skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...maybe it will dawn on Barack Obama, by then retired and relaxing on the beach in Hawaii, that maybe we shouldn’t have thought of education as a market in the first place. Maybe college shouldn’t be about individuals getting rich. Maybe there is another purpose.

Maybe the federal government shouldn't involve itself in private colleges at all? What mandate does the US government have to interfere in college pricing or the existence of an on-campus LGBT center?

College tuition has gone up for three reasons (in order of importance)

1) Griggs v Duke Power

2) The availability of huge amounts of credit to students combined with an easy way to rank colleges, the accept:reject ratio.

3) Government mandates, particularly under Title IX and "dear colleague" letter type nonsense.
It is technologically feasible today within a distance radius of 200 miles or so if the internet infrastructure around you is solid[1]. But as I mentioned in another comment, synchronous collaboration has a lot of friction, so I think while this is really cool, it's sort of an icing in the cake type of experience more than the most used scenario. Asynchronous is more convenient. And Bandhub has a sort of "live" feel since it has video and most tracks are recorded in one take (so there could be some slight mistakes or imperfections that make it feel very "real"). If you haven't tried it yet you should. The "live" feel to it was a pleasant surprise.

[1]NOTE: Most of the latency is actually in the audio processing components (internal audio device, driver and application buffers). There is some specialized hardware that minimizes this latency, making it work well across <200miles distance (or so). After that, speed of light + internet router buffers add way too much latency and it starts to not work so well.
The biggest problem is not generating. Generating gets you 50%. The ability to then refactor on what is generate is key.

How are you going to tackle that problem? How much are you going to charge per conversion?
I agree that there are a lot of government loans for education-- another thing that ought to stop. The government shouldn't be a loan shark for young people.
Any instructions on how to use this?
This seems like some project manager's 20% project.
How does this work? Why isn't Bookmarks integrated?! Half-baked product that is!

Edit: Here's the Chrome Extension [0]!

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-google/meo...
Ours are of much higher quality and actually work with your iPhone and not like the crap they sell on alibaba. Don't make assumptions dude.
> When Fred Wilson recently said this at Le Web, he was speaking about the platform we built: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43OKYmGbhU&t=24m0s

So how does each separate qbix instance sync with each other in terms of identity & social graphs? I may have missed it, but I didn't see it in the docs.

What differentiates you from the Diaspora project?
Busses are a lot more flexible in terms of routing - normal gasoline busses can be rerouted at will, and the cost of changing routes for electric busses (like the ones in Seattle) are much lower than street cars, where you basically have to lay new track.

That's actually a downside of buses when it comes to urban development. As a business owner, there's very little upside in opening up a new business next to a new bus stop, because I know that bus stop may move (or disappear entirely) next year. Compare that with a light rail line, which is guaranteed to be on a fairly fixed route, with fairly fixed stops. The literature I've read about urban development shows that additional bus lines do almost nothing for economic activity along their route, while light rail lines have significant, sustained increases in economic activity near their stations.
How is this different than Mongo with a little query language DSL on top?
You fall back to whatever release was available 12 calendar months ago.

I think it's pretty simple, and easy to figure out what you have.
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Agreed....this is actually something I'd probably love to use, but I'd bet money it will be gone in 2 years or so like so many other google apps.
A thought: Do you think people would pay collectively (given the chance) like a fundraiser to publish the source, when a certain limit is reached? Maybe even pay the developer's bills that way? I wonder..
I'd argue that Photos will be an exception. But I'm also arguably a fan boy.
I hope your ten year old has more options available than "go to college and take a gamble on being underwater" or "learn a vocation and hope you retire before it's swallowed by outsourcing or automation."

Despite the statistics, there is no obvious choice here. Why are the wise old people encouraging young people to choose the path their generation just got screwed out of? This generation of students has only ever heard of our parents longterm careers getting vanished by computers or foreigners.
I feel like this would be much better as, say, a dictionary file for Word; the restriction seems too aggressive (i.e. what if I want a name?).
From personal experience, it's not:

1. When I lose internet service, I couldn't manage my OnHub since everything is in the cloud including my router logs.

2. It doesn't support standard router features like NAT loopback.

The list goes on.
Many would say that it's actually designed to milk the pennies from the federal government by proxy of the student and parent with a significant markup.

This is somewhat worse than simply taking from individuals because it implies a systemic breakage that someone is taking advantage of, possibly using political influence to keep that breakage from being fixed.
Unfortunately, they cannot be used for mass transit, as it takes to long to get a wheelchair or stroller onto them :(.

