skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, no idea. The json loaded by the site consists only of [timestamp, position] pairs, maybe the author isn't even collecting score data.
Meanwhile on behalf of those who did not, do not and will never work with [Gary Tan/Placeholder]:

> Spare us the bootlick.

Why can't news.YC do these things in private? Like email is good for these things, you know.
The future of the postdoc
How could it make sense for pre-IPO investors to value a company more highly than the public markets would pay? Where, then, would those investors be hoping to earn a profit?

Put another way, the public markets are an auction to the highest bidder. If there are a group of people out there (let's call them VC's) who think that Square is undervalued at the IPO price, then they should be buying up all the shares that they can get their hands on, until the price reaches their expectation of a fair valuation.

I would say that an interpretation more consistent with the facts is that the expectation value of Square has dropped significantly since the last fund raising round.
Garry is unbelievably caring and helpful (I'll never forget his casually brilliant omnigraffling). We're all lucky that the world contains Garry Tan :)
I watched my dad try and fail half a dozen times to quit smoking over twenty years, and the thought that nicotine addiction is a myth perpetuated by Big Tobacco is so frankly ridiculous that I can't believe I'm dignifying it with a response. That, coupled with your claim that you were a pack-a-day smoker for a decade that apparently quit with relative ease, means that your mind is so apparently alien from the natural human condition that I honestly have no idea how to reason with you because I cannot even imagine what you would consider "reason" to be.
Being able to replace individual pieces is the heart of open source - the only reason the GNU project was able to get off the ground is because it could swap out individual parts of unix without having to write the whole thing from the ground up. More generally, forking only works if you can do it on a granular level. So if I have an idea for improving journald and for whatever reason the official maintainers won't accept my patches, I should be able to release my own fork of just journald and if people like it then it will become more popular and maybe be mainlined or maybe not. If I have to fork the whole of systemd to do that then it's too much overhead.
Yea, the founder even says 'no it's not webgl' and then you see that te website clearly says its an abstraction of html5 and webgl >.> it's too markety speak for me- akin to the ridiculousness of salesforce's 'no software' motto.
Definitely. That's still done today as well. Lots of homes are wood frame with full-thickness brick veneer.
So far as I've followed Xamarin it has always been about native components, but they've not always been great with marketing that. The waters are also muddied a bit in that they have their Xamarin.Forms library now which is an abstraction layer over top of the native components (but at the end of the chain, still defers to the native components to actually do the work). It's easy to confuse Xamarin.Forms with a non-native toolkit, but it too is just a wrapper over top native tools.
First posted back in April... original thread comments are here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9334316
I thought it was pretty obvious that you were just kidding, but it's the sort of comment that is hard to interpret correctly, and anyone who missed the jovial tone would have thought it was pretty mean.
Then maybe you could upload an unredacted archive so we may peruse it. Or are you a hypocrite?
I believe those convenient automated tools optimized for price above all else came as a result of this preference, which predates it by a long time. But I don't have any sources offhand and could be totally wrong.
Hack-a-thons are good, but definately not as good as a MeetUps.

Hack-a-thons are kind of hit and miss. You get a stronger chance to make a good impression on two or three guys.

MeetUps - you have the whole community which knows each other. You can for example say that you're interested in picking up contract work or pairing with anyone anytime. At a MeetUp, someone will say..."I know Dave is looking for a person to pair with as he's never trained anyone and he's just been promoted". That stuff is hard to come by at a Hack-a-thon and to be frank, great programers at a hack-a-thon have difficulty even finding small features for new dev's to develop.

I remember my first hack-a-thon I worked with a great team, but I ended up working on the "About us" page, because I really couldn't contribute as much as I would have liked.

Stay with it - MeetUps are ten times better for future employment than Hack-a-thons in my humble opinion. That's not to say that a Hack-a-thon couldn't be end up creating an opportunity, but the circle is soooo much smaller.
$350 million (the amount referenced in the article) in 1986 dollars is $760 million in 2015 dollars. [0]

Still quite a bit less than $5 billion.

[0] http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=350.00&year1=19...
If you want to know more, Monty made one of the best intros to digital sampling I've ever seen: https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
Building a healthy community doesn't just happen by accident.

Too many open source devs put almost no thought into the cultural aspects of building a community that is (1) not full of jerks, and (2) able to attract meaningful support from the businesses that use the code.

Those things can be done, if you try, especially if you start early in the life of the project.
My boss (CTO !!) used to put up this poster with "I rarely test my code. When I do, I do it in production". Good times.
Email Limits What You Can Say
I doubt Twitter is going to share its database with anyone for free. Either way, it is still subject to the same rot everything else on the Net is (hardware failures, purged, deleted and reclaimed accounts, “private” data visibility, etc.)

