skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand what you're saying and Netflix has been pretty spectacular in that regard. I think there might be a couple of differences between Spotify and Netlix though.

Record contracts are exclusive. Beyonce can't go and record an album for some other records label whereas in the Netflix model those actors aren't exclusive to Netflix. They are free to go out and make movies for Universal for 20th Century Fox when their series wraps for Netflix. As such it doesn't threaten the business model of the studios in the same way Spotify becoming a record label and paying artists directly from streams might.

The other difference I think is that consuming Netflix tends to be a concentrated experience in that you sit down to watch a movie or else you binge watch during a whole Saturday while the weather is crap. Music on the other hand is more passive. People play music pretty endlessly - while at work, on the train, at the gym. I think it would be much harder to be majority original content streaming service with music while keeping your existing subscribers satisfied.
yes, 1000% agree. i would pay an extra $10-20 a month, especially if there was some mechanism to select which receives the extra and showing who supports which artists, etc. basically some of the ideas from bandcamp
I downvoted not because you sounded condescending but you did not back it up with sources given the scale of "facts" you are presenting to us. For a person complaining banality, you post can use better style and structure to make your case.
Stating a fact is not necessarily an approval thereof.
"Somewhat unrelated but.. is the music industry expecting that we go back to buying CDs (or $0.99 tracks) if streaming services die out?
Because I'm pretty sure I won't. I can't see myself going back to physical media or DRM-laden files any soon."

iTunes dropped DRM between 2007-2009. I don't think anyone is expecting you to go back to "DRM-laden files" anytime soon.
It is even more disheartening when you consider that this isn't even due to "moneyed interests", but rather is just fairly popular politics. It is more politically mainstream to be worried about terrorism than privacy protections. Arguably, (some of) the founders knew this would be the case, which is why they put the protections directly in the Bill of Rights. (In general, I think you can read the Bill of Rights as protecting important, but unpopular, rights.)
> Sure, which is why I was asking you for someone arguing this who was more impeccably non-biased.

Ars Technica, for example
I wonder which studio has secured the movie rights to this story.
You are right in music the older catalogue is reused more often.

Netflix can produce a series which you will watch once and seldom see again. New content is king.

In music you mix old with new. If you lose the old content you will greatly limit the listening experience.
>> One entrepreneur I know sold his first company back in the 90s for >$100m. As he was working on his next venture, he said, "Profit isn't the point. Profit is permission to continue."

Easy to say profit doesn't matter once you've cleared $100mm.
There really isn't that much on google play store worth installing (except games I guess? even that's not so great and most cost money) that doesn't have some open source counterpart. The only exceptions are things like kik (and those don't run well, if at all, without google play services.)
Notorious Coporate Cyber Attacks
How would that be an improvement? you still wouldn't be able to readily query and build indexes? Or does SQLite handle that now?
You might be surprised how much the law lags at criminalizing morally reprehensible acts enabled by technology, like revenge porn.

I can't speak to other countries specifics, but in the US the most effective avenue currently appears to be copyright claims. That's a civil proceeding, so the jilted ex is only on the hook for financial penalties.

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn-...
>These movements are, in my opinion, a subconscious fight against the harshness of technical progress.

I don't think the enemy is "technical progress" per se, though you might be on to something with the "harshness" part.

People are against when political decisions that favor elites and corporations, and the upper middle classes (not in the British sense, in the US one) are being presented as inevitable forces of nature and economy, where they don't have a say.

There's no rule that says we should move jobs to China, or that automation must mean unemployed people with no income and devastated cities (e.g. we could use something like UBI to prevent the latter).

But because they help pad the profits of large businesses (to the long term destruction of the prospects of their own customers, the middle classes, about which corporate leaders don't care about, like they don't care about other long term concerns, like the environment -- they have their golden parachutes anyway), all the negative effects of technical progress and globalization are let loose.
lol why is this so high in the front page? BTW this is NOT SERVERLESS therefore click bait in my book
I think it's better to be more careful when talking and thinking about Eastern Bloc under Soviet occupation.

The socialist regimes are worse than capitalist ones on average, but the socialist, centrally planned system may be (and was) more efficient in specific areas it decided to take care of explicitly.

Your example of the lack of ice cream is one side of the coin; the other is activation of the female workforce, virtually ending illiteracy and providing truly universal health care and education, for free of course. An average person was much better off under the Soviet-controlled regimes than they had been before the war. There is reason why for example Germans don't hate the time they lived in DDR that much.

