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Yes, found it http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/spotify-raises-1-billion-...

"Investors, according to the Wall Street Journal, will be able to convert the debt into Spotify shares at a 20 percent discount if the company has a public offering in the next year, with that discount rising two and a half percent every six months Spotify doesn’t go public.

Until then, Spotify will also pay a five percent interest rate on the debt. That’s an amazing investment for those who were given the opportunity to make it — five percent on their money up front, and a huge discount on stock when Spotify goes public. Essentially, if Spotify doesn’t immediately go under, they stand to make a lot of money on their initial investment no matter what happens."
well, I'm starting a company, and everyone who is interested is hired. It's a pretty boring job; there's nothing to do. But you get compensated in real-time rap sheet filings on yourself.
I agree. Chances are your "specialist" has to cover an immense amount of ground. Spend a couple weeks, or maybe a couple of months, grinding at pubmed.com (with a good online medical dictionary at hand) and you can certainly outread him or her on a narrow topic that affects you if it's unusual, and have a lot of knowledge at hand he or she doesn't, if you grind at it. Just be humble about all the context for that knowledge that you don't simply don't have, and don't imply they should know everything. There isn't time enough in the day for them to read everything useful to them clinically. Watson and similar A.I. helpers are really needed, and coming.

Sadly, a lot of doctors just make shit up out of thin air to help gloss over what they can't be expected to read, which is probably a good time to consider switching doctors.
Ron Paul has been arguing for this for his entire political career.
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It's not clear to me that this really solves any of the UI and management problems associated with VPNs. I'm sure the new crypto-design is interesting, but exchanging SSH public keys is actually a huge logistical hassle which scales very poorly.

The other thing is "container-ready" ... well it just isn't. I can use OpenVPN to do the same interface migration trick with a container today. That's not the challenge - the challenge is things like managing what happens when the VPN interface goes down and I need to recycle and reconfigure that interface (at which point you end up back at "allocate a private address space, stick the VPN container in a new address space, play with IPTables there to make sure losing the VPN routes doesn't mean you start routing over the regular NIC".
I'd strongly disagree.

Occupy didn't result in direct action or changes. However, it popularized the notion of the One Percent vs. Ninety-Nine Percent, and got people to think about class in a nation very averse to even acknowledging the existence of economic classes. Probably had a positive impact in terms of helping Obama get re-elected, since Obama was lucky enough to get a seemingly clueless one-percenter as an opponent. Occupy had laid the groundwork which helped attacks against Romney.

The Trump protests have already had an effect. First of all, it's motivated normally non-politically active people into action. The sheer size of the crowds at the first protest, the Women's March, has had a galvanizing effect. People at the marches were encouraged to sign up to various groups. Those groups, like Indivisible or Planned Parenthood, keep things going by organizing at the local level and by giving them easy things to do each day or each week. There's a direct line between the protests and the fact almost every congressperson has an overwhelming volume of calls. And the seeds are planted not only for future protests but also for future direct action.

The administration has already backed down on some issues due to the protests. I think it's arguable the anti-LGBT executive order was scrapped at the last minute because of the sheer size of the instant protests over the immigration ban. If that many people would show up over an immigration order which didn't affect anyone they knew, then it would be reasonable to predict the streets would be absolutely flooded at any attempt to renew persecution of LGBT people.

As an added bonus, the protests are clearly unnerving Trump. I have no idea what the long term effect will be, but at the moment it's causing his team to make some errors.
No, that's still nowhere close to Fascism, 'absolute' or otherwise. Fascists beat, imprisoned and killed protesters and dissenters. They didn't engage in niceties like 'your protesting might impact your job at an airport'.
I've watched a lot of these protests-turned-riot and you don't see innocent people on the sidelines being hauled away. You hardly see any of the violent and destructive agitators being hauled away. I don't think the scenario you're describing is realistic whatsoever.
> while giving massive amounts of power to rich people and corporations

Corporations have their power by means of the state.
You don't need your crypto to be wrong for your software to be compromisable and dangerous to users. People use random packages and libraries all the time, and it's thought a best practice to not write things, to reuse random stranger's code instead. Yet when we talk about crypto, people jump to their guns. When we talk about package consumption and management, people are way more chill about it. In that sense crypto _is_ put on a pedestal: it's just one among many parts that can make a system unsecure. I guess it's worst in the sense that it gives an illusion of security. Yet for all practical purpose, it's just as likely to be wrong as any other part of the system.
Easier, and similarly effective: Next time you are working with that person you know well in HR, innocently ask if they've heard of this, and raise the obvious concern.
Man this alt-right spam has been getting out of hand on HN recently. I hope dang does something about it.
Very good article. If you think about it, you will see this pattern in many places. Simply because it is the outcome of emphasizing pure functions.

