skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All the off campus apartments at my college have laundry rooms with machines that only take quarters, but no change machines.

This is a bug. File appropriately. Laundry rooms are not operated without ongoing maintenance because communal equipment breaks all the time. Operating a quarter machine is part of said maintenance companies' repertoire.
How's it going to make noise? pot-atoe-pot
But it still is only for "music streaming", not for any other bits I might want to use on my mobile device (augmented reality, maps, video, games....)
EFF didn't say patents were evil. I can do that too:

Despite inane anonymous commenting syndrome, you are a person, you are not evil, you are just a person.
It's low on other resources so it's probably lowest cost per CPU.
Well the problem I see is that this could change the intent of Starbucks. Perhaps it wasent about them wanting to help employees, but instead was a mutually beneficial program for Starbucks and ASU. With online courses and MOOCs being seen as a new way to raise funds for schools, perhaps this is just a marketing tool for ASU to increase enrollment and attract attention (obviously this would happen for ASU either way, but if that was the goal that seems like a substantial change to the nature/effect of the program).

If Starbucks was making a bigger financial investment, it would indicate they were really doing this because they value the benefits of education enough to trade the financially tangible for the intangible.

With this clarification, that seemingly falls out the door. Im not sure how I feel about that. Its still a good program, because at the very least it is encouragement.

EDIT: So it seems this isnt the whole story. So its good to see Starbucks is indeed contributing, which one again, changes their intent.
Picking winners and losers in the music streaming business:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140619/06354227623/when-...
No, we're going to pile on them for implying that they did something other than what they actually did and hoping it would slip under the radar.
US college offers athletic scholarships to "League of Legends" players
Not to overly nitpick, but if your job doesn't let you out before the bank closes, then you might not. Of course, if you're diligent, just remember to make a special trip on your day off. But that can come rarely enough that quarters run short.

Perhaps one of the stranger things I've come across is a bank that wouldn't sell me quarters or money orders without having an account there; it was a convenience bank in a store, so I had mistakenly assumed it would be trivial. One of the more bizarrely awkward conversations I've had with a counter rep.
disregarding the last point, which I think is rather disrespectful, you have a good point. The open veins of latin america is a good read for those who are interested
http://browsersync.io/ - at least the server side seems to be open.
Would a reasonable person equate "scholarship fund" with "negotiated discount?"

The Starbucks program has a lot going for it. They didn't need to stretch the truth.
I don't understand how someone can create a page like this and not find it necessary to explain the name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Mathieu_operator
Hah, being a grad student in machine learning I feel this quite strongly. The popular science perception is that computers are already close to being smarter than us (BS articles about Turing tests don't help...), whereas it seems like if we truly reach computers that "think", it won't look anything like what we're doing now.
My favorite part about this is that it shows how idiotic USPTO is for approving such patents in the first place. Hopefully, this will make them reconsider whether they should be approving other types of patents, too, before the Supreme Court puts them in a bad light again, but I'm not holding my breath.
What's fantastic is your use of " on the Internet. First time I've seen that.
Yup. Just wrote about this, actually: http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=71372&...

The Federal Circuit court has been, essentially, ignoring the supreme court, and has had just about every decision its made on patents in the last 2 years overturned upon appeal to the supreme. I talked to the EFF and they couldn't explain why the circuit was so fucked up. No one's really sure, but they clearly don't listen to the supreme court.
I agree that what Starbucks is doing is admirable whether or not they're putting up their own money.

But what irritates me, for one (and, I'd wager, other HNers), is that if this article is true, then the Starbucks PR blitz accompanying this decision has been, at best, badly misleading. I seem to recall, for example, Howard Schultz's making an appearance on the Daily Show the other day and telling the American public that paying tuition for all their workers was going to cost them millions upon millions of dollars. If that was a lie, it seems to me that's worthy of condemnation.

EDIT: This article is clickbait, and it fooled me. If you read to the end you'll see that Starbucks is, indeed, paying for the students' last two years of college:

> The program would work much the same way for the junior and senior years, except that Starbucks would reimburse workers for their out of pocket costs, once they completed 21 credits.
The phrase "would you mind me asking" is simply being polite and respectful, not obsequious (IMO).
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I'm in Australia and the order form seems like it will have no issue with me ordering quarters (it even does an Australian postcode lookup), yet US coins are not legal tender here.
You can get that via dbus from the machine running Spotify. Check out my spotify-gnome wrapper script at https://github.com/jreese/spotify-gnome

Basically, you write a simple dbus app that listens for the appropriate song-changed signals from Spotify, and then do with that as you wish. This might not be as easy on Mac or Windows though, as I've only ever used it on Linux.
Are you saying it's appropriate to run a database on a RAM disk? This product is offered without a disk, so it has to be coupled with a SAN or similar remote storage system.
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That also has come default on ubuntu since at least 12.04!
Its just a simple script to generate affiliate SEO'd sales pages from a keyword DB with some markov chain magic to make the page text unique.
I understand your perspective, but it should be pretty clear while people are going to "pile on Starbucks". If they had come out and said that they negotiated lower tuition fees for their employees, they'd have gotten a small PR bump and some deserved good will. However, they were intentionally misleading.