> A higher % of the population is finishing high school, and considerably more are going to University than ever before. In the 1960's maybe 12% went on to college, now it's past 30% - and the numbers of those doing 'something' post high-school is near 60%.

And that tiny percentage is good? It's way behind what socialist states achieved in the seventies even now, then.

Of course, on the whole, the socialist (there was no real communism in Eastern Europe at all, by the way) regimes were inefficient and people had many of their rights denied. You could land in jail for telling a simple joke, that's true. On the other hand, millions of people didn't feel the need to tell "that kind of jokes" and they lived quite comfortable lives, even if they lacked a certain kind of ice cream.

Even in Poland, where opposition to the socialist regime is part of national identity, many people became disillusioned with the free market and capitalism after the shock of the early nineties. For more than twenty years after that, it was "in bad taste" to say anything in defense of the previous system or against the current one. However, in recent years, some people started voicing their discontent with the current system while recalling good sides of the previous one. If this happens even here, in Poland, then it's safe to assume (I think) that the upsides of that system existed.
Show HN: ECommerce Trends 2017
It seems worse to me. Just sorting through all these memos trying to figure out which people are and aren't important, and which data may be relevant. id the business is mundane, middle management isn't exciting.
I don't think the intent in the above comment re. auto-eject was malicious. It's about equilibrium, phrased in more common-speak they're better off without them, as they're clearly gossipy/close-minded people.
See one of many previous discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12718270
I would say that even small towns have farmers markets that last most of the growing season (like even a village of 10,000 will often have one all summer, although it of course won't be comparable to one in a large city).

And CSAs (Community-supported agriculture) are becoming more popular.
If you film something you want to keep for yourself with a phone, you already lost. Film with a camera with no network communication, and keep the only physical copy in a safe.
Which completely eliminates the use for this app. At least in the sense it is marketed for. If you only want to show the movie when you keep an eye on the one you're showing it to, just show it from your own phone. But I guess the whole point of sexy movies is to be able to watch them away from your partner.

If you do trust the other party, I don't see how this app adds anything but complications. Don't get me wrong, I guess there are some practical applications for the underlying technology and from the looks of it, this seems pretty well engineered and designed. The advertised use case just does not make any sense to me at all.
This is too general (and likely obvious to a skilled practitioner) an idea to be patented.
No user is obliged to post or comment on anything at all, what do you do on a forum if you think that way?
Ask HN: Non-Lisps that use kebab case (i.e., identifiers-like-this)?
Do you know any non-Lisp languages other than Dylan, Perl 6, LiveScript and (to an extent) Tcl that support or maybe even encourage kebab case identifiers?
i deleted my number from Facebook but it still keeps the number asks me to confirm it for security whenever i login.
The fact that everything you do is linked to a google account.
Language is such a horribly inefficient and inconsistent medium of communication..
https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html

I really don't get why this made it to HN first page, especially when plenty of other show HN demonstrate way more efforts than writing a short bashscript yet never make it. I suspect it has to do with the number of buzzwords that were inserted into the title.
As I said, Imagine I've just borrowed $500,000 in order to purchase the same amount of AAPL...
Nobody submitted that link...probably because no HN'er who loves 'yay science' stories RSS feeds unhtoday.. Instead, people who are interested in 'yay science' subscribe to the aggregators because it is many of orders of magnitude more efficient than trying to subscribe to all the potential sources of 'yay science' stories many of which are as obscure as unhtoday.
i got 5% battery back after uninstalling FB and messenger
If you read the whole article, the author mixes in caveats throughout and says that it requires a special set of requirements for the usenet backup to be worthwhile. At some point, he addresses your point by saying that in some cases (possibly requiring careful coordination between all of the servers) you could backup many different servers with the same usenet account whereas services like Backblaze and Crashplan usually restrict the number of machines.

That said I still think the point you make is the most important critique. Online storage/backup is such a crowded market (Google, Amazon, DropBox, Box, Backblaze, Crashplan, Carbonite, Mozy, tarsnap, Spideroak, rsync.net, OneDrive, etc) that if you go with something significantly cheaper than all of the mainstream options you are probably going to get what you paid for.
These days, companies like Google think that even Java is too advanced for cog developers.
Somehow, typical prices for software on app stores are considerably lower than independently distributed software was. Apple seems to have succeeded at commoditizing their complements, even ignoring the cut they take. I'm not sure how this got established as the equilibrium, but as a developer I don't want to participate in that role, and as a user I wish there was more great software, and suspect there would be if it hadn't become so commoditized.

