skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1491 is where I learned about it. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491

There's also a much shorter version of the book published in the Atlantic.

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30244...
Angular 2 Series: Introduction
How do you find the right biz-dev oriented cofounder
This is the reverse problem - it's built and it's awesome and you have users. Suppose you are passionate about an app or platform you built, but can't figure out how to expand it into a (profitable) business.

You're all tech and you've built a product, but you are new at things such as business legalities, patents, customer expansion, long-term strategy, etc. How do you find the right business cofounder?
Maybe I missed that being nonprofit was a criterion here? But it that's the case, sure you're correct.
You destroy this feeling by striving to become the best which is the only way to become the best. You put in the time and effort to excel way beyond your peers, you teach your peers the advanced knowledge you have gained so they can grow and help you grow along the way. You become their leader and model to work with to make it to the top.

You also have to think outside of the box, don't follow the status quo, enhance it, ask questions and challenge the norm of how things are done. That is the only way to really evolve and transcend to the top.

If Elon Musk went with the sky is the limit mythology there would be no SpaceX.
If Steve Jobs gave up after he was fired from Apple there would be no Pixar or Apple today.

Where did you get these artificial limits of never breaking this "average bubble" or will still not be the best type ideas. Thinking that way will not help you rise to your full potential and only slow you down on your way up. The greater something is, the harder it will be to obtain. This is the great thing about being at the top, that it will be very hard for others to race you there as your skills evolve way above the norm.
Musicians can commercially self-publish on cdbaby, bandcamp and probably quite a few others. Most choose to do it via a label due to knowhow and marketing increasing reach to an extent which outweighs the cut taken.
This won't work in the US. The problem is the way government contracting works. Government Digital Service in the UK has managed to reform things there because they demanded and got to control the way the UK contracts for software. The whole nice 18F folks in the US are great people but they lack the power to fix anything.

FUNDAMENTAL CONTRACTING AND BIDDING REFORM IS NEEDED.
If you propose a better title and an admin sees your comment, they'll change it if they agree it is called for.
vezzy-fnord didn't call you any names.
Much more so on spotify (and streaming generally). In the traditional system an artist might have got 10% of retail price. That equates to much more than 10% of profit (could be around 40% of profit in some cases). While record companies do have various ways of chipping away at that, the fundamentals of a traditional points deal aren't actually as bad as usually presented and way better than in other retail industries (e.g. clothing).
I think it makes sense to learn v1 right now, mainly because with 1.3 and 1.4, the delta between Angular 1 and 2 is shrinking.

Some quick tips for making the transition smoother:

* Use "controller as" syntax: http://toddmotto.com/digging-into-angulars-controller-as-syntax/
* Use ES6 if you want http://blog.thoughtram.io/angularjs/es6/2015/01/23/exploring-angular-1.3-using-es6.html
* Build components using element tags not classes. (attributes are fine but components are better expressed as unique elements).

Note: a lot of of the Ionic components (as mark up) won't be changing.

Here's a talk (including Andrew Joslin, an Ionic dev) about moving from 1.3 to 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pai1ZdFI2dg
You might be interested to know that your $120/year is several times what the average consumer has ever spent on music per year.[0] It's quite likely that streaming services have already captured all the consumers willing to pay this much. The only growth will come from lowering prices.

[0]https://recode.net/2014/03/18/the-price-of-music/
It's a good idea. The existence of other groups trying it underlines that it IS a good idea, and you might be able to start working on it today.

Others have mentioned Palantir (for-profit) and 18F and USDS (within the federal government). Other groups to check out: Code for America (non-profit) and Department of Better Technology (for-profit)
Aw man I read this and thought they were getting into public transportation.

Then I thought about it, and it seems feasible to me. Since the lines are predictable and buses tend to end up at the bus terminal we can just put a charging station there. Since we're doing hybrid buses anyway might as well go all the way?
I don't know how you define "startup", but if you mean a Bay Area-based venture-backed software company with less than, say, a couple of hundred employees that's been around less may, say, five years, then they most certainly do. I have worked for two such companies that made a fair bit of money. One of them even had their own direct GSA schedule, if you think that going via a reseller doesn't count. (For the purposes of this thought experiment, of course it should.)
I still remember taking the Apple OS emulator on my Amiga 1500 and it worked twice as fast as the fastest Mac. I thought Apple and IBM Clones were dead. Sad to say I was wrong.

It took till 1993 that the Mac even caught up to a Amiga 500.
I totally agree that it's the exception, but I think if it were the rule this article never would've been written.
Man, I really, really miss Steve's blog rants. I wonder if Google hired him so that he would write those just for their own internal audience.

It's amazing: you go back to stuff he wrote a decade ago, and it's still highly relevant. Not a thing has changed!

