skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is using an up-vote to balance out a down-vote wrong?
Is the logic equivalent though? In the initial example, there were at least four outcomes (post, notify not a member, notify not a posting member, notify group closed) which seems too many to map on a boolean.
Update: looks like I might have caught them in their testing phase. One of my sites has suddenly been downgraded back to SPDY, but one of the other sites is still HTTP/2
No doubt the long-term outlook of this product has changed dramatically since its initial conception and the 2011 acquisition. It's an analysis and recommendation engine built on search data for each site. That data used to be directly available to and collected by HitTail, since search terms were in the referring URLs of every visit to the site coming from a search engine.

Now that Google virtually never includes search terms in referring URLs, the only way HitTail can get the data it needs is via Google's APIs. Google can change the API, remove the API, or change the terms of use, and HitTail's SOL. Already they only have access to a subset of search data the API makes available, rather than all long-tail keywords, which they had a few years ago.

Will Google remain friendly to tools like this in the future? Who knows. That's a risk the new owner hopefully evaluated before taking it on.
OTOH you kind of need hashes/maps in the real world (sexprs can provide this by syntax, but not necessarily by agreed-upon function). And Unicode. And standard representations for the base datatypes.

I believe Clojure's EDN format offers all of the above
https://github.com/edn-format/edn
All of it. Semiconductor processing is a supremely complicated endeavor.
I agree with you on almost everything beside the web view part. In my understanding web view is used because it's a very advanced layout engine and way easier and more flexible to deal with than to set all this up using the native layout engine.

Edit: For clarity.
Interesting. Will take a look.
Thanks!

Re: valuation - reputable online businesses are typically valued in the 2-3.5x annual net profit range. See http://feinternational.com/blog/how-do-you-value-an-online-b... for more info about valuations.

But honestly, it comes do to what the market is willing to pay for a financial (as opposed to strategic) acquisition.
> I love that I just got down-voted for coming out to the community as both queer and victim of sexual assault!

Do you really think that's why you were downvoted?
People criticise mother theresa because she believed that suffering was a gift from god and because of that she didn't allow pain medication to be used in her "hospices". And her hospices didn't separate the curable from the untreatable, so a bunch of people died needlessly.
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Not very unless you set yourself up as a store, in which case you've got the problem of trust, both on the developer side (why should we deploy to yet another store), and the customer side (why should we trust your fly by night store).
Probably because they are allegations. If they are found true he should and will be punished. But until then, he is innocent until proven guilty. I don't see the point in a witch hunt.
The flex command suite seems rather arbitary chosen and named. Doesn't seem to reflect a decade of experience learning from the pain of CSS.
I've had the same issue. And yes, it's annoying. The MAS is frustrating at the best of times.
cool, do you have any examples of yours you can share?
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Hi-- I work at Nylas. Happy to jump in here :)

The sync engine handles all the compatibility or dozens of IMAP and Exchange servers, and uses a variety of heuristics for real-time notifications. It also does the heavy-lifting for the huge amount of data in most people's mailbox. The N1 app can cache your entire archive in about 10% of the disk space required if you also download all unprocessed headers+attachments.

Right now our search implementation just sends a proxy request to the IMAP search, so you'll get the same performance as Gmail web, Mac Mail, etc. It's not ideal. We're working on our own faster search system, but it's tough to build a huge distributed search cluster that handles tens of terabytes. (And is growing quickly!) If anyone here wants to work on that, we're also hiring. ;)

N1 is built on Electron, which under the hood is Chromium+NodeJS so that comes with a bit of weight. But the app itself is pretty manageable. You can check out the source here: https://github.com/nylas/n1
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That's why we should promote DRM-free software distributions - like GOG.
Check the log files that got written before you killed the instance?
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> OTOH you kind of need hashes/maps in the real world

Well, plists (foo bar baz quux) and alists ((foo . bar) (baz . quux)) or ((foo bar) (baz quux)) have provided good enough functionality for quite a long time.

