skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd believe this if we had a music service today with a "recommendation engine" that was worth anything. IMHO it's a complete crapshoot on all the ones I've used. I still think Pandora's is "best" but that's because it's actually recommended music I haven't heard. Most recommendations are of the form "you liked song A from band Y - try song B from band Y".

As an aside - this feels like a "submarine" post (http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html). I can't tell what they are selling though.
Because it's actually useless, having the work been done by someone else or something else means the work is still done, and you still depend on that 3rd-party.
Every (almost every?) letter is operated by a different organization, so I'd expect the setups to be different.
> A simple picture of a picture without alteration would still be considered infringement under the current copyright laws.

Ever seen it happen IRL? Got a link?
A point (x,y) or (x,y,z) class seems to be the obvious exception.

Anonymous objects can also be really useful.
> The term “encryption” includes all forms of scrambling or unscrambling of any form of data or of its modes of transfer, regardless of whether an encryption key is used… In practical operation, companies submit license applications for engagement in encryption to the MOD’s specialized Encryption Control Department.

I wonder if non-encrypting data compression is exempt from these laws, as it is arguably a form of scrambling data without an encryption key.
Hm, this seems like a pretty risky way to connect this device to your PC - using a serial port.

Edit: And THAT connection: http://meuk.spritesserver.nl/foto/foto/misc5/img_1999.jpg
Republicans killed funding for public TV so now the shows have to earn their own money which means the primary concern is no longer teaching but how to make money via toys and DVDs, etc. which leads to finding the most addictive character and making him a star. Because capitalism ruins everything.
The eyes look dull because they're using very simple rendering techniques. I'd guess that they could make the eyes much more realistic by adding some simple optical effects like specularity or diffraction (http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/fresnel.jpg).

One interesting thing that I noticed at 1:45 is that visible teeth can really change a person's appearance -- Bush doesn't seem to use his teeth at all when he talks.
Random industry gossip. From real people obviously, but noone I can name.
Authorities looking for owner(s) of 3 Boeing 747s abandoned at an airport
And now we can serve breakfast all day. Take that world!
That's because Java is pedantically and obsessively object-oriented
FBI: Yes, we exploit unpatched security holes
People have taken piwik to 300MM up to over 1 billion actions per month. But it certainly isn't "set it and forget it."

http://forum.piwik.org/t/high-traffic-piwik-servers-database...
> It literally couldn't get any better for a kid than PBS in the 70s or 80s.

Well, except for, you know, books.

I don't really buy any of this "need" stuff when it comes to TV (or that one form is significantly better than another).

If you drop your kid in front of anything and they turn into a slackjaw zombie (as my son tends to do), that's bad.

If you drop your kid in front of anything that you watch, engage, and use as a jumping off point for interaction, that's fine.
While I remember MRN fondly, it was as complete mess compared to what we have now. We need to accept that there was almost no actual rigor put into the creation of our kids shows, at their genesis.

I remember them fondly and praise them regularly, but I try to keep this in mind. Modern kids shows are optimized for kids. Even Dora is specifically optimized for very young children. It appears insipid because it's repetitive to us. But to a child, it's carefully tuned.
This breaks the main purpose of Twitter to me, seeing content in the order it was posted, not some sorting algorithm that decides what Tweets are more important to me. This is a show stopper for me.
In the current fiber cities, does anyone know if the service made it out of the city limits into the burbs?

(Asking as someone right outside the Chicago city limits...)
Link to Google's paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02206
Upping the revenue from 10B dollars to 11B relies on the infrastructure, capital, corporate relationships, etc, etc that were previously built by a company. The new CEO didn't just create 1B of additional wealth out of thin air, he was provided a lot of expensive tools to carry out his vision.
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I can't wait for this in LA. I'm currently paying $115 per month for 1Mbps/10Mbps for Time Warner "business class" internet-only service. My company does visual effects work, so I actually have to drive my video files home on a USB drive to upload them since my home connection is 20Mbps/200Mbps for $50 per month. The internet monopoly situation in the US is terrible for businesses here.
Yeah, in some regards I'm being awfully cynical. As you said, there are also good things the city has done. You can even view the location of every snowplow in the city in real time; pretty cool when you're waiting for your one-way side street to be plowed.
I was always waiting for a credible Firefox OS phone in the US; ready to buy immediately on arrival. Nothing ever arrived. The phones were weak by Android phone standards, expensive by low-end Android phone standards, and often didn't support all of the bands of my carrier and so would have had less connectivity in remote locations.

