skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter has huge, huge potential. To me it is 100x more useful than something like LinkedIn - even though this is not its purpose. I connect and interact with people in my industry (in an unobtrusive way). My reputation is my followers list. Twitter is already being used for this purpose (some actors and models value are now determined by the size of their follower base). And that is just one facet of its potential value.

But...they really need to focus more both on the needs of their users, and even more so, developers. A simple example - I wanted to upload videos natively to Twitter (to surpass the limits that GIFs impose)+++. Its doable through an iPhone, but I no longer own one (+ you need to transfer the file to your iPhone, which is a bit of a hassle). I had to write my own script to accomplish this, and the API was anything but helpful in this process (I had to randomly tweak video settings until it would accept one of my videos).

+++ (Note that this is different from simply linking a Youtube video - twitter videos are auto-expanded and auto-play, which makes a huge difference for interactions in my experience). GIF limit is 5 MB IIRC, and video limit is 15 MB (and 15 MB / 30 seconds of video lets you show so much more than a 5 MB GIF). Script is here if anyone needs it (designed to run on a Mac, requires TWURL and Ruby): http://pastebin.com/45h1mx8s
I purchased a surface pro 3 when it first came out, and while it is a great improvement, it still can not compete with the iPad

* More Apps on itunes

* The glass is very easy to crack on the surface Pro

* Microsoft requires that you register the device. I suppose this is the norm for IPhones, but this detracts from the PC experience

* the Surface pro is not adept for comfort viewing - on the lap or in bed.

* It is still a PC that tries to be like a Tablet rather than a true tablet. It has a lot of very annoying issues: when watching a video in a browser, it sometimes goes in the background, requiring you to tab to the correct screen. The brightness and orientation take six clicks to adjust (this was fixed with Windows 10 in Tablet mode).

* The surface pro runs MUCH hotter - sometimes too hot to hold

* The iPad is more competitive for cost for the same specs
Don't borrow trouble.
Fair enough. I'm still hoping we'll see EdDSA (22519 and 448) sooner rather than later. :)
Nice. Tier 1. Supercalafragilistic.

Yet when I think about this amazingly cool device , as a developer, I feel no inspiration. I don't see what I'm going to develop for this thing that will be different from what I'll be developing for a bog-standard, 400-dollar Dell Inspiron. Okay I might stick a bit of touch in there but I won't be making it touch-first. Microsoft acknowledges as much with this amazing keyboard.

The pen is actually cool, but no cooler than the Wacom I have been able to buy for more than a decade, and for which all use cases have already been deployed. There's not a whole lot more one can do with a computer pen without going to an actual piece of paper. I see MS Edge's annotations feature and I raise it "show me cross browser".

So yes I'd love to own one. But I'm not having any eureka moments.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this device is not the device at all, but what it reveals about the rejuvenated Microsoft. That this company which many were dismissing as history, is able to bring out a product, even though fairly conventional, that easily challenges Apple, suggests to me that MS is getting its mojo back, and I'll be taking notice when it talks software. That to me is what's greatest about this release. Not yet another (highly competent, indeed stunning, but conventional) notebook.
Land of Lisp is another great book... not Clojure per se but an excellent Clojure primer. Includes cartoons, too, which I like.
From the article:

> YouTube Red will split subscription revenue with the rights holders of content people consume through the service.
> If you pay cash vs credit card you usually pay the same amount, but the seller makes less money from the credit card sale because of fees.

And they have more labor costs associated with dealing with cash. Whether that's a net win for cash or net loss depends on the particular market that the retailer is in.
The type of "Developers" they're trying to reach is NOT people who want to build Twitter apps. That era is over and it ain't coming back. Rather, they're trying to reach the people who make mobile apps who need good analytics tools, crash reporting tools, etc. It's not even related to Twitter.

Which is exactly why I am cautious about this. When Google gives away Google analytics for free, we trust that Google will rarely come after our small startup since they already have a very lucrative business model. We know that Google knows the risk of betraying their users is not worth the trouble (unless the opportunity is huge enough that they would actually want to take the risk, in which case it wouldn't matter anyway).

In case of Twitter we don't have that trust. Even looking at Fabric, I really think--as of today--it's really THE best analytics/crash report tool out there for app developers, but I also tend to think it's a trojan horse. It's obvious they are trying to penetrate developer mindshare AND their apps through Fabric. When you use Digits, you're basically outsourcing your user database to Twitter. When you use crashlytics for your social app, you're giving away all your user behavior to Twitter. I just hope Fabric came from Google instead of Twitter, for the same reason I don't use Parse from Facebook.
Banning remote workers may not be the catalyst, but it may indeed be a valid symptom . When that memo happened I actually thought to myself that, hmm, that doesn't seem to be the kind of company I'd like to work for. And now along with this story, the first thing I remembered was that memo as it left a pretty strong impression over me.

