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I use this, not sure if that's all.

# Block Facebook
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 static.ak.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 login.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.login.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 www.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 fbcdn.com
0.0.0.0 www.fbcdn.com
0.0.0.0 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
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> The only losers are us professionals who know about the implications of such a move and who care about the loss of privacy.

You're right. But there is salvation on the music front: Use Streamripper to download music from a diversity of Internet Radios, and listen to it on your leisure, radically deleting everything that doesn't appeal to you. I guess you'll discover some new music, too! (I did). Somafm.com and Schizoid are good places to start. Streamripper also interprets metadata and will name the downloaded MP3 tracks in a recognizable way.
This is a bizarrely short-sighted move.

I have to wonder if Spotify has fallen victim to the siren's lure of "social". Perhaps they believe their future lies in integration with the social graph and news feed. If so (IMHO), they are sorely mistaken.

I believe some services already have you tweet or post that you've listened to a particular song. Zuckerberg seems to believe in "sharing and more sharing" [1] and automatic sharing. What would be the end result of this? On a particularly music-filled day I might send 100+ posts about songs I've listen to? Really? People will ever look at that?

If it's part of the main news feed, it's spam. If it's not, nobody cares... except Facebook, who can mine such data.

And maybe Spotify except... they already have access to this data (for their subscribers). It just makes no sense.

Spotify is also late to the party (in the US at least). Any kind of restriction like this is incredibly risky. Other established players don't have this restriction. While you can argue that "normal people" don't care, who recommends such services to family and friends? It's us.

And any player in the music space would be remiss to ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the room, being Apple's iTunes. iCloud launches soon. Honestly I think it'll kill a few of these "upstarts".

Also, I am less than convinced of the utility of mobile streaming. Bandwidth and connectivity are still issues. Increasing storage and all-you-can-eat subscription models seem like a far better solution (IMHO).

[1]: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/zuckerbergs-unspoke...
I'm watching this introduction with an eye on the long-running theory that the standard Kindle will drop to $0 by November.

For those unaware, the pricing v. price-drop dates graph has the Kindle on a straight-line path to $0 by November 2011. Word is when Amazon CEO was asked about that, he responded "ah, someone noticed" and changed the subject. How, when & whether this will happen is interesting.
> Java apps still feel like crap

fud, shit code feels slow in any language
"... Facebook's valuation is largely based on the value of teh data it holds ..."

For Facebook's larger investors, I've been wondering what kind of access or other benefit they (may) gain, beyond ROI.
> Most of the people Spotify appeals to, such as the college student demographic, all have Facebook and don't really care about their information or privacy, so they won't mind using it to get free music.

Is this really true? Or do they just not know what us "enlightened" do?

I think once people understand what is at stake they'll care. The problem is it's just difficult to visualize and understand. If FB really wants our trust, let us see what they have on us and then let people decide where they stand. But of course they'll never be that transparent.
> I'm not aware of any religion that disallows the use of Facebook.

I suppose the Amish probably aren't interested in Spotify...
Couple of comments:

1) I'm now recommending to my friends to log out of Facebook and visit it in a private/incognito browsing mode. Probably the same thing needs to be applied to Google sites.

2) More importantly, I think it's a bit simplistic to divide the web into "open web" and "Big Web". There are sites that fall in between the wild west of linking and social networking sites. Hacker News is one of these. So is Reddit and StumbleUpon. These sites generate a huge number of page views. In fact, I would guess that they generate more page views for people with only a few thousand followers on social networks.

Even if you don't hit the front page of HN, every submission is automatically posted to Twitter (and probably Facebook, I wouldn't know), so the chances of it going viral are just as strong as if you had posted it yourself. These in-between sites allow you to gain the benefits of Big Web without directly participating in it.
I was expecting to see the electrons at their different energy levels and was a little surprised when I didn't.

Still, beautiful site.
Presumed pro: Spotify said at f8 that users who engaged socially with Spotify through their existing facebook functionality bother listened to more music and were much (I think they said 2x) more likely to pay for a premium membership.

If a Facebook account is mandatory (at the moment it isn't), they might expect a greater number of users to link their accounts. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that the number of people who additionally link their accounts will exceed the number of subscriptions lost from people who refuse to have a Facebook accounts. If a greater number of people linking accounts => increased Premium registrations, then this could very easily be a purely business decision.
Spotify.

