skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a little story about Thumbtack. My girlfriend is a chef and she and her chef friends have all turned to Thumbtack at one time or another to seek out private clients. There's a ton of them here in SF since lots of people have money in the city.

One by one, they all dropped off. I've overheard them talking about their experiences. Private client posts gig, asks for bids. Chef buys credits, uses them to bid. Private client opens email, never responds, drops off the face of the Earth. Chef loses money. My girlfriend probably spent $100 without any return. She has since gone on to other much more profitable sources for leads.

Thumbtack of course reaps the reward, but at some point their user acquisition flywheel is going to have trouble turning.
Three have never had 2G coverage, so it depends on your network.
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Yet another "UNICORN". The VCs that are funding this company and its ilk are signing deals that immensely limit their downside potential and max their upside. The liquidation preferences, participation rights and antidilution rights the VCs have are very good for their interests. It's truly a pity that when the market conditions change and the money streams dry up, the founders and employees of these companies will have almost nothing. This bubble seems worse than the last one because by now you'd expect people to have learnt their lessons.
I Have (Michael) Crichton Amnesia
Will we eventually be identified and tracked in physical spaces by our microbial cloud signature?
I think this is a fairly dangerous setup. Having studied a hybrid of business administration and CS I think that people were labeled "slackers" way too quickly when it came to programming group work. It's genuinely hard to learn programming for some people which I didn't really appreciate before university. In fact some people are morbidly afraid of it (just like math) and just give up at some point. Since I was already interested in it way before I started university the curse of knowledge was in full effect for me.

We tried to get "slackers" involved whenever possible and took it as a sign of failure on our part if we couldn't. This was equally true for true slackers (there's inevitably people that will be lazy and try to cruise). Confronting them and giving them well structured work packages kind of works (and was really hard for me). It's a very good preparation for the workplace. I'm most certainly an introvert and I think people who try to cruise and get by without doing much work are usually extroverts. This is observational evidence, I could be completely wrong but you have to be somewhat good at making up excuses on the spot and talking to people and overwhelming them if you are a "slacking pro".
Instead of making yet another slightly different Helvetica, maybe somebody should make an effort to make a font that renders Latin, Cyrillic and Greek in a unified style without glaring errors. (As far as I know, there's only one font that does this correctly, and it doesn't support anything but Latin and Cyrillic.)

How about a font that renders Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hanzi correctly? Why do I have to install a special 'Chinese font package' in 2015?
They also missed out on calling it Sans Francisco.
There's a lot of reasonable argument put behind the concept that we will use SVG more and more on the web.

You're saying that WebRenderer should work for faster for anything but vector graphics.

Is there a risk that it's optimizing for todays/yesterdays use cases?
Other than the possibility that the origins of life and potential life on Mars are the same, I think the same thing as you.

Imagine it is completely distinct, and doesn't have cells.
Go vs. C vs. pypy/Python loop performance comparison
WinRM dropouts when building images in packer, random failures that are unexplained, network not coming up in vagrant, consistency.

I've partially written my own version of it in powershell and Hyper-V now.
Tell your thumbtack employers that we aren't buying it.
No, Loop Quantum Gravity has not been shown to violate the Holographic Principle
For startups this size, evaluations are usually in the range of 10-30 revenues, so it's reasonably safe to assume their revenue is in the range of 40-100M.
Detroit is something like 95% black and poor, making it the least diverse city in the country as well as the biggest to be bankrupt. People who live in the city don't stay there because of a visa system, they stay there because there are no other options. When you are poor, moving just means an added expense to just live in another poor place. Might as well just stay put.
This is very interesting. My immediate thought was what this could do for languages with arbitrary sized integer. Those are generally implemented using tagged pointers for small integers and "changes types" when arithmetic on them overflows.

If BBV can determine type operands are tagged integers then arithmetic only have to worry about overflow and not the type checking.

I don't know if anyone has tried to do anything similar.
Enfants: les razmoket pourraient revenir en force a la tele
Hotel Chain Hilton Worldwide Investigating Potential POS Breach – MailShark
Super Mario Maker sur Wii U: les enfants ne seront pas déçus
One thing I find very interesting is the following:

>SQLite has its own private implementation of printf() (with some extensions) in printf.c

Why?
Let a thousand flowers bloom, then rip 999 of them out
This is the proof that Sun was right all along and Google just played a Microsoft on them.

