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Spotify started in 2008 with 40 million tracks and desktop and web clients only. Back then mobile streaming was a non-entity as the iOS and Android app stores had not launched.

So the business case for Spotify was very much focused on desktop users, where WMP would have been the dominant competitor had it not been for the Microsoft case.
Well, I have short hamstrings. Which makes squatting a little bit more difficult.

They saw it in CrossFit and suggested a quick-fix. On all the time I fitnessed, they were the only ones that saw it.

Just my 2 cents
I don't have ADHD, but I used to struggle with time management due to other issues and I found that todo lists are a big help.

I actually don't use fancy software, just a .ODT with a bulleted list of projects, then smaller bulleted lists of tasks for the project (with another level of indentation for when I work on the task itself).

Helps get over the "gulf of execution" to start something or feeling like you're spinning your wheels and reassure yourself "it's ok you're not 'done' - you've done a lot to move towards being 'done'"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_execution
Multivitamins are not food, at least not natural whole food. They're supplements, as in to supplement any gap in vitamins from eating actual food.
You misread. And then you call me awful. Are you having trouble seeing down from that high horse you're perched on?
1) What did you try?

2) It is a shell script

3) Sorry about that

4)

(a) It is smaller, simpler and faster.

(b) When YouTube occasionally makes a change I can fix it immediately rather than waiting for someone else to fix youtube-dl
Warmer Offices Are Better for Women
Are you going to actually argue it, or are you just going to tease? It means nothing to me that you would disagree in some vague manner.
Hows your bathroom visits? I cant even imagine eating soy based for an entire week.
Hollow Earth is another bizarre one: https://www.reddit.com/r/hollowearth
My 2nd ever comment on hacker news, and already someone has managed to segue from my innoncuous comment into an attack on feminism. And further more, they've done so by using a video of someone with schizophrenia, or some other serious psychological problem.

People can downvote this all they like, I'm gone.
Yeah, our goats were cute but jerks. The sheep were only annoying when they decided to ignore all attempts to herd them.
Sometimes vitamin deficiency is treated will pills. I know people who have to get vitamin shots because pills don't work for their condition.

I always tell people treat vitamin deficiency with a healthy diet, if that doesn't work you have a gut problem and pills won't fix it either. I'm not a doctor, but it is a reasonable claim.
Startup of Esports will create world racing tournament with 1000 players
Startup of Esports will create world racing tournament with more than 1000 All the world.

The Brazilian startup AVSPORT that is launching its international product dedicated to Simracing Esports will create the first multiplatform tournament in the world, involving several games and platforms such as PS4, Xbox, and PC.

After a year and a half engaging with leagues and virtual racing players from around the world, AVSPORT will launch its product in July with a worldwide event involving virtual pilots of various games and platforms. The tournament will start in July, and will be streamed online on several streaming platforms with professional commentators.
The tournament will be divided into 4 regions of the world, starting the first stage with Latin American riders. Winners, second and third placed in each game and region will qualify for the world final that will take place in 2020 with players from North America, Europe and Asia.

The new website with all the information, will be released in June, but if you already want to stay tuned in the news of AVSPORT keep the link: www.avsport.net

The AVSPORT

The product will be launched during the first tournament in Latin America. This system helps small and medium-size leagues out of amateurism. One of the biggest challenges today for small leagues is to manage tournaments, bring players, generate revenue and advertise their brands. With AVSPORT, which is free for leagues and riders, leagues around the world can advertise and manage their tournaments, receive payments, gain visibility and stand out in the SimRacing marketplace.

For players it is an opportunity to grow as a driver, participate in rankings, run tournaments around the world that were previously "hidden" from the market, and track the results of any online race regardless of platform or game.

AVSPORT is currently seeking partners to sponsor leagues, riders and events or even create their own leagues for platform users.
OK, we've turned off the flags now. Thanks!
I'm reading it. It's great, thank you, a great complement to the parent article.
Google is prosecuted for abusing Android monopoly in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google
As I wrote in a previous post, this is about to change I think (hope).

How fast this change is coming for a particular company depends on how inert the customer base is, and how much of the customer "journey" is digital.

For example, insurance -- I've worked at one of the largest (if not the largest) insurance companies in the world. Obviously they make some money, or turn over at least, but the customer base is usually pretty static.

What I mean is, you get an insurance, and you rarely change unless something drastic happens.

This allows for a big enough company to completely manhandle IT/tech/dev -- spend $100 of millions on project spanning years, and ending up with a lot of money in the pockets of "the usual suspects" and often software that does not work at all.
All legacy cruft still intact, and just another layer of expensive crap that business users hate.

Still, the business of insurance is heavily tech & software dependent. So much, in fact, that systems down means “no business”.

