skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's part of it. Another is a lack of good curation features, as Chris Sacca has written about (http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2...)

I also thought about this when I started building Testimote. A lot of interesting things are being said (positive things about companies in my case), and are drowning out there in the great torrent coming from the firehose. I think there's room for both Twitter and outside companies to continue to build out curation ideas around this, as the data set is quite rich (and Twitter - at least recently - has been fairly generous with their basic APIs with things like rate limits [though I think lower cost plans would be fantastic for higher rate limits, rather than big money for the full hose].)

A combination of better curation and rebuilt developer relations could really help - maybe not user growth, per se, but certainly with service usage. What about web sites and mobile apps giving people a way to give feedback to the company (something as simple as a Tweet box that says "give instant public feedback") that simply tweets out the message using their account? People would start using Twitter without doing anything more than filling in a form and supplying an email address (for first-time users.) There's a lot of untapped potential around this. I think it also helps to think of Twitter as a giant, sometimes overlapping set of IRC channels and DMs, but with the ability to tap into it all. Like with IRC bots that would catch stuff, and put it in a database. Interesting conversations happening, not much being done with it. Twitter could encourage people to do more with it from the outside, and help everyone, including themselves.

It still has tons of potential if cards are played right.
Disclosure! Yeah, the one that became the movie with Demi Moore and Michael Douglas. A man is sexually harassed by his female boss.

The book is kind of about that, but also about technology. It was published in 1994 and I would say it was futuristic, if not a bit misguided.

Crichton envisioned a virtual reality tool where -- if you wanted to find a certain file on your computer -- you would run down the halls of a huge virtual library, opening virtual filing cabinets and picking through files by hand. I think this was supposed to make finding your digital files "easier"... but seems hilarious now.

Who knows, maybe some version of that will still come true. It's been a while since I read it, so I might be mis-remembering.

Almost all of his books had some futuristic technology involved, including Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, etc.
Nodding my head in agreement, only to realize I'm agreeing with an IRL friend.
I enjoyed a bunch of his books. Prey had problems, but i thought it was a fun read after i stopped worrying about power.

I gave up on him after http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2006/12/michael_crichto.ht...

It's so dirty and underhanded. He seemed like a really interesting guy from the window of his books. Perhaps he just got a little off track at the end there.
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Because the population of devs who don't play at all is gigantic. So they can make the argument that "this person played and got through 65% which has x correlation with being a good employee" and that still puts that person in the elite status.

Just knowing what stockfighter is puts them into some extremely small percentage of devs, which in the current market is a drop in the bucket for demand.
Even more sadistic, have an entire batch dedicated to ONE of those ideas and see which company has the least poor execution.
Same here. He seems to be the antithesis of William Gibson! :)
That's not how our business model works. We're not going to make extra money based on where people rank.
Not to any study in particular, but this article links to a few others that make that case https://urbanverticalproject.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/vertic...
Skip to 19 minutes in for the content.
When you are a working on a side project 10-15 hours a week and need to integrate payments, being able to integrate stripe in a few hours is a game changer. Imagine having only 10-15 hours a week to work on something but spending 40 hours just on payments.
Not true if you count for the negative externalities of the horizontal farm and the fact that the vertical farm is producing way more food.
For all we know, we've had the compute power for years, and we just need to find the algorithm.

I doubt it, but we don't have a solid mathematical basis for what intelligence is. It isn't just a matter of building faster computers, we need the theory too.
> People should pay a premium for a regular paycheck.

How is at-will employment a guaranteed regular paycheck?

I won't even address the nonsense of working 20 hours a day, while countless studies have proven that this causes more harm than good.
I actually think this is the right way of approaching lots of projects. There's a strong culture which encourages people to release things as early as they have a skeleton, but I've always preferred "Be discreet until you have a fully functional 0.1." There are certainly some initiatives that benefit from immediate fanfare as soon as you have a web page and a 200-line shim (if even that), but not all that many.
That's absolutely true and I think support is an area that they are going to invest in soon. I had a client that wanted to process $250k/year with them, but didn't sign up because they couldn't get someone on the phone. Not even sales, let alone support!
COBOL comes to Visual Studio 2015
The only thing we're worried about is people spoiling the challenges for other people (it's not a problem for us if people get help clearing levels, but it's a problem if people find ways to suck all the fun out of it for everyone else).

We like the idea of people publishing and sharing tools; they did for Microcorruption, too. We'll have more to say about this.
It would be a big niche if you consider how many people use Excel functions. It could make Twitter part of enterprise and group communications infrastructures.
I'm one of Stripe's cofounders. It's about the functionality, not the promotion. The whole premise of Stripe is that a richer, more powerful stack of APIs -- rather than the bare-bones electrical outlet to the credit card networks that existed before -- is a better solution for most businesses. Whatever success (and any recognition) we've had to date follows from that; not the other way around.

