skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently Verizon's LG Chocolate came with a service called VCast Song ID, that did the same thing as Shazam: "On certain phones, users can record a 10-second clip of a song, have it automatically identified, and optionally buy a copy of it for playback on a phone or computer." (https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/name-that-tune-with-ver...)

That said, Shazam is actually older, having started as a shortcode service in the UK way back in 2002.
I don't get the 2nd part, there is nothing stopping French companies translating into the one other language which they probably speak fluently, English, testing it in the UK as they're roughly the same timezone, then moving onto the big English speaking markets of the US, Canada and Australia, which are all significantly bigger than probably 17 of those 20 languages.

And the finance thing has nothing to do with Macron (or Merkel or May or any other European leader). European VCs don't speculate on potential unicorns like the US ones do. It's a different risk appetite, what are EU leaders supposed to do?
Who can beat privately owning an entire country?
I don't mean to take away from Shazam (because I too was amazed when I first used it) but the Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays.

Not really "magic" how it works but still pretty amazing that I can pull the phone out of my pocket any time I hear a song I like and immediately see the band/title.
I don't know about easier. having passwords in the browser syncs to all devices automatically. So it's at least as easy.
From the WebAudio spec (https://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#allowed-to-start):

> An AudioContext is said to be allowed to start if the user agent and the system allow audio output in the current context. In other words, if the AudioContext control thread state is allowed to transition from suspended to running.

> Note: For example, a user agent could require that an AudioContext control thread state change to running is triggered by user activation (as described in [HTML]).

This means the user agent (the browser) is allowed to choose when the AudioContext can be used. It's up to Chrome to determine when playing audio is allowed.

I can't think of an example where auto playing audio without user interaction is a good idea anyway.
This was explicitly warned for in the moving standard since at least late 2016(http://web.archive.org/web/20161031141656/https://webaudio.g...).
That doesn't solve anything. How far up the invite tree do you go? If you go all the way to the top, you'd have to ban yourself, the founding user. If you don't go all the way, then unsavoury users will just construct a long invite chain to insulate themselves from whoever they invite. There's probably some more clever graph theory stuff you can do to make this process a bit more reliable, but good luck justifying your algorithm to the people you just banned.
Yeah, back in the 70s an increasingly powerful collection of voices thought Pol Pot's killing fields were fabrications of American propaganda, and that if genocide happened in Cambodia, it was at American hands. They had to backpedal hard when the truth came out.
> as if they and others around them possess free will.

How would we "act as if they don't" ?
His comment is merely a summary of the article.
the one music service i used to love is songza which has handcurated playlist which are awesome but like any start up in media it was taken over by google
Apple Music has an Android app, so I don't think they're that cutthroat on the music side of things.
I remember feeling that way the first time I used Uber (in SF where getting a taxi was difficult and unreliable).

A few taps on my phone and a car shows up to my exact location in 2 minutes?! And that's it? No calling dispatch and hoping they'd show up eventually (sometimes they didn't). No fumbling with cash or tip or anything.

It was like magic.
To take advantage of this you need an accumulation of capital in the right hands. This is what finance provided. The industrial revolution would have happened, but slower and later. We'd be waiting for some landowner who had an interest in engineering, rather than an engineer able to convince someone wanting to make a return.
Despite my familiarity with the Paperclip Maximizer, it has still been instructive to think it through in real time. It's a nice way to think about priorities in life.

Thanks!
Kroger does this with their Kroger card. They send you coupons for things in your purchase history, and similar items they think you might like.
I honestly thought this happened when Shazam was integrated into Siri
Chrome 69, the The Google Chrome that Sucks and F*&#s
I haven't had Firefox crash in years, and I use nightly for all of my day-to-day browsing. Chrome crashes or locks whenever I iterate on a canvas based game after some amount of refreshes.
Hopefully they'll rewrite Shazam's Apple Watch app using the private first-party APIs so that it actually works rather than randomly crashing 50% of the time.

The state of third-party apps on the Watch is awful. It usually takes 10 seconds for an app to start on a Series 2, and sometimes they just get stuck on that loading screen. If you manage to get an app running, the UI library has ridiculous bugs like accidentally enabled screen rotation where turning your wrist flips the content by 90°. (Unlike a phone, there's no reason at all for a watch to react to orientation changes.)

I could sort of understand these deficiencies for a hurried 1.0 product, but it's been three years and it's still this bad. There's no API for watch faces either. I get the impression that Apple truly doesn't want third parties on the Watch at all.
Twitter releases new policy to ban dehumanizing speech
I am a daily reader of Stratechery. It's a very "MBA" publication: the emphasis is always on strategy, distribution channels, markets, sales and marketing, etc.

