lawlesst
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Comment · 4 months ago
I harvest the playlists from a variety of music shows hosted on public radio stations around the country and create Spotify playlists from them. Code is on GitHub: https://github.com/lawlesst/spotify-bot. This allows me to listen on demand and still get the curated content.
I also added a script to put the hourly NPR news update into my queue while I'm listening, which makes it seem like a radio station in a way.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've had the same experience. Spotify abruptly deprecated their recommendations API endpoint (https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/spot...). I recently switched to last.fm and am able to generate recommendations via their API just fine and without being a pro subscriber.
I also had the delight of finding my streams from 2008 still in my history after not logging in for several years.
Comment · 1 year ago
The first love letter I've enjoyed reading in quite some time. It left me wondering if my minimal, rarely updated website of ~12 years qualifies since it's hosted on big tech backed Github pages.
Comment · 3 years ago
The hours of a public school day are generally about two hours shorter than the average workday, not accounting for commuting time. There is still a need for before and/or after school care for several years after after the child enrolls in school.
Comment · 3 years ago
I live in one of those cities that regularly makes the best places to live lists. I’m not able to get a spot in a before or after school program for my children, regardless of price. The one child center that serves the school has already filled their slots for the fall.
Seems like this well educated, high income market is still organized around one parent not working full time or a grandparent living nearby.
Comment · 3 years ago
In a similar vein, I would suggest preparing by exercising. Being a parent of young kids is more physical than you think, or at least I thought. Carrying them while carrying other things, carrying gear, lots of bending, general physical awkwardness, etc.
Comment · 9 years ago
I believe this is the study that's being referred to. It's not by the NYT but they wrote about research by economist Raj Chetty, of Stanford, and others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/sunday/americas-g...
Comment · 11 years ago
Freebase doesn't have an ontology in the Semantic Web sense. It's always been a specialized tool with non standard protocols like MQL. Schema.org is somewhat related but not tied whatsoever to Freebase.
Wikidata is fully editable and has an ecosystem for updating data so concerns about stale data aren't valid. Since Wikipedia will be pulling from it (is already in some cases) you could argue that their will be more sunlight on the data.
There's been a lot of code written against Freebase APIs (me included) but it isn't sad it's going away. It's the risk you take when relying on 3rd party services. I think your confusing short term developer convenience with a real loss of open data.
Comment · 11 years ago
Is there evidence that the migration to Wikidata is half-hearted? This was just announced in December.
Not sure this is evidence of a "sad demise". Wikidata is non-commercial project managed by a foundation. Freebase/Metaweb was always a commercial project. Seems like this is a move towards openness if anything.
Full Freebase data dumps have long been available.
Comment · 12 years ago
Dr. Valter Longo, who was an author of this study, was on the Diane Rehm Show in January of 2014 with others discussing the benefits of fasting. All the panelists endorse fasting to some extent but it was a lively discussion that summarizes some his research as well as related research that advocates for shorter fasting periods.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-01-09/latest-research...
Comment · 14 years ago
There is ipdb.
"ipdb exports functions to access the IPython debugger, which features tab completion, syntax highlighting, better tracebacks, better introspection with the same interface as the pdb module."
Comment · 14 years ago
Chrome on an iPad is also showing the red SSL warning page.
Comment · 14 years ago
An inspiring story. I wish it would prompt a discussion about access to quality education rather than HR policies at elite universities.
Comment · 14 years ago
It's nice to see that Google is adding features to Scholar. There's concern in the library community that it will go away since its not a revenue producing service.
Incidentally, Microsoft Academic Search is pretty impressive so far. They've added many features. They also have an API that is pretty easy to use, which Scholar doesn't.