Oracle might have chosen some dubious arguments, but the reality is that Google forked Java and doesn't have any will to improve developer's lifes.

Before anyone replies how Jonathan praised Google, check Gosling history how things really went.
The tricky part is that smartness of data structures is context-sensitive.

One of the most common design errors in OO systems seems to be building systems that beautifully encapsulate a single object’s state… and then finding that the access patterns you actually need involve multiple objects but it’s impossible to write efficient implementations of those algorithms because the underlying data points are all isolated within separate objects and often not stored in a cache-friendly way either.

Another common design problem seems to be sticking with a single representation of important data even though it’s not a good structure for all of the required access patterns. I’m surprised by how often it does make sense to invest a bit of run time converting even moderately large volumes of data into some alternative or augmented structure, if doing so then sets up a more efficient algorithm for the expensive part of whatever you need to do. However, again it can be difficult to employ such techniques if all your data is hidden away within generic containers of single objects and if the primary tools you have to build your algorithms are generic algorithms operating over those containers and methods on each object that operate on their own data in isolation.

The more programming experience I gain, the less frequently I seem to find single objects the appropriate granularity for data hiding.
How active are those users that like your page? Are you sure it is worth it. Veritasium(A YouTube channel) bought ads, it worked but the users never interacted with any of the content be produced anywhere.
Veritasium : Facebook Fraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

I am not sure this answers your question, but it might be something to consider.
There are certain failure modes that that doesn't work for.

I had a group project once where none of the other three members really did much at all, not because they were lazy but just because they weren't very competent (seriously, I spent like five hours with a member who was a software engineering major trying to help her write a few lines of C that would run on a microcontroller on the board that I designed. In the end, I just wrote all the code... I wanted to help them learn, but the amount of background knowledge they didn't have just made it impossible in the time we had).

When it came to peer assessment, the way it was done was that the person being assessed would go outside, and the rest of the group assessed them and come up with a single rating. So you couldn't mark them down much really because everyone else knew that they had all done the same amount of work as that person... So we all got the highest grade in the end (not that I would have crucified them or anything though, since they were fairly willing to try).
Penny and Leonard's romantic resolution is overshadowed by Sheldon'sbehavior
True. Inkscape, unfortunately, doesn't really understand dimensions. Internally, it uses "px" as a unit, although SVG understands "mm" and "in". Corel Draw is more serious about dimensions and units, which is needed when you're talking to a laser cutter. SVG users have asked for the opposite feature: roundoff to pixel boundaries, instead of floating point coordinates.[1] SVG's internal representation is a text string of a number with a decimal point, but it's up to the program writing the file to decide how many digits to put after the decimal point. And, of course, you'll get rounding errors going back and forth from text representation to internal floating point representation.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/951655
I can only hugely commend the creators. Interactive charts for pedagogical purposes are a big win for me, as I work in a fairly complex domain where a moving picture can make all the difference between understanding immediately, and having to explain a static chart with 1000 long words. This beats animated gifs hands down and in my personal opinion, the interface is beautiful. Kudos and looking forward to embeddable.
The data constraints in an application will inform the user experience. Until you know what your application has to do with data any UX design will be guesswork.

I agree that the user experience development should come before any code, but it can't come before designing the data structures.
As I once said after someone, after a discussion on some trivial mathematical argument that he didn't grasp, said "OK, but one plus one equals two, right?": "it depends".
On the flipside, the phone is what you always have with you, in a given moment, and reaching for a device in your pocket is much faster than going back to the car to dig through your camera bag for your massive SLR. I say this as someone who has used and loved SLRs since the film days. I'd love to see the time to capture on the phone approach that satisfying threshold you mention on SLRs, because they already help me capture so many moments I'd otherwise miss.
Sometimes I wonder that not only it is not possible for other forms of life to exist that wouldn't use water, carbon and others, but that we have life just because it so happened coincidentally that our universe were created with the exact properties needed for the laws of physics to support life for a short while in some places.
Direct Mail has gone high tech. Have you?
You got it wrong.

