skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because our lower education system pounds the idea of "you're nothing if you don't go to college" into everyone's heads for twelve years. We've all been told that if we go through college and get the degree, we'll be all set in life. I think the millennials have it worst of all so far but it's not just them.

Somewhere along the lines, college changed from being a stepping stone to the goal in and of itself.. and no one considered what comes after.
There hasn't been an Easter doodle since 2000. The doodle team goes to great lengths to avoid recognizing people/subjects that are controversial (not that this is always successful)
At risk of sounding stupid, $274-$285<$0. How does that work?
Children can draw rainbows free of symbolism right now and forever.

Flags are different. Flags always have symbolism, that's their point.

Similarly, children can draw a hammer and sickle for fun if they want. However, should you put it on a flag and fly it in front of your house, don't be surprised if people draw conclusions.
A frustrating problem with ssllabs.com and RC4 is that it appears there is no way to achieve a 100% score. Sites are penalized for supporting RC4 if RC4 is placed above AES-CBC, and penalized as being vulnerable to BEAST if AES-CBC is placed above RC4. If CBC and RC4 are both disabled then no major browser can successfully negotiate a cipher.

The BEAST penalty applies even if the preferred AES-CBC ciphers are defined by TLSv1.2 and thus shouldn't be vulnerable to BEAST.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=john-millikin...
Just now? Geez. This guy should've been inducted in the first year.
This needs a dose of cynicism I think. The success of the iPhone in 2007 really wasn't driven by hardware capability (except arguably the capacitative touch screen). Even then, other phones had faster processors, more memory, and equivalent GPUs. Apple won because it invented new usage models, not because it drove its designers to "show off what's possible in" 2007.

The stuff this is talking about is just eye candy. The original iPhone was much more than an eye candy improvement.
Does this imply there will be a 64 bit VS? Or will it just take place entirely in an emulator?
The Court's rulings today will have very little effect on the day-to-day of most HR groups, as they operate under state law. As I understand it (IANAL), today's ruling simply means that the feds must recognize any marriage solemnized in any state -- the feds are not allowed to have an exclusive definition of "marriage" anymore, so federal purposes like IRS income filings, etc., will be affected, but not the majority of tangible daily marital benefits, which are administered at the state level.

Unless you live in a state with full-fledged same-sex marriage, your HR dept. is still going to have to differentiate.
Evidently the quality of the education is not going up in accordance with the price.
You brought up an interesting point about the idea for reddit, but you're wrong about the title of this thread.
You should probably be campaigning for most Information School departments in universities to be shut down, then. My alma mater has been doing stuff like this for years. Random stuff I found by googling a bit:

http://ischooloss.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/cyber-surveillanc...

http://dailyuw.com/archive/2013/05/02/arts-leisure/henry-unv...

http://faculty.washington.edu/pkahn/articles/ww.pdf
It's hard to believe that anyone could play with that attack (Bernstein/Paterson is a refinement of an older variant) and come away being OK with using RC4.

Adam Langley suggested on HN a few months ago that he was more comfortable with RC4 than with AES-CBC, which TLS unfortunately (due to its '90s heritage) specified in a MAC-then-encrypt construction that leaks timing, but the RC4 attack is scarily simple. Both attacks are extremely noisy, though; with what we understand about the flaws now, you'd surely notice if either attack was being directed at you.
Since the days Firefox 3 it is no longer possible to resize the bookmarks window you get when you press Ctrl+D or click star.

The solution was to hack userchrome.css or install OpenBook add on.

However it is no longer being kept up to date with Firefox.

A possible update for it is to use Edit Bookmark Plus instead.

Some information here, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418864
Super interesting. I wonder if we could get a 500-er to confirm this?
The ability to make a living is not a right, it's an opportunity.

The same opportunity that made it possible for artists to record once and resell in the millions is now working against them.

Where where they when the distribution companies who used to make a living from the music industry was laid off? Or the record stores?

It's not a right, it's an opportunity.
I think using emscripten + some customization of the code is much more efficient than doing this port AND you don't have problems with incompatibilities.
But why do you want to run git in your web browser in the first place?
What sort of flagging abilities do you have?
So long as you count it as revenue and aren't publicly traded you are fine.

Pretty sure anyone subject to the real rules is disallowed from doing this thanks to the dot com boom/bust.
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Yup, apparently very few capitalists around here. It's easy to shout rah rah rah in response to RMS from the sidelines but if he had his way very few of the posters here would be making a living writing code, perhaps they don't though, that would explain it I guess.

