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And they’re still less useful than the data last.fm makes available to you.
Useful how? What actionable insights do you get from Last.fm? It's vanity metrics optimized for sharing on social networks and there's nothing wrong with it.
It's not particularly actionable to know you listen to more music on a Saturday than a Sunday, but it is mildly interesting for those who are curious about such things.
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Surely you read the article before posting, right? From literally the first sentence: > from our largest Dataflow job
Surely you have read the guidlines before posting, right? > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The hackernews title and the article title say "the". Critizing this clickbait is more than warranted.
But I think it's a reach to call this "clickbait".
Article titles are shortened all the time, and you can't expect them to have all the context in the title.
However, one should reasonably expect people participating in a discussion about an article (particularly when posting criticism) to have actually read it.
Complaining about something that is provably false in the first sentence of the article is the bigger sin here, is it not?
I wonder if some of the data in the "We worked with the maintainer of these data sets to convert a year’s worth of data to SMB format." step got corrupted or just wrongly converted/lost.
I'm not sure how else explain that I have to google artists in my top 10 because I never heard of them.
I came here expecting to read about the tech in the article or how others do big data processing stuff. Instead I get off topic Spotify rants.. Did you read the article or just see Spotify in the headline and decided your gripes therefore are relevant?
This definitely drives people to comment on other things.
My gut feeling screams they made a problem themselves in the first place which they then "solved". Similar to a "solution running around looking for a problem" type of deal.
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Really? I find my 'Discover Weekly' playlist to be astounding. I have to confess for a long time I thought it was a human curated playlist from someone who just happened to have exactly the sames tastes as me.
I have to second this. I can't list the number of artists I have discovered over the last few years using Discover Weekly alone. It's really incredible.
Largest data flow job ever? I’m sure Google would beg to differ. At Quantcast we process 50PB every day, and that’s nothing compared to real scale like Google. And merge joins from sorted data? Joins have been done that way since the punched card days on mainframes (and by any scaled data system)
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This has become a huge problem on HN lately. Lots of discussions are nothing but complaining. Now the technical discussions are starting to get infested with off-topic whining. The mods don't do anything about off-topic rants. If you point it out you'll get downvoted [1][2][3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839399 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064636 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
> The mods don't do anything about off-topic rants. Mod. There is a question of how much one moderator can do against the tide. HN really needs a couple of full time paid moderators, with their salaries covered by the zillion dollar YC bank account.
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I wonder if it'll meet the same fate as Netflix at some point, with publishing houses going for their own streaming services instead. I don't think so because the way that people consume music and the way they consume films and television are very different. With a film you might block out a few hours to watch that specific provider. With music you're more likely to want to interleave content from several providers a…
A considerable amount of music is distributed by a small subset of providers. So in that regard it's not that different to the TV / film situation and you could theoretically still interleave different artists. There's also a common use case where people will just play a specific artist for an hour. Or even an album. Frankly, I hope services like Spotify don't disappear. It's a great loss to consumers just how fragme…