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Ask HN: Table of What Social Networks Support Syndication?
Is there a table somewhere that lists whether or not the various social networks support web syndication (through RSS, Atom, etc)? Whenever I look up specific social networks, I find responses saying they do, but it turns out that those responses are outdated and that the network stopped supporting RSS a couple years ago.

It seems to me that this is important information, but, as far as I can tell, it's not documented anywhere.

As far as I can tell, Tumblr and Reddit support syndication, Facebook has a notifications feed, and Twitter doesn't support RSS.
There's quite a few companies, all competing for a lot of talent. The problem is that when you get into specialized roles, you get into the 'only need one' problem – a company might need a data scientist (e.g. mine is actively hiring for one last I checked), but they only need one data scientist. A competitor might also need a data scientist, but they probably also only need one data scientist.

That said, Vancouver also has a lot of biotech and energy firms, though they're not as flashy and well-publicized, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have data which needs sciencing. That might be worth looking into as well.
> That being said, I don't think this problem is inherent to the approach of creating music with NNs. Right now it sounds like what you'd get with a well-crafted Markov chain, but NNs can go beyond this, and this article is exactly the kind of thing that will instigate this evolution.

That's a very thoughtful conclusion.
For anyone looking to monetize a project like this, and avoid all the crass and imposing advertisements the OP rightfully complains about, I highly recommend reading The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer.
It's actually self-evident in the claim. Tell any venture capitalist they'll be doing the same thing as the competition in a regulated market except the competition can get exempted from regulations or pull in tons of extra money in form of tax revenue. Who wants to take that risk in the U.S. system? I think you could say it's played out in the areas where utilities introduced cheap broadband. Articles on those usually major players are suffering over there compared to where they're competing with private companies like their own.

I do have a specific example, though. My background is high assurance security & systems. The government once used incentives + good criteria to get market to create quite a few products their pentesters couldn't break. Then, NSA started competing with private sector under a new initiative. Market went away with Boeing guy clear that was largely why. Only a few remain and stay stagnant because companies won't invest much further in them due to risk posed by both market demand and government decisions.

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Bell-Looking-B...
Asia is known for having much better internet than America. This is nothing new. Americans normally pay more for less.
Blocking DNS servers gets into the tricky business of common carrier status, and also actually knowing which DNS servers really are shady and which are just hijacked. Because if you block a server that’s sending shady results, you could block a legitimate service.

If you don’t trust router-provided DNS, then you really shouldn’t trust the unencrypted DNS traffic that goes through your router, either. The current defense against that is to run your own recursive DNSSEC-validating DNS server. Most domains are not DNS signed, though, and most clients do not distinguish DNSSEC results, so this is sort of hollow advice.
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Very relevant: Sustrik's description of "Software's reproduction mehanisms" http://250bpm.com/blog:51
"Hare Brain Tortoise Mind" is a great book that goes into how this works and how to work with/against it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_4YU6UtCw

tldr: There is a background, non-verbal process in your brain that has the advantage of a larger working set size than your foreground verbal thinking. It is able to observe and consider more stuff at once and find associations better than your conscious thought process. But, it has several disadvantages. It takes time to do it's processing. You can't will it into action. It communicates non-verbally with your foreground process. That doesn't work under pressure (thus the need for relaxed, unfocused time). The non-verbal understanding is difficult to deconstruct, generalize and reapply. It can lead to you solving a problem, not understanding how and not being able to solve a variant of the same problem.
I thought it was specialization and cost-cutting. I know Comcast out here contracts their cabling to a company where the few managers make a decent amount of money while the technicians make little ranging from amateur to experienced in skill. Keeps them out of Comcast's HR approach and branding, too. Maybe some blame-shifting potential. Not sure all the reasons but plenty of possibilities come to mind.

Cost is probably the main one, though. This company has way less overhead and more flexibility than Comcast.
Many large US urban centers meet or exceed the density of Seoul, this is a totally bunk argument when you get $10000 of overage charges in downtown new york.
I too got started programming games when I was around twelve. I agree it's probably the most competitive and least-forgiving areas, but it seems to have a lot more challenges, both technical and creative than any other area as well. I'm curious why you think it has less.
> Ugh. Red­dit’s busi­ness plan is ap­par­ently to mon­e­tize as much vile toxic waste—racism, sex­ism, anti-Semi­tism, stolen celebrity nudes—as they can get away with.

They're distancing themselves from that.

Maybe you're a good writer, I've never heard of you, but you think you're a priest. You're a judge.

I don't want to buy from people who think they have the right to prima facie discount swaths of people. Stick to whatever marketing books you sell, and keep the character judgment for elsewhere.

