skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree there are plenty of great podcasts out there, I disagree with some of the things in the article.

> When Netflix moved into streaming, they invested billions of dollars into original programming, helping usher in the “New Golden Age of Television”

The current age of TV started long before Netflix moved to original content. This is not a model anyone should want to see in podcasts. Closed wall content is bad for everyone.

> For listeners, there will be more amazing shows of all kinds. More media companies will invest in creating quality long-form audio.

I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. I listen to and enjoy some expensive, high production corporate podcasts. But I greatly prefer independent podcasts. So many corporate ones are overproduced (eg Radio Lab) or are full of ads, begging for money, cross promotions, and other non-content (eg 99% Invisible). I'm concerned that high budget shows will push out high quality indie shows and make them harder to find.

> Spotify will create more exclusive content to aggregate and retain listeners.

This is terrible for everyone except Spotify. Closed wall content is bad for everyone. Despite being a paid Spotify user I will not listen to any Spotify exclusives. If you become a Spotify exclusive you're dead to me.
I've been a long time HN participant. I'm coming back from a lurker status after having lost my credentials a long time ago. shrug.

Can you explain how you consider this suspicious (to the point you needed to create a throwaway account to say that)?

I'm confused why HN is being so aggressive and unwelcoming right now...

This kind of meta-conversation isn't really what I'm on HN for.
I read somewhere about to really torture a prisoner in the Galog you instruct the prisoner to just keep digging a hole and then have him fill it back up again.

Continue this to break thoroughly break him down. This is done without giving him any particular reason why he is doing it for...
Even that seems to have localization unless Mike Missanelli - Philly's First FM Sports Station is the 6th most popular podcast in Germany. Everything showing on the charts (for me) is English language.

Hörspiel-Speicher looks interesting though, thanks!
The unreasonable effectiveness of considering falsehoods programmers believe harmful.
Anybody know of a tool that will do something like this for AWS Redshift? Redshift is based on an old version of PostgreSQL.
Are there many proxies which don't allow IMAP?
Personally, I subscribe to the podcasts of: Sam Harris, Conan, The Energy Gang, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and a couple other NPR shows. None of my podcasts, IMO, are decreasing in quality, nor would I expect any of these groups to sell-out as they are off-shoots of other things.

The podcasts I listen to are intentionally hand-selected over time to be 1) informative, 2) have a decent content:fluff ratio, and 3) enjoyable. I unsubscribed from Star Talk because about 90% of it was non-scientific chatter or ads, even though it was enjoyable and informative (sometimes). If a podcast doesn't cut to the damn chase like NDT's, that's an instant unsub from me.

In particular, I find independent podcasts like Sam Harris or Dan Carlin to be FANTASTIC, and that content is free for all to download in multiple ways. So, I'm not worried in the slightest.
There's a more fundamental way to derive the exponential form: linear difference equations are analogous to linear differential equations, so we should look at them in terms of actions on some vector space of functions. Similarly, we should also look at eigenfunctions, which end up being of the form a_i*C_i^n for some constants C_i, a_i and, where i=0..{dimension of the nullspace of the overall difference operator}. You can then substitute that form into the equation to find out the C_i and a_i using the initial conditions.

It's exactly like solving a differential equation.

Another path is to look at formal power series, and a good book is Generatingfunctionology.

Knuth Oren and Patashnik's Concrete Mathematics covers the basics very well and goes into much more detail on finite difference calculus.
“Just Ban the Nazis,” and the Exasperation of Sociotechnical Platform Politics
There is something to be said about the creative process and how the body of work is expressed and interpreted. How can a machine be creative if it doesn't understand emotion? It may know how to provoke an emotional response but its doubtful it can comprehend and empathize without having true human emotions itself. And it is impossible for us to truly confirm how a machine might be feeling let alone what another human is feeling. These types of questions are thought provoking but often lead to no answers. We can't even confirm if we are real or not. Creativity in itself is hard to define. And when we try and answer these type of questions we are usually making assumptions which may be completely wrong.
Whelp, I might be looking at CircleCI vs TravisCI again.
The writer made a pretty common finance misunderstanding mistake here:

"That may change soon: Spotify bought Gimlet Media, a premium podcast studio, and Anchor, a podcast hosting platform, for $340 million earlier this month. That's a lot of money for an industry that was sized at just $314 million in 2017."

Gimlet Media's $340M price tag reflects enterprise value which bakes in future cash flows, while the industry market size of $314M is reflective of estimated revenues in 2017. Apples and oranges.
As a kid, I thought Lavar Burton was actually blind (because of Lt. La Forge) and thought that was nice of him to memorize the books on Reading Rainbow. My brain still nags me to double check that he isn't blind.
TBH the whole story sounds a bit like conspiracy. Good clickbait title.
> This is not correct.

