skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of this madness device manufacturers could work together with HTML5 cons... to make a set of APIs that access native things, and for not-so-standardized features they could use prefixes kinda like we did in CSS. The websites accessing these HTML5 APIs would simply check for their existence first, then start using them. Usage of the APIs would then kick of device specific permission prompts, etc... Think about the integrations too, we would no longer have to set up application forwarding URLs like twitter:// to route to our app, everything would work from any device!

Even if manufacturers don't work together, if they at least provided JS API access built into their native browsers - then we can build shims on top of them.
More than likely it won't come to this. Most musicians want their music everywhere, and give it away for (almost) free. Spotify/radio/etc are the marketing, and concerts/festivals/movie licensing/etc are the product. Unlike movies, there's insane repeatability of music, meaning it can be everywhere.

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if less-popular tracks for artists moved to another service. You want to hear The Chainsmoker's radio singles? Play them non-stop on Spotify! But if you're a huge fan and want to hear back tracks, demos, etc, you can pay them $10/mo on a Patreon-like site. Basically, charging more for a closer relationship to studios you like, while their more popular music is released for free.
That's what I thought too, but someone from the investment banking industry corrected me the last time I said that, and pointed out that "banks never lose money", and that the company does eventually have to repay them.
You mean your fellow Finns that are the largest group of immigrants and that have been overrepresented in crime statistics?
Changing /etc/ssh/sshd_config was my first attempt as well. But since this is OSX things are a little different, see here: https://serverfault.com/a/67616/
The alarmist in me thinks there is a huge crash coming and companies are seeking to allow stakeholders to quietly cash out in the public markets. Given the numbers on some of these companies they definitely wouldn't be acquired for the amount they would want. An IPO while they're hot seems like a better yield.
Substance? All I see is "Onions have natural antibacterial properties, which is why this works," which doesn't relate at all to the function IMO.
Technically it's here already (in alpha), just haven't updated the landing page.
Spotify paid bankers roughly 40 million euros to run this direct listing and did not raise any additional funding in the process (because it's not really an offering). Dropbox paid bankers about the same amount in fees and was able to raise a bunch of capital in the process. I wouldn't necessarily call one of these events spectacular and the other not spectacular. They are just different...
> Don't the underwriters provide an obvious service that will always have utility for some private companies: risk management?

IPOs have (a) companies issuing stock, (b) private investors selling stock and (c) public investors pricing an asset never before continuously priced. All this happens simultaneously. If the ball drops on one, it drops on them all. Underwriting is a good way to manage that risk.

Private markets challenge that simultaneity. Instead of selling into the IPO, companies can sell some in the private markets and some after going public. Instead of having every insider sell on opening day, they can sell in private secondaries and then after the lock-up. That leaves element (c) isolated. That's difficult--Spotify still hired bankers--but it doesn't need underwriting.

Another way to look at it: three services were bundled into the traditional IPO. Bankers charged richly for the bundle. Private markets give companies the option, to dis-assemble the bundle and price and time them separately.
> I think I've read locks/hangs' reports even with newer APUs, and at this moment I'm not sure if disabling C6 state on package (or was it core?) is an effective workaround.

For me it is. It's triggered by the firmware setting:

Advanced > AMD CBS > Zen Common Options > Power Supply Idle Control = "Common current idle" (instead of auto)

That disables package C6 state for me (checked with zenstates.py), and freezes and random reboots disappear after that:

C6 State - Package - Disabled
C6 State - Core - Enabled

On auto setting for the above, I get:

C6 State - Package - Enabled
C6 State - Core - Enabled

And it highly annoyingly randomly freezes and reboots in such case.

Another workaround is in the linked thread, to compile the kernel with special rcu options, I tried that, and it works, but it's not really a good method.

> don't know if they were joking when they said that Windows is never that idle...

I don't think they are joking.
> Keep your calories and your body fat low.

This is a bit like financial advice stating "don't become poor" or health advice stating "don't get cancer".
I love seeing projects like this and I hope that a sane alternative to OpenSSL emerges.

A big dream of mine is that we'll eventually have a comprehensive and hyper-detailed set of automated tests that we can use to validate cryptographic libraries [0]. Someday I hope that every new CVE for a cryptographic library will also come with a corresponding automated test to check for that vulnerability.

Footnotes:
0: Wycheproof is the closest I've seen to this ideal yet: https://github.com/google/wycheproof
Also if I remember correctly, an increasing share of the losses are financing costs.

They're not operating as a sustainable business at this point. They will most likely need the VCs to continue throwing money at them.

