skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem. If anybody finds a way to build a successful business on Twitter, their interests are by definition not aligned with Twitter's, because Twitter themselves have not yet figured out how to build a successful business on Twitter. Losing more of Twitter's money to make third parties successful is not a basis for an alignment of interests.
And of course it goes both ways, like Instagram preventing the pictures from showing on the twitter timeline

(Not saying twitter didn't deserve this)
Link to the actual source: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/10/red.html
That is the obvious connection. The interesting part is does Redtube sue them for trademark infringement? Who gets the "red" and who gets the "tube" ? :-)

Frankly I'm surprised Google hasn't preemptively gone after them for infringement.
My bad... fixed now. That was from a slate article last year. They are doing much more than that on a quarterly basis.
Chris McCord, creator of Phoenix Framework, joins DockYard
Twitter has a responsibility to its employees & shareholders to turn a profit

Yes, but fucking over developers is not, generally speaking, a good way to accomplish that end! That's the sad thing about all of this... Twitter haven't just been hosing developers, they've been hosing themselves by destroying the ecosystem around Twitter, thereby making Twitter less valuable.
Don't Apple take a 30% cut if someone signs up via them? So this isn't an anti-Apple play, this is Google charging Apple users the same as everyone else (from Google's perspective, they get $9.99 from Apple/non-Apple users), essentially they're passing on an Apple "convenience fee" to Apple's users.
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From TFA:

Can developers trust Twitter this time?

No.

Don't get me wrong, back while working at Klout we got to meet Jack Dorsey and he is intelligent and interesting. Personally I like him and have some respect for him.

With that said, CEO's don't stay forever so there are no guarantees about how long the reign of Jack will last. Since he won't always be in a position to make good on this promise, how can we trust? What is it actually worth?

Where is the olive branch? Words sound nice but I've learned to pay more attention to actions.

How about something like free firehose access or at least making it affordable for mere mortals? Just "turning the api back on" won't be enough to convince me to sink anymore dev time into $twtr.
It's embarrassing that the tin foil hat suggestion that the European Court has a political agenda isn't downvoted into oblivion.

Not to mention the simple fact that through this ruling the court actually struck down a treaty supported by the EU politicians.
Venmo is not "objectively worse in every way."

Example #1A: It's absolutely insane for Square to have an app targeted toward sending money to friends, splitting bills, etc. that doesn't have a built-in calculator. It's inexcusable that if I'm paying two even shares of a $213.42 bill split between seven people, I need to either do some mental math or leave the app to use another calculator.

This is one of the most common actions I take in Venmo. Until they get their act together on that, there's just no way I'm switching. It's a classic example of thinking that simplicity is the same thing as removing features.
I bought the pre-release. I hope it starts shipping!~
What a great book. Got me hooked on Clojure.
I wish he made a companion book for more advanced use cases.
I.e. advanced workflows, testing, project layout etc..
ResearchGate is the LinkedIn of Academia -- a spammy and creepy service that will inevitably begin selling its users the ability to spy on each other.
Sarcasm isn't your strong suit, is it?
The API Terms of Use haven't changed:

https://dev.twitter.com/overview/terms

The most egregious of which continues to be: "Apps replicating Twitter’s core user experience (what we’ve called “traditional Twitter clients”) are discouraged and have a ceiling of 100,000 users, among other restrictions. Be sure to read the applicable TOS clauses carefully if you’re considering building such an app."

This is really bad as "core user experience" is something open to a very wide degree of interpretation.
Its not very hard to ask for change from a restaurant or get change from a bar later on in the night.

If everyone got $20 from the ATM earlier what's to stop them from using their debt card to pay the bill? I was a server for many years and splitting the bill is standard for most younger people.
This seems interesting. One way forward for Twitter/Periscope would be to build this type of storytelling but also allow you to archive view them in some more permanent fashion. Snapchat is basically becoming TV on your phone. By TV I mean pushed streamed content. Yahoo should do the same.
Square Cash definitely has acute UI. ;)
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After your restriction there are not many distros left. Slackware user?
Anyone else see this Forbes article?[1]

It seems to indicate a high level of naivety on the part of 23&Me in terms of the regulatory requirements around genetic testing.

What Hibbs found was that 23andMe and the FDA were not even speaking the same language. The FDA is guided by laws and regulations that limit what it can say, and 23andMe wasn’t picking up on the agency’s cues. FDA officials would leave 23andMe an opening to change the way carrier testing was regulated, for instance, and 23andMe would ask an unrelated question.

A part of me thinks it wasn't naivety and it was more "move fast and break things".

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/21/23andme...
Agreed... I really have come to like fetch, though I usually wrap it in a couple functions for my most common use cases... since some of the options are a little tedious to specify over and over again... such as `postJson(url, data)` which will post the data as json, and resolve the json response with some extra error handling.