Furthermore, there's a pretty good chance that a large number of folks who got wind of the original PR blitz will never hear this follow-up story. Starbucks' PR team took an intentional calculated risk in running the story the way that they did. The savvy public has a moral obligation to make these sorts of scummy marketing bets produce a lower expected value.
Clojure[0] and Anarki[1] (public fork of Arc) both provide a way to do this (with more than one argument as well). They both have syntax for a "literal function". Your second example would become:

Arc/Anarki:
[format-names2 "John" _ "Jones"] which expands to (fn (_) (format-names2 "John" _ "Jones"))

Clojure:
#(format-names2 "John" % "Jones") which expands to (fn (%) (format names2 "John" % "Jones"))

Then for a function of two arguments that curried the middle one:

Anarki:
[format-names2 _1 "Paul" _2] which expands to (fn (_1 _2) (format-names2 _1 "Paul" _2))

Clojure:
#(format-names2 %1 "Paul" %2) which expands to (fn [%1 %2] (format-names2 %1 "Paul" %2))

[0] http://clojure.org/reader
[1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/CHANGES/ma...
This was a real problem for us when we moved into our latest apartment with shared laundry room (that doesn't have a change machine). But after a while we figured out you can simply buy a $10 quarter roll at Trader Joe's if you ask nicely, so that's what we do since we're there every week anyways.
I can't find, anywhere in the documentation or a quick skim of the source code, any clue as to which version of Python this requires.
It's always interesting to see the flurry of Google releases in the month leading up to Google IO. My understanding is that projects hold out on releasing in the hopes of being included in the Google IO line-up, but release just prior to (or after) Google IO if they didn't end up making the cut. I don't mean to belittle these projects (this one looks quite good, for example!), just pointing out that you can potentially get a read of Google's current priorities by comparing the projects released surrounding Google IO versus the projects released at Google IO. There are some other factors to be mindful of, such as Google IO's focus on developers, however.
Can I skip the GIF and have Twitter just play an MP4 I upload ?
I think you've almost got the market. My bet's on small (or just remote) towns with only one or two banks with limited hours coinciding with where the communal laundry services only accept quarters and the blasted change machine is always out. (These are the sorts of places where a vending machine that accepts cards would be a cool novelty.) I'd actually be interested to see how many people live in that kind of rural America versus large cities.

My college suffered from this, and I had a number of late nights where I was perfectly willing to pay two dollars for a buck fifty in quarters, just because there wasn't anything open in walking distance to get quarters.

As far as I've seen, the same places with these communal laundry services also tend to have many mailboxes consolidated in one place. These'll be locked, so the package of money is fairly safe, assuming it gets through the postal service safely.
Most volunteering is a waste of time for anyone except the volunteer
Oh trust me... it's just one of many, many bugs. The laundry room at my previous apartment was operated by a heathen of a company called Mac Gray [0]. They have some of the worst customer service I've ever encountered, and never more than half of their machines working at any given time.

[0] http://www.macgray.com/
Absurdly oversimplified.
hehe, ok ok, now you are comparing meth with DMT, awesome, LOL
Same. Native applications use relatively standard controls, look, and feel across an OS; why should web applications be different?
the format permits frames with 0ms delays.
the problem is that there has never ever been a browser that respects the 0ms delay. On the whole, the status quo is that any delay under 10ms gets upgraded to 10ms.

Newer (current) browsers have lowered that to 6ms, and in chrome, 3ms. As yet, there has been no browser that respects the 0ms delay (as in, supposed to display instantaneously, so 2 frames with 0ms delay is supposed to look like 1 frame).

The justification for this is backwards compatibility with incorrectly authored gifs. So .. there you go.
Google's hidden message to Android App publishers?
"if you (as a founder/early employee) are willing to put up with a much smaller talent pool in search of people who really truly fit the culture you want, that's your choice and your business."

It's your choice, unless your cultural norms are systematically (although perhaps not explicitly) discriminating against certain legally protected classes of people who are less likely to "fit in" to your culture. For example:

- Women might not enjoy beer and pizza and sports as much as men do, so they "wouldn't be a good cultural fit".

- People over 40, who have their own families and don't want to spend time socializing at work? They "wouldn't be a good cultural fit".

- Members of religious groups who can't eat the food or drink the alcohol you serve at the office, e.g., religious Jews or Muslims? They just "wouldn't be a good cultural fit".

