link at the bottom, or having to go settings -> request desktop version -> retype the url because it was changed to a mobile one -> reload the page). Browsers have had ways to change the "User Agent", but more and more this feature is either removed or doesn't even work.

I've been quite happy with my recent Toshiba purchase. The main thing for me was that I wanted one without the numpad so I could have a nice big keyboard, and a big trackpad. It's pretty similar to macbooks, which is what I was going for. However, there turned out to be one issue similar to the power button on the ASUS ultrabook in the link: there is an airplane mode key right next to the mute key. I actually liked the idea of being able to turn off the radios with a push of a button, but I didn't think about the problems I'd have activating it when I am trying to quickly mute.

Domestication of humans is what came to my mind on this topic. I'm not sure I would agree with you that we aren't being domesticated. Maybe countries domesticate humans? Maybe the most violent countries have the least domesticated humans? Maybe freedom and individuality combat domestication? It's definitely worth thinking about!

Note that a similar question was asked in the thread I linked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9880661

Not that it would hurt to discuss it further here.

Saw an interesting and relevant discussion in this thread earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877773

The user willholloway seems to have quite a bit of experience (using deprenyl/azilect as opposed to amphetamines to prevent neurodegeneration) and is touting a new "small-molecule drug", NSI-189, as a future major treatment for "depression, ptsd, and other neurodegenerative disorders."

Edit: whatdya know, he posted here as I was typing this.

Or you can work to purge the scum that is ruining the country your ancestors worked to make great, and that you were born and raised in.

I had heard this word before [1]. So there were some benefits to spending all of high school playing Everquest.

[1] http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=5461

I should look at this study more carefully before commenting, but I would assume there are genetic as well as cultural differences in those 5 countries with no statistical male/female IQ difference.

Here's some more, from this pastebin: http://pastebin.com/kXQDhQEr

Also Googled and found, thanks to TJjokerR on steamcommunity forums, that the list is in "main_out.js" in the source code.

Alphabetical order: 2ch.hk, 4chan, 8ch, 9gag, argentina, australia, austria, ayy lmao, bait, bangladesh, belarus, belgium, bosnia, botswana, brazil, bulgaria, byzantium, cambodia, canada, chile, china, cia, confederate, croatia, denmark, doge, ea, earth, estonia, european union, facepunch, feminism, finland, france, german empire, germany, greece, hitler, hong kong, hungary, imperial japan, india, indiana, indonesia, iran, iraq, ireland, isis, italy, jamaica, japan, kc, kingdom of france, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, maldivas, mars, matriarchy, mexico, moon, nasa, nazi, netherlands, nigeria, north korea, norway, origin, pakistan, patriarchy, peru, pewdiepie, piccolo, pokerface, poland, portugal, prodota, prussia, qing dynasty, quebec, reddit, romania, russia, sanik, satanist, scotland, sealand, sir, somalia, south korea, spain, stalin, steam, stussy, sweden, switzerland, taiwan, texas, thailand, tsarist russia, tumblr, turkey, ukraine, united kingdom, usa, ussr, vinesauce, wojak, yaranaika

Order in which skins were added: poland, usa, china, russia, canada, australia, spain, brazil, germany, ukraine, france, sweden, hitler, north korea, south korea, japan, united kingdom, earth, greece, latvia, lithuania, estonia, finland, norway, cia, maldivas, austria, nigeria, reddit, yaranaika, confederate, 9gag, indiana, 4chan, italy, ussr, pewdiepie, bulgaria, tumblr, 2ch.hk, hong kong, portugal, jamaica, german empire, mexico, sanik, switzerland, croatia, chile, indonesia, bangladesh, thailand, iran, iraq, peru, moon, botswana, bosnia, netherlands, european union, taiwan, pakistan, hungary, satanist, qing dynasty, nazi, matriarchy, patriarchy, feminism, ireland, texas, facepunch, prodota, cambodia, steam, piccolo, ea, india, kc, denmark, quebec, ayy lmao, sealand, bait, tsarist russia, origin, vinesauce, stalin, belgium, luxembourg, stussy, prussia, 8ch, argentina, scotland, sir, romania, belarus, wojak, isis, doge, nasa, byzantium, imperial japan, kingdom of france, somalia, turkey, mars, pokerface

P.S. This game is going to be huge!

The recyclability issue is discussed in the eastbayexpress article linked by anigbrowl in reply to one of the sibling comments.

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Coffee companies are well aware of the problem. The second brewing system Keurig introduced, the Vue system, tried to address the issue of recyclability in what the company called "an incremental step on our environmental journey." The system doesn't work with the original K-Cup packs, which are made from number seven plastic, a blended plastic that's nearly impossible to recycle. Instead, the Vue capsules use a plastic cup made from polypropylene, number five plastic, and users can peel the foil lid and filter away from the cup.

The cups are then recyclable — in theory. The problem is the cups are too small to be captured in most recycling facilities where machinery separates objects by size and density, said Mark Oldfield, assistant director of public affairs for California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Most facilities filter out items under two-inches in diameter. In any case, number five plastic is rarely recycled in California, Oldfield said. "It's very difficult to deal with something like that," he added. "It's something where convenience is trumping our typical mantra of reducing and recycling."

Horrified is an exaggeration. His statements shown here are at the end of the article:

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"People didn't think too much about that back then," he said, pausing a bit before he went on, "I feel kind of guilty. The world's changed in fifteen years." He told me he's proud he created something that's so well loved, but "hindsight's 20/20," he said. "I wouldn't do it now."

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He also says right before that that he didn't think about the waste issue at all, but I'm pretty doubtful. Engineers are taught to design for consumable/disposable parts and planned obsolescence, or at least to take them into consideration and compare them to material cost. These sorts of things can be a determining factor of whether a product can even come into existence or not. If he didn't know what he was doing, somebody working with him certainly did and pushed for it.

The two floor office building I worked at had three standard office coffee brewers as well as the espresso machines, while my school had the Keurig machine. The coffee brewers are indeed my favorite of the three, but I thought the espresso machines were gross quality compared to Keurig. I would argue the coffee brewers waste a lot more time, because they would be emptied quick (especially in the morning) and it takes a good 10 minutes or more to brew a pot, not to mention potentially some cleaning effort. There were several times where I would go to get some, it would be empty, somebody would be preparing another, and I'd have to wander around to the other brewers to check them or wait. I would still probably prefer those over Keurig, but I'm really not sure I can agree that the Keurig machines waste more time (although the usage of the machine at my school was pretty low).

I'm going to have to side with GP on this one. One Hungry Man package has got to be at least 4-5 of these cups, same goes with most to-go packaging. Waste is not the issue here. The problem the CEO is arguing about with DRM has to do with lock-in to only being able to use Keurig hardware and cups.