Maybe a bunch of folks could fund a Kickstarter to get him to write publicly once more…
I'm not getting the impression that the OP understands the nature of government contracts and the underlying incentives that have shaped things to be the way they are. Lack of free lunch and Mac book pros has nothing to do with the problem. I'm also skeptical of any company who's sole customer is government. A better idea would be to start a service to help existing reputable companies break into government contracts to offer more competition.
What's wrong with the title? (Genuinely would like to do better next time.)
> the politics of a selection committee.

Working in government and having to deal with these things on a day to day basis, you couldn't be more right. Also, it doesn't help that people hate when they have to be a part of a selection committee.
haha u have hit the nail on the head re: our bad pr problem..usually people go for indentured servitude rather than all the way to slavery though haha...

we think equity>debt for students because a) in bad times your debt is lower (% of income vs flat payment) and b) longer time scale allows transfer consumption from middle-age to years immediately after graduation

re: western government interest rates that's probably true, the uk has lost a lot of money on their loans which have very nice terms & conditions.. the US market still has a large private loans component which we think we can beat (for reasons above). to be honest though we are probably thinking more about the developing world (india, china etc.) where student loan financing isn't as available (particularly true at a graduate level)

finally, the x-factor is on the investor side where we can allow investors to bet on industries without having to be on a specific company because the income stream of someone working in a given industry is a better long-term proxy than a company in that industry (particularly if it's a new industry)..
Black holes are not formed by lots of energy, but by high energy density, so your mosquito comparison is not very useful unless you've got some other measure to support it.
It is at least nice to see someone holding to account the "futurists" and those who speak from armchairs and barstools and blogs (and newspapers) with unlimited certitude in their predictions of the future, if that's the purpose of the post. This was a somewhat pessimistic prediction, but the unbridled optimistic ones should be held with equal skepticism. What will and will not take hold in society is perhaps as much a matter of chance as of vision or wisdom or foresight.
I work in software reliability (bug finding through dynamic program analysis) which is a related domain of this research.

Most of these machine learning based software engineering research tools are based on unrealistic scenarios, full of over-promises and very little to deliver in real life.
That applies to any copyright material - you license it for limited usage (e.g. you can't create copies and redistribute, which is what ownership implies)
I'd take these rankings with a grain of salt.. still see quite a large demand for Ruby (granted, mostly Rails) devs and gigs.
This was an attack scenario and the protocol failed in the face of it until the governing structure stepped in.
Android Apps to Run on Mac, Windows, and Linux
We may have to agree to disagree here. To me, the comment was clearly sarcastic, and therefore negative. I personally did not find the observation that bicycles exist to be interesting at all. Community guidelines may also be uninteresting, but they are important to improving the quality of discussion on HN, while this comment added nothing of value.
It was certainly 1) mentioned in the article and 2) a part of my critique (that I specifically quoted). And since Palantir is a "point-by-point" counterargument of my critique, I suppose it should at least be somewhat important.

Palantir is a for profit company that works on both commercial and government projects, and is valued at $9 billion. If you believe that that is in the spirit of what this article is proposing, then sure, I suppose this is the perfect counterargument. I think its pretty clear that Palantir is a very different company with very different goals than what is being proposed here.

The point of this article is creating a "for the common good" contractor with the aim of lowering bidding prices, and increasing software quality across the board, funded perhaps by donations, and certainly not having profitability as its primary driving force. Palantir is just another company, a very successful one mind you, that yes happens to make good government software.
Specifications for the on-phone interconnect protocol, UniPro: http://mipi.org/specifications/unipro-specifications

Hopefully Project Ara can bring a PC-like open architecture to mobile devices, to unlock the combinatorial creativity of a multi-vendor interoperable ecosystem. This requires that the Google-controlled "Router" component will not exercise editorial policy or runtime tax on "Bridge" modules.
What has Apple done with Beats since buying it 1 year ago for $3B?
For 90% of artists the record labels are now redundant. They can do everything themselves. Yes its going to be hard work, yes you are going to end up playing the same small venues year after year as you build your audience, and yes won't be heard on the radio (outside of NPR maybe) or breaking any sales records.

