skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Wait,” I said, “Listen, it’s music. Your product is music. The reason I know that is because if we went out into the street right now and asked a thousand people what Starbucks’ ‘product’ is, they’d all say coffee. Not a single person would say ‘Starbucks’ product is Starbucks.’ Right?”

I whole-heartedly disagree with this. Sure, people might say coffee, but Starbucks' product is really the whole package. The store design, atmosphere, music, employees, drink names, drink combos.. these were all essential in Starbucks' rise. You aren't just buying coffee at Starbucks, you are buying the experience of Starbucks, therefore, that is the product.
To make up for the shortcomings of a bad web site design.
i keep looking at that drone photo, it looks like the drone was hand made in the 70's from a carpenter's wood leftovers...seriously...
One thing, and one that's relevant to an OS class, that I've been doing with my own toy kernel (that I haven't had any time for lately) is using Cargo workspaces to make it extremely modular. You can of course do this in C, but it's even easier with Cargo. In a class context, you could do something like "here's the entire OS except the scheduler package, implement it and make all the tests pass."
How to build your MVP
> Meanwhile, Spotify pockets 30% of all the revenue they collect––and they don’t make anything

I think this demonstrates that the author has a very narrow understanding of what it takes to build a music app with 140M+ active users.

Sure, they could pay artists more and it's legitimate to have that talk, but taking it to such extremes makes no sense.
In spanish I think all countries agree on at least: desayuno (breakfast), comida (lunch), cena (dinner) as the three basic. But we also have merienda and almuerzo which get different times and portions depending on country.

And there can be other terms of course. In Guadalajara, México, where I live, schools say "hora del lonche" (lunch time) to the midday meal.
Unboxing a $500 LED
Is this meant to be satire cause I can't understand the OP's logic at all?

While it might 380,000 streams to make 1 year at Minimum Wage, per the OP's logic, one can say they get paid for 3 minutes worth of work (or the average length per song).
That's a fair point, too
I think you're overestimating the chances of something bad happening here, much like people fear crashing in a plane crash.
It's not really expecting much. Most of Africa will be using phones for internet access not computer so they can just get the coordinates for that.
Utter, utter garbage. Please do not waste your time reading this.

> Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, made his initial fortune. At 23, he was the CEO of uTorrent, a pirate platform that became BitTorrent (arguably the largest rights-infringing platform in the world). He and their developers then used identical rights-infringing software in order to build his new golden goose: Spotify.

This is misleading, as BitTorrent Inc purchased uTorrent in 2006 to replace their own BitTorrent client. But uTorrent was just one client for this "pirate platform".

> Meanwhile, Spotify pockets 30% of all the revenue they collect––and they don’t make anything.

I suppose he has no issue with labels then?

> Spotify’s in trouble because Spotify doesn’t know what their product is.

> “No no…sorry,” I said, shaking my head in disbelief. “Your product isn’t ‘Spotify.’” He continued to stare at me. I said, “Sir, your product is music.”

What a muppet, going from "Spotify doesn't make anything!" to "Spotify's product is music".

This is especially dumb because it's like saying "supermarkets don't make any food, they just sell it!".
It's interesting the different standards we have for ownership of entertainment media versus our own work product. There are zero programmers who feel Intel owns a stake in our work because without their computers, we wouldn't be able to make programs. But even though musicians in fact can create music that people will pay to listen to without instruments, you just tried to take them down a peg from us by suggesting that they're just another rung on a ladder of value that I suppose starts with, what, logging to get the wood for the instruments?
Why bring up that uTorrent technology was part of Spotify? Clearly guilt by association and a bit of ad hominem on Daniel Ek. Had really hard to take the article seriously after that.

Spotify and power dynamics in the music industry is fascinating, but there has to be better treatments in the topic. Any tips?
Unlike cash, right?...
It always amuses me to see articles which talk of monasticism as something of the distant past. These traditions are alive and well. Also, a lot of these features exist not just in monastic practice but also in the practice of lay Christians of the Catholic and Orthodox traditions.
Why was the title changed? It used to be "Stanford CS140e: Writing a Raspberry Pi OS in Rust"
I see your line of logic here and acknowledge the distinctions you make. But I agree with the main point of the author which I read as - A music delivery system that loses access to musicians isn't much of anything. And, Spotify is apparently alienating musicians.
> Sure, the guy from the article kinda sounds like a dirtbag. Still, he was shunned from his family (and a close family at that) and is essentially losing all of his close social network because of staunch religious beliefs that most of us would call silly.

Do most of us really consider 'don't leave your wife for your mistress' a silly belief? From the article, that really sounds like the reason he was cut off.
I have had sites with a lot of content. For various reasons, I have archived a number of them recently and started new projects. This is part of why there isn't much content on the sites you looked at.