I am very happy with how easy it is to use and don't think about using anything else to listen to music. The only thing I think it needs improvement in is discovery. I have listened to the same tracks probably 100 times each at least. I don't know how/where to find more good music, nor do I have the time to spend a lot of time researching and finding.
shrug Carry on, then.
It is indeed. It makes one wonder whether the cookies that Facebook installs in your browser, will allow them to track you anyway, even when you completely 'shut' your FB account tight.

My PC's are facebook-cookie-free.
Yeah, but good luck trying to reuse the same basic instructions to scan non-paper objects without multiple inheritance.
As for this having to do with the type of site that HN is, I'd say that this a cautionary tale for those making the next hipster social site - how not to treat your customers.
This is a hugely important overlooked point. When the measurements have a systematic bias, a product optimized to those measurements will have systemic problems. In this case: large, easy-to-understand classes that are excessive in number and completely fail to interoperate correctly.
It's not just religion. See this article for some explanation of why an atheistic utility maximizer might accept religious (and other non-religious) excuses:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/24o/eight_short_studies_on_excuses/
I do a lot of whitewater kayaking and have been involved in swiftwater rescue training a number of times. The first lesson I learned and have tried to teach others is that most people do not want responsibility. One of the first things I teach people is that if they are the first on the scene of an incident, in almost all cases, others (even those demonstrably more experienced or qualified) will defer responsibility to the first on the scene because they want to be told what to do (just human nature). The most important thing you can do is immediately establish who is in charge, and think hard about being that person. Overcome your natural tendency to follow. The best way to do this is practice, and it's the single most important lesson you can take away from being in situations like this (or even better hearing about other people's experiences).
There's another question here which is what do you use FB for.

I don't trust FB with my personal data so they have very very little of it and my involvement with the site is largely passive consumption. This might add up by the time I've looked at pictures and read a bunch of stuff, but it's a very different level of engagement to those who post more - I could check it every day but it's far from an essential part of my life.

(BTW - your selection bias issue hasn't gone away, it's still a self selecting poll, time is just one tiny factor).
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I don't see anything wrong with the reply (apart from the careless mis-spelling, obviously).

I have a particular problem with it: the response to "this subject ought to be included in the curriculum" was "we aren't the ones to make that change, all we do is decide what's in the curriculum."
Depends on what you mean by independently wealthy.

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation is freely available from the Shriram Krishnamurthi. (http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/). I can vouch for Shriram being one of the most passionate educators I've ever had the pleasure to study under. Nevertheless, as a university professor I don't imagine that he's Warren Buffett rich.

Likewise, Professor Geoffrey Grimmett distributes 'Probability on Graphs' on his website (http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/books/pgs.html) The PDF version is actually better than my print copy, which contains an incoherent index.
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Hyponaetremia is well-documented, and I'm sure someone who has spent a summer supervising children in the heat can tell the difference between hyponaetremia and dehydration. With utmost respect, you sound like you haven't had first aid training and you don't spend much time outdoors in hot weather.
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>> don't care, who recommends such services to family and friends? It's us.

I completely agree with you but with Facebook they don't need us to tell family and friends.
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The immediate losers are those that shun facebook, but anyone that cares about their data is a potential loser, depending on what facebook does in the future.
That's interesting. I work at a radio station in a small town, and in the past week, two colleagues have said they're giving up Facebook (and have moved over to Twitter, rather than Google+).

It's the first time I've seen non-tech people consciously making the decision to bin Facebook (rather than just drifting away without realising).

Could it be some kind of turning point? I don't know.
Sadly, this does absolutely nothing to help you understand the periodic part of the table.

Without showing the structure of electron levels, I fear it's actively misleading. (They specifically show the electrons all orbiting at the same radius.)

It might be hard to make that look as cute, but I doubt it's impossible -- and in any case, not an excuse for sacrificing the one most important thing about the table!

(Also, what happened to the poor neutrons?)
This is only going to mean 2 things.
A) Less people will sign up to Spotify
B) Facebook will gain more users

So, what's in it for Spotify?

In my opinion, this was a very bad move. Spotify is now relying on Facebook. God forbid Facebook ends up like Myspace and no one cares about them in 4 years, then I guess Spotify will just go down with the ship?
which to me reads more like a lecture written to look good for a public audience than a sincere request for action by a government minister.

I never intended this letter to be public, it was written as a letter to Gove. I made it public because I thought the reply was so sad.

I do love the final comment, asking for a personal meeting with a secretary of state based on a quick e-mail, though

You don't get what you don't ask for.
Oh absolutely - forcing things like this on the type of people who frequent HN is a sure fire way to stoke the fires of flamebait
Aren't these doomsday-posts getting boring?

