skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They've always meant apps that offer more or less the same functionality as official Twitter clients.

That would mean that if I wrote a Twitter clone that consumed 100x less memory and was much more performant, it would still be a "banned" application even when there is clear benefit for the users.

>been clear that the user limit was really meant for Twitter-clones.

Even if that was true, its backstabbing developers who are popularizing Twitter in their own way.

>Besides the few remaining twitter clones always play catchup when Twitter puts out new features (recent example; polls).

And why is that a problem? What if an app developer thinks that new features are not worth them spending development time/money on?

It would be like Apple forcing ios developers to support force touch if they want to continue selling their apps.
badlogic, I can't reply to a comment thread going as deep as your last comment. Did Xamarin specifically put in the acquisition that it will remain free for libGDX developers? Because my faith in Xamarin is not high that they won't remove free integration with RoboVM, as Xamarin loves charging developers high prices, and thus me developing games using libGDX and RoboVM becomes a risky decision.
I think AFK is more appropriate for when you are away from the keyboard while logged on to something (chat, a game, etc).
So if black people in your state were being replaced, and that helped your pet political issue, you would cheer on their replacement?

Somehow I doubt you'd say that in polite company. Funny how blatantly racist rhetoric is okay... if the recipients are those mean old whites!
>Most people would agree it's fair that Twitter wants to disallow outright clones.

I don't. Could you articulate why you think its fair?
Welcome to the world of medicine techies, where you have to comprehensively prove that your idea works or gtfo. Quite different from the Silicon Valley ethos that you're used to.
Is it available as one big torrent anywhere or is that more likely once its all been leaked?
What makes you think I would agree with that? Doesn't follow.
Can someone tl:dr this? What happens to videos that were uploaded by old no-longer active users? Are they going to disappear as well?
LAM Research to buy KLA-Tencor
That's for the personal edition, which can only connect to CSV, Excel, MS Access, OData and Tableau's proprietary Data Extract format (TDE). Tableau Online requires your data to be stored in their cloud (which might not be acceptable to some IT departments).
What's wrong with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_in_quantum_mechani...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence

?

If you don't like Wikipedia, the references section are chock-full of "real" papers, including this one:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0306/0306072.pdf
Eventually criminals will learn, as some terrorists have, that mobile phones and crime don't mix well.
That bug is marked as a duplicate of a bug that's been fixed for close to a year now. So either you're seeing a different issue, or your recent experience wasn't all that recent. If it's the former, I really would appreciate more details so we can fix it; if it's the latter, give it another shot. ;)
You're employed because a specific amount of work needs to be done within a specified amount of time.

If you're not going to do it, who will?

The work might wait a week or two (vacation), but do you really think the clients will be OK waiting months (sabbatical)?

The only industry where it's acceptable to just take off is within academia and that's mostly because most of the teaching is done by staff that would never have the option of a sabbatical to begin with.
If an act isn't actually illegal, your problem isn't with the courts. It's with the legislative branch.
I transformed the code into something sort of readable, although still somewhat difficult to understand:

https://gist.github.com/a1k0n/15f6cc2fc9428d6fd197
Not just one. And considered changing his name to Zune too.
He seemed to regret it though.
http://www.wired.com/2009/09/zune-tattoo/
Ironic how Twitter, who turned their backs on developers years ago, are now forced to backpedal now that they are in decline. The same day, YouTube turns their back on content creators. A preview of things to come?
Validate your idea before you do anything.

Speak to your target market and get them hyped about your product. If you can get them to pre-order then even better.

Don't think you know exactly what people want because you're most likely going to be wrong and will waste so much of your time and money.
Hi. Doubt anybody else will see this, but I did have a comment.

No hate against Jennifer Lawrence for saying self-beneficial nonsense, because she's just publicly advocating for her next paycheck. It's a great strategic negotiating move on her part (which actually is an example against the idea that women can't negotiate as well as men because this is an amazingly shrewd move on her part). But how can anybody take that seriously when it's not gender disparity that sets paychecks, but the marketplace? There's a reason that somebody like (for instance) Tom Cruise or Will Smith generally makes more than somebody like JL - they make movies more money.

