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Why should Forbes wait for comment, when Spotify didn't wait for their users?

It's not as if this is something that took Spotify by surprise, like a data hack, that would require time to formulate a legally-sound response.

They will have been planning and implementing this change for months. They could have issued a press release two weeks ago advising their customers of the upcoming changes, but didn't.

Spotify seem to like surprises, so Forbes played one on them.
Yeah you already said that elsewhere, also without any kind of proof or even a hint that it might be true.
I did read the article. It's not objectionable, although rambling is certainly a descriptive word. 'Starts With A Bang' articles often get posted to Slashdot, and I'm often careless enough to read them. Whenever I want a cursory yet breathless introduction to yesteryear's physics news, with a provocative title, SwaB delivers.

http://slashdot.org/~StartsWithABang

It's B-grade science writing, written to be interesting and informative to a mass audience. It probably does fairly well on its own terms. However, I'm not personally interested in a remedial physics education, I'm interested in physics news. For me, that's where SwaB consistently falls short. Or, to be more concise, the blog is generally lowest-common-denominator physics writing. I am unpleasantly surprised to be met with contradiction and derision based on your reading of one article.
Would you use a platform like this?
Traps detection during migration of C and C++ code to 64-bit Windows
While i listen to lots of podcasts these are the ones i learn the most from:

Ruby Rogues Not only ruby stuff but general programming stuff with interesting people

SE-Radio In depth interviews about technical topics

Cognicast Focused on clojure but also interesting discussions about other cs topics

Omega tau podcast german / english in depth interviews about technical topics
The “I’m a better designer” checklist
This would be awesome.

At the same time, one could use something like ImageMagick to find out the dimensions of the picture and set this ratio programatically (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16266933/rmagick-how-do-i...)
Can't seem to get this to work no matter what I do. And yes, I've set the GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 env variable.
> When you say it's not a "framework"

I never said that , don't put words in my mouth. The rest of your comment is irrelevant since you're making stuff up.
Are other languages than English be supported ?
I suppose so, but then how do I had another language ? How will it perform ?
I've been reading about this lately.

Here are two articles arguing that it's entirely affordable even at the level you suggest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-santens/the-economist-ju...

https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-th... (particularly interesting, IMO)
I moved to deezer. Waiting for android support for apple music. Spotify are gone for me when they ruined their desktop app.
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That attitude would work if more people had it, and there are areas of life where it does work. Mostly though, you can expect a race to the bottom with people who think they should be outcompeting you by burning the midnight oil.
I completely agree with this.

The research is uncontroversial by now (many studies point to the same conclusion).

The trick is maximising those precious 40-50 hours and I think that's where we've gone up and down, backwards and forwards as an industry over the years. We've ended up with a lot of shoddy tooling and unnecessary complexity with our programming paradigms.

Only in the past year have I managed to figure out a way to work 50 hr weeks with the right tooling/programming language and have increased my output! And only by meeting someone else who had made the same mistakes I was making and then helped me discover what I was doing wrong.

Quite enlightening when I was on the verge of quitting the industry because I just kept thinking "this has to be so much simpler than how I'm doing it" and not really knowing how to make it so.
Where to start – pondering over couple of ideas, no money to invest
Mind munching a couple of home business ideas for a month now. No money (literally) to invest on. Time is precious as I am full-time mom for a 2 yr old. Longing to do something on my own to gain satisfaction in life. Where to start?
Go 1.5 reduces GC by 96%
And don't forget the reduction in crimes.
The Top Idea in Your Mind (2010)
This wouldn't work for Nepal, where the flights are short from a 2D perspective, but are absolutely necessary from a 3D one.
I changed the window size and it's always the same image (same px). Is it right?
Well, the parse is wrong.

In linguistic terms this is a case of "over-generation": the parser has proposed an interpretation that's not "licensed" by the language in general. (In contrast, consider a sentence like "I shot an elephant in my trousers." A reading like "An elephant in my trousers was shot" is licensed but unlikely.)

To see the point of error, step through the parser until the focus is on "win", with 4 words on the stack. (Deep linking into particular states will come in a future version. For now, just press forward...).

At that state, the parser should attach "we might win" to "good", as a reduced relative clause. Instead it opts to pop "good" from the stack. It then ends up in a bad situation, and essentially attaches to "make" as a way to concede defeat on the arc, and get on with the rest of the sentence.

The parser actually could generate any projective tree over its input. It's only constrained by its statistics. On the benchmark evaluations this tends to perform better. I'm interested in trying out ways to incorporate syntactic restrictions, particularly for verb valencies, into the parser.
‘Garbage gardening’: How to turn kitchen scraps into plants
"I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap"

I don't understand this concept. I pay $10 a month get rid of ads, to be able to use the mobile app, and to get higher quality streams. There was never any reason to believe being a paid member had any impact on the data Spotify collects from you.
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You're complaining about Spotify's desktop app and yet you'd rather use iTunes? That's rich.
When posting links to Arxiv, please link to the web page rather than the PDF file. It makes it easier to cite the content and to preview what it's about before reading.

