skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very long day! And unfortunate with the timezone. Here (London), even in December at least morning is in daylight, and hometime is at dusk (well before twilight).

The school next door to my workplace has this schedule (from their website), for 5-11 year olds:

8:45 - children start to arrive
8:55 - children go inside
10:20-10:35 - morning break
12:00-13:10 - lunch
15:15 - hometime!
15:45 - still lots of children playing, parents chatting
16:00 - most have gone by this point, though on a nice sunny day they can easily still be playing and chatting at 17:30.

The nearest school for 12-16 year olds with info on their website do 8:30-15:00, but only have 45 minutes for lunch. My own school had an hour for lunch, but finished at 15:30. These schools don't have an afternoon break.
If there's a demand for unlocked tractors, wouldn't some company somewhere grow to fill that demand? Or is the tractor world an anti-competitive monopoly?
You can if you hack that internet box on the corner of your street. Also, your local internet provider can.
You can't copy an engine made of steel, so copyright law is moot.

That's an interesting point, because you can literally build a copy of substantial portions of a car (engine, transmission, axles, brakes, etc.) from entirely aftermarket parts, for certain popular components. Many of these parts don't make any claims about licensing the designs from the original company but they do claim "drop-in" compatibility.
You can find my quite heavy live app DuckieTV (think popcorntime/sickbeard for TV-Shows, but with your own torrent-client) here:

Live demo: http://duckietv.github.io/DuckieTV/ (v1.0 w.i.p.)

Homepage: http://duckie.tv/ (v0.94 latest release)

Source: http://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV/

It's not just a plain old 'todo' style simple app, but has grown quite big over the last year and is still a continuous work in progress.
Since i'm working with a team of people that are not angular pro's yet (nor am I, but I'm getting there) I'm trying to document nearly every js file and it's functions, so it might be an interesting read :)

Some Features:

- Translated using angular-translate

- Uses UI-Router and UI-Router extras for navigation

- Works on Chrome, Opera, Node-Webkit, Android, iPad(somewhat), Safari

- Grabs your TV-Show data from Trakt.TV's API and stores it locally to present you a calendar.

- Local data storage using custom-built WebSQL framework (therefore webkit only). Supports auto-db-creation, fixtures, migrations, JS get/set property Accessors (You can use a db bound object in a template)

- Cross-domain XHR support detection and auto-fallback to a proxy

- DOM Parsing from external services to return extrernal sites' data as JS objects

- Connects to your local uTorrent / qBittorrent / Tixati / Transmission

- Autodownloads

- Sync back watched statusses to Trakt.TV

- Experimental chromecast integration

- etc etc etc.
Ask HN: SaaS vs. build it yourself when launching a startup
If you were launching a new ecommerce/local delivery startup, which portions of the platform would you delegate to a SaaS? The temptation would be to use a SaaS for everything to launch as fast as possible.

Which of the following would you build yourself vs using a SaaS?
Ecommerce platform,
User management,
Inventory,
Delivery management/tracking,
Payment processing
Lock in and capital expense - the market is terrible at providing what is currently a financial service coupled with large equipment delivery. You need both halves - the sheet bending/engine manufacturing and the cash on offer to float the loan to the farmer.

There's a lot of strength to being incumbent in both of these areas.
To be fair, factory farming is pretty awful.
> It is well known, that monopolies are killing a free market.

In ecology, there's a concept call Ecological Succession. Likewise, in Capitalism, the free market is a stage in a succession toward monopoly. Capital tends to pool, leading to monopolies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession
His second figure[1] shows his argument is nonsense.

The slope of increases in productivity remains constant on most of the graph, it just is that a certain point, wages stop going up. That is, the computer revolution did not change that slope, at least not until 1995-2005 (possibly from the internet).

Until the 70's, increases in worker productivity from technology were given to the worker as pay. After the 70's, it appears they were given to management and shareholders.

[1] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NEITJXBoBbY/VTY54JJX8gI/AAAAAAAADi...
I'm using TypeScript everyday, so I might can give a good answer to your question. They have just finished support for ES6 modules, template string, let/const etc. ES6 classes have been supported for a long time and most of the syntax sugar of ES6 I can think of is supported. On top of that, they are about to release v1.5 the big thing there is support for decorators.

What is not so good with TypeScript is that they have a rule of not polyfilling things. So if you want any new ES6 methods for array/string etc. You would need to polyfill them yourself.
It'd be interesting to separate upvotes from downvotes somehow. I've observed that many of my most-upvoted comments receive a lot of downvotes as well - usually for questioning HN conventional wisdom. And I find most of the comments that I really like, that I think are really outstanding, are at odds with the groupthink as well.
I really feel like the new design does a much better job for random browsing and discovery. I've come across stuff I never would have otherwise just scrolling around.

