skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Estimates are that 90% of Fortune 500 companies use Java[1], and Java dominates job offering by a wide margin[2]: "its stranglehold on modern development is unshakable." The #2 platform is, unsurprisingly .Net. If you concentrate on non-Windows platforms you see that Java easily constitutes a majority. Note that what I said is adjusted by size: fledgling companies prefer quicker development.

[1]: http://www.zipcodewilmington.com/blog/why-java-skills-matter...

[2]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2868654/it-jobs/java-develo..., http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608294/java/employers-want...
I enjoyed my 23&me account in general. The one piece of info that I've found 'useful' was my eyecolor genotype. I have brown eyes and my husband has blue eyes. But I have blue and brown alleles, so before we had kids we were able to intelligently guess about their eye color.

(It wasn't that useful, but we enjoyed it. We now have one child with blue eyes, and one with brown eyes)
I have no idea why this is controversial. The previous day's Gladwell article even comes to the same conclusion as most that notoriety and coverage are major factor in these types of attacks.
Isn't this good for startups in general?

Every time a startup IPOs the investors now have a chance to exit and re-invest in other startups with the fresh capital.
Makani Power (https://www.google.com/makani/) positions itself as obtaining more power at 250-350m but perhaps a more important metric is obtaining higher "capacity factors" (i.e. more reliable).
I'm always curious why it's seems it's always this Hail Mary play, in attempt to win the lottery.

It's betting on a future, and the future is unpredictable.

"Too Big To Fail" is not the terminology I would ever want towards something I develop - I think Titanic.

I understand that businesses do not start out profitable from the get go, but $700 million in debt?
Putin: Tell Your Dictator President He Can Go to Hell
Europe's biggest export is learned helplessness.
MIT Invents Alterable Pin Surface That Lets Objects Assemble Themselves
The work looks useful and valuable to this area of study. But WaPo and other media outlets persist in a ubiquitous and terrible trend in science reporting, especially those associated with lifestyle and healt : "Here is a study which has different findings than the other studies we've been reporting on, all that research is now overturned! Burn your standing desk!" Of course, in a few months, someone will publish another study calling this one into question, and they'll tell us all to go out and buy new standing desks. As we all know, science doesn't work that way. This study needs to be put into context with other studies, if it contradicts those studies, that needs to be discussed, future studies that might resolve the discrepancy should be identified, limitations on the applicability of this study and on the ones it contradicts should be pointed out, changes in the model we use to understand the effects of mobility and posture on health should be discussed, etc. etc.

Instead, we get serial repetitions of "standing is bad", "standing is good", "it doesn't really matter". I have to look at a calendar to figure out if the caffeine in my coffee is slowly killing me or turning me into a focused super-intellect. Won't someone please, please tell me if I should be ingesting wine and/or chocolate this week?
depends, you can do it in a few days if you want. Oliver Samwer famously did his in 5 days when Rocket Internet went public in Germany.
Yeah, after the 2.0 version he vanished [0]. Issues and pull requests are piling up without response. Here's the (questionable) effort to fork it: https://github.com/SkeletonFramework

[0] https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton/issues/275
>It has to do with the FDA protecting the public from crappy medical devices and drugs.

Which devices and drugs were 23&Me selling? I thought it was just crowd-sourced information about traits.