You will get a lifetimes career out of it and in the end you'll probably make more money than 90%+ of label signed artists. The key thing is the choice is now yours.
> Does HN still have

You could always check the guidelines... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
Wouldn't an incubator or accelerator be one (but not the only) alternative to explore? They may be able to assist.
Ok, nice, now tell me what I should use. (Yeah, I saw his comment about Ampersand, but still…)
I have a similar problem. I build out working MVP's, but hate going the last 10% and turning it into a company. The one time I did join up with a business oriented co-founder, he turned out to be a charlatan who is great at talking but not at doing, and my startup fell apart. At this point, I'm not sure if it's worth the bother, unless you already know someone who you fully trust, who is available and interested in joining you.
It might be infinity dollars but it's also infinity music. As new music gets released you can listen to that too as well as a back catalog larger than you could conceivably own. The concept of renting something is neither new nor strange. Penny Arcade's example is the same for housing, gym memberships, etc.
How many movies do you rewatch? A really infectious song, you'll listen to it tens or even hundreds of times. It's a different kind of investment
I am all for pacer reform, but I cannot see more than .05% of readers getting past the statues analogy around line 7, where this document has yet to even hint at the argument it is making. Also, lots of unexplained, unreadable, unrelated text at the top. It begins "IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR PUBLIC OPINION." Well, please think about what this means. It means, each time you make us read something like that before getting to the point you lose about half of the public, and this document does about 30 times over.
You can't put the genie back in the bottle. The way we consume changed dramatically over the last 20 years, and with change, it means where, how and who profits changes.

I'm all for competition but I feel it's going to end up ruining it for those that consume, and ultimately those who create - in both music and movies.

Spotify is as close to 'perfect' as I think we've seen a streaming service so far. Most, if not all of the people I know who'd prolifically or casually pirated music (but rarely, if ever bought it), now pay for Spotify. Most, if not all those who bought music now pay for Spotify instead. Because it's easier. And it's all there - and it doesn't cost you to experiment and change your mind.

But when artists (Taylor Swift, etc) start leaving because it doesn't pay as much as the heydays, and start moving to services that promise more cash, everything becomes more fractured. The reason people pay is because it's easier that pirating. Napster was easy. Everything was there so you consumed. But no one wants to pay for 5 services / install 5 apps / whatever. So they'll just end up not bothering, and by that point they won't be buying either. And everyone will lose.
This is unbelievable if true. Why has nobody thought of tweeting from prison before? It's genius. Is there anything the government can legally do to prevent this from happening? Do you have the right to freely distribute your thoughts while incarcerated?

If there were more prison twitter accounts it would do wonders towards expsosing how absurd our judicial / prison system is. More people should be live tweeting court cases / prison sentences. Could Adnan Syed have done companion tweets to the Serial podcast? This idea is so interesting.
Current CS undergrad: LaTeX is mandatory or strongly encouraged (slight grade penalty for not using it) in pretty much every undergrad math class post-Calculus, as well as CS classes like Discrete Math, Algorithms, Complexity Theory, etc.

It also turns out great-looking papers for professors who are okay with PDF and count words rather than pages (which is IMO the way to do it.) 100% of my academic output is plain text under version control; some of it is code, some of it is LaTeX.

It may not be used much outside of academia but everyone in anything remotely quantitative at my school (Math, Economics, Statistics, Public Policy and other stats-dependent fields, etc) will learn it at some point.
He put it beautifully.

However, if you assume that people are smarter than you, that could lead to you listening to them more than you should, holding back in voicing concerns and sharing opinions that seem right and important to you.
The trouble with paywalls is, am I going to pay for NYT, WSJ, Boston Globe, MoneyWeek, Newsday, The Onion, etc, all individually? No. I might subscribe to one paper, but that's not how the Internet works. Even then, I never subscribe to the paper. I get it free at work or at the library or in a hotel.
I'd tell you privately but you don't have an email listed: I also really, really miss his rants.

Maybe we should create a support group?

I've set up the word "Yegge" on HNWatcher to alert me about posts like this, so I can find people discussing his posts the much-awaited day when he leaves Google and returns to full-time blogging and game playing.

I haven't been able to find many posts with that drunken spirit - they are about software, but also about the culture around it, not that technical, and smart and funny but didn't make "us" feel nerdy and lesser. While still reminding how dislocated some of us feel amongst regular humans.

See also http://blog.fogus.me/2011/03/27/the-long-lost-art-of-thought...
Spotify is not as good as Google Music.

Why does everyone forget Google Music? And you can't leave Google Music to boot -- not without leaving YouTube too!
Ask HN: Front end framework with focus on productivity
Let me clarify by what I mean with productivity: I'm developing a couple personal apps (ie. one user and one developer), and because of that, the most important "feature" for me is my ability to crank out code. Compatibility, maintainability (or to be specific, the usual concern with multiple developers and such), speed, scaling etc. be damned.

In a sense, I'm looking for the front end equivalent of Arc/ Lisp for UI developing. What should I be looking at?
Since iTunes revenue is way down for Apple [1], hopefully they do something with Beats Music (stream service) soon.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/itunes-music-sales-down-more-tha...
"Seems difficult" – You bet!

Also, the trick is to go beyond reading. Most people read once or twice, go "ah, that makes sense", and then forget about it except when it's pointed out to them a little too late.

