skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it to talk to people into the things I'm into. Mostly writers, furries (which has a billion subgroup interests), and artists. You wouldn't know these communities exist on Twitter from the logged-out home page, and the discovery tools don't help until you've already figured out the major players in a community.

Twitter should make the many different and largely unconnected communities a first-class part of the Twitter experience, rather than this informal thing they are now.
His early stuff is excellent, but the last Crichton book that I enjoyed was Timeline. I found Prey to be disappointing and State of Fear was just about unreadable with its complete misrepresentation of climate change science.
Easy. Because they focus on developers. "Hacker News promotion" (a community of developers) is a side effect of that, not the other way around.
imagine if snapchat announced that they would start living and dying on their core business rather than try to expand

now you have a bunch of investors who are upset that they invested in a company at a 16 billion dollar valuation that has jack diddly squat for income and has no promise of some magical "over the horizon" way to monetize
You're a pilot of a quadcopter. You're an owner of a specific make/model of quadcopter.

Incidentally, I don't intend to knock the whole of all DJI owners (the Inspire is an amazing piece of hardware), it just seems to be the stereotype that DJI owners are more fast and loose with the regulations.
Still, many things that are both significant and marginal are not worth making a big deal out of.
but would a search engine approach be any more effective at conversions? I use google and wikipedia, but it doesn't mean i have a blog or edit.
If it makes you feel any better, I followed the exact same path. He was one of my favorite authors when I was a kid, but by the time Prey came out... yeesh.

But I still love Sphere, The Lost World, and so many more. I even love Disclosure, with its hilarious take on virtual reality file storage.
I actually started asking around locally about getting started with RC planes because I think in a few years I won't be able to.
Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.
It's really hard to sell/explain to the uninitiated because it's a diverse platform. Even my twitter feed is very diverse- breaking news and headlines from the beat writers for my favorite teams, activists and protesters covering police brutality, and developer blogs.

With this mix, my twitter feed varies greatly. Unrest in Ferguson? Breaking news from the ground. Microsoft Build conference? Latest in tech from Redmond. Eagles training camp? Live highlights from reporters I trust. It's really a wonderful thing.
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Hey HN, creator of Nihongo here!

I spent a long time studying Japanese vocabulary using Anki, Flashcards Deluxe, etc., but I found that studying using premade word lists never worked that well for me. Nihongo is built around studying the words you're encountering naturally through your own hobbies and interests. Flashcard packs are automatically generated from the words that you look up in the built-in dictionary. You can also copy and paste Japanese text into the app like song lyrics, textbook readings, videogame scripts, or books, and it will automatically find all the words contained in the text, and generate flashcards from them.

I built Nihongo because it was the tool that I wanted and felt like was missing for studying Japanese. Hopefully it'll be useful for some of you too! I'd love to hear your feedback.
This sounds about right. Wait, I forgot, Snapcash.
But that just doesn't seem sustainable in the long term. That's how power and wealth consolidate into a small number of hands.
I remember I watched this quite a while ago and it was a pleasant experience. If I remember correctly, the video was very funny.

I'm re-watching it right now.
Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Agruably, there's a significant difference between:

1: Collecting parts, soldering them together, programming and tuning a device, learning about how it all works, failing sometimes, then being able to fly 100'+ in the air

and

2: Buying a pre-built quad and skimming the FAA regulations. Unbox it and walk outside. Crank the throttle all the way to max and stare with glee as GPS keeps it at 10,000 feet right over your house.
So, this sounds like it could be great for very arid areas, where it might be easy(?) to build a massive solar farm in the desert, and run a cable to the city -- but not sustainable to water the same area where one can put solar? Switch solar for wind turbines in areas with little sun light and strong winds.

I wonder if it would be any easier to recycle water in a city/building than if used for "normal" farming?
"want to get drunk" and "don't want to drink at all" is literally the entire spectrum, so I think it's safe to say that "most people are somewhere in between" :P
But.. Payments is more than about developers. It's the finance people that reconcile, the budget that pays for it's transaction fees, the customer support when a transaction goes wrong. My point is ease-of-integration is just one part and for large companies, an insignificant part. Sometimes this feels lost and it's all "wahey, JSON API".
Birds aren't soft at those speeds. Ultimately for both it boils down to weight (or mass if you'd prefer). In both cases the larger heavier object (aircraft) will move the smaller lighter one (birds, drones) out of its path. But damage may be done along the way.