I've not been a HN member for long but the support for Stallman here is one of the most surprising things I've seen about this place.
I wrote this to show how you can integrate the Mailgun cloud-based email service in your PHP-based application. I also used the Yii Framework for Geogram ... so it's a great example of the strengths of both Yii & Geogram.
You get some secret powers like flagging, downvoting, and the ability to initiate polls. But mainly it's a vanity metric.

By the way I had the exact same experience, and most submissions I make die with 1 or 2 points even after several years. Then other times I'll get hundreds of points for some whimsical thing that I didn't think was important at all. I rarely pay attention to people's karma scores unless I think they're whoring for points, like persistently making 'me too' posts on popular issues or posting every single thing from a popular blog.

Just post what you think is interesting, think your opinions through before expressing them, don't be afraid to say that you were wrong or have changed your mind even if you feel momentarily foolish. Same as life really.
Thanks Zach. I don't think the changes were directed towards the web either - they were a side effect:

> As a side effect, they’ve embraced conventions that will be hard to emulate with commodity hardware or web tech.
seriously I got 2 downvotes for saying I thought HN wasn't very funny? what?? It's not like there arn't plenty of other silly comments in this thread, why am I the one being singled-out, I guess it's probable that a comment like that would only offend people who even have the ability to downvote, since it takes 500rep to do so, but what? it wasn't even that offensive...
I can't speak to Pandora specifically, but Spotify is often pitched as an alternative to buying music and it also pays comically low royalties.
Live by the pageview, die by the pageview.

I can't figure out why you are all so surprised. Is this really the site of A/B testing to figure out which shade of ochre maximizes your Web INF.0 conversion rates or not? The site where tax evasion is OK as long as it's legal?

Ars isn't going to see a pageview goldmine like this come again for a long time, so as long as the reporting is accurate then I see no reason why they shouldn't take advantage, especially since Greenwald and WaPo are doing the muckraking anyways. Ars doesn't have an exclusivity deal with Snowden so they're doing the smart thing by reporting on what they do have exclusivity about.
Is this "free right now" or "free forever"? Are you running this as a public utility or have an aim to turn it into a business?
How many times do you enter in the same credentials throughout the logging process?
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Yup. Just because more people are getting degrees does not mean that there are enough jobs that require/compensate for having a degree.

But this apparently isn't changing anyone's behavior yet, so the education bubble continues to grow.
Nitrous.io brings its browser-based app development environment into public beta
"Create a free box now!" and "Sign-up for free now!" should be "Find out how we can dramatically improve your development workflow" or some such (better copy).

The currect text assumes that you know what the service is.

Admittedly, I missed the "home" button in the top right as I assumed the logo would take me to the home page, not to the blog. I stopped trying after that.

This is a common thread on HN with launch announcements. I'm not sure why everyone avoids the blog pre-amble for posts destined for link aggregators:

"Nitrous.IO, the groundbreaking developer toolset that enables fast provisioning and web-based coding and collaboration is pleased to announce the first public beta. To find out more, check out our quick introduction..."

Then move on to specifics. I'm not a copy-editor, but a leading sentence like this would go along way to help.
In your estimation, what did iOS "steal" from Android?

For example, a common iOS 7 feature cited as "stolen" is the app switching interface. But that's the same interface Safari has used for switching tabs since the very first iPhone. They simply repurposed their Safari UI for the OS.
By digital agency, do you mean web dev shops?
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Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals (2009)
>I get the GP's point, that 1984 is the polemic pamphlet for anti-authoritarians...

Hmmm, I thought the point was you're wasting time on a book a) you've already read and b) everyone else you know has already read. Regardless of how good the book is, you're unlikely to gain any unique insight.
In my experience twitter is just a bunch of marketers trying to sell each other stuff. More specifically, it's a bunch of marketers' tweetdeck accounts trying to sell stuff to other marketers' tweetdeck accounts.

It seems like twitter is so widely used because businesses think they have to use it. They make their account, have a third-party app post stuff for them periodically and assume they've made the right choice.

Am I wrong? Are there people out there who use it for more personal reasons like keeping in touch with friends? I'm sure there are a few but predominantly, I think it's a business tool. The problem is that businesses are assuming the general public are on the other side listening to them but I know I'm not.
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This is assuming that everyone is chasing the same level of perfection as apple. If the web can provide a "good enough" interface will the bulk of developers go to the extra effort of native apps?

Currently things like games are (largely) not good enough on mobile web and so the issue is forced, but building a native app for a nicer blur effect? Probably not.
FYI: "Verenigde Staten" is the United States
If he's the representative of the Free Software Movement, is it unreasonable to have certain expectations of what this representative presents himself as?

