skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The infographic and quiz was kinda cool, I'm always playing Spotify it seems. "In 2017, you listened to 14,762 minutes, 3,117 songs, 1,251 artists, 28 genres"

I was surprised that 5th top artist of the year was a background relaxing mood playlist I sometimes play when I'm working, so I spiked the usage.

Also, I tell spotify to show me unavailable tracks so I can see whats being yanked from spotify. Hellbound train by david baerwald was the only track removed for the year in my 2017 playlist.

Spotify even created a playlist for "Ones that got away" songs that fit my style that I missed.
Lobbyists doing their work.

I bet we could find a few airliners in the campaign finances of the GOP. Technically still public info I think? Although I doubt Americans even care at this point.
It seems insane to me that Amazon wants me to pay them money to put something in my home that will make it far easier to order things from Amazon. That's not even considering all the valuable data they are mining from all the Echo units out there. They should be paying ME for this privilege.
you're a lawyer, so can you explain for me? What makes administrative law unconstitutional? Is Congress not allowed to delegate authority to the executive branch?
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Let's say "a few times a year" is once every two and a half months. Everyone who wanted to use Bitcoin would then have to pay about $100 a year to use it at today's rates. That's still ridiculous. And fees have increased mostly because the price increased. If people actually started using Bitcoin, the price would skyrocket and fees would rise even higher.
There is, incidentally, a "render this page" link at the bottom of the page.

A meta tag to autodetect the lack of JS and auto-redirect could be interesting feature...

(The idea being the JS deletes the tag from the page)
A smaller proof using fewer axioms or other proofs than the current state-of-the-art.

Discovering new and "interesting" proofs. Don't ask me to define "interesting" in this context.
> Doing so creates the risk of not actually receiving the payment, The circumstances under which this can happen are probably much rarer than the possibility of a credit-card transaction being reversed.

When everyone and their mother is using bitcoin as currency, I'd agree with this statement. For now, and for a reasonable short term timeline (~1-5 yrs?), I'd argue that the probability of an immediately accepted bitcoin transaction being a fraudulent one are much higher, simply because there are more opportunists as a percentage of total 'users' of bitcoin than there are in a more established market.

Of course most of the new money that's come into the bitcoin market (from the say ~$2k/BTC - $16k/BTC time period) isn't using it as a currency, they're speculating on it growing in value even more.

> It will be interesting to see where things stand 30 years from now.

It most certainly will. Personally, I don't think bitcoin is going to be the go-to cryptocurrency of 30 years from now, but who knows.

I missed my chance at being a bitcoin billionaire already(could have stashed away a few 1000s of bitcoin back when it was well under $1), so I'm not playing the speculation game anymore (I sold what I had at under $10k/BTC) - I hope everyone on here who is holding onto loads of BTC cashes out before it crashes, or that it doesn't crash and actually becomes useful currency! I'm just going to keep putting money into my 401k.
I am not so sure, all of the heat being dissipated by your typical CMOS transistor is due to the transistor state going through a linear region as it switches from fully saturated to fully depleted or fully depleted to fully saturated.

As I see it, if you're transistors did not dissipate that energy as heat, and instead 'stashed' it so that it could be re-used. Then you're 4 Ghz CPU would no longer need a heat sink.
We need a marriage of systems... where private co-ops own the corporations..they set supply/demand based on market considerations just like capitalism -- but everyone shares in the profits.

Full capitalism/Full socialism isn't the answer...there's got to be some sort of middle ground where more people can be lifted up by the system.
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I would say that if you need to look at 100 for each position open that the HR people are not doing their job to filter it down enough for you. For each open position, I can understand that engineer that does interview may have a dozen or more but 100 seems to be quite huge. Again, I am targeting an engineer position here, not HR or a manager.

About 1-2 page, nothing forces you to read through all the 6 pages. If the first page is not a fit, then move on. In my experience, a single page often lead to me to have to dig way more on the person to try to find anything related to this one -- not sure that a time saver.
That's the delight of HN: It's your highest rated comment because it teaches us something about the world we didn't know. It's interesting, if unexpected.
> Bitcoin doesn't have "monetary policy" to regulate it's supply

Actually it has the best monetary policy: it's supply is inherently regulated and prescribed: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply. Intellectual-yet-idiot Krugman is a Kardashian of the economic's world. Popular because he is popular, nothing more.