And don't get me wrong, I understand why some companies may want people to always be present in office during business hours. But what bothered me the most was the tone, because that memo was a threat against people that, for better or worse, probably helped build Yahoo and made it what it is today.

In other words, the morale of employees could have been affected by such decisions. And unhappy employees in the creative sector are not productive employees. So you could say that they missed the turnaround. But what if they missed that turnaround because of how things are managed internally? It's not that far fetched.
If this would include access to paid YT videos I think this would rock but currently it isn't stated if it would.
I wish Dorsey's apology came with some real change, to their ToS for example and immediate reversal of bad decisions. Rather than just, tweet what would you like to see.

Actions speak louder than words, no matter how small.
This is true. And I had a longer, but more rambling reply, saying that.

I can still see situations where I'd prefer this (or similar) to cash. For covers at bars ("oops, forgot to hit the ATM! Can you get me?"), for buying tickets to shows (to ensure we're seated near each other), and other situations. But they're still infrequent compared to a decade ago for me.
Firing people is emotionally taxing. That's honestly probably 85% of the reason why shitty employees can keep their jobs. Managers hate firing people and most will procrastinate endlessly if that option is available.
I think most people have a reasonable expectation that when you release apis, you are setting up a long term relationship with developers and not to be ended on a whim. These people risked time and money to develop on your platform, and usually only did so because they expected more than a few years worth of profit.

Now of course there is no legal obligation for a company not to screw over the developers they attract. But it is scummy, and your reputation will be tarnished. It is not the norm yet.

If everyone starts releasing APIs and screwing developers as soon as it is convenient for them, then attracting developers to future platforms will become more difficult in the future.

As it stands now, you'd have to be an idiot to trust Twitter again.
I can't think of anything to say here except "Fuck you, dude".
There was discussion here based on the contract presented to Zoe Keating. If you search her name here, there are a few articles that come up. Or, conversely, you could reach out to her and she may be willing to speak to her experience and understanding. (Note: I do not have any personal or professional relationship, I just followed her story somewhat as it was relevant to my status as an independent as well)
I think it's pretty safe to say that YouTube already dominates both the content and viewership of online user-created video content.
You're asking for evidence to back up an assertion that was not made.
To answer my own question: http://mashable.com/2015/10/21/microsoft-surface-book-review...

> "I placed the Surface Book on my carpeted floor (office-style, so a pretty low-pile carpet). Then I held onto my desk and chair. I lifted both feet off the ground and gingerly lowered them onto the clipboard side of the Surface Book -- my heels and the majority of my weight were rested on the hinge. I did not move my feet or jump and down, but the device survived my full body weight (roughly 150 pounds) resting on top of it. In short, I do not see a fundamental flaw in Microsoft’s unique hinge design."
In what world are social security numbers sensitive information?

The one where you can buy pretty much anyone's (with a credit history) for $1.8?
You know the cops, they got a network for the toxic rock!

Nearly a hundred comments and this seems to be the only reference to this major facet of the drug "war". It's amazing how short-term and steered "our" attention span is.

And of course now we've got a new instance of the familiar pattern - a Heroin epidemic a decade after beginning colonization of Afghanistan...
The sky used in the demo is actually the same as the reflection just a very blurred version of it :)
The first article started with a sexist title because (IIUC) it was specifically men who were making these comments to her at the trade show.

And your attempt to make that observation "sexism" seems to be ignoring a big part of the point. This isn't stuff that "people" say to her. It isn't stuff that might be said by transgender people. It's stuff that's said specifically by men.

Could it be said by women? Sure. It probably is, sometimes. Could it be said by a transgender person? Sure. But Leah perceives this stuff as being coming from men, not coming from people.

It's not sexism when it's an actual observation of specific actual events that are actually happening to someone...

And the topic is still sexism in what men say to women at trade shows, not the latent sexism inherent in the binary concept of gender.
I was going to mention adoption dissolution (which has been used by other couples in the same situation: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/28/newser/...) but the article covers it:

> when the couple petitioned Allegheny County Judge Lawrence O’Toole to dissolve the adoption this summer, he ruled the state’s adoption law didn’t allow him to do so.

That's just sad, and they only just went the adoption route 2 years before same-sex marriage was legalised.
They only charge the tax if you use Play's IAP feature. On Android there is no requirement that you do so (see the Kindle App debacle -- it includes a store on Android but not on iOS). Apple does not allow purchases within apps that don't use the IAP feature.