It works well, and combined with babel for async/await, the workflow is pretty smooth as well.
I generally favor 16:9 for phones, 16:10 for compact tablets (e.g. Nexus 7), 3:2 for large tablets and small laptops, and 4:3 for midsize-to-large laptops and desktops.

- Devices meant to be used in one hand should have aspect ratios that minimize width in portrait mode for ergonomic reasons.

- Laptops become very unwieldy past a certain width. From personal experience, a 14" 4:3 laptop is as wide as I'd ever want to deal with. 12" and below can be 3:2, though.

- Tablets should shoot for something in between, in part because they're used for media that varies wildly from 4:3 magazines to 16:9 movies to everything in between. I'm slightly biased here because I love reading comic books on tablets, those are naturally 3:2, and from personal experience my Surface Pro 3 is perfect for that purpose. 16:10 is a nice compromise for tablets that are small enough that holding it in one hand is still feasible (I speak from personal experience with a 2012 Nexus 7).

- Desktop monitors should maximize space in all directions. Square would be ideal, but I don't think anyone has ever made square monitors in significant volumes, so I just say 4:3 instead.

Actually, I have to admit that I'd probably prefer a square screen for desktops, but I don't think square monitors have ever been made in significant numbers.
...you don't like the music on Redtube videos? :|
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Google seems to be trying a bunch of different things to leverage this downright stupid mentality embedded in a subset of the Internet population that YouTube is a platform for music (sans video). It's not Google's fault that folks are using YouTube as strictly a music service, but here we are. I don't really know how I'd solve this problem either, but if I have to regress to using YouTube to listen to music, it's going to piss me off (why oh why would I stream video if I'm just using the audio)?

I just fear the majority is never going to take the short hop over to Google Music (or whatever app Google offers strictly for music), and I'm going to get stuck needlessly using YouTube related apps/platforms.
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>I think the biggest problem was that nobody took it seriously

There was that one guy, who got the tattoo...
That doesn't mean that no one loses out in the process.
The original subscription page: https://www.youtube.com/red
Do you guys already have a date in mind for the 2016 jsconf. I would like to plan to be there and bring some my fellow Florida developer friends.
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We excited that Chris has joined DockYard. We're investing heavily into Phoenix and knowing that he'll get to concentrate all of his efforts on Phoenix development not only helps us but everyone else as well.
Yes, EXCEPT, As of now fetch has no abort() support.

Having 50 in flight autocomplete requests going in parallel is not cool.
I wonder if the YouTube platform payout is less than the Google Music Key platform payout.

Over time, and via the Sony hack, I think being suspicious of distribution platforms and major labels is warranted. So far, they tend to like non-disclosure based agreements which freeze out independents as much as possible.

Considering the "artists hate streaming" bad publicity that seems pretty consistent, I think if YouTube Red was going to be a real improvement and fiscally more rewarding for artists, they should put that in big type somewhere.
I suspect content creators will have something to say about this, so I'll wait for a week or two and see how it shakes out for them.
Actually, it might not be yours; neither of those statements are true. Investigate how much the U.S. government spends on farming subsidies per year and then consider the fact that nutritious food which isn't loaded with pesticides, hormones, radiation, etc is currently considered a luxury good.
Ubuntu’s path to convergence
Probably. Unfortunately, this precludes someone who is privacy-conscious from using these products, as cool as they may seem. I can't imagine how the government would put this information to anything other than malicious use.

SNP sequencing is the ultimate fingerprint, far more individually identifying than anything else as of yet. Imagine having 900,000+ criterion to cross reference to determine identity.
Can you explain the difference between "synthetic" and "historically present" in a way that doesn't ascribe some inexplicable magic to the existence of man?
Hmm good point. I overlooked that fact.
That's fair, it's that saying: "Everything old is new again".
Ask HN: What do you think about my startup (website and app) itemzapp.com?
Hi,

A couple of months ago I wrote here the same question. And I got a lot of brilliant, solid feedback that helped me changed the website (it's brand new to be honest => http://itemzapp.com) and also add many useful and handy features to the app.

Kudos for that :)

I wanted to share the project once again - to see if the changes I made are the ones you talked about.

For those who see the website for the first time - it's productivity app mixed with gamification mechanics to raise the productivity of small creative teams.

For those who saw the website back then - it's nothing like it was :)

If you'd like to leave here any feedback I'd really appreciate it. I'm trying to make the best possible app so any comments are gold :)

Thanks for your time!
The Leaf is a Versa hatchback with some design flourishes. It's really not that different (though it does look better).
I really recommend you read this book http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi...