Who knows, maybe it'll work. I personally wouldn't bet on it though.
Is there any plan for a European presence? (At least, for the storage part)
> Spotify was under contractual requirements to go public, due to the terms of their last fundraising round

Spotify was under obligation to do an IPO. Part of the motivation for this structure was avoiding that penalty language.
$44-50 million based on one source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/spotify-l...
April 1st would be when they announce they’re dropping it for the COmbat Landing w/Electronic COntrol system.... COLECO.
The expected time it takes to pay with a phone is increased by taking into account all the times my fingerprint isn't read successfully on the first (or any) attempt.
Since this is just shares changing hands and not bringing money into the company - what is the impact for Spotify? Does the company itself own shares? How much money has Spotify in the bank these days?
It is not, in itself, a problem.

A certain amount of inequality encourages economic growth and innovation. Zero wealth inequality would be perfect communism. A lot of people--myself included--presume that would retard growth due to a lack of incentives.

The maximum amount of wealth inequality would be for one person to own the entire world, and for everyone else to have nothing. This is practically impossible, of course. We can only approximate it, such as by 1% of Earth's population owning 99% of its wealth. This generally encourages the other 99% of the people to take some of that wealth by force, without regard to any increased productivity the current owner may be able to squeeze out via economies of scale or capital investment, or whatever.

A medium amount of inequality encourages people with less wealth to do neat and interesting things in order to become more wealthy (economic mobility), and for those with more to make capital investments that increase productivity, purchase luxury goods, and finance megaprojects (concentration of capital).

So the problem is when the amount of wealth inequality moves away from the optimal profile, which remains undiscovered. My perception is that we are moving away from the optimum, rather than toward it.
It is alot easier (cost and effort) to start a band and put on album on Spotify, compared to creating a movie/tv show.

Consumption is different, as well - several minutes at a time versus dedicated visual attention for a minimum of 22 minutes.
sounds unnecessarily complicated when you can just use public ip + TLS client certificates or SASL
I'm not quite clear on why people are choosing spotify over google play music - to me the google option is superior in UI and offerings (including ad-free youtube).

Am I missing something? Is it just one runs better on iPhones or is more hip (like why people choose snapchat over instagram or something)?
Nand2Tetris was very good. I think Coursera has it listed as "Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris." The course does an incredibly good job of walking you through building a CPU starting with NAND chips.
Awesome-Ai-Privacy: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning Resources
Ask HN: What's your experience replacing JavaScript with Go lang. in Front end?
Have you done this in your production apps? How was your transition from javascript to Go?
Not even remotely - they made out better on this than other recent IPOs.

They are paying 35 - 40 euros or ~$45 million at the midpoint. If they float $1 billion in shares today, that means fees are 4.5% of the overall “offering”, or almost exactly what Dropbox paid.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/spotify-l...
Because those young people generally tell themselves that they want to settle down and start a family, so school districts seem important.
So, 57 channels and nothing on?
Probably a niche case, but I regularly analyze data that exceeds 10s of GB, so it helps when that fits on RAM and requires less chunking when analyzing.
Is Spotify a tech company? I thought they were just sending an audio stream to subscribers with a website/app for searching?
> that private firms cannot be trusted to manage financial transactions despite the massive history proving they can

I'm sorry, this is so laughably incorrect that I had to make sure I wasn't missing some obvious sarcasm markers. A history of massive, systematic failures that the state has continually needed to correct for, maybe. If only it were so simple as private = good and public = bad.

>The state is anti-innovation

Sorting algorithms are slow. Doesn't matter which one! I just know they're slow. Don't ever sort data. Ever. Sorting = slow = bad. You'll never convince me that different sorting algorithms have different characteristics and trade offs. Sorting is bad! Okay! End of story.
I don't know much about buying shares but I would like to buy in and invest. Care to give me feedback on that? Where did you buy in?
It is incredibly rare that a builder would accept physical cash, they will be paid by check or bank transfer. Builders quote less because there is less risk of finance delays, and a greater chance of completing the project for cash buyers than those that depend on a draw and continued credit from a bank.
Writing portable serverless applications
I think the music industry still isn't quite sure what to do about pirating. Seems their solution is "send spec-op soldiers to kick down doors of people in other countries" still.
I fully support PWAs, but it's not just a matter of doing what's practical, it's also a matter of user expectations. It's become standard business strategy that you need an app store presence whether or not it's an effective way to deliver functionality. Plenty of users (iPhone users in particular) just expect it.
It is strictly testable in principle, but not really in practice. You can't exactly lock up people in a metabolic ward for years to collect long term data.
The equivalent would be to start their own label and sign artists. It's hard, sure, but not impossible. They have the same advantage Netflix did - an intimate knowledge of people's musical tastes and habits. Plus they have already shown willingness to diversify into other areas - merch, concerts, original shows, videos etc.
And how is anyone supposed to sift through all that garbage to find something worthwhile?
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And if you print all the policies and procedures, you can easily build a decent wall with all that paper.
I would say it could be either but none the less bias is a relevant variable that should always be considered. For example, studies on say smoking or the health benefits of a pharmaceutical performed by a tobacco company or big pharma respectively are openly and voraciously discredited as bias which they should be. Anything relating to social justice of any sort is swallowed as irrefutable fact without a second thought or an ounce of critical thinking applied.

