skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it profitable? Or just paper trading/simulated? Braindead stuff works if it is the fastest in the world, but as you slow down you need to get smarter to cover losses due to getting "picked off" more frequently.
This is just rubbish from developers that don't know what they are doing. I run Sublevel on a $5 VPS from DigitalOcean. Guess what, I optimized it to run smoothly in any situation.
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You realize that having that option enabled is basically equivalent to having a plain text file on disk which has your passwords, right? If you encrypt your filesystem, this isn't so bad, but still any kind of remote execution exploit could basically gain access to all your passwords.
> That doesn't sound very harmonious at all. That sounds like institutionalizing ignorance as an organizing principle and seems like something intelligent society would move away from.

I don't see how this is "institutionalizing ignorance", though on its own I agree it may not be very harmonious; it sounds like a recipe for an interplanetary nuclear conflict.
I don't know, I'd be willing to bet twitter usage is up compared to 4 years ago. Also, stock price != coolness, and further coolness != making more money. Isn't that what this story is about?
I thought the ship had been saved when the current nonprofit bought her. Apparently not.

Although the interiors were stripped long ago to remove asbestos, the power plants are in reasonably good shape.

The S.S. United States was the fastest transatlantic liner ever built - England to US in about 3 1/2 days. She was built with some Government funding with the potential to be used as a troop carrier. This included warship-like features, such as more bulkheads and watertight doors than most passenger ships, heavy fireproofing (no wood except the piano and the butcher's block), multiple engine rooms, and a warship-like hull and propulsion plant. If the US needed to get an army somewhere in a hurry, the ship was ready.

That's why conversion to a cruise ship didn't work out. Norwegian Lines considered it. But cruise ships today look like Vegas hotels built on barges, with huge interior open spaces, swimming pools, water slides, casinos, shopping malls, etc. The SS United States was built for speed and survivability, not recreation.
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> The word 'colonize' evokes thoughts of British, Dutch, Portuguese, etc colonization ~500-200 years ago.

Maybe in your generation.

For me it evokes thoughts of Star Trek, of humanity as a whole expanding to outer space and building habitats in far away places.

I really don't think people talking about colonizing Mars think about it in terms of colonial times. And this may be a source of various misunderstandings when debating manned space missions.
We are discussing the need for 4100 engineers, not storage costs.
Ah, of course, thank you! Now it works as it should and looks absolutely great!
Without node.js? No.
I doubt you will get much of a response from _any_ proprietary trading company. The industry is aware of its public image, and any conversation comes with the perceived risk that you are a journalist looking to write a hit-piece.
It takes engineers to run and utilize all that stuff. You don't need a back-end scaling team you're only throwing around XMPP in Erlang.

Edit: I know b/c I've done that before in $previousjob. Storage is hard. Storage is where the money goes. Durability is expensive. Storing ephemeral stuff in a non-durable KV store is easy, cheap, and trivial to scale. This is why WhatsApp didn't have so many people, not because they were geniuses.
But it actually doesn't charge that subscription fee. At least not to the overwhelming majority of its users.
I always pray for a blizzard on election day. When there's bad weather, a lot of the low-information types who are only voting because they want the "I voted!" sticker, will stay home. At least that's my theory.
> Twitter provides 140 status messages. There is nothing wrong it, that is very cool. But I think there is a realization that it just isn't as cool as it was in 4 years ago. And it just became 3% less cool.

I can't tell if you're being ironic or facile, but Twitter has become quite a bit more than "140 status messages"(sic). It's a medium where politicians, dissidents, celebrities, the hoi palloi, brands, and anarchists all interact. Its a place of record quoted in headline news briefs and long-form journalism. It is used to organize rebellion and restricting access to it is viewed by many as a human rights violation.

Twitter as a business has problems, but being a fad isn't one of them.
So what were the five models that matched the lab test?? I notice that BMW was not mentioned as one of the offenders.
i wonder if you think there is another kind of existence?
The easiest solution would be to expand Whatsapp to support mobile payments. A lot of commerce in countries in Africa and Asia is already conducted over the phone using SMS and other similar technologies, and FB could fairly easily have Whatsapp play that role and earn a decent chunk of money.
I can't tell if you're webscale or trololololing, but I like it either way.
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It's not necessary to have "thought leaders" to agree. What matters is how influential the person is among certain groups. This fact has been long used in getting "celebrities" endorse stuff to gain more publicity and momentum in several areas - be they product marketing or social causes - while the facts may be that these celebrities have absolutely no qualification or expertise whatsoever about the product or cause, and thus could not really be called "thought leaders".