So whenever these kinds of people apply for jobs at your company, you always pass them up in favor of someone who is a better cultural fit.

See the problem?
If it makes money, it is. And it will probably make money, because so many people have been trained to accept that even minor inconveniences can and should best be solved by giving up some degree of personal autonomy or freedom to a startup because x is annoying or x is hard or because x is too analog.

What else can you say except that there's a sucker born every minute?
> But T-Mobile isn't a monopoly in cellular service.

They do however control access to services that their subscribers use. To give their preferred services priority and/or different rates over those offered by competitors or others is something that goes against common carrier principles which seem to imply (to me at least, maybe that's wrong) that there are minimum performance guarantees. T-Mobile currently enjoys common carrier status and as such should attempt to emulate a dumb pipe as much as possible lest they get the regulatory eye of Sauron pointed in their direction.

I highly doubt they will risk that just for laughs, so likely this is simply a pilot of sorts.
Certainly someone needs to remove the quarters feom the washer dryers, so that person can also service the change machine?
Giving data to third parties is a side effect of networked applications, not web apps specifically. Whether the client is in a browser or a stand-alone native app, if you give it data, it will pass that data back to the application servers.
That isn't necessarily true...

If you add the conditional, "and other businesses in that vertical don't subsidize in the same manner"; than yeah, that's closer to a true statement, although still not entirely so.
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Programming by Feedback
I couldn't finish it all - yet. It looks like this took a while, thanks for the attention!
When Literature Was Dangerous
Yeah, and I've never seen anyone outside D-Wave show these types of speedups. Last article I read, in fact, was struggling really hard to even show that D-Wave was the same speed as traditional algos.
I don't understand your complaint. Is it that not everything you might possibly want to download or stream is covered? Are you looking at this not as an added bonus, but less than you expected when you initially signed up with T-Mobile? As I understand it, you can use whatever you want on your phone and that hasn't changed one lick since the announcement.
some quarters are worth more than a quarter. I wonder if they're looking for those, and replacing them with regular quarters before sending the rolls out?
Why does this need to depend on Ruby as well as node.js? As a starter kit shouldn't it aim for the least dependencies to get started?

So for devs who want to use this with another web framework like Python, They need to have node, Ruby and Python installed?

Node is extremely easy to deploy/install that's even self-hostable where you can even check in node.exe (e.g. on Windows) into the repo so no prior installation is necessary. Just run `node install` to pull in all the dependencies and your away. Surely that's the kind of dev experience we should be aiming for?

Are the benefits for SASS over a pure js solution like less that much better to justify the extra infrastructure dependencies?
As I've said elsewhere below, This article is clickbait. If you read to the end you'll see that Starbucks is, indeed, paying for the students' last two years of college:

> The program would work much the same way for the junior and senior years, except that Starbucks would reimburse workers for their out of pocket costs, once they completed 21 credits.

The only point the article is making is that Starbucks is not paying into the scholarship fund that goes towards students' first two years of expenses. I do not see why this, standing alone, is a big deal. To be clear, Starbucks IS PAYING out of pocket for its students' tuition. Just not 100% of it. ASU is kicking in some money as well. I don't see that this is wildly inconsistent with Starbucks' PR message about the program.

This article is much more informative: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/starbucks-ceo-howard-s...

> The partnership between Starbucks and ASU will provide full tuition reimbursement for any of the company’s 135,000 U.S. employees enrolled as juniors and seniors, each time they complete 21 credit hours. While the up-front costs could be problematic for some students, Starbucks says the 21-credit system is an incentive for completion.

> ASU-funded scholarships will also help cover the cost. Juniors and seniors can get about $2,240 per 12-credit course load — undergraduate online programs cost between $480 and $543 per credit hour — and freshmen and sophomores can get $1,267 total.
If you want two or three good resumes a month, you should pay recruiters some money in advance as I suggest. When on retainer, you don't feel a need to send unqualified candidates to give a client the impression you are working hard. Contingency recruiting is the reason you get three unqualified resumes a day.

Take away the recruiters incentive to send everybody they see, and you'll see quality go up.
I agree completely.

For myself, it's more the fact that newaccountfool felt the need to ask permission to ask a question.

I love asking questions. And I love answering them whenever possible. I suppose that I wish we all held fewer secrets or assumed secrets.
My favorite tech poem is Radia Perlman's "Algorhyme". She's the inventor of the spanning tree protocol.

Algorhyme

I think that I shall never see
a graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
is loop-free connectivity.
A tree that must be sure to span
so packet can reach every LAN.
First, the root must be selected.
By ID, it is elected.
Least-cost paths from root are traced.
In the tree, these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me,
then bridges find a spanning tree.