That's not true. When I lived in Minnesota, Southwest Metro Transit used coach-style buses to go to and from Downtown Minneapolis, and they were just fine. The time needed to deploy their wheelchair lifts was about the same as the time needed for a regular "kneeling bus" to deploy its wheelchair ramp.
Thanks for clarifying. I do agree that his speaking style is different and interesting.
Feels like something that should be inside of keep altogether ..
This makes it sound like FB and so on are becoming the new 'Coca-Cola' company. Coke's cheaper than water in some parts of the world, and soon it'll be FB etc as the only "outlet".
Yeah, this might be worthy of using, however in its very hour of inception it has already shown of being untrustworthy, by lacking an export option.
Yeah...when I read the little intro displayed before it pops you into the actual app I assumed this was just an update to Keep.
Are they still running buses in the bus tunnel? My impression lately, with the way Sound Transit has been moving routes out of the bus tunnel is that the bus tunnel these days is more of a light-rail tunnel.
I tried typing "what is this" in the search box. Maybe someone will get my message and reply back, for the next time I visit the page.
pikii seems to be falling over. I can't load the site at all.
Yeah, this definitely isn't going anywhere. I do look forward to idlewords's writing about it, though.
I had the same thought. It was a bizarre selection of media companies and other "social" sites. It seems like either naive, amateur analysis, or else they cherry picked the data to make a popular perception of fb look as dramatically true as possible. I'm inclined to give their integrity the benefit of the doubt and assume they just didn't really think this one through.
Where possible I use "sofa king" instead of "fucking".
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Can u email me srschere it is an arizona state University email address (.edu)... thanks!
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We have upvotes and utterly no discussion happening. Thank you HN for your unquestioning support!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441507
Hm, maybe you can find some more details about that case? As I understood it, the EU copyright directive does not say anything about freedom of panorama either way (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama#European_U...), but maybe there are some subtleties.
Tried and found difficult or thought difficult and left untried?

Building up soft power is something anyone should do if they care about their work. Building big things means collaborating, and collaborating means persuading other people when you're right and recognizing when you're wrong. Do that and you become a leader, regardless of your position on the org chart.
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I'd love to see a demo of this when the next game of thrones is on.
I knew this thread would teach me something good. Had no clue about that feature. Might try it. Also, good comment upward in thread on seeing how people use this one with power difference. I might just watch at a distance to interfere less with the process. That's what I've been doing although not till now for the effect you mentioned.
> Expecting to be able to look at a code sample in isolation and know what it does is unrealistic for any large-scale system.

My number one favorite thing about Go: you can look at a code sample in isolation in a large-scale system and know what it does.

Why? Every identifier is either lexically scoped or lives in a module. There are about 6 control structures and they all do what they look like they do. Operators are all defined over a small set of well-defined primitives, they can't be overridden. Closures, callbacks, and non-linear control flow are rare and obvious. There is no way for code to be skipped by exceptional control flow apart from the single escape hatch called panic().

It's really like no other language I've ever coded in. You can work in large codebases that are as clear as your average Go code, if you have strong guidance about what kinds of code complexity are acceptable and you are ever-vigilant about avoiding language pitfalls, but nothing is quite as freeing as knowing for a fact you will be able to parse someone else's code because there wasn't any way for them to write something you can't understand.
This is an easy way to go if you are good at soldering under a microscope to put it back together. I've considered doing it this way but I'd prefer to figure out the software route...
Why is it 404'ing?
I guess this comes to ones definition of recent. Chrome launched 8 years ago - how fast time goes! I dont know how closely you followed browser news at that time but there was a constant fight for features and faster browsing in the few years before/after that launch. And it's not like nothing has happened since that time but it does seem to have slowed significantly the last few years. I'd love to see that passion return to the wider market. There must be so many features we cant even think of that will become 'how did I live without that' yet invented for such a core piece of software category.
Don't mean to sound like an insult, but this is the first tool (that I know of) intentionally designed to make people stupider.
Building just the suggest-a-haircut software could be a business in itself, and it's a lot easier to execute than trying to make motorized robotic blades that cut right next to your head yet don't ever kill or mangle you.

You can put tablets at barbershops and hair salons. The customer takes a faceshot, then the system recommends various haircuts that suit their face, complete with renderings of what they'd look like.
Even for read operations : forcing you to log in is the only way Facebook has to enforce the non-public privacy setting the content creator may have set.

Conversely, anyone with or without an account can view public Facebook posts.
Yeah this is way too niche, ill-defined, and overlapping with existing products to ever survive.

Why don't they just make a convenient set of clients or extensions to map into a product that's not going to disappear next quarter, like Drive/Docs/whateverthehellitisnow.
I feel like this will either be integrated into Keep in a year's time, or Keep will be integrated into Saves in a year's time.
He didn't realize the other guy hadn't committed code in two years? He simply didn't care enough to do a good job.