P.S.: Downvoted.
Twitter is doing something vastly more technically challenging that WhatsApp. WhatsApp just delivers messages. It doesn't store them, and it certainly doesn't, say, try to make them available in a searchable away to everyone in the world.

This isn't a knock on WhatsApp -- I use WhatsApp and don't use Twitter -- but Twitter's scale challenges are vastly more complex than WhatsApp's, which doesn't have many features that can't just very simply horizontally scale.
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I'm so incredibly excited about the possibilities in this field. I recently made the move from film to game dev in hopes that at some point I can work with people on some of these problems. I firmly believe that real time experiences can blossom into one of the main avenues of storytelling in the future.

What is so exciting is the thought that so many of the little conventions and tools and tricks haven't even been thought of yet. There was a point in film history when the crossfade, or parallel edits, close ups hadn't been invented, and now we take them for granted. I think people will look back in a 100 years and that will be where we are on the VR side right now. To me, that's incredibly exciting and I can't wait to dig into it more.
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Another interesting book on material science is

'Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World' by Mark Miodownik
http://www.amazon.com/Stuff-Matters-Exploring-Marvelous-Mate...

actually here is a sample chapter

http://www.hmhco.com/~/media/sites/home/educators/webinars/s...

The author has also an interesting lecture on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEWFJiMK6CE
...I heard they're gonna fire 140 characters
It looks like they prefer images with a few large faces near the center of the frame. That's probably the right answer for social media. (Plus a cat recognizer.) Used on news footage, you probably get the talking head rather than the news event.
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Because their job is to hire people?
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Facebook is building the most sophisticated AI Research Lab in the world. I think they'll be okay.
There's a popular meme "If you're not paying, then you're the product". I think an exception is " or they're just not making any money".
>Jade Helm

Found the /r/conspiracy subscriber
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> I don't want to make a little bit of money every day. I want to make a fuck ton of money all at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo&t=15
> Surgical would imply killing off specific teams and products. This is across the board.

Perhaps I missed it but no where did I see any specific mention that this was either surgical or across the board. Care to elaborate? If they didn't specify it certain could go either way.
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Super powers! That is so awesome.
In practice, it's Animal Farm: all animals are rightsholders, but some animals hold more rights than others.
They no longer allow sign ups via Tor, so I don't think it's as dissident friendly as it used to be.
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Earlier reports said 10% across the board.
Time's a wastin' ;)

I think that we need something like IPFS, which connects via covert channels, and is fully deniable. With ubiquitous HD video, download bandwidth would be trivial, even with ~1% signal/carrier. Upload bandwidth would be harder to hide.
Nope. Not legally allowed to vote in my birth country, since I've been away too long, and not legally allowed to vote in the country I currently live in, since I'm not a citizen.

I have to admit I don't see much point voting on a state, congressional, or federal level when living in areas that are completely skewed in favor of a single political party. Were I able to vote, perhaps I'd vote in the primaries.

It doesn't bother me too much - when I really care about an issue, which isn't that often, I call a politician's office or two and donate something to an appropriate PAC. That's probably more effective than voting directly.
Time to switch back to KeePass. Lastpass is much more enjoyable to use but LogMeIn seems to ruin everything they touch
What wires/wavelengths is this free internet going to run on?
Completely agree. "Moments" just has that damn indicator showing stuff is unread on it and it drives me nuts but NOTHING is EVER relevant to any of my interests or even the people I follow. I don't even understand what the point of it is; shouldn't it just be displaying things it thinks I want to look at? At least that makes the most sense to me...

Oh well, I don't think Twitter is going away any time soon but I don't really understand some of the steps they've been taking...and 4,100 employees? Yikes!
You teach to test. Or in this case, you code exactly to the spec.
We've had drug development for millennia.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted; their head count was absolutely insane. Yes Twitter has some insane needs for scaling but 4,100 employees for a 140 character service with some basic ads? Absolutely far too many.
Great AMA, thanks Sam.
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But then again stock price != making more money. Particularly for non-dividend-paying firms.
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Also, they have 4100 employees, not engineers. You know, legal, HR, finance, oh and engineers.
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I don't know if someone here had something to do with it, but Twitter support had a sudden change of heart the day after I posted this.

They decided to credit my account in full, but still did not explain how this happened to begin with.

While I applaud them for doing the right thing, I'm wary of letting them ever have my payment information again.

If someone here was responsible for their change of heart, you have my gratitude. Regardless, thanks to any who read this.
What on earth does market cap have to do with anything? Their margins are negative 30 percent, and their cash flow is like 150 million dollars. Increasing revenues doesn't mean a whole lot of you're losing money on every sale.
They already give priority in their cable packages, and they already own Hulu.