Archaeologists sure have tools and methods to reconstruct life in Pompeii, but it's still nothing like real-life observation (and it citizens would probably prefer real-time seismic data to becoming a part of history, too).

No matter how “trending” some bustle is and how big the hubbub it generates (and how unbelievably important media want to present it), after a few weeks you can't practically “rewind” to it. Heck, you can't even find out what user wrote at some point in time! It's considered unimportant. Twitter may be praised for its countless virtues all the time, but, no matter what you do, single message's value rapidly declines to zero after a short period of time. You can organize them any way you want and post information as valuable as you can bring forth, it all returns to nothing. That's why I compared it to transport protocol: it knows nothing about the importance of of payload and doesn't interact with it, and delayed data is of little use.

…Who said “screenshots”? Seriously, no one would believe all the tech support stories about silly people sharing desktop screenshots in Word files would result in it becoming the acceptable way of spreading information in 2015.

A lot has already been written about global turn of the Web from more and more complex schemes of data organization to concept of mindless, useless infinite “stream” of half-finished minutiae (presented in pastel colors with rounded corners).

P.S. Of course, NSA seems to have the solution for this problem. I wonder if its data will be available sooner than in, say, 50 years GULAG prisoners waited to see their own cases declassified.
Your instincts are correct:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/08/plutocrats-rise...

"Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich by Chrystia Freeland – review

A necessary and at times depressing book about the staggeringly wealthy"
Gotcha. Do you have optimizations on? If so, I'd guess it's just the overhead of the extra indirection, plus dropFirst does have to examine that first little bit of data to determine the grapheme cluster boundaries.
I disagree with the statement that people don't use it for chitchat. That is also something people use it for: I have a lot of friends on Twitter who tweet whimsical things (and whom I tweet whimsical things to).

But this still makes Twitter very different from Facebook. On Twitter, I follow people who tweet about interesting things or who share some common interest with me. Facebook, on the other hand, is something I use to talk to the people I met at high school and Uni. Thus Twitter is always a fun place to go to, filled with content that will appeal to me. Facebook, on the other hand, is mostly lowest-common-denominator plagiarised content and life updates I probably don't care much about.

Facebook is a place that represents some of your existing relationships. Twitter is a place where you make new ones.
> went far beyond the scope of responsible whistle blowing

Care to elaborate? Or just make snide comments without any factual content.

By definition, Snowden is a Whistle-Blower.[1][2][3][4]

Fact checks of Snowden's claims have largely been found to be very accurate.[5][6]

[1] http://whistleblower.org/what-whistleblower

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower

[3] http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/Enforcement/whistleblowers.htm

[4] http://www.whistleblowers.gov/

[5] http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/09/...

[6] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0...
How have private investors "squeezed the upside" of a company before IPO? Dividends?

/Not being facetious
Given that Kazinator's post is in reply to one that specifically gives NSString vs. NSURL as an example, and you were making a point that you say does not apply to that example, then the onus was on you to make it clear that you were going off on a tangent.

>My "string type" examples to help uncover defects in parsing & yanking were not relevant to Alan Perlis criticisms.

Did you mean to write that Alan Perlis' criticisms were not relevant to your examples? Anyway, this should perhaps have brought it to your attention that you were going off on a tangent, given that Kazinator chose to qualify his point with this quote.
I'm curious why I was downvoted so much. This is a real safety issue that has been used to break into many homes. Why would my suggestion be bad / downvoted? I was hoping for at least ONE comment to tell me why they downvoted me =/
> We will probably never know for sure how much of the bombers' poor construction was intentional or not ...

That's the reasoning that so alarms me. That can be said about anything (and is often used by propagandists): We will never know for sure if person X kidnapped and killed a prostitute, or if AIDS is a conspiracy of western doctors to kill Africans, or if the Muslim next door is a terrorist, or if aliens kidnapped my cousin, or if the KGB is following me.

Without evidence it's just a random guess and slanders the accused.
I believe I heard David Patterson claim it wasn't RISC, but I suppose that's along the same lines as Alan Kay saying C++ isn't object oriented.
Yes, strong mode and the Dart analyzer are all available in the Dart SDK. (Strong mode is in development, but it's still quite useful.)
It's not that rare. This study from last year shows about a 3:1 ratio of "liking" to "bookmarking". http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/pubs/icwsm2014-favouriting.p...
Garry, Thank you for your advice while we were there. I think I came in with my startup around the same time you came in as a partner.

I was always impressed with your calm demeanor and thoughtful pointers. YC is, in many ways a frenzied whirlwind for founders and it was great to have people like you around who made me feel that everything was going to work out OK.

And it did.