Think how ridiculous it would be if the FDA just shut down a crowd-sourced database about trait correlations. But suddenly when a company like 23&Me correlates the two, it becomes pure, concentrated evil that must be subject to regulation.
The Most Prolific Editor on Wikipedia
Face-recognition technology can diagnose developmental disorders
PhantomJS allows you to render a page and fully manipulate or search it. It's a headless WebKit browser you can use from the command line and it works pretty well. Google is obviously doing the same thing. They even used to show images of what a url looks like in the search results. They stopped doing that as I suspect it uses up a lot of resources of many sites.
Not OP, but while I've had a lot of success, the evidence doesn't support blanket application of 'Yoga' to back pain. The real problem is that back pain typically goes away regardless of treatment modality, which leads to a lot of people who grab the last thing they tried as "the real thing that fixed my back".
I'm asking: 'why do people feel personally intruded on?' which we could then use to answer the question as you interpreted it: 'why does it change the behavior of the population?'
Programma 101, the first commercial “desktop computer”
Any more details on that? I wonder what's the reason? It's a better experience for me to have every app take advantage of a single notification center.
Have you considered running a linux VM on virtualbox? I do that in situations I am forced to run windows.
Volume isn't the only thing in CC realm. Visa, MC, AMEX charge a pass-through rate. If the deal with Starbucks didn't push the pass through rate and charged south of 10 basis points, then they're not making money but still have to spend money on infrastructure.

Companies that act as gateways are not making large chunks of cash so every basis point matter.

edit: spelling, structure
Application Cache is a Douchebag (2012)
I took that chapter and went in a different direction, making the network a DAG and building a functional reactive programming environment out of it.

Now, to go back and the propagator network and read the Scheme-Propagators source.
Yeah, smells like an adolescent rationalization.
Google Compute doesn't even support IPv6 and Google is a big pro-IPv6 company.

I suspect that somewhere under the hood these services are using some expensive enterprise SDN stuff that still doesn't support IPv6.
If they are making a loss this implies they are not paying dividends. Therefore how can PE ratio be positive ?
Yev from Backblaze here -> Not necessarily, it just means that if we had a set of those drives and replaced them multiple times over a given period, that number can be quite high. We're comparing the drives that failed against the number we have spinning, not the total we've had in service.
Very cool, how does it work?
Ask HN: Startup employees, have you gained weight since working at a startup?
“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979”
NetBSD-7.0 developer interview: Christos Zoulas
The tough part is knowing that for every one of those that shoots up a bunch of people, there's an untold number of people that might feel similar feelings of alienation and agitation, but don't end up taking those final planning and action steps. In other words, before the killers took those final steps towards becoming a monster, there's not a really good way to differentiate them from someone else who never becomes a monster.

This is where I think the whole discussion goes off the rails - the emphasis is in figuring out how to identify these "potential monsters", or in preventing these "potential monsters" from having the means to accomplish their ends.

But if it's impossible to define a test/indicator such that, if it's true then they'll probably shoot up a school down the line, and if it's false then they probably won't, then where does that leave us?

I think it leaves us in a place of not treating these people as potential monsters, but instead as normal kids struggling with feelings of alienation and lack of purpose, and giving them love and support. Not looking for signs of "potential school shooters" and seeking to prevent it, but looking for signs of loneliness and alienation, and seeking to give support. I just think that for a lot of us, we've probably had times in our past where we had a lot in common with the people that had not yet shot up a bunch of people. So when we think of what might have made our lives better at those times, maybe it would have helped some of them too. There the emphasis is more on just helping alienated kids feel less alone, knowing that for a very small percentage of them, it very well could prevent some real tragedies later on.
$-1/transaction * 1,000,000 transactions vs $-1/transaction * 1,000,000,000
https://www.digitalocean.com/

https://www.softlayer.com/

https://www.vultr.com/

https://www.linode.com/

https://www.arpnetworks.com/

https://www.ovh.com/

I don't understand why everyone has to use Amazon. Their price/performance for compute is not great and their per-node reliability isn't any better than any of the above providers either. (Google compute has auto-migration on hardware problems so they score higher here, but still no IPv6.)

