skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the real issue, IMO. It doesn't matter if Chrome has Dart as long as 2/3rd the market is using different browsers.
Please explain how for-profit education is a disaster. By all measures, private schools in the US are superior to public schools, and the US's private universities are consistently rated best in the world.

You also can't generalize about e.g. for-profit healthcare based on the American situation, because the regulatory environment is so extreme as to have to created a government-controlled crony-capitalistic oligopoly. The for-profit healthcare in less regulated countries like Mexico is inexpensive and amazing.
Note that a company can't dictate the way in which you communicate with them, although they might pretend to.

Send them a certified letter saying you're canceling their service. If they charge you after that, it's fraudulent. Since you sent it certified, you have proof. If they don't listen to that (which they probably will), let your card company to reverse the charges, or take them to court, or whatever.

Not that this helps you with your old ISP, but if it comes up again....
OK, so here goes:

1. The site is DMCA compliant
2. Lyrics are provided legally through musixmatch
3. Chords as they are presented on the site are legal. We spent a lot of time and money making sure of that.

Yes, the TOS should be updated which I will take care ASAP.
But, I have more services!
But, each of my fewer services do more!

And this folks, is why IT is still a joke in most quarters.
I guess it does depend highly on lcoation. I live in Vancouver, Canada. For my fiancee and I, our cell phone bill comes to about $150/m and internet is $40. That alone is $1,200 a year.

Cars are another expense that's gone up substantially over the last 20 years. We pay $140/m in insurance and at $1.40/L gas, at least $150/m in gas. That's $3,500 a year not including servicing (minimum $100 every ~3 months) or car payments ($280/m). All in, just owning a car costs us about $7,200 a year.
The author came to agree with this over time:

"Rokeach came to think that his research had been manipulative and unethical, and he offered an apology in the afterword of the 1984 edition of the book: "I really had no right, even in the name of science, to play God and interfere round the clock with their daily lives."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Christs_of_Ypsilanti
I'm the developer on Opstarts. I'm happy to answer any questions if anyone has them. I built it using Meteor, which has been really sweet to work with.
Impressive numbers, and I appreciate the fact that you have so many client libraries available. Downloading the NPM to play around with it as we speak.
What Is Runway SDK?
People "need jobs" to be able to "afford" things, so we have a lot of people basically generating work for each other, as per Parkinson's Laws.
The guy next to me stole it. And some pens from my desk too.
If you see him, tell him to please return them. Thanks.
The VBScript comparison dig is as old as it is wrong.

VBScript was IE only, because VBScript didn't compile to JavaScript. Dart compiles to JavaScript and runs on IE, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera. VBScript didn't have a specification accepted by any standards organizations, Dart is ratified as ECMA 408. VBScript is not open source, Dart is.

The fact that Dart has been used in production years before any VM in a browser should show how different they are.
Yeah, I guess I thought they might have something a bit more spectographically advanced to determine molecular makeup rather than just backscatter (something that might distinguish teflon with it's abundance of fluorine from organic matter). It seems like a much more crude instrument than I thought.

For millimeter wave, I'm pretty sure the teflon wouldn't work though, since the millimeter wave machines are likely tuned for organic makeup rather than just backscatter.
They could use the same model as Instacart currently does and charge a premium on the individual products themselves. This is also the same model that online delivery food services (ie Foodler) have successfully employed.
Please don't interpret my downvotes as anything other than a chilling effect on nonsensical comments.
Not necessarily dissing Wave, but when I first saw it years ago (when it was a Google product) my first thought was "this is like 4chan enterprise!" :)
Can somebody explain why this was downvoted? It may be based on false assumptions, but at least commenting moves the conversation forward.
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rc%288%29
Universal basic income is the case that gives the rich, ruling class the maximum power over everyone else. Everyone gets dependent on government money, and it takes an act of Congress to increase the baseline pay.
Indeed. It's a damn shame Red Hat was able to expand the reach of their terrible technology from their distributions into the greater Linux ecosystem, but the BSD guys probably love it.
Pick Your Cloud Management Tool SaaS VS. AWS Marketplace
Keybindings that everyone should have
Help the Smithsonian transcribe its collections
It's not that the current situation is really bad, but things seem to have stopped improving. Productivity keeps going up but wages don't.
Hmm.. no thanks. Given the state of the driver in the last Uber cab I took, I wouldn't want him touching my food, especially as his fingers spent most of the time either mining his nose, ears and backside. Yuck!
I'm an early beta user, and have been really happy with it. It saves me a bunch of time, but I think the real value is in what it teaches me about where to focus our efforts. Way easier to predict which initiatives (features, hires, etc) are going to make us money, and when we'd see returns.
I believe this is actually the logical conclusion of the Internet.
While current setup works well in server environment where ideally you want to have full control over services so you can set up your system by running only services that you actually need.

