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The criticisms here are 100% fair… But it's worth remembering that Spotify's fundamental unit is the user playlist. It's what the social experience is built around, it's what the user's experience is built around, it's what the consumption experience is built around.

Apple Music, on the other hand, has a pretty strong bent towards curation and suggestion. It's clearly oriented to encourage you to use the curated playlists that Apple Music's folks are creating, and other suggestions based on your tastes. It's also pretty good IMO at providing suggestions based on the music you're currently looking at so you can keep investigating.

I get the feeling the playlist functionality in iTunes 12.2 and the latest iOS is mostly the exact same as it was in previous versions—I don't think it's been integrated into Apple Music at all (yet?). Right now it's just a way of organizing things that are part of your music, rather than a way of organizing things that are part of Apple Music.

So, while it's perfectly fair to be frustrated with the playlist creation experience, I think it's also worth appreciating the fact that Apple stayed true to what they've been saying and marketing around Apple Music. Those user experiences are, at least for me, very straightforward and have generally been quite good. So maybe generalizing and saying “Apple Music is a Usability Nightmare” is overstating a tad… Even though saying “Apple Music's Playlist Story is a Usability Nightmare” maybe isn't.
This is basically clickbait designed to capitalize on the new service.

With zero observation of what people want and how they experience it, he conducts a dry and pedantic assassination of the UI.

I've talked to 4 regular users today all of whom were having an enjoyable experience and expressing no concern about the UI - instead the conversation was all about what it was allowing people to discover and listen to.

The only person who had any discomfort with the service was a friend who hasn't used streaming before and was concerned about the ephemeral nature of what he listened to - I.e. Unlike with buying musing it's easy to listen to a lot of stuff and not make a connection with it to a particular place and time.

In any case unless you like pedantry, don't read this article - instead listen to some music.
It will simply be traveling too fast, and Pluto is simply too small, for the probe to get into orbit.

For them to have arranged for it to slowly catch up with Pluto and get into orbit, I imagine the path would have taken decades if not hundreds of years. (Assuming the fuel capacities we have to work with.)
> My boss told me he yelled and fought for me to get the review, but that they said no.

Unless you witness it, don't simply believe this one.

It's a cheap & easy way to say "no" while still positioning himself as the good guy. After all, he's the one that has to manage a day to day relationship with you.

And stop to think about that for a moment. If you "yelled and fought" with him, would he or the organization tolerate that behavior? If he wouldn't, why would his boss tolerate it from him?
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I tried uBlock origin and I didn't find any advantages over adblock plus besides not having to disable an option to block most ads... but either way, noscript is still necessary
I thought he was exaggerating about iTunes, but I went to try to use the menus and they are horrific. They don't act like desktop menus at all. And you can't select and then drag and drop the songs, like you can in the normal iTunes screens. It's gratuitously different in every way.

The only small consolation is that I don't use playlists, so it doesn't really affect me. But, ooof—it's quite the bad UI.
Articles from this wonderful episode presented by the honorable Pastor Manul Laphroaig.

Backdoors from Compiler Bugs

A Protocol for Leibowitz

Reprogramming a Mouse Jiggler

Exploiting an Academic Hypervisor

Weaponized Polyglots as Browser Exploits

On Error Resume Next
for Unix

Sing Along with Toni Brixton

Backdooring Nothing-Up-My-Sleeve Numbers

Building a Wireless CTF

Grammatically Correct Encryption
The reasoning here is pretty sound:

- In any case the USA FREEDOM Act explicitly rules out bulk collection by the NSA in 6 months ( it's done by the phone companies afterwards, not sure if that's really any better)

- The Second Circuit ruled that Section 215 of the Patriot Act was not intended to allow for mass surveillance. But they did not issue an injunction, saying that further action is dependent on the USA FREEDOM Act

- Congress passed the act _with this 6 month period_ and otherwise similar language, basically saying "We know this is interpreted as mass surveillance, and we are not contradicting that"