Amazon does have a great service ecosystem but most people don't use most of it. I'd expect big-and-dumb "enterprise" IT people to pick a provider by picking the one with the largest features list and/or the highest "nobody ever got fired for" score, but I'm surprised that startups do the same. All of the above providers support IPv6 out of the box and have for a while. One of the ways startups can win is by making first-handed technically-informed vendor decisions instead of going with the herd.
The evolution of our species in under two minutes [video]
> 13 people will become BILLIONAIRES and centi/multi-millionaires

I think you mean "hecto" rather then "centi". A centimillionaire has assets worth on the order of $10,000.
Square Founder's Letter for IPO
Those aren't individual holdings (except for Jack and a couple of the small ones). They're holdings of VC firms which in turn means they're holdings of various large LPs.
In my opinion a prototype is used to prove there is a market for your product and attract seed investment.

An MVP is then created with the help of that seed investment and launched to help greater substantiate your product and attract further funding.

The Dropbox video is a good idea. It may not be a prototype but it created enough hype for them to show investors that there was a market and demand for what they were building. My only concern is that if you are creating a product in a new market you are potentially giving away a lot of your first mover advantage with that tactic.
At the stage of still being unprofitable. Just like Twitter and Amazon, which are also both public companies.

Filing for an IPO does not mean you're slowing growth...it's just an alternate form of fundraising that allows a different mix of investors to join in on the fun.
Trickle down economics has never really ever proved to provide value like that.
2nd Anniversary of the Only Media Tech Hub in NYC
I think this downplays the panoply of great things that advertising-based business models have made possible, not to mention that actual function of advertising in society. Why risk it? Because the risk is worth taking, unless you'd like to dismantle all television networks, newspapers, magazines, Google, Facebook, and put a huge dent in the earnings of every company that gets a return on its advertising investment. Sounds like economic collapse to me.
Show HN: Real time torrent streaming in the browser
Apple doesn't need it: they have Apple pay, and probably aren't interested in making the Square dongle work for off-brand devices.

Google also has their own hardware & payment system. What does Square offer that Google doesn't already have, more or less?
University researchers like John Hennessy (current President of Stanford), who made a bunch of money founding MIPS and Atheros (both of which were valued heavily for their patent portfolios)?
This looks like an important story, but it would be better to find a more substantive source than a press release. Is there one?
When you put all things into a blackbox and pray for the promising result, the whole methodology goes to a dead end because it's not revealing the truth but voodoo magic to self-cheating. Nowadays, people just put big data into a blackbox to make "AI".
We need the AI system to tell us why, not how. Or it's not AI to help you, you made yourself a Lord to give you order. And you never have chance to ask it why.

Symbolic AI could be a chance, because it keeps necessary meta info to reveal reasonable things. But how to optimize it properly will be a problem.
Why You Should Not Major in Engineering
UW should take the money and use it to endow a chair of processor engineering.

Or maybe a table of processor engineering. That could work too.
Your community is broken. I'm sorry to hear that.
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Personally I find standing helps me focus more. When I sit I get sleepy. Especially after lunch
That's basically telling them with ambiguity attached. I'm not sure it's much better.
I have no idea whether this statement is true! Can you provide some justification?
How to Ruin an Ad – Part 8
Explaining X11 for the rest of us
Here are some reasons that could be at play.

