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Soundcloud is one the rare service I would be happy to pay for. However, their current subscription does not bring me anything interesting. One idea would be to have a monthly limit, and propose an unlimited subscription at around $1 to $3.

And how come I have to pay for the artist album through Bandcamp after listening on Soundcloud? Is there no way to implement a payment straight from Soundcloud?

Also, there is an obvious return of the podcast scene: here again, plenty of ways to make money from that.
For anyone else that reads this and thinks the comment is referring to the musl libc fear not. Apparently MUSL is also the "Multi state Lottery":
While I personally buy into that definition too, it IS very much a valley centric definition that much of the rest of the world doesn't follow. At least, not to the letter. So be aware that you may be speaking to people outside of your bubble when throwing around black or white definitions like this, because they may have their own differing definitions.

Besides, there have been multiple "podcast startups" (by the valley-definition of startup) in the past.
Ooh: nice recommendation.

I have somewhat mixed feelings about Soundcloud. On the one hand I've discovered a load of cool stuff through them, as well as uploaded a few tracks of my own.

On the other I received a takedown notice from them after a complaint from Sony about one of my remixes - my most popular track by miles and, at the time, the third most popular remix of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up (long story) - which left something of a bitter taste in my mouth. To add insult to injury the notice arrived on my birthday last year. Haven't really touched Soundcloud much since.
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> I'm still stuck at the stage where I feel that p-zombies, qualia, the chinese room etc are pointing at a genuine explanatory gap.

I can't shake the feeling that a lot of the arguments about qualia are begging the question. 'Qualia' is a name for something on our map of a human mind. It doesn't necessarily describe something in the actual territory.
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Maybe it is, maybe it isn't - that's kind of the point of GitS, thinking about the philosophical implications of merging human and machine.
I always assumed it was just a combination of regulatory body idiocy and caution on the side of car manufaturers. So I didn't feel bad putting a hitch on my diesel Jetta and towing a trailer with it because it was rated for at least 2500 lbs in Europe.

But a friend who is more auto-literate looked into it and said in Europe the way trailers are positioned is different somehow such that the weight on the hitch is different.

Also more aggressive speed limits on trailers and other safety regulations enforced on the drivers.

So I don't know, it might actually be partially legitimate.
> This shows us, that company valuations are ridiculous and actually mean nothing.

It's more like company valuations are the best approximation possible. Of course the value can turn out to be way off.
This would have been so cool as a book! (Any recommendations?) I lack the patience to watch YouTube videos though...
After 4 1/2 years at Square colleague of mine and I, left Square to start our own portfolio of small productivity tools some we are building ourselves and other we will probably be acquiring.

Our first rule was that we will not get funding for anything than scaling a business once it hit some sort of product market fit.

Until then there is only bootstrapping. This is to avoid something like SoundCloud where you become numb to the die hard reality of needing to build a business before you build an organization, get fuzzball tables and promote your altruistic business principles.
Is that an actual full quote? When something like "says Gore" is jammed in the middle of a quote, I always suspect there was something else in between. It could be "umm" or it could be something that changes the meaning of the entire sentence.
Indeed, although with modern laptops not having Ethernet ports, it would need to be able to use wifi
True, but I would appreciate a little integrity/honesty. He flies all over the world, multiple times in a short time span, and then makes his money "complaining" that we are using fossil fuels, when he could have just as easily been there via a teleconference. I don't mind people that walk the talk, but Al Gore avoids that.
The amazing answer: he didn't. He was not wealthy (esp by congressional standards) circa 2000, when he retired from government. After that though, he wrote a few books and cofounded a TV network that was sold to Al Jazeera for 100m.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
And in the mean time, other parties will step into our USA internecine war with their own agendas and prey off our pride and ignorance, e.g.: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-ra....

[Written from an obvious US viewpoint.]
Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg (sorry). Seriously though, there are so many ways in which humanity is making the world immeasurably worse and in which our current models of organisation cannot be sustained, and global warming is only one of them. Take for example modern agriculture: we are forced to pour huge amounts of artificial (i.e. not animal manure) fertiliser onto the soil in order to produce enough to feed ourselves. The fertiliser is required due to the extreme pressure we put on the soil i.e. monoculture, expecting a full crop every year, with no fallow periods for recovery. This fertiliser has in some cases to be mined, obviously at some expense in energy terms, from non-renewable resources. The production and usage of the fertiliser consumes large amounts of currently, predominantly, fossil fuels. The fertiliser runs off the soil into the ocean, disrupting the natural balance, with negative side effects on sea life, itself on which many coastal dwelling people depend for food or livelihood. When was the last time you saw this issue discussed in the media?