What isn't correct based on what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
It's worth noting that a CLEC (or other provider) can, in fact, denote a non-mobile number (or block of numbers) as "mobile" so that it can do things like receive text verifications from short codes (like your bank, or gmail, uses).

This is expensive and time-consuming, however, and almost no CLEC (or other such provider) will do it - you have to petition and register your number(s) with every single mobile provider and get them to accept that these are not sources of spam, etc.

I have this problem because my main, personal number is actually a twilio number (as I built my own personal telco within twilio) and this means I cannot receive validation messages from shortcodes (like a bank). I spoke to some twilio engineers at Signal and they confirmed that it would indeed be possible to register twilio numbers as "mobile" but too expensive ...
No RAM spec provided, also is it possible to connect an external display?
I started listening to "Serial", "This American Life", "Hardcore History" and a large number of other programs. Podcasts are generally easier to consume, reconsume, and schedule. That said, recently (several years) I've moved off of podcasts because there was a surge of podcast content, and no good mechanism to find quality programs. That and I was never able to find consistently good podcast software.
Sure it's possible but one can hope we've grown beyond the majority needing a crutch to get through life.
Your NYC numbers are way off. Here are some listings for apartments for sale between 9 and 12 million: https://streeteasy.com/for-sale/manhattan/price:9000000-1200...

For those who don't feel like clicking the link: most are very large (5-6 br) apartments, in expensive neighborhoods, in nice new buildings.
Because the church was the community and the community shunned them as a group. Churches and organized religions lead to group think and in this case that group think was directed toward a deeply hateful purpose.

I have my own personal issues with religions involvement in politics on the modern stage, as well as the general concept of a prosperity gospel and the ills it forces on those who already have so little but what happened to that family is deeply disappointing and stabs at the core of me.
Can we just have a social network that doesn't target anyone, for anything, and just lets us communicate, and build relationships without trying to manipulate us or violate our privacy?
Podcasts are ubiquitous.

There are high quality productions like shows from gimlet media. But most podcasts are more like twitter / Instagram accounts. Podcast becomes a channel for marketing (companies) or self expression (individuals) or exploring some kind of long tailed interests.

There’s strong demand of accessing podcast contents from listeners, pr agencies, ads agencies, app developers, teachers & students in k12 schools.

Ps, if you want to build a podcast app or a service that needs to access podcasts, you can try out our API: https://www.listennotes.com/api/
This. An RSS feed of .mp3 or .ogg files is all I need for all of the formats mentioned by OP. It is annoying that some podcasts don't have RSS feeds -- this is what feels like a step back to me, but it's fundamentally a choice of the author/publisher. I'm much less likely to consume a podcast's backlog if it's not available as an RSS feed, and if the only obvious way to play content is through an embedded player or app that obscures the source media I probably won't play a single episode.

Edit: formatting fix.
Google is far from the only one to have that dataset. Apple has one, too, for example, as does Skyhook. And Mozilla ( https://location.services.mozilla.com/ ).
Generally I feel safer with Apple owning my phone data... but once you accumulate enough data in one company, the incentives for corruption and mis-use are too great. Let's not let more companies become "too big to fail" or "regulatory capture is a cost of doing business".
Maybe. At a minimum we should get a log about how apps are using their permissions. I think I am reasonably tech savvy but when I really want an app I pretty much have to agree to all permissions. I don't know how not agreeing will impact app performance.
I doubt most email servers actually take anywhere close to 30s to process an email. I suspect most of the delay is the sending server queueing and email client polling intervals.
I think the childish names are artifact of the immaturity of the codebro culture overall. I realize that's not a popular opinion.

Not everything has to emulate the old-fashioned, Buttoned-Down, "3-piece business suit + briefcase" IBM Circa 1972, but the silliness that passes for modern IT has gone much too far the other way, IMO.

I think it's an insight into the mentality of the builders, and it doesn't speak well for them. Honestly, it's a little embarrassing to try and have a conversation with the C-level, investors, MDs, PhD researchers sometimes, due to the plethora of silly names more appropriate in Romper Room than the Boardroom.
Something that people often seem to miss when talking about this sort of thing is that any correct exact algorithm to compute Fibonacci numbers must use exponential time and space — simply because the size of the correct exact output is exponential in the size of the input.
Only for open source repo's. For those who have to choose a CI for business use that may not be usable.
Real life?
Twitter Users Can Now Make Micro-Payments in BTC via Lightning Network
I have found that if I'm not careful, yeah, I'll fill in all my driving or chores or walking the dog time with podcasts. This absolutely destroys my creativity, because instead of thinking about e.g. short story ideas while walking the dog, I'm listening to old episodes of some podcast, letting my mind just sort of tick over with basic engagement.
we had that. It was called livejournal. And everyone stopped using it.
Q3 is in my opinion too optimistic. Based on the status of hardware (TBD) there is probably no chance to start shipping parts in Q3. The design should be locked today. Will they be able to source the tools, get reliable suppliers to source enough components in 3-4 months timline ? The rest of the time till Q3 should be used to ramp-up the production and sort out quality/production issues. Probably will be out of stock for at least till Q3/Q4 2020.