The second circuit ruling was not based off of constitutional interpretation, but off of the interpretation of the law. By passing the Freedom act with that 6 month period, Congress has made clear that the "mass surveillance" interpretation is acceptable to them (again, for that 6 month period).
Sure, but that is an incorrect test for other developers to worry about it failing.
For 2D images, fractals can be used for image compression. I don't know if any of the popular image compression algorithms use this method.
I don't understand the limitation that "neither Alice nor Bob is allowed, in any way, to affect the preparation of the initial state." Why shouldn't Alice create the initial state?

If we can use the quantum entanglement to determine if some Eve has intercepted a message between Alice and Bob, then why can't we use the fact of tampering as the data pipe? Why shouldn't Alice create the initial state and Bob use the quantum entanglement to communicate back? Use two constant photon streams between the two, one from Alice to Bob, one from Bob to Alice. The photons that are emitted are identical--it's notionally a carrier wave. Alice checks to see if Bob "tampers" with the photons. The actual data encoded in the photon itself isn't important.

Say I fire a laser beam to the Moon. It's going to take a second and a half to get there. I send one half of my entangled pair to the Moon and I send the other half down a fiberoptic delay line. In 1.5 seconds, I start checking whether or not my entangled photons have been tampered with, and that is the data stream back from the moon.
systemd-timesyncd may need systemd (the init system); but systemd (the init system) doesn't need systemd-timesyncd.
I remember this being a great resource for reimplementing malloc last semester.
>> You can price yourself into a layoff. Sure your company is going amazingly well today. Your company got a $200 million cash infusion just last year, bumping the valuation up to $2 billion. There are 250 employees and your technology is super-awesomely-disruptive. But wait... there is a downturn in the market. Nobody will fund an IPO. You're running out of cash. No angel investors are showing up and revenue can only handle 100 employees. Let's look at the price/performace ratio of the current employees! Wow, Bob is good but... are we really paying him that much???

Thanks for posting this, this is exactly the situation I fear I'm in right now in the local market. I work for company that had doubling revenue for the previous four years. I followed the advice given here, I was disgruntled, went and got another job offer, and took the second counter offer to stay (40% raise and lead position).

Since then the company was bought by a venture capital firm, the new version of the software has been languishing in rewrite hell, and sales have evaporated. Had a 10% staff cut a month ago. Now, I'm certain (speculation on my part) I'm at the top of the compensation range, and the next round of cuts will likely include me.

I'm trying to decide if I should jump ship now or wait it out, see if the business improves. So far I've found that at least one local company says I'm too far over their compensation range. Yikes!
Skeptical that it will happen or skeptical of the quality?
I was testing on OS X - On Windows 8.1 the page kept loading for a while and then the tab crashed - it used 767Mb before crashing. Probably the extensions you are running are different from me as well - I am running uBlock, Privacy Badger, Lastpass and ChromeCast.

Edit: The crash on Windows 8.1 is reproducible for me. Turns out I'm running a 32-bit build on Windows. But that just very likely means the crash is due to it exceeding the 32-bit process address space limit. I've seen it reach 900+Mb but since the reporting is not real time in chrome://memory it's hard to know at what point it crashes.
There was a discussion about HOW it works, but not WHY they chose that method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11279992/math-behind-goog...

My guess is they wanted time to deviate less at the start of the smear window, instead of deviating equally at all points during the window. But perhaps it turned out not to be an issue.
32-bit version is free to play with nowadays: http://kx.com/software-download.php
That's a feature not a bug.

The first sentence on the systemd project overview is:

systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system.