"Economists" should take a note from the medical profession: First do no harm. AKA unless there is a extraordinarily compelling motivation, the best course of action is no action. We have spent the last 100 years in a system where the very base layer of our economy, the currency, was cooped for social engineering. "Wouldn't we all be better off if we made the cost of lending almost 0?" -> Housing bubble. If Wizard's of Oz are constantly mutating the value of money and lending the only people who can prosper are the Wizards (politicians) and the Bankers. The last 50 years of economic prosperity make that evident.
I know a guy in a local band here in Portsmouth, England, and they had a song picked for a supermarket playlist in I think Brazil, ended up charting there and being flown out for a few shows. Another guy who was playing on the ferry to Spain for a living and had a hit in Korea through similar circumstances. This sort of thing can really make a career.
Implying iTunes for Windows is still being worked on. That's a good one.
Lobbyists are a necessity so that poorly thought out populist ideas don't destroy our country from the inside out. Lots of "popular" regulations are poorly thought out.
I'd say it depends on required speed and use cases. See libp2p's ifaces for swarm, routing, etc. Heck, you could use Tor, make onion services for your peers, and add the names to Bittorrent's mainline DHT for discovery (of course Tor is slower...a price you pay for anonymity)
> If buying a hamburger cost you $30 in fees on top of the $6 burger, you'd stop using dollars for everyday purchases, too.

Or maybe you'd buy a few month's worth of burgers.
No. The Free Market is a specific distributed economic value apportionment tool, and like any tool it has requirements to operate efficiently, failure modes, and no inherent "goals". Amongst the key foundational requirements is Information Symmetry: in an ideal Free Market exchange, participants all have access to full & identical information. The more asymmetrical the information, the less efficient the exchange will be until you see full market failure.

Now yes, in the real world there are certainly man areas where it can get complex (such as processing ability). But for a party that claims to champion the Free Market, things like information symmetry and cost internalization should be core goals. Information symmetry in particular is low hanging fruit, it should be both utterly uncontroversial and straight forward for businesses to implement as obviously they're keeping track of all of it internally anyway. It is explicitly and incontrovertibly anti-Free Market to support efforts to hide pricing information from any party to a transaction, full stop.

It is a shame that the Republicans have so often been opposed to the Free Market in their actual actions and policies, whatever words they choose to say, given that the Democrats are also not all-weather friends to it. It's a very powerful tool that could be used for a lot more good then it is. I guess it doesn't help though that so few people in the general population have any idea what it actually is. The name probably doesn't help either: "Free" and "Market" are two of the most overloaded words in the English language, and the name might encourage people to imagine they know what it is through "common sense" in a way they wouldn't about something like quantum chromodynamics. Economics (along with probability and statistics) is sorely under taught in most public education curriculums I've read, despite being key to modern life.
At the moment, most of the things that are spec'ed in the box are the gnarly macro "languages" like destructuring, defn, ns, etc. These spec'ed macros do catch a far more complete set of error messages than the macro did with custom error handling. However, those error messages are in many case more challenging to read than before. This is an area of ongoing research - the reasons for the complexity are varied. In general, specs for core functions are much simpler and provide much better errors, but we have not focused on adding those yet. This is why some of this stuff is still alpha!
I understand that you have to run their blob driver, but the comment I replied to was complaining about OpenGL performance.
But that was the original goal of Bitcoin — the paper states specifically transaxtions. I personally found it interesting when I bought shoes over Overstock via BTC earlier this year; only problem was my phone didn’t have a default QR scanner.
I am not saying that Hickey is "wrong".

Clojure simply differs too much from the Lisp languages. For example take into account the "atom" keyword and its meaning in Lisp versus Clojure. And also the way lists are used in Clojure, see "cons" for example.

These are not frivolous differences -- atoms and conses are the key building blocks of the Lisp language!
I wonder how much this would decrease the wait times for donated organs?
"It's not possible for everyone to be a JK Rowling. That is my point."

So?

"In order to create a system where it's possible to become a billionaire by writing a book we also create a system where a lot of people can't become millionaires by doing essentially the same thing."

But they are not doing the same thing.
They also write, yes, but not so good. Or maybe also good, but not what the masses wants.

And that's the other point, the masses decided to buy it - so the masses decided to make Rowling a star and rich.

Where is the problem? That not everyone can have big fame and big success? Well, that's the nature of things.

It only gets problematic if the elite use their power to bend the rules of the game, so that not those who deserve it (those who create big value) get successful and rewarded, but those of other traits ... so the game should still be fair. But I think we made progress with that. Some decades ago, it mattered much more, where you came from (nobleman) than today.
To expand a bit on this:

Imagine that you're joining a project. It's been worked on by a team of 100 people for a decade. Half of those people were below-average programmers. Many were newbies in the language, and some were newbies to programming. And you're going to get to try to maintain this code.

Now, do you want it to be written in a restrictive language, or in one that gives developers the ultimate amount of freedom?
Amazing, can’t believe I missed this one!
Likely, employers and what is possible in the immediate day-to-day sense.
I completely side with Gelman on this issue, but you can't point to this one case to dismiss all of social science. One can find examples of p-hacking, irreproducible research, and fabricated data in any field, but the existence of such does not invalidate the entire discipline.

