skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[disclaimer: I work on Dart VM]

Even though Dart VM is not a deployment target for the client side code right now it is still an integral part of the development experience. It runs all your code while you develop (no need to compile to JavaScript just edit&refresh) and backs things like dart2js, dwc, pub which are all written in Dart itself.
Amazing hand drawn 360 degree panorama, page 8.
I think "power corrupts" applies more to relative power, not absolute "power". If you were the only person in the world with those abilities, you could use that to exert control over other people and that kind of power might corrupt.
I am not at all sure that HN is the correct site to report problems with other web sites and services.
The themes are almost too simple to be worth paying for. If this were a free resource, I think it would be very popular and a great time saver. In that case, perhaps you could make money off of affiliate ads.
You actually took that movie seriously?

Of course there is some truth somewhere in the movie, but the majority of it is stretched truths and shots intentionally doctored to make his point.

"The whole point of private health insurance is that sick people are the easiest to rob-- they don't fight back-- but they also have no money, so it's best to collect payment while they're young and well."

The whole point of a public healthcare system is that it forces you, at the threat of jail, to collect payments from you (essentially theft).
All it takes is someone to post a few step by step instructions and anyone could re-enable the button regardless of their skills. Hopefully people won't ruin this offer and do that though.
Ask HN: Java widget toolkits?
Hello everyone,

First, a little background. I'm currently developing an application to help students write essays. It was a bit of a selfish endeavour as I wanted a free app to outline my essays with and I couldn't find any, so I decided to write my own.

Currently I'm using awt and Swing, but the problem is that the widget library seems too limited to do anything more advanced than what I'm currently doing. The lack of fully native widgets also throws the polish off a bit; and the native L&F with Swing still isn't as fully "native" as it should be.

Should I continue using Swing merely because it's easier to work with? Or should I switch to GTK+ or Qt for a better and more comprehensive experience?

Maybe I should just ditch Java and switch to Objective-C or C++.

Thoughts?
Thanks a lot for your comment.

We'll definitely keep you posted on our journey with Dart. I don't have specific announcements yet but we're looking forward to share code examples and open source a few web components going forward.

So far Dart really has been a pleasure to work with and we'll definitely blog more about it in the future and hopefully also go a bit more into detail.

The main motivation behind this blog post came from people asking us about how it was to work with Dart and why we chose to adopt it.

I can see how this might come across as a fashion statement but I just wanted to share my thoughts and have a url to point people to :)
I'm not angry, I just want something better. As Anders Hejlsberg said "you can write large programs in JavaScript. You just can't maintain them."

http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2012/06/04/anders-hejlsbe...
It is very far from the truth that the "wellspring of cultural creativity has run dry". I don't want to seem harsh, but that is an incredibly insular and ignorant world view. Look outside yourself. You sound like a buggy whip manufacturer in the 1800's!
Right, but the author here doesn't mention the Dart VM as a reason for the switch; they are not switching to get better performance in Chrome. They are switching because they like the language/ecosystem better.

Also, IANAL but I'm pretty sure you don't have to include a disclaimer to post on the internet. No one is going to rush out and buy Google stock based on your comments so there is no conflict of interest to what you wrote.
It does not do automatic scaling, but, if you're expecting a one time spike you can just go with a huge server for that hour.
Similar to how many pilots claim to have OCD and how that helps them be a good pilot - but if it were actually medically diagnosed, the FAA would clip their wings.
Do they send all the Javascript + client-side templates alongside as well so that further requests are catered on client?

Yes.
We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators
Take a look at http://verbling.com
Interview with a self-published programming author
A quick google shows you're right! That's some pretty bad FUD if there's nothing else to this. Is there something about Secure Boot that turning it off doesn't solve?
It's a nice overview. I could see myself referring to a document like this as a convenient checklist when beta testing projects just prior to go-live.

If I was to find fault, it would be that the TL;DR section is a little redundant as in it's effort to be succinct (which the main body of the article achieves anyway), you end up dumbing the content down to a point where it's not actually expressing anything useful at all. But that's just my opinion and I may well have missed the point of the TL;DR. :)

Good work though.
Thanks for the feedback. They are simple, but I believe they can save people a great deal of time still. Customizing bootstrap so it doesn't look like bootstrap can take a few hours. I tried to make the prices very cheap. All three themes for $6.
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Dear Twitter, your default, pre-checked find friends flow sucks
We’re all doomed: Darpa develops cheap robot hand that can use tools
News article discussing the event where presented:

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2013/mar/27/joe-downtown-...
Anonymous Hackers claim to breach North Korean site Uriminzokkiri
I just bought a laptop that came with Windows 8, after 15 minutes of frustration just trying to play around with it, I replaced it with Linux, I didn't even notice the secureboot stuff.
New quality online ‘newspaper’ without ads planned for Dutch market
There are safety/security implications to having a company e.g. use student ID numbers to do the various nefarious things companies do these days with personal information. Especially in a campus environment, with a restaurant that seems like it wasn't open to the general public.
Breaking the Code
I don't know how you can look at your chart and say gold has not maintained its value. Your chart shows gold holding steady with two upward spikes during 1980 and now as hedges against fiat.

