skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody working in that market, honestly most music services look the same to me and if you are fully satisfied with whatever music service you use, you probably don't really need to switch.

That being said Play Music is pretty great for me because :

-It lets me upload my own mp3s without needing anything else than the folder where it needs to look for them. You can even ask the app to always monitor a specific folder for new music files. It tries to match these files with its catalogs and if they match they will be automatically added to your library instead of being uploaded. When you upload an unknown file, you can alter its tags and cover if you in Play Music and you can regroup them in Albums anyway you want.
As somebody with a huge existing music files collection, many of which are not available on any service, this is a killer feature for me. I understand that it is not going to appeal to everybody though.

- The Android and desktop apps have been constantly great for quite some time. The only complaints I could form is that this orange is not really great and that on Android they should probably get rid of the Transitions. The design idea is great but the platform does not support them really well. I have seen some kinks in the app recently but they might have been caused by the Android N beta build I was using at the time.

- Most of the big music services have the same base features : albums, curated playlists, automatic radios, family plans ... Play Music has these as well for quite some time. The suggestion algorithm has been pretty good for me but that's probably very subjective. Play Music also has nice contextual suggestions based on their Songza acquisition (for example right now : it is sunday afternoon, it proposes running, pokemon, BBQ, beach, ... musics ) .

- So overall it is a great service, IMO absolutely on par with Spotify or Apple Music. The price is the same as any other music service .. but you also get 10% off on all of your Play Store apps & musics purchases and if you are in the USA, it also gives you Youtube Red (= no ads on youtube). The value proposition seems pretty insane to me compared to the other music services.
Why do you place solar with peak-load technologies like gas? The point of peak load plants, and why they charge a premium, is that they can ramp up output when there is sudden demand. Solar does not have that ability, just like coal and wind.
Some journals allow you to post the manuscript copy (not edited or typeset by the journal) on your personal page. Some give you no rifts at all.
Not QT, it is Qt.
I take you disliked it? A lot of people do.
That issue already came up in Platon's Phaedrus. The issue that is brought up is that reading about a subject is not the same as immersion brought about by interaction with that subject. It brings about an illusion of learning. Says Platon.

Sound familiar, no?

http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/482...
Maybe it's that a dollar today is still worth more than a dollar tomorrow.
Hi from Argentina, This is about 60km(40mi) away from my home in Buenos Aires.

It looks like an interesting geological feature, but it's a pity that they mixed if with some UFO and paranormal bullshit. It's also a pity that this paranormal mix will increase the kickstarter funds :(.

It's in the middle of zone of sand banks in a river. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paran%C3%A1_Delta

Probably the area is full of vegetation of high grass and few trees, like they show in the video, but it's not very isolated. The nearest town is about 7km(5mi) away, and there is a small city 15km(10mi) away.

https://www.google.com.ar/maps/place/34%C2%B015'07.8%22S+58%...

It searched and it was covered only by few small newspapers. All of them have almost the same text, so it look like they just copy-pasted the press release without any checking.

By the way, if you look carefully at the images, the outer circle is quite round, but the inner circle is like an oval.
There's a beginning of an automation library for http://danger.systems in this vein, https://github.com/dblock/danger-changelog.
Yeah admittedly in 1995 it didnt solve these problems either but by 2002 it had done...
Exactly, and technology that is inexpensive enough to compete with other sources of carbon would have a massive economic, environment and social impact.
India Achieves Historical First-Ever Surplus of Power
Here's a plan, off the top of my head: capture the CO2 in the exhaust, use some of the power from the plant to freeze it into dry ice. Feed the heat back into the power plant somehow so it's not wasted. Take the dry ice and ship it to the poles, and bury it. If there's enough, and it's packed under dense snow and water ice, it won't sublimate as quickly and will help keep the snow and water ice frozen.

$6.7M is probably not enough to even attempt this, even if it could actually make a difference. Which it probably couldn't.
"Why yes, as a matter of fact the wife and I were planning to do a spot of mass shooting on our way through, we're really after the full experience you know... say, is there a problem?"
you can easilly kill the The Millenial Hook earworm with a single dose of New Millenium Cyanide Christ :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_tSyJBsRQ

However it is still plain old 4/4 stuff in meshuggah, despite the impression...
Texts are pricey. Calls are inconvenient. Whatsapp is a de facto standard and I bet a big % of people who got a smartphone, got it because they needed it to use whatsapp, or use whatsapp exclusively.
Analyzing HTTPS Encrypted Traffic to Identify User OS, Browser and Application
There are plenty of options (all biased by personal opinion) for this task. Maybe one of these projects is a good fit for you (creating consistent uis should be easy with all of these).