If you sign up for this outside of the YouTube app on iOS you'll be charged the normal rate (and it will still work just fine on iOS).
TNKS - Nice simple tool. I started in AWS (t1.micro) as a .jar. I had to do "hostname localhost" to get the database (h2) to run but then it came right up.
We now see our bodies starting to utilize mechanisms to repair the damage caused to DNA by the likes of smoking, and even that mechanism is only apparent in a very small part of the human population.

As an ex-smoker I'm interested to know more about that, this is the first I've heard of it. Do you have any links or distinctive technical terms I could search on? I don't want to go on a fishing expedition.
Would you sit on top of your laptop?

I carry a thin plastic laptop in my backpack for years and have never had a problem with books crushing it.

Just know that you have an expensive piece of equipment in your bag and don't toss it around.
take a look at Apache Calcite: https://calcite.incubator.apache.org/
No, I think you only pay $12.99 if you subscribe via iOS. If you subscribe on Desktop then access it via your iOS device on the same account, you already have a subscription.
In Firefox 44N, “http:” pages with password fields now marked insecure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhEHNey37Q

The above video is a short demonstration of one such amphibian
Indonesia's palm oil fires emit more greenhouse gases per day than the entire US
>If a developer is successful, Twitter should be successful, and vice versa.

They would still need to find a way to make money, which was exactly why Twitter started to limit the 3rd. party developers to begin with. They hoped that tighter control over their eco-system would help selling more ads.

What would developers build on top of Twitter that can make Twitter money? I don't question that you can build interesting and wonderful apps, using Twitter as infrastructure or as a data source, but that just burdens Twitter further. Either developers need to pay Twitter for access to their platform, or developers need to allow Twitter to push ads. Alternatively developers and Twitter can data-mine the crap out of their users and split the profit.

I just don't see what product Twitter could push that will cover their operational cost. Twitter is a publicly listed business, success is measured solely on profit.
Are they FUCKING kidding me? Not again!
Men have no exclusivity on being bad CEOs. Look at Carly Fiorina.
It is hard to build hit products. Think about FB what is its last internally built and independently famous hit product? YC had to invest in almost 1000 companies and yet they probably have a handful of hit consumer products? How many products should Yahoo shell out before they hit another consumer sensation?
I feel bad about such news. Ever since Marissa Mayer came they were starting to fix things with their services. Like for example Flickr was resurrected. If Marissa Mayer will leave, or if they narrow their focus, Flickr is probably not that profitable so it can stagnate again or be sold or killed. Which would be a shame.
You have the choice, as a developer, to not use the IAP functionality of the Play store. You can do your own credit card processing and order/subscription management.

Apple forbids this. You are required to use their IAP features and pay them their 30%.

As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, see the difference between the Kindle app on iOS and the Kindle app on Android. On iOS, no store. On Android, full store.
Facebook has also done this repeatedly, but most of their issues aren't arbitrary business decisions. They just make breaking changes to production APIs all the time.
And remind me why I, as a farmer (hypothetically) who spent millions of dollars buying a piece if land and millions more to buy robots to work on it, then spends all his time worrying about maintenance and shipping and prices and pruning and planting and weeds and so forth... remind me why I should consent to having my profits confiscated and given to other organisms for no reason other than that they happen to be of the same species?

Imagine the social unrest when a large portion of the populace is literally of negative value. It's not going to be pretty.

We need to start thinking now about how we're going to achieve a smaller but more elite population, so only useful people get born.
Would you recommend some reading that might elaborate upon your comment? I am inspired by this, and would like more information on this idea that economics is just a game that shifts throughout the decades between 'owners' and the rest of the population
I'd say it depends on why.

My personal experience is a cto totally lied about a job. I was hired to do ml and ended up being a generic backend dev; nothing I worked on required any ml knowledge. I quit after 8 weeks. Oddly enough, the cto -- an early google engineer too -- was very butthurt. He told me I was childish for expecting the job description to match the job; I told him he was a liar and that was the end of that working relationship.

I definitely wouldn't be bothered by someone saying "it wasn't a fit" for a job that lasted under 3 months. In fact, I'd probably think less of you for hanging around in a bad situation for 8 months rather than just saying this isn't working and bailing fast. When I hire, if it isn't working, and we can't make it work, ending the situation quickly rather than dragging things out makes the best of a crummy situation.
I just realized that my truck is costing me ~$21 a day.
You get full control of how and where you run Metabase which means:

No storage limits, pricing tiers, or caps.
Your data stays private and on your own servers.
In the UK at least, you can use umbrella trusts to legally dodge corporate tax as a small/medium business or self-employed if you're earning a decent amount.
It's not a silly policy. Using AGPL software (without getting a commercial license) in any modified form and/or depending on it would require all applications that use it across the network to be open sourced.

Of course this requires it to be modified which could happen accidentally and completely put a closed source application in jeopardy.