It is possible that the components could damage the inside of a jet engine, but bird bits (inc. bone) don't exactly do jet engines any favours so...
The term may have been in use before, but it wasn't widely adopted by the global warming people until global warming became widely known as the near-exclusive domain of environmental extremists.
the saved costs in developer time are in early stage a strong argument

in case of doubt i would act them same
Introducing Beyourmax: Food Service for the Future
IIRC they announced a Buy button, but I haven't encountered any instances of it in my feed.
In all honesty how far can you take microblogging? Twitter's core business is something any half decent developer can build over a weekend and polish over a few months.

There is so much you can do to attract and keep your users engaged with Twitter's core business.

For the growth Twitter investors are looking, twitter needs to expand beyond its 140 character tweets and look for possible innovative ideas that can cultivate with its current infrastructure, data and talent.
The interesting question will be the on-going struggle between engineering (Roetter/Weil) and business (Noto/Bain), who actually want to run a profitable company. My bet is Roetter and Weil will be out before the year is done.
You might know more as a pilot but I was under the impression that birds don't get out of the way of big loud flying things. I found a source about birds not getting out of the way for cars once the cars are beyond a certain speed, but I couldn't find anything for airplanes.

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1801/2014...
Good catch. Edited.
Getting the ratio of developers to jobs is tricky. I could check LinkedIn or a resume database, but they lag a bit since most only update them before job hunting. Still, probably not a horrible metric.

Another metric is salary. Also imperfect data, but right now the stand out is Java/Spring/Hibernate. Not too surprising as an "enterprise" technology, and probably also includes more people with degrees than frequently self-taught language like (say) PHP.

It's important to note that it's not the technology that gets you the job, but how well you stand out from the other candidates.

Sorry, it's California-centric since I'm in LA; OC is Orange County, one county south. OC is not a tech hub, per se, but has a lot of industry, and is home to Blizzard, Oculus, and a number billion dollar companies that naturally write a lot of software. If you were asking if LA is a tech hub, I'll say yes. It's growing, and Southern California graduates more engineers than any other metro area in the US, so it's attracting more tech companies. Google has offices in LA and OC, and just bought 12 acres for a new campus.
Not surprising. That was the same case with John Paul Larkin whose stage name Scatman John[1] probably rings a few bells. Although his style of singing lent itself well to (ab)use of stuttering. Very curious how that works, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatman_John
Designing a PostgreSQL Document API
When was the last time you saw a business with nothing but an Instagram profile, or saw Instagram referenced on the news, or cited in a paper, or used for a press release?

It's not about active users, it's about how it's used.
What do you think of the underlying business model that is generating this $436m in revenue? Do you think the current model of <insert thinly disguised promotional content that no one ever clicks on> is a sustainable way to grow revenues? How about the idea of charging superusers (top 1% of tweeters) a yearly subscription to use Twitter?

All this tells me is that a lot of companies are willing to throw advertising budgets into the black hole of social media with no possible way of accurately measuring ROI.
"Travis Kalanick is grinding super hard. Are people going to call him average when Uber fails?"

He'll be long gone before Uber fails. They're probably going to dump all of the liability onto the public markets, he'll probably resign to focus on other projects or some such, and leave some MBA schmuck to deal with the mess.
Not necessarily, but the world is evolving which means that maintaining the same product will not be profitable forever (or in this case, never).

Companies will want to continue exist and generate more profits for their owners, which means deploying new products - and these products might appear to be different but upon closer inspection they kind of make sense. Facebook is connecting everything (core product + whatsapp + the internet balloons etc.). Googles core business appears to be analyzing large, dynamic and complex datasets (the web, maps, their biotech research, self-driving cars).

Of course there are always outliers (Android), but companies go for profit. If they can incorporate something new they will.
i had horrible experiences with an "industry standard and cheaper provider"

i once spend several hours in a cusomer care help center of my payment provider to figure out why and how they broke our checkout. this was in the middle of the night obviously because of timezones and the people on the other end where non-technical.

not saying this couldnt happen w/ stripe or that my payment provider was the best alternative (it was before stripe existed and was a european provider) but still…

i agree w/ you that payment providers are more than JSON API but from my perception stripe does a good job in those areas as well
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. As for this point:
>I think in the next few years we'll see rapid change as solar panels and batteries become cheap enough to compete with traditional energy on their own terms.