I've become somewhat cynical with regards to the enterprise tech business, but I've seen these patterns repeat at too many places. It's truly sad and disheartening.
While I agree that the article does a good job of describing the current state of things, I don't think it has always been this way. Let's go with the opening paragraph:

"Consider how one should respond to a simple case of disagreement. Frank sees a bird in the garden and believes it’s a finch. Standing beside him, Gita sees the same bird, but she’s confident it’s a sparrow. What response should we expect from Frank and Gita? If Frank’s response were: ‘Well, I saw it was a finch, so you must be wrong,’ then that would be irrationally stubborn – and annoying – of him. (The same goes for Gita, of course.) Instead, both should become less confident in their judgment."

It's interesting they point out that both should be less confident. I think this is actually how it was a few years ago. People used this tactic of gaslighting or spreading possibilities to discount the hazards of cigarettes and climate change. Comments like "well not all scientists agree," and "some experts have taken the opposite view."

Then people began to doubt all experts, not just the ones spreading false rumors. They determined if you can't trust one expert, and you don't have the knowledge to determine if they are a good actor (which most people don't have), then you just shouldn't trust experts and "trust yourself." Now we're in the realm where our opinion is our reality. And since there are no experts or anyone to trust, people are just herding opinion in their direction to get people to buy things or do stupid things.

I feel like in the 90s, if someone were given the same story about what bird it was, they would ask "well do either of these people know anything about birds?" If someone knew more, they would trust their opinion more. Now that question isn't even asked.
Oh my god, I've been looking for something like this for like a full year. This is awesome.
I like some stoner metal. Really fond of Sleep. I'll check out Heavy Psych Sounds.

And a night with Dave Catching sounds rad. I don't know how that could be a worst memory.

Is your estimate of ~150 annual shows being enough for a comfortable lifestyle meant to generally apply to overseas shows for American bands, or do you think the payout is more or less on par with ~150 domestic shows?
I don't mean to put you off. I give you kudos and credit for sticking it out. However I personally feel you do need to decide the right path as you put it. Like chrisked was saying you need to ask yourself what success means. Let's face it for most people it's all about the MONEY as much as some people would like to deny it and say it's all about the passion. How much would passion count when all you're making is £15,000 with a £150,000 mortgage over your head including living expenses or you're just trying to buy yourself a decent house in a decent area? I think for all humans it's not about the MONEY per say, it's what you can do with that money; financial security, holidays, buying stuff etc

Now you can carry on doing what you're doing for the "passion" but when you die what "experiences" will you really have? Dealing with really difficult clients, going to business meetings working all day and night, is that really an adventure? Mean while the ones that played it safe got married, had kids, lived fulfilling lives, travelled the world. So in reality who had more life experiences? The individual who played it safe or the entrepreneur who barely slept and worked himself to death?

Don't mean to be a party poop but I do feel it's an important decision for you to make. I think all too often we all get carried away with this idea of "don't quit" but sometimes you have to just draw the line when you're making a loss.

I'm just going to end quoting Einstein: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results"

All the best pal.
We did send robots to the moon before we sent people. But no robot could do what those people who landed on the moon did, let alone bring back hundreds of pounds of selected moon rocks. And it wasn't just for the science; putting humans on the moon was a goal in itself, one put in motion by Kennedy in his challenge to the nation to do it "before the decade is out".

Should we put humans on the moon (or Mars) today? I don't know, but I don't think it's a dumb idea. Impractical maybe, but still a laudable goal.
A truly intelligent species would be working on not killing its own planet, instead of figuring out space habitation.

The ROI on the former is many orders of magnitude better.
Sure, some of the money from tourism helps local economies, if there are already local economies that can provide, e.g. food and hotels and such. But in Third World countries, which wasn't clear from my OP, tourism has annihilated people's way of life and thrown millions of people off their native lands--in particular in island countries where beachfront property brings in tons of rich westerners who end up creating an over-economy where the vast majority of money stays in an upper class. Sure, there are middle-class jobs then available, like cleaning toilets and stocking hotel rooms. But fisherman, mom-and-pop shops, farmers, all of them, kicked out and their lands taken over because it is just too damn profitable to turn into resorts and such. Sad.
Wow...pulses are legumes which quickly go from seed to plant. They’re also good for the soil by nitrogen fixing, Iirc. Lentils are a good example.
I'm a big user of Pythonista on an iPad. I also use Continuous[0] for editing C# files, and occasionally play around with Replete[1] (a ClojureScript REPL for iOS).

Obviously they aren't JetBrains/Visual Studio class, but for the specific things they do while I'm on the go they're fantastic. This is increasingly the way I'm doing things with code and text. When I want to open Excel, however- that's when things start falling down for me.