More info: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/107883/89740
Nah, what Twitter really needs is moar ideology-based censorship. That'll fix evvverything.
Thanks! I did not about Redux and the React wrapper.
this is pretty natural with age and experience on the job. A big part of maturity in IT is being able to calmly asses what is actually required instead of just go go go like a junior guy might.
No, the research demonstrating saturated fat's pro-inflammatory and obesegenic properties isn't being refuted, if anything the pace of publications (particularly on the pro-inflammatory aspect) has increased.

Want healthy processed food ingredients? Try whey protein, oat fiber, coconut flour (it isn't just ground coconut), resistant corn starch, fish oil (purified to remove heavy metals and the like) or medium chain triglycerides. All of these are better for you than the whole foods they're derived from.

You realize with the epidemiology studies you linked me that the answer is almost certainly not some "magic substance" present in milk fat, but a confounding factor that correlates with consumption of whole fat dairy? I've seen epidemiology studies showing butter intake is the single best predictor of adiposity among a wide variety of measured variables; shouldn't the "magic of milk-fat" result in butter-consumers being leaner?

Basically all the vitamins and minerals present in whole fat milk are also present in skim milk. As for the fatty acids in milk being essential, there are two essential fatty acids: linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid. Linoleic acid makes up about 3% of the fatty acid composition of milk fat, while alpha-linolenic acid is only at about 1%; not exactly a great source.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "enhancing its taste in a process meant to fool our senses", the skim milk I buy has 2 ingredients: milk and vitamin d.
This isn't something individuals can do, network effects mean we need more coordinated social movement away from these controlled systems.

Obviously the real solution is GNU MediaGoblin and federation.
If your product is being commoditized, the only way to seek margins is to fight commoditization. You do that by deifferentiating your products. And what laptop OEMs seem to have concluded is that differentiating on build quality/design/attention to detail/form factor wasn't an option.

And they continued to believe that even when Apple demonstrated conclusively that people would go out of their way to buy Apple hardware, rip off the Mac OS that they'd paid for, and install Linux/Windows on it.

Why is it obvious to Microsoft that the Surface Pro, or the SurfaceBook, is a valid addition to the PC hardware marketplace, but it wasn't obvious to any of the many competing OEMs?
"Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Piketty would be an excellent place to start.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/ec...

"From this history, Mr Piketty derives a grand theory of capital and inequality. As a general rule wealth grows faster than economic output, he explains, a concept he captures in the expression r > g (where r is the rate of return to wealth and g is the economic growth rate). Other things being equal, faster economic growth will diminish the importance of wealth in a society, whereas slower growth will increase it (and demographic change that slows global growth will make capital more dominant). But there are no natural forces pushing against the steady concentration of wealth. Only a burst of rapid growth (from technological progress or rising population) or government intervention can be counted on to keep economies from returning to the “patrimonial capitalism” that worried Karl Marx. Mr Piketty closes the book by recommending that governments step in now, by adopting a global tax on wealth, to prevent soaring inequality contributing to economic or political instability down the road."
Yep, and this comes on the heels of terminating relationships with hundreds of internal developers.

It's difficult to understand what Twitter is even talking about.
Automation like this is why I call BS on the "we need more immigrants to keep the economy going!" folks.

We will be struggling to keep our existing population employed. The last thing we want to do is import even more low-skilled labor who will soon be made redundant.

Increasing automation means a declining population is a godsend rather than a problem.

Policy makers must be aware of this. I suspect the call for increased immigration are politically motivated (replacing the existing population with a more reliable voting block) rather than sincere economic concerns.

This recent article is a great example. The author gleefully explains how replacing the existing white population with immigrants will reduce the NRA's base.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/19/...
What is the sophisticated UK alternative to Venmo?
Sounds like similar deal they had with Microsoft. Makes sense, Google bigger.
The international version that only covers heritage still is priced 99$. The local versions outside of the US that provided health coverage already were priced higher before.
I don't like the "bucket" approach or Venmo's emphasis on linking to Facebook, so I don't have an account and use Square Cash or BofA transfers instead. I'm the exception though, I'd agree that the vast majority of my friends use it.
A good example is battery replacement. Yes, MBP batteries are glued in, but Apple has an official service that will replace it and the top case for not much more than it costs to buy say a Lenovo battery at retail. Also, eBay has a big supply of Mac parts that make replacing things pretty easy once you recognize that you gotta replace larger functional units together (e.g. LCD with cover glass).

The Surface is just as hard to repair, but without the official service options and fewer parts on eBay.
The contrast is excellent (19.3/1), the font size is a bit small by default, but zooms acceptably on the desktop. Missing Aria or other accessability tags, but the layout is fairly straightforward, compared to the dom tree.
He's saying the devs are confused, seems like passive blaming to me?