For example, it's the heart of the virtual DOM in React. Pure functions create an entirely new (no mutation) virtual DOM, and then something at the "impure boundary" applies this to the actual, messy, mutable DOM of the browser.

With a little thought you can probably find several other well-known examples.
> That population paid, on average, $1,400 in income tax 10 years after immigrating.

How's that possible - do they all become non-resident after receiving their passports?
I agree. Basically what I read was that removing all the stress from your life, makes it easy to make the decisions you desire. That seems a lot like willpower to me but apparently the author considers willpower to be X not Y, but that also begs the question: who is he to say? I think it is something different and so does everyone else in their own unique way.

What ever it is called, we face decisions in life. Do I get up with the alarm to go to work and earn a living or do I stay in bed (continually) and get fired? What's for breakfast? What to wear? Which way to travel? ....... Now, a lot of these decisions are pretty easy to make but that changes day to day. It largely comes down to this: When we have the mental energy and aren't stressed, we tend to think through our decisions, weighing pros and cons. When we are stressed or upset or depleted, we tend to react and just choose something and ignore consequences. Saying "just remove the stress" is just as hard and unreasonable as "just choose to stop drinking".

Anyone who is interested in this subject should also read Thinking: Fast and Slow.
It goes fairly deep into the kinds of studies and implications of choice referenced in this article.
We had XHTML, which didn't allow anything that wasn't properly formed XML. It went nowhere.
These days it's easier for music creators to be independent. Why would they give up their music to Spotify?

For the reference, Bandcamp is growing quite well.
Has anyone tried correcting the segments of the panoramas for vignetting to get a better stitched image?
One thing that got my minesweeper game times down was to never actually mark the mines as such, just click the unturned squares you know aren't mines.
Convertible debt as to not dilute the share pool. As is typical, there are also financial incentives to VPs to make the IPO happen in time. It would be very interesting to know if the lenders of the 1B anticipated this and are planning to immediately offload their highly discounted stock before shredding the company to pieces for their 1B. Might be hard, considering the massive liability they're taking on with the new New York office.
I'm with ya, friend. For those curious to read more, I suggest the Mises Institute: https://www.mises.org/
Explaining and adapting Tay’s Sysmon configuration
MacOS Screen Updating 2017 Edition
And here I am, not believing their statistical prowess because their pages don't use HTTPS
As a Spotify premium subscriber, I'd happily pay an extra $5 a month (as in, $15 total per month) and I feel like many people would be in the same boat (okay, maybe not $5 but $1-$2 per month). I use Spotify nearly every day and in the US any music I could ever want (I don't listen to Taylor Swift) is on there. I've had some issue with less common music, especially from Asia, but in general this is not the case and I really like the service.

I would guess that some people would initially balk at the idea of raising subscription prices (the same happened with Netflix I believe), and some people would move to another service, but I would guess that the majority of people wouldn't move. On the flip side, Spotify may have some negotiating power but the labels unfortunately have a ton of power and if they couldn't negotiate a contract with e.g. Sony and that music wasn't available, that would cause more people to move. I'm hopeful that Spotify can renegotiate with labels. Maybe they can pull a Netflix and somehow make their own content/become their own label.

I'm not worried about these loans and their terms causing too much issue for Spotify, but I am worried about their lack of profitability. They seem to not have a war chest full of money to run at a loss forever so eventually someone will come knocking, and I just hope the person on the other side of the door isn't asking for enough to cause the house to collapse.
Does this imply expertise in investment doesn't exist? Because the payout in poker is inconsistent but expertise clearly exists. The people who end up at the top table are much more consistent than would be expected by chance. There is also a relatively clear skill ranking. If two people play casino poker and consistently profit but one plays at 1-2 tables and the other at 10-20 the second is definitely better.
For starters, he could issue a statement of neutrality instead of giving into the "diversity" ideologues and H1B pimps. Those two groups are the most dangerous and disruptive.

Uber's Travis Kalanick cowed to pressure from weak activists that had no leverage, very sad and I hope more don't give into fear and hatred. We can get through this together.
A couple years back I started seeing a "hippy" doctor in my town (Boulder).

He's a licensed MD and doesn't accept insurance; cash only at $300 an hour. Totally worth every penny.

He actually listens, and is willing to get creative with things.

If you're not satisfied with your PC provider, find a cash only doctor. I think you'll find they care more.
This is cool. I will definitely try this out. I have one question though: what does this give me that Postman and/or cURL does not?
What should they have done?

Keep backups. Otherwise when YouTube deletes it from YouTube, YouTube deletes it from the everywhere.
When I first started programming a pdpd11 using basicplus2 I wrote a program that had a built in password which consisted of the password which included backspaces and *'s which obliterated the first half of the printed password so when it was printed out you could not read the password.