Good luck !
Plenty of people living in NYC are doing totally fine on a tiny fraction of that.
Let me see if I got that right. When the government does something bad, it is (obviously) at fault. When a private company is hired instead, and fails spectacularly breaking along the way not just contract but both national and European law, then that is also sign of terrible government incompetence. There's just no winning for public officials, is there?
> I’m incredibly annoyed that phones don’t report themselves with randomized Mac addresses. WiFi tracking is pervasive.

You've got it backwards. The phone isn't being tracked, the phone is the one doing the tracking. The phone is looking at all the wifi APs it can see and then looking those up in a database.

Nobody sees the phone's MAC address. It isn't broadcasting anything at all.
Yeah. This is such a common fallacy. "This works for me, therefore it must work for everyone."
I recommend:

- Dunkle Heimat

- Hummel, Hummel, Mord, Mord

- Der nasse Fisch (based on the TV series Babylon Berlin)
Ha! Touche, and a very good point.
Not sure why you felt you needed to make a throwaway to post this. Most sane people should agree with your sentiment.
Getting this when I visit:

> This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers.
Saying that the qualitative stuff is unscientific doesn't make the quantitative stuff scientific - just quantitative. At least, I think that's eeZah7Ux's point.
The two things you cite are great examples of pieces of advice oriented to VCs rather than founders, and you should congratulate yourself for recognizing this.

They want two cofounders to test for sociability like they say, but also because it lowers their risk (if one develops problems or is a loser, the other can step up), and actually increases their leverage over the founders. I mean, one founder can always be some stubborn type who says "no." It's easier to get to "yes" when you have two people making choices -this is basically an algorithm. The sociability thing is reasonable and a good test in many ways, but I know about as many solo founders who made it as I know founder-teams, so the advice is obviously wrong for some. Distribution is about what you see in big firms: plenty of Zucks and Bezoses out there to balance out the famous dyads.

The "go for unicorn" thing should be familiar to you as a trend follower. I believe the old Turtle systems would have a majority of initiated trades as expected to lose money (aka start up failures -most of them fail!). You make up for the losing trades by doubling up and riding the winners. It's also vastly lower risk to do it this way than try to get a lot of medium sized deals/trades: the longer the trend rolls, the more you are certain the trend is real. The only way to make money on lots of little/medium moves is stat arb; a trading strategy where you can hedge, and VCs can't hedge.

The founder's utility function is vastly different from that of a VC. VCs optimize their utility; not yours. You're just one of many dice they roll.

If you want founder advice, get it from non-VC founders who succeeded at something, or people who have tried to do what you're doing. Otherwise: you are the product.
Does any other country have a system like plea bargaining? I mean officially sanctioned and on something like the same scale.

> easy to score public dollars to hire cops and build prisons, but it's much harder to add judges, public defenders, clerks, and courtrooms

If other countries do not have plea bargaining then how does this economic argument work in the US but , apparently, not elsewhere.

I ask this because I get the impression that the US is the only country that has an official plea bargaining system.
Without 'could be' society would mostly be reactionary. There are huge industries associated with prediction.

Some may look at a potential Goldman+Apple partnership as a market changer, value adder, among many other things. In short, different data can have different value to different stakeholders.
I'm not sure but it would come down to if openpgp supports that.

A quick Google shows this: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide

I didn't read everything but it seems pretty comprehensive.
That is true but also people come to care about what they do. They may not be "passionate" about work but it is what they spend the most time doing, it is their main source of daily challenge and problem solving, it represents social interaction, and it is their main source of pride and accomplishment and personal striving. To just up and leave work leaves a huge void in their lives. People can learn to fill that void with art or gardening or various other things but it may take years and years of discipline and self-reflection to become satisfied.
Well, if you choose a more hardcore distribution that doesn't "just work" and requires tinkering, it is hardly a Linux fault.
Even if they really know what they are doing, that sounds like a great way to create a lot of painful technical debt that will affect both end-UX and app devs.
One one hand, maybe this is also a great way to get something in the hands of users, learn, and get it right in the next generation. But it's hard to go back on API design.
Pay attention to the language of the article:

> two years after the EU executive proposed changes to protect the bloc’s cultural heritage and ensure that publishers, broadcasters and artists are remunerated fairly.