It is then regurgitated argumentum ad nauseam and any statistical (read fair and scientific) analysis of the study and its bias are attacked as anti-something, racist, misogynist etc. It is academically and morally corrupt and cannot and should not be allowed. The academic community should be vocally standing against this practice but being that they are afraid to be called a name or slur they swallow it.

People have put their political subscription above everything else and it is sickening.
Putting children up for adoption is an option more frequently than not, and vasectomies and tubectomies exist.
Yev from Backblaze -> Yes! We do hope to have a location in Europe and are on the hunt for one! That said, it's a bit of a long process, so there's no ETA for now - but it's something we're actively pursuing!
>To become the music's Netflix they would have to produce their own music which people want to listen to, which is a lot easier said then done.

What Spotify has going for it is that indie artists can easily (or at least relatively easily) put their music up on Spotify, which bypasses the record labels. Now, not all of that music is going to be good but that is a way they are already bypassing record labels.
I got a Ryzen 7 1800X machine from Dell and regret it. It crashes with different BSOD error codes from time to time. A great benchmark is useless if it can't be used smoothly.
So, the only people who are okay with it are younger people? Do they happen to be the ones who use smartphones instead of computers, listen to dubstep instead of music, and so on? The people who watch fucking Let's Plays? Oh well. One day we'll look back at that generation, laugh our asses off, and change the subject.
Take a look at https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Networking.... Haven't taken either, but Stanford typically puts out pretty good MOOCs.
Congratulations on getting as far as you have. There is plenty of actionable feedback from HN.

What are you prioritizing for your next release? I would recommend including the most often repeated UX complaints from this "Show HN". Iterate quickly and get another round of feedback. Keep up the momentum.
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Would you recommend going with Go's crypto/tls if you can get away with it?
Leadership != fascism

Leadership + time = fascism
Google equips school buses with WiFi for homework in rural areas
I am having SOAP-related WSDL flashbacks.
VitalikButerin live tweet comments on the “Bitcoin, Controversy over Principle”
The matrix.org home server is spectacularly overloaded right now, causing messages to take several seconds to be delivered at a minimum. It isn't terribly surprising considering my own federated home server with under 20 users sits around 4gb of memory utilization with a single core (the server is single process/single threaded by default) pegged.

There's some work that can be done to proxy some of the load off into separate workers, but Synapse is pretty darn awkward to work with.
Tesla autopilot swerves towards divider at same site [video]
Would love to help your company with their storage needs. Feel free to email me: gleb.budman at backblaze

BTW, this person is figuring out how to do transcoding of files their files in B2 as well: https://twitter.com/orlandoferrer/status/981205299532124163
It should read "Download all your data first using THESE instructions." right?
I'm in the same situation, actually! With the dates I've seen for Millennials, at least.
This was a frequent pain before .Net 4.5.
Now thanks to Roslyn you can use the latest language features and target .Net 4.5.
A lot of stuff works even on .Net 4.0 if you fix that annoying problem with the class they moved around.
Personalized playlists, artist radios etc. The point is you don't have to sift because they do it for you.
Introducing 1Password Business
Yes, but half the apps just need to maintain state without logging in.
South Korean millennials are reeling from the Bitcoin bust
Don't get me started on our presidency. My party sold it's soul to win (of which I've now learned, it didn't have much to sell).
But when you say it's my information to share, is this somehow hidden from people? Is there some sort of system that hides that fact from people?
I feel like an alien because I truly don't get the people who are griping against their information being sold/distributed.
I don't mean people like my grandmother, who're just happy to purchase stuff online, but people sophisticated enough to make cogent arguments about privacy and data rights, but act as if they are taken aback by ad targeting.
It's either disingenuous or mentally incapacitated, but I'm struggling to find a third option here.
I'm really excited to see this, especially the part where each employee gets a free Families account!
Snap is certainly fitting that pattern. Down 48% in the 13 months since IPO.
Hey Neighbor! Let me know if you're interested in a beer or networking in the area. Hellgate Venture network is a great place to meet other tech oriented people in the area.
No prob, Eve looks pretty cool. I'd love to benchmark it alongside japronto and apistar. Thanks!
They could look at purchasing Bandcamp, which has done a great job of promoting and selling independent music.
Why would I use an app for something when a web browser provides a better experience with fewer bugs and a richer feature set?