I wish something like Stripe existed in 2004. If it had, we wouldn't have had to start the company...
This is to be expected during an El Nino year. Let's see how big it gets!
From Birchbox to Zady: When restless cofounders leave
While this seems cool I've become skeptical of these sorts of announcements till there is a product with specifications and that someone can evaluate.

I guess all the battery revolutions that go puff in the night has me just saying okay prove it.
Ask HN: Article on choices that made the Internet less free
There was an article recently posted about the decisions that made the Internet less free. I have been trying to track it down to no avail. Part of the issue is that this is something that's rightfully on people's minds and a lot of articles have been posted on it.
I believe the author was a real veteran, there when the decisions were being made.
Any help?
12-18 is a reasonable P/E range by historical standards, but not in the present environment. S&P 500's overall P/E is over 20 right now.
Twitter blocked Flattr from providing micropayments based on favoriting, then failed to fill that gap in the market. There are so many gaps which could have been filled by 3rd-party developers, but Twitter's API posture scared away investors from building on their API.
Everyone had an AOL keyword. AOL isn't dead, but it fell hard. Ubiquity isn't enough.
That's exactly what has been found, as cited on another comment in this discussion:

http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-pres...

The cited research claims total overall productivity of working 60 hours a week starts showing a deficit to working 40 hour weeks, after about 4 weeks.
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Well this brings up an interesting question: if a given gene/gene expression correlates with multiple effects, some good and some bad, would it be possible with sufficient knowledge to engineer the desired effect from scratch in a way that avoids the undesired effect?

I assume that no one currently has the knowledge of how to do this and won't for decades at least... But interesting to consider!
Swift's “guard”
Have you tried working backwards? I mean, thinking about what you might want to be doing in 5 or 10 years? Then taking steps that get you there. It sounds cheesy but if you know where you're heading you'll make better choices in the short term.
Againt all odds, Syrian incubator Afkar launches
Link to the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os
What It's Like to Interview as a Data Scientist
judofyr's comment that you're quoting was posted after shadowmint's.
Twitter could be very profitable. They're running the business extraordinarily poorly. They have 36% of the head count of Facebook, with 12% the revenue.

They're at $1.77b in sales the last four quarters. At the clip they're growing sales, they could certainly get to $3.5 billion in two years. If they ran the business properly, instead of pretending they're Facebook, they could generate $700 to $800 million in profit (purely in my opinion) two years from now. They'd get a rich valuation (Facebook is currently 90 times earnings); even half the valuation of Facebook would get them to $30 billion in market value two years from now, backed with real earnings.
Seriously. I love me some beer, but would not tolerate a group that expressed disapproval of a refusal to drink.
Towards practical artificial photosynthesis
Not sure how I feel about cleaning up a code base as doing "fake work".
Drones might have actual metal components as well as LiPo batteries, though ...
Just so we are clear, everyone is aware of the case of Nestle freely giving enough of the formula to new mothers to use so that by the time they ran out their natural production of milk had declined to be insufficient to feed the baby. This combined with many mothers being too poor to either afford the formula or clean water to mix the formula with resulted in babies dying. A pretty clear example of when giving something out for free is a horrible thing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scanda...
There are about 40 active registered ATSs for trading US equities. It's a high number but it's not thousands.
The Real Life Pitch Perfect This Is INSANE
The exact same principle applies, yes. But the quantities are way different.

Variation at a point is high. Variation for a period of a single day is high. Samples are taken frequently. Thus new records will be set regularly.

Variation for the entire globe is low. Variation for a period of an entire month is low. There are twelve samples per year. Thus new records would not be expected to be set frequently.

Again, what exactly is your point?
Fine, take 20-30. Twitter is still light years off those numbers.
What if it were a daily and weekly internal email that hooked into your existing analytics or database?

I'm working on an alpha for a product called Growth Report that does just that. It's not "gem install yc" but it's pretty close. Interested to try it out with FieldDay?
Making of Hacker News Google Chrome App
Would be interesting to read some more details about how this got through, and what the pitfalls were, along with solutions to them. As I understand it, the main tension is that things that look more like industrial consortia, developing common technology primarily for the benefit of an industry, don't qualify as charities, though they may qualify as other kinds of nonprofits. For example, the Khronos Group, steward of OpenGL, is an industry consortium and not a charity. While organizations primarily aiming to educate and serve the general public, rather than primarily to improve the technology or standards in an industry, can be charities. LLVM as a project seems—to a non-lawyer—like it could go either way, since it has elements of both types of goals.
Birds are very different from drones in the sense that birds often practice active collision avoidance, at least in the case of encounters with a small aircraft. I have often seen birds take evasive maneuvers when a collision is imminent, much more quickly than I could have as the pilot of the aircraft. Drones at this point have no sense of self preservation when faced with a collision with an aircraft and are therefore in my opinion much more dangerous.
There are many multiples more private exchanges, trading all sorts of electronically tradable instruments. I wasn't referring simply to stock exchanges. I was making a point about the return on investment you can get from developing a trading platform.
Taking Carbon Dioxide from Air and Converting It to Oxygen and Carbon Fibres
YC tackles HR: accelerator's startups focus on hiring, diversity and tech pipeline
When it comes to electricity generation, I don't think oil prices affect it much. Oil isn't cost competitive for electricity as it stands.

