skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is only true given the current state of Twitter's product and business model. I think it's a stretch to say that they can't make the necessary changes to align interests. In fact, I think they're dead in the water if they can't. And Jack knows that.
This sounds like another argument for marijuana plantations in Virginia.
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Yep, I bet Venmo processed $1.6 billion in transactions in the last quarter of 2014 entirely from Hacker News users.

EDIT: Oh, apparently we're going to talk about their business model now instead. Jeez, it's hard to keep up.
this sounds like a fish flopping around on land, looking for purpose, and developers to help it make money
Two specific examples: a Victoria's Secret ad, and one for a movie that was far too scary for young children to be seeing.
Agreed, it is my least favorite apology. "I apologize that you didn't understand" is not really an apology.
Twitter is a communication platform. Developers building on that platform is a great way to grow that platform, no?

This is especially true in that Twitter's mobile app has been terrible for many years. As Facebook and Google put tremendous resources into mobile, Twitter relied on high quality 3rd party apps like TweetBot while at the same time put ridiculous restrictions on them:

> 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.

If twitter is so financially unhealthy that supporting platform would topple their 'business health,' then maybe their health wasn't that good to start with.
What exactly did she turn around? Yahoo still feels like a hot mess.
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Yes, this is what I really want to know. I think creators will have something to say soon, so keep your ears open.
Sometimes there are ads for alcohol or gambling on video clearly aimed at children. This is probably not legal in UK, and it's something I'm going to raise with regulators next year.

In general you should probably allow people to opt out of alcohol ads.

Or violent films.

It's weird that the film has an age rating; the ad has an age rating; the content has a much younger age rating; but YouTube can't see that many parents don't want an 18 / 15 movie ad on content they're showing to their children.
Why isn't a $2+ billion sales run-rate with 50%+ annual growth a business?

They'll match the sales that Salesforce had for fiscal 2014, within eight to ten quarters, even assuming slower growth.
That is just gorgeous - nice work!
"site temporarily unavailable"
I've got a lot of respect for Yahoo's ability to survive despite being such a value destroying machine.
I really doubt it's going to be found in quantities large enough to make harvesting it economical.
A Linux interface can happily hold multiple IP addresses using different methods. The logical one is probably using aliases, like eth0:0.
I don't see how this could or should be illegal. Can you elaborate?
I have yet to meet anyone under 30 who knows where their checkbook is.
>Its not very hard to ask for change from a restaurant or get change from a bar later on in the night.

If everyone chips in a $20 or two, but there's a wide spread in min and max spend per person, getting the correct increments of change to distribute to each diner in the party becomes an efficiency nightmare. Nevermind the fact that it's just plain stupid when reasonable alternatives (Venmo, Square Cash, etc.) exist.

>splitting the bill is standard for most younger people

There are many food and drink establishments with a "no splitting of bills, ever" policy. This is more prevalent in some cities than others.
No one is naive about this. I think we all know why he made this announcement today.

I think in a business relationship (just like in almost any relationship), you don't want to get screwed over. Developers got screwed over by Twitter.

You want this to be a business relationship? Then write out an SLA for developers. Otherwise apologizing and inviting developers is just lip service.

I love what they have done with open source, I just don't trust them enough to develop stuff on their api (short of twitter bots and the like).
I predict the "culture of chill" will lead to a substantial minority of younger developers wandering in and giving their stuff away for no benefit a second time.

I mean ... you aren't ... mad ... bro?

Of course not. We're cool. Glad we had this talk.
I think there's something to this - the "women in tech" angle was all over the news when she first picked up the reins.

Unfortunately her history at the company has been, in a word, dismal. I'm not sure at this point of that's because of poor leadership, or because the ship was already taking on water.
Really strange. Out of curiosity what version of OS X are you on? If you don't mind filing an issue at https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/new or http://discourse.metabase.com/ we would love to get to the bottom of what's going on.
We applied the fix. Did it solve the problem for you?
Not even that, but rather, the last [n] years of man in particular!
Not available outside the US:

>YouTube Red is available in the U.S. If you leave the U.S., you won’t be able to save videos offline, videos won’t play in the background, and you will see ads. Any videos that you’ve saved offline before leaving the U.S., will continue to be available offline for 30 days.
Hmm. So here's the problem.

Company allows others to build cool things on top of it. Sounds good. Then others start making money from the stuff they build but Company isn't really making money and the others are selling because they are filling in Company's deficiencies around their product.

So how do you fix it so Company makes more money? Kill the others. That's why the first wave of stuff died on Twitter's platform.