I'm disappointed, though. I looked forward to a more open phone built by an organization I trust. Google is barely OK. Apple is not even that. Microsoft is improving, but still out of the running in terms of openness.
A blue painting with a white stripe does not take an ounce of talent. Nor should that painting sell for more than the cost of paint to paint the canvas with. Believing it is a front for money laundering is far easier to believe than a fool spending millions of dollars for a color separated by a stripe of another color.

There's also "Voice of Fire" [0]. Same concept but uh... red and blue instead of blue and white. Really speaks to me ya know?

Don't forget Onement I [1]. The same painting, again, but brown with a yellow stripe! How does he come up with it!

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Newman#/media/File:New...
What's left besides Firefox?

You state that as if it's a bad thing. It's the best news I heard in years! Firefox could certainly use more engineering resources especially with the recently extended platform coverage (iOS).
But they get shielded like no other. See:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nfl-controversy/still-playi...

http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-athletes-convicted-of-sexu...

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/arrests/

The main difference between prison guards, LEO, lawyers, soldiers, is that these people are famous celebrities. They're looked up to as role models.

And for them to be allowed to continue to play after these acts perpetuates a culture of rape and violence.
Aside from vector<bool>, which pretty much everyone agrees is a failed experiment, where do you think operator overloading overused in the standard library?
It's been a while since I've used GA but being able to segment into age, gender, and interests(1) are things that you can't do without paying a marketing aggregator hundreds of thousands of dollars a month or using GA. You can do some geolocation classification and things like campaign effectiveness, bounce rate, etc, but since Google has so much aggregate data off-hand the value of being able to classify user-x as "Male, 40s, Interests-similar-to-demographic-we-sell-to"(2) is invaluable whether you're selling seats of enterprise software, high-fashion luxury items, or cheapo stoner knick-knacks. You can't really market segment with your own software.

(1) https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3125360?hl=en&re...
(2) https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2819948
That's my impression as well. A friend and I created a pastebin as a fun weekend project this weekend (https://www.pastery.net/) and we used Persona for auth, since it's so damn convenient. The only problem is that it loads a bunch of files on every request, and my questions about lazy-loading went unanswered.

I really wish Mozilla would change their mind and start developing this again. It feels like they expected all major websites to support it on the first year, and, when that didn't happen, they decided to drop it.
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Makes me think about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_hallucinations
You already use encryption: How to explain encryption to non-techies
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Yeah, and loops are just (less powerful) syntactic sugars over jump instructions, too.

Let's remove them and go back to IDE generated goto's !
Peter Roberts is fantastically helpful, for what it's worth. I expect that this will be great.
Stockholm resident here. We have a nice combination of being seriously trendy and having a deep engineering culture. Many of our unicorns (Spotify, Klarna, King) embody this in their DNA. Easy to get good UI people here, which is unusual.
To be fair, the "low-end" devices Firefox OS were targeting were miles more powerful than what Opera Platform targeted a decade prior, and JS VMs are far quicker than they were a decade prior… I'm not sure it's so obvious that low-end devices doomed it to failure (of course, you actually worked on this stuff unlike me!).

I think it's worthwhile to remember at the time Firefox OS launched much of Android ran on the Dalvik VM, so it wasn't so clear cut that the approach was so doomed to fail.
I've noticed this as well, with tweets "vanishing" (I thought they had been deleted or something) but then appearing elsewhere.

I'm all fine with them doing this as long as I can turn it off.
You need an Enterprise plan for that unfortunately, it's not even included in Business.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10698937
The ordering is the primary reason I stopped using Facebook and started to use Twitter. I understand they need to change things up but I really like reading everything in order. Once I'm done scrolling through the content I'm done. I don't miss things.
How to monetize a programming language?
If my ambitious "change the world" mission is to create a programming language, how would I go about financing its development and profiting from its usage? All constructive ideas and musings welcome.
The older versions are out of support though, aren't they? It's possible that variants of this might exist in those too if the sibling comment is correct.
Better program in Assembly then.
I use Seamonkey because it has sane UI interface elements like "buttons+text" that are actually larger than 15 pixels so that I can click on them without having to exactly aim my mouse on a tiny little button.
My guess is that every Firefox developer still runs a 2007 Asus eeebook with a 7" screen. I got more pixels than I care to count, so I just want a UI that scales in proportion with the screen.

Just one example why Seamonkey is important (for me at least).
>Their users are also their customers

We dissagree.
Firefox OS was a hedge against the situation where the dominant mobile platform didn't allow competing web engines, the other one was run by a competitor, and mobile was far outpacing desktop in amount of users.

The hedge failed, so Mozilla is in a tricky situation that it can be kicked out of the mobile ecosystem entirely by its competitors.
Don't wanna be pedantic but I think the line was:

"The story you're about to hear is a fib, but it's short. The names are made up but the problems are real."