If you wrote that thinking your agreement with that choir would get people to overlook your own faults or buy your books - you were mistaken.
Curious, what's wages (low and medium) in USD for someone in your area? As an American reading anecdotes, I like to look at it in terms of cost relative to income instead of cost in isolation. Helps me get an idea of where the cost would start here and how much value that company delivers.
Can somebody give me a quick overview of how and when to spend my money on this?
Just bought Jane Jacob's "The Death and Life...", glad to see it on here. I'm looking forward to it.
Yes, Elixir does well here, but I still prefer Lisp syntax. I would like to see a comparison of LFE and Joxa. Joxa seems more like Clojure.
This presentation is a good one, but I'd like to see a nut and bolts comparison with side-by-side code:

http://www.slideshare.net/BrianTroutwine1/erlang-lfe-elixir-...
Meet the Tinder Co-Founder Who Is Still Trying to Change Online Dating
I think we're less than ten years away from completely generative pop, vocals, sound design, and all.

I highly doubt this, because of the vocals. Generating coherent appealing lyrics and synthesizing voice to sound natural isn't going to happen in 10 years time. Would be really cool if I was wrong, though.
I've got the next five of these written now, ready to go out. So there's hope that I might complete the entire series of 25.
The 50 years writing and editing has been about pairing the text down to what matters. It just turns out that a lot of things matter.
My personal experience at at large tech company is that there are usually designated teams thinking about these infrastructural problems so that the rest of the engineers don't have to worry about them. So as someone managing a "service" in a company that has a SOA model, sure, I'm technically a part of a distributed system but the deliberate abstractions minimize the "necessary" exposure to dealing with distributed systems.

I'm in complete agreement with your thoughts on stuff with practical significance vs theoretically interesting topics (I'm far more interested in building some expertise around practically significant things first.) Are there any particular projects you'd recommend I follow to grow my knowledge in this space? Alternatively, would you have any recommendations on specific side-projects that could really motivate a good understanding of these concepts?
FBI: Retweeting terrorist organizations could get you arrested
It is both - it is a a separate subject (course unit), but one that is often hidden inside another subject (unit) to make it palatable to students. To do this you give it another name and mix in some other stuff - I guess a bit like the way nasty tasting medicine is handled :)

The problem with teaching population genetics is not that it is not important or interesting, but that it involves maths. Biology students and maths are a bit like oil and water.
Intel continues to refuse to deploy Thunderbolt by default on Z series chipsets (Z87, Z97, Zwhatever LGA1151/Broadwell uses).

I'd love to adopt Thunderbolt, Intel literally refuses to sell it to me.
Speaking as someone who was an extremely heavy user of Usenet back in the day, it seems pretty clear that spammers overwhelmed it well before it became primarily used for binaries, and most people were happy to turn to web forums once they were available.

(Edit: moderated Usenet groups appeared fairly early, but what I recall is that spammers overwhelmed the moderators, even there.)

Usenet never completely died btw, so that's not a fair description; there are people using it as a forum to this day, in nontrivial absolute numbers, but of course small numbers relatively, compared with web forums.
Yes. It sounds good at the scale of a few seconds, but then it's clear there's no higher level structure. That's about what you'd expect from a recurrent ANN. Nice demo, though.
Im in similar situation, but work out of Toronto. Companies here wouldn't pay enough for me to work full time, given the US options.

What are you able to tax deduct besides % rent used solely for business?

Lease vehicle?
The new xeon for laptops will have TB3.
The problem I foresee with Thunderbolt 3 is that it's serving a use that few people need at a price that no one wants to pay. The price-point issues might disappear with the USB-C compatibility, but even then, the only time I can ever foresee me actually reaching for Thunderbolt is for a display when DP 1.3 isn't an option or when huge data xfers were commonplace.

Unless it competes on price point with USB, I can't see this being any more popular than previous iterations of the protocol.

Maybe that'd change some if Intel actually put it on the enthusiast chipsets, but even then, I think the price point is a pretty big turnoff.
What can you get from Twitter without credentials any more? I used to have a Twitter reader with spam filtering, but it's useless now.
I really struggled, even now, to understand exactly what the author is selling (looks like the overall website) and how to buy.

There are a lot of options and he seems to delight in making it difficult to understand what to buy and how to pay. I'd recommend a re-read of Krug's "Don't Make Me Think", if only for the title.

Perhaps provide just one purchase option, not buried in the text and available in more places than an obscure chapter. I'd also like to see a buy-now button that delivers a crafted PDF. That's a tangible asset, and could command a decent (fixed) price from readers.
Have you heard about those mythical Google interviews?
The ethnic enclave thing is overblown. I think enclave is too strong a word. Is it really any different than in other cities (where supposedly everyone is perfectly mixing and singing kumbaya?). There are a lot of foreign students in the city and they do stick together but then again I'm seeing foreign students of different ethnicities hanging out together - they're all in the same boat. Plus Vancouver has the highest ratio of mixed couples than any other Canadian city. Let's have some perspective and realistic expectations on this issue.
The Software Developer Interviewing Mega-Post
There are plenty of Z97 motherboards with Thunderbolt: https://thunderbolttechnology.net/products?tid=15&field_comp... I don't understand why it matters whether it's default or not.
If the goal of listing out the worst-converting referrers was, at least partially, in order to shame the users of those sites into throwing Matt some money then it, uh, worked. I tossed him $10 -- not exactly a significant sum, but still > 0.