So what's different now? Has Twitter figured out how to make money and fill in the gaps in Twitter? If they have then this could end up working out. If not, how could things be different this time around?

Color me skeptical.
Yes, Square Cash is beautiful but I don't agree with you that the app is elegant and effortless.

3 annoying parts about the app:

- lack of built-in calculator, the Venmo's bulit-in calculator makes it really easy to calculate the split between friends.

- constant prompt for security code in order to pay someone.

- expired requests, there should be a way for me to see all the requests instead of going to each friend page to see the request.
This is why SMS- or phone-based 2FA is not a good idea. HOTP/TOTP is the right way to implement 2-factor auth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC-based_One-time_Password_Algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_Algorithm
Folks, please read the article. This has nothing to do with Docker.

It's referring to bundling as part of RPMs, i.e. on having application packages bundle some or all of its dependencies along with the application. This is generally frowned upon, and with good reason, but it's being practiced with an increasing frequency.

The Fedora devs have had a lot of problems with this over the years. More recently, libraries like rawspeed have sprouted everywhere -- they are meant to be used only as bundled libraries.

So they either had to change the rule and allow bundling, or to find themselves unable to distribute applications that are otherwise useful to developers, I guess. They "opened up to bundling" in that they introduced a new provision which allows bundling in cases where there's no alternative, but the RPM has to be marked as including bundled dependencies.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for bashing Red Hat's perpetual beta crap distro, but this time they got it right. Really. It's a sensible decision, not some wavefront of Linux innovation bullshit.
Fortunately, that's not what your parent poster said.
Interesting!

Notably, "Percentage of Requests Where Some Data Produced" is all 0%.
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Well, RedTube and PornHub were named pretty much after YouTube no matter how much they want to try to deny it.
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I'm not saying that carbon nanotubes are a health risk, the might be and they might not be.

There are plenty of nano particles that are created in nature, the question comes what happens when we create similar but not identical particles, a small change in Asbestos fibers due to modern manufacturing turned them form a mostly benign annoyance that clears the lungs easily into microscopic razor blades that cause scar tissue to form leading to multiple diseases.

Soot is natural nanoparticles so as long as there been fires we've been exposed to them in certain levels, however we've been exposed to nanoparticles that have been created under certain conditions and a small change in their size, shape or other properties might very large implications on their chemical and biological interactions.
That's a big annoyance, but I find the RAM issue worse, 16GB RAM is only available on the $2700 and $3200 models (resp. 512GB and 1TB SSD), from the $1500 to the $2100 price-points you get 8GB period end of the story.
In the mac app I'm unable to set a column type as a foreign key. The get a list of targets (table -> primary key) but unable to select from it.
Meet "the Venmo line":

http://qz.com/277509/read-what-happens-when-a-bunch-of-over-...

Your kid's school doesn't take Venmo for field trips. Or school lunch programs. Or extracurricular activities. That's just to name a few "adult" things Venmo doesn't support, and requires a checkbook.

Great, you can pay friends back for rent, drinks, or eating out. #millenialproblems
There are already plenty of services offering smart DNS solutions (Unotelly, unblockus), I think I will stay in my corner with my simple click-and-play desktop app :)

But yeah, your solution would definitely work, but would be impossible to understand/setup for the non-techy users.
"Once picked, the fruit can also be sorted by colour so that, for example, red apples can be separated from green apples."

So it can compare apples and oranges. Thanks I'm done
Too late Twitter, https://github.com/jeena/Twittia is dead once and for all!
Whats amusing is they charge the same 30% tax to every developer on Google Play/Android store but for Youtube Red since its their own property, they can give themselves the 30%.
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It's not officially Fall until Lucy pulls away the football.
If "dangerous" is too vague, then "untested" is valid. You can absolutely get me on board with the "DEA/FDA limit testing of illegal substances" rebuttal, but you can't say the variety of illegal substances have been as well tested through customer dosage as something that currently goes to market.
> I have yet to meet anyone who is using Venmo.

And I have never written a check.

I doubt the people in Venmo's demo even know where their checkbook is, if they have one at all.
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"The cycle cannot be broken."
I enjoy the VC capital community subsidizing my life style, however its best not to think about the source of their funding when getting food delivered to your house from 10 miles away for 99c.
You're the on in the bubble. Young people don't write checks. Full stop.
It doesn't have to work on everybody. You only need a good solid group who hear what they want to hear.
Two years on, 23andMe makes nice with the FDA
I'll go with "lunatics"
It will be really interesting to see what they do to fight ad blockers. Is a war going to start? I'd still prefer to watch Youtube not signed in and with an ad-blocker.