After describing the init system it goes on to say:

Other parts include a logging daemon, utilities to control basic system configuration like the hostname, date, locale, maintain a list of logged-in users and running containers and virtual machines, system accounts, runtime directories and settings, and daemons to manage simple network configuration, network time synchronization, log forwarding, and name resolution.

systemd is intentionally a much bigger project than just the systemd init system.
Apple, please fix the horrid UI/UX for creating a playlist. It's not easy to figure out and heck I just want to tell Siri add this to X playlist. That would be the easiest and quickest way to create a playlist. As of now creating a playlist is so confusing and frustrating!!!
Its fine, software development is not easy. I am sure they are going to fix the rough edges sooner than you think.

(also beats1 is great)
This sounds similar to my stay in a psych ward after a suicide attempt brought on by a mixed episode (bipolar; was undiagnosed at the time, and was given an incorrect diagnosis of major depression by the admitting doctor). A psych ward is essentially a jail; not an unfashionably appointed hotel as the author suggests. The worst part is looking out the window and realizing you can't leave. I could bear the three schizophrenic cases who collectively screamed, danced and twitched catatonically. The borderline girl would shout that her father raped her and that she was in there because of a vengeful social worker. One girl tried to hang herself in the bathroom with strung together kotex. None of this was remotely bothersome in comparison to not having my freedom.

Immediately after leaving the hospital I stopped taking my medication (Seroquel - for sleep, 200mg [this is off-label and 4 times the dose for insomnia], Prozac 20mg). It was causing me unbearable side effects. Despite being unmedicated and untreated, I was stable for 6 years until after moving up north. I became depressed again and was put on Zoloft. Zoloft triggered a prolonged hypomanic episode which doctors tried to treat with multiple medications over 4 months. It was a terrible time.

Ultimately I told all the psychiatrists and doctors to shove off. I started using light (and darkness) therapy, because after examining my history all of my depressive episodes were in the winter. I never had any sort of disruptive manic episodes outside of the Zoloft incident. I also started exercising 4 times a week, which has largely protected me from any sort of depression in the winter (along with the lightbox).

Psychiatry is closer to witchcraft than medical practice. It's a bumbling attempt to treat an organ we have yet to understand. I feel deeply sorry for anyone who has gone through the type of unnecessary suffering I experienced. There really needs to be stricter regulations and oversight of the practice, because it's in a shameful state.
Not sure what you were expecting though? I mean, it's a radio station. They're going to play all sorts of music. Today was the first time The Chronic by Dr. Dre has been streamable and so they played it on Beats 1 (the whole album I think?) - but that came after they were playing indie/alternative music for an hour. Perhaps you tuned in at the wrong time.
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At least with Apple Music you can tell Siri to play X song while driving. With Spotify indeed you had to navigate through a maze of menus and there are many of us doing or were doing this while driving.

Siri's success rate when asking her to play X song or artist is pretty solid.
No, it is perfectly acceptable to use hyperbole. Anyone who says differently should be shot. If you like rap music, you are stupid, and your parents are stupid.

Criticizing music in a post about music preferences is not unreasonable. Thicken your skin.
It does mean that, actually.
Are Curved TVs a Gimmick?
You don't think N(M-1)/M sites not being affected by the next heartbleed wouldn't be significant?
I'm glad people are pushing the envelope on JS build tooling, and not giving in to the "we need to freeze the toolspace now" contingent. I feel like the mainstream build tools have been interesting, but nobody has got it all figured out yet.

One question, if this is ES6, then why:

exports.foo = function* () {}

...instead of:

export function* foo() {}

?
Those numbers don't mean much without the ability to compare them to the acceptance rate of warrants in other criminal courts.

I haven't found a single statistic on that seems that no one actually is keeping or publishing it, but every article I've read seems to point that denying warrants is very rare in all jurisdictions.

e.g.: http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/rejection-of-search-warra...

I mean in California police officers can request a warrant and have it signed digitally, and they even got a fucking app for that.