Paying for content is weird. I don't have any ideological issue with it -- I spend a lot on eBooks, I shell out the monthly fee for Spotify, Hulu+, HBO Go, and a bunch of other things I'm probably forgetting.

And yet -- while I'm confident I'm watching more TV + film, listening to more new music, and reading more books than I ever have before, I'm still paying less. Is that the way it should be, given that it's also a way better experience than it's ever been? I dunno.

I think my tendency is to go with whatever is the easiest and of least fuss [^1] -- very rarely, this involves actually paying a specific dollar amount for a specific product.

I hope things like Patreon and Contributor (https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/) continue to grow. I want a world where great content like Practical Typography can be supported with pure revenue, but that's never going to happen until both the UX and number of those revenue streams meet or exceed the convenience and ubiquity of advertisements.

In the meantime, I encourage more great content creators to "guilt" me into giving them money. Given that I've grown comfortable with paying $12 for a cocktail [^2], I think I can grow comfortable with shelling out some cash for internet authors as well.

--

[^1]: I suspect this is a habit shared by most HN'ers.

[^2]: I mean, only so comfortable. But Canon is so good.
OTOY to Demonstrate First-Ever, Room-Sized Light Field in VR at SIGGRAPH
Dating Someone with Herpes: Information You Have to Know
This sounds really cool. Anyone written about the previous puzzles?
Neither of my Z97 motherboards come with it, it is roughly a $100 premium to get it.

If it doesn't come with systems by default, no one is going to use it. I'm interested in it purely for IP-over-Thunderbolt.
> http://www.operasoftware.com/content/download/6622/222390/ve...

From their 2015 1Q finical report, P.10 says most of their revenue comes from Mobile Advertising.
Isn't it hypocritical to see the Soviet Union as bad for executing a spy when this guy's [1] been imprisoned by the US for nearly half his life for the same thing?

If spying is good, it doesn't matter who's side you're on. It's still good. Unless there's some sort of neutral decider about which countries it's "noble" to spy on and which it's bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Pelton
I'm hoping I'm reading this wrong. Because what I'm reading is "A database grew to 67GB on a server with only 66GB RAM". And apparently in that situation you can expect performance to tank until a service is unusable?
Overall, I think it's pathetic that there is this outdated working ethic still being played out amongst the Asian community

No, that's just plain wrong. I've seen/heard many instances where non-asian managers are overworking their staff. This is a problem with the entire tech industry (actually in other fields as well), don't blame it on one ethnicity.
I do not think it would work with sub-classing. With the approach we have it is just easier to add the 'new' method name to test into the list argument of the meta class. The meta class would generate a `test` method with the passed in function name.

With the subclass approach you are required to implement a new class and essentially write repetitive code, or reuse existing functions. Reusing existing test methods does not provide good error reporting as I had stated earlier.
It is late in the day. Shortly, I will try to post a gist example of what I am talking about, if you are still interested.
Thanks you for your reply. It makes sense what you said. Although, I just want to clarify that I'm not only talking about visual elements. There's also UI elements for the purpose of presenting the data in different ways -- for example, Collection Views vs Table Views. Again, checkboxes and dropboxes were just arbitrary examples.

My goal is to try to fill avoid while continuing to learn Swift programming with a fun project. Thanks.
Interesting discussion on the thread, re memory type, ECC, etc. but fundamental question is -- how does this benefit consumers?
Detached homes are really valuable (because you can tear it down). But there are spacious townhouses and condos which are not as expensive.
Somewhat related: Are there any puzzle subscription services out there? I think it'd be a really interesting business to receive an innovative, creative puzzle weekly or monthly that show some real effort and artistry. Maybe it would be a mix of physical and digital puzzles. Does that exist?