[0]: http://continuous.codes/
[1]: https://replete-repl.org/
> Or you could petition, harass, bribe and cajole your way into enacting change, and have it all overturned with a change in administration.

This is the reason why technological solutions are popular among the Silicon Valley crowd. No matter what, political solutions are plagued by human emotion and self-interest, and thus they become sticky, "corrupt", and slow. Technological solutions are subversive of that structure at the least, and a force multiplier in others.

The computer will generally do what you tell it to do. You can spend hours of effort on something and get a deterministic result that will do the thing. You can spend your whole life in politics and get nothing out of it because the entrenched power structures won't let it happen.
Nutrient density and bioavailability are two very different things. Kale is extremely nutrient dense but as the parent poster has pointed out, the anti-nutrients [1] reduce the absorption of said nutrients.

You can take kale into a lab and determine that it has so much of nutrient X and Y but in reality, do you absorb it?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663599/
I am still failing to find the reason why they are trying to put 'blockchain' together with everything else these days.

It is exquisite for ledger/proof-of-work systems, but not much else.

Sounds like they're randomly taking guesses at what fits well with what, and the building upon.
That's a hell of an assumption to make and base your entire comment on.
That's not true at all.

See https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/why-the... which explains the SCOTUS case that describes why journalists can publish classified information.
Scientists pursue universal snakebite cure using HIV antibody techniques
Ask HN: Alternatives to pay-to-win revenue streams?
Hey all! So I have been slowly working on a pet project that, in it's simplest iteration, is a mobile gaming arcade. That said, I have become disillusioned with the current pay-to-win model (as has the U.S. government, apparently). I have encountered a few games (Path of Exile comes to mind) that embrace a play-to-win mindset and I am just trying to brainstorm some cool alternatives that a) don't rely on predatory advertising or marketing and b) don't force users to pay if they want to see their name on a leaderboard. Thanks for any and all advice.
This is somewhat relevant if you already have a business: https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1131951740943839232
By confronting and dealing with the underlying things leading you to want to escape in the first place. The escapes only offer temporary relief, while effective confrontation can resolve the issues so you can get off the hamster wheel and move on.

CBT [0] has been by far the best way I've found so far to achieve meaningful, long-term change to my underlying thinking and mindset. CBT offers a scientifically-based approach, and there are lots of helpful professionals out there.

If this information helps you or anyone reading this, I'll be so happy!

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cognitive-behavi...
I was around a lot of entrepreneurs growing up, mostly small business owners. Sometimes they made money, sometimes a lot of money. There were also times in between when they made no money and had to borrow from each other to keep from losing everything. They kept doing it because they loved it and didn't want to work for anyone else.

It's a rollercoaster, but I don't think any of them regret it.
I think you should try 9-5 job for some years. If you like, good for else. Else, you will have clarity on why you want to be an entrepreneur
Probably the best food you can put in your body, bar none.
It depends what you like. Most people don't care for organ meats, which is why they're so cheap. In general, any of those organs from cattle/bison, sheep, goats, pigs, or poultry are great. My favorite liver is bison liver (you can order it online, but it's $10 for 8 ounces, not so cheap.). Those of you who prefer something closer to steak, try any kind of heart. Beef heart is great and super cheap ($1 lb or less?), but lamb/sheep heart is my favorite. I've got some kidney in my freezer, but I haven't gotten into it yet-- since I enjoy liver, heart and tongue-- that pretty much covers my nutrient needs.
Not if you buy tinned beans. They'll never be as cheap as dried beans of course, but they are still very cheap.
Huawei can’t officially use microSD cards in its phones going forward
Because then Joe 'CEO' blogs can summit Everest with a whole bunch of Sherpas and Billy 'been climbing since he was a teen' Smith is SOL because he spent his life climbing mountains and not hoarding cash.
A great man has left us. RIP.
there was a ML experiment back in 2015 to categorize the posts: https://monkeylearn.com/blog/hacker-news-categorizer-with-ma...

sadly it is no longer live. Could be a great side-project!
Any animal that humans eat.

Cows, Pigs, sheep. All good.
> There is so much wrong with your post that I don't even know where to begin.

There is so much going on in these posts that I don't even know where to begin.

Above poster makes claims. I'm like "I don't know nutrition, but this sounds good". You make counter-claims. "Those sound good too".

Crap. Now I can start digging into your respective sources...but of course those will just be people making claims too, they just get different sources of authority.

This happens everywhere anymore. Do guns improve safety? Are immigrants bad for the economy? Do immigrants commit more crime? Is climate change real?

