skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most grocery stores use off-the-shelf tech for this sort of thing; our business model made a lot of that not feasible and there was a decision made early on to build it ourselves, if anything because the tech we developed could have its own value down the line.

If Wegman's was writing software like this (maybe they do! I have no idea) then I'd happily consider them a tech company.

But like I said, it's a silly thing to argue about anyways.
This sounds terrible from a user perspective and arguably promotes certain types of music while penalizing others. As a user, if I hear more than a few songs that are terrible that were forced upon me by some algorithm, I am not going to listen to that playlist/use that service anymore. If users are the only way you are generating training data (for this supposed only self-published music world), you are going to end up with the music version of clickbait to get users' attention before they hit skip. I really cannot emphasize how bad optimizing for this would be for music.

Whatever your opinion on "current gatekeepers", some of them do provide valuable filtering services that I struggle to see how an algorithm could accurately replicate without compromising what makes music magical.
> because there's nothing preventing companies from foregoing underwriters.

Isn't that like saying "there is nothing that prevents you from using highways"? Like sure, you don't have to use an underwriter, but, as you pointed out with the Google example, it won't go well for you if you leave them out.
Yev from Backblaze -> We're just over here doing our own little thing hoping folks join in on the fun :)
Can't open result in new tab, slow loading, and prices that are way higher than they would be if I searched on my own. Not really sure whats the use case. Google flights does a lot of this and does it fast. I can view the whole world and estimated prices on the fly. Also needs an airline filter.

Also no results when clicking through a listing.
This is something that has been bothering me. Doesn't it seem like stock prices are getting out of whack?
> 20 users sits around 4gb

dafuq? Are you serious? What could possibly need 4gb?
> Nicest: Andrew Ng, Machine Learning, Coursera.

It's good to hear that this MOOC is still so well thought of since I first took it; for me, it was the first course I took that made me really understand how a neural network and back prop actually worked.

When I took the course, it was in 2011 - and was known as "ML Class"; yep - I was among the first "beta tester guinea pigs" of the course. It was fun and amazing to participate in.

One of the early participants was even inspired to replicate CMU's ALVINN self-driving vehicle in miniature:

http://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar/
The claim made by that article isn't nearly as strong as what you're saying it claims. Two-user encryption obviously can be made secure.

But when one of the keys that can decrypt something is shared by every message using that protocol, it is fragile - a leak breaks everything using that protocol. This is what that article actually says, and seems to also be correct.

A related point is that two-user encryption is insecure when one of the parties has no stake in the contents staying private, which is the case when the government can decrypt your data.
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You don't mention The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the 100's of other artists that Spotify streams millions of times. I feel DIY punk music and music that is "insanely easy to produce" is not going to make much of a dent in the massive demand for the classics/popular bands. Also, as a musician of 20 years having recorded multiple records, I don't agree good music insanely easy to make. The plethora of mediocre music out there is not good music, it takes a lot of skill and equipment to make something sound good in the studio. Sure, maybe some folks want a DIY underground sound that's not polished, but the average folks out there want a clean sound, that's what sells/drives listens. Just go on the Top 100 spotify playlist, there's basically no DIY stuff on there, its all the poppiest of the pop, heavily produced.
I'm prepared to sacrifice many things for various principles. But I won't sacrifice access to information, which is what I find most valuable about the internet.

Information is power, and if principled people sacrifice their access to information, then unprincipled people will hold more of the world's power.

So the danger of encouraging principled people to opt out of parts of the internet is that they will become less powerful, and unprincipled people more powerful.
I use both, and am in a gradual transition to GPM. However, I keep Spotify around because:

* My TV has spotify and not play music. I could get a Chromecast but why?
* Spotify exclusives are still a thing.
* The daily mixes are still better than anything Google has for recommendations. It's surprising google is as bad as it is for music recommendation.
* Google keeps things close to their chest for popularity. I like knowing if an artist's top song is 100 times more popular than their next, for example, or how many people follow a playlist. Spotify lets me know who runs a playlist, whereas that's hidden for GPM.

(Spotify has moved closer to their own playlists, which saddens me a little. I always hoped there would be room for curation from personalities. I miss DJs.)
The latest Waymo video [1] says its car can see up to 3 football fields away. I would guess this would let it operate at higher speeds. I haven't seen any demos of it on the highway. I think they're focused on cities and suburbs.

[1] https://youtu.be/B8R148hFxPw?t=1m28s
The labels have a large stake in Spotify. Your assessment misses this crucial fact. Getting into the production biz is still an open opportunity, though.