- https://crosswalk-project.org/

- https://cordova.apache.org/

- https://kivy.org/

- https://www.nativescript.org/

- https://www.xamarin.com/

- https://facebook.github.io/react-native/

#

- https://www.wxwidgets.org/

- http://nwjs.io/

- http://electron.atom.io/
This is much more serious than torrent sites. Udemy is selling and serving pirated content, albeit as a middleman. Torrent sites serve metadata and ads.
This has been my experience as well. In my case Ive never ever installed Facebook on my phone. It has to be whatsapp leaking/sharing the contacts list.
Or any job at all. It's going to be tough finding a good post doc position if you didn't publish during your phd.

Hell, in Canada you have to do a master's before applying for a PhD, and you won't be getting the good scholarships and will have a hard time convincing the best researchers to take you on if you didn't publish during your master's.
Art of the Problem Tackles LOGIC and ABSTRACTION
>Larger organisms don't need to generate as much heat as smaller ones, because heat dissipation occurs across surface area, which increases as the square of mass, whereas heat generation increases as the cube (assuming a spherical cow, but close enough.)

Except that hypothesis doesn't predict the correct exponent. If that were the reason metabolic power would scale as mass^(2/3), but it actually scales as mass^(3/4).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber's_law

West's space filling fractal hypothesis predicts dozens of non-obvious scaling laws, not just metabolic power. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc

>the mitochondria of a human are not that different from those of a rat, or even an earthworm.

West is acutely aware of this. In the talk I linked above he describes biological lifespans in terms of the relationship between the energy required to synthesize ATP and kT (ie the Boltzmann constant times ambient temperature, being the average energy of a particle due to random thermal motion).

The trick is in explaining quantitatively why those universal biological facts scale over size and time with the sometimes bizarre scaling factors observed. It does boil down to physics of course, but there's a lot more to it than just heat dissipation.
Obsolete. Nowadays qt libs are distributed on choice between commercial and lgpl
> Do police pay for damages in cases where a raid is excessive force?

As one example, this happened near me last year: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/paramilitary-thugs-colorado-...

In fact, the whole story is a great representation of the concerns expressed in your comment - the PD literally blew up a house to catch a suspected shop lifter.

Edit: Looks like PD offered him $5,000 after the incident, and then he had to take them to federal court. Looks like the court proceedings are still going; how utterly insulting.

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/03/homeowner-sues-greenwoo...
They already are trying to stop/slow personal solar. Look up "net metering laws". No conspiracy at all, its in the open. They have no incentive to reduce cost, they have incentive to stay alive.

Couldnt remember the good information I had on the subject at this but a quick google search gave me an article thay covers some of the basics.

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/29/6849723/solar-power-net-meterin...
In bot we trust: How to get poor countries out of low-tust ruts
I agree but I think the comparison still makes sense in light of how torrent sites are treated. If you go by that, Udemy shouldn't really exist much longer unless they fundamentally change how they operate.
If I haven't agreed to the Facebook T&Cs (I don't have an account) how does this affect me? I am I linking my friends accounts with lots of private data based on who I'm communicating with?

In the UK, where I have to pay money for media messaging and international SMS, WhatsApp is great. It's ad policy was something of its appeal that allowed me to see past the lock-in to one vendor.
That country needs to move away from coal as fast as possible for public health reasons and know it. So they'll build massive production capacity anyway irrespective of carbon neutrality etc. (and we in the rest of the world will benefit)

China already has the biggest hydro electric project and I to see massive installations in China for Solar, Wind and Nuclear to combat their air pollution and health problems
The internet.
When you put your name on someone else's work, I am comfortable calling that theft. That is an issue completely separate from copyright. You're barking up the wrong tree.
> Article 50 isn't a serious thing. The guy who wrote it admitted he assumed it'd never be used and he didn't put any thought into it

"The guy" is Giuliano Amato, former PM of Italy. If you care to read the interview he gave on this topic, he never said he did not put any thought into it. Just that it was designed to be a difficult procedure.
I have been a paying customer since 2010 or so. We have done a trial of 1Password Family, but I just don't see the advantage for customers. You just get locked into someone's data silo and you cannot purchase upgrades anymore at your own leisure. I agree with those who say that it primarily benefits AgileBits.

Sadly, my experience with other products that switched to a subscription model has been that at some point all kinds strategies ('incentives') are applied to get people to move to subscription licensing. So, I am carefully watching the situation as it unfolds.
Facebook swiped whatsapp data a year or two ago. I've never ever installed FB on my mobile and yet it suggests whatsapp contacts as friends. It's just such a brazen move that everyone assumes it is legal.
As a pre-1985 person I think the worst part of the Internet is the know-it-all culture it created.

Especially with smartphones with Internet people seem to consider themselves experts in everything. If the topic isn't on the Internet or if the user can't find it then it must not exist or you get a terse request "Source!".

