skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Live Nation is significantly worse for the music industry than Spotify is.

Live shows are awesome, but let's not pretend there's no middleman involved. Unless you're seeing a tiny band, going to a live show involves dumping fist fulls of dollars into the pockets of a huge monopoly.
Lots of social groups I'm a part of use fb for discussion and event coordination. There's no way to make other people use email or slack or whatever your favorite tool is; the only two options are FB and non participation.
There is really only one change that needs to be made: undo the Instagram acquisition.
What you're missing is that these prices will converge as the Futures market develops and more professional arbitragers get on board. When that happens the gap will shrink significantly and be far less profitable.
I miss the days when if you wanted to meet somebody you just went to a bar or coffee shop or started some sort of hobby and talked to people. Trying to push tech as a solution of a problem that was caused by tech to begin with...man, that's something.
Merzbow and Lou Reed come to mind.

Edit: Yoko Ono
They can appear to be objective, they cant ever be actually objective in any universal way. There cannot be a correct interpretation of reality in any logical system as all premises are fundamentally impossible to validate.

Luckily we dont need to know whether something is objectively true for it to be useful. And useful is really all you need.
It's quick to convert but I've had varying results going from epub -> mobi, especially with calibre. What's worked for me the best has definitely been kindlegen but it's still not perfect.
I'd say the dominant factor is "the sheer number of exchanges that have varying degrees of resistance, from mild to total, of converting BTC to USD" ...

Be they delays on withdrawal, explicit, or just ghosting.

Be they unrealistic minimums (Bitfinex will not process such a transaction for >250BTC, $4.5M or so at today's rates).

Be they whatever flavor excuse-of-the-day.

Some exchanges need to learn to walk before they run.
Neanderthals: The Original Globetrotters
I drink the coffee purely for the caffeine, and don't have high standards. I just buy ground coffee, typically from a local shop, but sometimes starbucks. Then use a French press, purely because I can make a small amount of coffee with it, and not waste a whole pot. You do have to be careful about pre-ground sometimes its too small and can make it through the press, not ideal.
On the contrary, the response seemed logical and genuine (I am not from nor have I ever been to Kansas.)
Bitcoin has already suffered three catastrophic losses in its history. -70%/-80%/-90% in 2011, 2013, 2014. See http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/ It has always recovered with suprising ease.
An American Held as an ISIS Suspect Deserves a Prompt Hearing
I was just reading about a couple of ereader apps this morning.

https://github.com/koreader/koreader

and a newer one that the developer just announced in a Reddit rust group:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7iu7q8/plato_a_docume...
Unless made in a certified commercial kitchen, this is totally illegal where I live.
The customer isn't always right, but, the customer also didn't ask for glued-in smartphone batteries, removing the MicroSD slot, or removing the headphone jack.
PGadmin and DBeaver are nice, just in case you didn't tried them.
Spark is not a buzzword if you do analytics, it's the preferred platform, especially over native Hadoop. Honestly most developers have no idea what the heck Spark is or how to use it. NoSQL/Kafka yes, Analytics/Machine Learning is still far too complicated for most to stand up on their own.
Problem is that even withbthe facts on your side you can still be wrong about a great many things
The tasks are good, but I wish it was graded and you could list the top submissions by likes and speed etc.
Something like codeforces where you can learn from the best by studying their code..
Ireland risks shooting itself in the foot in crucial Microsoft email case
Those project listings look brilliant!
Apple confirms deal to buy music discovery app Shazam
You can't sell a Bitcoin without a buyer, that's how exchanges work. If there is large sell demand, the price gets pushed down.

It would behoove a larger holder not to sell all at once as this would certainly send the price downward. But at the moment, there is pretty clearly sufficient demand for even the largest holder to dump everything over the course of a week without setting off a panic. Normal average volume is 100-500k BTC/day.

But to answer your question, the price would plummet, and new entrants would eagerly buy, that's where the money would come from.
Who’s liable for any food issues?
Pipe bomb strapped to man explodes in NYC subway, injuring 4
Ask HN: What is now (end of 2017) the best place to host Static site content?
Now that we're at the end of 2017 here, I'm curious what the best / cheapest (free?) place that people are using to host static content or entire websites (single page) for their app or assets for their mobile or website apps. If one wanted to host the website / landing page for their web app as well as the web-based dashboards for their app somewhere and not bother with self-hosting and such, where should folks do it? Looking for current best recommendations.
I don’t think this would need to look anything like a “global currency.” It would probably just be a currency with exchange markets for other real-world (i.e. government) currencies, meaning it would be no more a “global currency” than USD or euro is today.
Sorry, no.
Just went back to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence

and empirical evidence is not just many anecdotal evidence.
Newly minted Bitcoin futures indicate more modest growth ahead
Show HN: Crypto Tab – Replace Browser New Tab Page with a Bitcoin Price Chart
New Tab replacement page that instantly gives you information about the Bitcoin price.