> According to Spotify's F-1 filing, 85 per cent of their streamed music is owned by the three major labels -- Universal, Sony and Warner -- and Merlin, a network for independents. The major labels also hold a sizable equity position in Spotify, as much as 18 per cent back 2009. This gave Spotify some help when it was renegotiating licensing deals last year. [0]

[0] https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/03/26/1522056334000/Canvass...
My intent is to start with Android, in part because it is familiar, in part because Android phones can be cheap. I currently have a $30 Android smartphone with Tracfone service. Apple products tend to be on the spendy side.
> Looking at this makes me wonder if he has made his money and is just cruising.

There's a lot of possible criticism to level at the space already, but I don't think this bit is valid.

Besides, that guy had made his money long before all of this. He could have been sipping tropical drinks on some tropical beach not hanging out in Canada and China during the winters.

I only loosely follow his activity, but he seems to keep busy, and be sincerely interested in what he's doing.
GNU Taler seems to be such a betrayal of the GNU project's principles. Baking state surveillance into software isn't something GNU should be doing.

It's as if GPG was an implementation of the Clipper Chip algorithm because, you know, otherwise it might be used for ~~tax fraud~~ terrorism.
I just recently replaced FB messenger between my GF and myself with Matrix.org + Riot.im.

Hosting the server (synapse) yourself takes about 15 minutes to setup.

I highly recommend it.
This is a fun fact.
> Nand2Tetris was my favorite.

Yes! Nand2Tetris came about before "MOOC" was even coined. It's a great course where you start building simple circuits in a hardware simulator, and eventually build a working Tetris game -- on hardware you built (running in a simulator), in an OS you wrote.

Highly, highly recommend it.
For transport theres https://www.rome2rio.com/ which is pretty nice about showing the different modes you have available.
I’m not familiar too much with SoundCloud recently. But didn’t they almost go bankrupt before having last minute money raised?
I agree that blockchain is an interesting technology. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

But that’s not (entirely) what is happening. I constantly run into people that claim blockchain WILL disrupt $industry and WILL make millions of $$$ through cost saving.

If that is true there should be monetary proof by now.

I’d like to see that proof.
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If you don’t mind answering, what price did you buy in at)m? I’m watching the stock right now.
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You know, sometimes you are in that uncomfortable spot where you have too much data for a single laptop but too little to justify running a whole computing cluster.

That is the kind of spot where you max out everything you can max out and just go take a break when something intensive is running.
Yeah, SoundCloud has an unsustainable ecosystem.
Try outline.com:

https://outline.com/khVAKC
> Sam Altman, a 32-year-old investor who is one of the creators of the Y Combinator program.

Sam Altman co-created Y Combinator when he was 20?
Ah thank you so much! No I did not use a CSS framework, somehow I still very often give it another shot when designing a new website (this time I decided to give BootstrapVue a chance) but I just really really don't like them (https://hackernoon.com/a-case-against-css-frameworks-bea9a69... <- here is why but not really relevant TBH). To sum up that link, they just get in the way. I do have one golden rule, which I also almost every time try to skip but end up going back to do it anyway which is to design my website upfront in something like Sketch (or Photoshop etc.) because in these applications you are not guided in the direction of what standard HTML looks like/what is easy with CSS, usually this difference is day/night for me. So design wise I build everything from scratch, there is one funny detail though... I am absolutely certain that if I was not using Sketch my designs would look different, I really like the thin gray borders it provides by default, minimize your tools so they don't shape your design but you do!
I feel compelled to add that, in addition to being a man of modest intellect, Floyd Mayweather is also an unapologetic serial wife beater (or girlfriend beater as the case may be) [https://nesn.com/2017/08/why-has-floyd-mayweathers-domestic-...].

When confronted, one of his favorite excuses is that "only God can judge me". Class act there.
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At the end of the day, why does it matter to you? If they have the money and it's something they, in sound mind, want to do, why not just let them do it and not let it bother you?
I'd say it's even more important in the North because of the paucity of opportunities.
Depends on the requirements of the 1,000,000,000:1 option. If it's at very little cost to you, and if the alternative is certain, permanent death, the rational choice is still to take the incredibly slim chance of coming back. Otherwise it does indeed depend on the importance you put on your own life.

Of course, in the case of cryonics, there is no measurable probability of coming back, so the point is largely moot.
it isn't feasible.

here is why:

imagine that we create a perfect copy of a person who is alive.

there is now person A, and person B, who are identical. but being identical does not imply shared sensations. if you pinch person A, person B won't feel it. the reverse is true. they're two separate entities, even if they behave similarly. if person A dies, person B is very similar to person A -- but they're not person A. that person is dead.

same goes for "mind uploading". the copy could, hypothetically, exist. it is extremely unlikely that this is technologically possible. but even if it was possible technologically, the original would be dead.
This is my first message in this thread:

>It's easy if you just blindly accept the axioms of one of the groups. You accept the axioms of left wingers, so it doesn't seem scary to you. I'm not a right winger but they could just as easily say: murdering millions of unborn children, robbing us of our right to defend ourselves, denying the right to freedom of association, infringing on our freedom of speech, infringing on our freedom of religion, etc. Those are all pretty scary.