Then your article devolves into a bunch of quasi-Tumblr-fan-girl-politically-correct-nonsense about the nonexistent wage gap that disappears when you compare men and women in equal roles with equal levels of experience. If there was a wage gap between men and women of equal experience, why isn't there one company out there that's hiring mostly women to reap major savings on payroll? There's a perception that capitalists are so greedy that they're willing to pollute the environment, sell out their children's financial futures, and kick out entire families onto the curb to make a few bucks, yet somehow they can't see that they can hire mostly women to save a bundle on this wage gap and beat all of their competitors out there? Please.

"Once again, I would urge my fellow startup CEOs to set a single compensation scheme per role or department rather than allowing each individual employee to have a say in how they’re paid."

This is a recipe for attracting the worst possible employees (because everybody makes the same) and making sure that the most qualified people bounce as soon as possible or simply don't put any real effort into their work. I commend you if you stick by your beliefs and actually run a company this way, but I guarantee that you're putting yourself at a disadvantage this way.
Speaking of crazy ascii company logo animations, I never got a chance to golf these down, but I made some with color and signed distance field ray marching:

https://github.com/a1k0n/asciitracing
Google runs plenty of other things for free that benefit them by driving traffic to their ad platform in the long run.
You knew carrying heroin was risking jail time. Bankers and white collar business men do not think they are risking jail time in their daily decision making.

This is by design. As a crime, heroin possesion provides an easy way to assess guilty/not-guilty; the perpetrator either possesses heroin, or not. In contrast, white collar crimes do not provide an easy way to assess guilty/not-guilty. Clear fundamental truths (yes/no), beget clear legislation, beget clear enforcement.

How do you sentence someone as guilty of a white collar crime? You need to rely on legislation to define the law, because the law is what businessmen consider on a day-to-day basis. If the law allows them to make a decision, they should have every right to make that decision without fear of later prosecution for it.

The problem is not enforcement, it's legislation. If clearer laws defined the decision making affecting "white collar" crimes, then agencies like the SEC could implement clearer enforcement.

Unfortunately the world changes faster than the regulatory environment, so this conundrum is unlikely to ever change.

(sentencing length is another story)
Entirely different meanings? They seem pretty close to me: If something is loose, it's easy to lose because it's not tightly bound or fitted.
IDLs are awesomely useful and you can build all sorts of things on that abstraction, especially if you have a parser that produces a standard AST (I wrote a PegJS parser that takes the Thrift IDLs and creates a plain old javascript object AST that can be used for things like: (1) writing dynamic serializers/deserializers for binary data (uber/thriftrw), (2) validators (not yet written, but will both lint as well as check for backwards compatibility when IDLs are updated); (3) bash autocompletion for an RPC api via a curl-like command (soon to land in uber/tcurl))

At Uber, we started with Apache Thrift, but found many things about it limited and broken with dubious code quality for some languages. Furthermore we had more ambitious ideas like application layer sharding (uber/ringpop) and service discovery and routing (uber/hyperbahn).

We're still using the thrift protocols (uber/thriftrw) with our rpc library (uber/tchannel), but could have built on top of another IDL format like protobufs (v3).

For those curious about the RPC interface, just check out: https://tchannel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

The interface supports all sorts of things

This is all over TCP right now and designed for performance and service to service communication, but there is nothing preventing the addition of HTTP (via XHR or WebSockets) as a transport for allowing web apps to speak with tchannel services. I contributed to the Apache Thrift implementation that allows this (https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/lib/nodejs/lib/...). The implementation for tchannel would be similar, but rely on XHR/WS in the browser and the `http` module instead of the `net` module in NodeJS on the server. It's trivial to write a proxy frontend that relays TJSONProtocol on the frontend to a Thrift binary protocol like TBinaryProtocol or TCompactProtocol.

https://github.com/uber/hyperbahn
https://github.com/uber/tchannel
https://github.com/uber/ringpop-node
https://github.com/uber/ringpop-go
https://github.com/uber/idl
https://github.com/uber/tcurl
https://github.com/uber/tcap

etc.
Why are people so pissed off about Airbnb?
FCC Data on Unwanted Calls
This is so cool! Written in Clojure! WOW!

Any idea on the timeline for SQL Server support ?
what is also interesting is that as the Aral/Ural sea has dried up is that the land bridge that has formed has opened greater access to a former Soviet biological weapons lab/military base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozrozhdeniya_Island
I wasn't 100% sure of the etiquette when something like that comes up. I posted to the thread earlier, but no one definitively told me that's how I should handle it. I will make a note for future reference.