My guess is that this fellow felt like his having set aside his leadership position in a role should simultaneously have given him instant authority and at the same time allowed him to shrug and ignore problems he saw but wash"the directly responsible for.
how about google save google wallet?
Leads to 404 for me.
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> I'm an engineering manager today at Google and really happy to see there's now a world where engineers can excel without having to be a manager.

This is really interesting and relieving. Have you been able to see this happen in other companies?
It's been some time since I had a hand in that code. We were trying to solve a couple problems. First, third party event trackers all introduced a delay to ensure they captured events, at the time of writing. Second, none of the major vendors at the time allowed a full data export.

We wrote lil' brother to solve those problems, but also to gather enough context on non-instrumented browser events to e.g. draw heat maps without a ton of extra work on the collection side.

Fun bonus fact. Lil' brother's tracking image response was implemented as the smallest rendering of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" single cover that fit inside of a TCP packet: https://github.com/shutterstock/lil-brother/blob/master/data...

Takes me back :-)
Do torrent trackers need support for WebTorrent before they work with WebTorrent clients?
The obvious reason for this is government, not because they're great technologies.
Yes, buses are still in the transit tunnel. They'll be there until, current guess, 2019.
The likely answer will be : "well, you could sign up to Facebook just as easily as you want us to sign up to meetup.com. Except, everyone is already on Facebook"
> Diaspora

I haven't heard them in ages... maybe that's the problem.
My thoughts precisely.
I lived in the south for some time, and being from the midwest ('no' accent), I was always called a yankee. Sometimes as a joke, but there were plenty of cases where it made me feel uncomfortable.
1. WWII ended 71 years ago, not 40.

2. WWII munitions still kill people. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-ma...

3. However you feel about them morally, illegal drugs are extremely dangerous. 44k people die from drug overdoses every year. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-ma...
Oh, you mean Google Stop-Downloading-Our-Precious-Image-Search-Results?
I havn't looked into it in detail, but I was under the impression that it wasn't so much to affect consumer choices directly, as commercial behavior.

That is, putting a price on carbon will result in businesses either putting up prices, or choosing lower emission production options. All other things being equal, this should result in having lower emission companies having a pricing edge, and then consumers picking those products.
I hesitate to start using it for the same reasons. If it does catch on I would think Evernote has the most to lose here.

Despite reports of them struggling I don't see any clear competitors, but a central repository for all of my "saves" with tags and powerful search could give Evernote a run for their money.
I would like to see a place where I can micro invest in YC startups. e.g $500 - 10k. If YC takes 7% for 120k. It seems 1k is worth about 0.05%. Its a bet a lot of us are willing to take. e.g I don't mind spending 6k on 6 startups on a year, which are YC vetted and are in the space I think is very lucrative.

Offering dev time is very hard, but as someone who has worked in industry for so long, we can definitely help with guidance and advice.
I personally am disappointed that there's so little will to improve buses. Buses have a lot of good attributes:

1. Turn radius is pretty good: streetcars have 18-20m turn radiuses, buses are comfortable at 12m radius, doable at 9m, and can go lower. Buses are compatible with existing city forms.

2. Because of this you can change routes based on demand. This almost never happens, but it should.

3. Broken buses don't break the line.

4. Express buses can coexist with local service buses.

5. Turns out passing is a useful feature!

6. It would be possible to responsively add buses to meet demand. Never happens, but possible.

7. Variable stop frequency is a possibility. If you are on a late-night bus in New York they'll let you off at any corner you want. (Most cities lack this basic sense of decency, but I won't claim we do buses right.)

8. The vehicles are not proprietary. You don't like your buses? Buy any brand you like!

9. New manufactures could enter the market. Trains are regulated to a degree that makes it very difficult to enter the market. This is especially bad in the U.S., so maybe it's unfair: we have terrible regulation, and local manufacture requirements. This has a lot to do with the high subsidies trains require: it requires so much political will that everyone wants a piece of the pie.

10. Buses don't have to be inefficient. Intercity buses are often more fuel-efficient than intercity trains, for instance (I'm guessing this is mostly because they use variable pricing to run at capacity, but something like that is possible for transit too.)

11. Rubber wheels are pretty awesome for stopping, and stopping is pretty awesome for not killing people. Trains are incompatible with humans and even cars except at very low speeds, and require intense separation, or barriers with long lengths of times to let traffic and pedestrians clear. Surface trains substantially hurt the walkability of their immediate surroundings.

12. Buses can run lines that are more dense than trains, which is important for people with disabilities. Most disabled people I see are using buses.