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0703213

On the orientation of Roman towns in Italy

Author: Giulio Magli
Submitted on 23 Mar 2007
As is well known, several Roman sources report
on the existence of a town foundation ritual,
inherited from the Etruscans, which allegedly
included astronomical references. However, the
possible existence of astronomical orientations
in the layout of Roman towns has never been
tackled in a systematic way. As a first step
in this direction, the orientation of virtually
all Roman towns in Italy (38 cities) is studied
here. Non-random orientation patterns emerge
from these data, aiming at further research
in this field.
A nice 64-bit error in C
Guess I should have made my definition of "sharing" more explicit:
Share: have a portion of (something) with another or others.
I never said sharing should be free. Carrier share towers (for fees), companies share office buildings, warehouses, etc.

"I would argue that the way it's traditionally understood, sharing is something that happens between equals, or people who have an intention of becoming equals."

Well, that's your definition. We can spend the rest of our lives arguing about definitions.

"From this perspective, it's obvious that CouchSurfing is sharing while AirBnB isn't: on AirBnB, the expectation is that there is a split between the seller and the buyer; on CouchSurfing, there is a shared identity of "travelers" and an expectation of reciprocity."

So, by my definitions, AirBnB is sharing, so is CouchSurfing.

"by your own definition of how you use the word sharing"

Again, you're implying a different definition of sharing than I'm using (or even that the dictionary uses).

"somebody might decide that their car is an underused asset which should be "shared""

The car yes, but you're not paying for usage of the car, you're paying for a transportation service.

"Well, so do AirBnB hosts when they clean the room after you stayed in it...)."

That's asset maintenance. Someone driving a car isn't asset maintenance, it's a service. And that's even charged separately, usually (as a "cleaning fee").

"tl;dr: Your conclusions don't actually follow from your implied definition of sharing, and your definition of sharing doesn't match the general feeling that the word evokes."

Not only you wrongly implied my definition of "sharing", which I actually took from a dictionary, but you also didn't understand the difference between usage of assets and labor services. Another way to look at it is: what's the main cost component? Is it return on assets or labor?

- Uber: labor

- TaskRabbit: labor

- AirBnB: return on asset
> Why should Forbes wait for comment, when Spotify didn't wait for their users?

That's like asking "why shouldn't Forbes stab their users in the face when Spotify shits on their users chests?"

In other words, I don't think he's saying Forbes did Spotify dirty, rather Forbes did wrong by their readers by publishing a story without investigating it first.
As someone on the creative side of things, I fully agree with this. Beyond 6-7 hours a day, my work quality suffers drastically. Sure, I can probably sit around before the computer for 12 hours if you want me to. But if you need actual work, you better let me go by hour 6
Keep in mind that those people are not your competition.

You're competing on quality (or at least you should be). Being as good at what you do as you are makes you valuable. And you can get more done in 40 hours than those other clowns do in 120.

Let other people fight to be the cheapest and the most willing to be exploited. You're the guy the smart companies go to when they need somebody truly good.
Spotify does wait for the user's consent. That's the whole point of agreeing to the privacy policy. Apart from that, Spotify doesn't have anything to do with basic principles of journalism, because they are not journalists.
Recently I've been buying small electrical parts for hobby projects (e.g. little rf transmitters and receivers), mostly finding stuff on amazon and ebay. Most of those parts arrive with an origin address in Shengzen, usually something along the lines of:

unit {big number},
building {big number},
sector {big number}...

Just based on these addresses I'd formed a mental picture of some dystopian industrial megacity.
If someone voluntary and without deceit pays for your service, you are solving a real problem. It may be not important, but it is real.

E.g.: Does Netflix solves important problem? No. Does it solve a real problem? Yes.
Why We Decided to Come Back to a Freemium Model for Our Live Chat Solution
Dude, that's how the real world works. Hacks do not read updates to privacy policies. They get a tip-off and summary of what to write. I don't need proof. That's how it works.
https://imgrush.com/LDCji9m6iqcm.mp4 -- Demo page loading for me. Not good at all, nothing happens until it's completely loaded.
India has this, and it involves moving dirt back and forth between ditches. Pointless and soul crushing.
7 Signs of Incredibly Successful Entrepreneurs
In Germany (which has socialized healthcare) I've heard of plenty of entrepreneurs and freelancers who aren't on health insurance because they can't afford it. What's worse: if they eventually do sign up they are legally required to pay fees for the entire time they didn't have health insurance. Good luck paying the backlog if you've been off healthcare for a few years.