Primitive but effective.

Even when viewing it on the screen it was quick enough you could not read the password
400,000 people peacefully marched in NYC for the Women's March and no arrests were made of marchers according to the city. The biggest thing I saw in my hours there was two bloggers being told to climb down from taking a picture 4 feet up a scaffolding (they climbed down without incident). Heck, a couple female NYPD officers were hugging a bunch of marchers just around the corner from that.

You'll get far more arrests when you have someone win the Super Bowl. As such, it's a slippery slope, and people should not be permitted to win the Super Bowl.

Note that there is a huge difference between protestors and anarchists wearing all black with black face masks breaking windows, setting fires, and pepper spraying people. Those people are not protestors. They go with a very specific intention and it's definitely not to further the cause of the protestors.
So instead Koch brothers are just completely unchecked? No thanks. What we have is broken, but to remove the state is to allow the US to become a 3rd world country where the mega rich get richer, federal parks land is auctioned off, and pollution remains unchecked. We have enough examples of failed states world wide to understand that rivers turning pink is what happens when you don't have laws for the people.
Yep, which is one reason why I haven't much sympathy for consumers. Another being that I've been on the provider end, and saw consumers pick the "free" ad-driven version of an app over the $1 version. They can't view the ads as being that bad if even $1 is such a steep price they'll tolerate the ads to avoid paying it.
Not only that, you guys seem to have a big amount of techincal debt. The macOS client was writing like.. 100-200Gb a day just a few months ago, and that was going on for months already until the noise about it picked up in the media. Now the macOS client (somehow its always the macOS client..) regularly starts using 90% CPU at random and doesn't stop until you kill the process. Again, has already been going on for some time and there's a forum post about it but no one is doing anything... do the Spotify guys not use their own client?

Then there's the myriad of obvious gaps in features that should be there.

1. You can 'Heart' a track in 'Daily Mix', but you can't un-'Heart' it.

1b. If you accidentally dislike an artist in daily mix, you can't undo that, so that artist won't play anymore.

2. You can like an artist for a certain Radio (and remove the like in the playlist 'liked by radio') but you can't remove an 'unlike'.

3. You can have either a public playlist controlled by you, or a collaborative playlist that's secret. Why not a public collaborative playlist for which I can select which users can edit it?

With most of the above issues there's one overarching thing: counter-intuitivity. You can often do an action (heart, like, etc.), and do so by tapping or clicking on something, but tapping or clicking on the same thing doesn't undo the action (probably because you can't undo the action).. and wouldn't you want to have your friends be able to see/follow your playlist that you built with that one Techno-listening buddy without granting them all editing rights?

I still like Spotify because you have the largest library and are available on the most platforms (Windows/Linux/macOS/Chromecast/Sonos/Digt.Amplifiers/PS4), but its a choice of 'sucks the least' rather than 'is the best'.
This is why I feel AI could be the greatest help in diagnosing diseases. Mds learn to identify problems through expierence you could feed millions of cases into an AI it would start diagnosing better than the avg MD or at least list the most likely diseases for the MD to check.
It's not quite that. If the output of the program was a standard text file, then no, because nothing of the program was copied. If for example the output of the program included certain fonts or graphics (e.g. PDF), those are still copyrighted. To use those fonts, you'd need a licence, in this case the same licence you need for the program.
> spending is completely out of control.

sounds like a ship that rats would start deserting, and I know what I'd do if I were in that situation (spend as much as possible on short term perks, and cashout at the earliest opportunity).
This is somewhat where my politics have lead me.

The concentration of power, public or private, is the cause of evil and suffering in the world.

It can be micro, or macro. It could be a kidnapping victim, or someone stronger than you physically, or it could be corporate influence in legislature biasing the markets against competition, or it could be simple and just be a tyrant dictator demanding compliance in the behavior of the peasantry at threat of death, or the systemic enabling of international enslavement under globalization.

The answer is to shrink the state. There is no sustainable model where you have a top heavy powerful government and somehow preserve liberty. You made the state too strong, and that power will attract the worst of humanity and invite endless efforts to usurp it for personal lust of dominance. It will only be a matter of time until it happens, and it happens faster the larger the carrot.

But that is only an answer when you are also dissolving private power by correcting for millennia of violent power accumulation. By families, corporations, individuals, dynasties, societies, ethnic groups. You cannot reach that libertarian / anarchist utopia without starting everyone off without any violence and without any disadvantage, or else your system has failed before it begins and you just forfeited the only power the poor have ever accumulated, no matter how paltry or flawed, in their vote.