> dissenting countries said the proposed changes could hinder innovation and hurt the bloc’s competitiveness

The first statement is presented as fact, the second as something that was merely 'said'. 'Censorship', 'freedom of expression', or 'chilling effects' are entirely absent from the article.
AAAS: Machine Learning Is Leading to a Crisis in Science
Yes. They scuppered the middle class, pillaged the commons and made a boatload of money doing it. The whole small-government argument was insincere.
They are doing this: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/wework-just-acquired-spati...
Sales. If you bring in 20million in accounts. A 1 million paycheck is just a write off.
Those numbers don’t remotely reflect the cost of living for people moving to the area now. Prop 13 has distorted things dramatically. In Palo Alto, there are numerous retired people living in houses paying property tax rates essentially set in the 1970s. In fact, Palo Alto has the lowest tax rate in the country by percent since the houses are so expensive but the people pay so little compared to the value.[1] You could definitely live off $500k, but $137 would be really tough to near impossible with a family. Prop 13 has really broken the California housing market.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2016/12/01/pro...
After spending most of a year doing deep surgery on systems that used CBOR extensively, I can report that the common CBOR parsers are not faster than common JSON parsers; surprisingly, they are actually slower. CBOR is also not easier; it's much less widely supported, and you need a separate debugging representation. It does have three real advantages over JSON: it supports binary strings, it's a monument to Carsten Bormann's ego, and data encoded in CBOR takes slightly fewer bytes than the same data encoded in JSON. (The second is only an advantage if you're Carsten Bormann.)
It's one of the core features and they have monitor and keyboard kits for preorder already.

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5-24-inch-kit/
All you really need to know is that developed nations are home to the highest levels of human affluence that have ever existed, at all levels of society. And yet they have the lowest fertility rates ever measured. So low that they are not sufficient to maintain population size.

But if you go even further, you'll see that fertility actually declines with income in developed nations. It's not until you get to the top several percent of income that fertility starts rising again.
Hey HN!

I made this for fun over the course of the last few days. I started getting into periscope streams lately, and got frustrated that I couldn't just listen to the audio while taking my dog for a walk. So I created a small CLI app to download periscope streams and convert them to a podcast RSS feed. A friend said I should make a web app and roll it out, so I did.

I used a bunch of technology I never worked with before to make this, including Lambda custom runtimes, Lambda layers, Rust, and Netlify.

Excited to hear what you think.
Interesting article. It can probably never be proven or disproven, due to the Problem of Other Minds [1], the idea that the only consciousness that is certain to exists is the self consciousness, and that I can never be certain that consciousness exists in other minds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness#Problem_of_other...
And I'm sure there was an HN commenter waiting in the wings for the branch of reality where Purism did just that:

"Wow if their press release is this bleak, imagine how bad the reality is. Communications pro tip: explain up front why you missed the shipping date. Because after reading the I got the sense that they actually ran into some luck and didn't have to switch from their original hardware choice. Imagine what the shipping date would be if they had to move to the mini and essentially start all over."
Ask HN: Whatever Happened with Black Annex?
This was a game that was greenlit on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/248590/Black_Annex/

...an isometric Syndicate-like cyberpunkish action shooter thingie. It got a ton of press several years back when it was first announced, because it was said to be programmed in QB64:

https://www.qb64.org/

...a cross-platform BASIC compiler that aims to be highly-compatible with QBASIC 1.1 and QuickBasic 4.5, while also employing many advanced features for modern platforms.

The game was written by Lance McDonald from Australia:

https://twitter.com/manfightdragon

There is also some form of source code, that the author made available:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/8fdec5275b2c3e81e1e1/raw/blannex

...which does look like QB64 code - but whether it runs/compiles or whatnot is almost impossible to determine given the lack of the supporting graphic and any other files.

This was highlighted in an earlier HN submission that didn't seem to get any traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164068

If you google around, you can find some mention of the game as late as June 2018 - but really, there hasn't been any word from the author or anything else as to what has happened with this game, which again was highly anticipated. The author still seems to use twitter regularly, but beyond that, it's like the game never existed.

Does anyone know what happened? Did the author give up making it? Was it consigned to the dust bin? I had hoped to be able to purchase this game, as I'm sure many others were as well, but now it appears that is not going to be possible. Even so, some form of closure as to what ultimately happened to cause it to be "cancelled" would be welcomed from the author.
Wasn't that exodus predicated by the same sort of "undesirables" reputation? Though I'd much rather have a thousand Harry Potter erotic fan fiction authors than a handful of neo-nazis sharing my website.
It's "easy" to squander almost any amount of money -- even Johnny Depp went broke. But just like Depp didn't have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on wine, nobody has to live on the UES and send their kids to 50k/yr schools.