1. Shove it through while public market sentiments are still positive and accepting or riskier bets.

2. The numbers can only look worse in the future.

The fact that the company is in the red, in itself, is not a reason to stop going public. Companies like FireEye are in the red but have multiplied in market cap since going public.
The parent is talking about them penalizing sites that use such hidden text that would normally show to the crawler but be invisible to an actual human looking at the page.
The pop culture blog Dangerous Minds did a piece about this a while ago: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/welcome_to_scarfolk_the_m....
Global Internet Experts Plan for More Secure, Reliable Wi-Fi and Internet
LLILC at Six Months – A Retrospective
NanoFL: a freeware Flash Pro alternative
I'd be more interested in my doctor having this information. I tend to self diagnose (poorly) when presented with too much information that I don't understand well. But I feel like a medical professional could use the data to keep an eye out for specific symptoms and tailor questions for my risks, without giving me unneeded anxiety.
I think "seriously concerned" is different from "personally bothered". Concern has to do with the situation as a whole and what you might do about it, not i.e. feelings of personal violation, no?
I used a port of Emacs created by Dan Bricklan (MIT) of Software Arts (Cambridge, MA) for the Prime minicomputer in 1980, so 35 years. Have used it ever since as my daily programming editor.
Why are you looking at the % and not the $ value that they'd earn? 39.5% isn't a small amount either, whatever that will convert to in $ value.
Without access to a crowdsourced database of faces-to-identities this library is next to useless.
Jack, the Roger Bannister of his field.
I don't think there would be any benefit. Square was revolutionary when they were the only one with mobile card reader technology. Now everyone has it. The only thing they have going for them is their _brand_. Apple historically hasn't bought anything that they can easily do on their own. Google much the same.
That Gladwell article is a good read, it offers a perspective I hadn't come across before. Not that it really "solves" the problem at all, just casts a different light on it.
> Google also has their own hardware & payment system. What does Square offer that Google doesn't already have, more or less?

Square's user base and momentum on the retail side. Even if there is nothing special in the technology, they might be worth buying for that.
I haven't thought about "Voices From The Hellmouth" in a really long time. I remember reading Slashdot a ton in high school and college (maybe 97 or 98 through 02?). Then, not so much. FWIW, HN, esp when I first found it a few years ago, reminded me a lot of what I loved about the discussion on Slashdot back in the day.

Anyway, the actual point of this comment: much of what's described in "Voices From The Hellmouth" would now fit comfortably under the currently fashionable term "microagression." I'd bet that many posters on HN and elsewhere who think that microaggressions aren't a thing worth real concern, are also the sorts of people who were/are picked on in the way that "Hellmouth" catalogs so vividly.

And for the record, I'm not saying that the prevailing view on HN is that microaggressions aren't real, or that most people who deny them were bullied geeks. Just that there are probably a lot of bullied or formerly bullied geeks who deny the significance of such social ostracism, even though they experienced it themselves.

Ironic, but not unexpected: people without power often end up at odds with one another when they should be looking for common ground and empathizing with one another. Still, sad. I always find it really painful to watch minorities be racist, to watch geeks pick on other geeks for lacking social graces, to watch women be unfeminist, etc. Well, sometimes it's darkly hilarious. But still painful.
It's unfortunate that we can't directly measure anything to determine if standing is helpful or even how bad sitting is for the body.
My brother-in-law's brother learned of a 28year old daughter he never knew he had because of 23andMe and met her last year.
Last week my SO was freaking out because she kept getting ads for things she had conversations about in person, but never looked up on her phone. A few days ago I asked her why we had a plastic bag from Games Workshop (we've never shopped there and the bag came from a Craigslist purchase we had made). Her phone was sitting on the table, and a few hours later she showed me an ad for Games Workshop on her news feed. This was on Android, and the Messenger app includes permission to use the mic at any time.

It might be audio being always on, or it might be more than that. They aren't above it.
Once you are asked "Are you sure you want to know this?" you are already making the person very anxious.

Now they would certainly want to what their problem is. Who would be comfortable when they are told, they have a terminal disease and are they happy not knowing what that is?
Thanks guys. Irony..
There are some ways that he could have improved the deactivation routine, but I thought the most clever thing was that he used a capacitance sensor to activate the magnet the moment the handle was touched. That had to greatly increase the battery life.
AT&T Readies Technology to Let Multiple Devices Share One Phone Number
matplot allows you to create almost any chart you want. However, it is very low level.

On the other hand, with ggplot, you can create a good enough chart in couple of lines of code almost for any data.

BTW, there's a ggplot port for a Python: http://ggplot.yhathq.com/
Sure, but you need to burn until you become part of the oligopoly of Visa, AMEX, Mastercard, Discover. Square is offering cheaper transaction rates through better technology - that's the only reason a company would switch to them over the big 4 in the first place. They'll bring down rates for everyone, but at some point they need to find their place as one of the big 5, at which point equilibrium rates will be high enough for them to turn a profit. This means they need large accounts, they need volume, they need credibility, they need to own a big chunk of infrastructure. Even if they're losing money on it now.

