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I am friends with several small music publishing groups (I hesitate to call them record labels) and every artist is excited to get their album up on Spotify...and that's it.

Many of the self publishing activity that Soundcloud was/is famous for has moved over to Spotify.

New releases from smaller acts seem to be Spotify FIRST right now.
> How much more of a strain we'd be placing on the earth's resources?

If the immortality is based on "brain uploading", maybe just an extra EC2 instance per family of four.
Needs (2012) in the title
Signal on Android(app)/Debian(desktop) always syncs for me within a few seconds, and both my connection and DNS suck.
We'd like to think Ionic does this well, but also I think people would be surprised how many successful, popular apps actually utilize native shell wrapped web views!
This pretty much matches my experience. I resisted maven and the obscure pom.xml structure for a long time but eventually came around due to its excellent dependency management. Now that I understand maven it's hard to see how Gradle really improves on maven for basic Java projects.
Congrats on the great site!

Small suggestion: the "what city" input threw me off because there was no autosuggest menu, like on most other travel sites. It felt like I was blindly typing in something, and that I'd only find out if you accepted that value after clicking "Find" (instead of knowing right away thanks to the autosuggest, what works and what doesn't).

Case in point: when I type "st petersburg" without an autosuggest, are you defaulting to Florida or Russia? What about "springfield"? :-) [0]

Second point: I entered "yul" instead of Montreal, and that threw a 400 error. An autosuggest menu would have helped here too :-) and I do think that you should support three letter airport codes.

Ah.. just saw "We only support US travelers" in small print. I hope you expand..! Cheers

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Found small typo on [1]: "Casinoa" instead of "Casino"

Also: the underlined, but not hyperlinked text threw me off. I understand it as a design choice (it does look nice), but wondering if there'd be another way of conveying "this is important" without using underlining.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield#United_States
[1] https://travelalpacamybags.com/bookings/new?listing=6b0c1c8d...
I was thinking the other day. What if there was a browser extension that pulled in reddit/subreddit comment threads a la Alientube for the site or article you were viewing/searching. Literally anywhere you went on the internet for any hyperlink, you could check and see if there is a comment thread for that url. Decentralize the comment threads and related metadata onto something like IPFS and you have reddit but internet wide and you aren't limited to reddit's terrible search bar.
It's difficult, even the richest company in the world hasn't figured out proper sync of their encrypted messaging platform and they only support their own operating systems!
It came up in the comments yesterday about the recent Panera security breach. Someone speculated that we were seeing the emergence of an infosec version of the four dogs defense. Presumably someone then felt it was interesting enough to warrant its own submission.
Where'd you see that?

I'd never heard of Packet before today but I was able to see their pricing without any issues:

https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/
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> Is it wrong to work hard to improve your children's future prospects?

Nothing is wrong it.

> I'd be really interested to hear why people disagree with this

It's a blatant strawman.

If you provide for your child 1000x what they need (during childhood and/or via inheritance) that is not bad (in the scope of this discussion, no other details implied). What is bad is if you have 1000000x what your children need and you built this on the backs of people who will squaler in poverty until the day they die and the only thing you use the wealth for is to acquire more wealth. That is bad. The strawman makes it sound like you are defending an average middle class engineer saving up for their children's college as if they were in the wrong, as if they were on the winning side of increasing income inequality.

Nobody here is arguing against a middle class person saving up for their kids college. They're against people who actually have ridiculous amounts of wealth and the rapid growth of that inequality.
It's the single largest source of such funding in the US (and I imagine in the world, too), yes. I don't know that it's >50% though, but it's certainly a large fraction. For example, it's budget is 4 times that of the NSF or CDC.
>It's one of the reasons they use digital vouchers (scannable paper or loaded onto cards) instead of either, increasingly.

Only at slot machines. Table games are all chips.

When playing roulette, sometimes I'll see some drunk person throw a bunch of cash on the table and yell something like "Put it all on black!" It gets thrown right back at him until he gets chips from the cashier or has his money changed at the table at the appropriate time and in the customary fashion.
The classic solution to collective action problems is to have the government take care of it.

But here, the government is probably the biggest offender. You'll pry their databases and TSA inspections from their cold, dead hands.
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But surely the effective "tax" of moving cash around, losing it, practically unusably small amounts of change etc. is greater than 0.3% for the vast majority of use cases.
Spotify launched in 2008. Rhapsody launched in 2001, then added content from major labels in 2002.
FYI there have been efforts to rewrite an equivalent in Golang: https://github.com/matrix-org/bullettime
Why not add changes to Cordova instead of making a replacement?
Pandora wasn't on demand until very recently. It was "station only".

Myspace def. was limited and didn't have full catalogs of all music in any scope approaching Spotify.

Youtube is video that has music, and can't be conveniently used on mobile or used for music discovery explicitly.