I'm unsure how the recent slide in oil prices is effecting the comparative competitiveness of fossils vs. renewables. Not helpful, I imagine.
MySpace – what went wrong: 'The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess'
That is an interesting comment and something that doesn't often get brought up. Thanks for pointing that out.
I've dabbled but not yet had a project need it. From what I've seen, some places to start:

You mentioned C# so you've probably used at least some Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2015 has Apache Cordova templates and emulators in the default installer now. (You can also download them as an optional separate install for VS 2013.) It's interesting that the VS Android emulator (built for Hyper-V) is the fastest and best Android emulator available right now.

Also, while Cordova tries to be more browser-like than Node-like it may help to have at least passing familiarity with NodeJS. Most importantly you should know NPM (the node package manager) pretty well, as that's the main package manager for Cordova apps as well. (Also, VS helps here too as 2015 has an NPM GUI now.)
Thanks! You are absolutely right. The book is still taking shape and there is a lot that is unclear.

I certainly have a lot of decisions I need to make on the structure of the book and how to make the purpose of the book more clear.

In my mind the book is code-heavy and first goes through the design and implementation of your own virtual machine.

The book then builds on top of the custom virtual machine with more techniques/architecture (changing the main loop from a classic switch statement to a jump table, discussing dynamic (just in time) compilation, static recompilation approaches etc).

The ultimate goal is to take all of the design and approaches and build an emulator to spec that runs games you can find around the net. In particular, the Chip-8 system because the size of the project would be good for the book.

I think it would be great to make the book more general than emulation/emulator development but at the same time I want to make it clear if you are a person interested in making emulators (like I was) then this is a book that will help you do that.
That to me is the problem, that for some reason conversions is the sole metric with which success is measured. Why is that though? I don't have to be a GMail/Google user to get value out of Google search, yet Google generates most of its revenue from search.

If Twitter knows what everyone likes, or is talking about (especially the influencers), then that would be a good source of search results if I'm looking for something to buy or do. Its an entirely different search engine than Google or even Facebook.
LiPos don't explode.
They must be seriously mishandled for some time to even become relatively unsafe.

Yes, the chemical reactions are pretty vigorous, but it takes quite a lot of special cases to get it to burn.
You've never integrated an old-school payments API have you? Integration is not insignificant. Having spent developer/weeks wrangling XML (I'm looking at you authorize.net), being able to do the same in an afternoon is life changing.

Now, I'm a loyal customer and recommend them to everyone. Sure, they cost more, but it's worth it.
> If drones acted like birds and actively got the hell away from the big, loud, flying thing approaching them then I would agree with your assessment.

As you yourself said you're flying ground relative speed of 130 MpH, there's no way in heck a bird can get out the way. They won't even see you until you're right on top of them approaching at that speed.

It is extremely wishful thinking to believe that bird strikes don't have more often because birds avoid them.
That's apparently jet.com's business model ;-)
Micro, his last novel, was utterly, truly dreadful. But it was posthumously completed by another author (Richard Preston, who wrote The Hot Zone, which I really enjoyed, in a freaked-out way), so I don't know where the blame should lie.
No, I've tried it. I've really tried to like it, but it just didn't click with me. I know it's perfect for others, but it can never reach the growth of a platform like Facebook that is more universally liked. That's pretty much my point.
Looks lovely.

Seems like even a starter-level student could benefit from this, with the flashcards and word commonality features.
The author of imba has some problems understanding languages vs frameworks/libraries.

I quote:

"Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant and readable JavaScript."

Ok, so i understand Imba is a language spec with an implementation that compiles to javascript.

"It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes."

Ok so there is special syntax to create DOM elements. Nothing new here. Its just syntax over javascript. What can be done with imba, can be done with vanilla javascript.

"it is more than 20 times faster than React"

Wait, what? React is a javascript library, not a programming language. Written in javascript.... How can Imba be faster? Does Imba also include a dom-diffing algorithm.. If so, why would you built that into the language... Woudnt it be better to write a library in imba-lang that can do dom diffing? I'm lost here.
Original author here. Since my piece is about perspectives and how they flow across the internet, I'm curious as to where you first saw it, miralabs, and what made you share it. Much love!
No, it really isn't. My point is that you can't draw conclusions to an accuracy greater than what is afforded to you by your prediction model, whether it's fore or aft. That's pretty on the point.
You just quote high enough that the "discounted" rate is the real rate and the not "discounted" rate is the penalty rate. Then you're just rephrasing things (discount vs. penalty) to put a better spin on it.
The author, and anyone else interested in exploring Mach-O files, might want to check out the otool command on Mac OS X. The otool source code is open source: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/cctools/cctools-870/o...
I share your enthusiasm but see vertical farming as part of a new urban agroecology to incorporate into buildings rather than taking up acreage by themselves. I think the technology is being developed for mixed use buildings.
"Bombs" is highly melodramatic. And at the speed that burned, it would be tens of miles behind an aircraft after the collision, and that's assuming that the impact didn't break up and spread the materials so thin that they weren't an effective hazard.
Weird weapons of Vietnam: Combat tree houses, a nuclear rifle and more
The term was used by the scientists, that is what counts.
That prompts a question as to whether Twitter can best grow its future value more through user signups / conversions, or through maximizing one-way consumption as a broadcast medium.