The fall in natural gas prices is affecting it, since natural gas is competitive for electrical generation. But coal still rules when it comes to cheap electricity, as long as you ignore the externalities of course.

I think what's going to happen is that pretty soon, solar plus storage will be price competitive even with coal. Then there will be a big shift. It's unlikely that the price of coal will drop much.
What should every developer avoid?
Absolutely all of those three (and x86, obviously) were supported. I forget if ARM was supported back then, but I can't imagine that it isn't now.
​Kinetic: Open source cloud storage
The Origins of Hella
REST was either popularized or outright invented by Ruby?

What the f* are you on? Or were you born a few years ago and just worked with Ruby since then?

Really, how could somebody be so oblivious to this field in order to state stuff like that?
Qualcomm Looks to Enter Drone Market Before It Takes Off
I agree with that. I recommend them for quick projects myself. Big companies however....
Great questions!

We include words from all different dialects, but standard Tokyo dialect will inevitably float to the top. I learned Japanese in Kansai, so I'm sensitive to this issue. =)

As for how the commonality is determined, I use a combination of corpuses including newspapers, novels, literature/poetry, and spoken language. I actually initially had a feature that would tell you "this word is more common in novels", but it didn't work consistently well enough, so I ended up scrapping it.

When we actually choose how to order the search results, we take into account a few more things - like if the search string is part of the primary meaning of the word, if it's a partial match of the meaning string or a full match, etc. In order to determine the relative importances of the various factors, we actually automatically optimized them against a huge set of vocabulary lists that a Japanese native, English fluent speaker made for Japanese students studying English. This gives us the best chance of picking the Japanese word that a Japanese native speaker would choose for a given English word.

As for the furigana, since we're taking arbitrary user input, there are bound to be mistakes here or there, and that's the case with this app too. I don't have any plans to let people edit the furigana right now, but I am improving the parsing all the time.
Agree. And it seems like the YC team has noticed this and is starting to do something about it via sama's blog post!
I'm not trying to make fun of meteorologists at all, I totally get that your job is hard. I actually wanted to take the same approach (My company provides lunch for employees, I wanted to train a neural net on past lunch menus, and trading/derivative market data for food type resources, to see if it could predict tomorrows menu), unfortunately that was shot down, so I never got the chance to do something like that.

If it came off as me trying to be down on meteorologists, that wasn't my intent, and I can't edit my original post to reflect that, so hopefully you'll see my comment here.
Fast wildcard searches with trigrams
One can easily gain momentum by simply adding mass, which is completely the wrong metaphor. Let's end the practice of misusing the word "momentum" in business. Use "velocity" or simply "speed".
In the comments on the TPB torrent of the original leak people were debating the legality of downloading/having this information on their computer. Irony of that situation aside, if I was interested in studying these leaks how much legal danger would I be putting myself in by grabbing them? I'm US based.
It is possible if you are prepared to wait for an unbounded amount of time.
I think you pasted the title into URL box and it doesn't have a good validation.
sama's response is correct. There's no real downside to doing YC when you're young. If you succeed, you get rich. If you don't, you can probably find work at another YC company that is succeeding. If you can't, then having YC on your resume will probably help you land a job at another startup. No YC founder will ever go hungry.
Can it render on the server-side (Node.js) without JSDOM?
Meet 'Deez Nuts,' the Teen Presidential Candidate Punking America
Announcing Content-Kit and Mobiledoc
And yet Facebook is still signing up users
This is simply not true in my experience. I have personally seen birds perform significant aerial maneuvers to avoid collision with my aircraft, going very close to 130MPH. By the time I see the bird it is often in a very steep dive, the bird saw my plane long before I saw the bird.
Presumably the function calling convention does, but not syscalls.
> “We have different ideas of efficiency now,” Wood says. “We want to shop with as little intrusion by anyone else as possible. Self-checkout is one of, in my opinion, the least efficient tools in the world, yet everyone is obsessed with using self-checkout at the grocery store. It’s so much faster to just wait in line and have someone check out for you.”

There seem to be contradictory statements there. No wonder online vendors are killing the retail outlet.