The worst part is I get drawn into the culture we all do or most of us anyway. I used to be good at trivia, I could often quote obscure scientific discoveries and was aware of world events as a teenager. Now all that has become a mindless app aka web browser no need to know just click.

Although the early Internet the early 1990s was a great time normal regular people from around the world conversing in large groups in real time for the first time ever.
Guessing because the peak-load for electricity tends to coincide with very hot days. So lots of demand for air conditioning but the solar panels are also generating maximum capacity.
You do not have to listen to what's on the radio or in the mass media. Plenty of other music exists. It is just a matter of accepting being spoon-fed with soup or going on a hunt for the thrill of discovering a unknwon trio from wherever in the world that has made some truly innovative or different music. It is just a matter of consumer choice, just with like everything else (food, drinks, books, movies, etc.)
A Powerwall doesn't store enough energy to be worth much in a real emergency. It's going to be nice to keep your refrigerator running during a short power outage, but it won't provide days or weeks of power the way an inexpensive generator can (for example http://www.homedepot.com/p/Generac-11-000-Watt-Air-Cooled-Au... ).

Sure, you have to either trust that nat gas is available or deal with fuel, but a propane tank isn't obscenely expensive considering that it bumps your backup from hours to days/weeks.
It's not even just scaling. Even just getting our dev, as and CI servers started on day 1 is a huge plus.
I scanned a lot of my parent's old photos. I set my mom's screensaver to show them. It's one of her favorite things about the computer.

Which I guess I don't have much of a further point, but a random slideshow pulled from hundreds of events (the screen saver I setup does the random per folder) is sort of a thing that wouldn't work without the photos being digital.
Artificial, Human and Super Intelligence: Science and Nonduality Conference
I live in Portland. Lots of small, one-story houses being torn down and replaced with something that has 2 more floors.

What surprises me is that roofing on these new homes isn't required to have a south-facing exposure. Seems like that would make it a lot easier for homes to add solar.
All this proves is that people still prefer to reduce support costs at the expense of consumers.
Here is an example of a current, commercial technology: newlight.com

"At Newlight, we believe that the most sustainable way to reduce the amount of carbon in the air is to use greenhouse gas emissions as a resource for the production of commercially useful materials that out-compete oil-based materials."
No idea why you're being downvoted.

QT refers to Apple's Quick Time.

Qt refers to the Qt project, pronounced 'cute'.
One alternative would be more transparency so people can at least know what's going on.
A brave doubt on hn.
I wish. Instead, we spend our time arguing over the qualifications of the differing sources found via Google. "But he has a doctorate too!"

Facts are, ironically, getting harder to find and verify these days.
It would help a lot to have the question elaborate on what you really need. What do you mean by "best", and do you actually need the best? Do you need easy to learn, or code that is easy to deliver, or most powerful features, or most number of platforms covered? Do you include mobile in cross platform, and do you have a performance or language requirement?

A web app is one of the most cross platform ways to go, is the easiest to deliver, and can be easy-ish to learn, but isn't the easiest. But, you are stuck with JavaScript. If a web app won't work for you, why not? Knowing that will allow people to help you more.

Qt is great, especially if you're using C++ or some other language. It's pleasant and very powerful, but a lot to learn, and deployment to users is harder than a web app.

What are your constraints & requirements?
I've recently been using Crank Storyboard and I've been off to a good start. You can run it on embedded devices like ARM Cortex-M series processors, or Linux, iOS, Android, Windows, with openGL support. It does require a license though.

http://cranksoftware.com/storyboard-suite

Also someone else mentioned Phonegap and using HTML/JS. I think is a good option but it depends on what your app does and if you're doing mobile app design.

I have not used QT yet, but after doing some research, it's kind of a pick your poison type of choice, IMO.
Audi Quattro is great, although IIRC, it also eats a bit tires on tight turns like anything but an open diff would. I also like the viscous clutch on the jeep, although it definitely is less on-road friendly (A tight 90 degree turn is enough to hear the tires, 180 and you can almost feel the car get lower). My worst system was my 98 explorer - it engages the clutch completely when front axle falls behind, waits a second, disengages to check if axle is still behind, if so, reengages... It's jumpy as hell when turning, and sucked no matter what. You could mod it for pure 2WD operation by switch, but stock was awful.