It's a soberingly different worldview than product-obsessed, hacker/maker/developer-centric worldview you get on HN a lot of the time. HN definitely skews toward the entrepreneurial/business end of software, but there's still a real emphasis on building great products, talking to users, and faith in the idea that in the long term, the best product will win. Whereas the Stratechery worldview is more like, "figure out sales and do enough of that engineering mumbo-jumbo, and everything will fall into place". I think there's more truth to this than is commonly acknowledged on HN. Eng/product isn't always the center of the damned universe.

I find both views important. I think the best products do tend to win. But reading stratechery has also given me an appreciation for the difficulties inherent in fighting an entrenched competitor, and bootstrapping distribution (how customers discover/use/buy something) from scratch.

On the other hand, Ben (stratechery author) says almost daily, "It's not the technology that matters, it's the strategy". I don't think that's right. A big talking point that comes up over and over with Instagram was how well-built the app was. There was genuine craftsmanship in terms of usability, performance, and a lot of other things that made it a joy to use. That matters.
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I think the “actually” makes it even better. Even if the underlying technology isn’t anything truly special the application of it is pretty clever.
One of many holes in this theory is that the mind that believes it has free will is also the one that created the conceptual model of neurons, so we could also be wrong about that too.
After reading the comments and thoughts about the job. This is just new territory. I am not sure that any company can prepare an employee for this kind of mental barrage. ...or counter that constant consumption of evil.
There's literally no way to know whether this is true or not, so it's not worth discussing as if any one of us knows what the truth is. If you feel like you have free will, that's important. If you feel like you don't, oh well, but don't let your beliefs interfere with other people's choices (or their deterministic actions, in this case).
The moderators could perhaps not be looking directly at the video but a blurred version of it, along with a tool to reveal some part of it. That way they can infer what is going on without looking at the raw material.

Another thing they could possibly do is to include fictional content in the bulk, so that the moderators could at some level believe no real person went through that.

It is unrealistic to expect any normal person to have a grasp on what adverse effect will have on their mental health over time. You can walk away from being a garbage worker, but you can't unsee disturbing imagery.
Aren't most commercials sold in 30-60 second blocks?
looks like an attempt to direct attention from something else. the quotes read like they were said by politicians running for posts instead of a business commenting on a lawsuit.
The thing I would add is that Google's whole thing about "bringing your whole self to work" and providing food and amenities to keep you at the office as long as possible leads to some unfortunate effects: Many Googlers social circles are heavily filled with other Googlers, and a Googler may rely on Google for a lot more than just the paycheck.

If someone's spending say 14+ hours a day on a Google campus, leaving can be a lot harder than just "finding a new job".

Even some of those publicly protesting Google's behavior or pushing for a union will turn around and help promote their friends' products or encourage people publicly to apply to join Google.

So I'd point out they've successfully made it as hard as possible, socially, to quit.
I'm pretty sure a traumatized content moderator was extracting revenge on the people misbehaving on social media on a CSI Cyber episode, was it on Black Mirror too?
This is immediately where my mind went, the spotify integration is without a doubt the best thing (IMO) about Shazam. Find a song, in two screen taps I can add it to a playlist and come back to it when I'm queuing up tunes for the drive home from work.

I will be very disappointed if this comes to light, and the only integration we're left with is Apple Music.

Probably not likely, but probably not improbable either.
I think people would rather trade their security for convenience, which in the first place is why Chrome is so popular, with its inbuilt tie-in to Google services. Sure, you could provide an open-source browser that's security focused, but what makes it compelling to the end-user to switch away from Chrome? I don't think many laymen particularly care about this situation.
No that would be https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.move...

It's not their second Android app either.
I'm with you.
Shazam -> Spotify is incredibly useful.
If someone starts throwing radioactive waste in the garbage I'd sure has hell expect the garbage company to step up and help/protect workers. Don't see how it's any different here.
This is basically Node slapped on top of a Linux kernel.

I would find it way more interesting (to say, way more actually a 'Node OS') if they implemented a really lightweight kernel to drop into JS kernel modules as soon as possible, and implement all features in JS (paging, filesystems) etc.
I initially saw the headline as "rats in Barcelona's servers" due to knowing what website I was on.
Salesforce proves that you don’t.
My first experience with Uber made me so annoyed I e-mailed them to demand they delete my account, although I eventually tried it again.
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Removing_Commercials
We aren't just a product of that, we are also a product of human sexual selection and epigenetic inheritance of individually acquired traits. Many of your important traits (such as general intelligence) were acquired in part by conscious processes by your ancestors.
>Your opinion is not representative and thus not relevant to the argument (that ex-Google engineers have very good job prospects).