Best of luck on your future endeavors.
Nobody is arguing that Snowden disclosed things that were false. The argument is that not everything he disclosed was in the public interest.
Examples? Presumably you're not claiming the Citizens Bank building from TFA is such a building, and mass-produced 19th century buildings might look quite different from it.
This just reinforces my belief (and I'm a broken record on this) that Twitter would have been far better as a protocol than as a company.
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Twitter moments could be so awesome, I have a feeling they will get it right, but its not quite there yet.

Especially for sports, when I'm watching a game I usually have twitter open to see people's jokes & analysis. Sometimes, I look at the moment the day after just cause I'm curious, but the moment doesn't reflect my game experience at all.

Here is the twitter moment for the 1st day of the NBA season. https://twitter.com/i/moments/659130295396896768 -- its mostly just pictures from official nba and team accounts. There are no jokes, and there is very little analysis. It has some random highlights from games. But the biggest highlight of the night ( game winning block on Lebron ) is missing for some reason.

Same with this moment on the most recent GOP debate: https://twitter.com/i/moments/659492422137827328?lang=en
There are no jokes at all. There had to have been at least 1 donald trump joke out there that should have been included.

I think they are working on curation tools so anyone can curate moments, and I think that will really help if enough interesting people take the time to do it. But I really think it could be the newspaper or the 'reddit' of a lot of topics.
I saw this brickwork on a building in nyc's financial district on a building maybe around 50-100 years old.

https://plus.google.com/111337360985340071974/posts/KkDyX34u...
I see their PoS everywhere. It works super well, too.
Given that one of the things you can easily do with Favorites is review a list of them, I think it's perfectly reasonable to say it behaved like a bookmark. I certainly used it for this purpose.
Reminds me on a recent conversation at a maker space:

How do you control it, a transistor and a oscillator?

Nah, just an Arduino.

So with micro controllers we loose a lot of applied knowledge of analog circuits and I suspect something similar is going on in architecture. The hours a architect spends on learning about modern materials is not spend thinking about brick works, and consequently a modern architect is a lot worse at building brick buildings than a architect one hundred years ago.
Those reasons help explain why brick is a less desirable building material now than it was a century ago. This decline in desirability means that brick won't be selected for the most ambitious, highest-budget projects today, where it was the preferred choice back then.
People who haven't run into Garry personally have still likely been positively affected by his quiet influence on some of the products they use :)

It's not bootlick. If it were bootlick, you'd see a list of trite goodbye messages. Instead, we're seeing genuine emotion from the multitude of people he's touched.
"...a programmer who received nearly $200,000 plans to use it to expand his working hours by hiring a housekeeper"

I was consulting with MSFT in 1990. During the break, several softies were discussing the intricacies of their stock tracking code. I guess that is one way to fill up those extra working hours.
I always liken them to reverse IRC channels.
This is like Dr. Frankenstein revealing his monster to the world and telling everyone that he's created a better human. It's cool and impressive... but it's still an unholy monster.
Student housing at a very expensive private institution. Not some council houses. So pretty fair comparison I think.

And that aesthetics should override competent construction technique is a bad idea, is also a fair criticism.
I'm not sure I understand. Exactly what prevented him from minimizing the material he leaked?

By pretty much everyone's admission, Snowden relied on Greenwald and others to minimize the leak, and that's what they've done: only a fraction of the documents he took have been published. At first blush, that sounds admirable, but when you think about this for a second, the implication is that people like Greenwald are now in possession of a huge collection of documents that aren't in the public interest (if they were, Greenwald's obligation would be to publish them!).
I'm not sure there's another way to read "IRC channels never existed then" that isn't a comparison between IRC and hashtags...

Sure, there's a superficial resemblance inasmuch as a channel and a hashtag are words prefixed by a #, but that is where the similarities end.

The reason open standards for communication are in decline is because nobody uses them when technically better alternatives exist. Pretty much all of Hipchat/Slack's marketing copy is a laundry list of things that IRC simply cannot do without either hacky workarounds, or at all because the protocol doesn't support it.

(rant mode)

Remember that vaguely-disparaging comment here when Dropbox was announced, about how you could set up the same thing with some scripts and VCS repo?

We're nerds, that's fine. We're perfectly okay with getting our hands dirty.

Nobody else wants to do that when there's a much simpler alternative. Including nerds, because there's a lot better way to spend our time than reinventing, the hard way, something that someone else already did.

There is a need, IMO, for a nonprofit foundation that makes things like Dropbox, Hipchat, etc. but more importantly, makes them with polish, and speaking as an engineer of sorts, that means that it can't be designed by engineers. It needs to be designed to solve problems that actual users have in the way that actual users work

If you have to do things like edit .conf files, twiddle services, and so forth, you've already lost. That's plenty sysadmin friendly, but krptonite to users.
And on the flipside, a lot of rappers are loved for their flow more than their words! Travis Scott, Migos & Young Thug immediately come to mind for flow/overall sound/aesthetic > lyrics (even though they have their moments).