If he was only representing himself, as if he was just a writer or a programmer, you'd be right.
True. However, they are factored in to the "cost" of college. The financial aid calculations include lodging, food, transportation, books, etc. It was surprising to see that the govt. thinks I'm contributing $23K of the $26K my son needs for school this year. He lives at home, so his room and to some extent his board are not variable costs for me so I don't think of them as college expenses.
1) Coder? I said I'm looking at Ruby4kids!!
2) Anyway too late, I've just found out the 'new' link at the top, now I keep having to refresh the site every 5 mins xS
There are genetic differences between different human races... not to mention constant mutations.
Nice! In practice that just meant I always switched to x86.

'Managed return value inspection' is a nice enhancement too.
I'm a bit baffled by this myself. I'm on the iOS 7 beta, and it's far closer to WP7 than Android. (Which is awesome -- I loved WP7, just wished it had apps.)
Ask HN: Why is the number of 'Show HN' posts declining?
I see only 4 of them on the first 4 pages now..
Haskell's type system is crafted for Haskell and core.typed is crafted for Clojure. I don't see how they can be compared given how different the two languages are.
I complained about this for a while, but then I saw someone use Hangouts on mobile. I suddenly realized why Google designed it this way. Of course the designers noticed that it was hard to determine who was offline and who was online. In fact, that's the whole point.

Google is incrementally eliminating the distinction between the online and offline world. Pretty soon, the concept of offline won't exist anymore -- everyone will be thought of as online all the time.

But there's no place for old-style instant messaging in this mental model. So they're moving away from it. But they can't make this change all at once, so they're doing it slowly. When the distinction goes away, Hangouts will be just like SMS. If you think about it, Apple already beat them to this with iMessage, and Google is playing catch-up. But instead of launching a new product, Google is just extending their existing IM ecosystem to take over the SMS space.
There was a mix-up of cause and effect, to some degree. Since early colleges were limited to a very small percentage of the population who tended to have strong parental guidance and even hired tutors, the average academic ability of college graduates was much higher than non-college graduates.

The response was that, then, if everyone had a college degree, everyone would be so able. The problem then is twofold:

First, people without a strong primary education background went to college, forcing colleges to either lower standards and/or spend time remediating (financial pressure from governments to tie funding to graduation rates sure didn't help to preserve high standards).

Second, the presence of a college degree as an indicator of an unusually high level of prior primary education and academic ability disappeared since so many people have a college degree.
PostScript is a well-defined, well-documented programming language. Introducing a new layer for 3D printing would be very cool, but in the end, G-code is the "native" language for most of the hobby (and maybe other) 3D printers out there.
Arguably songwriting is kind of a dead field anyway since in recent decades bands mostly write the songs they perform.
I think PG told them to work on (what became) the reddit idea instead of the food ordering idea. The redditors came up with both ideas.
My understanding is that Reddit would not be Reddit without Alexis. He came up with the name and (I believe) the alien/branding. But more importantly, he fostered a culture of doing the right thing over making an extra dollar, which ultimately enabled Reddit to beat Digg and become a core part of the culture. I wouldn't downplay his contribution to the "birth of Reddit."
Yes, the level is 500. I don't know about the "sinking" though since I don't comment a lot and those are mostly answers to older comments.
There is some "flat" design that is similar to Android, but the similarities are fairly superficial and not what the article was addressing.
On some days, I wish companies like Pandora, Spotify, and Rdio would just voluntarily shut down. If the music industry thinks streaming companies are ripping them off, the music industry is welcome to build their own streaming business and show everyone how it's done.

Musicians were complaining about royalties and payment long before the internet was invented and they'll be complaining long after we're all gone. Keep that in mind when they act like streaming is the new scourge of music.
> Acting like a good sport with an even better sense of humor will win you many customers.

I agree, they should’ve done that. As the post is now, I don’t feel it is especially funny and I don’t see them being a good sport either.
I haven't used Android since it first came out, but does it have the dynamic physics, layering, dynamic image compositing (blur, etc), parallax, etc, that all are in iOS 7? iOS 7 seems to me to be very much about how it feels and behaves in motion. The current beta still isn't performance tuned, so my guess is the final build is going to be a pretty futuristic experience on the iPhone 5S.

I think a lot of people are getting hung up on lack of textures/lighting as "copying Android" but I would love to hear how Metro and Android are comparable on the things that are going to define iOS 7's experience: motion, dynamics, translucency, layering, and depth.
Maybe people have seen everything. Just a guess.
x64 is one of the 'build platforms' for .NET projects in Visual Studio:

With Visual Studio 2013 Preview, you can now use [Edit and Continue] with x64,
AnyCPU, and (of course) x86 projects.