C++ goal was that Bjarne didn't want to code ever again in plain C, after being forced to use it.

It just felt wrong to him such a primitive language after his experience with Simula and other proper languages of the day.

So when he joined AT&T, he started to work a way to have Simula for his work. Then the language grew from there.

There a few Bjarne interviews were he tells this.
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/detroit/crime/

"With a crime rate of 81 per one thousand residents, Detroit has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 12."
Yeah, I missed that caveat. I'm really excited to see what it might be and how it could potentially change our definition of what's living.
Your questions (and link) are good, but I think you might be misinterpreting Paul's logic. He hasn't concluded that Glossip is definitely innocent (although he thinks he probably is), rather he's concluded that in the absence of physical evidence and with the majority of testimony being provided by a witness who has a clear motive to implicate someone else, that there must be "reasonable doubt".

He may be wrong, and in particular "reasonable doubt" may not have the legal definition that he thinks it does (legal terms rarely match common sense). But his argument is not "Glossip is innocent", but "there is no way we have sufficient evidence to kill this man without risking that we are killing someone who might be innocent".

Have you served on a jury, by the way? I served as the foreman on one relatively minor criminal case, and it did more to shake my faith in the rule-of-law than any other (minimal) encounters I've had with the legal system. In the end, we reached a unanimous "not guilty" in the case.

This was a difficult decision for all of us to reach, since the only way this could be the "correct" decision was if both police officers who testified were lying about significant details both in their report and on the stand. And yet this is the conclusion we eventually all agreed upon as being the most likely explanation for the way the pieces failed to fit together.

The defendant may well have done other illegal things, and possibly the world would be a better place if he was behind bars, but as a jury we decided that there was sufficient reason to doubt that he was guilty as charged. And yet there was no particular guarantee that this case would turn out as it did. On a different day, with a different jury, a different judge, or different lawyers, (but the same defendant, witnesses, and evidence) a guilty verdict seems likely.

As a limited participant in the legal system (but a "logical" computer programmer) my assessment would be that if we have the death penalty, the American jury system is practically guaranteed to occasionally sentence innocent people to death. I'd guess that this is the part that bothers Paul as well, I'd guess that he probably does have experience that leads him to believe this, and I'd guess that his opinion on the matter is not likely to be changed by a counterpoint that makes Glossip's guilt seem somewhat more likely.
The article certainly supports reasonable doubt.
I'm sure to a fan that "really freaking loves Mesos" you can't imagine other software competing with Mesos, but Hashicorp writes excellent software generally. Serf and Consul have completely sold me on Nomad, and I haven't even used it yet. I think there will be similar draw for many people that have used Hashicorp's software before.
Most PC servers have limits enforced to prevent runaway disk usage.

In fact it's now baked into the vanilla game as a command.
How do I provide value to my startup as a non-technical founder?
Lately, I answered a few Quora questions about the value a non-technical cofounder can provide during the pre-launch stage of a startup.
My answers got thousands of views many upvotes; so I decided to dedicate a blog post to this important question.
OroCommerce Alpha released (by ex Magento lead developer)
Artists finally have direct connections to their audiences, but they must fight through more noise than ever before. Distribution is no longer constrained by shelf space or A&R men, but a stream or download generates royalties many artists decry as untenable. Audiences can now enjoy more music, more easily and in more places – yet the amount they spend is at an unprecedented low.

This sounds just like the software business.
I wasn't ticked off, just interested in searching for those threads on http://hnrankings.info/ . While you're right that the first thread had a fairly hard drop off from the front page, the other two just linearly dropped down.
True that. But it is also the perfect time to set policies that will ensure proper development and redistribution in the future. Like infrastructure and the likes.

Progressive property taxes based on the price of a square feet could go a long way. We won't burden the development now, but if we get in hypergentrification like in Manhattan/SF we will have backstops and funds to spread in the outer parts of the city.
This is a pretty reasonable suggestion. The jury that sentences a convict to death has to actually carry out the sentence. I suspect that the number of strong supporters of the death penalty will drop dramatically when faced with having to perform the sentence with their own hands.
Validation.

