skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I discontinued my Spotify service about 18 months ago because I went through the process of deleting my Facebook account, and the backend Spotify account was linked to it.

It turned into a pretty unexpected ordeal, I had to call Spotify customer service, they asked me if I could reactivate my Facebook account just for this, have them "fix" it, then deactivate again, etc. At the time Spotify Linux support wasn't very good either (don't know about now).

Anyway, I switched to Amazon Prime Music because I was already a Prime customer and figured that paying nothing beyond the Prime subscription was perhaps better than paying $8 or whatever Spotify's rate was then.

I am really glad that I did it. Amazon Prime Music has consistently worked extremely well for me on iPhone and iPad and in browser. With standard AT&T 4G service, even here in rural Indiana, I have no trouble streaming from Amazon when I go running.

The major downside is that their music catalog is not as comprehensive as Spotify. But I've found that there are only a handful of artists that I really love which I can't listen to yet on Amazon (Beirut being the one that I really miss).

The catalog is very large though. They have any type of music you're looking for, from country-western to African to the latest and greatest unheard-of indie artist. They just don't have exhaustive coverage of all of them.

If you are an extreme audiophile type and you really need to have completely exhaustive coverage of every possible artist, then Amazon won't work for you. But if you try out Amazon and find that it mostly covers the artists you enjoy and you don't really need the exhaustive coverage, and you happen to subscribe to Prime, then it's a great option.

Full disclaimer: I am not a fan of Amazon in general, but I am a fan of good products, and for casual music streaming from most, but not all, artists, I think Amazon is probably the best service available right now.

The way I break it down:

Spotify --> You require on-demand access to absolutely every imaginable artist, you enjoy heavy integration with social media clients.

Apple --> You may want to purchase the music, house it in iTunes, and own fully offline copies (not just caching, which other services can do too).

Amazon --> You're more casual about it than either of the above cases and you already have Prime. You either mostly listen to Top 40 stuff, or else for the less common stuff, you verify ahead of time that Amazon offers a catalog in that area that's good enough for you. You probably don't care about owning the music, but you still can purchase it via Amazon if you want to.
Youtube and Imgur rely on case sensitive URLs

But you're right, you have do click on them, any transfer requiring typing is susceptible to losing case.
You know, that there actually really were/are actually people who actually thought black/latino/etc. people were actually inferior... actually. For Real. Historical Fact. Period. That the term "racist" clearly and unambiguously identifies those people.

No it does not. For it is not at all defined what it means to view "black people as inferior".

For instance, it is a fact about the world that across a vast number of tests of cognitive ability -- SAT's, NAEP, LSAT's, AFQT, IQ tests, etc, -- the average score among blacks is about a standard deviation lower than the average among whites. This is not controversial, I read articles in the NY Times all the time about closing the test score gap. If I believe have read evidence that convinces me that 1% of that gap is due to differences in gene frequency between the races, am I a racist who believes that "black people are inferior"? What if I believe that genes explain 10% of the gap? 50%? 100%? At what percentage am I an evil bigot who should be excluded from polite society?
Seriously, what a garbage article.
The difference is that China has a lot more people, yet far lower population density, and a whole lot of people that are still living in borderline medieval conditions. Japan stopped when it became a 1st world country. Chins could spend another three decades in infrastructure and not reach Western levels. So while China's growth might slow down, it won't hit Japan's zero, because it's just way too easy to for them to keep growing.

So there will be bubbles, but I have little doubt that they will have a higher growth rate than the west for quite a long time. Once they become fully industrialized, probably not.

We can tell the same story about India, BTW. The last deca might have been terrible for the EU and the US, but it has been amazing for Asia. It's only not been quite as good for Africa because so many countries the hare horrible governments.
I hope so. The current name is so awkward, it weakens the brand. People call it so many inconsistent names, such as "Mac OS", "OS Ten", or "OS Ecks". "OS Ten 10.10" was a real mouthful.

Apple missed the opportunity to jump from Mac OS X 10.10 to "macOS 11" instead of "Mac OS X 10.11".
I follow the data. If a network/USB/Bluetooth program, I fire up wireshark. Text/binary outputting programs, hexdump. Looking at a single piece of invalid output gives me a lot more insight into the problems a lot faster.
And is more testable.

And is easier to bring web devs onto desktop app development.

And is faster to prototype.

And is probably a better way to develop desktop apps.

</kool-aid>
"What features should I add" is another trap question. Avoid this.