Soundcloud is actually the closest to what I meant, but it obviously isn't used for record-label music distribution en masse.
I'm not going to dig around for metrics on this, but my intuition is that Google covers a larger base of "established" musicians whereas Spotify seems to be dominating new releases from smaller artists.

Google Music, Pandora, iTunes, are seemingly there to cover bases. The momentum appears to be towards releasing your music on Spotify first for your friends to listen to.
IMO, yes, very much.
"Is anyone seriously running into issues with only 16GB of RAM?"

Yes, all the time. I wouldn't touch even a laptop with less than 32Gb these days, but YMMV with workload. JetBrain IDE's and Slack are a far cry from volumetric image processing or lots of data science loads.
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Would you please do a better job of following the site guidelines? You frequently either cross the line or straddle it. By doing this, you damage the community in its most vulnerable place. I'm sure you wouldn't do that with other shared resources, and since you use HN, we'd appreciate your helping to take care of it as well, even when other comments are annoying, wrong, or absurd. Especially then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for letting us know, it looks like it might be down temporarily. In the meantime, the other demos work just fine:
https://www.mapd.com/demos/
Minor point, but Dr. Jason Fung has a very interesting and, in my opinion, compelling explanation of obesity and weight gain. He argues that the main driver of obesity in the long term is insulin rather than total calories, and because alcohol doesn't significanlty raise insulin it doesn't contribute to obesity, despite the calories.

https://youtu.be/YpllomiDMX0
It is really irritating that Apple don't offer 256GB iMac Pros with the current 64GB LR-DIMM prices (and it being officially supported in Intel), and even the current XNU kernel can do 252GB.
I define modern era as "doing anything approaching what spotify does regarding playlists, on demand music and discovery".
Right, they ramped up expectations ridiculously high with the Model 3 unveiling, but before that and when Gigafactory was just being talked about (before official construction), they were talking about 500,000 cars per year by 2020.
Doesn't Backblaze just have a single datacenter? If so, I think they're pretty limited in who they can partner up with like this. That is, they could only partner with companies who are in the same datacenter as them (or very close, network wise, due to latency) that they can connect directly to.
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This is great, thanks for sharing it!
Wondering the same! It looks like Part I has been around since late 2015/early 2016 based on the course reviews.
Also, no one's asking to have it paid for.

I've noticed over the past few years that a lot of things go un-made because there's an assumption that no one will pay for something if it's done really well.

The reality is a lot of people will pay for something if it's done really well.

I'd easily pay $10/month for Facebook, if Facebook really had some way to shut off 100% of its marketing-based data things that we're all so worried about.

Thing is that people became allergic to asking outright for money from consumers a while ago. I used to buy software, and I still will if someone actually makes great software!

(I pay for all sorts of services that actually ask; Dropbox, a password manager, Spotify, Netflix, extra space on Gmail, etc. Provide an actually great service, make it a reasonable price and I'll pay!)
This is an absolutely amazing course! It's also about how Buddhism actually guessed so many things correctly about how our brains work. The author explains about Buddhist ideas and almost for every of them, there is a scientific experiment, that indicates it could be true.
Maybe it's just me, but did social norms around first names change? I wouldn't call Steven Spielberg "Steven." I'd say "Steven Spielberg" or "Spielberg." But this is HN and it's entirely possible you've worked with Mark Zuckerberg.
I don't think you understand how much power Disney has. They own all popular superhero movies. Nearly all well-known children's movies are owned by them. Star Wars now is their IP. Netflix has what? House of Cards (which was discontinued)? 30 other TV shows that range from okay to "people talk about it once or twice to their friends"? 5 movies that are produced slightly higher than a TV show with mostly mediocre ratings?

Families with young children will subscribe to Disney's service almost guaranteed, and since a few years ago Disney has enough content for the parents, too. Why pay for two or three streaming services? Maybe Disney is enough. Disney's portfolio will also not shrink like Netflix' does often due to expiring licensing contracts but steadily extend over time.

Netflix might grow like crazy currently but they are massively in debt due to their movie making and their startup-like growth will eventually stop. As a Netflix subscriber I wish them the very best but I really, really hope they are aware of Disney and will be able to keep up.
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I fear this sort of thing is going to become more and more common at airports.
I spent a good 18 years in the Java coding stack. I adopted Maven when they just released version 2 and watched one of its evangelists talk at a JavaOne. Obviously now it's insane to think about a programming language that doesn't have a dependency manager (even C/C++ has Conan!).

After a long time fighting between what I liked best between Maven or Gradle I realized that the only thing I really needed was the parts to build the Java code. Things like Docker, Java code generation and a variety of other tasks you often do for releases, I finally figured out what I needed to do:

Make sure everyone on the team can run Bash. From there I could stop worrying about Windows users - Git Bash or Babun or some flavor of Cygwin. And things are even better with Linux Subsystem for Windows.