I think it does a bit better if you know the exact name of what you're looking for. I get a much better idea of how many duplicates or variants of an item are in the collection now.

However, I think it does a much worse job navigating to finding things you already know are there, but maybe don't quite know the name of. It's almost impossible to navigate to something if you just have partial knowledge of it, or generally know where it is in the archive but don't have specifics. I find this super frustrating.

I love archive.org more than just about anything else on the internet, and I'm willing to be patient with the new design as they flesh out the ideas. If they can fix the navigation issue I'd be relatively happy.

I think what archive.org needs more than this redesign is an organizational meta-layer on-top of the archive where volunteer "curators" can organize content spread all over the archive (or siloed under some random collection somewhere) into more familiar, library-like organizational structure.

For example, I like old computing magazines. However, archive.org doesn't have a "magazines" top-level hierarchy. If you search for "magazines" over on the right side-bar there's a "Magazine Rack" Collection, but it's not prominently places. And then the layer under that is a mishmash of "Collections" that include magazine genres, individual titles, etc. but no clear "computer magazine" collection. I poked around for a few minutes and still didn't find the collection for old computing magazines.

So I did another search for "computer magazines" and finally there's a collection of "Computer Magazine Archives".

However, this is probably incomplete, there's bound to be other magazines that are not part of this collection.

It'd be much easier if I could go

Texts/Magazines/Computers

and everything would be there by title, maybe set a filter for "English" or something and be off reading

But right now it's takes a dozen navigation clicks and a few searches to find the same, once you find a collection you end up bookmarking it in your browser because you'll probably forget the magic combination of searches and clicks that got you here.

It's tough though, they're doing an immense job with relatively few resources to organize everything. So I can live with some of the disorganization. It's still an amazing treasure trove.
This chart explains everything you need to know about inequality
That's only true for savings in physical cash. Savings in an interest bearing instrument or account (which is where most workers actually keep their money) does not have this problem.
XSS Vulnerability Found in Famous WordPress Plugins
I recently moved a google group to Google Plus Communities[0]. It's a free option and all your community members already have a google login.

[0] https://plus.google.com/communities
This doesn't have to be true. Many large airports have smaller regional airports nearby that have the capacity to handle passenger traffic. For example, I live in Olympia about 60 - 90 minutes south of Seattle (and about 30 minutes from Tacoma). The airport here is large enough to accommodate 737s, and even did have passenger service for a few years with smaller turboprops, but now doesn't. Efficiency desires are leading to larger, centralized airports which then run into capacity problems while regional airports languish.
>In my opinion, all sites should be usable like this. Styles and scripts should merely be enhancements, not requirements.

As much as I agree, many sites are not usable like this :(

And there are aspects of CSS that I do want to keep, like making the navigation lists properly horizontal (and in some cases, nested with hovers). Without CSS, you sometimes have to scroll through several pages of expanded out header/navigation before you find the content.
The Birth of Mobilegeddon
The bottom of a wheel is stationary relative to the ground. (X - X)

The middle a the wheel moves at the same speed as the vehicle relative to the ground. (X + 0)

The top of the wheel moves at twice the speed of the vechile relative to the ground. (X + X)

Put another way, the top of the wheel must go faster than the vehicle or it does not rotate.
Certificate pinning, among other things.
I think that would be a joke.
Taking the Pain Out of IoT Data Transport
Hi everyone! Blinkenlights is a fun side-project app I made to be able to quickly see the status of anything you can dream up. I am obsessed with blinking status lights on hardware devices, so I used that as inspiration for a status dashboard UI. The app uses an open JSON protocol to drive the lights, and it's defined here: http://blinkenlights-api.jazzychad.net/spec.html - the app comes with several example lights and registries for the S&P 500 stocks to show their change during the trading day. But you can create your own using the protocol above, and if you want you can contribute to the community registry so that others can use your lights. I also added the ability for people to manually add registries (e.g. if a company wanted to publish a list of lights internally for business-related statuses). Give it a try! I'll be adding more types of output displays over time.
Sorry, but what is that tool?
Quite cynical yes, lots of CA/NY transplants around here as well, housing prices are rising and things are changing at a rapid clip. It's less that the changes concern me but more that our local governments seem a bit too starry-eyed. Growth isn't always guaranteed so you have to be careful what you approve and spend on today.
I couldn't stand reading HN comments without collapsible comments. Trying to scroll past a top level comment chain that I didn't find interesting was very tedious.
Are there (NoSQL-)DBs that don't use foreign-keys for one-to-many and store the related "child" keys in the "parent" record as array?

It seems only client-side frameworks use this storage scheme for relations. DBs always use foreign keys (even such as rethinkDB). This always gets me a tiny mismatch between client and server.
Let me guess: "too old" is five years older than whoever you ask, is.
Ah, the ol' "blame the robots" gambit. They took our money!