Written by a google engineer for other engineers. TLDR: practicing meditation gives you the ability to react to stress and anxiety before it blows up.

I found the OP very interesting because they are essentially trying to delivery some of the benefits of mindful practices via a technical means.
Very true!

I also took a look at it to figure out why it was showing up that way. They look like they are the same magnitude of thing (city) and they both have population. I'm wondering if it's actually showing Camden county?
Just don't powder them, or, if you do, don't snort the powder.

Just use common sense, in other words.
They're also maintaining that database and adding to it over time as our understanding of genetically-linked diseases evolves.
The data lake contains datasets in their original structure, raw data, with all warts and stuff, defined by the operational systems.

The data warehouse contains datasets in a unified (and usually simplified and reduced) form, defined by the needs of analysis tools.

If your analysis tool accesses the data lake directly, it will almost certainly contain "parsers" for various operational data formats. Also, it will perform those transformations over and over again every time. And multiple analysis scripts may contain multiple versions of those parsers. The idea is to separate these "parsers" out of the analysis step and to "cache" the cleaned-up intermediate result. That "cache of clean data" is usually called "data warehouse", and can create good indexes on that data, multiple runs of your analysis tools have very fast access.
This is definitely going to be useful when virtual reality gains traction
I plan on creating more content :) I wrote a blog post with a couple more details (http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/brave-and-ne..., fourth paragraph). But yes, I want to cover testing, web development, and more. Right now I'm working on an in-depth explanation of reducers.

edit: also, clojure applied is a good book for what you're talking about
How does this new ad-free version of YouTube pay content creators?

If I upload a video to YouTube under the pretense that based on ad clicks I make money, how does YouTube showing my videos ad-free get me paid? I have read the official press release and a few articles but am not finding any news on these details.
> We moved the Groovy project to the Apache Foundation as a message to the community to say that the community and ecosystem matter the most

You moved it to Apache because all the three staff working on Groovy were retrenched from Pivotal,Inc.

> we started to support Android. even large companies like the New York Times started to use Groovy to build their Android mobile apps

You're mixing up the functions of Groovy for build scripts in Gradle and as a systems languages targeting Android.
There is a vast gulf between not using things the way you prefer and being stupid.
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>A part of me thinks it wasn't naivety and it was more "move fast and break things".

Or "I did a jerkish move (like playing dumb), and they didn't call me out on it. I've discovered a mind hack!"
What do you mean by monolithic view files? It's pretty easy to separate at logic boundaries into smaller components...

As for universal rendering, using the same view engine on both the server and client makes sense. Not only that, but being able to use the same routing engine for client and server rendering, especially on a public facing application is a pretty nice thing as well.
PowerCenter is a piece of shit.
> I think this might not be a real bmw...

Yeah. It's been a half-hour and it hasn't needed maintenance.
Interestingly enough, if you look at the "spider webs" of a large forest fire or a house fire, what you are looking at are carbon nanotubes. While difficult to selectively make single walled or double walled, free carbon in the presence of a static field (which is pretty much everywhere) has a chance to form a tubular shape (and also buckyballs). I did some experiments using acetylene in a low oxygen environment to create a lot of free carbon (aka soot :-)) when trying to find ways to make conductive nanotubes reliably.

Further, this isn't a "new" phenomena, so I expect the raging wildfires around the world are the primary source for nanotubes in the lungs.
Dude, that's incredible.
It's friction. If you have two entities providing the same service (money exchange), but one is easy to use and one is much harder to use, the easier one will win (all other things being equal.

Check method:

Needed items:
Payer - checkbook, pen
Payee - phone

Steps:
Payer Payee
Write check
Give check Receive check
Sign check
Use app to photograph and submit check

Venmo method:

Needed items:
Payer - phone
Payee - phone

Steps:
Payer Payee
Send $x to Payee

A similar occurrence in the financial field, mobile banking. Depositing checks via phone is easier than going to an ATM which was easier than making it to a physical branch of the right bank during business hours.

Cash is a better equivalence to Venmo, but only works when you're physically collocated. And then requires one or both parties to carry around cash (and it's not as easy to be precise, if you care about getting it right down to the penny).
Red Tube.
My problem with them is they refused to even talk.

We had a plan that would make them money - they without notice just killed our API access.

Why didn't they call us first?

Fuck that, not going near them.
Unless the unit is replacing a recent generation i7, probably not since it is reasonable to assume that the next generation hardware will offer comparable or better performance than a device several generations old when said device is performing reasonably.

There are edge cases where the difference between adequate and inadequate performance will come down to the CPU or graphics card. In those cases, the difference between a Surface and a different class of device will be more important.
This. When you're comparing a $100B business sector, that's a lot of available incentive to look the other way. A cursory search said ~$160B on local law enforcement expenditures (this also included fire).