And that's especially true given the huge increase in attention given to producers, to the point where people are more excited about collabs between producers & rappers rather than just rappers themselves

Raps super diverse, and super fun to watch evolve
I wouldn't say it's "fine". The well-documented increasing wealth-inequality is going to be a major problem to solve in the next century. As automation becomes more prevalent, it will only get worse with the money ultimately going to fewer and fewer hands.
Way to go, Morocco!!!
The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce
Startup helps businesses hire entire developer teams away from other companies
What your poop says about your health [video]
Would quibble with your mention of "release" here because Snowden hasn't released that sort of information directly.

To the extent he amassed and shared with journalists the type of information you're talking about, Snowden has previously stated that he felt he needed to prove to journalists that he was an authentic source.

Your claim certainly still applies in the form of "he didn't need to do that" or "he didn't need that much material to establish bona fides" or even "he's lying" but to my knowledge, he didn't release damaging information himself.

Snowden did leak information to journalists who then decided to report on it, and I'm sympathetic to the idea that Snowden should have assumed journalists would be inclined to report on damaging information that didn't reflect misconduct. Snowden may also have made different assumptions than you do about what constitutes misconduct.
I think the real core value prop of Twitter is the niche communities people can build around their interests. It's about the interest graph. I posted this in another article on the front page today, but I'll do it here also. I think they need to double down on growing communities within Twitter. It's just too hard right now.

Here's my proposal:

Twitter Rooms: https://medium.com/@danielrakh/twitter-rooms-e6f34e843e9a
How do the versions on streaming services compare, are they usually copies of the CD masterings ?
First shots with Ricoh Thetas S – Not impressed
Bristol Stool scale info at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale
In what sense are they successful? I mean, they've never turned a profit. Maybe the time has come to declare the experiment a failure.
I recently read an article about the government wasting money on billion dollar jets that didn't work for front-line fighting. The author suggested the slower, cheaper, and more capable WWII airplanes instead. Got me wondering, could someone maintain and fly dual prop or larger airplanes on the cheap and disrupt the airline industry with it's jets that cost hundreds of millions?

I have no idea if props or jets are more fuel efficient but I assume the former.
Yes I've done a release build.
Even that's not right, you need to compare to per capita GDP.

$350 million in 1986 is $750 million in today's dollar, but per capita GDP was just $19.1k in 1986. So $750 million corresponded to 39.2k times the per capita GDP.

Today per capita GDP is $54.6k, so $5 billion is 91.5k times that. Which means that the degree to which the 100th richest person is richer than the average is about 2.3x more than it was 30 years ago.
> Yeah, IRC channels never existed. I think I lost a few IQ points on this article.

The only common thing between IRC channels and hashtags is that they’re prefixed by a hash character. That’s all.
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The digital anti-aliasing filter can only ever work on a digital -> digital signal, but they're still useful in the analog->digital process.

> My understanding: If you have a an analog filter of a given steepness the only way to further reduce aliasing effects digitally is oversampling. Or less steep (cheaper) analog filter plus oversampling is the same as steeper (more) expensive analog filter. People tend to say digital anti-aliasing filters when they really mean oversampling

You're right, and it's actually both. The ADC can run at a much higher sample rate with a cheaper analog filter, and then that digital signal is again passed through a digital filter and downsampled.
HN is always full of news about startups that burn millions of dollars in order to, perhaps, eventually, have enough of a product and enough exposure to become a profitable business.

How is what the winner of this bid did any different from what all these startups do every day? At least they staked their own money to make a name for themselves.

Isn't the term for this a "loss leader"?
In college I woke up at 8:17; now I wake up at 5:53. Just seemed like good numbers!
“X's twitter made me smarter”, “Y's blog made me smarter” and “Z's RSS made me smarter” are OK.

It's hard to see how it's Twitter's, Wordpress', or ACME RSS reader's credit.
China's Troubling New Social Credit System–And Ours
That's how it should work. Not sure why it doesn't. Needs some updated standard for digital transfer I suppose. Updates to AirPlay, Toslink etc.
It may be due to the quality of the clay, or the lack of clay at all, for making the bricks. I saw a documentary on this just a few months ago aired by our local PBS station on this very subject.

http://ninenet.org/archives/pressroom/st-louis-brick-buildin...

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/brick
Most artificial flavorings used in food are suspended in PG.... Im willing to bet you unknowingly ingest the stuff multiple times a week.