Honestly surprised I remember that gag since it's been ages since I watched that show but I did love those segments. It was like the Square One answer to 3-2-1 Contact's "Bloodhound Gang".
Yes, but there's only so much anyone can reasonably be expected to do if someone doesn't update their computer for 7 years, I suppose.
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> I've never written a line of Ruby

I say this exact same thing on my Linkedin profile:
"I have never written a line of Ruby... but I bet you can make me if it comes to that."
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TWC coverage here in Rochester, NY is $84/month for 50Mbps.

I'd guess you only get 6x the speed for less money in LA in places where fiber is a viable competitor.
> Java’s type system, while verbose at times, allows you to write code that largely “just works”.

NullPointerException would like to have a word with you about that.

In all seriousness, it feels unreal that people can be that impressed by Java's safety or lambdas. Makes you shudder to think about what they've used before that.
Don't use setters and getters in your models.

Use public fields, add getters and setters if you have to. Serialize your POJOs using Jackson. All modern data frameworks can deal with public fields just as well as getter/setter combinations.

(Unless you are publishing a public API. In that case, you can't easily convert a public field to a private field/getter/setter setup if needed, as the cat is out of the bag and clients have code against the public field.)

Do I wish there were auto properties like C#? Oh yeah, I'd love that. But I do find modeling fairly easy.

I also lament having to manually maintain equals/compare/hashCode/toString implementations. However, with IDE auto-generation of code (using IntelliJ) makes this merely noisy and annoying, and not a time sink or a constant source of dumb errors.
Monospacifier: convert variable-pitch fonts to monospace
1) nobody cares about newcomers. fuck 'em
2) you're crazy if you think there's no advantage in compiling code. scripts are fast, compile code is faster. we love faster code, don't we kids?
3) if you wanna be a html hairdressing, sit and ponce about with some lovely, lovely html, this week's javascript framework and css. some of us are writing games for complicated consoles, (limited) android devices or emulating system calls in code converted from old, shitty languages into c++.

come back in 30 years.
It's true, nothing is better than what we enjoyed when we were kids.
Right; I'm behind on C++ versions.
... which is a hack using undocumented/non-public APIs of the Java compiler, so that's not really a viable solution.
For that, your best source would be an EMT friend, access to an EMT journal, and/or a friend known for doing stupid things. Like I know someone who has in their medical history treatment for code T19.1XXS [1]. For another example, an EMT friend got published in a journal for EMTs regarding treatment with a S71.121A [2] case involving some guy impaling his thigh with a children's swingset. The patient's only response to how it happened was, "I don't know, man." People do dumb stuff, and you'd be surprised as to how often some of the incredibly unlikely codes actually get used.

[1] http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/S00-T88/T15-T19/T19-/...

[2] http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/S00-T88/S70-S79/S71-/...
>which he proudly admits to not care about.

Why is this a problem. If another artist cuts out stuff from a bunch of different magazines and makes a collage, does he owe money to every magazine? That would be absurd. Why should these photos be different?
These startups spend heavily on user acquisition, and find those users never want to leave.
I suggest only doing interviews in the evening via phone. (not video. I've been discriminated against by video, but never by phone.) Do this in the evening. If the job is in your town and you feel its reasonable to meet them in person, do it in the evening or on a weekend.

Universally I've found that by being a little bit picky you filter out the people who aren't serious... and a lot of people aren't "serious". They might seriously want someone but they have no capability to identify that person accurately when they have found them.
I'd assumed that cities like Chicago with relatively old/dense/complex infrastructure would pose a tremendous challenge to a project like Google Fiber. Happy to have assumed incorrectly, but it does seem a significant jump from mid-sized metros like Provo/Austin/Kansas City.
Been thinking about something else: stream music that's playing in your head now, so that others can hear it. No AI, no "adaptive" crap, just what's being composed in your mind right now. Whether this is typical or not I'm not sure, but I almost always have some music playing in my head, which I can't always transform into a track, as I'm just a hobbyist music maker, not a pro.

If I were rich I'd establish a big fat prize for this technology, seriously.
I'm OK with this. I end up unfollowing people entirely because they sometimes tweet too frequently and blow up my feed and I think this might fix that.
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> Once I'm done scrolling through the content I'm done. I don't miss things.

Twitter wants you to feel like you are never done and that you are missing things.
Thing is, most companies will fire you as soon as they notice you're actively looking for other jobs.