If you're self-employed, a lot of the welfare system doesn't really apply to you either. Heck, if you are self-employed (or running your own company) and get pregnant, you don't even get the benefits an employee would (you get child benefits because those are for the child not you but that's pretty much it).
you've made me excited.

after 15 minutes fooling around I give up. the download in the mac app store fails with some network issue.
I think a fair bit of long-hours work is just self-flagellation. Gotta prove to the boss or yourself or your family how seriously you take things. You could even say it's a replacement for productive work.

Take a look at investment banking, the ultimate waste of productive capacity. My roommate did this until his boss killed himself, providing a bit of a wakeup call.

He'd go to work in the morning, sit around all day, and then the boss would get back from meetings and ask for some presentation to be made. By the next morning. Stay up until midnight/2am, ie dinner at work and cab home, repeat. Every day, including weekends.

Nobody who did this thought it made any sense, but people did it anyway. They wanted to climb the greasy pole.
Show HN: Haaash 2.0 - FAQs are boring, give users space to ask and answer
Sell Side vs. Buy Side in Investment Banking
How do people expect to stand out if they all make the same kind of showcase website using bootcrap or similar.

This is going to be another flower on the wall. Nonetheless, best of luck with the product.
If you would like to read postmortems, I maintain a list of them here (over 250 so far): https://pinboard.in/u:peakscale/t:postmortem/
Line Messenger Releases Line Here, Its New Location-Sharing App
The problem with remixes is when you put them on a website that doesn't share revenue with the rights-holders.

I totally agree with the EFF's stated approach at copyright reform [1], but they need to pick better bedfellows.

If Google, SoundCloud and Facebook had their way, there would be NO copyright. These aggregators do not make anything so they have no need for copyright. Copyright to them means giving up a slice of their pie. Whatever pressure they're putting on the TPP is clearly in their own best financial interests.

These companies are making billions of dollars by organizing and displaying the creations of other people while the revenue models of every creative industry are being gutted.

I understand both sides, but the EFF should really try a more balanced approach.

Making representatives of creative industries out to be petulant children doesn't help a god damned thing.

Whatever kind of post-scarcity economy that will ultimately put an end to needing things like copyright, which primarily exists to help intellectual creations function in a market economy, is nowhere in site. The last I checked the rents were still climbing through the roof in almost every creative hub in the Western world.

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property
In search of performance – how we shaved 200ms off every POST request
Superb proposition. My scream can be heard from picture now.
Isn't it just bizarre how unbelievably bloated these windows systems are? 5 GB compressed image size, and nothing much usable in there but a broken browser.

This site should be renamed to "The Historical Horror Graveyard of Bad Computing Ideas" - go and show your students how operating systems should not work and how the ill-minded hierarchical-company-business-religion destroys creativity and good ideas and harmed human progress for much too long.

It is good to know that Windows 10 is the last Windows - may that prophecy fullfill itself quickly.
GitHub Data Shows the Changing Software Landscape
>I'd love to see some research on 20-hour weeks, incidentally. The productivity curve is definitely non-intuitive.

I think you'd find that you'd get useful ideas for work. I think most of the time spent in software is NOT the bashing the keys to make the code. It's spent thinking about what to write, and spending time going down the wrong path.

I at least have a certain clarity when I'm rested that gives me the solution to last night's problems.
"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning, your reporter was greeted with a request to agree to the new conditions."

So Apple hacked the Spotify app to pop up a message announcing the new privacy policy? On iOS, Android, or both? Either way, that's quite an extraordinary claim.

I find the idea that Spotify made the change itself and that tech journalists routinely check for changes in privacy policies searching for something to write about much more plausible.

So, please give some evidence that this is what happened.
Why? Apple built your telephone; they already know about your "contacts, photos, or media files." They know your GPS location, too.

This reminds me of the quip about conservative folks threatening to move to Canada because they're unhappy about all the corrupting liberal values creeping into American politics.
This looks quite interesting. A couple of things i would like to see are:

- sample without the need to provide an email e.g. show at least one and offer more samples when email is provided

- what's the pricing / cut you take from the money transferred through your service?
FYI, I opened up the privacy policy from my Spotify install (I updated yesterday, I think?) and none of this is mentioned in it.
Transsiberian Slitscan Test
Really? I'm pretty sure at least one of the VMs was completely locked down when booted up after it had expired. Not sure which version of Windows that was, though.

That said, what I generally do is to simply suspend the VM instead of resetting it to the snapshot. Then when it expires I can still do a reset to the snapshot to reset the expiry.

I generally boot at least the IE8 VM up before using it in order to install basic things like the Flash player (to test the Flash fallback for HTML5 media players).
When Hiroshima Happened--and No One Remembered
I recently switched from vim to emacs (mostly cause I want to mess around with LISPs and emacs LISP support is good e.g. CIDER) and I've had my eye on Magit from the get go, haven't had the time to mess around with it yet but definitely looking forward to do that.