With the Alabama abortion ban in the news I looked into rates, but couldn't find good numbers. (Superficially it looks like there are 10x the number of abortions than infant mortality, but good luck figuring out how many of those abortions were purely voluntary and not due to health reasons).

Trying not to be misled feels both futile and exhausting. Not ripping on your post at all, just reacting to the pent-up emotions it evoked.
I've had a lot of luck using Balsamiq as a wireframing or mockup tool. Quick to get into and edit, and clearly meant to be a UI mockup and not a pixel perfect representation of the final product. It eliminates a lot of wasted time on bikeshedding and lets people focus on the layout and flow.
I would also like to see low orbit shielded datacenters. These would have relatively high mass and streamlined design, which would allow for radiation shielding, and reduce the necessity of boosting orbital trajectory. They would also have very high bandwidth line of sight laser communications. This would allow them to migrate the state of virtual servers to the next satellite over. So applications consisting of a cloud of server processes can incrementally migrate to virtually "hover" at very low altitudes above the earth.

Assuming Starlink also works, I suspect the first company to make this work would make an absolute killing.
Truly we have transcended parody.
Sorry to hear, my acquintance with him is via the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

— Michael Crichton
5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Damascus
There are many factors in climate change. Some more impactful than others
You're being pedantic -- I'm not saying that there performance-critical JS code doesn't exist, I'm saying that the push for readability over performance isn't going anywhere.
Looks great. Too many questions on signup -- I fell out of the funnel.
> Can you explain this differently? I don't understand how you would launder profits through yourself (or why you're laundering them at all-tax reasons?).

Same as licensing your name to "another" company that's actually your company, for (coincidentally I'm sure!) all of their profit, in order to shift money around.

Have umbrella company. Put your tech folks either directly in the umbrella company or in some child company. Make your other child companies (or even ones you don't have directly related to the umbrella corp) "pay" the one with the tech folks for their dev work, some arbitrary amount of money (however much you want to move). Now the umbrella company or tech child company has all the profit from your other companies, which you've done for tax or liability reasons or whatever. Mission accomplished. Whether actual tech work was done may or may not matter, depending on whether you were also trying to accomplish actual work at the same time, or just shifting money.
The day Lord West's ship went down (2007)
Don't miss the $45.5 million awarded to 11 companies last week for prototype work under the NextSTEP program:

https://spacenews.com/nasa-selects-11-companies-for-lunar-la...
The Blockchain is the slowest and at the same time most energy hungry Datastore mankind has ever build. And in the case of bitcoin it's not fit for the job it was developed for.
In his recorded remarks on how he wanted to be remembered, Gell-Mann said the life of a scientist includes a great deal of hard work, reversals and despair. But along the way, he said, there also is “a great deal of joy.”

That, he said, is what he’d like to be remembered.

-- https://www.abqjournal.com/628149/as-building-is-dedicated-b...
>mass education in critical thinking and self-awareness

Does not fix confirmation bias, because people who are in deep in their own little holes don't want to know
When I was studying in Japan in college a Japanese friend and I climbed Mt. Fuji.

You basically take a bus about half way up, then hike 80 or 90% up to summit then spend the night in a cabin. Since you’re close to the summit you wake up when it’s dark and hike the last bit so you can watch the sunrise from the top.

We didn’t consider hiking in dark our plan and thus didn’t bing head lamps like everyone else. We didn’t know what to do about not having lamps but left the cabin super early in the morning anyways. As soon as we stepped out there was a giant line of people stopped, waiting to get to the top. My friend turns to me as say, “man, this is Japan.”

Give the huge line of people, all with lamps, we made it up to the top. It took much longer than we planned because you couldn’t move until the person in front moved.

We eventually made it to the top and watched the sunrise. However I was shocked at what I found... gift shops!!! People looked at view for a minute, said “kirei desu ne”, took some photos then proceeded to shop. They seemed much more interested in omiyage shopping than being at the top of Mt. Fuji.
Comparison of the oxidative stability of soybean and sunflower oils enriched with herbal plant extracts (Kozowlski, Gruczyńska, Chem Zvesti. 2018; 72(10): 2607–2615.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6096694/
Isn't that mainly for integrations though? I would think straight Oracle RDBMS licensing would be on life support without some big ERP connector etc.
Room 222: Four Seasons in Academic Hell
"now when I get in I just want to veg with a book as I'm mentally spent."

That's me. I think it's age but a job where I am more active and/or outside would help for sure. When I worked as mechanical engineer I often had to go to the workshop which already was a nice break from the desk. There were also physical things to handle which is good for the soul. Now I am always at the desk or meeting rooms and everything is abstract.
The alarms are at unmanned stations, which have ceiling-height turnstiles. The doors get used every few minutes.