What do we expect to come out of that comparison?
great job! Got my t-shirt and sticker.
Just out of curiosity, what are examples of inappropriate ads? Is it a subject matter issue?
Well, new generations often needs new lessons. I'm from the generation that contains the majority of potential developers of sexy Twitter-based hot unicorn Uber-for-Cloud-Based-Social-Gardening startups and I haven't ever heard any stories about DOS/Lotus 1-2-3. Fortunately, Twitter made it up for us.

"The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Startups rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished. Lotus were not the first. They did not create the Platform. They did not forge the APIs. They merely found them - the legacy of my kind." - Twitter CEO in my twisted imagination.
Honestly that would at least be an improvement
I think the term full needs to be defined for an infinite hotel. Instead of defining full as occupancy equal to capacity, it might be more useful to define it as vacancy equal to 0.
There are an astounding number of faked degrees in the science and tech fields
Except "YouTube Red" sounds a little like "RedTube" which is a different kind of video streaming site.
> Our journey towards OS convergence first begins with Unity 8, Ubuntu’s User Interface and display framework, envisioned to run on all Ubuntu devices with the same underlying codebase... This means applications have something no other OS can provide: a single, visual framework and set of tools for applications to run on any type of Ubuntu smart device.

Wait a minute. Isn't "a single, visual framework and set of tools for applications" also what Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn8946...) is supposed to provide?

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm all for Ubuntu convergence, but it seems cheap to say Ubuntu has something "no other OS can provide" when there's such an obvious counterexample. (Unless there's some significant difference between Unity 8 and UWP in this context that I'm missing.)
It's idiotic how early schools start. Some places wanted to start at 7am, bus at 6am, so kids would need to be up at 5am. Ended up hiring a teacher directly (early grade school so still feasible[1]) and starting at 9am. Works great. Plus my daughter and I can stay up "late" (10pm) playing games whenever we feel like it.

I understand some people want schools as daycare, but separate that out.

Also:

>2015

>MySpace

Hmm?

1: Cost of tuition for 2 kids covers teacher's salary, and other parents are interested enough I could easily turn a profit if desired
Fool me once...

I hope many people have instead learned to generalize the earlier message, in the last some years. Crudely but aptly stated: "Don't be a sharecropper."
I think he's referring to how some services just push you to sign up on their mobile web page and then it avoids the 30% hike. It's fairly easy to do, the only concern being potentially confusing new sign-ups, but I don't think it's that confusing.
No one's ever going to see this, but I feel like your reply merits a response.

I believe, simply put, that hours-per-week are as useful a metric of progress as SLOC. The fact is that for any nontrivial development effort, adding work hours does not noticeably improve time to delivery and, in fact, starts to degrade progress.

There are a few reasons for this. First, the most important effort in any significant project takes place before anyone starts slinging code. Design and strategy are obvious examples, but programming problems of sufficient complexity also don't benefit from throwing hours at them. For example, one of our current problems can be formalized as an adversarial non-Bernoulli bandit with an unknown budget. I don't think the architect conducting the literature review is going to produce better or faster work if he went from 50 to 80 hours a week.

Second, even when everyone's got their shovels out, there isn't a linear relationship between hours and project velocity. At some point the marginal productivity per hour plateaus and, after that, quality issues and technical debt start piling up. A team with the ability to intellectually come up for air is a team that is going to deliver a better strategy, a better design, a better experience and ultimately a better product. I'd rather take an extra six months to get to market than have to pivot half a dozen times (I say, as they box up the startup next door -- sure, they shipped fast, but their strategy and their product failed, and they found that you can't get your Series A subscribed to when you have zero market energy).

I do think that for some people there's an idea that work-life balance (and I refuse to use scare quotes) shows insufficient commitment or hustle. But would you want a surgeon who boasts about how fast he can cut a patient open, rather than his or her postoperative results? An engineer who can whip out a bridge design in half the time with only a 10% higher catastrophic failure rate? Are we so insecure in the intellectual value of what we do that we have to brag about how hard we work instead of the value we bring?

I disagree. What we do is difficult, and it is intellectually challenging. If a project demands that the dev team work 10, 14, even 16 hour days through the project timeline (and I've been in all three of those positions), then there's something wrong with the project, the taskings, or the stakeholders.

We are professionals. We are intellectuals. We are not measured by the sum of our hours, but the result of our efforts. Take pride in yourself, because when you're a manager -- if you're not one already -- you need to take pride in your team.
> what are the concrete steps they are taking to change?

Well, according to Jack, we tell him what the steps are by including hashtag #helloworld in our tweets to @twitter. So...yeah. https://twitter.com/jack/status/656885664525357056
> Null app [...] 33.1MB

Wow!
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