But in case of desktop system such approach becomes very problematic. There are tons of services you need for it to function and simply there too many moving parts. From my limited experience Ubuntu shows it best. Because there's so much interaction required between many simple services it is full of race conditions with things working mostly ok but once in a while behave in an odd way.
No- if you think about a 'classical' particle (that is, ignore quantum effects), once you are inside the particle the gravitational pull is proportional to the distance from the center.

In other words, if you are outside a spherical mass the pull of gravity gets stronger as you get closer (~1/r^2). But once you are inside the mass, the pull gets weaker. Hence there is no black hole at the center of the earth, for example.
Why I do all of my recruiting through LinkedIn
Yes, success comes to those who sacrifice themselves the most. And no, not just any sacrifice. You have to work for yourself instead of working for others. And it's usually excruciating.

Establish a huge goal that would satisfy you. Most choose world domination. But it can be a million bucks for now. And start working towards it. Day by day, month by month, year by year. During the day you make money from a job, during evenings and weekends you work towards your goal.

You constantly borrow happiness from the present and pile it up in the future. And burnout is always at the door and you constantly have to fight against it. Exercise, hobbies, outdoor activities etc. They are all weapons for a fight. Not solutions to health problems.

Start working for yourself today. On a startup, freelancing, book, side project or anything of value owned by you. And in a couple of years you will see if it works or not. If it doesn't, rinse and repeat, using the new things you learned. And if you're lucky, after doing this a couple of times you might obtain financial independence. After that it's either exponential growth or you fall back to your current state.

The universe likes balance. So success is always paid with suffering, one way or another. This is why children born into wealth usually end up badly.
So if you were born poor like pretty much everyone else, you need to suffer if you want success. It's just how life works.
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I can only assume the parent is blaming the spiraling cost of education on Capitalism, when in fact it's the perpetually increasing federal loan guarantees spurring massive inflation that is the root of the cause.

The spiral in healthcare was also caused by the government taking over the industry in the late 1960s. No coincidence both industries began to skyrocket in cost at exactly the same time, shortly after Nixon ended the gold standard, and the Fed acquired free reign to generate immense inflation and aggressively tamper with interest rates (spurring the cheap consumer debt boom of the past 40 years).

Everyone recognizes that healthcare and education became very expensive recently. Nobody seems to ask what changed in the last few decades to cause that. They act like Capitalism didn't exist in 1960.
My roommate was recently employed (he quit) at a Comcast branch south of San Francisco. His responsibilities included helping customers with their technical issues, but the only metric of his success was his ratio of sales to customers seen. As a result, he was ranked lower than other employees who saw less clients, solved less problems, but had more sales. I can't think of a better way to discourage customer support and encourage up-selling.
Four-hour workday is simple: do not marry and do not have a children.
Not enough people are brave enough to speak out like you do. I agree with the Stockholm Syndrome argument. There's also an argument to be made about the fact that those who defend the broken web think it can be fixed with more technology and complexity, instead of less (ie. stepping back, coming up with a foundational model of computation, and so on, as functional programming has been doing).

If you live in NYC, let me buy coffee/beer/whatever sometime - I don't know anyone personally that agrees with me on those things.
I wear t-shirts and shorts. Always. Mostly from King Size Direct. Add in underwear and socks and the total cost of whatever I'm wearing at any given moment is <$100. Add in shoes and it's probably about $160.

I'm always comfortable, which is difficult for me with any other off-the-shelf clothing.

So tell me, how much more am I spending than DC staffers in what would have to be custom-tailored suits to match the comfort level?
These machines are such a blatant violation of our Constitutional rights. We shouldn't be searched like this without probable cause or a search warrant. Whether they are effective or not is irrelevant.
I would highly recommend that anyone who finds this interesting read the book by Rokeach (there's a good, cheap edition from NYRB that I buy a lot of people as a gift) -- goes into far more detail, particularly with respect to the medical aspects.

It's also a great case study to demonstrate the falsity of the idea that there's any rationality to delusion -- the mind routes around thinking critically about true delusions in a fundamental way. It's not possible to reason your way out of a delusional state.
Very nice. You know one feature I would love to see are strumming patterns. It's nice to see the chords but it's tough for an amateur to identify the strumming patterns.
So, please tell me how can I use logind without bringing systemd as a PID 1 process.

Or how do I stdin/stdout interface (the basic interface in UNIX, where everything is a file) to the new awesome DNS resolver without having to bring up D-Bus ?

Systemd is like a bait-and-switch virus. If you want any piece of it, you have to take it all. It spreads and infects/replaces any other competing piece of software. All seventy bits have tight hierarchical coupling, and while you can run the top of heap independently, you can't run the utilities without bringing in the whole mess.