"I was a lead developer at Company X, which rapidly grew from $1b to $10b during my time there."
I'm afraid you'll have to explain your perspective to me as if I'm five years old. In your original comment, you say,

>a constant times the $-e_r/r^2$, and the time derivative of that is definitely not zero.

I don't see a term there that is time-dependent.
(riffing on your comments, not disagreeing)

I'm looking at that and thinking the way they've phrased it means that 'without limitation' is required to avoid exposing themselves to lawsuits over details, and 'solely' is meant as their promise to the users.

So ... healthy suspicion good, but I feel like they've tried to set it up so that they can only be sued for violating the letter of the agreement, but can (and expect to) be publically excoriated for violating the spirit.

Whether they'll continue to live up to these ideals over time is (aaand we're back to healthy suspicion :) inevitably an open question, but I think the intent is to make it clear that those ideals do exist now in a way that allows us to hold them to it later.
You're piling on too hard here. It's unfair of you to put things that crusso didn't say in quotation marks. That is guaranteed to produce a defensive reaction that makes the argument worse rather than better. And then you depict a caricature so idiotic, it's surely unfair.

You're correct of course that commenters are too quick to make gotcha criticisms when they ought to pause and realize that there's almost certainly more going on. But this is something most people do, and we should each take care of our own part of it first.

There's another aspect of this too. On HN, the problem is as much created by the upvoters as by the commenter. Sometimes a comment was intended as an offhand observation—the sort of thing you'd throw out to friends, not meant to sound authoritative, let alone pompous. But by the time it gets upvoted to the top comment, it can sound like the criticism of an asshole. HN unfortunately has a number of areas like this, where every individual contribution is positive, or at least well-intended, yet the total they add up to is negative. Let's not make the mistake of blaming individuals for a collective problem that we all contribute to.
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A similar argument also applies in the opposite direction. That is, it’s all very well beginning with a beautiful, idealised API, but if there is no efficient way to implement that interface then you’ve backed yourself into a corner before you even start.
Agreed. Feynman diagrams are a great example of this phenomenon. They might be 'pictures', but they are still mathematical notation.
> They are trying to be the people who figure out how to monetize without advertising traffic.

While I remain skeptical of this idea, I really really want it to be true.
I was just waiting for someone to say it. It was more of an experiment to see how people would respond to that word. I changed it to my original idea.

Thank you for pointing it out.
"Impressive preliminary results of Servo's new GPU-based experimental renderer".
I'm always amazed that poor people seem to be able to afford cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol, but they can't scrape $24 together for a bus ticket to Chicago. I have nothing against people who want to stay in Detroit. It's just that I don't want to spend a bunch of money subsidizing their decision.
In that environment, you need better resources for doctors to keep up with research, based on clinical requirements. And that is very very far from what marketing does.
There is no factual disagreement of the observed effect, you are correct. The particular (potentially subtle) line I was trying to draw is that there is not necessarily a one-to-one correspondence between biases known to psychology and biases known to neuroscience.

When an observation of a bias is made in the field of psychology, it is up in the air whether it is a bias in higher cognition or whether it is a bias that is due to a direct physiological effect. Psychology, as a whole, is a field that does not talk about neuroscience, or physiological reasons for behavior; it is a more top-down perspective. (Yes, there are subfields of psychology that try to engage with neuroscience, but they are not the norm.)

What you call "more technical detail" exactly addresses that distinction; the recognition of faces of people of another race which one has not been much exposed to can be directly correlated with a specific neurophysiological observation, not an observation of higher cognition which has no neurophysiological explanation.

It is a very important distinction, even if it seems subtle from the outside.
Make sure to move your site to HTTPS... As it is right now you're sending people's emails and resumes over an unencrypted connection.
> Thumbtack has been all the buzz for the past 18 months or so

Time to re-read @paulg’s “The Submarine.”

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Google could have avoided all of this if they hadn't try to screw Sun.

So now we have J++ on Android.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/bernie-sanders-on-the-death-...
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Ah yes, depends on if you are seeking accuracy or amusement