Except nothing about this story flies: first, the microprocessor did not produce some magically more productive economy. First look here:
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/default/files/image...
You can see that world real GDP per capita did not suddenly increase after the 70s, in fact growth actually slowed a bit.

The story also doesn't agree with common sense - microprocessors didn't reinvent the economy, they couldn't even deliver the "paperless office" we were promised (something particularly close to their domain). The fact is that productivity has been growing at basically the same boring pace, and microprocessors are just another boring form of automation, not a game-changer.

Finally, believing this story requires us to ignore all of the other things we know about - the introduction of fiat currency, the Fed's shift to aggressive inflation-squashing (read: preventing full employment), massive consolidation of corporate ownership, financialization of the economy, enormous tax cuts for the wealthy, trade policies designed to reduce worker bargaining power, etc., etc. Are we to believe that none of these changes had an effect?
Why can't a manufacturer partner up with a financial company to provide the bundle?
Very helpful; thanks!
Under the DMCA anyone breaking a digital lock, no matter how trivial it is, has broken the law, regardless of whether the sell their results.

For a good example of how it has been abused in the past, look up Lexmark and how they tried to use crypto code to lock out competitors from providing third-party ink refills. I'm not sure what the eventual outcome was there.
90% of john deere tractors are subsidized through farm grants, so, really, the taxpayers own most of the tractors. the farmers are just our slaves.
The uniformity is definitely a big plus on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The rest of the internet feels like Myspace by comparison.
Does it come with the new TCP load balancer?
The average meeting in America wastes $338 in lost productivity
I guess bookmarking primarily. I'm either going to use it or I'm currently using it.

I think "Watching" a repo is more like "Liking" it, since that give you updates on the repo's status. But it stinks since you can't fine-tune what updates you get.
As that many acres is difficult to understand, that's a little over 2.6 square miles.
grew up urban, married a farmer... learned everything I know (not much) about fixing things with spit tape and wire from them.

what you say makes sense, but meanwhile Dave is still standing in his field with a useless machine and lots of work to do.
Political explanations are not unjustified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.#Powell_Me...
What this article suggests is possible in a world with no competition. I don't think we can say this of most of the markets. And not only there is competition but there is international competition.
Salt as a Service: Interesting approach to hashing passwords
I had to unpack my entire backpack, every pocket, and camera equipment at Frankfurt (on a trip to Rome) not all that long ago because I had a summer sausage in my backpack. They weren't rude about it, but it was tighter security than I've gone through in the states.
We'll have to forgive the mainstream for being mainstream and following newness like digital/web/apps as shallow and even saddening as it can be.

I too hope to see small scale 'decentralized' human effort to enhance areas this way. Even in so-called 'developed' countries, there are rural regions falling out and people are still relying on the idea of a powerful state to take care of things whereas the reality is that the energy/desire is gone and companies don't care about small markets like these. Sooner or later people will realize that they're on their own. For the better.
Seriously cheap branding and design for ideaful hackers
Hey hackers, if you constantly have new ideas that you want to test out, let me help with some seriously cheap branding & design.

I created http://jumpanzee.com a couple of weeks ago to bootstrap quality online presence. To put it simply, Jumpanzee is your low risk idea validation partner. I know you're good at building stuff, so let me get the rest done for you.

Stuff that I offer includes: kick-ass logo design, quality branding to attract early customers + for conversion, 2D animated explainer video. There're also some other things bundled for you as well.

(Feedback == 30% off! I'm serious)
dude he says computers and efficiency in labor are the cause of wealth inequality. Not the real reason: compounding interest.
I google things using Bing. How can I get this to work?
>the investors are borrowers

The investors are the lenders, not the borrowers. That's what the term "investor" means.
This is something to consider with any software-driven systems now... what's the realistic lifetime of the system? Will the vendor always be there to support the software? Ten year old software is a problem. Twenty year old software is a HUGE problem, from a vendor point of view.
The abstract answer: Legally enforceable protection for private property turns out to have some significant benefits for a society. It helps society develop past the warlord stage.

The concrete answer: The article gives some ways that the John Deere idea is bad. In particular, a tractor isn't just a thing that I buy. It's a tool, and I need it to work so that I can plant and harvest my crops. This "ownership" question isn't just a matter of me strutting around announcing to the world that I own it. The question is whether I have the right to repair it in order to get it back to work, or whether I have to wait for the authorized person to do the work.
>Actually, think surgery. Many procedures (try 400,000 a year) are robotic now.

This doesn't put anyone out of a job currently and has absolutely zero in common with the ECGs, CTs, and and ultrasounds mentioned before. As far as I know, robotic cases require the same amount of personnel to perform. Typically the people you need for robotic cases have more specialized knowledge and additional training (sold by da Vinci I imagine), not to mention the technical people da Vinci needs to hire for maintenance which wasn't going to be supplied by the hospital anyway.