(I also agree that walled gardens are bad for freedom.)
Munich city now planning to move back ALL their Linux desktops back to Windows
You're obviously trolling and created this throwaway account just for that.
kind of like the movie Memento?
We're sorta working on this, small though the preservation world is. Frank Cifaldi has founded a non-profit specifically to do this, and themade.org is behind Habitat.
Matte iPhones losing paint at alarming rate, gripe fans
Is he saying we'd be better off tolerating hypocrisy?
You can still watch them together and not have to worry about custody of the recording.
In Sweden the average for new loans indeed was 140 years, but since then, the regulator has set a maximum of 105. That's still a long time of course.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/mortgages/sweden...
Saved by a Selfie Stick: Self-Defense for Travelers
Even if it's running on a filesystem that deals with it well, standard utilities like 'ls' don't deal with it well, as the default behavior is to sort. You end up having to look up obscure options, like 'ls -U' to disable sorting.

You can also run into issues like "Argument list too long". ARG_MAX is larger on linux than it used to be, but it's pretty short on older kernels. I assume similar issues might exist on other operating systems.
Yeah, and that's becoming quite an old thread (2015), yet the most recent comment is from Nov 2016, and if you read backwards from there it's a pretty strong indicator that the issues are still extant. It's a real PITA. My soon to be replaced (but I like the small form factor a lot) iPhone 5S from 2013 whups the ass off my OnePlus Two from early 2016 when it comes to JS and canvas rendering performance.
Sure, but the author was eating three course dinners in Paris and staying in sunny hotels in Florence with those $5 a day. Try doing that with $40 nowadays.

The difference is, of course, mostly in the rates between the dollar and the European currencies, rather than simply an increase in costs locally.
great read for a rainy sunday.
well done.
"Your content is never stored on, or sent to our servers."

Are you kidding me? How will you get funded?
I think "a prenup for home videos" might be the worst marketing angle possible. It sounds like a legal contract.

But, worse, it makes it sound like it's only something you should use if you don't trust the other person.

Instead, they should market it as "2fa for sex tapes" rather than a trust issue by itself and point to things like "the fappening" icloud social engineering hack.

I can't imagine many people using this otherwise.

Also, don't forget that your target audience is mostly women who bear the majority of the shaming for a leaked video instead of high-fives. "Don't be the next Jennifer Lawrence" is going to be more effective marketing.
I agree with you, not only because couples do indeed trust each other, but also because it may come off as mistrusting to ask your s.o. to use something like this.

However, I think there might be a market for this with casual hookups. In these situations, you may want to let someone access private videos/pictures, but don't trust them enough to just send it, especially if your face is included. Receivers might also be more inclined to pay. Additionally, while I think it would be acceptable in this situation to ask someone to install an app, the makers of this have to take extra care to ensure that this looks serious and doesn't come off as a scam.
I agree that the marketing is incredibly off-putting, but I reject that wanting to buy high quality fresh food for a reasonable price premium without participating in a local food co-op makes me a dupe or a bad person.
> trying to shift Catholicism back to its roots of faith and charity rather than being hypocritical morality enforcers.

How are faith & charity different from any other moral issue? Why do you (apparently) think encouraging faith & charity is okay, but (apparently) not humility, chastity, temperance, prudence &c.?
Of course I mean disparity in mass :)

"Walkability" is inherently political ( goes to land use ) , and it's strongly correlated at least with people's identity.

Cars have been about for 100 years, but it's only recently that there's been any writing to the effect of there being conflict. I think the basic mindset of drivers is a lot the problem, but it should be clear that as a pedestrian, you cannot trust car drivers to be very aware. There's only so much gain to be had there with things like rule changes.

I see this as an extension of "everything is a college campus" but maybe that's just me.
There was no smell from the plane. But the Bárðarbunga eruption did emit a lot of sulphur dioxide [1][2].

[1] http://en.vedur.is/pollution-and-radiation/volcanic-gas/meas...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%932015_eruption_of_...
I took graphic design in school (so I've seen plenty of business card concepts) and I just wanted to say that's the most creative card I've seen in years! I'd cherish something like that if you gave it to me - no matter how much they cost the impact is definitely worth it. Wow!
Impressive numbers! Bad luck the only metric that happens to matters, miner vote, is still below 25% and seems to be going slightly down...

http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ver9-10k.png
could this be the reason for the dark navbar https://action.github.com/
Might be beta, but supposedly iOS 10.3 (the next major release) will ship APFS for iOS devices:
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/01/ios-10-3-will-be-apple...

Not clear at this stage if it will make it to production release, but starting on iOS devices makes a lot of sense given it's likely subjected to a smaller subset of crazyness compared to Macs.
Too expensive for me. When I had the Google equivalent (now cancelled too) I found that I just ended up listening to the music I already know/own anyway, so what is the point of paying to listen to the music I have as MP3s?