Systemd is valued by those who don't understand the quality of having independent programs that talk via standardized human-readable interfaces.
But, if you don't IPO, how do you exit, leaving the muppets with the stock, whilst you run with the cash?
Staying private means actually building something? Of value? That is not simply another shitty Rails site, or tries to skirt around regulations and pretends to be 'disrupting' things?
Oh dear, this won't go down well at all with the chattering classes on HN!
GUI development in HTML/CSS + Java – GWT in a new way – JBoss Errai framework
JBoss has a web framework named Errai that has a quite interesting design - http://erraiframework.org. For example it allows sharing validation code between client and server.

It includes HTML based tempting, bidirectional binding, integration with JAX-RS, bookmarkable Urls, a distributed event bus, mobile integration, and client-side JPA for online storage.

My understanding of Errai: It's meant for frontend development directly in HTML/CSS and uses Java as a replacement for Javascript. It uses internally GWT but only the compiler and does not include the GWT Widgets hierarchy of components, that has been used in many projects to allow doing frontend development in a object oriented-centric approach.

That GWT object oriented approach seems to have been historically introduced mainly for IE6 support, as the same HTML/CSS did not look at all the same in IE6 and other browsers which was a deal breaker for using those technologies directly in many enterprise applications.

Today in ever-green browsers the object oriented approach ends up acting more as a not always wanted layer of indirection to HTML/CSS more than help solve browser quirks that are no longer present or that can be solved more easily in other ways (for example by using CSS frameworks such as Yahoo Pure CSS).

Errai also does not include GWT UIBinder that allows web development in a mixture of XML and HTML.

The framework has been around for several years and it’s at version 3, here is a talk on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz2X667Wk_4#t=850

Does anyone has experience with it, comments on the design or insight into why it did not gain more traction until now?
Show HN: Send huge files, pause in the middle and continue
We are long past the point where the law deserves to be re-imagined as code, which can then be compiled into human-readable abstracts. To require an exorbitantly expensive priest caste to read and write our fundamental social contracts with one another is deeply undemocratic.

The seeds of this process exist, between Watson and its brethren, and the emerging crypto "smart contracts" space.
Not really increasingly expensive. For example, a TV is actually a lot cheaper (not to mention better) than it used to be.

We have/want more stuff then people in the past. Houses are larger. Families have more cars, more clothes, more toys, etc. Plus things that didn't exist like cell phones and internet access.
agreed and that is coming up soon.
Ractive.js is nice too.
Maybe he expects to be hit from above by the container?
also really love the idea (have not tried this).

to me, this seems like if you can get past patent issues and get it fully to market this would be a no brainer acquisition for FB messenger.

I couldn't see myself using this as a standalone app but would definitely use it as a feature within another app.
Out in the Open: This Man Wants to Turn Data Into Free Food (And So Much More)
When America was still Capitalistic, still had a functioning free market system, the results it produced in both education and healthcare put the European welfare state model to shame. If you go back 30, 40, 50 years America embarrassed most of Europe in both healthcare and education. For decades America had both the best healthcare system, and a very cost effective system. That reputation has only been lost in the last 20 years.

It's only the last two decades, with America's collapse into a second-rate welfare state in the French model, with the unemployment and debt to go with it, that a very select few European countries have caught up (most of which are tiny, homogenous and generally locked down on immigration; and the prime example, Norway, only got there due to half a barrel of oil per day per person).

Most of Europe consists of impoverished, backwards welfare states. It seems a lot of people like to pretend Spain doesn't have 36% real unemployment, that Portugal isn't as poor as it is, Greece isn't still watching its failed soft-socialism model erode as promises can't be kept, and they seem to like to pretend that eastern Europe doesn't exist at all. There are only a few countries in all of Europe in fact, that are good examples. Germany is the only large example that is working, both the UK and France are drowning in massive piles of debt, having stolen from the future to fake present prosperity. Denmark and the Netherlands are two of the most indebted nations on earth per capita, both having stolen from the future to fake today as well.

I hardly see any examples where the European welfare state model has actually worked. I'd love someone to show me where I'm wrong about stealing from the future to fake present prosperity via massive debt accumulation.
http://anticap.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/fig2_prodhhincome...

This is where the 4 hour work week went.

Disclaimer: I am an ardent supporter of work hours being reduced as productivity rises.
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Here's a video of Andy Lash (author) presenting the app at the recent Meteor Devshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smnSkyRF-JY&list=UU3fBiJrFFM...

Looks like he made a lot of progress since then!
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Instead, we created a custom version of the signing tools which complied with the Authenticode spec (for Windows) while letting us safely modify content for each binary. Our custom tool allows us to create an unverified section of the binary in a way that is compliant with the Authenticode spec.
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Can you offer some more info on this topic in a follow-up post?
I have been thinking a lot on how to implement this feature. Showing it easy enough, but creating strumming patterns is a bit of a challenge...