Sometimes I think that the focus on global warming is negative in that it is far easier for those that stand to lose from wider conciousness about environmental issues, i.e. the usual big business concerns, to counter a single topic than it would be for them to deny the general trend of ongoing worsening and destruction of our natural environment in general. The fact is that western lifestyles cannot be achieved by the whole population of the world without consequent massive pressure on resources. Rather than worrying ourselves solely about global warming I think we would do far better to start reducing consumption, reversing population growth to the point that the world's population starts to decline, and putting efficiency at the heart of humanity's scientific and business endeavours. The chances of this happening? I'd say pretty much zero, because modern capitalism preaches at the altar of inexorable GDP growth, and the rich and powerful aren't going to give up without a fight.
> but what are the cons of using a duocopter vs your normal quad?

Higher lifecycle cost due to lower fatigue life resulting from higher cyclic loads on vital components such as rotors.
Yes, and best of all - it's free!

*with more paid advance features, but hey, if you need those, it's worth it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/arts/music/soundcloud-rap...
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Does PHP have linters or something that force you to use the practices you described? I find in Javascript that works pretty well to restrict the language to a sane subset.
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This doesn't really explain why folks want to be cops in other countries - Heck, I live in a country where they haven't traditionally carried guns, though they are starting to nationwide from time to time. They do have them available to them. Not only that, but not all of them will be automatically horrible folks. Some actually do want to simply help folks. Not all of them that apply are the asshole. And some of the problem is our own laws and expectations.

At this point, I should mention that I personally dislike cops, and have had really bad interactions with them, including one blaming another's suicide attempt on me. But I also know it isn't universal.

If you do want to arrest and harm folks, no, you shouldn't be on the force. There are other way to sort out these folks or make the behavior different. Pass actual laws protecting folks from such things. Give cops more education. Have laws that make sense. Hire enough police so that they have more time away from folks that are doing harm. Have cops do more work on things that are socially uplifting - where they have contact with good people - and pay the cops for this. Require they are respectful. Require they take the abuse we expect call center and retail employees to take (like being told to fudge off, yelled at, and generally called names). Require police to live in the areas they are policing. Make sure the laws are fair and that we fairly police different sorts of areas. And so on.
Sadly it does seem to me that there's an large element of ego behind his efforts.
> 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.

As you describe acceptable use-case for 99% of all projects.
SoundCloud used to be /the/ place for indie musicians to post their work - now I think websites like Bandcamp have more or less taken over. This article explains why - they basically stopped focusing on the artists - but I'm surprised they didn't mention competitors.
Thought it was pretty clear that I didn't buy into yours.

I guess you could rephrase your comment as this: People who run ads believe ads works.

As an outsider that is not very convincing.
New bar would still offer the old service (beer).
Startup will offer new product/service.
If podcast hosting is used as a stepping stone into a more general market, that could work. But the GP indicated they were small and moved slowly, so they can't really leverage that.

It doesn't matter whether it originated in the valley. It's not like calling an elevator a lift. A startup is a technical term with a precise meaning. You can call your bar a startup if you want, but that doesn't make it true.
Rackspace was the only cloud provider that would rather have paying customers, and this signals you they're out of the game?
Did you read the article? They ran out of funding and fired 40% of their staff. The business collapsed, not the service.
Is the code for that open sourced? Perhaps my biggest frustration with Dash buttons was that they were only for specific products from specific brands and it would be great to hook an IoT button to ANY product of my choosing.
"and it's not clear how legalizing drugs will change that, since addicts will still have to pay for their dose"

How about panhandling for an hour a week?

The street price of illegal drugs is all about compensating everyone in the production and distribution chain for the risk of being arrested or killed.

Legal drugs can be as cheap as we want them to be, weighting risk of violence against barrier for starting users and tax revenue.

The price floor (without subsidies) is dimes per dose.
How much does refined sugar cost? Three bucks per kilo? Four?
Indeed. I discovered this after a friend mentioned to me that Buzzfeed News was decent and, well, basically I didn't believe her so I went to check it out.

The first story I saw was breaking news of the Tianjin explosions and of course the story was so out there that, because it was Buzzfeed, I didn't believe it until I'd watched some of the footage and seen it reported elsewhere.

Anyway, yes, they are surprisingly decent.
Right now, machines need to appeal to humans to reproduce, because humans still control important aspects of making new machines. So the machines that survive and have copies of themselves made are those that make humans happier or richer or distract us, in the same way that those dogs that have survived are friendlier or cuter or do useful work for humans.