I've found YouTube has been a great replacement for listening to any music I don't already own.
No, serverless database is not a recent buzz word, but a term frequently used to describe DB that doesn't need a separate server running to which clients connect: compare MySQL, PostgreSQL against BDB, LMDB, SQLite.
Well yeah, blackguardx asked me how I would mark it I gave my answer.
> > I often see developers doing all kinds of things in the application layer; enforcing constraints, manipulating data, even sorting and filtering. It's like some folks are feared of writing SQL or don't trust their database.

> Maybe they got spoiled by ORM mappers that anything beyond standard CRUD may feel cumbersome to write.

A decent ORM[0] will use the constraints expressed in the application to reflect those as constraints in the DB schema as well.

Why the duplication, you ask? For the same reason that many of the same constraints are imposed in the front-end code: Responsiveness.

Validation that happens in the front-end avoids a request/response to the server just to give the user feedback that their password isn't long enough.

Relationships and constraints expressed in the application can avoid querying the database just to get the same kind of feedback.

This duplication may seem useless, pointless, repetitive, and redundant, but not all accesses to the web server will be via a JS-enabled client, for example anyone accessing the application via an API.

[0] eg. SQLAlchemy: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/constraints.html
Show HN: An app that makes implementing e2e/unit tests slightly more efficient
The most profitable companies in the world tend to create a lot of value. If you want to create a company seeking "pure profit", you'd be well advised to create a lot of value. Get-rich-quick scams sometimes work, but they're not scalable, and hardly ever "much more profitable" than solid businesses.
According to one study, between 30 and 40 percent of Boomers will have insufficient income at age 70 to adequately replace their pre-retirement earnings.

Aren't expenses lower in retirement? I can imagine these people being in trouble if they can't get, say, 70% of their pre-retirement income. Even in that case, they will be fine if they deflate their lifestyle accordingly.
if it's shown on the screen it can be copied, so in the end it's again all about trusting that person. Still this type of protection is cool as it makes it harder for accidents to happen, or if phone gets stolen it gives you some level of protection.
>"Is dealing with the music industry, which cranks licensing costs up every year, a failed business model?"

I think it could possibly be. Nobody has been successful yet at least that I can think of. I think the problem is the better you do the more those licenses will cost. I am trying to think of another industry that works that way. I guess cable is similar with content in that the more subscribers a cable operator has the more expensive licensing the content is. So maybe licensing entertainment content is just a very constrained business model?

I can't imagine if I ran a restaurant and my costs from my food purveyors increased with the success of the restaurant. I think it would be very difficult to make a go of that.
I have tons of choices available and share the GP's question about the trendiness of piling on the hate train. I've done that comparison in a fair number of cities and “same items for less” has never been true on a consistent basis: it's either a small percentage either way or comparing different things.

I love Trader Joe's but I shop there for the store brand items and a few specials. At every location I've been to (CA, CT, MA, DC, FL) the vegetable selection is far more limited than Whole Foods and generally lower quality. That doesn't mean that one is better or worse than the other, only that they're different businesses with different models. TJ's loves to stock things they can get a deal on, which is great but limited.

This is true of the local supermarkets: yes, they stock a lot of organic options now. No, they're not better quality and they're usually more expensive because it's a premium niche category for them but a core product for WF. If you look at the loss leader specials, yes, they're often cheaper but some things in your cart are also more expensive.

I think this goes back to people relying on anecdotes instead of data and the psychological weight of a few high-end items skewing perception of the entire store. People see some super high-end olive oil, say “oh my god, can you believe how much that costs?!”, and forget the more affordable option on the same shelf or that the store they're comparing it to didn't even stock the equivalent grade of product.
Reminds of that time someone invented dropbox, and one of the top comments was "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."
If there is a green market in your area, you can get a much wider variety of produce and it will be significantly less expensive.

If Whole Foods is the only thing in your area it's not a bad option, but it's definitely possible to do much better.
I had to laugh at this but, and I'm not making excuses for Medium here, that is sadly lightweight compared with a lot of sites on the web.

Still, the "ship less JavaScript" comment rings true: people need to stop cargo-culting all the things into their front-ends. It's colossally annoying at the best of times, and the more-so when you're browsing over a 3G connection. You can basically forget using a lot of websites nowadays if you haven't at least got 3G, and plenty aren't that great on anything less than a 4G connection.
Reverse-Engineering WatchGuard Mobile VPN