Here's my take:

Stop worrying. According to internet physics facebook will gradually diffuse into distributed services.

The first mass migration away from the silos is likely going to happen as early as within this decade. As soon as some kid in his basement creates a set of viable protocol specs (read: not diaspora) and as soon as a few relentless hackers smell blood in the water.

Once initiated no Zuckerberg or Schmidt has the resources to argue with the second law of thermodynamics. The social graph is destined to gravitate outwards until it's more or less evenly distributed over our always-on devices. Supported by a network of interchangeable service-providers for caching, storage and, of course, "apps".

There you have it. But don't let that stop you from writing the next series of sky-is-falling posts. They're part of the process.
Why are we so paranoid about privacy?
That sounds like a 'Facebook Tax', like Microsoft does to the PC industry.
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The million-dollar question now seems to be if existing Spotify accounts will be silently converted to Facebook accounts behind-the-scenes. Such accounts might even be created as completely locked-down private Facebook accounts available to no one else, but it opens the door for the slow erosion of the privacy of those accounts into something Facebook can monetize.

I'd run, not walk, away from any Spotify subscription.
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My local Giant has this already, but isn't tied to my phone. You just scan as you go, and then pay at the end. It is cool, but I'm not sure it's much faster.

Also, I have to wonder about theft. How many people are just throwing things in the cart, and not scanning?
Because computer literacy is much like the ability to read and write these days.

A computer is a very powerful tool that is available to pretty much everybody in the developed world. Computer literacy translates into a workforce that is able to compete internationally from a position of strength rather than weakness. Think about the industrial age, one group gets to use all the powertools, the other work with their hands and hand tools, which do you think is more productive and will result in a stronger nation economically?
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I'm start to see a trend (very very early stages) of sites that simply don't require a login at all. I'm thrilled about this, as the need to login to every website has gone too too far in my opinion. If you absolutely must maintain state through sessions, simply send the user an email with a temporary token to create a new session (Staticloud is one that does this). Email is the universal identity controlled by no one entity.
But unless 100% of Americans use both these services, that is irrelevant, so essentially all you are doing is finding the lowest common denominator - and if you're wanting to do that, why wouldn't you go with defining facebook as "90x more", i.e. 90 / 1 rather than 180 / 2.
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Sadly too long of a drive from Stuttgart :(
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+1 for a more generic 'App' (not just games) approach.

I suppose I could do this today (mostly) by curating my own app-specific RSS list in the app?
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I just setup anything mode yesterday (textmate.el's find in project was too slow) with a gist I found that searches the current git repo:

https://github.com/zpinter/emacs.d/blob/master/anything/init...
Check out MOG. They have some sort of free option.
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I'm aware of Grooveshark but, as you said, it is questionably legal. It has long been removed from the iOS App Store.

I can't help but wonder if these were the onerous terms that Apple would not agree to with Ping.
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This is a great approach to writing a custom reader:

http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Prag-Parse.html
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In my opinion, the article states that without Facebook or Twitter, one can't have a reliable online business. He says:

Many of the most valuable conversations around technology and many other fields happen on Twitter. If you’re not there you don’t really exist, especially if you’re just getting started in your field.

I don't agree. I don't care about Facebook and Twitter. I USE it just a little bit, but people find my online business by other means. I believe good content and useful services always attract their users - even without sites like Facebook and Twitter. They are just tools in my eyes.
"Making money" is not a one-dimensional state - there's a time element to it.

Officers in a business do not have a fiduciary duty to "make money" at any given point in time, they have a duty to increase the value of the property they are responsible for managing. As a shareholder, that is absolutely what you would want someone managing your property to do.

Taking an investment in order to increase the value of the company over the long term, even at the expense of making money today, can be the rational thing to do. And it's certainly more rational than without exception focusing on "making money" today.
I was talking with a German about what he thought America's national rallying cry was. He said, "In America, everyone is an aristocrat"

He pointed out that we all drive big cars and in Germany you can't drive a big car without means. He also pointed out that in America we all hunt (remember the kings deer) and fish as if it were a God given right.

I think to some extent the fast food issue is the same here. We like fast food, because people are serving us. We don't need to cook. It goes back to our desire for everyone to be an Aristocrat or at least feel that way.
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I wouldn't use the word "interesting", but like you I did chuckle at that last bit.
I can't think of many hard benefits, but several soft benefits. Being able to ask questions is the only hard benefit I can think of.