If humans no longer fed and sheltered dogs, the dominant dog species would probably evolve to be uglier, wilder, more aggressive and generally more wolf like. We should expect the same of the machines.
"We've been killing animals since the very first day of our existence as a species."

Including humans.
> We need some way to get out of the disinformation bubble

There is even something that came a long time before IT and the resulting disinformation bubble:

Very unhealthy and materialistic values, deeply embedded in our current culture. I.e., we are constantly being told that being rich, being popular and to dominate others is a very desirable target.
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Maybe I'm missing something but this article is telling me Soundcloud is dead. But is it?

Yes they are having a hard time but it there no way to continue with a small team?

As a Soundcloud user there is nothing telling me it is dead. Fresh music every day. So it's not like an exodus is happening.
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You can't tell me that the fact that the opposite of the `htmlentities` function is `html_entity_decode` is "great, easier to remember and quite sympathetic".

Of course you need great documentation, with those inconsistencies users have to look at it every 5 minutes to even know what they're doing.

EDIT: Thanks. https://github.com/nkkollaw/php/commit/eeb8d6b38272eadaae405...
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What would you do instead, in his position?
Pretty neat, looks like they focus on Supply Chain Management software. So many companies have awful SCM tools, glad to see they are innovating in this space.
I would never consider doing a music industry startup due to BitTorrent.
This is pedantics. Their definition of "startup" vs. yours is completely irrelevant to the point they are trying to make.
I would love to see a trend where posters post anonymously. I don't want to see a trend towards cosy, TED style content where the person is just as/more important than the message.
> They need some social features to keep people engaged though

2017: the year Google Plus crushes Facebook!
I'd like to see how this compares to, SpaceX for example
As an aside, if anyone has ever actually used comments, whitespace, or quoted strings in an email address, that would be be extremely interesting to hear about.
If this had been Adobe's focus rather than chucking it at Apache then Adobe would be world leaders in JavaScript app development and we'd all be using their tools.
I read the weekly https://betalist.com/ newsletter. There's no shortage on "ah nice!" moments (visually).

From an idea point of view I can only remember bookmarking http://rakam.io/ (https://betalist.com/startups/rakam). I'm a developer so B2D tool excite me most. And their base solution is open-source and on-premise.
Dyalog seem to have done amazing work on this in the last few years. Talk about Dyalog onging performance work https://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog16/?v=2AeONlTj1aY. Latest version performance info https://www.dyalog.com/dyalog/dyalog-versions/160/performanc...
That "precise meaning" is not universally accepted (or even really all that popular). Paul Graham proposed it once, some people subscribe to that, but it's not universal, and I'd say YC and the greater VC community have a vested interest in ensuring companies like the one this comment chain is about are not viewed as startups.
You should really count the Premium (paying) users only. The others don't make the company any money.
Bringing up the bieber situation is entirely unfair. SoundCloud did the best any company could have done in that situation. His own label was also confused by the move.
Actually, it's central to the conversation. This isn't some semantic quibbling. They were arguing the startup model is broken and then giving an example of an alternative (themselves) without meeting any of the criteria of actually being a startup.

I'm convinced that the startup scene is now filled with posers who call themselves startups for prestige. This probably isn't a new phenomenon, but it's relatively new on HN.
>Maybe I'm missing something

Yeah, this was in the first section of the article:

"In early July, SoundCloud laid off 173 people — some 40% of its workforce"

and the rest of the article outlines the collapse of their business deals and troubles.
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Intellectual pursuits have value outside of money, you know.

You speak like someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
`sizeof(a)` only gives the size of the array when the size is specified at compile time. Either you accept e.g. `int[16]` as a type, or you pass a pointer (for which `sizeof` just returns `sizeof(intptr_t)`)
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It's not just quibbling. If you don't use that definition, then the word "startup" loses all meaning. It doesn't matter what other people call themselves.

I think companies that don't follow that definition have an agenda: startups are now prestigious, so they call themselves a startup in order to seem impressive.
Compare to an excellent report from the trenches: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co.... A very good read.
I met a sysadmin who made a backup of all user home directories, then ran a script to delete (rm -rf) all data from users that haven't been logged in the last months. On that system the home directory of the user 'root' was /home causing all directories to be wiped.
What difference does it make whether he can call himself a startup? Saying "the startup model is broken, I'm happier running my business, which is small and bootstrapped but profitable" doesn't change anything just because he can't use the word "startup".
Well, Spotify managed just fine. They didn't have those billions when they started out in Sweden.
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Here's a couple good articles by Scott Adams on things that would convince him on climate change. He mainly focuses on his experience with being able to manipulate models to show whatever you want them to show and what proportion is man-made vs natural.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158159613566/how-to-convince-sk...