The app and mobile site quickly run out of memory after a page or two of gifs.

The app does not allow you to open content in other tabs. This is problematic if I want to follow a trail of links and resume where I left off in the feed or comments; I have to mash the back button repeatedly. Additionally, I can't open a new tab to look into comments or a link later.

The mobile site and app have issues with sorting by top / newest every now and then, and often will fail to load content altogether - leaving the user with a white screen. (I've reproduced this in firefox & chrome on Android, and safari and firefox on iOS)

The mobile site and app take longer to load comments and additional content - and sometimes fail to load all together. Whereas the desktop version of the site loads almost instantaneously and almost never fails.

The app does funky things with copy pasting of text.

The mobile site sometimes crops half the images, making it a pain to click through.

Downloading images / saving getting an images source URL can be a pain on the mobile site / app.

And of course, the mobile site spams you constantly to download their app.

I can't use an adblocker, privacy related plugins or browse incognito in the app.
> if it's a link that's posted (and not re-shared from another page), it's usually interesting

I agree, and would be fine with including that sort of thing, especially with a UX that encouraged writing something about the link. A text post including a URL is still something my friend wrote.
Indeed they do. You're right, and it's a disaster.

With that said, is it possible that high-potential children could be viewed as something other than interchangeable widgets whose primary purpose is to make public schools that are failing many students look good? Especially given that such schools are often little better at meeting the needs of the high-potential children than they are all of the other children.

You're right. Charter schools are often guilty of creaming. Yet, are we doing anyone a favor by sacrificing the education of high-potential children to mask problems?
30 / 4 = about 7x ARR. That's a very high SaaS valuation multiple, but not ridiculous vs comparables like loss-making Salesforce (9-10x).

Spotify presumably is being valued like this because investors are betting that their strong customer growth will allow them to find new ways of generating profits - such as signing their own artists directly to cut out license fees, much like how Netflix started funding their own shows.

If customers were unsatisfied with Spotify, then their churn would be higher - for instance defecting to Apple Music, which by many measures is "better" because of Apple's heft and reach into their devices.
Underwriters aren't gatekeepers by definition, because there's nothing preventing companies from foregoing underwriters. But almost every single company that goes public chooses to[0], because they gain significant value from the process.

There are a few exceptions - Google is the most famous one. But they're rare, and even Google ran into trouble with theirs - they literally had to cut the size of the amount they raised in half about a week before the IPO, because the demand was lower than they thought, and then ended up leaving a lot money on the table.

We forget about all of that today because Google is now a successful public company. But their IPO was unambiguously a disaster from the company's perspective - they would have raised much more money with a conventional process.

> That's what I thought too, but someone from the investment banking industry corrected me the last time I said that, and pointed out that "banks never lose money", and that the company does eventually have to repay them.

No, that's not true. If the IPO is undersubscribed, the company isn't liable for making the bank whole. If that were true, then yes, there would be literally no reason for a company to use an underwriter, because there's no requirement to.
How is Spotify raising capital from this if it's not selling shares directly? Will it wait until later to offer stock directly to the markets?
That is an academically dishonest approach to this or any perceived issue. Anyone who would even begin to approach any issue in a manor as to prove a hypothesis true or untrue would follow the basic scientific method. There are many variables that account for differences in pay. Ignoring them is dishonest and will only be accepted by idiots. Sorry for the harsh words but it is true.
Love to see this happen, but how's the performance (responsiveness, memory consumptions) compared to native? I believe the main reason people are reluctant to develop web-based apps is performance, which results in poor user experience.

Any benchmarks/testings to show the performance is on par?
> Reddits success in spite of completely eschewing designers should prove design is over valued.

This is not a fair conclusion to draw. All that tells us is that design isn't the _only_ factor in success. There is nothing to suggest that Reddit would not be more popular were it better designed.

I'm not really sure what the cultural roots are, but the fact that visual appeal is valued by consumers makes it important to developers. I would also push back heavily on using Japanese web design as a counterexample. Their popular sites generally share an aesthetic, it's just a little different than what ours have. It's also worth mentioning that western designed sites dominate the Japanese market as well.
Netflix was at the mercy of the content producers but it managed to work out of the hole by making its own content. Even if Netflix dropped the entire third party content repo, their current production content is enough to justify a subscription for many people. Spotify could easily follow Netflix's playbook by identifying musical trends that people enjoy and crafting new music.
The exoticism of a foreign currency also probably has something to do with it.