Deadlines and expectations might help motivate rather than that book siting on the shelf. You get a fancy piece of paper that lists your "grade" when you are done(achievement might motivate some). I have to admit the main draw (over a book) for me is curiosity about one of the nation's best CS programs and how it compares to the mid-west commuter college I went to.
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My experience with ackmate has entirely not been seamless.

While it is vastly preferable to the default cmd+shift+s (cause it doesn't beachball TM for 30 min), you can only Ack in project when you have a file open, and the result list definitely does not play nice with many of the color schemes available for TM.

Still, a lot better than find in project.
I got a blood pressure monitor about a week ago. The men in my family have a history of high blood pressure, but my diet and exercise and body composition has been so dialed in the last six months that I was expecting my blood pressure to be at normal levels. But to my surprise, that wasn't the case. After going cold turkey on my Coke Zero habit and doubling my fish oil intake, I gradually went from 145/85 to around the 120/70 range over the course of a week.

I can't know if the drop was caused by those dietary changes. It could have been due to a few days of elevated stress, though that doesn't correspond to my subjective experience. It could have been due to the sodium content in the Coke Zero. It could have been due to the caffeine, except all the research I found states that caffeine intake only leads to a very short-term elevation in blood pressure. But I'm sleeping much more soundly now due to no caffeine, so that might be it. The extra fish oil could also have helped, but it's unlikely to account for most of the drop.

Sleep seems like the most likely candidate. I didn't have problems sleeping even when I was drinking a lot of caffeine, but there's no doubt the quality of the sleep was subpar.
Anyone using Kod? (https://github.com/rsms/kod)

I love the interface, although it's still in beta and lacks a few handy features.
"To me it seems they could actually be the most connected to older generations simply because they are sharing a social space (facebook) with them."

You make an excellant point here. I have not seen examples in the wild of the kind of "deep wisdom" being shared across the Internet by private family groups, but that doesn't mean it does not exist. However, I know certain wisdom cannot pass on through the internet, can only pass on by face-to-face. They are typically transmitted through body language, physical motion, and sheer charismatic presence.

"Each generation has to go through its own unique rite of passage given cultural, technological and social standards of the time. I think they'll figure it out and make it work, somehow that always seems to happen."

This has been true only within the past several generation, and only due to Moore's Law. In other words, this uniqueness for each generation is an aberration.

Tribal wisdom used to be told through folklore, myths and initiations. These days, in the mainstream and in geek subculture, we use the word "myth" to mean "superstitious", and "something to dismiss" in contrast to "facts." The surviving stories appear in the better science fiction and fantasy novels and pop-culture TV shows. Comics. Anime. Some movies. A tiny handful of video games. Often tainted by consumer lifestyle values.

An example of what I mean, that's meta enough to discuss this within the story: Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age

It comes back to what I wrote in that Quora answer. Today, peers, not elders, conduct modern rites of passages. Elders today cannot keep up with Moore's Law, so peers conduct them. You end up losing things that still remain true, generation to generation regardless of technological changes (hence, "deep" wisdom), and you learn them from your clueless peers.
It's a fair assessment. In my view version 1.0 should be a MVP that addresses the basic needs of the user as they pertain to the underlying system. Decoupling the UI and applying it to the system via API is the ideal solution, but rarely do I see that happen in a 1.0 product when the product itself is in constant flux throughout development.

But I would still like to see how the magic degradation happens from when an engineer receives the static UI and absolutely f*cks it up so that their version of "good enough" barely resembles the end product.
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I think you hit the nail right on the head with this statement: "the future of music is disintegration, not centralization"

Rather than making another "vote for your favorite," sites like OurLabel give a voice to the fans of niche genres. They can "take ownership" of music they like and be taste-makers, and then be rewarded for its success (even if it's just within a small niche and not a huge pop hit).
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Yet another place where Browser ID looks pretty useful, as it's not tied to a single account while still being simple.
Expand.. OK.

Facebook have an increasingly bad reputation. Spotify, now it has made Facebook the only way to sign up, has tarred its own reputation by becoming so closely tied to Facebook.

Beyond this they have locked out users who do not have a Facebook or do not wish to tie an essentially private Facebook account to a public service.

Looking beyond the sign up page, they are also increasingly pushing Facebook and other social media on to Spotify users with no way to hide some of these features. This, for me at least, is just adding distracting fluff to the Spotify UI.

Considering how they got 2 million paid subscribers without this functionality it is baffling that they would essentially disable completely a sign up mechanism that was working perfectly well.

As a premium Spotify user I will be switching to Deezer next month if a u-turn is not made on this decision.