BTW, I've been going through a number of that domain's links here just a little while ago and saw most of the stories from that site are cross-posted on many other domains. It's almost as if there are so many cross-posts on some of those stories Google can't easily point me to a more "definitive" source. Instead there are just pages of links to unrecognizable domains that are all probably doing the same thing.
> The pervasive uncertainty of Browne’s writing offers a respite from the stifling certainties of today. We have religious zealots, just as the seventeenth century did—but we also have zealots of so many more varieties. We have had the end of history and the death of faith. Civilizations clashed, everything is post-something. Cassandras say we are digital drones; Panglosses say the Internet is freedom. We believe in St. Paul Krugman or St. Paul Gigot. Anyone who says we are a society lacking belief is not paying attention. If anything, we are lacking doubt.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939

This is the summary of the article and an smbc comic I was exposed to today, the combination of which have brought me back to my repeated question of how exactly have we improved the communication of important ideas over the last few centuries? Have we improved it at all?

Or perhaps I should be asking what the important ideas are.
I just served on a jury for a criminal trial (a police officer tipped off a suspected pedophile about an investigation).

The very first people to go were the idiots who couldn't string a sentence together. After that it was anyone who expressed the slightest anti-cop sentiment. The judge didn't even make the lawyers waste blackballs on them, she just summarily dismissed them for cause. The jury was two software engineers, a contractor, a pastor, some stay-at-home moms, a mechanic, a teacher and a geologist.
It's not about saving energy. It is much more dangerous for bicyclists to stop at stop signs.

By the way, transportation mode share in NYC is only about 10:1 in favor of cars over bicycles, not 100000:1
Was YouTube gaming even succesful? I think the YouTube Brand is overused and has lost value.
I guess they're just going for the entire Alphabet of antitrust discussions.
The same technique has caught bank robbers in the US: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/how-cell-tower-du...
Doc Brown for President
He successfully led us into the future 30 years ago this week, We believe he, more than any of the other candidates, has what it takes to take our country into the future once more. Doc Brown For President.
You and your logic, making some good reasonable points.
The problem is that the jury is made up of average people but they are expected to sit in judgement on something very complex and specialised. Instead I think that complex fraud cases should be made up of people that have expertise in that area. Or alternatively have a panel of three judges with expert knowledge sit in judgement.
FYI: You have a typo, where you wrote "import" and I think you meant "important."

I like your point about people who are, for example, the first college graduate in their family. My hypothesis is that this lack of information is a large factor in why women don't negotiate harder. JL herself indicated shock at learning what the men were making.

My hypothesis is that men are more able to get this kind of information from other men. Women are rarely in a position to get such info readily and casually.
Headline 1 year from now:

How Pewdiepie became a billionaire and everyone making a
living off 1M views a month went broke.

(At least that's what will happen if their royalties are based on aggregate subscription revenue & views rather than per subscriber views, a la Spotify)
Ideally you want to find someone offering cognitive behaviour therapy. You want an experienced practitioner. One to one face to face settings are better, but some people like group meetings or find telephone consults convenient.

For a mild problem you would be doing between 8 to 14 sessions of about an hour each.

The aim would be to indentify a problem. Then identify the "hot thought", the emotion it creates, how strongly you feel that emotion, and then the evidence you have for it.

You don't push that thought away, the therapist doesn't try to correct it. You sit with it for a few moments. You learn to identify the physical changes your body goes through (increased heart rate, sweaty palms, faster breathing, tense neck etc). Then you think of different evidence. You think about that new evidence, and say if it affects how strongly you feel the original hot thought.

It's an iterative process! This is just a very quick description - it's a bit more involved than that.

You're right - movies are terrible portrayals of mental health treatment. Like CSI does computers level of bad.
I've seen videos where somebody tested a gun safe with a similar locking device and it proved to be pretty resilient to that type of attack. I think they finally got it open using a cast mould of his print but it required having physical access to the finger in question.
Sorry that I can't remember which apps, but I think it was a Twitter client which Apple removed from their store and then came out with their own. Several apps they cannibalize into the OS.
I made my Lego go on holiday in Thailand
Short Fringe Dress 1415
Going to guess 95%+ make use of online access codes in freshman classes. Saves the TAs for upper level classes.
Viva La Difference. Twitter could have been a vital component in the "small pieces loosely joined" philosophy of Internet-based applications. Back in its early days I had friends who had servers hooked up to accounts that responded to tweets. It was an amazing thing.
Buyers in a perfect world
Statistically close to half the people in that meeting watch porn on a regular basis... so maybe one of them.
A guess: take Instacart.