Also, I don't know what "real gold price" means. Some details of the measurement would help.

> also has the added benefit of a much higher long-run rate of return

When measured in dollars, which have lost 98% of their value since 1913.
Actually, the majority of their costs come from direct agent fees and commissions. These fee costs are lower for transactions that originate online, but most don't; of transactions that do originate online, most are terminated by agents that pay out in cash, and are compensated for that. Compliance costs are huge, but they are a fraction of agent fees. It might be said, however, that a good percentage of those fees are to compensate the agent for their compliance activities; a lot of the Western Union's customer contact is handled by the agents, including compliance events.

All of that being said, Bitcoin eliminates or at least reduces many of those costs, in that delivery and receipt of payment can proceed without the involvement of the agent. And FinCEN, with its determination that institutional bitcoin services must be handled by a money transmitter, has just created a barrer to entry that WU is well inside of.

I concur with you, however, that interbank fees are a minimal component of their cost. Also, transfers processed by WU and its competitors are usually instantaneous from the point of view of their customers (part of the value they bring is the massive network of paying and receiving terminals that exist worldwide).

Source: I was the head of IT and operations for a money transmitter in a previous life.
I managed to order, got the email but swish.com/login doesn't load.

Also, what are the credentials? Wasn't asked for any password ...
Show HN: Vim Medium Mode - like hard mode, but not so hard
> In my case, I've gone through a pretty extensive battery of tests with two separate behavioral psychologists that go beyond self-evaluation or those (largely nonsensical) questionnaires that primary care physicians have you fill out. But I agree with what you're saying. There are folks out there who've made claims to being ADD without being officially diagnosed, some in startup spaces.

Exactly - I literally just had this discussion here yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5475037). ADHD is incredibly tough (read: expensive) to diagnose properly, and almost impossible to self-diagnose with any appreciable degree of confidence.

My frustration comes from the fact that people first misdiagnose themselves or their kids, or diagnose themselves through inappropriate tests, which then leads people to conclude that ADHD doesn't really exist (see randallsquared's reply).

In other words, "our [cheap] classifier model is incapable of making accurate predictions reliably; therefore the latent variable we're predicting must be imaginary", instead of "our [cheap] classifiers are incapable of making accurate predictions reliably; therefore those diagnostic models are inadequate".
If you don't know what's going to be done during the appointment, they probably can't tell you what it's going to cost. But if you are going in for a specific procedure, you should be able to get the cost.

Call the doctor and get the procedure code. Then ask for the amount that is going to be billed and the tax id of the person or company that will be sending the bill to the insurance company.

You may need to get multiple procedure codes and talk to multiple billing departments. For example, I recently wanted to find out how much an MRI would cost. There's a fee to perform the MRI and a separate fee for reading the images. These are performed by different people, and therefore billed by different people.

Next, call or livechat your insurance company. Ask them to run a test claim. Give them procedure code(s), the amount billed, and the tax id of party sending the bill. The insurance company can then tell you what the allowed amount is, that is, how much the insurance company and the medical provider have agreed upon for the specific procedure. If you have a deductible that you haven't yet met (and the procedure isn't something covered or partially covered before the deductible, such as preventative care), the allowed amount is the amount you will be billed by the medical provider.

Obviously, this is a cumbersome process. Running the test claim took about 10 minutes in my case. This is apparently not a process that the insurance company has optimized for. But by going through the process, you are sending a signal that price transparency is important.

With MRIs, it turns out that at least one local company has recognized the value of price transparency: https://twitter.com/xn/status/311886680145666048
(They also happen to be about $400 cheaper than the amount my insurance company negotiated with a large hospital.)
@mortdeus - I'm not saying for a moment I wouldn't prefer more concentration. I would also prefer to be 6" taller, have 20 more points on my IQ, and be attractive to women. But life gives you what it gives you.
Why do you say this is hard for FOSS fans to understand?
How the Rebirth of the GIF Screws Up Authorship
If your auto insurance included new tires, oil changes and gasoline, imagine what would happen to the price of both auto insurance and gasoline? They'd both skyrocket. So why the hell are we doing it with healthcare? Insurance is about sharing risk and a large part of the cost isn't sharing the risk it is about pre-paying for normal, expected ailments and when consumers become insensitive to cost prices are bound to rise.