You want to study the people & problems you're targeting to the point that you become the expert they're trusting for advice about the problem. This is hard, but not that hard - minimum viable expertise is a thing as well.

For example, not everyone who uses email as part of their hiring process has spent an enormous amount of time studying how to improve contact-to-interview conversion rates. Specializing on this & studying across N people who are a close match for your target customer can quickly give you working expertise on the problem, because everyone else is worrying about 10 other things at the same time when working with it, while you can go deep on that one thing.

Then based on your understanding of their workflow & what ought to generate value (as obtained by talking to those people in a learner mode vs. a sales mode), you generate a hypothesis and test it. If it actually helps deliver value, and the problem actually matters, and you actually understand these people well enough to get them to trust you...congratulations, you might have yourself a viable product.

For the above example, you need exactly zero unique software to pull this off. You can start as a completely manual service with direct sales only against the people who you think will be most likely to buy. Give yourself the easiest win conditions you possibly can, requiring the least time and investment. Then, build on that, add automation as appropriate and test that the value is still delivered, try to scale, etc. - but start with the scaleless version, it ships easily and then you have actual customers who are paying you.
Super interesting. Thanks for all the curation and relevant set of links that you are promptly posting/replying. StackOverflow data is available for free too - that would be one awesome dataset to let folks get their hands on. Any plans for that?
Sounds like that doesn't seem likely. They are just going to wait for IPO to happen so that the debt converts, effectively deferring valuation to the market.
I am conflicted about archived Usenet. I agree that there's a lot of "former glory" there. But I'm also glad that my own personal rantings aren't as easily found.

Google search in general, not just the former Deja News, has gotten much worse. And that's the real tragedy. It is now one step away from being fucking useless. They've slowly taken away all the advanced features.

Nowadays, when I search for something like this:

"search phrase one" "search phrase two"

I will get a plethora of hits that omit one or the other of those words or phrases, starting with the very first page of results.

It used to be that you could do something like

+"yes I want to" +really +include +this

to be sure your words all mattered. But they stole the plus for Google Plus, and other advanced search features have also been neutered.

But the good news is that they're developing blimps and thermostats and other crap like that!
Their stock price dropped by like 40% in a few days. I think that trumps "one person on the internet got a name confused."
Whatever that big box at the bottom that is slightly tilted is, it hurts my head.
It'll soon be the lost 3 decades, the way things are going[0].

0: http://blogos.com/article/104198/
Call me biased, but that analogy doesn't work.

Explosives aren't made from physics. An understanding of the physics involved is insufficient to manufacture them. They aren't just a man-made construct, they tangible objects. You can't will an atomic bomb into existence by drawing up plans for one.

Cryptographic functions, on the other hand, are pure math. The concept and the implementation are one and the same. They are nothing but a mental construct built from basic mathematical principles. If even one human understands cryptography and shares that knowledge, nothing can stop the whole planet from using it.

So, is there a war on math? If there is a war on cryptography (I don't think there is any more, we won that war years ago), then yes, there is a war on mathematics.
That's neat to see - I had always expected large vehicles to dominate the surveillance space. Will you guys go unmanned when, 10 years from now, the FAA lets civilians fly Predator like UAVS? Also, what's your perspective on the commercial smallsat imagery market? I've long been of the view that large UAVs will wipe those guys out.
Oh man, that explains so much!
I thought Transmission was cross-platform and thus has a Windows version?
You're right, but in the fields of biology, paleontology, etc., "genera" is the commonly used and technically correct pluralization of "genus." (For what it's worth, I'd make the same argument in strong support of "matrices" over "matrixes.")

Since this is a term of art, I'd argue it deserves less leniency than, say, words like "octopus" or "cyclops," for which "octopodes" and "cyclopes" are necessary only to score smartypants points among likeminded friends, and for which "octopuses" (but not "octopi!") and "cyclopses" are perfectly correct and acceptable in English.
Mystery Surrounds Anbang, Which Is Outbidding Marriott for Starwood
What are the regulations surrounding this? They say it works for 911.

Is it like Vonage or like telephone bundled from your cable provider?

Are they providing a battery-backed modem with RJ11 jack?
i tried to edit my comment to point that out, i ran out of time.

i was somewhat agreeing with you except classifying it as industrial building construction instead of defense.
Sensitive information is not in a binary state of "public" or "private". There are no meaningful degrees of difficulty of access to "public" information.

Consider doxxing. Regardless of who you think is perpetrating it, we can all agree it's real and does real harm, right? Sometimes they're from hacking into people's accounts, but often they're from scouring the public Internet for information on a person and putting it together, making information that is technically "public" more accessible.