However, I don't think you should underestimate electric systems. I mean, I hate car software with a passion, but when they work, they actually have really good characteristics. Things like LSD's where the pump is electrically enabled give quite smooth transitions, and can simulate the response of both on and offroad mechanic systems. Response time is also nearly instant. If car computers weren't bloody black boxes (or at least leave only important things to the black box!), these systems often end up being much simpler than their purely mechanic black voodoo counterparts.
Unless you're running that datacenter or hospital only part of the day, you're still going to have a fuel-based generator in your scenarios.
Can the licensing be an issue on Android or iOS?
Wow, this article hits so close to what annoys me the most of the whole issue about access. But the comments about peer review are even more interesting, so I'm chiming in with the hope of finding some people willing to contribute :)

For the past couple years I've been hacking at https://github.com/ecausarano/heron/ (caveat: pet project, no code reviews, buggy and incomplete, I'm not the best developer you've ever met.)

The main idea is to bundle a P2P Kademlia based redundant storage and index with PGP signing. Users sign and publish their papers on the network, build their academic WOT and filter out crackpots and other rubbish by ignoring query results originating outside their peer circle. In their role of peers, users "review and endorse" papers by signing them with their individual key. Over time you get a globally distributed repository where everybody chips in some CPU, network and storage, cannot go down unless the internet implodes, and is legal. At that point journals become pointless and we win! ;)

Contributors very welcome
Google testing appropriate honking with self-driving cars
what do you mean difficult to verify the quality of code? you are looking at the code.
Edit: parent's post, now deleted, contained something like "What's the alternative, if we want global trade?" (IIRC).

Trade agreements without ISDS, obviously.

I mean, I recognise why investors might be reluctant to invest in Zimbabve or Vietnam without some guarantees of a "fair" legal process. But I cannot wrap my mind around why mature Western democracies like USA, New Zealand or Italy would ever sign an ISDS - their courts are transparent, not corrupt and fair (for the local understanding of fairness), so investors don't need to fear any risks (well, apart from the risk of doing business in general, that is).
We do not speak of the Before-time here.
Traditional banks may be in trouble due to digital banking
Craigslist has a built-in version of this -- email alerts on specific searches. That's the layman's solution. :)
Is it competitive with Qt for non-audio apps?
Just getting started on Electron myself. Used by Atom, Slack, Visual Studio... It's worth a look ;)

Electron - Build Cross-Platform Desktop Apps With HTML, JS, CSS

http://electron.atom.io/
The next wearable technology could be your skin
I bought a Motorola StarTAC in 1996 (?) for $700 but nobody else I knew had a cellphone expect my uncle.

So to impress a girl I made my PC dial me to ring my phone but it was the Fax app! I had to step away because I was afraid she'd hear the squeal of the Fax eeeeee!

One time probably mid 80s my uncle had a brick cellphone but was embarrassed to use it. At a Kmart entrance he went to the corner leaned on the wall with his back to everyone while he talked. As he was on the phone a little old lady was getting change from her purse. My uncle finished his call and left shocking the lady who thought there was a payphone on the wall.
> If you don't trust them why don't you just stop using them?

OK, so then your phone number is still being shared with Facebook through people who use WhatsApp and have you in their contact list. How do you opt out of that?

There are some Internet 'outrages' that are just sound and fury, but this one has merit. A company that gained access to one of people's most private networks, their contact list, on a guarantee of privacy that has been unilaterally revoked. People were gladly paying to maintain the service and the associated level of privacy.

Thankfully the ICO in the UK is 'outraged' enough to formally investigate:

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...
I still think that Google Chromium code search repository is by far the best one I've seen. Things like following refs everywhere and seeing git blame and related files makes it a hell of a lot better than github.
https://codesearch.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/inva...
I think the story blew out of proportion.

As far as I can tell, WhatsApp never said they would show ads in their app, and they never said they would sell ads.

On the contrary, they said that they would make it even harder for them to have any data to work with, as messages will be end-to-end encrypted, and so, undecipherable for them.

What they said would happen was telephone and metadata (ie, telephone contacts) cross-references with Facebook's data to improve Facebook's suggestions, which is a roundabout but logical non-automatic contact synchronization scheme.

Reading between the lines, what their blog post was meant to prepare the public for was the arrival of a bot API (as yet secret, and a pure speculation on my part). They want businesses both global and local to communicate with you:

> we want to explore ways for you to communicate with businesses that matter to you too, while still giving you an experience without third-party banner ads and spam

WhatsApp's PR department did a poor job, in my opinion, by talking about Facebook being able to offer better ads, since naturally everyone assumes it means transmitting your telephone number to advertisers, which they awkwardly mention they would not do:

> We won’t post or share your WhatsApp number with others, including on Facebook, and we still won't sell, share, or give your phone number to advertisers.
But now everyone has his own facts, that they can back up with authoritative sources like Breitbart or @GlobalWarmingLie.
What study says that? These fliers both say less than 5 years for energy payback (as little as 6 months...):

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf

http://www.clca.columbia.edu/236_PE_Magazine_Fthenakis_2_10_...

It doesn't make any sense that China would be subsidizing their panel manufacturers to the extent you are implying.