Benjamin Franklin had this stuff figured out. If you want to become better or more successful, it has to become a part of your regular study and practice. You have to revisit the principles over and over again. You have to analyze your day each day and ask yourself what you could've done better, and decide how you're going to do things differently the next time around. So on and so forth.
d3 is pretty much of the first type, it binds data with DOM elements. The DOM elements can be of various types. With your proposal, what we miss is something akin to Bootstrap, but for data visualizations, styling SVG elements for instance.
AwSnap – This link crashes Chrome
> Also for those of you asking: @fitzgibbonmedia is handling my account for the time being

So it sounds like Manning doesn't have Twitter access but instead is probably giving whatever tweets she wants to send out to the Fitz Gibbon Media. Not much different from the old statements and letters from prison other than where it ends up.

PS: For anyone else who was confused like me since it's been a while: Chelsea Manning == Bradley Manning.
Science by authority is a poor model for communication
You should include a link your project, or at least link to your GitHub profile in your profile.
People forget about Google Music because Google seems to have forgotten about Google Music. Same with Google Voice. They don't push it, no one will use it. Personally for me, I switched from Google Music to Spotify because Google boycotts Windows Phone. I don't have the patience to put something in my workflow that doesn't work on every platform I use.
I am looking forward to Project Ara. Assuming my Moto X holds on long enough, an Ara type phone will be my next phone. I do not care if the Ara doubles the thickness of my Moto.

That said, I am approaching it the same way I do Lego Mindstorms, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino. However, I do not think Ara will have the education angle those do to reach volume.

I am not sure I see the real value outside of tinkerers. I plan to buy one but I do not expect to actually save money, electronics waste, or have better performance for the dollar.
What’s the Internet of Things and Why You Should Not Be Excited
The TRS-80 model 100 had a bit of a following of the 1983 crop as I recall. Journalists could write a story and file it by modem. The luggable Compaq had some use cases but I think was sort of a novelty. The others of that generation didn't really take off. The Toshiba T1100, might have been announced in 1985 but I think came out later. I remember them as a new thing after I started my first job in late '86. So I could see laptops as something that had been hyped in '83 and by '85 still not ready for mainstream adoption. Those later Toshibas were usable for Lotus 1-2-3 and text-mode MS-Word. First Mac portable around '90 was still not ready for prime time.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T1100
Check out Language in Thought and Action, written by an immigrant to Canada who worked his way up to being a US Senator.

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Thought-Action-Fifth-Edition/...
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The problem I have with Google music is every time I upgrade the OS or hard drive it counts that as a new device. Max of 10 devices. You can only remove 4 devices from you account per year. I ran out of devices so no more Google Music.
A colleague of mine is really passionate about Cialdini's work, and he actually put together over 50+ examples of the principles of Persuasion used in marketing, sorted by category. [1]

I personally found it quite useful to peg the principles to real-world ideas, and the visuals help with memory/recall.

As I mentioned in another comment– it's pretty easy to look at a principle in action and go, "Yeah, that makes sense." The real challenge is to then look at your own material critically, and see where you can implement it, what you're doing well, what you're missing out on, and how you can do better. That takes a lot of rigorous attentiveness and practice.

The really cool thing is– as long as you're not making stuff up (eg: faking social proof for a product that nobody actually likes), you're going to legitimately improve perceptions of your product. For instance, if you do a search for your product on Twitter and you find that there are people saying positive things about it, it's totally worth quoting those tweets on your signup page! And so on.

___

[1] http://www.referralcandy.com/blog/cialdini/
> Dart now always compiles to JavaScript

Client-side Dart code, yes. But that's something you had to do for compatibility reasons anyways.

Also, don't forget that Dart also exists outside of browsers. It's a fast scripting language with excellent tooling. I use it for almost everything nowadays.

They are also working on a second JIT-free VM (Fletch) for iOS and similar locked-down environments. It's small, highly concurrent, pretty fast, and it supports atomic code updates via some wire protocol. So, Dart doesn't just compete with TypeScript on the browser side, it also completes with languages like Ruby, Python, and PHP on the server side and even with compact embedding-friendly languages like Lua.

Dart's future looks bright, but it's definitely a lot less browser-centric than initially anticipated.
Assume a generous interpretation of lordnacho's comment.

In the real world, if you ask a girl you've been flirting with to get coffee together it's a date—even if you don't actually use the word "date."

Similarly, if an employer asks you to come meet a few people at the office, it's an interview—even if they didn't use the word "interview."
>went on to succeed even the laptop

Maybe if you are using your laptop/tablet just for casual games and checking Facebook/Email.
As a person working on my laptop 6-8 hours a day I cant imagine how long it would take me to do the same on tablet.

Tablet/Phone can be a support to Laptop, that's it.