The healthcare industry is greatly in need of cost sensitivity and transparency.
BitPay Eclipses Silk Road in Bitcoin Sales with Explosive $5.2M March
"So the first thing I do when I wake up is make chocolate Pop-Tarts (I eat like a 10 year old)"

As someone that has always struggled with ADD, I can tell you that sugar makes it 100x worse. Since I went on a strict Paleo diet (and especially recently when I've cut out alcohol), my baseline clarity and ability to focus my thoughts have improved immensely. I would recommend trying the Paleo diet for a month and seeing what kind of affect it has on you.
>And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's >being paid.

This may be true in the perfectly free market you encountered in your Microecon 101 textbook, but like the perfectly frictionless spheres from freshman physics, that is not an assumption that can be applied to the real world.
We wanted to make checkout easy, but maybe went a little too far. I'll add some more language to the confirmation email explaining what's going on. Thanks for posting the solution.
That satisfies all mobile development as far as I know. The loss is on Windows XP desktop for those stuck on IE8 and below. So far, I'm doing ok telling people to run Chrome or FireFox on XP as most of them are anyway.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I apologize if I was a bit harsh or antagonistic. I expect you were a little antagonized when you wrote your original post and then I may have amplified that in my response. I think we may have a fundamentally different outlook on employment/economics that leads to the divergence in intent and interpretation here. Rather than beat a dead horse I wanted to reply to a couple things quickly.

> "...by a simple reply to my cover letter or understanding that there are also poor employers out there and that even the time of the college kid that wrote you an e-mail is important."

This is a point you had that I agree with whole-heartedly but is more the rule than the exception. It is extremely disheartening to put a great deal of effort into an email/cover letter and then hear nothing, unfortunately the mentality that spawned the phrase "don't call us, we'll call you" existed long before I was born and is still going strong in a lot of sectors. While acknowledgement is the decent thing to do (and a polite rejection is always appreciated more than silence), I've found it is not a cultural obligation in the US.

> "As for the account, it was made specifically for this post. Some employers could have identified themselves in what I wrote, which was not my intention at all."

Completely understandable.

> "The only thing I advocated for was an equitable exchange of time."

This is an understandable desire, and I empathize with it, but I think it distills a difference in outlook on economics. Rather than framing it as an equitable exchange of time, I look at it in terms of an equitable exchange of opportunity cost. Your time is substantially less valuable than the time of those you email (no offense but probably true), so the amount of time you spend writing the email may not have as much economic value as the time it would take to reply to them, even though the time required to reply is drastically lower. Galling and impolite as it is, economics rules humanity and this behavior stems from economics.
>They extend an offer, you agree the price, you agree to buy and they sell. But they're suggesting that you buy, and consume the product, before agreeing a price?

Pretty much anything custom-made works like that (have you never bought bespoke furniture?) - the seller will do the work and then bill you for how much it turned out to cost. You can sue them if it's unreasonable.
Create an account with the same email you checked out with.
You have to create a new account on that page with the email you used when you bought the deal.
I do, as a hearing person who greatly enjoys music, I would not choose to be deaf.

But would I choose never having experienced music aurally (and people do experience it through touch, for example), over the bond and understanding with my parents and their friends? Or over the increase in other senses which lacking acuity in one is documented to often bring? Well, then I have no idea - I'm not in a position to speculate given my lack of experience.

But the important point is that in this case we're not talking about removing one of someone's senses, we're talking about choosing to raise someone who never had one. Would you agree that your viewpoint is one informed by the pain of loss rather than the experience of lack?
These types of frameworks also offer better SEO, because despite popular claims about Google crawlers rendering Javascript, "single page apps/blogs/whatever" get a lot less Google-juice than sites rendered on the server.
I run a language learning business that nominally competes with Rosetta Stone in part of the market. Language learning really is about communication with humans, not cramming linguistic junk into your head. Having worked in the same market with them for 1/2 a decade, it's not in their DNA to connect people with language (despite their TV ads to the contrary!). LiveMocha, on the other hand, is all about this.

I can only see the new bosses spamming and burning out the LiveMocha vibe & goodwill because they don't understand it's not a "platform", it's a community. It grew precisely because it's the opposite of how the RS management team thinks. To see more of this perspective, read the press release & coverage from the RS side... very telling.
Gulf Breeze, FL - AppRiver http://www.appriver.com/about-us/careers/
AppRiver is growing company that delivers email and web security services to small and medium businesses.

We are looking for a Senior .Net Architect and a Software Developer. Responsibilities include:

- Writing high-quality code and unit tests

- Participating in software design and architecture

- Learning and sharing new concepts, patterns, principles

- Participating in work planning and costing

Developers will be expected to hit the ground running and be immediately productive. If you’re up for the challenge, contact us at jobs@appriver.com.
That seems to be okay in light of Mp3Tunes.