He never claimed it was. More importantly, he is providing a data point, whereas the original claim did not provide anything to back it up.
I would say that we collect money on behalf of the companies who buy an enterprise maintenance subscription from us, and we agree to provide those maintenance services. So far this is what many OSS businesses do.

But while existing OSS businesses hire 100% their own staff to then provide the service, we split our revenue with interested maintainers who want to help provide the service. We are creating an opportunity for upstream projects to participate directly _if they want to_. If they don't want to, then no problem!

The beneficiaries are: subscribing companies get an enterprise maintenance service for their dependencies; participating maintainers get paid a revenue share (royalty-style model) for doing work on their project.

Tidelift's share of revenue mostly is not profit. It's analogous to what any software vendor would pay for the nontechnical roles at the company. https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/paying goes into more detail on that.

It is worth spending money on sales, because even though it lowers the _percentage_ of revenue going to engineering, it increases the _amount_ of revenue going to engineering. Businesses spend money on sales/marketing/finance/ops because it results in more money overall. The same math applies to Tidelift.

All other open source vendors give maintainers a 0% cut, though the best ones do add a lot of "in kind" value in the form of contributions, those contributions often actually create more work for the primary maintainers, and everyone ends up bottlenecking on those overworked maintainers.

Tidelift is not a money transfer or donation system. It's a commercial service provided in cooperation with interested upstream projects.
Any reason for not using markdown in your README? Not rendering well on my phone at all.
No, to me it looks like it did CFOP with an orange cross on the table, and the white cross when he held it in his hand.
Wow that is a misleading argument. Wave particle duality is not a logical nightmare. It might be to someone who only has an extremely superficial understanding of it, but the more you dig into the topic, it becomes easier to understand.

There is no analogue to this in christianity. You just have to accept it as mysterious, and then you claim that if there weren't such mysteries, it would seem fake. That's a rationalization. There is no logical reason for there needing to be mysteries to god. You need there to be one because in the reality of your beliefs there are mysteries.
They do? I use a Pixel 2 XL and I had no idea about this.
It's already in a state where it can't get back on the run list. The problem isn't that it's going to eat your CPU cycles, the problem is that it's still holding resources that you want it to give back. Taking it out of the process list won't give back those resources, it would just make it so it doesn't show up under `ps`.

> When you encounter this problem recovery isn't ever going to happen anyway.

The kernel's design can't distinguish between this unrecoverable situation and the normal functionality. Or rather it could, if it had a sane timeout. It doesn't, that's the defect.
Macron recently referred to the French as "change-resistant Gauls", which wouldn't be a useful characteristic for technology or entrepreneurship.
I haven’t had it misidentify anything — it just won’t identify a song. Granted I do this when in a public place and usually it is something like a piano rendition of another song. I really can’t blame it for not being able to hear the music as it is hard for me to.
Finance is needed. Better questions would be:

- How much finance is needed? And how complex?

- Are financial actors capable of seeing a crime when they see it, or pecunia non olet?

There is widespread, high-level, white neck, corruption in northern Europe. And that just the tip of the iceberg.
A shame that uber and the whole gig economy is so shit, circumventing basic employment rights and both minimum and living wages. I mean I like the basic idea and I agree that the taxi business needed the disruption, but it's opened the gates to people working well below a living wage because there's nothing else. That is, there's plenty of people that are willing to work below minimum wage because it's the only thing they have left. And companies - including Uber - are more than happy to offer that kind of work.
Yes, been using this for quite a while now. You don't need IFTTT.
Installs from F-Droid > Yalp Store [0] too.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstor...
we are working on it at https://1up.health which helps patients or developers aggregate and build on a consolidated medical record. We have a lot of developers making some really cool applications from those for patients with cancer to others helping individuals seeking life insurance with individuals connecting records from multiple health systems (we support 200+). Id love to hear from anyone else building applications in this space.
They would say such things, wouldn't they?

If the firehose of internet garbage can't be safely handled it's time to get rid of it. We've banned dangerous chemicals. Time to restrict Facebook, if it is a health hazard to its workers.
Hipstamatic was far better but since it wasn’t too “social” it never caught on.
Ditto. I spent about 6 months using Quantum on Linux. While it's a lot faster than old Firefox, it's still got a lot of issues - random crashes, random hangs, high memory and cpu usage. I got so frustrated, I decided to go back despite my privacy concerns. Unfortunately, nothing comes close to Chromium on Linux.
It's a poor implementation of Linux that's for sure, but Linux nonetheless.

