skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it shows us that our economies make it very hard to maintain a valuable and beautiful cultural/artistic ecosystem as a commercial entity.
>> So what. There also many excellent major label artist and it's good to have them.

You're missing the point. I've no problem with major label artists but when you start dealing with them you start dealing with licensing. Then you waste time, don't develop the platform, and abandon the indie artists that got you to where you are. You need to take the point in context of the rest of my argument. When Spotify/Apple Music/Pandora exist why would you enter that market when it's not the market that you started in and you have no chance of beating them? Focus on indie music and you have a business where people actually pay money for the service and you become profitable.

>> Maybe some like them I think 95% of them are subpar and sound like my nephew created a song with Magix Music Maker.

Well that's how music discovery works. You have to go through rubbish to find the gems. If you want pro level stuff every time you should use Spotify/Beatport etc. I've been on SoundCloud since the beginning (since before it even became the go-to place for electronic music) and it was a great way to discover really good songwriters. You have to do some work to find them but that's part of the fun. SoundCloud tried to evolve into something completely different than it began as. Your expectations are a perfect example of how that skewed the public perception of it to the point where you and I believe it is completely different things - in reality it tries to be both but doesn't excel at either.
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Staying small != don't grow business. I would never hire crazy so people in the startup can imagine spinning up new projects new microservice new crazy revolutionary database/big data/ new KV store/new cache layer out of curiosity.

Till one point, when the business is so big, growing engineering team to over 100 is inevitable. But plently of really successful tech companies did not overgrow their team size for a number of years. E.g Facebook.

Human captial spent is actually the most expensive even comparing space rental if you add up salary, bonus, and benefits. I also will not recommend startups in their early stage (or even until they can break-even for a long time) to flu candidates over. There is really no reason to fly people over until you want to hire that person. Flying and hotel adds up big time too. Google can offer this because spending a couple millions doesn't matter to them.
> If anybody else is also put off by the writing style:

The writing style is just fine, it's surprisingly high quality considering this is coming from Buzzfeed (even if it's the new serious branch).
It's not a strange tradeoff though
This reminds me that it wasn't until recently that I realised that in English, the word "next" when applied to recurring days of the week in English does NOT mean the nearest chronological occurrence of that day. It means the one AFTER it.

So, if a friend says to you on Wednesday that they'll meet you "next Friday" that means Friday AFTER the coming one.
> but I absolutely don't want them in a browser window.

But that's exactly what you're getting when they're run as Electron apps. The main difference being that they consume more system resources than an actual browser window because they can't share any resources with your actual browser.

> So what?

> Most ordinary users can't tell and don't know to care.

The problem is that the complaints of CPU, RAM and battery degradation are valid complaints. I think you'll find that many users can tell that their machine has become slower or has a faster draining battery but they won't know to blame the browser wrapper for it. Take Spotify (which uses Chromium Embedded Framework) for example:

- https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Battery-Drain/t...

- https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web-P...

- https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Again-When-will...
Ask HN: Has anyone seen some really good startup websites lately?
Looking for some inspiration.
Sites that gave you this "ah nice!" moment.
Right, "terrorist" is a pretty relative term.
Organizations calling for genocide of the Jewish people, descendants of those who tried, or allies of such.
That's a mouthful but much more fitting.
feelix is probably thinking of transferring an rsync binary first, when it is not available on the remote end.
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I'm from Colombia and can confirm: we use "ahorita" all the time, with the exact meaning described in the article.

The article claims Mexicans are not famous for their use of diminutives. They're not where I come from. I actually recall Peruvians and Venezuelans during my travels through South America mocking me (in a friendly way) for the fact that, in their view, Colombians use diminutives all the time.
Are you referring to shared webhosting?

Because if so, there's quite a few drawbacks. You're generally not in any sort of scalable setup, no high availability, you're on a shared box with other customers, you are susceptible to IO constraints on the shared disks, etc. You're still going to need a database of some sort for most applications....
Indeed. Which was, I think, sillysaurus3's point: That the development is not actually about serving people better but more about profit. With serving people better being a means to an end at most.

As for why profit on it's own is bad: Because - as established - it's only about improving the lifes of the people receiving the profits - but readily externalizes the cost to everyone else.
True, but maybe there could be some sort of democratic consensus system to establish the questions (one which by design avoids the superficial circularity).
> You're missing the point. I've no problem with major label artists but when you start dealing with them you start dealing with licensing.

You think all those mixes come for free? They have to be licensed as well once the embedded song snippets exceed 30sec which most of them do (also depending on the local jurisdiction).