Choose a period (hour, day, week, year) and be always up to date with the Bitcoin volatility index.
What do you listen to in the car??
So is there any situation where you would say that the gains from performance optimization are marginal?

Also, you fail to consider the opportunity cost of developer time. It's not free. Your business needs you to do other things. Also, like GP said, there are factors to performance beyond payload size. Do you actually develop web applications for a job where someone else decides the priorities?
> Software development is a horrible gaping maw of fad-driven, ill-thought-out crap.

Words such as these deserve a poster to live on.
Have you tried pycharm? It offers some nice things like auto-complete over SQL as well as your table schema.
I've been using Heroku for many serious projects since its inception. It's been nearly a zero effort, especially compared to doing it all myself. This alone is enough to prove the statement false (counterexample).
I was looking at that choice for my latest project and the gem recommended (resque?) only using Redis for the job queuing at the benefit of much higher performance over something like delayed_jobs using postgresql in jobs. It didn't seem worth it as job queueing was not the main feature of the server. I suppose if one were doing some sort of real time feature where you had to queue things off a Rails API response thread it would make sense but wasn't doing that for now. But just judging by the number of downloads, the Redis based job queue is possibly more popular for some reason.
Would it be possible to emulate whole Z80 or CPC platform at a transistor/circuit level (as in Visual 6502 [1]) in real time on a modern PC with a GPGPU?

[1] http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/
I'm struggling to find references, so apply salt as needed, but I'm fairly sure I've read multiple references to the fact that the LN developers themselves describe it as pre-alpha and still a few years away.

Which, to be clear, isn't necessarily vaporware - I think most people are in agreement that the concepts are sound, but that integration of the execution into the mainstream are quite a ways off.
Yes, thank you. I suspect all of these people complaining about the size of web pages don't actually work as web developers. Especially because they think the only aspect of performance that matters is payload size.
Fiverr and CraigsList already does most that. Freelancer and Indeed fits the other parts of your niche. How are you going make this solvent? What is your pricing model? What you want to do has been done before. But it usually dies on vine because it can't get the traction in the industry or folds on the bandwidth cost.

Sit down and write a full business plan on how you get your business going and keep it going. And yes, even non-profits have businesses plans.
That niche being "anyone who needs to store structured data and reliably retrieve it". It's a small market, but there's demand there.
McDonalds has learned this lesson as well. People say they want healthy alternatives... but then the customers don't actually buy the healthy stuff.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/03/22/mcdonald-custo...
Yes, I've made a few vanillajs SPA for HbbTV apps which were very unhappy about loading any framework everytime you change channels. Hardest part is the "router" which ends up being a big'ol switch statement.
I own a big variety of methods because I think it's fun, but get the most use out of our Toddy [1].

You can make 15-20 cups of cold brew at once (which has a decent shelf life) and if you use the optional filter bags, cleanup is super easy.

With nice beans you can also make some really flavorful coffee, but it's extremely tolerant of cheap/old beans in a pinch.

For hot coffee the aeropress has the best convenience to consistent quality ratio, but v60 pourover cone gives you the most control over all the variables, for better or for worse.

If you're new to coffee, don't sweat the method and focus on getting decent beans that are less than a week old. A good filter for roaster quality is if they have a 'roasted on' date, vs no date or a 'best by' date.

[1] - https://toddycafe.com/
>My roommate sells $40k worth every 3 months. In cash. He travels a lot now.

I seriously hope he's aware of the tax implications here. I feel like the IRS is going to be working some serious overtime after this nonsense is over.
I had a lot of good feedback on some Ruby problems I worked on a few years ago. I'm guessing it's highly dependent on having a community for each specific language.
this is great, much nicer interface/interactive charts than coinmarketcap. Good work, yahoo!
Well, based on the + of the post, it seems not to be the case.

Also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
> Spotify has a near monopoly and they dictate the terms. People aren't buying a second subscription service or buying songs separately let alone buying a physical album.

That's not even close to being true. Google Music, Apple Music, Amazon Prime whatever it's called, regular ol' Youtube videos and playlists, services like last.fm or Pandora.. There are lots of ways to discover music that don't depend on record labels and their marketing.

If your music is independent and you want to stay away from the man, you have to put work into marketing your music. That's the step that you'd normally hand off to the record label. At least now you actually have a viable way (lots, actually) of making money as opposed to the past when distribution was much more difficult.
Nice to see Microsoft's progress in quantum computing. It seems like you can't use this SDK without Visual Studio. If you don't have Visual Studio, you can use LIQUi|> [0]; another quantum SDK from Microsoft.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/language-in...
The transition does indeed matter a lot. I think there are other transition methods you are missing though. Look at how the US switched quite quickly to chip readers. I could also imagine a system where US dollars (or insert currency here) and UBICoin exist together for some time, but dollars are only valid if you were born after year X. Merchants would accept both during this transition time with an exchange rate.