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158778029326/how-to-change-my-b...
The surprising truth for a public weened on sci-fi is that human body is far more difficult to reproduce than the human mind. And indeed, with the exception of big, dumb, but very powerful weaponized bodies (tanks, fighters, drones) our bodies are far superior to any robot body.

I predict that humans will always be vitally important for our dexterity at the 1m scale. We can (and do) use tools for smaller scales and larger scales, but we are truly excellent entities at this scale.
If you read the article in its entirety, you'd see few have access to broadband even if they could afford $90 a month. Dialup sounds like the best most can get, although I didn't see stats on that specifically.
This is called "tu quoque"[0] or appeal to hypocrisy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Heck, I had forgotten about Advogato. I had an account on it for a while, and there used to be some interesting and unusual articles on it sometimes.

Just looked it up again. It seems to be on the Internet Archive now, and even has a Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
2 megabit is far lower than the best case for 3G HSDPA...

My parents live in rural Australia and their internet is 3G through a basic roof-mounted 850 MHz whip antenna getting a signal from some 15-20 km away, and they get a solid 6 MBit down, which is fine even for a decent-quality YouTube stream. Their main hurdle is the $8-10/GB that Telstra charges for the privilege.
I switched to Reader. Looked like landscape could work if you were patient enough, but it was painful.
Really?

So the main issue with php is a few functions have inconsistent parameter order? Ignore the massive speed improvements, composer package manager system or huge community. Good companies use php. I haven't met someone at facebook that can't code it. (please spare me the HHVM comment or how your intern friend does haskell in the basement).

Have you read about python 2 vs 3? Have you actually seen real programming language issues? Or tried to scale rails? Or worked on deploying java with 30 other people? Tracked a memory leak in c++? Been thrown into callback hell of node? Have you tried to get stackoverflow answers while developing in MEAN.

IMHO people are just justifying their own stack (while secretly suffering with python - a 26 year old programming language) [1][2]. In reality they know php can do anything web / probably in less lines, portable, with easy to find information, with a strong community, in less time, faster. I will let everyone get back to figuring out what the difference between urllib and urllib2 is in python.

[1]https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
[2]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2018026/what-are-the-dif...

PS. Also, wtf does javascript librarys have to do with php.
Really depends on the wording.

"What does this remind him of? - a literary test to vote"

vs

"This is like a ...? - literary test to vote"
Both Erlang (1986) and Beam (Erlang VM, 1992) predate PHP (1995).

And Elrang processes are not OS processes, though I get your main point.
This article is very much at odds with my 15-year (1988-2000, 2001-2004) experience writing software at NASA (albeit at JPL, which is to say the unmanned space program, but still NASA). In my experience there was just as much politics, marketing hype, and general bullshit as I've seen in the commercial world. It was actually pretty amazing to me some times that things worked at all, let alone that they worked as well as they did. I think the real secret at NASA is not that they are better at writing code, but that they write it slowly (development cycles are measured in years) and they test the living shit out of it. Then, once it's working, they don't change it except under extreme pressure. But while it's being developed it's just as much of a sausage factory as anything else.
'Every contract'

Not even close.
> I wish he would stick to what he's good at

Thankfully he didn't follow your advice, hence he revolutionized every domain he touched.

You really should read more about his contributions to various disciplines.
Well isn't this natural that they are unexpected to you if you did not read the document that specifies what is expected?

I'm interested by the undefined behavior you mention. While JavaScript clearly has some counterintuitive mechanics they are pretty much... deterministic. Could you share an example of what is undefined? I assume you mean "C/C++"-like "undefinedness".
"I use Linux as my desktop and the rising popularity of electron means that most "cross platform desktop app" links which used to mean "we do windows AND mac!" are actually cross-platform, are usable on Linux and are feature-complete and behave the same as on other platforms."

This. Electron makes it economically and technically feasible for companies to deliver the same features and support to Linux users as their other customers.

The thing is often not explicitly stated is that many companies using Electron are not desktop software vendors, but SaaS providers. They aren't going to do native desktop applications, because they just want to provide nice clients to users for their particular service.
For Clojure it seems React Native + ClojureScript is the more popular option. It has good startup performance and works also on iOS: http://cljsrn.org/
Telemedicine and video-based education, I'm sure, will be perfectly fine too, right?
They were "city slickers" because they only had two cows (or, more likely, only had enough land for two) where as everybody else had many, many more.

City slicker isn't an insult that means "rich" by the way, it means from the city and hence not willing do a hard day's work, dresses too nice and is not trustworthy.