Now we simply have bash scripts that do all our one-offs that often were nightmares to accomplish in Gradle or Maven. Whether it is JAXB or Docker integration every maven/gradle plugin I ever used was 10 times harder than just bash.

When you start taking out all the other stuff it started to become clear that Gradle was winning out. With gradle I can build my code and get a variable that represents every JAR I need for a deployment into a Dockerfile containing folder. So that's where I personally ended up liking Gradle more - because I stopped depending on Maven and Gradle to do the other kitchen sink tasks.
If you're an individual or organization in opposition to a state / stage agency then certainly it makes sense to find an app to protect your communication without a third party being involved.

Short of that, consider if you actually need "P2P encrypted messaging" - if you're doing business-type things then you should probably use a business-type messaging solution. Slack is pretty good. IRC is fine if you're slightly more paranoid, it just doesn't have UX on par with a commercial solution.

Find any HIPAA-compliant messaging product and you'll get most of what you actually need (vs think you want), but be prepared to pay much more for it than for a regular chat client.
Buenos Aires [City], Argentina

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10.2.129.11 28 ms 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms 82 ms 31 ms 24 ms 28 ms 24 ms 26 ms 31.90
cloudflare 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms 24 ms 26 ms 25 ms 24 ms 24 ms 25 ms 25 ms 25.00
google 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 27 ms 81 ms 25 ms 24 ms 26 ms 24 ms 24 ms 30.60
quad9 158 ms 160 ms 156 ms 158 ms 157 ms 158 ms 163 ms 159 ms 159 ms 160 ms 158.80
opendns 149 ms 32 ms 32 ms 269 ms 34 ms 232 ms 32 ms 152 ms 87 ms 34 ms 105.30
norton 156 ms 152 ms 163 ms 156 ms 174 ms 158 ms 157 ms 163 ms 161 ms 163 ms 160.30
cleanbrowsing 32 ms 36 ms 34 ms 35 ms 33 ms 31 ms 33 ms 156 ms 33 ms 37 ms 46.00
yandex 271 ms 283 ms 297 ms 288 ms 287 ms 302 ms 277 ms 295 ms 294 ms 296 ms 289.00
adguard 291 ms 290 ms 290 ms 294 ms 285 ms 288 ms 287 ms 297 ms 284 ms 294 ms 290.00
neustar 160 ms 150 ms 164 ms 161 ms 159 ms 156 ms 159 ms 159 ms 156 ms 159 ms 158.30
comodo 169 ms 170 ms 171 ms 162 ms 166 ms 161 ms 169 ms 162 ms 165 ms 166 ms 166.10
> Aside from that, is there a general way to combat the four dog defense?

I always suggest to people that one way to discern a dishonest opinion (if you're not expert) is that they throw lots of contradictory (or at least weirdly independent) arguments at you.

For example, an article denying global warming might argue that the Earth is not warming and that the warming is caused by the Sun. These are contradictory (if it is caused by Sun, it is warming). Or it is more subtle, they claim the data from e.g. NASA are fake but use the same data to argue a different point.

In other words, dishonest debaters do not promote a coherent theory, and instead try to find as many holes in the opponents position as they can (which is always possible, no real-world knowledge is ever complete). But the real truth is always coherent, and that's how it can be recognized.
This site looks awesome! What did you use to build it?

Especially like the design and color palette.
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You use your iPad as it was intended to. Multimedia consumption, light internet browsing, some simpler office suite work.

When it comes to development, what's the use case besides a terminal client?

You can't develop anything native, because of iOS.

You cannot do webdev, cause only browser you can have is safari.

Cannot do embedded stuff due to lack of ports.
Utopia is probably not the right word- but when you start reading about places in the world where things actually work in a non-corrupt way, there is a certain point where it hits with the power of a revelation. You suddenly go, wait, politicians that take bribes get in trouble for it? Corporations that abuse their power have to account for it? What kind of crazy world is this? You suddenly realize that there is a higher standard out there, and all the shoulder-shrugging non-explanations of "well that's just how government is" start to look pretty flimsy. It's not that I expect utopia; it's that I think we can do better than complete and total failure.
It's not because of something Evan said, it's just a hunch based on looking at the compiler commits.

Recent changes to [elm-compiler](https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler) are of cosmetic character, so probably not many blockers left to do before the alpha. Some docs might need rewriting (https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler) but that might come between alpha and beta?
Maybe a company could allow paying customers to invite 10 of their contacts to use the app/service for free. Or is even the potential association of all of those people too insecure?

I otherwise can't imagine how to bootstrap a network.