Cab and Uber drivers should be scared of driverless vehicles because there's a proof of concept that exists, but unless something has happened in the past 2-3 years, I really don't think a proof of concept exists for automated surgeries or automated support personnel for surgeries.
This is the key reason for the decline of innovation in the US. VCs are never going to have a long view and will continue to fund the next lame messaging app. But we need federal investment in basic research to drive step-function innovation that will move humanity forward.
Retail Is Changing and Brands Must Adapt
I can't show you the code because it is proprietary, but maybe you'll find this useful.

At my place of work we are in the process of moving over a hundred apps of differing levels of complexity into a single app suite. Each app is simply a pluggable module we add to the suite, with user permissions, and it just works. So far we've moved about 20 apps (and created some new ones) and it is working great.

My only advice would be to make sure any shared resources between "apps" have full testing implemented from the beginning.
Probably because decoupling the dollar from gold meant that it was possible for nominal wages to continue to rise, but more slowly than prices. Until then if you wanted to pay people less money you had to somehow literally cut their pay. You had to make them accept a smaller number on their paycheck.

After that, through the miracle of inflation, the numbers on their paychecks could continue to go up, up up! Just as long as those numbers are going up more slowly than inflation, you as a business owner are giving people a pay cut and they're not noticing it. Life is good!

Me personally, I think that's the cause of a lot of the inequality.
Ok, we are getting bogged down because you're persisting in the belief that I'm misinterpreting you in a certain way. I'm not. Let me spell this out as clearly as possible:

I know that you don't care about the number of extremists as a percentage of the total population. I never thought that you did. Neither of us does. Ok?

You're still avoiding the main issue. Are most Middle Eastern countries producing an unusually high number of extremists? You can't show that they are by showing that they produce some extremists. But that's all you've done so far.

In other words, what distinguishes most Middle Eastern countries, in your mind, from e.g. Britain, France and the USA? All of these countries produce some Islamic extremists. So clearly, if you're going to say that there's something special about Middle Eastern countries in this regard, you're going to have to crunch the numbers. I don't see any numbers in any of your posts so far.

Again, none of this has anything to do with the number of extremists in comparison to the total population. The question is whether the number of extremists is significantly larger than the number produced by non-Middle-Eastern countries. In other words, when you said "so many" in your original post, were you correct to imply that the number is generally higher in the Middle East than elsewhere?
Some of us just don't buy DRM books and make copies for personal archival purposes.
Show HN: My 12yo Dev This Game and Released to iOS/Android/HTML5 Using LibGDX
> weren't Kotlin and Ceylon created because people wanted to have "just a better Java", which Scala is not really interested in being?

Scala was that at first. Arguably that's still Typesafe's primary interest.

> By the way, isn't "Scala has such a nice type system that it blows out OCaml from the water" already the case?

Yes and no. It's more featureful (higher-kinded types are really nice), but less elegant and type inference works less well (in part because scala has both inheritance and typeclasses).
Difficult for me to get over the idea of waiting for x.1 releases.

Tired of being a beta tester.

But nice feature list.
An Open Source Guide for Marketing Your Indie App
This Guy Earned $450K Last Year. And He Hasn't Written a Line of Code
Off topic, I can't read "Blinkenlights" without thinking of the old telnet Star Wars ASCII movie.
But you can. The cost is higher, but you can make a copy. So if the cost is really small (not $0, but small) it changes? Also to note, in these cases, we are talking about both the code and the rest of the machine. Is this to say that if any part of the machine can be copied for close to $0, we can remove ownership? Any single piece of that engine can be easily and cheaply copied, so once again, why the difference?
What happens when we have computers implanted in our brains? Do I no longer own my brain?
TC throwing around buzzwords they don't understand.. "hypervisor" has a specific meaning entirely unrelated to containers.
They can and do at the low end, but the upper end market is dominated by Deere and a few others in a way that is hard to understand.

The manufacturer has to have the deep pockets and stomach for a protracted battle - lots of folks "bleed green" and will only buy Deere. Deere is everywhere in the countryside - big marketing campaigns.

Deere and others also have large dealer networks. That is where the sales are made. Many of these dealers have been around for a really long time and have all of the customer access. You'd have to break into the network somehow.

You'd have to not only be able to make it, but have the cash on hand to sustain more than a few years of incredibly low sales and lack of distribution.
Unless we're just using "bloated" as a snarl term, it has to mean "too big for what it's being used for", which is distinct from "too big for my preferred way of solving the problem".

For example, most editors are larger than ed. However, ed can't support the same kinds of workflow that most other editors can. Therefore, those other editors are not bloated because ed is smaller: ed can't do the same jobs.

So, is it 992 MB because it does a different job, or is it 992 MB because they didn't care about size?