Thank you for taking the time to look at so much and give me feedback.
Yes and no. The App is nothing without the music. Spotify's ability to populate the app with works from artists is integral. If they made record players then i would agree. But they really do sell music.
> Of course it will recover. Blockchain technologies are so transformational that you need a lot more than a simple price crash to kill cryptocurrencies.

Are they transformation? I have yet to see a blockchain application that's not done more cheaply with a traditional database. Most of the practical uses of blockchain are as effectively centralized "distributed" databases (e.g. corporate blockchains), while the rest are cryptocurrencies and other distributed ledgers that are, at the moment, extremely volatile.
A great read! A sharp commentary on conflating our models of reality with reality itself. So many of our current debates are simply dialogues over which model of the world is most accurate, but we have a tendency to identify our ego with our pet models, which can lead to righteous certainty that we are right and our model is in fact reality itself -- which brings all conversations to an impasse. Reminds me of this quote I read in another HN post recently: "Stanford business school’s motto is “change lives, change organizations, change the world” — though they rarely seem to know what or how. Or what the role of chance and circumstance is. But if the goal is to change something, they must have the ability to determine the future, mustn’t they?" (source: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/western-elite-chi...)
I don't know I think there's a big difference between being hit with a paddle or spanked for everything like described in the article vs the few times it happened to me. It was only for the few really shitty things I did as a kid that I knew better than to do and only after repeatedly being told it was going to happen if I continued. Me being the little shit I was would usually continue. It was never hard enough to hurt me and I feel actually taught me there is a point I can take things too far and the consequences will be bad. I was never afraid of getting spanked growing up but I knew if I ever did anything really bad it could happen. Honestly I kind of hated being grounded more than being spanked.
Reading that fight-over-semantics-because-words-have-meaning-and-etc reminds me what you learn from Ordinary Language Philosophy: that words have meaning in specific context and we as humans spend inordinate amounts of time arguing with one another over what we THINK are topics of substance, but are ACTUALLY coming from different contexts. Different 'language games'. Example: the musician argues that 'users' are not the 'listeners' of music but are in fact the executives. For a software engineer / product manager / CEO a user is someone who uses their software. For the musician, a user is one who 'uses' people nefariously. There were a number of other language game situations where people talked through one another in that article.
The real impacts of "the orgy of capitalism" are already well known: the highest quality of living in humanity's history, longest average life expectancy ever, widespread access to education in all levels, peace, and most affluent population in the recorded history.

What's your point?
It definitely makes sense for tech to do a lot of the heavy lifting. I actually think humans are critical for recruitment (having done plenty for my company), but I agree that there are aspects that humans will never be able to do at scale. Using AI that has access to so much publicly available data would vastly improve the industry. Good luck WorksHub, maybe your AI can help me find great staff!
Right, 20:1 ratio means for 20mbit of bandwith to consumers you buy 1 mbit of bandwidth from a upstream provider. I don't think you're disagreeing.
This is precisely what I was hoping for, and I just cannot thank you enough for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate you giving me a full range of resources too.
Shenzhen losing Cantonese somewhat makes sense due to the sheer number of migrants moving in from different regions of China. They likely outnumber the population several-fold now. It was only declared a special economic zone back in the 80's - Before that, it was a relatively small town. Now it has a population of about 20 million.

Compare that with Guangzhou, which also has a ton of migrant inflow from other provinces but with a large local populace - if you walk down any given street you'll still hear Cantonese spoken pretty often, though Mandarin is more frequently used (since it's the common tongue.)
Interestingly, listing publicly as they're about to do, will release them from that binding over time. The ownership position will be majority non-label and non-insiders with a modest amount of time. Large investment funds will demand they make appropriate choices specifically to benefit the Spotify business, even if that includes building their own label to compete with the major labels. Assuming Spotify thrives over time, it would seem inevitable they'll pull a Netflix. It makes far too much business sense given their between very low and negative margins in the business as it is today (wherein the labels persistently squeeze them nearly to death).
Hi HN! I'm the creator of the app -- happy to answer any questions about my app or how to best survive an attack from a Wampa
You can save time by learning from the mistakes of others. I see no point in failing myself if I can do it right the first time by relying on expert guidance. For some things I do a single major mistake could leave me crippled or dead.
I'm under the impression that much of the country uses counties a lot. I know they are quite important in New York (my father owns property upstate). New England seems to be an anomaly there. Even Hawaii has county governments.
In Virginia it's even worse. There are distinct counties, but we also have cities that are legally different and not contained in counties.
I think you'd confusing business with product. It's a common conflation because with many companies it's the same thing.

But in this case I think it's important to note that Spotify's business is distribution via software. Their consumer product is absolutely music (via streaming).