> And Unicode.

S-expressions can be Unicode: (edelweiß) is a perfectly valid s-expression.

> And standard representations for the base datatypes.

Common Lisp's extensively documented reader algorithm[1] contains standard read forms for symbols, strings, characters lists, integers, rational numbers, floats, complex numbers, pathnames, structs, comments, vectors, arrays, bitfields as well as some miscellaneous other types.

There's no reason that it couldn't be augmented with something like #{} for hashes (although this would require updating the standard: currently, those characters are reserved for the user; maybe #H{} instead?), #D"2015-12-01" for dates, #U"http://www.example.com/" for URLs and so forth.

This:

#{(title "Example Scheme")
(type "object")
(properties #{(first-name #{(type string)})
(last-name ${(type string)})
(age ${(description "Age in years")
(type integer)
(minimum 0)})})
(required #(first-name last-name))}

seems a lot nicer to my eyes than:

{
"title": "Example Schema",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"firstName": {
"type": "string"
},
"lastName": {
"type": "string"
},
"age": {
"description": "Age in years",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 0
}
},
"required": ["firstName", "lastName"]
}

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Body/02_b.h...
I can recommend atop[1] for that. It runs every ten minutes by default and writes lots of information to /var/log/atop/atop_YYYYMMDD. With that you can examine what happend before the crash, just open a file with atop -r /var/log/atop/atop_YYYYMMDD.

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/atop
Please quote the sources of data for your claims ... From what I see
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Our average sales multiple is nearer 3x but this is still a good question.

Often businesses (especially those selling nearer 2x) are relatively young so the valuation reflects the risk.

We have a very stringent pre-listing due diligence process so while it remains the buyer's responsibility to conduct their own due diligence, none of our listings are scams.

I wrote a little more about why people sell businesses last year: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141023121347-71653461-6-rea...
Thanks. I think I worry more about not having more self control than I do about my clients!
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The only "exception" I guess is if you develop Java GUI based applications... or anything that uses a GUI for that matter.
Well, the original question was What if they restrict running compilers? and not What if they remove compilers?.

Restriction might be a requirement of special licence.

This would effectively remove ability to execute arbitrary code from most of the users.

The ones who want to run arbitrary code or develop software will have to pay. If someone complains about this, they would be told to shut up and would be explained how this is actually a benefit for majority of the users.

Anyway, I will stop here.

Edit: I think that Apple is not doing it only because it is not their focus at the moment.
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Sandstorm is interesting, but fundamentally the dichotomy is "leave the running to someone else" vs. "spend significant time and effort acquiring the skills to make your own administrative decisions".

If you're running on someone else's platform and automatically accepting updates, are you really "administering" it yourself?
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One thing we do at $work is collecting each server's static with https://collectd.org/ and often the graphs are pretty revealing. Sometimes it's the disk activity that kills the server, sometimes it's the memory usage, or number of processes, or a disk running full.

For things like databases, you can gather more specific information as well, for example number of queries and connections, failed transactions and the likes.

If you have a hunch what it might be, you could try to counter-act, for example limiting memory, number of processes, or use cgroups to limit IO rate (see for examplehttp://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48138/how-to-throttl...).

Also leave a ssh connection with something like htop or atop open, and look at it once it freezes up.
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You're probably right. I would still agree with the parent in that they feel like a badly done webview wrapper, because the symptoms are so similar.

iTunes Store, App Store, MAS, Apple Music — there is definitely a pattern there, at least on the desktop. I find them all similarly clunky, slow, ugly and unpleasant to use.

Apple almost seems to be inherently incapable of creating a decent store front, and I am curious as to why they have that organizational blindspot.
Since the game doesn't show you the effect of "wrong" answers, you're left haphazardly guessing answers until one is correct, instead of incrementally learning by exploring.