Soundcloud had to find agreements with the labels sooner or later anyway because of the mixes and just included the major label artists in the deal because why not. Otherwise they would have been sued (and they were sued by some)—again—because of the mixes.

> Well that's how music discovery works.

Ok, then let's agree on it's a matter of taste. But I'd like to revise my comment: 99% of the mixes on SoundCloud are cr*p. Maybe it's just my taste but I am also SoundCloud user from day one and somebody who spent tons of money on Beatport. If they can succeed with this music selection and find listeners like you and who pay, great for them, but obviously they can't. Btw, you find the 1% good mixes also on Spotify or Apple Music.
Wow that sounds hard. Have you ever considered founding a utilities company yourself and lay those lines for you and your neighbors? I have no idea how easy or hard that would have been.
I think a more natural and faithful translation is "soon".
this exactly, in my younger years i developed quite the interest in psychoactive substances and went out of my way to try a very large variety of them, far more than your average person could name (134 different substances to be accurate) yet i have never been addicted to anything, i have no criminal record and have never suffered any ill health due to my usage.

if taking drugs was guaranteed to cause problems id certainly have been subject to them and while i am no longer actively searching these things out or experimenting i will dabble from time to time, yet im still a "functioning member of society"
Wow, an entire article dedicated to the Mexican version of the word "soon!"
Exactly. And not the only possible mean to achieve that end. For example, we've discovered that marketing has a much better ROI than actually building quality things people want.
At this price I'm actually kind of interested in what the lease prices would be.

I realize the waiting list is going to be really long of course, but the lease prices (assuming no opportunistic markup at the leasing company) should come in at a price point that actually makes this pretty cheap when fuel is taken into account.

Hopefully Tesla have the good sense to embrace this wholeheartedly, as I suspect that's where the critical mass could come from (and due to the short timeframes on car leases, extremely rapidly).
The last part is great:

Khalil: "It's not every day that a non-Googler gets to sit in a room full of people who work at Google, and are software engineers, and are advertising experts, and are you know market experts in different fields. Do you have anything that you'd like to ask us?"

Chomsky: "Why not do some of the serious things?"

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C-zWrhFqpM&t=59m21s
I was thinking of the German "gleich" when reading this article; I remember complaining to my parents about how the word can mean anything from seconds to hours. Although I don't think I've ever seen a "gleich" that did not happen on the same day at least.
This is a political solution.

This provides lists of actions that countries would probably want to do anyway, and provides estimates of carbon savings. When trying to meet international treaties for reducing carbon emissions the countries now have a long list of positive actions they can take to make their countries stronger, cleaner and wealthier while meeting their goals.
How does this compare to SSHFS? https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
Ask HN: How did you manage to teach your spouse/partner/half Programming?
How do you get her/him interested?

I've been trying for years to get my girlfriend interested in programming, because she is a logical person and I am absolutely convinced she would enjoy commanding the computer billions of times a sec (after all she does enjoy doing that to me, so... haha). But so far no success. :(

Please share a story and some advice.
You can still get pre-LS TTL as well! Gets a bit warm that stuff.
I think most of google sucesses outside search were done like that without the CEO having knowledge.
if we agree to sell my house for you and another party, and the other party fails to come up with their 50%, then you can't expect to live in the house. and that's exactly what US and UK just did.

either they help uphold the sovereignty over russia actions, or return the nukes. it's also basic reading.

your flawed logic is thinking that two other parties can benefit fully from a contract where one of the parties failed to uphold the agreements.
Doubling down, also called a martingale strategy. This was awesome while it lasted. I used this while playing with dogecoin, the trouble started when I automated it using a script.

Trouble is, even when the chance of losing is 0.25%, you'll lost once every 400 games.

And at one point, the loss will be greater than all the money you had.. and there's no coming back from that.
Have you tried to browse the Internet on 2 megabit (best case) recently?
Yup. Or the idiomatic forms "Tuesday next" (not the most imminent Tuesday, the one after that) and "Monday week" (one week after the most imminent Monday).

Frankly I hate them and always request a date for clarification!
And then they go and write a blog entry about how much productive they are now, instead of what was the actual business impact if any, to the company customers or revenue.
Serious suggestion - do this : http://sidekiq.org/products/pro

Remember, it is very hard to donate...But very, very, very easy to pay for invoices.

This is one of the coolest postgres apps, that actually works on Linux as well. I would love to see this supported.
living a healthy life does not guarantee you a life free of health problems. but fair enough if they must restrict it have a licence system whereby people apply for the substances they wish to use and have to pass a test that confirms their basic understanding of the chemicals, if properly educated the vast majority of people would be responsible just as they are when driving a car
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It's a perfect way of turning what could be a socially-beneficial company into something that will never be, forever doomed to maximize short-term gains.