13. We really do need roads everywhere. I remember making SimCity cities with only trains, but that's not a real thing. You need roads for emergency vehicles, trash collection, utilities and utility repair, your moving truck, and so on. I'd love to see roads scaled back, but they aren't going to disappear, so let's make the best of them.

Buses do absolutely suck. But I am not convinced they have to suck. Unfortunately transit systems (buses or trains) have no incentive to meet customer demand, their real customers are the government not the riders. Riders are a liability for transit systems, and so there's painfully little innovation.
It is just as free to use as any other website with ads is.
Seems like a no-brainer for TPB/etc to adopt WebTorrent. That should get the momentum going.
> I did kill my accent in grade school when kids made fun of me for saying words different.

Ha ha amazingly I can detect a southern accent even in your writing! ('different' when someone not from the south would say 'differently')

Language is amazing isn't it.
Interesting. The pricing is a little confusing for the rest of us who are considering Segment for the first time (the warehouse part..not the integrations) - especially the size of data and how we load it.

Maybe you are estimating data size based on known types of data in salesforce,zendesk,etc. But what if i want to load data from my internal dB as well? The 60 day notions,etc.
Indeed, this the Experiment phase, after which comes Excitement and later Estinguish.

I stopped getting into these tests and rely on established, often non free, services.

Plus I don't see what this one in particular has to offer compared to Evernote and One note.
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That's as may be. My house is served by two trolley routes and I can go almost anywhere I want except northeast Seattle by trolley. Given a choice, I use the electric routes (for example, going to Ballard using the 44 instead of the 40).

Move Seattle is supposed to fund more electrification of routes so maybe we get more wires in the next handful of years.
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This isn't a strong argument to me. Student debt might not be collateralized the same way mortgages are (i.e. there's no house to repossess), but student debt is still an asset on a bank's book. If anything, student debt default seems to me more troublesome, as defaulted debt without collateral is more damaging to a balance sheet than debt with collateral.
Houston uses buses like that for its long-distance commuter service. I used to ride it every day from Katy to downtown. 30 miles, no stops along the way. During peak hours buses departed every 5-8 minutes.
Thanks! Similar to Airbnb and host availability, we think we can offer an up to date calendar of when a vendor is available as we scale. It's really surprising how little of this information (availability in this case) is locked away, and not available readily.

Thanks for the input!
You're right... they spend even more than $132k/month. They just trimmed the total amount. So they are even worse off. =(
Hah. Wouldn't it be nice if you could put any arbitrary Google service in there. Final twist would be the service that saves the services would be deprecated. All of them would disappear at once! Although I think Google trashing Google saves would be more negative publicity than usual.
This is a myth : https://recode.net/2016/03/30/are-young-people-leaving-faceb...
I bought a place in 2007 after the start-up I was at exited. That was a very expensive lesson that you didn't have to learn at least. I can't think of an actually positive outcome to this lesson fundamentally that I couldn't have just learned with some Youtube videos. The emotional scarring is what's worse than the financial scars. We can always make some more money when we've got some time in life left, but life experiences are something nobody takes away from you no matter how much you want them to go away.
He's talking about text autocomplete, which is a suggestion mechanism. Autocorrect knows full-well that "fucking" is a word, and doesn't put a squiggle under it or anything. But autocomplete—the thing that happens if you write "fuc" and then move the insertion cursor—will skip right past that word in the Autocorrect database give you "duck" as the best-fuzzy-match.
Before even clicking on the comments, I knew this was going to be top comment. And it just goes to show how bad it's gotten lately.

But then I think of all the other stuff Google does for free. A company that has so many products and offerings is just bound to have a few that they shut down.

Some of them are inexcusable though.
how many users do you have? how are you growing? the discount model seems complicated. How much are you spending on marketing?
You can say the same for every early-stage startups since most of them die anyway.
The irony is people were down-voting flashman because they misunderstood the code he was talking with.
It would be cheaper to provide free uber than to build a train line in any moderate sized American city.

And it's unfortunate that people don't understand that this is exactly the right thing to do.

Once autonomous vehicles are ready for prime time, mass transit will be instantly forgotten. This whole article is about spending $50,000,000,000 on shiny new stables and hitching posts.
This piece of "common knowledge" has recently been debunked : https://recode.net/2016/03/30/are-young-people-leaving-faceb...
This is also a really cool idea.
Interesting concept. The aggregating of documentation and analysis together reminds me of a Jupyter notebook. If you add in a fully-featured CAD plugin and connect everything to AWS or whatever, does that approximate your product plan?
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Great response. It's still sad to me in 2016 we don't have reliable build systems for otherwise such modern programming tools.

I understand why.. just sad. Great job on the investigation though.
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