This is my favorite feature though.
"So this allows for 2^16-1 unique IDs per millisecond per machine."

Technically thats per MAC not per machine. I've run into multiple NICs with duplicate MACs as has everyone else who's been in the game long enough.
Spot on. It's interesting how one of the original goals of the technical co-founders was to develop an open diagnostics hardware platform for the research community.

Perhaps a consortium-type non-profit structure would have been a better fit, incentive-wise.
This is an important point, along similar lines to something we discussed at work today in a code review. The programmer in question assumed that all and every request for the resources consumed would always work. Literally, no testing or consideration for what if one of those request fails. Will be emailing them this article tomorrow!
> the US's private universities are consistently rated best in the world.

By whom? In particular, are there any ratings of American versus European universities by people who have experience of both? I only have experience of the latter; from what I've heard from Americans talking about their university experience, it sounds markedly inferior.
wow very interesting. to answer your question I would say at the very least model, serial, etc numbers.
We had this debate at my company. You might want to read this:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/an-architecture-of-sm...

It's important to realize that you are wrong when you use the word "continuum". In a true continuum you can move in both directions with equal ease, whereas there is an important asymmetry in the tension between micro-services and monolithic apps. Read this part:

"There is an important asymmetry between an architecture of small apps and an architecture of The Monolithic CMS. If you have small apps, and decide you want to move to a monolithic CMS, then you must do The Big Rewrite: the exhausting effort of reproducing all of your funtionality so that it is handled by your one, all-consuming CMS. But when you move from the monolithic CMS to an architecture of small apps, there is no need for The Big Rewrite. Instead you take some small part of your CMS, rewrite it as an independent app, set the app on its own port, use your webserver to proxy the app-on-a-port to whatever URL the CMS was previously using for that functionality, and thus you’ve taken a step towards a new architecture without having to rewrite anything but the functionality covered by your new, small app."

I did not hear the phrase "micro-services" until Martin Fowler wrote his essay in March 2014, but clearly, what I talked about in that essay, 14 months ago, is what we would now call micro-services.
Agreed, especially concerning that creepy old hospital..
Exactly.

The work week hasn't dropped because people have chosen (poorly, but that's just my opinion) to have more "stuff" than free/leisure time.
gotten a haircut at least :-)
Great, it's a nice project

However, it seems to have "gone crazy" with this song (which is hard) https://www.youtab.me/music/gkE29Y2PPdd/one-without/withered...

But this one it got very well (it's easy) https://www.youtab.me/music/zGvQx6E4KO4/ruth-laredo/mozart-r... I don't remember all the details but it is pretty close to the original
You and I must be on the same wavelength because the first thing I threw at it was "Scarified".
New York startup hopeful reveals the misogynist side of tech world
Show HN: Appbase – Data synchronization library for writing 100% clientside apps
and work part-time?
Cool service. It fits a nice niche as I have coworkers who don't have Dropbox (or Drive, Box, etc.) installed, so I can just send them a link to this site instead. I'll test it with them and see how it goes.
Google Express has integrated Costco, although that doesn't help if you're outside the bay area.
I used it for 2 projects at uni and enjoyed it a lot. Then it slowed down so much it was unbearable and we couldn't really discover how far the improvements go. Maybe it would get a better response from general public if the modern browsers / js engines were available then.
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Clap, clap, clap. This is incredible and much needed after frustratingly navigating through the constant up sell of the poorly designed tab sites out there. You know who I'm talking about. I would pay for this.
So the crowd "erupted into boisterous applause" when he states that, yet probably had a huge group of developers from Gnome present who actively work to destroy the desktop through forcing us into a single-task, phone-like mentality via the joys of Gnome 3. The twisted part of this seeming cognitive dissonance is that the Gnome developers certainly don't see how their personal view of what a computer should look like and how users should interact with it is killing the desktop. In their world I suppose "desktop" simply means "not a phone" or "does not run off a li-on battery."

(I've heard that more recent Gnome 3s added back much of the desktop functionality by default (desktop icons, minimize buttons in the title bar, etc.), but after trying the abomination that was Gnome 3.0 in Fedora 15, I fled to XFCE's loving embrace and never looked back. Maybe the Gnome devs changed their minds, maybe they're just kowtowing to the users' demands.)
It's important to distinguish adopting a Dart VM from supporting Dart the language. Dart works fine in all modern browsers now by being compiled to JS. Doing that gives you the developer-time productivity boost of using Dart (which to me is the most compelling aspect of the language) while letting you ship your app to the entire web.

The VM is neat too, but from the user's perspective, it's an implementation detail. It's a really nice development tool, because it lets you run and debug your Dart code straight from source instead of trying to deal with generated code.

But I think it's relatively less important that the VM be shipped to end users. I think Dart can be a great, successful product without that happening.