[http://www.grammy.com/news/artswatch-music-locker-service-wi...]
[http://www.wired.com/business/2011/08/cloudmusic-is-not-a-cr...]
How does it force you? Or do you think of every tax as a theft?
Pimsleur is awesome for pronunciation (I've had a Dutch speaker tell me I sounded Dutch when I explained, in Dutch, that I couldn't speak Dutch), but after you finish the initial work, you get a rather limited vocabulary of about 500 words or so.

Instead, many recommend using a serious course like Assimil, Michel Thomas, or Barron's (basically revamped versions of the Foreign Service Courses) with Pimsleur to help you perfect your grammar and pronunciation. It's a great balance.
Ask HN: divorce advice
My wife is divorcing me. A month ago we had a big argument and the next day she moved out, and is now living with her parents. She took our three year old son with her. I visit with him 20 hours per week.

I pay all the bills, and have done so since we got married 7 years ago. My salary is 80k. We rent a 2 bedroom apartment, own 2 cars, and have 1 credit card (hers) which has a $2k balance.

Her parents are well off and they have hired a divorce lawyer for her. I have $1500 in cash, $1500 in 401k and otherwise no means to hire an attorney.

My wife is deeply obsessed with our son, and smothers him all day and all night. Leaving him with a babysitter for a couple of hours would be unthinkable to her. Happily my father-son hours have increased under this new living arrangement. It is easier to pry her from him when I am a visitor.

We saw a marriage counselor for a few months, ending in January. In short the counselor's assessment was that my wife was extremely sensitive, obsessive and stubborn. In our last meeting she stormed out of the room in tears after the counselor suggested perhaps my wife should consider getting a job.

Her personality is lightyears apart from mine. I use the wrong part of my anatomy to make decisions about women.

Which brings me to the one liability I might have in front of a judge. I occasionally look at adult video on the internet. My fear is that my wife's lawyer could demand URL logs from our ISP, and use that to damage my credibility. Depending on how far back the search went, it could be embarrassing. Are such inquiries common in modern divorce?

Would you recommend I use what little cash I have to hire a lawyer? The going rate appears to be $300/hr. I am considering going into debt, to save over the long run. How many hours should I budget?

Pardon my posting this on HN. I enjoy hacking for a living but in real life today I feel dumb and alone. I appreciate any advice.
Wild speculation: if you're at the "ballpark" stage, you probably have a very vague feature list / overall plan... I suspect if you tighten up the description and scope you'll have more luck (although given how many offers for quotes you just got, perhaps a better method is to just post on YC ;)
I like your post since it's a refreshing take on today's language and framework decisions. Usually people go for Coffee, Node, Go, Clojure or ClojureScript nowadays (I mixed FE and BE tech deliberately).

What I am interested in: Why did you go for Dart? What was the trigger? When I look at Google Trends Dart seems to have a very hard time compared to other current technologies regarding search popularity.

And what's your backend based on? Could I go for Dart with Node?
London - Medical Management Systems - Full Stack Engineer

Med+DBase is an online medical application that helps run public and private medical practices and small hospitals. We have been running for 7 years and have a mature web-application which is constantly expanding.

We are looking for people who are willing to explore and learn the inner workings of an operation-heavy web/mobile technology company. No specific healthcare experience is necessary, but would be advantageous.

We are a genuine technology company looking to push the boundaries of healthcare software in the UK and the rest of the world.

* Work includes (but not limited to):

Front-end feature development,
Back-end and architectural development,
Stand-alone service development

* Platform
We are primarily a .NET platform with SQL Server as our database solution; however we also use node.js, Mongo and other technologies.

You will have significant C#, .NET Framework, LINQ, Javascript, jQuery and HTML4/HTML5 experience.

You will also have strong knowledge of OO techniques; knowledge of programming on any functional language is also beneficial.

Any mobile development expertise would also be beneficial.

* Why join Medical Management Systems?
We offer an attractive salary and a relaxed working environment, working on proper technological solutions as well as client front and back-end work. The healthcare software world is expanding at an exponential rate and is a great environment where your code can make a real difference to patient’s lives.

We are a small company, so still have that startup feel. We also allow remote working (after an initial period on-site).

Please contact: plouth at meddbase dot com
I'm pleased to see that slickdeals and fatwallet both have threads about this deal, but no one has spoiled the puzzle yet.
I disagree with that advice as there's a whole plethora of people creating startups in the name of "entrepreneurship" who lose thousands.

I think the golden rule for starting a business is "don't; unless your idea is really special". Too many people rush into business with half-baked ideas and a romanised vision of being their own boss, only to discover that their ideas were garbage to begin with. So I'd rather have a boss than start a business just for the sake of firing my boss.
The idea that this is fashion statement is laughable because Dart has been quite unfashionable until recently (like 2 weeks ago.)