When you automate a system to a point when a police officer can get a warrant on his Ipad i some how don't think that many of them are denied.
It costs political capital to ignore the law. Dig into the leaks that have come out. Why so much talk about meta data and U.S. persons and minimization? If they were just ignoring the law, they wouldn't bother with any of that. They do it because the law gives them leeway along certain dimensions, and it costs them much less political capital if they can justify their activities as sticking to those rules.
Ask HN: How to find good business co-founders?
I asked a question yesterday on HN titled: ["Ask HN: My co-founders are trying to get rid of me. What should I do?"](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9803111) and I took some great advice from HN community and based on those I have decided to part ways with my co-founders.

I'm a technical person and I definitely need a some help in the business side of things. I don't know wether I should hire a business guy or find a business focused co-founder.
A business co-founder would definitely be much more dedicated than an employee who gets paid and has a very small amount of equity
Another thread on HN had informative posts describing how diseases have been cured in Cuba by government threatening to kill any doctor who reported an instance of it.
...but it's not a post about music preferences, it's a post about software usability.
I was originally a subscriber to Google Music but the iOS app (I last tried it about 4 months ago) is absolutely terrible. Streaming didn't always work well and when trying to cache things it would constantly cache broken songs with many issues with them. It was impossible to use every day. I had hoped to stay with it especially since I got in on the $7.99 deal but I need the music to actually work across all of my devices.
> Many mathematicians seem to have an attitude that a well peer-reviewed proof is simply correct and etched in stone for good. This seems to me like publishing programs - some of them thousands of lines long - and expecting them to be essentially bug-free without ever running them.

I think that the important distinction is 'peer-reviewed'. A random programme published, even by a very good programmer, is indeed likely to have errors; but I think that one can have more confidence in a peer-reviewed programme (which is essentially why we trust open source over closed source, after all).

Of course there are distinctions: software is automatically tested when used, whereas mathematics is not automatically tested when read, so that one might reasonably have more confidence in software purely on the basis of its longevity than one does in mathematics; but, on the other hand, although individual pieces of reasoning can be extremely arcane, 'flow control' in mathematical reasoning tends to be much more elementary than in software, so that one is unlikely to uncover the mathematical analogue of an infrequently visited branch in a code path going untested despite heavy use of the software.
What's your agenda in coming in and claiming the paper is irrelevant? It would have been better to let people read the paper and come to their own conclusions instead of draft off of your biased summary. If you actually read the paper, you would see that some of the regions that reported neurotoxic effects had levels that were lower than the legal limit in the US. Furthermore, the paper claimed that other toxins were factored in to the conclusion. See:

> Drinking water may contain other neurotoxicants, such as arsenic,
but exclusion of studies including arsenic and iodine as co-exposures in a sensitivity analysis resulted in a lower estimate, although the difference was not significant.

But this story is already off the front page and you succeeded in burying my post and defending fluoride for some strange reason, so you win.
beta software is beta?
https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria and https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements
Yes, Adblock Plus' whitelist has been compared many times to a mafia style extortion scheme. Companies pay to let their ads through. By using ABP over other copies of the same open source code (or competitors like uBlock), you are supporting this business model.
>If we can use the quantum entanglement to determine if some Eve has intercepted a message between Alice and Bob, then why can't we use the fact of tampering as the data pipe?

You can't; quantum key distribution requires a classical channel as well. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution#BB84_...

>After Bob has measured all the photons, he communicates with Alice over the public classical channel.

Edit: also, "I don't understand the limitation that "neither Alice nor Bob is allowed, in any way, to affect the preparation of the initial state." Why shouldn't Alice create the initial state?"

If Alice creates the initial state, she can send a message encoded within.
Phone-controlled Range Rover helps you get out of a jam
@jamiegreen, if you're reading this:

- your notification email should not come from "support"
(at least give the sender a good human-readable name)
- it's good that you're showing a featured stream on the front page
but there seems to be no way to get to their profile page from there

Overall I found the site has come along nicely since I last visited, good job!
It's pretty basic. The advantage of Apple Music is the hand curated content, integrated 24/7 radio station and ability to view artist posts.