I read the nytimes.com all the time. They have no idea who I am and never will. I'll never signup for an account. They still get to feed me ads.

I consume ESPN one-way. They have no idea who I am and never will. It's worth $50 +/- billion to Disney (per Forbes and others).

Why can't Twitter maximize that potential? Most of Google's global users don't have or don't use a G account, and are not signed in when they search (even if Google builds a profile on them anyway). That doesn't detract from Google's ability to monetize based on interest and intent. Twitter's intent will never be as valuable, but it wouldn't take much given we're talking about Google's intent being worth $100 billion in advertising sales in the near future.

My point being, perhaps Twitter's biggest mistake is in trying to be Facebook and worrying about users. Instead they should focus on maximizing output of high quality sources, and boosting total consumption.
>Our dictionary is made to find what you're looking for fast, with the words Japanese speakers actually use at the top of every search result.

May I ask how this was factored? Also what if I want to use a certain dialect? Osaka might opt for a different word than Hokkaido. I assume standard Tokyo dialect?

>Word Commonality

Also interested in how you measure this. Frequency used in a newspaper? Is it part of the Jouyou kanji? How about age of speaker? "Common among younger generation" and "common among older generation" might be a better benchmark for commonality.

>We'll even add furigana.

Is it editable for instances when it is wrong?

I don't have an iPhone to test, but I am very interested in helping others' learn Japanese and more importantly making sure they are learning correct information. I've seen few coded systems that weren't heavily curated provide accurate information. There's nearly always a "well...that's...actually wrong" somewhere in the dataset that things use.

Not saying that's the case here - just that it is a possibility.
So yes, you're really joking.
That's interesting, should be hard to not introduce a systematic error.
For what it's worth, when I was a kid, I loved Prey and it was my first experience with nano-technology. You only have to be pioneering to the right audience. ;)
Maybe if YC is their /only/ investor? I'm not familiar with how YC's initial investment is structured. But your scenario won't exist for many (close enough to all?) startups who have investors. What likely happened is the startup either:

1) raised their money in a priced round. It's therefore unlikely they have unilateral control of the board.

or

2) didn't do a priced round but went with convertible notes. Those initial investments are now interest-accruing debt on their balance sheet.

In either of those scenarios there's going to be immense pressure to not let the business get comfortable.
Yeap, done a ton of them. Alot get it right, some wrong. Many of them have caught up. The biggest problems you can run into are usually support orientated which I rarely see anything about here.
I definitely misspoke, my bad. I mean that the cost, in terms of energy requirement, required to produce light is going down.

Source: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15471
Of course they should, as the piece concludes. There is no acceptable reason for a government employee to ignore settled law and refuse to perform the functions of government due to religious belief. Fire them and hire people who will do their duty.
Of course, but at some point the whole "future value" logic runs flat. The market is losing faith in TWTTR's ability to generate value.
Pertinent on empherialness of art, politics, and existence:

"How Wang Fo Was Saved", by Marguerite Yourcenar & Animated by Rene Laloux (animator of "La Planète Sauvage")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbe_19I0vhs
Deaf parents may prefer their offspring to be deaf too, say; pushy parents might want to boost their children’s intelligence at all costs, even if doing so affects their personalities in other ways.

I have read enough to know that certain serious genetic disorders tend to correlate to high IQ. So, yeah, this is very much a two-edged sword situation. It may not be possible to just select for all "positive" qualities.

My concern is not exactly ethics per se. My concern is that genes are complicated and my suspicion is we aren't as clever as we think we are and this could lead to bigger problems than the ones we hope to resolve via this path.
Don't forget that with Docker, Vagrant, Salt, Puppet, StackScripts, etc you can turn DigitalOcean or Linode into your own platform. Best of both worlds.
In reality they will most likely go down both paths. Amazon and others looking to ship goods via drones will want something bigger, while sports enthusiasts will wants something smaller.
6M U.S. residents are drinking (somewhat) uranium-contaminated water