There is a ton to discuss in terms of transition. I don't think the transition being another unsolved problem invalidates the entire idea, particularly when virtually no time has been spent examining the transition options.
For the purposes of this exercise, are we talking vanilla js only or can I build my own with excellent libraries like page.js? Because if the former, sure we can, but I wouldn’t want to ship a product on a deadline that way.
People that purchase Bitcoin are not investing, they're gambling. It's unfortunate that this lesson wasn't learned from the very recent 2008 meltdown when many did the exact same thing with real estate. But, as you say, there's going to be a lot of mal-investment with so much cheap money floating around...
Should Net Neutrality Apply to Google, Facebook, Etc?
I understand that Net Neutrality prohibits internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use. What about for content providers like Google, and Facebook? Would they be held to the same standards? Would Net Neutrality prevent Google from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites? If it doesn't, should it?
Nope.
You can't claim your lives back. You haven't become addicted to social media at all. You've become addicted to always being right and social media is the path of least resistance to achieve that feeling.
Have you ever accused someone of being a troll? A racist? A sexist? Have you ever stretched the definition of actual abuse to cover abstract abuse? You would be doing this even if you didn't have social media. Social media just gamified the accusations and rewarded samethink by punishing otherthink.
You deserve this lazy mirror. The real complexity of human nature to too much for your brittle ego. All I do is shitpost on social media all day long while armies of "being right" addicts filter and categorize every single pixel they interact with. You're just a Bayesian trainer and you're doing it for free.
I feel like the cloud play would be much stronger than entering the hardware market.
Titan V numbers are also reduced precision (16 bits), using their tensor cores.
Yet another complaint that the brief period of musicians as occasional break-out stars is over. What the author describes is the baseline position of musicians: mostly background performers. And when she writes of “music” she really means pop music, as classical musicians have by and large never made serious money.
Yes, you can. Maybe you even should, because then you at least understand all the moving parts. Because there are way too many shitty SPAs out there that break functionality (Twitter and Facebook when hitting the back button) or are annoyingly slow and unreliable (iTunes Connect, Play Developer Console). Read [1] to see all the disadvantages and understand them. Then maybe build an SPA.

[1]: https://adamsilver.io/articles/the-disadvantages-of-single-p...
Smart Cities between data extractivism and remunicipalisation
>Bitcoin has already suffered three catastrophic losses in its history. -70%/-80%/-90% in 2011, 2013, 2014. See http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/ It has always recovered with suprising ease.

...with 10x lower market cap. This is getting out of hand, which is the problem. Complete know-nothings are getting into it now. There are ads on Reddit asking people to invest their IRA in Bitcoin. It's like the whole world has lost its' mind.
Er... Yes. Its fairly easy. Granted I've never done anything on the scale of FB or Netflix, but SPAs are not as difficult as everyone likes to think they are.
The Things We Carry
Just being offended is a nonstarter, sorry.
What do you put the coffee in when you roast it on the stove? And how strong is the smell when it's roasting?

I want to roast at home but I'm afraid neighbors may complain if the odor is too much.
The author is trying to frame a cultural 'music discovery' problem as a Spotify UX problem.

I don't think Spotify's netflixified playlists are a big issue. In fact, I think they are decently curated.

The 'music discovery' problem stems from the centralization of music radio (in the late 2000s), causing a selected handful of superstars to reign supreme protected by the centralized barriers to entry.

Spotify has created the inverse problem. Instead of a handful of superstars (other than the ones grandfathered in before streaming became commonplace), the US Top 50 chart (over a given 10 week time period)is fragmented with 100% interchangeable rap songs with DIY production chops. 'Interchangable' is the key word here- none of these artists are able to rise to headliner status and major music festivals are in jeopardy because they are running out of legacy headliners to keep them afloat.

TLDR: Centralized radio enabled labels to conspire to make superstars. Spotify (not intentionally) prevents artists from becoming superstars. There are exceptions, of course, but the revenue numbers from previous generations dwarf those of, say, Fetty Wap.
datagrip and pycharm are both made by JetBrains. Datagrip is probably the exact same thing built into pycharm, but as a standalone product.
I don't think you'll find anyone who thinks it's hard to build 1 SPA without a framework.