It's no different to, say, a book publisher - their business is marketing and delivery/distribution but their product is (obviously) books.

The article is a little childish in tone (and clearly written by an interested party to one side of this argument) but his central point here is not wrong.
>What is he actually referring to?

I'm guessing this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-t...
That's aim - the staffing industry is crying out for innovation.
Stories from 300 developers who got their first tech job in their 30s 40s and 50s
What happened to Cory?
Best get off hacknews then.
When I was in Oakland I was able to get Webpass with my building. $500/yr and 200mbit, though in practice it was actually higher. Never had a problem real with them, and their service was great.

Per latency, my ping when playing games was sub 20 (but to be fair the servers were in California).
How does persistence of DNA address death?
I feel like parents are humans too and some times just need to express their emotion. It doesn't mean they regret their decision necessarily. They might just be going through a difficult day or time. We could use a little more empathy.
On the contrary, I absolutely oppose marijuana prohibition, and agree that the way on drugs is responsible for a broad variety of social ills, including a hyper inflated incarceration rate.

I think it's a mistake, however, to oppose regulation of legalized marijuana grows by default. Like any other industry, it's going to have potential for negative impacts, and regulation can help check those impacts.
If the self-help content you consume in order to improve yourself makes you feel worse about yourself you consume the wrong content... It's almost like saying that food in general is harmful because the fast-food you eat makes you fat.
You're admitting that you want someone else's genes in addition to yours to be passed on. Someone you're not related to, which is your wife. And then your kids spouses. Your genes will get diluted each generation.

Anyway, there was an interesting philosophy podcast that rejected reductionistic evolutionary explanations for human behavior. The reasoning goes that yes, evolution is responsible for creating our minds, but once we have the ability to be conscious, to reflect, ask all sorts of questions and form new ideas and what not, that this is a new level of explanation. Thus the need for psychology, sociology, etc.

Call it an emergent if you like. Evolution itself is emergent upon physics, chemistry, geology, climatology, etc.
"I hate MS and they've stolen thousands from me over the years"

I can honestly say my relationship has been anything but mutually beneficial with MS too... and I owe them a bit of gratitude for that.

When I was a teenager in the 90's I wanted to learn programming, so I downloaded Visual Studio 6. I learned C++, and MFC. I gave them no money, but I still got my first marketable skill. Later I would go on to download SQL Server. I gave them no money, but in return, I learned SQL. Got pretty good at it.

When my career progressed, my relationship with Microsoft started to become more mutually beneficial. Employers have purchased MSDN subscriptions on my behalf (the really expensive one!) I've pushed for SQL Server over alternatives. The better I knew the unique features of their products, the more it became my preference. I wrote .NET code for years, and have been responsible for my employers purchasing probably tens of thousands of dollars worth of licenses... for products that worked very well.

Today I mostly work with open source software stacks, but I spent 10 years working with Microsoft, and I do owe them a bit of gratitude. They've improved my life for sure.
Don't forget about datatau http://www.datatau.com/

Basically a Hacker News clone for data science.
> It sure sounds like the definition of what is IoT has changed since the last time I checked...

It’s almost like some kind of system for supervisory control and data acquisition...
Let's not forget this gem:

>The average salary at Spotify is $14,000 per month

Yeah... because execs make outrageously more than the median salary.

This article is beyond childish. It should be linked in the Wikipedia article about the Dunning-Kruger effect, and in the dictionary.com entry for arrogance.
Humans flourished and grew in population during a freakin' ice age, I don't think the Earth warming by 1 degree is going to drastically alter the steady increase in population growth.

Likewise, the population grew tremendously before antibiotics were even invented.

There's a level of hubris in every generation, I imagine going back forever, that think "we have it harder than X", when in fact humanity is always progressing and each problem we face is relatively easier to solve than the previous one.
I mean, they definitely talk about how the specific demands of modern motherhood are exhausting. Here's a quote:

"Feeling trapped or suffocated is a common theme in Donath’s work; mothers felt “as if the metaphorical umbilical cord binding them to their children were in fact wrapped around their neck.” Many women said they felt pressured to have children. So did German novelist Sarah Fischer, author of Die Mutterglück-Lüge (The Myth of Mothering Joy: Regretting Motherhood—Why I’d Rather Have Become a Father), published in 2016, who writes she knew she’d made a mistake “when the contractions started.”
Note that these problems are not inherent to out of order implementations. Dan Ingalls (who first implemented Smalltalk) said "you can cheat as long as you don't get caught". When speculation fails, all side effects are rolled back in x86 and ARM processors except reads to the cache since these were considered harmless. Writes to the cache are already rolled back so not doing so for reads just saves circuit complexity. There is no reason why this can't be added to the next chip designs, though nothing can be done about what is already out there.