The whole point of the discussion is to point out that the world looks differently if you accept different axioms. I'm sorry if it bothered you that I wasn't willing to debate the merits of your views vs the views of the imaginary third party I described, but I think my intentions were clear here.
That doesn't matter for the purposes of bootstrapping; it's broken the chain. 1.19 -> 1.25 is much, much, much easier than the thousand-odd builds you'd need to bootstrap from the OCaml implementation.

This is why I mentioned "elbow grease." It's not trivial, but if it's something you're concerned about, it is possible.
> data allowance of 10 million rows, and range up to a 100 million row allowance.

Only supporting up to 100 million rows seems extremely limiting for a lot of analytics use cases. What's the reasoning behind this? Does the product not scale?
Yea the radio features are pretty cool!

Another thing I really enjoy about spotify is their app's ability to pause a song on my laptop at work and press play on my phone when I get in my car and the song picks up right where I left it. And the remote control functionality during parties is great. They're also experimenting with some "auto-DJ" features which don't do too bad of a job for an algorithm :)
Remote follow enough specific people you are interested in and some of the rest of the instance's traffic will show up in your instance's Federated Feed as it interests them.

Sometimes if the remote instance's entire feed is interesting I might set up a "read only" account on that instance to get an idea of people to remote follow from my main account. I've heard good multi-instance clients can help a lot with that, but I've not yet found a multi-instance supporting client I like.
Jeff was between employee 20 and 30, IIRC, so it's hard to imagine him not having made many millions with the stock. On the other hand, he's the guy who kept his Volvo for well over a decade.
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Starting their own label is exactly what they need to do to remain competitive. It's exactly what Netflix ended up doing and I think it's turning out pretty well for them. I wouldn't be surprised if Spotify tried poaching higher-level strategy people from Netflix.
I agree, though I think we have plenty of real problems left to solve still. We are not quite at Star Trek level economy, where hole digging might make even more sense.
Delays of minutes or hours also occur in WeChat and plain old SMS. They are incredibly annoying, but it's not obvious to me that we can blame Signal here?
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Blue Apron and Stitch Fix aren't selling software/hardware as a customer-facing value proposition, so they're definitively not tech.

You definitely have to draw the line, or else every big company in existence is a tech company. Banks hire thousands of software devs.
Let the buzz fade away... wait for it to drop below $100 then look at your options. I don't understand why people still want to jump and buy shares the same day a private company goes public considering the hype, etc. Why would you lose that much that fast?
I currently have the same issue as my priorities are currently different. Back in 2011, I took all three MOOCs offered (pre-Coursera and pre-Udacity), completing all assignments. Then in 2013, when I had more free time available, I took seven more courses.

It was mostly by working till late at night.

It helped to start on new lectures and assignments early in the week given unpredictability of time slots available for studying. Once in a while, I was late in submitting assignments, losing a few points but managing to get A grades still.

Watching the videos at double speed was a boon. I could not have completed the courses without that. Only when I was unable to follow would I rewind and watch the segments at 1x or 1.25x speeds. The technology for speeding up sound along with the video had just come, I felt so lucky for this. Only two courses where I was not able to speed through were those which were completely outside of my domain (Economics and Human Physiology).

I never went through the optional book recommendations, if any. When the subject matter was not explained well enough in the lectures, forums typically supplied the answers within 24 hours of the lecture.

In one of the courses (Compilers), I stopped doing the assignments in the middle as they were requiring a lot of time while not adding a matching value.
I'd wager that Spotify is nearing the point at which - if not already there - record labels cannot afford to revoke their license. If they can get away with it, they'll try to push some buttons, but I doubt a full confrontation.

If there's any evidence against this, please let me know. I think it's interesting.
Tell me how someone anonymous travels from day to day and I will tell you who he or she is.

To decouple identity data from other data does already not work in theory. Moreover, it is also in conflict with the ability to retract personal data. If data is anonymized, it is not possible anymore to get rid of your personal records.