>The disadvantage, of course, is that one really should still know how to use git competently at the command line for the 15% of tasks such wrappers aren't good at.

I definitely agree with this. I always learn the core technology before learning any convenience layer/wrapper/abstraction e.g. {(git, Magit), (CSS, -Insert Grid Framework-)}.
Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions Debut in India with Snapdeal
Looks like they're interested in knowing about requests for other geographies!

https://www.hellobonsai.com/faq
Yes, server languages can do this job easily.
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To be fair, I opened the privacy policy from Spotify just now (I think I updated to a newer version yesterday?) and I don't see any of these things mentioned in the privacy policy, so might wanna hold your horses.
Ask HN: Opinion about site for asking contribution on opensource project
Hi,

I got the idea to create a platform to pitch an opensource project and ask for contribution (development/code review, design, test, translation ...) or ask for opinion(idea, website, ...).

Do you think it could help unknown project (lost on github/bitbucket) to grow and boost open-source community workflow?

Thanks for sharing your opinion about this idea.
Sorry for my bad-english - Have a nice day
Generally, I think a strong version of BI is a payment of similar value to an unemployment/disability pension.

I don't think this is impossible, but it's pushing the limits of what's possible.

To take one example, "social welfare" in Ireland is widely quoted as costing 20bn, about €370 per person. Maybe close to 500 per adult. If you could scoop 75% of that amount into a BI fund, you would be about half way to funding a BI scheme.

The other half would come from increased income tax, a low band increase. Realistically, there will be a break even point that probably should sit around median income. IE, for a median income person, their increased tax equals their BI income, more or less. So, a lot of that tax come from people who are still net beneficiaries. Most people are close to break even.

There is an extra tax burden but it's not an impossible one.
Yes, this makes sense too. Assuming quality is clear to whoever is buying your labour. Quite often it isn't. I've talked to a number of people who pulled the "I can get this done cheaper" line when discussing projects with me. They always get turned down.
I believe this is the case - they have a mode (so I'm told) that will choose music based on your current running pace.
If you are using a browser that does not support the srcset attribute, the default image will be loaded, and no magic will happen.
Can you please tell me what your device, browser and window width are.
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This was a damn interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

What role does the open-source licensing of these projects play in helping ensure the system will self-correct if need be?

Your position with React having the potential to become a walled garden is certainly valid; I would expect no less from Facebook, although here's the thing I like about React. They're pushing things. Yes they weren't the first to magically invent certain pieces, but they've uncovered an interesting way of piecing them together, and frankly, that is interesting.

These ideas (and code) have triggered ideas outside of React, which will continue the feedback loop into React and obviously across the open web. They're helping to keep things moving along. Isn't stagnation more of a threat?

Your comparison to Microsoft attempting to lockup control of the web is also apt. That's a scar most of us vividly remember receiving. But, they didn't succeed. The system self corrected.

A certain set of checks and balances are present today that were not present in the past. Ubiquitous open-source licensing appears to be ensuring those system checks and corrections can happen at an even quicker rate.

Just a thought.
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I thought @fat and @mdo worked at Twitter? Surely Twitter still paid their salary as they worked on Bootstrap?
sURE YOU SHOULD WORK ON IT..ONLY YOUR HARDWORK WILL BEAR THE FRUIT..
http://www.perfectmoversuae.com/local.html"> Mover companies in Dubai
Well, the thing about human mistakes is that they are easy to blame on some part of the hardware or software. I configure an incorrect data element and the system dies, then I won't write down "I configured something wrong so the system died", I will write a bug that says "software didn't catch that kind of misconfiguration". Also it's not reasonable to admit too many mistakes publicly. People who haven't thought about all the mistakes they make will start to think that you are not able to perform well in your job.
Please, please support other countries such as the United Kingdom. This would be ideal for me!
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. Perhaps we can collaborate and work through the study material together? If you're still reading this thread and are interested in this, please reach me via email – me at vivek dot im.
You might also enjoy ranger[0] which is a console file manager with vi key bindings, I use it as my primary file manager and it's pretty convenient when SSHing as well.

Edit: I should also clarify that if I will work with a remote directory for a non-trivial amount of operations or time, I just mount it locally via sshfs[1] which also saves me the pain of having to install ranger on the remote machine.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090834

[1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
Companies need to take a new approach to the permissions they request - especially on Android where these are explicitly shown to the user. Often there are innocuous purposes behind them, but it's rarely immediately clear and results in people jumping to conclusions. Companies should be more explicit as to the reasons they request permissions.
This is the code for the library:
<script async src="responsivelyLazy.min.js"></script>
No images are visible until the library file loads. If you want you can inline the js code.
Would have been interesting to see if they had been able to.