Game designers, take note: design open-world games that let the player explore the controls, instead of simply refusing all unwanted actions.
> Apple has not pulled off a successful App Store concept for MacOS yet

They really did, for the first year or two of the Mac App Store's existence. It was great. All of the "$10 utility apps" would be there today if not for Sandboxing.

Maybe this wouldn't have included the apps where the 30% or poor support for upgrades/subscriptions would really impact sales (Adobe, Microsoft, perhaps, interestingly, Sketch...), but sandboxing is the only outstanding issue that prevents you from shipping an app to the Mac App Store.
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I feel the same way, I love KMail but it feels like a mess whenever I have to configure it.
How many Apple TV's are out there? I am surprised that your numbers are as high as they are for GifTV. I think it is safe to assume that roughly 0 people have used the Siri Remote to type in "GIF Slideshow", but 10 people per day are still installing the app.

Maybe my expectations are just much lower. When I put a hundred hours or so into a game and upload it to the app store with no marketing I only expect about a hundred downloads. I keep buying app store lottery tickets, but I don't expect any of them to win. My next one will be for the Apple TV in the next few days and we will see if that does any better.
I would expect a DRM-compliant video component in it
It is its own medium of entertainment and the content can vary wildly between different intellectual properties depending on the target audience. Pigeon-holing anime as being "for kids only" is like watching a Pixar production and saying that all American movies are "for kids only".

The difference between intended audiences is more easily observed when you look at manga (comic books, often adapted to anime if successful) rather than just the animated cartoons, since the language used in manga directly reflects the target demographic. Plenty of manga are directed at an older audience and will use harder, more complicated kanji (Chinese characters), with or without furigana (helper text in a simpler alphabet) than those directed toward children.
No, pretty much any Christian of any denomination understands Creation to mean "all that is created by God", i.e. the whole universe and all therein. The Catholic church, by far the largest "denomination", does not teach young-earth creationism, and I doubt that belief is shared by any more than a small minority even of Protestants.

Perhaps they join the concepts because they know that the opponents of their faith often try to falsely imply that theories of evolution are proofs of atheism.
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Hi HN, I'd like to launch a product based off of some Open Source work I've done. I would like people to continue to be able to use the code for anything they'd like (commercial or non) -- provided they commit back. But most importantly I'd like to prevent people from being able to launch the software as a product, that is prevent a software as a service product, which I want to launch to help support development.

Does anyone know of appropriate licenses I can choose?

Thanks
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Objectivists argue about what branch of normative ethics it is. I like to see it as a branch of Consequentialism, like a cousin of Utilitarianism, except where the utility function is not what outcome is best for the greater good, but what outcome is best for the self. They tend to believe that what is best for the self is by definition best for everyone.

Debates usually get hung up on Tragedy of the Commons, and whether it actually exists as a meaningful concept or whether it can always be solved via private property ownership.
I mean, it's either that or people who really really hate the idea of someone getting their mental health together with useful tools like safe spaces and trigger words :)
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this!

thank you for the articulate reply.
Who says they have to be Mac only? It'd probably work out better to be on all major platforms, that way you can sell the feature of buy once, run on all platforms the software runs on. You also could allow single platform things onto your store too, like Sketch.
it's a video player. http://blogs.adobe.com/primetime/2015/11/adobe-primetimes-co...
I am not in fact saying that particular incident is or is not ok. (I also don't think his tweets are fairly characterized by your summation.) As I mentioned, I am addressing the line of argument, not the case.

What I amsaying is that when the "freedom of speech" flag only gets hauled out for pro-bigotry straight white guys, I think it's not really about freedom of speech but instead defense of privilege. If defenders of free speech want to convince me they're serious, they'll be just as vigorous in defending unpopular opinions of people not in their demographic.