As it stands now it really isn't worth the money.
"Apple Music sucks for creating playlists" doesn't mean "Apple Music is a usability nightmare."

The entire industry is aware of the fact that user-generated playlists don't actually work to achieve mega-scale consumption. If they did, Spotify would be at 200m global subscribers and we would all pay for enhanced playlist features. People don't actually know what they want to listen to, and they don't want to spend time on curation -- not even on time curating their curators.

Spotify was built on the false premise that people wanted a "social jukebox" and that this "social stickiness" would somehow create an experience that, when combined with licenses to every track possible, would create an experience superior to pirated channels. Look, they'd say -- you can now see what your friends are listening to, and enjoy unparalleled social discovery! Better still, you can simply subscribe to their playlists and ride off their cool vibes!

The vast majority of people just don't care about this stuff, and definitely not enough to pay for it. They want to press play and skip stuff. And that's about it. The Pandora UI is the UI to beat. Everyone in the business knows this -- hence why you see everyone pushing radio metaphors over playlists.

If you're judging Apple Music on the basis of its playlist UI, you're an edge-case user judging edge-case features. Time to reflect on the fact that you aren't the target audience.
Did you want a reply, or the catharsis of getting downvoted from "stupid" users who like rap?
I used Apple Music a lot today - I didn't really find anything majorly off-putting about the UI. There were a few quirks which I'll let Apple off the hook for, seeing as they haven't dramatically changed their Music app in 9 years (unless you're counting the flattening that came with iOS 7.)

To say Apple Music is a "usability nightmare" is a HUGE stretch IMO. If I opened the app and was presented with 1000 different options along with every single interface guideline being ignored, sure, maybe that would be a "nightmare".

I think what you mean to say is "Apple Music isn't close enough to perfect yet, from a usability standpoint."
I can't tell from those examples if it's good or not, the json shown is all trivial 1 level deep json that you rarely encounter in real life. How it handles nested objects and array, deeply nested objects and arrays is what I'm interested in. Not the ability to handle a Point payload. I know in dynamic language it's typically a 1 liner. I'll endure a little more work than that, but my experience from Haskell was quite painful.
Your comment would be more useful if you actually addressed the "pedantic" things. Have you even read the post?

- Can't delete multiple items or move multiple items to another list

- "three dots" AND right click shows different contextual menus

- 4 clicks to delete items from the "My music" menu.

While I don't think the article is especially balanced, these items are far from pedantic.
I'm guessing: that function has a continuous derivative. Simply running the clock uniformly faster during the interval would have a discontinuous derivative.
I think that this is probably my ignorance, but I was hooked by the title, as intended, and skimmed the slides; and, aside from the fact that it appears on a slide titled "NP-Hard", don't see anything about Candy Crush. Is there some database at the heart of Candy Crush, possibly with an interesting approach to consistency, that is well understood by the audience? Or is the author just drawing the analogy between NP-Hard problems? (I don't know of any proven, or even just believed, NP-Hardness results on Candy Crush, but I'm sure there are some.)
Hrmph.

I'm only as far as noticing, uninstalling whichever, going "huh," reinstalling and going "feh."
https://gist.github.com/kennethreitz/973705

I would say not much, but it's much more pythonic.
Puerto Rico Could Really Use a Bankruptcy
I use Google Music only for the library it offers of my own uploads. The iOS app works pretty well now, a new one was just released that didn't spoil the fun. I don't use any of the paid service.
Here in the US fertilizer manufacturers need somewhere to dump their flouride byproducts, so we have it in the water.
I have a question about NoScript. I run Ghostery which blocks all tracking and analytics js files, preventing most of the tracking I'd like to avoid. What does NoScript offer here? Seems like you'd want to block analytics even if you're browsing a "trusted" site.
Linked email from Lennart has some interesting reasoning for this: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-Aug...