Content delivery is controlled by content creating big media IP holders. Obviously they will try to keep competition down, especially new media that understands how the Internet makes information free.
http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=gif

1) hard g

2) hard g

3) hard g

4) hard g

5) I closed the tab

The concept and implementation are pretty neat, at least.
I agree with everything you've said except the last paragraph. Training the troops is important! Too bad the knuckleheads in power did nothing to explain or justify the size/scope/location of the exercise, maybe it would have been worthwhile.

Sounds like you think it would have been okay though. Want to sell me on rolling tanks, helicopters, and troops through town? Can they fire their guns and cannons (with blanks)? What limits would you put on the exercise if you were in charge or is everything the military does reasonable?
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That's not necessarily unreasonable. They complied with the regulation, which is determined by lab test. Perhaps the test is defective, but what else were they supposed to do?

VW acted in bad faith and clearly exhibited the mentality you describe, but it doesn't seem to me that we know enough to determine how these few acted.

It does seem apparent the test is fairly useless. If we want to pursue this type of emissions control, everything I've read suggests that it's very possible to hit the marks in real-world conditions at the expense of power and fuel economy.
What do you mean? This is just a fact.

The company existed to make a return for the owners. The owners exited with $16 billion. That was the motivation of the owners/employees, not $14 million in annual revenue.
That's awesome :) Chef Steps on YouTube show some examples of them just using ziplock baggies and a simple thermometer, so I tried that and it worked fine. Took some fiddling with my stovetop -- I had to use the weakest burner on the lowest setting to get one of the temperatures I needed, but it worked!
Not only CAD but media (film,video,3D). Years ago, there were quite a few 3D design programs around for film/video production e.g. Softimage, Alias, Wavefront, 3Ds Max etc. On the 2D side, Discreet Logic with Flame etc. Today, all owned by Autodesk.
Some folks are working on a standard curriculum for software engineering and a standard process to follow that incorporates both waterfall and agile methodologies. In fact it also includes having an engineering team think about what they are doing and evaluating the quality of their process using a number of standard dimensions and metrics.

Read more about SEMAT here http://semat.org/

Stuff like this is a prerequisite to creating software that is done, and can be used for 200 years without any substantial change.

Could Java ever get to that stage? What about some of the JVM ecosystem such as Tomcat or Camel?
So it is possible the ceo switch happened now since the board was willing to reduce company size, instead of the other way around? I can imagine markets to take it better if this appears to be the first wise move of a very capable ceo.
"WITH its estimated one million security cameras, London is pioneering a new area of detection". - Insane, and scary.
>What they should have done is ramp that shit up and figure out how to monetize the query traffic or figure out a way to decentralize their infrastructure to allow everyone to run Twitter together

So, I'm genuienly curious. How do they make money by "ramping that shit up"? I've seen a lot of companies that have 'get users' as their M.O., but I have no insight into the "profit!!!" phase. Opening their user base seems contary to "profit!!!", from a laymans perspective.

It seems to me like API/User info availability is their leverage w.r.t. profitability, much as it pains me as a potential developer who would like that information for free. How does decentralization make them (and their investors) money? I can't see a way to do both given the incentives.
It doesn't matter that you personally know him and that he's a humble guy. They scaled to mega-usage with a small eng team --> scalability genius.
1) Operating is not the same as building, especially if you have to figure things out.

2) Twitter reported half a billion in revenue last quarter.
A better analogy would be riding your bicycle on array, and not necessarily with traffic.
> bet twitter usage is up compared to 4 years ago.

It probably is. But probably not as much as everything believed it would be.

Coolness is about making money in case, but indirectly. If investors see others not being interested in Twitter and not regarding it as cool, they will pull out. I understand Twitter's primary revenue tool is advertisement. That requires users to advertise to.
Few reasons and there's more but I won't go on forever.

1)The "latest version" of a programming language is not the same as having the latest version of Firefox. Having the latest version can actually be a detriment if you lose libraries as with Python3.

2)It may be unpopular, but I tend to follow the market to a certain degree. Python is my language of choice for home projects and employment. But almost all employers use Python2.x. So I follow them just to keep 1 less hassle out of my life.

3)Losing the long tail of libraries that 2.x has. Many things support Python3, and I'm not against it. I'm just waiting for the day when Python3 is more convenient than Python2 to move. I wasn't one asking for the Py3 changes, and they certainly weren't done for me. So I don't feel like being inconvenienced or doing any porting/heavy lifting in the meantime.

4)My petty reason. I think everyone should just do what's in their best interests.
I advertised that "2 of course" because it is a given, but rarely stated. I've met a number of pushy Python3 folks and find them distasteful, which hasn't helped budge me in the slightest. They've probably made me a little edgy on that topic.