We need a better solution - one that aligns incentives of all involved parties (society at large being one of them), not separates them further.
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It is called Qt, wxWidgets, JavaFX, Xamarin.Forms,....
Okay.. if you really do want them to have access to the data, then you can amend that to 'Strong cryptographic message signing applied on storage.'

There really is a case to be made in keeping the video private; however, police often have to process your private information and the officers have privacy considerations themselves. I really wrote that with this in mind, as I think it's a strong hedge against the "officer privacy" argument. You _will_ constantly record on duty, and that information _will_ be kept private hopefully giving us the best of both worlds.

There's also an evidentiary and performance monitoring considerations. I don't want police to have access to their own video when making sworn statements, research has shown that this can bias and alter these statements which are incredibly important when establishing frame of mind in a courtroom. I also don't want police captains to have the ability to spy on their staff and use the cameras as a backdoor way to monitor the performance or judgement of officers on the street.

To that final point, you _want_ officers to be able to look the other way in certain circumstances.. they aren't a group that should be blindly applying the letter of the law, in my opinion, by keeping the video private you serve to protect this important discretionary relationship between officers and the public.
Slightly OT, but did anyone else get the feeling that the author feels like he has to appeal to a very pro-advertising readership even though he is actually quite aware of the negative effects of advertising?

Whenever he wants to write about something becoming more marketing or advertising oriented, he quickly adds some points along the lines of "...of course advertising is usually totally awesome but..."

Those bits seldomly even have any sources or arguments to them to make them convincing.

Some examples:

> To be sure, a lot of commercial persuasion is useful. Marketing informs consumers about new products and their properties, or convinces them that one product is better for them than another.

> Each business tries to pull customers away from the other brands, and while the final matching of customers to products is usually closely attuned to what people want, [...]

> Although consumers enjoy these panderings to some degree, [...]
Been thinking the same myself. This is purely my own speculation, but I can see taxation of diesel at the pump skyrocketing in the next two years.

All these plans to scrap petrol and diesel engines by year X are clearly not genuine, and people see that.

No democratic government in the western world as an authority horizon further away than the next election - so rather than trying to ban something that may or may not ever take, it just seems more practical and more likely to just keep pushing up the price of the fuel by taxation until it no longer makes sense for anyone.

Bonus: you don't need to offer a scrappage bribe from the public purse either.
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Really, I thought a fat cigar was one of the most potent images of capitalism?
It's the same in German, "nächster Freitag" means the one after this one.
Why would you say they are the cheapest object storage when it is significantly more than the very service you responded to?

Not to mention b2 and several others that are cheaper.
> DJ mixes' on SoundCloud lack in quality/creativity

By definition they are about selection. Creative live mixes are performed in live events.

I use Soundcloud to discover new music in mixes. There’s something exciting trying to ID track using Shazam (cancer) or writing the time down and coming back every few months to find if someone else ID’d it.

I’d really like if they defaulted mixes to 320kbps tho. And streams stop randomly on Safari, while Chrome crashes after few hours of playback. Filtering options could be improved too, and Discover option is almost always suggesting me individual tracks - something I never listen to. Oh and there’s buffering problem between tracks that prevents to be used as continous stream.
Maybe Microsoft should re-market it to the Electron generation, and eventually bring back Active Desktop as well.

You cannot find much about it, because it was an IE 6.0 based technology, when "Electron apps" were the IE ActiveX engine bundled as .exe.
Great quote and I had to smirk when reading this. It happens all the time.

I remember a time when hiring RoR guys. Even the codebase was already in RoR, every new RoR dev said 'OMG we have to rewrite the entire app, the codebase is a mess'.
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You're not superior to anyone else.

Grown adults can make their own decisions and suffer the consequences.

Acting like you have a right to tell other people what they can and can't do is incredibly egotistical.
He was a kid when he lived there...
> If they can succeed with this music selection and find listeners like you and who pay, great for them, but obviously they can't.

For the longest time they didn't offer a way to pay, and the now-existing payment model doesn't really do anything for someone listening to the small guys, so the only obvious about them not being able to find paying listeners is that without an offer to pay for there is no paying.
All serious estimates I've seen suggest dealing with climate change is much cheaper than ignoring it (this Drawdown book agrees, and suggest 70 Trillion in benefits on a 20 Trillion investment).

I wouldn't be surprised if climate migration was included in those costs, though I guess in terms of human death and misery translated into monetary terms, rather than "ooh scary immigrants".