As for the Mill, it has enough differences that these attacks wouldn't work on it. Just the separation between protection and translation, for example, would stop Meltdown in its tracks.
I want an eight pound MacBook. (3.6 kg)

That's enough for an honest 12 hours' battery life, a CPU+chipset that supports 32 GB of RAM, full-travel, full sized keys, a chassis thick enough to support all the ports, and an escape key. (And I want it to run OS X.)

Every time Apple moves away from the eight pound point, they compromise something I care about for something I don't: thinness and lightness.

So let me be perfectly clear: I want it heavy, thick, and powerful.
Yup, I also don't think it's Spotify's responsibility to make sure recording artists are making a "fair living".

Comparing the average Spotify artist's earnings to a Spotify is comparing apples and oranges.

Successful artist's (except the top 5% maybe) aren't making fortunes off of streaming services. They make money from merch, touring, endorsements, and physical sales (although dwindling).

This article is a cringe filled, immature rant. The author didn't expose a flaw or put the execs in their place, he threw a tantrum in the name of justice. Work on a real solution instead of bragging about how you got invited to a closed door meeting and threw a fit.
The banks seem to have won the propaganda war about bailouts preventing economic collapse pretty well. I guess once the government makes the bailout and the banks accept the bailout, both parties are pretty committed to ensuring the public thinks that the bailouts were required.

What we really got was a tacit approval for bankers that they could make highly leveraged bets in the 7 years that the markets were going up, make shitloads of money, feel like geniuses, and then when it all inevitably explodes the government would bail them out and then QE like crazy to pick up the pieces. The QE would be given not to citizens, but to banks to inflate equity markets, and start the whole cycle again.

Now we have a whole new generation of financial "geniuses" overhyping every asset class, making shitloads of money off it all, thinking they are geniuses, and when it all collapses again they think the same thing will happen. It may do, but this time I don't have to be involved in that bullshit. My money is now unprintable. They can devalue the USD shitcoin all they want, but there are still only 21 million possible bitcoins and that's all I care about.
>“And by the way,” I added, “Stop calling your subscribers ‘users.’ They’re not ‘users,’ they’re listeners––our listeners in fact. You’re the ‘user.’ You’re using our music to monetize our listeners for your profit.” He looked at me as if I’d just shot Santa Claus in the face. “No, man! You’re wrong!” He was sweating now, and the dozen or so musicians who’d gathered around us began heckling him. He shouted, “Spotify is our product! You don’t get it at all!” He stormed off.

Then all of the very famous musicians in the room walked up to me and said "Wow, Blake! You sure did show that nasty Spotify executive!" They began to shower me with praise and small tokens of affection. Everyone was in awe of my wit.

Beyonce said "Blake - those words you've said were the most beautiful that I've ever heard. Will you write the lyrics for my next album?" And I said, "Beyonce - I'm honored. Ordinarily, I would say no, but because #IRespectMusic so much, I can't refuse this opportunity."

Next, Tegan and Sara came up to me. "Wow, Blake," said Tegan. "That was so amazing. I can't believe how brave you are." Sara chimed in "and handsome!", giggling. We made small talk for a few minutes, before they had to run to a recording session - but first, they surreptitiously slipped me their numbers.

By the time I was done talking with Tegan and Sara, most of the other famous musicians had already thanked me and left. I turned to finally leave the building, when I saw one last hooded straggler, standing in the corner. Suddenly, he looked up at me. "Tupac?!" I said. Indeed, it was Makaveli the Don himself. He looked deep into my soul and said: "Blake... God isn't finished with you yet." Then he smiled, a mysterious smile, and faded away, just like Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope.

And that was the day that I, Blake Morgan, saved music.
Apparently modesty isn't that heritable. If you think the world's problems are going to be solved by your one wunderkind, rather than investing time and money in the already considerable number of intelligent people on the planet who are lacking opportunity, then clearly your genes aren't all that valuable.

We have enough people and our gene pool isn't diverse enough to make any one person invaluable to the future of the planet.
I feel for musicians, but to say that Spotify does not make anything is BS.

I started listening to _more_ music on Spotify. This by itself does not necessarily pays more to the musicians that I used to listen to, compared to buying their CDs and tracks piecemeal. But I started to listen to two orders of magnitude more artists than before. I may not spend more on music, but my money are now spread over a longer tail.

What Spotify makes is a distribution and discovery product that - by itself - creates a huge value for me.
They don't even sell music. They provide access to music for free, and charge you for access to that music without ads.

Amazon's (the company) largest product is Amazon (the marketplace).

Amazon (the marketplace) allows Amazon to sell products to users, but also allows 3rd party merchants to sell products to users.
I'd love to follow along, but I don't see a parts list to get the matching parts.