See also: http://visualstudiohacks.com/articles/visual-studio-net-plat...
And religious symbolism. Don't forget that the rainbow is really a symbol of the covenant between Noah and God that He would never destroy the earth in a great flood again.
quick, somebody think of the children.
Just because you're doing something naturally doesn't mean that you'll do it efficiently.
"marriage equality" will trigger it as well.
Interesting observation. I completely agree that as the amount of information needed to be synthesized to understand any issue multiplies exponentially, the capacity of an individual voter to grasp all of the necessary information is quickly exceeded. So people resort to shortcuts, voting based off of quick proxies for true discernment such as party affiliation or ideology.

I would even say that ideology can be considered as little more than a shortcut, a cache if you will of information and answers to tricky problems. Unfortunately, most people's "cache" never actually expires and they go to their grave still holding to hopelessly outdated data.
I need to go RTFA, so please forgive if it is already in there, but I hope this means there will be some progress to enabling remote assistance / remote control of a Chrome device a like a Chromebook. Two years that issue has been open with hundreds of users complaining and no word. :/
Google Now type smart SDK to your app
Good to remember that most time is lost in the HTTP request, even though countless developer cycles are lost trying to do sub-100ms optimizations in server code. (To say nothing about online debates about such optimizations)
Any information placed into a communications medium like the internet without proper precautions should be considered publicly accessible, including accessible to governmental intelligence services. The user chooses to upload a history of his/her location. Tag-along listeners, whether it's a shoulder surfer or a packet sniffer (including highly sophisticated state-level packet sniffers), should be considered and accounted for before this information is published.

Instantaneous perfect replication of massive strings of digits (into which meaningful information is encoded) is a double-edged sword, and it's scary for the same reasons it's valuable, and that's what people need to be educated on if they want to able to conduct private business on a major public communications platform.

I love Bruce Scheiner's quote: "trying to make digital bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet". Fast, viral, sometimes uncontrollable replication is an inherent property of the medium we've established. It cannot be extracted without fundamentally modifying the essence of the 'net. We must learn to accept and cope with this.
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Well if it makes you feel any better, here's a quote from Mayer herself that seems to echo some of the sentiments you've expressed:

I don’t think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don’t, I think, have sort of the militant drive and sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that. And I think it’s too bad, but I do think feminism has become, in many ways, a more negative word. [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-criticizes-femi...
How does a company lose money? They didn't start from nothing--they have money in the bank from equity infusions (e.g.-going public). You lose money if you make less than you spend. That's what happened here.

Edit: Also, these numbers aren't just cash. Revenue is realized when it's earned, not when it's actually paid. So, for example, if Pandora provides $50MM of advertising, and then bills that, it records $50MM of revenue, even if it hasn't received all of that yet. Instead of being counted in cash, it's counted in accounts receivable (commonly abbreviated as A/R). This adheres to GAAP (in the US).
Are you for real?

Can’t you see quite clearly that in the story you are linking to the bigots are the problem, not the symbol?! Isn’t that obvious?!
The intention is that the current feature set is free forever.

It's possible that in the future there might be additional new features worth charging for. If necessary, a small cost may be added for very-high bandwidth usage of the service, but as long as I'm under my network usage quota, that shouldn't be necessary.
Thanks for the great feedback!

Your use case would certainly be supported by the kind of service that I've had in mind. That said, it sounds like Noteflight would already fit your need to share quick musical sketches.

I'm not sure how far I'll take RiffUp. Competing directly against Noteflight/GuitarPro/Sibelius/Finale/... is an option, and there are a few innovations that can be made in that space. That wouldn't be an easy path, though.

I was more excited by the prospect of creating a community based around mass collaboration. The idea that a few notes could be forked to create many distinctly different songs.

For now, finding money to live is the overwhelming priority, so I can't justify spending much time on this. It could be that I pursue things further, later on.
Spotify is owned partially by the music industry: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/aug/17/major-...

I'm sure the labels are very happy to keep making the same margins they used to with these new distribution channels. The music industry is doing fine here, it's just the artists who are getting a small piece of the pie.
It's weird, I've always breathed with my stomach. If I'm not thinking about it, my chest is almost still and my stomach moves in and out as I breathe. I assumed this was normal until I started reading articles like this. I had terrible asthma as a kid and I wonder if that contributed to learning to breathe this way.
As someone from the cloud world, I love this stuff. I wish we had built this at Microsoft for Windows Azure.
Spare a thought for Spotify - they are contractually obliged to pay out in excess of 70% of their revenues to the record labels.
I don't quite get the point of this. The original article already said what it had to be said:

For frame of reference compare Sirius XM paid me $181.00
Terrestrial (FM/AM) radio US paid me $1,522.00

All the artist cares about is how much it gets at the end of the day.