I am merely cautioning against over generalization that just because there are some high profile examples of bad social science, there is still a lot of very good social science happening and it would be a shame to ignore it.
> everyone likes service fees

[citation needed]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15883218
It may be that you haven't come across a mental model that makes sense to you. There are honest sales people, even ones selling used cars.

Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale is a good model for thinking about sales.
Funny, I actually tested Chrome before commenting just to make sure it wasn't doing something weird, and F5 definitely doesn't reload Chrome on my computer.
I tend to like to see more information that is more recent but is also interesting to see the journey of someone. You can get something interesting by knowing that someone is able to switch language without problem or maybe this person is more the type that doesn't change at all. It's also great to see a long track of achievements even if it's been 15 years. Again, information like knowing that someone has been doing technical positions for x amount of year and now is more in a leadership position can give a good idea where the person is moving and what he still could do or understand but has changed in term of priority. Again, every resume should filter the content as its age but someone in the industry for 30 years shouldn't fit everything on 2 pages in my opinion.
No my point is why pay huge sums when if you have all the songs in the world at hand, watermarking and searching those watermarks is trivial. I looked into this a while back and the algorithms/libs to do this extremely accurately are available.

Obviously the problem is getting access to ever song and keeping it up to date with new ones.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I was saying that if saturated fats and cholesterol are good for you, then what's clogging people's arteries?
I have no idea why you were downvoted I completely agree with you.
There was a company from the first dot-com boom called Big Champagne the crawled Napster and other file-sharing networks to discover what new songs were popular. They're now owned by Ticketmaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigChampagne
I agree: we need a faster settlement layer independent of how much the currency itself is worth; but let’s say we have have that network? How do taxes work? Everytime you transfer or pay for anything? That’s not going to work.
Sometimes a broad generalization is generally applicable even if not always specifically applicable.
> But hang out with the right people and you would be surprised at how much is possible in life. There is a reason why success often seems contagious.

This has the potential to paint the wrong picture as is. The wrong picture being that growth breeds connections to successful people -> breed success -> breed wealth.

Another way to view it is, connections to successful people breed growth -> breed success -> breed wealth. This way "lucky" connections only aid in developing a better product, and not in practicing unfair marketing for existing products.
macOS has something called Fast User Switching, which is completely separate login sessions, but you access it through a menu on the right side of the menubar, not with keys.

macOS also has Spaces, which is just virtual desktops, but again, it doesn't use the F-keys to switch between them.
I wonder how many people actually end up connecting to the store wifi.
I consider 100mb to be quite large. That could easily double memory consumption of an application. Most http services are light but widely replicated. Adding 100mb of memory usage to each replica is certainly a tradeoff.
Thanks for resharing that post; I found it more engrossing than the original article!
Now that the link has been changed, I have no idea what you are talking about.
I think the undermining of Bitcoin's original promise by speculators is just as inevitable as Obamacare's undermining by conservatives. Both are driven by hype. Both are primarily driven by greed ("temporarily embarrassed millionaire" greed, in many cases). Both are aspirational. Both run counter to the cynical "humans will always subvert" narratives of their times.

That's not a judgement on either one. Just an observation of similarities. They're very different in many ways, too.
You're missing part of the picture here.

Yahoo has been the default engine in firefox... for the US market. it was still google everywhere else in the world except Russia where they went with yandex.

Mozilla got a lot of flak in Europe for not replacing google in the part of the world that mattered the most , where they have the most market share and where there is a good local alternative that actually respect privacy and was willing to do business with them (qwant).

And the reason for the yahoo deal is that yahoo was trying to sell and needed this firefox deal to better negotiate their own sale at a time when mozilla was actively trying to move away from google (well maybe not that actively).

To my knowledge there was not a time when google was not default search engine in firefox at all.
Yeah, I do and I should. But I didn't. Which perturbs me.
Please do not misquote me to make your point. The full quote reads:

> Unless you are in very heavy traffic, forcing people to go slow or worse to pass you on the right is causing a much larger safety issue

If traffic is heavy in all lanes, I think most people would agree you just need to relax and go with the flow on a highway. That applies just as much here as it does on the Autobahn in Germany.

However, if traffic is not heavy - Oregon like California is a "keep right" state - so if you are in the left lane and someone is coming up behind you, you need to yield - regardless of the speed limit.

It's not just the law, it's also the safer thing to do.
The Simple Thing People Miss About Cryptocurrencies
it takes like 3 minutes to learn lisp
Just seems like pedantry? Poetic statements and sayings are generally not supposed to be taken literally.

People were not encouraging you to avoid asking questions.
I'm impressed
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if Google sees Mozilla as a PR tool and a lightning rod.