That may even be you, in which case, congrats. But unlike you, I don't think it's unconditionally bad that some people are afraid to express opinions because they may face social consequences for them. E.g., if some of the Donald Sterlings of the world are now afraid to express their bigotry, that's ok by me. And if some people are afraid to publish something because they aren't sure whether or not it's bigoted, I also have a hard time seeing that as bad. That seems like a fine opportunity for them to consider their opinions before publishing them.

In fact, I think that's what most people do. The only thing that's different is that straight white guys now have to do the same sort of self-managing that everybody else has always done, because they're now slightly less insulated from the consequences of their actions.
I'd love to hear about your experience! Always nice to get perspective on what strategies are working and what are not.
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This is relevant on the laptops or devices with smaller screens mostly, 1080p(24in) monitors are fairly common those days which gives more than enough screen estate to fit at least 2 side by side windows, ~100 char width text is recommended width for text reading.

And as for linux distro with a good GUI I would suggest looking into Elementary OS which is a ubuntu based and UX oriented. I used it on a daily basis for about 6 months and had good experience (not excellent though, it has some issues but what doesn't?)
Ah, so you're that "agent". You're right, we worked at Percussion together in 2009 :)
Yeah. Looks like an html5 version of ye olde OSMF combined with a delivery platform.
> the syntax of XML is probably the most widely understood (given so many people know HTML).

HTML and XML syntax is similar (because both are descendants of SGML, and XML was informed by -- but also in some respects a reaction against elements of -- HTML), but not the same; they are more members of the same syntax family, in the same way that large numbers of programming languages are members of a syntax family descended from Algol.
An on-board battery or capacitor could help to smooth out brief high power tasks, but I don't think it will be able to sustain video decoding & playback at a constant supply of 150mA. I'm really excited for that to be a possibility though, so I hope I'm wrong.

Of course, some TVs might dump a lot more current over the connection, just like what was common with USB 2.0 going well over 500mA.
"You would think that at least people would be able to turn off such a thing with apps they knew were ok. But no."

If you allow that, then "Amazing Super Awesome Free Desktop Calendars" is going to ask for it as well.
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I really don't understand what you're saying in the first two paragraphs. What's interesting is I don't think the goal of these "safe spaces" is at all to foster "free discussion" or "open development of ideas". What you see people rallying against is that the SJWs are shutting down any free discussion through these tactics.

For example, these "safe spaces" apparently are to protect against "micro-aggressions" (a term I only recently learned) which if I understand correctly means to "take offense where none was given" aka to put words into someone's mouth? So now it's not even what someone is saying but how someone in the audience might feel, because of their own personal history, indirectly because a word the speaker used. And this is the speaker's responsibility now that someone in the audience was made to feel this way because they were confronted with a disagreeing opinion?

I think this is where the accusations of mollycoddling come in. It sounds like these kids aren't ready for serious academic discourse. They're stuck in a world where there is only one "right" and they paint caractures of their racist and bigoted antagonists to support their view.

What I find noxious is warfangle's claim that we must all be sexist and bigots to raise questions around academic freedom and censorship in colleges / universities... I think this is a typical parlor trick to try to shut down productive discussion. Frankly I would have liked to see a rebuke from dang in response. Why is it ok to attack a group saying a viewpoint is "disgustingly indicative of the inherent sexism and flat-out hatred that worms its way through developer culture." All the same, I'll let warfangle speak for themself and I don't expect HN to be free from dissenting opinions or even vitriol. Because in an attempt to shut down a "narrow and combative approach" it's impossible not to have a chilling effect on the overall discussion. In your safe spaces you might be spared from some of the bad, but it comes at a significant cost to others around you who aren't triggered and are capable of having adult conversations on difficult topics.

Frankly I've been waiting for an article like this to hit the front page because I am very interested in seeing the varying perspectives and actually having a chance at productive conversation on HN, which you won't find in the comments anywhere else that's for sure!
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Thanks for the comment! I have hear of the Google Web IDE. DO you know if its still live and they is a way to see it?

Thanks again!
how is this hacker talk? can someone PLEASE talk about hacking ffs?!