Homeomorphic encryption is the only method that might make a dent here. Laws will be broken.
I would prefer sites as I cannot reliably adblock apps in all network environments.
The sheer amount of ads that popped up on that page made it unusable.
The best way I found was to sign up with a group of co-located friends and form a study group. If you don't know anyone who wants to take your course, maybe you could try joining a relevant Meetup group and asking people there?
Outside of OpenBSD itself, LibreSSL is used in macOS 10.13 (and one would assume iOS), both of which have sizeable deployments.
Yes, very common. Looks like it took off around 2013: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=mooc
biggest jump ball: Apple/Google/Amazon competing services. spotify deserves real credit for changing how people consume music, and I think that story will serve them well in the short-term, but their biggest risk is Apple/Google/Amazon who provide competing services that don't have any current pressure to turn a profit - Tim Cook basically said "we don't plan to make money"[1], a bad thing to hear from your primary competitor who also happens to be the most valuable company in the world. as i've said before on diff threads, I would not be surprised if Apple announces a big price decrease or other apple music news right before Spotify's first or second earnings report.

still, impressive for them to make it this far, if they can really find a path to profitability that also fairly compensates artists, I wish them the best! I think it's more likely that as apple/google/amazon force them to continue to operate at a loss, downward pressure on their stock will make them a good acquisition target for one of the big tech companies looking to compete with Apple Music (Amazon seems like a real possibility here - a spotify acquisition feels similar in size and scope to their recent WF acquisition, essentially another double-down on their "everything store" vision/story).

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/40525409/why-apple-is-the-worlds...
It's obvious her PR team thinks it's better to just stay quiet than putting any sort of statement out.

If you've met her, you'll know she's extremely brilliant, but I don't think this situation is something that can be solved by a statement. I'm assuming a lot of actions will be taken first internally before she speaks publically.
These positions have been filled in at the time.
We are now hiring again more people with that profile.
Its true in the opposite direction too. I fled to some of the pro-gun subreddits, until I realized they were increasingly TheDonald_Lite. They really need to ban T_D
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He most definitely did not found YC but he is indeed 32.
You're right, but I see it coming soon. Service workers have just appeared in Safari, so I can expect push notifs to be there soon as well.

Also, thanks! You should check Bx in a month when we roll out the next major release which (we think) makes it even better :)
I use Spotify because it works on my TV and PS4 whereas GPM does not. I would happily use GPM but I don't want to buy new hardware to do so.
Dan Ariely's behavior economics mooc (from Duke, through Coursera) was more of a graduate level calibre in terms of required/recommended readings and the videos were of high quality.

There was a gamification mooc taught by Kevin Webach (Wharton) that was excellent, too.

Chuck Eesley's first tech-entrepreneur mooc was ground breaking (it led to the spinoff of NovoEd).

The last mooc I actually completed was one for contract law, offered by harvardx. It gives a nice, high-level overview of the subject-- good enough for my needs/interests.
Pedantic is "lagom" here.

The closest approximations to "lagom" in English are "feels just right" or "contenting because it feels comfortable" with an implied caveat of "for me/us". It corresponds to a subjective, pleasant, centered experience in the sense that it applies when the experience would not feel as good in either of two departing directions, such as air or water getting too cold or too warm. I believe this feeling and corresponding concept are absorbed and developed at a very early age, because we use the word a lot in Sweden; but to explain it to an adult who never knew it with a dictionary definition does not impart the sense-perceptions and particular feeling that were crucially experienced together, in blissful instants. And later in life that "lagom" sense will remain connected to a joyful core going all the way back to childhood bliss.
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The original comment was meant to describe the 'elephant in the room' of how relatively inexpensive higher education is in Europe, and it definitely still holds true from a US perspective.

At my current university in the Boston area, for example, yearly tuition is around ~$50,000 USD, and that doesn't even include room & board; I'm paying an additional $1,400 per month for a private room in a 2bed/1bath.

With that in mind, the original comment definitely still offers a perspective I didn't consider before in terms of the cost difference in relation to the arguments in this thread.
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Also bluetooth on Chrome.
I don't know too much about buying shares, but anyone that knows less than even me should not be buying individual stocks (that too based on IPO day hype).

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
I think I've only really taken one MOOC, that was Shiller's course on Financial Markets. It's a bit slow, but he has a lot of good anecdotes.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global
I have a feeling there's a story here. Was there something specific that tipped you over the edge. Reddit itself hasn't changed very much. It's always been a strange mixture of toxic sludge and strangely amazing communities.

> the content is better found elsewhere

I really haven't found this. Every other website is either bloated, editorialized, dumbed down or some mixture of all three. Reddit (and HN) seems to walk a tightrope that reminds me of the best parts of the old days of the internet.
I had found it useful also. It has a lot of bugs though. The instructors often faced the heat on the forums for not thinking the problems through. It's hard after all to be teaching a group of some X0,000 students, noting that some then would have intelligence levels well exceeding the instructors (no matter how accomplished they are).
But this is not long form text?

I feel like these notes would have suffered significantly if put into an essay format.