If I'm a potential customer and I see Square losing its Starbucks account and 17% of its revenue I'm going to be somewhat wary of its ability to exist in 3-5 years, and then I'll have to incur costs of switching back to some other payments processor.
"Total revenue = $707.8 million"

Somehow that seems wrong to me... Is Square counting money-through-the-system as revenue? Is that what it is? To me it feels like their revenue would be their cut of the money that runs through the system, so some small percentage of the $707m. Is this a common thing to do, in this area?
I think IRC is the Delorean of this analogy.
That's 20, for all of Europe, since 2000.

The US has had over 30 mass killings this year. And that's only the events where four or more people were killed. It doesn't include events like Sept 28th 2015 Miami Florida where 15 people were shot but no-one died.

Sept 28th 2015 Miami Florida - I need to include all that information because there were also shootings on that day in Indianapolis, IN; Walterboro, SC; and Philadelphia, PA, and there were shootings (often different events on the same day) on September 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 18th, 19th 20th, 21st, 29th, and 30th September.

> Not even close

Really?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-leads-world-in-mass-shooting...

> The U.S. represents less than 5% of the 7.3 billion global population but accounted for 31% of global mass shooters during the period from 1966 to 2012, more than any other country, Mr. Lankford said, adding that he defines a mass shooter as one who killed at least four victims. The 90 killers who carried out mass shootings in the U.S. amounted to five times as many as the next highest country, the Philippines, according to his research.
Does anyone know, off hand, if Square has any important patents? I did a little searching, but couldn't find much.

I do like the company. Just curious if they have any patents that will prevent competition?
Uhh, all these people are individuals: https://squareup.com/about#leadership and don't appear to be "representatives / holdings of VC firms".
What is a category-killer? From what I can tell, they are a middleman to another middleman (you could call them the third wheel), only one of which has the leverage in this world (it's not Square).

We read about them because... I'm not too sure actually, I guess it's because they are burning VC money and have a splendid website.
Starbucks is broken out explicitly - Revenue for SBUX $123 million and it cost them $150 million to process, so they were losing $27 million / year on the Starbucks partnership. The rest of their business is quite different, so losing that partnership makes them stronger, not weaker, as you are implying.
Not true. Uber sets a commission (differs across different markets) with a new driver and that's what they get from the miles + time portion of the fare.

If Uber decides to change the commission it almost always grandfathers existing drivers to what they had when they joined.
It is mitigating 1 million failure modes in one site or a few simple failure modes in 1 million sites. It wouldn't surprise me if wind turbines run SQLite!
Tesla Rolls Out Autopilot Technology
OSX Notification Center: where notifications go to die. Hope you were at your computer when the toast message appears otherwise you'll never know there was a notification unless you obsessively open the sidebar to check.
If he doesn't, you haven't helped him at all. You've just derided him with no pointers to educate himself.

If he does, then maybe you could give the charitable interpretation of that he's joking.
Most of those losses are because Square subsidizes the actual cost of credit card processing (i.e. charges stores less than what Visa charges). There are a bunch of ways to mitigate this:

- the termination of the Starbucks agreement in 2016 (this already saves $27 million/year based on the 2014 numbers)

- raising flat-rate processing fees for businesses in the future

- reduce the cost of transactions by adding more fraud-prevention measures that make credit card processors happy (e.g. Chip and PIN)

- create a new business that allows Square to cut out the credit card networks by owning both sides of the transaction

- create a new business using the information from being in the credit card processing flow that is profitable enough to subsidize the credit card processing

Right now, I suspect they're trying to "pull an Amazon" -- they're operating at a loss, but they hope investors will like the brand and the vision enough that they'll put money in anyway.