If not, I might have to do that :)
That would be great, I added you on linkedin just now so we can chat.
My poker game written in c++ and golang
Hey guys,

https://play.google.com/store
/apps/details?id=com.byte3d.poker

This is my poker game, recently its getting little traction. Its written in golang and c++. It is multiplayer (I am using raw TCP connections). You can contact me if you want to know anything about architecture or any other aspect of it.
Require Webpack modules server-side
As a video editor that deals with terabytes of footage, in practice thunderbolt is much faster than USB3. It's common that i have to copy 1-4 terrabytes onto several drives for editors, fx artists, archival, etc usually on deadline. I don't care that thunderbolt isn't as ubiquitous as usb, but like firewire before it, I'm glad it's there and common enough.
It sounds kind of like a mashup of Philip glass and Mozart
of course but what's interesting to note is that there were no managers overworking the Asian engineers, they were doing it to each other. I never blamed it on one ethnicity I just saw the discrepancy that was commonly acknowledged by other people working in the industry.
I remember people told me Opera was dead years ago. Strange all the adjectives people use for companies pulling $600+mil/yr these days... ;)

Good to see one of my old favorites making it so well so long in a cut-throat business. Unsurprising that it might come to an end soon. I know they used to brag on their strong and interesting approach to diversity. Wonder how much that ended up helping them innovate into survival where others failed.
One day a year doesn't seem like a great business strat when the other 364 are 10% in use.
Opera went on an acquisition spree over the last few years to buy and stitch together what is now the largest independent mobile ad network. Pretty much went from nothing 2 years ago to the vast majority of their revenues this year.

Which is to say the Opera most people think about, the browser, isn't where the money is being made. In fact, Opera MediaWorks, their mobile ad network, isn't really connected to the browser in any way, and the business is structured as a nearly separate entity.
Firebase pricing update: added $5 plan
Maybe this kind of thing can also be learned by a secondary NN. It just needs to be trained with data collected over large scale sections of the example music.

But this NN doesn't solve the greatest problem in Classical music: that only 3% of people take the time to appreciate it.
I don't think it will ever be as ubiquitous as USB, but it doesn't have to be useful. I'm a video editor and thunderbolt has saved me enough time copying files that i'll gladly pay the price. The cost typically gets passed along to clients and at rates of $100/hr or more for a single editor they'll happily pay the extra cost of the drives if it saves a few hours over the life of a project.
of course not. they would have to double the price of the board to get it in!

thunderbolt is not innovative. it is just a canon. so far everyone is killing flies. so, no need for that. putting that extra $100 or so on each and every board would certainly just drive consumers away.
Really impressive that this can handle basically everything that's thrown at it. "Yeah, it'll provide power and is backwards compatible with other protocols. External GPU to game with your laptop? No problem. Oh, and the connector is smaller than before, too."
OMG external graphics card !
Kind of makes all the job positions seem less appealing, eh?

http://www.operasoftware.com/company/jobs/list
Hacker News. I can’t say I un­der­stand the pur­pose of this site, founded by ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist Paul Gra­ham. I have two guesses. One is that it’s like Red­dit for pro­gram­mers, but they can claim that us­ing it is work, not goof­ing off. My other guess, since it has no ads, is that it acts as Mr. Graham’s panop­ti­con into his com­mu­nity of in­ter­est, as Cere­bro does for Prof. Xavier. Any­how, what­ever bored pro­gram­mers are spending their money on, it’s def­i­nitely not me.

lol That sounds about 90% right. In my experience most people don't even blink if they see a programmer with HN open.
when you have some special equipment that needs it.

keep in mind that USB2 is already overkill for external HDDs. and USB3 become overkill for SSDs. technically, you won't ever need usb3.1.
The thing is someone's running a typography blog, but they're trying to act like a pundit at the same time.

If you haven't noticed, being a talkshow pundit it kind of a fad. Kind of like The Young Turks, David Pakman, etc.

If you like politics and being a critic so much, I think the author should keep it on a separate blog.

I think he's probably a good person, but him putting divisive politics into the mix really distracted me.
Why not just eliminate the paper to begin with? It's obviously a bit tougher as you need to tackle both sides of the market at once, but not having to mail invoices means the benefit of faster payments for suppliers (maybe not a benefit to the restaurant however) and could enable just-in-time ordering from the restaurant.

It might even flip the invoicing on its head. When the restaurant orders, it creates a transaction. The supplier delivers and the restaurant completes the transaction, generating a payment. Now the restaurant can order only what it needs, faster, and the supplier receives its payment faster.
I generally avoid books written by Journalists, especially for technical fields. I've been told by some Professors that a journalist will contact various experts in a field for a given hot topic and write a book on their notes (I assume they get compensated). The information in the book is still useful and should be fairly well written. However if you're looking for the high signal stuff, you're better off reading a book by someone who is actually in the field vs an outsider. Preferably someone who is on the cutting edge of the field. That's important to me because I'd rather read about ideas who are active in their field vs. an outsider/generalist. (Note that I have nothing personal against journalists. I simply view what they write as second hand knowledge. i.e Do you think a journalist can capture the nuance and context of a particular subject such as Evolution? I would trust Richard Dawkins to achieve that and do a better job)

I've had pretty good success with this method. As a browse the book store, I check the author and put down books that are written by journalists. If the author is a researcher or a distinguished person in their field I take a closer look at the book and check the reviews.
Cocoa Controls now includes live iOS control demos
It is illegal to rip music off a CD, UK High Court says