5)It's a programming language, so what helps you build something the fastest should be what we use. Today that's still Python2. Some people feel very passionately about Python3 and I hope they spend many hours porting and building the ecosystem for my arrival one day. What seems to be going on instead is they're hoping to convert more devotees that will go out there and do a bunch of free ports.

6)I'm more concerned with moving too early than I am too late when the Python3 ecosystem one day, maybe, eclipses Python2. They're just not that different, I've used both and it's no different from building software with 2. But they have vastly different breadth of libraries in 2's favor. They also screwed up on a few things with 3, it isn't really a flat "upgrade" either.

7)Python3 is just adding more bloat. I generally prefer features are REMOVED from a language until there's nothing left that could reasonably be removed from the core language. Ideally I'd like to see a small version of Python with the basics never touched and features added through addons or a macro system.

Latest version, upgrade, and support-ends-2020 are all political statements in regards to Python3 that mean nothing in reality.
Latest version- what can't be backported?
Upgrade- more like sidegrade once all things are considered.
Support EOL- total smoke and mirrors, code will not stop running post 2020.

They're tossing every feature against the wall that they can to fix that. I'm one that holds feature-soup in disdain though so this is unattractive to me, and I prefer a well thought out "one way to do it" (Zen of Python) approach. Python is well beyond the basics at this point and not a small language, but at least 2.7 is frozen and I can choose to use the backports people provide if I want. I like a smaller core language if possible because I have to read other people's codebases.
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Exactly. As learner of second/third languages, I can tell you that people lie all the time about how words are pronounced! If I ask you how "candidate" is pronounced, you'll pronounce all the syllables clearly. Then I'll ask you to explain the current candidates in the US presidential race and you'll start saying "cannidate"
React makes you a better javascript developer, no doubt. The problem I have with other frameworks (Angular, Ember) is that they use a templating language, instead of Just Javascript™. After using React, I never want to touch a templating language ever again. I don't want to learn a DSL to do simple things like loops + filters and conditionals, which I already know with Javascript. I don't want to learn their special scoping rules, something which Javascript has already defined. And I seriously doubt debugging templates is easy.
I don't understand why regulators don't just do additional, more representative tests so they can track long-term trends and also have a better test? How much time/resources do the tests actually take?
Interesting comparison. It mentions ppa coming soon, that would be really handy as testing cairogl is a pain right now.

It would be nice if the benchmarks were ran on a site equivalent to mozillas "are we fast yet".
80 character limit, yet uses 4 space indentation instead of 2. My advice: Use 2 space indentation.

I do like the `handleEvent` convention.
> the stock is down 3% in after-hours trading.

Any fluctuation within 5% is perfectly normal and totally meaningless.
... and of course making the problem systematically worse.

They explicitly state that they're after people who were filmed - just filmed - at the London riots a few years ago. They're looking to arrest them, and to extract damages from them.

At those riots, absolute worst case 10-20% of people will have stolen or smashed things, with most just rallying for justice. But that doesn't even matter. The vast majority of those people aren't criminals, and even of the ones that did commit criminal acts during those riots 99% aren't "regular criminals" (meaning any more disrespectful of laws than a bad landlord is, day-to-day).

But arresting these people will seriously impact their situation, their job, their prospects, and bring them a LOT closer to becoming criminals. And even the ones where it doesn't make them criminals, it will make them much more likely to riot again, for obvious reasons.

This is stupid, dangerous, and merely meant to make a few people in power feel good about themselves.
If they're really going toward content, I think Moments is a good idea with a questionable name. Something like Super-GoogleNews could eventually evolve, Sprinkle a little recommendation engine over and you got yourself a custom page full of wordstuff.
And? Aside from the fact that that's not really true, what does it matter? Twitter already IPO'd, the original investors got their money back, now it's just owners. And it doesn't require a team of 4000 to operate twitter. It requires far fewer, and as time goes on twitter will generally just get cheaper to operate.

Twitter can easily bring in enough revenue to keep doing what it's doing indefinitely. And that's totally fine. But it's unlikely they're going to grow by 10x in a few years or pivot drastically. Yet those unrealistic expectations were built into the current stock price.
You lack imagination! There are so many ways to deliver what the internet delivers today that you have not considered. I wouldn't even have to foresake our current software ecosystem built up around tcp and http. Keep your YouTube and Twitter for as long as you'd like.
There's some truth to this - the race in the auto industry, as I understand it, has been to increase power and efficiency while decreasing emissions.

Unfortunately, you start running headfirst into the laws of physics.

Power, fuel economy, low emissions. Pick any two.