It's kind of weird how that has been successfully kept out of the conversation. Reminds me of all the headlines I read, even from sympathetic sources about the "high cost" of single payer healthcare, when again, serious estimates suggest it's cheaper overall.
> But plently of really successful tech companies did not overgrow their team size for a number of years. E.g Facebook.

A much better example is WhatsUp with 55 employees at the time of aquisition.
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The issue is that the investment market seems to be partially built on selling the idea that you're doing something so new and different that you need all these fancy architectures and hundreds of developers. If you don't sell that idea, you're just another CRUD company so why should anyone invest?
No. And as for my question "do you want more of it"? While we are at it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive:_The_Story_of_the_Andes_... should we advocate for restaurants that cater to people who had to resort to cannibalism to survive extreme situations?

Or is cannibalism something you want less of, not more?
Smokers already have all that and still can't be arsed not to litter public spaces/nature with cigarette butts.
Yes, I think is disingenuous to call it "data" durability. "disk" durability would be more accurate.
If people refuse learning C++ or Python to deliver a product and rather stay with JavaScript, that is the problem.

Not the lack of alternatives.
That depends on how well it works. If it blows up and costs the company a million bucks you get fired, if it works extremely well then you are a maverick genius. "Ask for forgiveness, not permission", etc.

Not saying that the extent to which it was apparently done at soundcloud should be acceptable though.
I was about to say the same, but it’s not exactly the same. You are free to build anything, but using existing stack. Not pickup new stack and rewrite something that’s not even broken.

That said, probably more often than not, there’s an actual value in it.
HSPA+ is far, far from 2 Mbit.

Also, I'm sure the Facebook app works wonderfully with 2 Mbit, because they've spent years optimising for that.
Sure. Capitalism is low-class. Upper classes don't need to mess around with any of that lowly wealth-creation nonsense. They already have wealth, why bother making more of it?

The cigar-chomping capitalist stereotype is just the classist observation that you can never really change your class, only accumulate cash, which is the lowest form of wealth. Rappers seem very self-aware of this and poke fun at the tropes whenever they can.

When the cigarette-smoking vagrant finally sees a little success, he switches over to cigars and thinks he's something.
Martin has been in and out of prison. He hopes this time will be different
My pet theory is that the purpose of the USA 2016 do was to keep a large disaffected segment inside the tent.

(Inside pissing out instead of outside pissing in, as the phrase goes. Until they go away or whatever, that's another day's problem.)
> "Left with total freedom and no guidance, they would destroy themselves"

The state should provide a certain base level safety net, especially so those who realised they messed up have a way to turn things around, but society should allow people to learn from their mistakes. It's important to give people that freedom to grow, even if it takes some self-destructive behaviour before someone wants to turn their life around. Actions that affect multiple people should be handled differently, but if all I'm doing is making myself unhealthy then perhaps I just have different priorities. In short, freedom should include the freedom to mess up.
Did they? At least so far they are heavily invested in XUL (Firefox, Thunderbird). Do they plan to switch these and other apps to another framework?
If you don't break-even, how are you going to employ even two people without an investor? Where does the money come from?
No, that's not what it means.

If it meant that, all drug users would become addicted every 10 days.

It actually means 1 in 10 drivers would total their car, over a lifetime.
You mean not idempotent even with composer.lock in place? Would love to see a reproducible example.
yep its true and very possible, while i have not tried street heroin i have tried the pharmaceutical version of it along with other opiates both weaker and stronger. ive also tried just about anything you could name but im not addicted to anything and never have been, i have a solid job and have never been in any trouble with the police etc

so you can trust me when i say there is no such thing as a "if you do it once youre hooked forever" chemical or certainly not in the 100+ unique psychoactive chemicals i have tried.

feel free to ask any questions you may have
It depends on the outcome of the discussion - which depends on your capability as a manager. Sometimes this behavior is because the manager is an arse who can't run a reasonable process of team decision making, and the covert development is a reasonable appeal from someone who is disenfranchised in the decision making process and is making a very valuable point. The employee so doing is highly engaged and valuable and firing them is an act of self harm. In other cases this is an act of aggression by an unreasonable and arrogant individual who doesn't care about the team or the company and is simply doing what they want. You have to judge - call it wrong (either way) and you have a problem that will cost you dearly.

But be aware there are two sides to this coin and you might be the one that needs to learn. My questions are always : is this part of a pattern (conflict, poor performance, bad behaviour?); why don't I want to sit with this person for 2 hours with a coffee and understand whats going on?; why didn't the coffee heart to heart work out?