And I wasn't suggesting job abandonment. Asking for a week of unpaid vacation is a different conversation than asking for a week of paid vacation.
SketchDeck is hiring a front end developer for their design platform
Opera was the only browser that would run acceptably on my even-then-way-old 16 MB-RAM machine back in 2000.
https://mozilla.org/donate ?

edit: ahh, you want a "donate $X" IAP.
Robin Sage
>"It is not enough to be able to implement quicksort. One must have the algorithm thoroughly memorized so that it can be scrawled onto the whiteboard in one smooth motion of the dry-erase pen. If you pause to say "hmm..." while re-deriving quicksort on the spot, you will be branded as "slow" and obviously inferior to the candidate who spent three days bashing his/her head against an algorithms textbook."

If at an interview they asked/expected that of me, it would promptly disinterest me in working for them. And I'd probably tell them that right there.

Optimizing for memorization of specific algorithms (of sorting even?) instead of problem-solving and domain-knowledge is quite a weird/perverse incentive. I'm surprised it's gotten this far, if it is true. The places I've interviewed generally ask prior experience, talk about solutions and approaches, and theoretical OO-questions of the fizz-buzz level just to be sure.
OP is glossing way too many things.

1. Desktop users are tricked in to installing Ask toolbar crapware. Which other language tricks users in to doing that?

2. Java development actually have languished for very long time and it is very recent that it started to catch up with C# and other modern languages. Java forums are filled with cries and screams for adding these improvements for years on.

3. Java is built on language concepts that are now 20 years old. Back than people wanted every language look like C++. The millennials think outside the braces. They expect language to infer types instead of repeatedly being specified all over. They expect REPL. They don't want everything modeled as object and so on. Mature language does not equal modern language.

3. Java is not truely "open source" or "free". Ask Google and Apache Harmony for the legal battles they had to fight with Oracle.

4. If Microsoft had done what it's doing with C# and .Net back in 2000, I highly doubt Java would be as popular as it is now. In other words, things can be popular even while being technically legging behind. This is not to say C# was initially just a Java copy cat but it did grew up fast while Java folks set on their laurels.

5. Java is owned by Oracle. Enough said.

I think modern languages should not have obligation to look like C/C++ and it should use advances in automatic type inference, functional paradigms etc. Anything 20 years old would have great libraries and VMs, but then mainframes and Cobol were also very safe, "reliable" and had great libraries and infrastructure at some point. It's ok to use mature tools to get shit done now but proposing them as new frontier doesn't make sense.
Don't want to give you a false sense of optimism on this, but an article I recall reading last year speculated that Fiber penetration in Chicago could begin outside the city and work its way downtown, rather than the other way around.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-google-fiber-lottery...
exactly. my fear is that when Google says "Los Angeles" they really mean "Venice where a lot of our employees live and work", or at best "west of the 405"...
My guess is the twitter users who read every tweet in their feed are a small minority.
By painting all of television with one brush, you underestimate the importance of a friendly face on a caring adult.

https://www.google.com/?#q=mr+rogers+latchkey+kids
Iterators using ++

Write/Read using << and >>. Not a major problem, but it's weird and not very useful when you're trying to be C compatible.

You can index into a std::deque, but not a std::queue.

I'd also count the need for explicit in constructor declarations to be a similar kind of mistake.
Just bring back the 'Activity' or 'Discover' feed. They were perfect additions to spend more time on Twitter (and discover new things). And that's what this is about, right?

I recently wrote this: " I worry that a lot of (young) people seem to hit every follow button they come across, after which their Twitter timeline becomes an uncontrollable mess (bots with 100’s of tweets/day) to which they never return. Too much hassle. I’m very selective who to follow and to keep a readable timeline. Again: this is me. But it is part of a larger problem on Twitter to create a better experience where the better content sticks out more. Snapchat specifically and probably incidentally deals with this problem. Stuff is just gone after a certain period."
IF they have you write code, think twice about taking the job. That's an indicator of a junior engineer conducting an interview in a company that didn't care enough to work out a good process.

Seriously. I've been working for startups and starting companies for 26 years, and for half that time I've been building teams. I stopped asking people to code a long time ago. If they can't code it will be obvious by their answers to your questions (And I'm not talking about coding brain teasers either.)

Ask them about a project they worked on and to explain to you how it worked. That's sufficient.
I think that I expressed that poorly. I've shifted to sales/marketing/product management but in my heart of hearts, I still think of myself as an engineer - an engineer who's been profoundly alienated from my means of production by this awful culture.

I agree with you that getting hired as a product manager isn't easy but, almost without exception (even at places like Amazon), the process is actually respectful, which makes a world of difference.
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Firefox on Windows respects the DPI settings (unlike Chrome!). So if you enable the relevant options in Windows' display settings, everything in the Firefox UI and webpages, including icons gets scaled up appropriately.

So it actually does exactly what you want?!
In Austin, no, the map follows closely to the city limits.

They provide maps of the rollout too: https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/fiberhoods/