Which then becomes self contradicting. You can never actually dissolve the state and equalize power, because to wield the capability to reset the world economy to equality and absolve the history of suffering behind all wealth accumulated, you must wield absolute power, which means you will always be absolutely corrupt. All roads to that chair are paved with falsehoods about greater goods and coincidental personal benefit by crushing your rivals and billions of human lives in collateral.

That is probably why politics is always cyclic. There is actually no answer for anyone seeking to eliminate the suffering and maximize the liberty, while there are infinite answers for those seeking to create suffering to maximize their own influence at the sacrifice of others.

In the end, power is evil, or at least always eventually leads to it. The more of it, the faster and worse it gets. But it is impossible to consistently dissolve power - it takes extraordinary circumstances and people to ever reverse the centralization and exploitation of power, because by its nature altering power requires having it. There is no mathematical method to guaranteeing liberty - it just requires the right people in the right place at the right time with a ton of luck to reverse the status quo of more centralization of power and more suffering as a consequence of it, in all its forms.
The earth may be a fertile place, but the plot of land I happen to own might be pretty barren (new domains, no audience yet, etc).

I host my own blog and use a static generator for it, but I'm aware that this introduces a drop off multiplier.

I'm happy to not be a sharecropper, but I don't fault those who choose to do so.
I'm not in the industry, but I would like to say that I am highly encouraged by the way you described your offering.

You express a level of care, consideration, and diplomacy that is sadly lacking just about everywhere.

The product itself looks amazing; I love seeing this high bar for open source.
I never understood that since ctrl+a jumps to beginning of line. Ctrl-o is what I use, but probably in the minority.
Not disagreeing, but for the sake of discussion: Do you care to elaborate?
The article looks at one empty building in London, but how many dwellings are in decent areas versus shitholes / the middle of nowhere? I doubt that all of them are Russian oligarch money havens.

We can play similar games in the US with abandoned houses - there are probably enough abandoned homes in Gary, Indiana to house the entire US' homeless population. Said homes, unfortunately, happen to be in Gary.

I don't know enough about England towns and cities to make a judgment, but it looks like The Guardian got their data from here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tab...
Fellow commentors, please be aware that "virtue signalling" is a buzzword used by the alt-right to discredit activists or socially progressive people. This tactic is meant to dissuade the socially progressive from actively taking a role in enacting change.
Your gym is definitely different than the gym I was going to
Trust me I'm not intimidated, but I don't want to feel excluded because of my social status either
This is really interesting and brought back some memories for me. In 1992 I received my first internet account via a local public school initiative. I could dial-up to a county number and use gopher for something like 30 minutes a day. The first month I had this access, I went to a gopher site in Europe somewhere, and not understanding the tech at all shut it all down and waited for the enormous phone bill to arrive.

The phone bill was normal and I suddenly understood that the internet was something special.

In 1995 I became an exchange student to Russia, and the entire 3 month exchange, I saw approximately 1 computer. I made 2 phone calls to my family from Moscow, but where I was living in Russia was 1,000 miles East from there and there was 1 scratchy phone sitting outside in a phone booth for the entire 12 building multiblock of Stalinist apartment buildings. It could not dial outside of the city as far as I understood it.

Fast forward a few years, I'm now married and my wife and I are planning a road trip. We get printouts of mapquest routes, have a copy of the local road atlas (a huge book) and a copy of AAA tripticks for our trip. There was no mobile internet that was within the price range of mortals.

A few more years forward and we're in Ireland, mobile internet is available in some areas, but expensive, so I download offline maps to my mobile phone and get turn-by-turn that way.

Last year I got Google Fi, went to Europe, got off the plane and made calls, texted with friends, used the internet just like normal, booked AirBnB rooms, got train schedules and got turn-by-turn GPS directions for all of the countries we were road tripping in and it all worked flawlessly.

Absolutely insane.
There's a difference between piquing curiosity and exploiting emotions. Of course there's a grey area, and this story may be closer to the line than usual, but wherever the line is, it's fair enough for dang to judge that this title is on the right side of it.

Personally I don't see how the title misrepresents the content in the article, or tricks anyone into reading something they'd be better off not to have read.
That's the result of the state being used as a vehicle for the rich to get richer, not for the state existing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-TydNlj7d0

"The state" is the one thing people in a democracy at least own on paper. That's not to be trifled with.

Besides, just about anything is "bigger than it's ever been", one might as well say there have never been so many people working in non-profits for justice and whatnot, so that must be causing inequality.

Last but not least, "big" doesn't mean anything. It's like only looking at lines of code, and not content at all. Even reducing it to "bigger versus smaller government", regardless of where you fall on that, is nonsense.
He lables them "wicked markets" and essentially describes them as any market where any winning strategy is almost instantly mitigated and results in a loss.

So not every poker market is wicked, which is why you see good players always seeking tables of suckers.