Plan A: They know that people spend $x billion on groceries per annum in sf. They also know that a big chunk of that has to be very expensive real estate and relatively expensive employees who have to be able to afford to live relatively close to sf.

If you can build a warehouse an hour out of sf on dirt cheap land and recover the cost of grocery stores in sf, plus shave some off employee wages, maybe you can make a profitable business out of grocery delivery. This business will need a lot of volume to cover fixed costs. Why will they succeed when Webvan failed? More comfort with online shopping and delivery, cheap labor via exploiting underemployed people, including dumping infrastructure costs off onto employees by making them use their own cars.

Plan B: Google is in a death match with amazon. To first approximation, G's business is taxing ecommerce by owning discovery. If people start on amazon not google, google loses. So google is building out google express because if they don't, amazon ends their business. Therefore maybe instacart is strategic to google.

I don't think I believe A or B, really, but VC is a gamble. If someone can make it work, it's a $1.4T/year market [1]

Oh, and people don't earn billions by taking safe bets.

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics...
Serious question: What if I'm dead?

There are some amazing youtube content creators who cannot sign this new deal due to the fact that they are now deceased. Is their legacy going to be lost forever because they can't sign up posthumously?
I disagree - the experience of writing with the pen, on the screen is totally not the same as writing on a Wacom tablet.

The pen can also be used as an ultra-portable mouse replacement - it fixes the "fat fingers problem" that plagues most touch screen interfaces and allows precise clicks, right-clicks and HOVERS which makes using multi level menus a breeze.

Regarding cross-browser annotations, that's something developers need to fix, :wink:, :wink:

I leave you with the mention of Staffpad[0], an amazing app for composing music which combines pen, touch, and some heavy processing into an amazing experience.

[0] http://hanselminutes.com/473/developing-staffpad-a-new-class...
> Mr. Gurley said the root of many of Silicon Valley’s problems is a resistance to taking companies public. By staying private for longer periods, startups have eluded the scrutiny of public-market investors that is needed to help companies mature and become sustainable, he said.

A lot of Silicon Valley's high-flyers are not yet great IPO candidates. Of those that could be taken public, many would face much lower valuations in the public markets, forcing them to raise less capital or sell more of themselves to raise equivalent amounts of capital to what they're raising in the private market.

As such, one could argue that the startups have been acting completely rationally by taking advantage of the willingness in the private markets to invest at exorbitant valuations. Sure, the late stage valuations are all engineered and companies will pay a hefty price if they can't deliver the returns they're increasingly having to promise late-stage investors, but I think a lot of these startups have made a calculated decision to raise as much capital as they can selling the least amount of equity, and worry about the consequences later.

It's not surprising the traditional VCs aren't thrilled with this.
Presumably their estate can.
Would love to see the reasoning for the fix in OpenSSL. Somebody in the future might want to use a deprecated, weak cipher - but wants to avoid using a bad key. Makes sense...
A new model to deliver public cloud
I feel like they should have mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Molchanova

at least in passing.
The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp
If you let them quit instead, will you be able to find anyone(s) who will handle that work, and how fast will they get up to speed? And if the person's burnt out, is their schedule packed already to the point where things like "documentation" and "refactoring" are "nice to haves" instead of necessities?
Yeah I mean you can look at it that way of you really want to but be realistic. Hulu wants to get all the content they possibly can.

When they transitioned from everyone seeing ads (free and paid users) to having an ad-free option they had to make a choice: keep the hold-outs and just play ads on their content, or strong-arm them (and lose some content).

YouTube is now strong-arming everyone with YouTube Red, "Sign our new deal or we're hiding all of your content from paying subscribers."
Actually there are two types of ";", expression-separator (the one you mentioned) and statement-separator (the one parent meant)

The problem with using those for code metrics is that many systems don't require separators, like `if`, `for` and friends
Senior Account Manager
hmm... access to the locations and SMS messages of millions of people... who could possibly want to look at that?

twitter sells you out to make every payroll. stay in the box, jack.
On a smaller scale there is Mono lake in California. Same cause, water diverted for irrigation, lake dries up.
It's hard to have a conversation if you just tap dance around all my points without addressing any of them.

Again, why, according to you, are doing illegal drugs treated as a problem that people need to be helped with, yet other illegal behaviour is the responsibility of the individual? Or aren't you saying that, and in that case, what are you saying?