Maybe users could pay to receive messages.
from 1500m to 100m seems exciting
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How to deal with someone that behaves like this, when leaving is not an option?
Right, so how can I decrypt the chats you sende email notifications about if my base pgp key is on a smartcard?
but hey, that's what CWs are for
>"Larger library"

Uhm no they are all licensing the same content from the same 4 entities.
This browser runs on the VR headset, which mostly run Android.
How many shares do we think it would take to purchase a major record label at this point? What about a perpetual license to their content (since buying a label could be seen as anti-competitive)? This would certainly help avoid some of the down-side risk to the business. That said, their IPO didn't exactly help the company clear the working capital they'd need to do this.
The old ways are going away.

Where is the relevance of the label system now that producers can master and release tracks directly digital with no pressing time at all? Gucci Mane is great example of a hugely popular artist who released track after track as fast as he could grind them out, for years (decades now! go count how many mixtapes the guy has made). This is the new normal, hyper creativity and high speed production. Pop cylces are like 100x as fast. You're telling me some old white dudes in suits can A&R faster than teenagers can hashtag and invent there way into new genres and music with their laptops. Yeah right. Dinosaurs.

It was dead with Mp3s and the internet and it's just still gasping along like all the old media giants. Smaller and smaller labels are able to survive these days, finding more and more niche audiences. Music has gotten more diverse in the last 17 years and you can tell. Genres launch and burn out in months now, or develop a cult fan base and continue on for years (ICP still tours this is like my perfect example of trash that still has fans).

I'm not saying Spotify is the king but people using "the labels" as a threat, come on, we all know what disruption means. Bandcamp and Soundcloud and even Youtube have runaround the label system.

The one thing I'll grant you is that maybe subscription fees aren't enough to keep the infrastructure going. This is possible. But the big pile of data is certainly worth something now and in the future, and the ability to scoop trends might be the sword that tames whats left of the big labels monopoly.
I have been using Keybase.io for a lot of the chatting I do with friends, and it works great across multiple platforms.
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And in Sweden, home of Spotify, the other big news is that NYSE raised Switzerland's flag.

https://www.thelocal.se/20180403/spotify-swiss-or-swedish-wh...
Check out Supermedium, part of the last YC batch. We're doing exactly that. A full VR browser that runs on Web technology, but trying to seem indistinguishable from native VR. Worlds load in seconds, people publish via Web, access via links that look like anything, and "VR pages" can do anything. Scrapping a lot of the old Web baggage and redefining it for VR. http://store.steampowered.com/app/803010/Supermedium/
Also useful for education in the meanwhile :)
> Youtube is video that has music,

True.

> and can't be conveniently used on mobile

I disagree, but that's highly subjective.

> or used for music discovery explicitly.

It can be, but the YT Music app only was launched in 2015.
NYT heavily disputed that: https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/nytimes-facebook.php
Nearly all companies I’ve researched on the exchanges have historical highs going back a couple years. This is across multiple industries (tech, utilities, real estate, grocers). It’s a significant trend. As for whether it’s substantive (ie not likely to correct), well, I’ve seen many economists suggesting a correction “soon” for years.

The more worrying thing is the consumer reports I’ve read. They said people aren’t saving money in 401ks, nor even savings accounts. This could indicate high confidence in the market. Or, it could indicate a lack of income to save. I’ve read reports indicating the later and not the former - specifically reports of people working multiple jobs to afford the basics.

If that’s the case then luxury goods and services should be commensurately lower valued. But they’re they are not.
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Not to nitpick, but isn't news supposed to be objective and opinion not?

It seems kind of weird to wander into an opinion piece, then seem put-off that its author might be biased. Yes, it is very likely that if you check the author's background, then you will find threads that are consistent with the opinions expressed in an article that he/she produces. In fact the article itself is an expression of that background.

Again not being a pedant here. Just don't understand the admonition to check the background as the basis for dismissing a writer's opinion.
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I am not sure it would be practically feasible for a "rollback" in a blockchain based system.

Miners would lose a lot of their reward if you suddenly say that this chain is invalid and all data has to be entered again.

It would use a lot of computing resources as well.
To clarify: Keybase.io, like Signal, Whatsapp and Telegram above, is encrypted but not P2P - all of them rely on centralized servers.
Got a 502 error on github, HN effect ?
I would also love to contribute to this if it exists.
If people buy into this too much, you can win arguments just by pushing your narrative before anyone has all the facts.

A news report comes out as, "dozens dead at nightclub shooting," and someone posts, "I bet it was a muslim. We need to kick all of them out". The first response is, "We have no idea who was behind this." Or, even worse, maybe even an outright denial if there's some initial evidence that suggests they're not Muslim.

Days later, once more evidence has been collected the police confirm the perpetrator was a Muslim radical. From that point on, every argument against discrimination gets tarred as being apologism and backpeddling. Sound arguments are dismissed merely because they followed after a valid argument that turned out to be unsound. Racism wins the day.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with making more than one argument if we have a good reason to believe each is valid. Just following that pattern does not mean anything about whether it's correct or not.