Still whatever: I think we can all agree that the world is better with an alternative to Chrome.
Ask HN: What is your “manage email even on mobile” stack?
Once upon a time I could grep over a maildir and find what i wanted, all th good stuff for managing email has not transferred to mobile - in fact the mobile revolution has actually been a retrograde step in this regard

I need to fix my personal use and am interested in how other HN'ers keep mail manageable on their phones?
"weird" wouldn't be my first choice of word, desperate for a "hip", short domain and willing to take any name maybe.
> There's not much documentation for doing that stuff though, because (almost) nobody wants to do that. It's painful.

That is what I encountered when I first tried to learn Clojure.

I essentially gave up at that point. Installing the JRE is enough of a pain on its own.
The free market and capitalism are different concepts.
I'm conflicted about Alexa. I keep it muted most of the time. It is also plugged into a smart outlet that switches it off every night and wakes it up every morning.
I still can't shake the feeling of being listened to.
Aside from the initial excitement, now all i use it for is turning on and off smart things and playing occasion music from spotify. I might just get rid of it soon.
The specific contention is that the JS frameworks aren’t any/much better for user and they are unquestionably harder to develop.

The only time I can justify SPA is if you’re primarily differentiating via the UX.
tl;dr

Currying is nice when whitespace is function application and ugly and inconvenient when you have to write foo(x)(y) and the libraries you deal with aren't consistent about this. Currying in Haskell is nice for exactly these reasons.

Also, https://www.amazon.de/Das-Curry-Buch-Funktional-programmiere...
Maybe, it wasn’t in my mind until you mentioned it. But then perhaps contorting my word choice to avoid the common idiom would look obvious and gratingly call attention to the height issue. Honestly when common phrases that referenced height came up in conversation, Jane loved it. She though it was just funny. If someone said something about looking up to someone, she’d just say she looked up to everyone and we’d have a laugh. I just learned to relax about things like that with her.
I own bitcoin (and have for nearly five years) and I want it to be spendable as a currency again.
You're saying the delegation doctrine is unconstitutional? That (Supreme Court) ship sailed decades ago, so what's your view on Marbury v. Madison's doctrine of judicial review?
"What is the success metric for these playlist companies?"

Extremely difficult to determine.

And the 'taste-makers' in music are very hard to find, though they should easily have access to the latest/hippest tracks.

Design is one of the hardest things for a reason.

If fashion truly were a commodity H&M etc. simply would not exist.
Everyone is really smart and really nice. I love it.
> equality of information

It's based on information but not equality. In fact it's based on unequal information. Otherwise there would be no need for a market. The government could successfully plan everything.

But this is a bit of an aside. I agree more transparency is always good, all else being equal. And I agree that undisclosed fees are borderline fraud.
$99,000 Bay Area home was the most popular MLS property in the country this week
Back in the day (late 1990s iirc) I used Usenet as a global, distributed, publish/subscribe bus for system messages between island service POPs. Messages PGP encrypted and carried by a variety of groups (mostly alt.*). Also eventually consistent. Very eventually in some cases.

"Floodsub" indeed.
The fees have increased because there's not enough space in the blocks. The price increase would be irrelevant if there was enough space in blocks.
They really got me this time. Haha. I was surprised that I've been a pop lurking person. In total, I had 56,571 minutes, to 4,417 different songs and 1,661 different artists and explored 42 genres.

PS: The Ones That Got Away playlist is awesome.
You gotta love that the 2 responders to Krugman is to call him an idiot who's been wrong many times, and a Kardashian. But I'll just reply to your post because I don't feel like engaging with the brainwashed.
If you install the Shazam app, it is integrated into Siri. It just displays that the result come from Shazam.
I couldn't agree more, specially now that VPN usage is starting to be mandatory in some countries
My Cro::Service in Perl 6
This work still seems to release entropy into the environment.
To answer your original question: I checked the latest version of Shazam, and it does not request location services at all. (And I can't find a setting that might enable it later, either.)

I believe cmelbye was simply responding to your "if yes" with a justification for why it's useful. Even if I added the song to my library, what if I don't remember the name or the artist? Will I find it easily amongst the 5000 other songs I've got in there? And maybe I didn't like the song, but I'm reminded of it for some reason and it's really bugging me that I can't remember enough details to find it again. I guess I could listen to every single from every unfamiliar artist I see in my Shazaam history...

Indexing our life events by location and time, paired with a smoother search interface, would dramatically improve the memory augmentation aspects of our personal devices. There are, of course, tremendous privacy risks in accumulating this data (which is why the design tradeoffs / permission system around location services exists in the first place).
>What's the most popular Lisp in use today?

At least if based in 2016 GitHub popularity:

http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2016/07/lang....

#1 Emacs Lisp

#2 Common Lisp

#3 Scheme

#4 Racket

Unless you consider Clojure a Lisp (yes it is, and no, it isn't...), in which case #1 would be Clojure, and then the others listed above.