Some like to call it Android/Linux to distinguish it from GNU/Linux.
> Snapchat turning down $3B acquisition offer

I think it was $30 B

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/03/google-buy-snap/
There's an interesting UN report from a while back, Livestock's Long Shadow [1], that observes that, nowadays, it's not necessarily even ecologically sound to use the grasslands in the first place. A big feature of their findings are that large-scale grazing tends to prevent forests from forming in wetter climates, and contributes to desertification in more arid ones. Both of those consequences have huge implications if you're worried about climate change.

One of the key goals they set out, aside from getting people to rely less on livestock agriculture in the first place, is to try and convert more of it to CAFOs. Yeah, factory farms are ugly, but they found that it's much more efficient from a land and energy use perspective. As have other disinterested parties. The loudest voices saying otherwise seem to be ones that have a financial interest in selling more grass-fed beef.

A subtext here is that we live in a very different era than the one that the one invoked by more nostalgic approaches to agriculture. Once upon a time, people had no choice but to figure out how to feed themselves off the land they occupied, and nature put much firmer limits on how many people could occupy certain areas. Nowadays, not only is getting food shipped in a realistic option, sometimes it's even the more economical and sustainable one.

1: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM
Sounds like an excuse for a fishing expedition.

Qualcomm seems to be aspiring to be the new Rambus.
Constraint Solving with Minizinc
Finance is a service industry, it should create value for its customers. For example, making means available for creating a company.

Always measure their utility Vs how well they serve everything outside of finance.
Here is a good write-up on how it works:

http://coding-geek.com/how-shazam-works/
If I punch you, will you blame me?
The oil is laboring as well, even though its labor isn't directly productive. It is doing work that supports production of engine power. Finance is an unsavory backseat passenger that demands to be cooled by a fan taking a huge amount of HP from the engine, claiming that the car wouldn't move anywhere without him/her and the parasitic fan.
The point is that this is a distinction without a (usable) difference. "Free will" is an ill-conditioned question that comes from dualist assumptions.
So the federal reserve isn't part of the government?
A great app that PRE-DATES smart phones. I remember using Shazam when it was a dial in service (dial 2580 in the UK), hold your old brick mobile phone up and you would get a txt message a minute later with the song. Seemed like magic then and still does now.
SSB uses a simple immutable ledger per identity; merging isn't something that's supported architecturally.

Their plan is to support this at a client level: you create multiple identities with metadata indicating that all are the same person on different devices, which clients can then use to group them appropriately in whatever way makes sense.

UX wise, it may make sense for some clients to obscure this architecture from new users somewhat and treat them visually as the same identity, but that's down the line (and I'm sure some purist clients will never want to do this).
Show HN: Meetter – Reduce time wasted by meetings
Hey, HN!

This post is not about useless meeting tips, nor about some new tool that drains remaining calendar hours.

Like most of us, I’m very frustrated by the amount of time wasted by meetings. Why most of us here hate meetings is well described in PG’s essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

There is also a great solution that worked for YC: office hours. Ok, but how can this help a regular maker in a regular company?

Most makers struggle with the meetings scheduled by their colleagues, so let’s focus just on the company internal meetings.

What if every maker will have her/his own office hours few times a week at different times? Yeah, that probably won’t work. Makers & managers often need to meet in 2+ groups...

OK, what if all makers within the company will have office hours at the same time? Would be nice, but that won’t scale as it will require too many conference rooms and switching rooms fast enough may not be possible if someone has six 10min meetings with different folks…

Oh, wait, but what about video meetings? There is no room limit there and switching rooms takes seconds. Many of us work in distributed companies with a lot of meetings online already. Great, but there is still a problem with agreeing on times and booking small meetings within those hours. Also, what to do if there is urgent discussion and everything is overbooked ahead of time with non-urgent managerial stuff?

OK, so that is what we are trying to solve with https://www.Meetter.ai and would love to hear what you think about the early version. Please check How Meetter Works section on the landing page for more details.

Here is an open demo account just for HN: https://hn.meetter.ai/signup-demo After sign-up, just try to post few agenda topics with random people and see if you can join office hours scheduled Tue/Wed/Thu at 8 AM PT.
> But as a user, I appreciate the fact that websites won't be able to just start playing audio without some interaction from me.

To be clear I agree with the intent of the policy. But Chrome's implementation breaks most/all legacy content even if follows the intent of the policy.

When the policy originally went live in Chrome 66 I went looking through back issues of WebAudio Weekly, and it was a wasteland - everything was broken, including the demos that followed the intent of the policy, with "Play" buttons like you describe.
When Twitter came out I was like "well it's a glorified shoutbox, I can hack that in an afternoon". Actually it still is, any developer can create a Twitter clone in hours. However Twitter managed to have the network effect, and (eventually) solve the huge scaling challenge that a system that transfers billions (?) of messages worldwide every day.