The thing is that if you build 2, 3, 100, you'll find yourself doing the same stuff over and over again (and always better than the previous time, so that you'll want to replace all your old code, which is now obsolete), and that's when frameworks are useful.
My wealth is already redistributed by our tax system. It is absurd to claim it is 'the least compelling' if I want to keep my taxes in check.
Absolutely. It's really not that hard. I did it with the first version of my little meeting agenda app Meeting Rainbow. I rewrote the UI using Angular 1.4 later, and honestly it wasn't any easier using Angular than no framework. Angular just made things different, and depending on your opinion made the code easier to understand (though both versions are several years old at this point and far from what I'd consider a good codebase.)
I will tell you this: there is a group of people who are committed to keeping Deis alive, called Team Hephy and the Deis slack is still active. I've used OpenShift and it is certainly more active, but I also have the very strong feeling that Deis is "done" where many parts of OpenShift look like they are still evolving. (And I mean "done" in a good way.)

If you are not sure, feel free to drop in and ask any and all questions: https://slack.deis.io/

The announcement of EOL came in July, and the announcement that Team Hephy would take over was almost one month to the day later, in August. I have a lot of faith in the Deis codebase and I'm on Team Hephy now.

We have yet to put out a fully e2e acceptance test passing and providence-verified signed, versioned release of our own, but we have and know of a number of production users that still use Deis in Production.

It definitely does not feel like a ghost town on the Deis slack. Questions get answered. Neither does OpenShift (it is definitely not deserted, and it does not seem to suffer from "abandoned k8s fork" syndrome, they do keep up with the release cadence, because they have to.)

I would go with the one that solves your problem better. I'm personally still recommending Deis, as I like the built-in support for Heroku buildpacks that OpenShift lacks. (Convox also has support for this, on ECS.) I'm not aware of any K8S-native Deis competitor (other than Hephy) at least for now.

Edit:

The really nice thing about working in Kubernetes is that you have the conformance suite[1]. You shouldn't worry about breaking something with the next Ubuntu update, because if Ubuntu update has broken Kubernetes in a way that will cause Deis to fail, then it will not be a Kubernetes-conformant distro anymore (and there is a large list[2] of K8S-conformant distros and platform to choose from, so you should pick a conformant one[3] instead.)

So, your question should be whether Deis will continue to work on Kubernetes distributions that are conformant, and with some minimal research, I think you should be able to say that with a high degree of certainty it will, regardless of ongoing vendor support from either side.

Then, you can ask whether your K8S distro is likely to remain conformant. (This should be a no-brainer.) Finally, is there anything that can break within Deis internally (not related to how it interacts with Kubernetes) that would mean you'd have to stop using it?

For me, the big reveal / final test will be, can we upgrade from Cedar stack to Heroku 16, which is on Team Hephy's planned roadmap for the future.

If that goes smoothly, then I'm not sure what else there is to worry about.

[1]: https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/

[2]: https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/#logo...

[3]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LxSqBzjOxfGx3cmtZ4Eb...
That's what I'm used to but it doesn't come with a mix project, which is frustrating. It is just the ex file with the code and the exs with the test. If I have time, maybe I'll do others a solid and try changing the tests to use mix (if that's even possible as an outsider)
An epub file is basically a web page; HTML/CSS rendering ain't cheap.
From my point of view SPA and solid backend APIs go hand in hand. I see the main reason to use a SPA is to decouple front- and backend.

Doing so allows you choose a new frontend after some years while keeping the backend - or rewriting performance critical backend code while reusing the frontend.

Do you think the SPA-ish look and feel really is the key? That would surprise me.

It is more of an architectural design choice to me.
Thanks for answering in detail.

Just a misunderstanding I want to dispell for future readers : I was talking about functions with no side effect (Spark allows in mode only) and not procedures (where Spark allows all in, out, in out modes). Sorry I wasn't precise enough.

Ada2005 added 'out'/'in out' modes to function arguments (???) and I was refering to this...
yes! keep going!
That's why you implement a land value tax.
Good luck with that. The rich will just eat it in a country where it isn't taxed, like Argentina, buy it on the black market, or go hunting. The poor and the rest of us will end up paying the tax or eating even unhealthier industrially processed substitutes.
Here's a link to what I presume is the trial on ClinicalTrials.gov[1]. Notably, the maker, Ionis, is trying this approach on dozens of diseases[2]. I couldn't see a reference about a potential vehicle for the antisense oligonucleotide...

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02519036?term=ionis&c...

[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=ionis&cntr...
While this can be true, it is often the case that the product with more X is not selling because it is poorly executed, or has made too many compromises to deliver more X. In those cases, a product that delivers more X without the drawbacks has a great chance of succeeding.
There are thousands of tiny bars, pubs, house parties, outdoor venues, local street parties, and street corners where musicians play live and Live Nation is not involved at all.
If that were true then natural monopolies would not exist. Electricity too expensive? Let's just build some electric poles in the middle of the tundra and people will move their homes there for their electricity demand.

Land (as in housing) is widely accepted as being supply-elastic, especially since in addition to scarcity it's also heavily regulated. You can't wave your hands at SF and say it's an exception because you want UBI to work. Markets like SF are proof that housing pricing is income-elastic, and can't be dismissed when discussing raising the income floor for entire populations.