As far as I can tell, the paid service requires sign-in, (There's probably no way to make it work without sign-in) and I have reservations about that as I want to not share my viewing data. By not logging in and flushing cookies at the end of each viewing session, I give them as little as possible.
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Yes, great question. I have two guesses: (1) simply "it doesn't". I'm sure most people will opt to watch ads rather than pay. That presumably much larger user base supports content creators (2) A fraction of the total subscription revenue is distributed to content creators weighed by views (a la Spotify)
That was quite the big city apology.
I was amazed that anyone was bothering to spam Frendicia. The audience is so tiny.
One thing that isn't accounted for is a drastic change toward an indoor culture. Kids are often forbidden to leave their home and socialize in a normal context. If the only option available to interact with friends are social networking sites, then it's the parents that are damaging their own offspring.
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I like how loaded the term "loaded" is in this statement. /s
Yep. This is it. In the last days a lot of changes were merged. Have a look at https://github.com/trivago/triava
Does this apply to Meerkat ban for example?
I wonder if this is why they finally got their approval:

http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-...
Oslo just declared that it will become the first major city to ban cars
> If you’re already a Google Play Music subscriber, you’ll receive a free YouTube Red membership.

Ok good. This is simply a bonus feature for me then.
Norman? This is Mr. Eddie Vedder, from Accounting.... My BLT Drive on my computer just went AWOL .... http://cyberdelianyc.tumblr.com/post/131628279720/hackers-ci...
Doesn't google also charge a 30% in-app purchase fee for Play stuff? I guess google just gets to waive their own fees. ;)
And we come full circle (from their website):

http://thumbsnap.com/i/djeyW72B.png?1021
If we're talking pure fit and finish, they did come a long way from the disaster that was Win8, but honestly, in a feature comparison, "non-optional telemetry uploading" is a massive point in the favor of literally any other choice.

I can't take Windows seriously as a primary computing platform with that in mind - it was the foot over the creepy line IMO.
Almost like MTV in the 80s when they actually played music videos. Then Netflix can slowly roll in the terrible reality TV and we can repeat history once more :)
These hires were part of Yahoo's content creation strategy which also included producing TV shows. They just wrote off $42 million for the TV shows[1]. These expensive celebrities are probably next as I doubt they can justify their cost on a shrinking platform.

[1] http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/yahoo-misses-q3-earning...
When you use real money, things are cheaper.
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We've banned this account for repeatedly posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Could you take a screenshot of what it looks like and leave a post on with it on http://discourse.metabase.com/

I'll try to reproduce it. What database are you using?
Stupid question, how was Twitter bad with external developers?

I've built a few services using Twitter, Facebook and Google+ each time and I didn't have anything bad to say about Twitter, they were always the easiest to deal with.
A perfectly valid case for using a library is when it implements a huge standard that you don't have the time, knowledge or expertise to implement yourself. Think of zlib, libpng or libcurl. These are de facto "reference implementations" of the respective standards, so you'd better rely on them in order to be future proof.

> We have so many hobbyist libraries precisely because our languages and tools are so flexible.

I beg to differ. The (initially) small hobbyist libraries are often working around the deficiencies of the language/runtime/core libraries. This has been the case for JavaScript since jQuery. If a third-party library doesn't implement a format or a protocol, or an intricate algorithm, but rather tries to augment the language, that is a huge red flag.
Get ready to get burned folks. It starts ad-free, just like Hulu. And then they add one or two ads during christmas time. And then during black friday. Then they add a small skippable add at the beginning of movies. This is how google is going to get you to pay for the same service they offer for free today. It won't stay ad free forever.
There was a Academia Stack Exchange question on this very thing: http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/46354/what-is-th...

My answer, from there:

They help support professional societies. Profits from society-level journals, if they indeed do turn a profit, allow professional societies to engage in other activities, from political advocacy to supporting students attending their conferences.

They provide typesetting and layout, as well as proof reading. While this is not true for all fields, generally speaking it is true in biomedicine and public health. To my mind, all but the most carefully done LaTeX templates are a poor substitute to actual page layout tools, and typesetting is something that is not necessarily an academic skill set.