Even if you change the password you accidentally published, knowing your expired password tells me about the kind of password you're likely to use next and for your other services. Having to find someone who was mirroring NPM's firehose of new packages at just the right time is one more barrier to that.
I sympathize with cross-platform development woes (we have this problem too) but I can't say I've ever been impressed with a cross-platform app developed using React Native (or anything else cross-platform).

A React Native app isn't horrible or bad (nothing like Java Swing) but it also isn't delightful to use. Technically you have animations and things like the cross-platform navigator. In reality, you have a lot of performance issues and strange incompatibilities due to attempting to execute animation keyframes on the JS thread (or replace the system-provided navigation bar in the case of Navigator). It isn't terribly easy on battery life either.

I'd rather write my sync and offline storage system in JS and share that across platforms while leaving the entire view layer as native code. That stuff is far harder to get right for non-trivial apps, it just isn't sexy and most web devs ignore it completely because hey - the web browser is always online!

I'm biased though. Our customers download 5-10 GB projects with millions of objects in them because when you're building a hospital the MRI room is a literal faraday cage. No such thing as internet access in there and telling the user they can't pull up plans or engineering specs because they're offline is a non-starter.
Rather a sidenote: Surprisingly enough I think that none of the current services, including Spotify, hold a candle to what rdio, now shutdown, had to offer. I was shocked to learn just how far behind Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer or Google Music were when I had to look for an alternative. It's really bad. That was a very common reaction among ex-rdio users.
I don't know why this get in the frontpage but for those who are willing to give it a try : Org is the best software I've ever used to clock time and generate reports. And org-capture + Deft is a decent note management system (though there is place for improvement)
Composing Network Operating Systems
You're overthinking it. If a group of people are complying, you say "they are complying". Your example is not a valid parallel.
The problem is that most people now work on multiple devices, including mobile/smartphones, and expect their org to be available at all times in all places.
Now, once we have virtual terminals and keyboards in our VR headsets...
It's always good to see Org mode flagged up (though it gets a
surprising amount of love on HN).

I use Org more or less constantly, and I'll take this opportunity to
note an Org-related observation that I've been mulling over for a bit.
It's apropos of nothing, but then so was this submission :)

The observation has to do with how new Org users get to know the
system. The whole thing can seem pretty daunting, especially when you
look at some of the
examples of TODO setups (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html) in the
wild. Pretty crazy.

My nutshell advice for new users is: in the beginning, you should
emphasize learning to use Org's tools effectively, rather than
spending time organizing your Org files structurally. The initial
impulse is: I'm going to make this file look just like my brain (or my
project). Instead, learn to use the agenda commands, so that you can
make the Agenda look like your project, not the file.

A couple of reasons for this: If you start out trying to make
structure (and I'm also talking about very complicated TODO keyword
flowcharts), you're going to get it wrong, and it's going to be a pain
in the butt to fix. Learning Agenda commands, on the other hand, will
always provide you with more flexibility, not less. It will give you
the power to handle new situations easily, and to narrow your focus
with ease. (Actually the same principle applies to Emacs usage in
general.)

For instance: I do a fair amount of event and conference management,
little four/five day things. In the beginning, I started by making Org
files where each day was a heading, and then the various events lived
under the various headings. This meant that, if events got changed
around, I had to go to the file and refile, which isn't terrible, but
is a pain.

Instead, I now have no day-based headings at all, just a pile of
potential events with timestamps. The Agenda organizes things into
days for me. If I need to reschedule something, the Agenda provides
more than ample commands for shifting dates by hour/day, or simply
entering a new date altogether.

Dump everything in one file, all top-level todos. Use the built-in
TODO keywords. Learn to make timestamps, and schedule/deadline
cookies. After you're good at that, maybe consider using tags (but
maybe don't). Spend the rest of your time learning how the Agenda
commands work. Stay in the Agenda, and if you must look at a file, do
it with <SPC> on the headline (followed by "o" when you're done), or,
if you must, <TAB>. Resist the temptation to futz with your files at
all, until some real need begins to emerge from daily usage. If you
hold out until the annoyance is killing you, it should be very clear
what needs to change, and how, and you're unlikely to do something
that you'll regret later.

(I should note that I use Org for two general types of work: one is
document authoring, the other is todo/agenda management. The above
basically only applies to the latter.)

Learn to impose dynamic, temporary structure on your agenda, rather
than imposing static, one-time structure on your files.