Self checkout appears to be a way to lower both employee costs and customer satisfaction. These systems often don't work well, and with the cashier staff reduced to minimums, often it takes longer to un-wedge the self checkout process than to wait for the one or two human cashiers among the 20+ unused registers. My local Target and Home Depot stores come to mind.

> In actuality, I think Amazon is highly inefficient if you don’t know what you’re buying because you don’t have anyone to help you and say, ‘No, actually, this is better than that.’

That service died with the management ilk of chains like Circuit City in the US that replaced experienced, knowledgable salespeople with underpaid "ad pushers", trained in nothing more than moving the hot item of the week. In some cases I found it most efficient to order online for pickup at the local store, and bypass all the unhelpful "help".

With Amazon, I can at least read reviews, attempt to pick out those that are informed, and get some actual information. Modern retail does not have a current or past equivalent.
The original story by Marguerite Yourcenar here (starts after the French text):

https://switchie5.wordpress.com/2003/10/22/le-vieux-peintre-...

I like it many times more than the animation.
That's why I prefer the data from satellite measurements.

There's a couple for surface temperature at http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/ & http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature.
Stop stressing out. Twitter will be fine.
Hopefully, they'll reconsider some of those policies now. We know the data (including certain event data, like favoriting, like you say) is probably their most valuable asset, but opening the valve on it a bit more would be in everyone's interest, I think.
PICO-8: A fantasy game console
What are the cases where you want Nagle's algorithm enabled? It seems like the primary use case is telnet and telnet-like services (like SSH), but even there, Mosh does much better at balancing performance against congestion. For non-interactive protocols, do you ever want Nagle's algorithm?
Could you point me to a major web framework that used REST before Rails 1.2 (2006)?

> What the f* are you on? Or were you born a few years ago and just worked with Ruby since then?

I've been using Ruby professionally for 10 years.
I’m not quite sure how sharing an anecdote about how I, personally, found it difficult to find information in a particular email conveys a “sense of entitlement”—perhaps my phrasing didn’t come across well? The “respectful of my time” thing is just a phrase I’ve generally heard as shorthand for “make the information easier to access,” and I was merely expressing a wish, not a demand.
Impacts it a lot, but there are teams working on it: http://www.space.com/30155-nasa-drones-on-mars-video.html
I didn't claim that the Ruby community invented REST. Rails 1.2 (2006) was the first major web framework to implement it. Do you have any evidence to support your claim that I'm incorrect?
I wonder why the flagship department stores seem to have perished in the USA but not as much in Europe. Of course Harrods comes to mind. KaDeWe in Berlin is an amazing store the recalls and even surpasses the main Marshall Fields in Chicago 50 years ago. KaDeWe is always packed with locals and tourists alike. The author of the article seems solely focused on the USA.
> Does Imba also include a dom-diffing algorithm

Yes.

> Woudnt it be better to write a library in imba-lang that can do dom diffing?

It is: https://github.com/somebee/imba/blob/master/src/imba/dom.sta.... It's a required runtime library if you want to use the tag syntax.

The difference between "language" and "core library" is always a bit mushy. For instance, the JavaScript doesn't only specify the semantics of operations, but also the main objects (String, Array, etc) and a set of functions (push, pop, indexOf, etc).

In the sense that JavaScript ships with default objects for dealing with Arrays and Strings, Imba ships with default classes for dealing with tags and DOM elements. Yes, we could say that tags should just be sugar syntax over regular function calls (which it actually is) and move the DOM diffing out of "Imba". But really, the main point about Imba is the tag functionality and we believe we only need one good implementation.
Thank you for writing these. I've found that a lot of the lisp materials out there are either completely introductory (lambda/map/reduce/filter) or seem like the artifacts of an alien civilization far beyond my comprehension. I've been following malisper for a little while and it's consistently quality material that's roughly at my level.
Are you sure about that one? I am thinking about the situation where presence of alternative code paths that never actually get executed can lead to fairly large differences in timings, particularly for tight loops. (At least in computational code; I'd expect it to be much less common for protocol handling benchmarks like these...)
Agreed. Payments has been a quite stinky industry with lots of dodgy monopolies (see government payment providers for particularly bad examples). I'd just like to see a more balanced debate on payments. Its a very busy industry with plenty of niches which Stripe clearly fits, but it's also a very boring industry. I get surprised seeing this heavily promoted on a site I use for opinion and news.
SpacemanSpiff is correct. This happens all the time. Wishful thinking or not.

I've personally seen it with ducks (6,500' on my first cross-country solo), hawks, vultures (or buzzards - can't tell the difference), seagulls, and those swarms of birds that like to fly close to the ground around airports.

The birds that are a greater hazard to small piston-powered planes are those that curl up into a ball when they sense a predator as they can drop right into you.