They provide a means for manditory, potentially blinded review. Most alternate systems rely on optional post-publication review, whereas the conventional journal system ensures somebody saw it before it reached the press. This might seem like something of a low bar, but it's better than a paper that never attracts reviewers. Additionally, it's essentially impossible to make post-publication reviews anonymous. I'd suggest that the quality and level of criticism for identical papers published by a "Senior Luminary in the Field" and a "Female Graduate Student with a Foreign Sounding Name" will be markedly different. This is just as subjective as the existing peer-review system. For something like SX voting, you're also going to conflate two issues - popularity and quality.

Journals, through their editorial boards, provide a means of field-wide advocacy. I would, for example, suggest that the ICMJE Guidelines carry far more weight because of the associated journals.

Journals also provide essentially a curated collection of papers that meet a certain quality standard (whatever that standard may be) and are topical. I can read Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology every month and get a sense for what's going on in a particular field. And importantly, I can find papers there that I wouldn't necessarily have read if I was just searching through somewhere like arXiv. Journals provide a means to browse a field in addition to targeted searches of the literature.
When you say cheque I think "fax", or "betamax" or "pager number".
Yeah, until they revert this change, it doesn't matter and to be honest I doubt developers even care about Twitter anymore. I certainly don't.
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Been having fun putting this together, curious if you guys see any obvious improvements I can make.

http://transfigure-game.github.io/app/
WTF does this mean?

> And any creator who doesn’t sign the deal for YouTube Red will have their videos on the ad-free old-school YouTube hidden from view. That’s pretty harsh.

So YouTube is saying if you don't join their new subscription plan they will just not display your videos on YouTube?

Edit: Just heard back. Yes, this is exactly what happened, and it's now going into motion. If you are a YouTube creator and you don't agree to be a part of this new service, your channel will removed and your videos won't appear in search results. In other words, all of your videos are made "private" and you're pretty much dead.
$1.6 billion in transactions, and they're still not profitable (backstopped by Paypal's profits).

Good luck with that long term!
> Arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic is available through [...] the core data type BigFloat in the new language Julia

Go 1.5 added a big.Float type.
if you, as an individual developer, have invested your personal time, energy and money into developing a twitter app, and seen it all lost due to twitter fucking you over, claims of "nothing personal" ring awfully hollow. it may not be personal to twitter, but it definitely is to the developer.
That is fair, but most people will only read the title. If people never get to the qualifying statements, then they will never understand what was actually meant.
I suspect you mean RedTube and YouPorn.
Maybe RedTube and YouPorn, not really PornHub.
Even more generally: assuming things that you haven't done must be simple is not a valid argument, just a silly opinion.
Got this reply from Google when asked over chat "Yes, you wouldn't see any ads that come with the video if you're subscribed to YouTube Red and watching it on a Apple TV."
Radiation?
Why is only UI thread allowed to modify the UI
How do you handle someone who won't install Venmo and sign up for their service? Not pay them back?
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I work for a missions organization with ministries all over the world. We are trying to centralize for cost and due to lack of resources but everything we collect is pretty sensitive since it gets tied back to religious stuff. I think we'll need to hire lawyers in every EU country to get an idea of what we need to do - and then we'll probably need to duplicate a lot of effort to comply and we may just not use certain tools because it will become impossible.
When I worked for Embarq doing DSL support the procedure for a field technician to obtain customer information was to call into a special phone number provide a technician code.

There are several problems with this:

1.) The phone number can be found on the internet.

2.) The technician code is just noted down as part of the request. It is not verified.

3.) The support employee's validation process that they are a field technician was that they were calling over the special phone number.

Obviously sensitive information was not supposed to be given out, but they hired anyone that was alive enough to answer a phone and tell people to reset their router.
Jesus, that guy. He's lucky it's a pretty neat-looking symbol. So in 10 years when nobody recognizes it he can play it off as some obscure video game reference.
Unfortunately, America hasn't reached the same level of financial sophistication as the UK regarding money transfers. It will eventually, obsoleting hacks like Venmo.
Amazon Elastic Container Service is a robust offering and I can't see why anyone would choose Tutum over ECS.

Yes, you can run Tutum on AWS, but why? When products can't substantially differentiate themselves against AWS, the customer will choose AWS. Customers don't want to be stuck in choice paradox.
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
>life expectancy is still increasing...*

Yet cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, etc. are on the rise.
The topic is sexism, not racism (I believe).

How was my comment not on-topic? The first article started with a sexist title, all while declaiming sexism. It made statements about people with a perceived gender.
Looking from those images, I think they are using the wrong kind of hand. A better hand would simply be a "vacuum cleaner" end, i.e., gripping the fruit by suction power. If it can't be gripped like that, it is probably not fruit that needs to be selected.