Here endeth the (unasked-for) lesson. :)
Can you sync org-mode between the desktop and mobile devices?
FWIW, extempore2 was making the opposite point - he's been one of the most vocal in criticizing the boycotters.
I'm pretty sure domains have been transferred to their "rightful owner" even more than NPM package names have.
> humans beat calculators because we create them

The new calculator will beat the old calculator. Humans don't beat calculators themselves. But only humans have the capacity to improve on calculators. And this is truly all we've been doing with science and technology ever since day one. And yes, they're all just tools. AphaGo is just a tool. It told the dude moving the pieces where to move the pieces to beat the world champion who was moving pieces without any help. AlphaGo2 will be a better tool.

> much faster than we are able to obtain

Would that be that important though? Compare IBM Watson with the Jeopardy champion, except, this time he gets to use Google. Watson has a direct line, Ken Jennings does not. So what? Calculators are the same thing. We don't benefit from a direct link, at least at that level. It gives us the answer, and we can read it. We only want the answer anyway. Having to download all the details is redundant. The mind reading interface is what is clunky, when we're already wireless. Seeing is enough.

> ASI and it's calculators will not be.

Right, so you're switching to hardware now. Artificial human enhancement is the go-to answer many will give you here, but it's a bit too sci-fi for me.

But regardless, the strong-weak divide still stands. We would create tools to solve the problem. And this is where strong AI and calculators will differ, regardless of what other similarities they may have, physical or otherwise.
Uber originally was exclusively licensed town cars. Vacation rentals have been around for centuries.

And both are primarily successful because they have executed at a very high level on a consistent basis.
I use Emacs and I really like Org mode, but its learning curve is simply too steep given how platform-locked it is.
Quit whatever you are doing. No work for couple of months (may be even a year), only fun stuff like movies, sports, exercise, good food and may be even light non-work research if you are into it.

I'm actually in the same boat as you are and am planning to quit my job and do nothing, starting next month. Just gaze at stars from high altitude and realize that this world is big. Job and stress are small things that should not matter in one's life. Then one day you might wake up and find motivation to work less, earn more. At least I hope to do the same.
Those are not quite the same however. Those actually render the HTML / CSS / JavaScript in an web view of sorts but React Native actually uses the real, native components under the hood.

I hope it's extended to Windows eventually.
I have a small book that was brought across the country by an 8 year old girl in a wagon train in 1848. My grandmother gave it to me when I was a kid and I believe the girl was a relative. Nothing quite matches holding a physical artifact like an old book.

For digital artifacts: I eventually release my more recent books as free PDFs and is is a good feeling to think that a few copies might still be looked at sometime in the future.
Having never spent more than a few days in DC, the only reason I know about slugging is because of "Slugline" in House of Cards.
Because countless companies are stupid and treat it as authentication.

It's a password that you reuse everywhere and never change.
Do old versions of the package remain under ownership of the original author? Let's assume I publish a package “foo”, and the name is later transferred to someone else. Will npm make it perfectly clear that the versions I published are my intellectual property, rather than that someone else's?

My English reading comprehension isn't precisely the best, but I'm pretty sure this concern isn't addressed in the text you cited.
For starters, suggesting that the primary cause of their success is anything other than consistently executing at a high level is insulting.

Secondly, Uber got big using exclusively licensed town cars. And vacation rentals have been around for centuries.
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/survey-finds-one-4-americans-re...
Ah yes, point well taken. I think we've seen this historically at Google, but things have changed in the past few years.
Corporations are viewed as collective nouns to be used with plural verbs, where as "group" is a collective noun that is treated as singular. I can't think of a context in which I'd use a plural verb with it, but I can think of dozens of such nouns that I would. You can say "The group is complying. They have an obligation." without it sounding awkward, however.

Something about formal, notional and situational agreement[0].

The "they" explanation just helped bridge the gap in my mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Bri...
> What if I believe that genes explain 10% of the gap? 50%? 100%?

At exactly the point where you think this actually fucking matters when evaluating the value of those people. That's the "clear, objective" meaning MM refers to. If The Cathedral invented demonization of racism then I'll happily attend the sunday mass.

Or maybe just before that, where you take some raw statistics and draw wild conclusions from it in order to prove your prior. Like people used to do by measuring skull sizes, just slightly more refined this time 'round.

As a matter of fact, people using the term "Racism" in the 1920's-1950's were often referring to people who genuinely believed they had scientific evidence that jews/blacks were inferior.

Racism accompanied with the epistemology du jour is still objectionable. Just because you earnestly believe something doesn't make that belief impeachable.