Radia Perlman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman
Your pricing looks extremely generous, especially because you only take a percentage fee. This could be good (an edge over the competition when signing up new companies) or bad (unsustainable). I expect your lead time for new customers growing from $0/month to > $10k/month will be _long_ (ballpark 12 - 24 months), which could be problematic depending on the distribution of new vs established companies you end up with.
I'm confused why they went to the trouble of building a custom FPGA setup, you can just buy a Universal chip programmer that can read the contents of flash for around $1,000. The article also doesn't address the fact that many SSD drives encrypt data before writing it to the flash which makes this approach impossible.

http://www.dataman.com/
Honey badger of a Federal Circuit we've got there.
Agreed. As I said, fees are too high. Companies are overvaluing recruiter services, which creates a larger recruiting market of mostly ineffective recruiters. Make that 30K less, say 20, and you'll see better results.
That's probably true and I have no reason to believe T-Mobile is acting in bad faith, but that's not good enough.

This is a bad idea. Unless you can offer the same service to every streaming audio service (even little startups) then it ain't neutral. T-Mobile currently has a poll on their Facebook page for which streaming services to add next. How is a new startup supposed to get on that list when it's competing in a poll with Google, Microsoft, last.fm, etc.

I would prefer that my ISP not give special treatment to packets from one company over another. Just deliver the bytes I paid for, thanks.
I've been working on a similar web builder with Entomic - https://www.entomic.com - that lets you create sites and get live previews across different browsers and devices as you develop. It's a little rough still, but it does make responsive development a bit easier.
It could be valuable to have a feature grid kind of page where you compare your platform to the built-in subscriptions in Braintree and Stripe, to provide an explicit list of the things you can handle that they can't.
The very last line:

To improve problem solving, one should study solved problems, attack the problem while in different moods, and try explaining the problem to others

As recapped in bold at the end by the author:

Problem solving can be thought of as search on a graph.

Insight is distinguished by a change in problem representation.

Insight can be facilitated by active seeking of new problem representations [ie drawwing, analogies]

Incubation [taking breaks during working] enhances problem solving ability.

A night’s sleep improves problem solving ability to a considerable degree.

Mind-wandering [ie low effort tasks] facilitates creativity.

[One] should study solved problems, attack the problem while in different moods, and try explaining the problem to others
Worse, only for approved music streaming.

Let's say I'm a mobile-focused music streaming startup. How will I convince people to switch to me when Spotify lets them stream without it counting against their data cap but my service can't offer that. T-Mobile hasn't added support for Google Play or Xbox Music or last.fm or Rdio. I think it will be a very (very) long time before extend it to the scrappy startups.

It's effectively a gift to incumbent streaming services and a barrier to entry for newcomers.
Patents are a tool that was being abused so badly that the Supreme Court has been taking multiple cases just to try to set things straight.

The abuse has been evil.
This is great ammo for all the jack-wagons I encounter in daily life who counter my position on patents with the genius position, "What if someone came and just took your house, or your car away. That's your property and you wouldn't like it, would you?"
Well, most things are easier for an expert, or they wouldn't be an expert, right? I think it's good practice to try to write code that's readable by people with a wide variety of skill levels.
Personally, my going rate is about a quarter per roll, up to a dollar depending on which clothes are now my limiting factor and how badly I need them. (Two dimes buys a roll at my local grocer, which seems like a tolerable fee for their inconvenience.)

Now, if you want to be galled by the price, perhaps comparing it to the US Mint would help? I reckon the parent service is charging just about a third to half of what the mint charges for collector's grade coins [1] (depending on shipping). I think that's a fairly unflattering comparison. Even though I have some anxiety about asking a store clerk for something out of the ordinary, an extra roll of quarters for every four rolls is probably worth it.

[1]http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Category...

EDIT: Ambiguous pronoun.
It's not fair to me that they charge me a premium to choose other music services. I already have a music service I like. I don't buy any technical mumbo-jumbo answers about server co-location. I know Google can co-locate anywhere they want but that's not Tmobile's business plan.
I have not read the book myself. I do have a former coworker who was fairly involved in the early days Twitter, who told me the book definitely was a biased account of events. I would not blindly trust it.
As you allude, it is kind of ironic your parent argues how T-Mobile is making life harder for startups, when T-Mobile is themselves an underdog. In forbidding them from doing such a thing, we make life harder for them...
Has your iPhone 5 died and won't charge or come back on?
Whatever happened to the startup guys who founded a society in South America?
This was probably about 5 years ago. A couple of startup types announced on the Internet that they were moving to either Argentina or Chili (can't remember which). They had bought up a whole buncha land and were trying to setup an Ayn Rand-style utopianist community founded on software and working together. I was hoping to check in on it and see whether or not they succeeded, but I can't for the life of me find them online.
Unless they get kickbacks from Pandora et al, it isn't bundling.

When IE was bundled with Windows- Microsoft owned both products.