skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I won't say that it's strictly because of the watch, but I'm now about as fit as I've ever been

I will gladly credit my Fitbit Aria scale for the same result.

Interestingly, it is less for the feedback if gives me in the short term and rather the long-term graphs. I know that if I want to manipulate the scale up or down in weight and fat percentage, I have to be consistent over really long periods of time. I almost never miss days running or at the gym, my days of heavy drinking are long behind me, and I feel orders of magnitude better than I have in years past. These systems really are fantastic tools, and show that the application of game mechanics can be a force for enacting strong positive change on a personal level.
I never heard of it either. What else am I missing? Honestly?
Thank you for the feedback. As a respected community-member here at HN (you), this is exactly the type of feedback and open discussion that I aim to have with the community, which PH does not offer.

1) I understand that the issues compared are different, but I posed a hypothetical scenario of how the issues at PH can go beyond just having a tightly-controlled growth engine for companies PH likes. PH has no ethics-policy (that we know of) and nothing stops A16Z from telling the mods that any product related to A16Z-funded-firms should get top spot at PH.

2) Fair point, but that does not mean we should not try something new :) Afterall, HN is/was an experiment to address the issue of community-decline due to growth. Also, the decline in "Show HN" (almost like second-class-citizen-status) and the fact that PH exists, indicates to some measure that a "launch platform for startups" is relevant.

3) I have added some more details about myself as well as a disclaimer of affiliations (none).

4) I intend to build this alternative with community feedback and as a Proof-of-Concept. I will not dictate "how things go", which is why I value community-feedback so much.
btw, Firefox 43+ on Linux uses the system ffmpeg library. Before that it used GStreamer, which was very crashy and usually just called ffmpeg anyway. :) Firefox telemetry shows that 97% of Linux users have ffmpeg, but only 70% have GStreamer. So this change increases H.264 availability, reduces crashing, while removing code.

The Cisco OpenH264 plugin is currently only used for WebRTC, not MP4 video playback. OpenH264 only supports H.264 Baseline Profile, but YouTube, for example, uses the higher-quality H.264 Main Profile. Cisco or Mozilla could add Main Profile support to OpenH264, but people would still need an AAC decoder to watch most MP4 videos. ffmpeg solves both codec problems. For the 3% of Linux users (and 2% of Windows users) who don't already have H.264 and AAC codecs installed, Adobe's CDM (their DRM plugin for HTML5 video) will eventually allow Firefox to decode H.264 and AAC content that is not DRM'd. Props to Adobe! :)
Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a New Particle
Introducing the New Calendar Resource API
This is an interesting read, when I saw a few of the comments here ask "how hard can it be?" I was reminded of this presentation by Rik Signes at YAPC::NA (2008)

Email Hates the Living

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s9IjkMAmns
Both hypotheses in this case are plausible. Beyond that, it would be great to have the tools to numerically calculate a psychological phenomenon such as the placebo effect the way a physicist calculates the energy of a particle. But we're very far from having them, and in the meantime, I don't know of a practical alternative to RCTs that would expand our knowledge at least as much. (I think we can both agree that over-reliance on significance testing is a problem, though not one limited to RCTs.)
I don't think this is accurately representing Julia's aims. Of course the Julia team wrote the Python code in a way that makes it run slowly. But it looks like perfectly natural Python code! It's almost a literal translation of the Julia code. Julia's benchmark is even far worse with Octave, which they almost deliberately wrote in the worst way possible for Octave, with lots of loops and recursion.

We have written some documentation for Octave in order to guide people towards writing faster Octave code:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Vectoriz...

But look at how much we have to explain, and look at all the hoops we have to jump through in Python and Octave in order to write faster code. Matlab used to have similar guides telling people don't write this, write that instead.

What Matlab eventually did was look at what people were writing and making that fast. Julia did the same and made it even faster.

This is a lesson from C and C++ compilers that seems to be taking a long time to trickle to other programming languages: as long as you're writing reasonable code, speeding up your code is your compiler's job, not yours. Your compiler usually knows better than you how to unroll loops, how to cache results, how to use multiple cores, how to elide unnecessary intermediate results, how to completely remove dead code. You should focus on writing easy to understand, maintainable, high-level code. That's why you're using a programming language and not machine code.
Really like the announcement of botkit[1], I was just looking at adding a vote bot to our slack and only found a really old example that ended up not working.

1. https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/
Did anyone else notice that in the figure with caption "A rendering of the Auto-Tune interface; via WikiHow", there's a lynda.com watermark in the lower bottom right corner of the screen? The screenshot used for the illustration must've been taken from a lynda.com video course.
Also it seems like most new subway construction in the US is now done with tunnel-boring machines, deep underground. There are advantages to this, but it is much more expensive than digging a trench and covering it ("cut and cover").
Google's Angular 2 Release Pushes JavaScript Beyond the Browswer
telling someone who reports unambiguous benefit from the use of antidepressants...

Given that he also said he was unable to go off them without "losing a year of his life", it sounds like the benefit was hardly unambiguous.

... how they were a pawn of the Pharma-Industrial Complex,

I'd address some of the other points you're trying to make, but you know very well that I said no such thing, so why should I bother?
Twitter didn't even send me a ping when a friend working there sent in my resume (for a role rhat at least on paper I'd be well suited for), but I'm moving through the interview process now with two of the GAFA constituents. shrug There's a big element of luck in this process, even if technical competence is a prerequisite.
You could just use MySQL from the command line. But if you're looking to a GUI I can't help you.
The developer who created the site works at Twitter, so naturally, he probably just asked his coworkers first.
I'm sorry, I've scoffed at other valuations and investments, but I'm just completely beside myself. Why does a chat room need "apps"?

It's kind of weird actually. There's two sorts of people that defend these announcements, I've found:

The first thinks that they are going to build an "amazing" platform some day and that they'll follow this model for "growing revenue". So of course they defend it.

And then there's the second group that has some "great idea" who plans to build on Slack's platform. Personally, I look forward to 2 years of stories about how Slack was unfair to them, or changed the rules on them, or broke an API. Or didn't review fast enough, or any of the other complaints that pop up monthly about other closed platforms.
Every program attempts to expand until it has an app store. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Yes, I think it was formerly called "aurora".
A quick intro to the different AWS services:

https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
This supports more than just the Amiga and ST. Better page here http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96
Are you an idea guy, or actually working on the code as well?
Exactly. Find someone not good at X then have them manage a dozen people doing X and pay them 50% more.
Reread my comment.
I appreciate the edit and your polite response, but (if I may say so personally, as opposed to qua moderator) the thrust of what you're saying still feels uncharitable.

I've met Ryan, and my impression was that he's a true enthusiast—he just loves this stuff. And there's strong objective evidence for it too: someone who was primarily interested in building a rigged system for insider gain would never have been able to get a community going in the first place. Real online communities are rare. It takes a believer to start one.

As for PH now, I don't know any details, but from other experience I can guarantee you that the challenges in getting it right are (a) harder and (b) different than one would imagine. Reading a thread like this about one's baby (which it's possible Ryan may) is a hard experience, but at least if the criticisms are substantive, you can feed them into your efforts to improve. When someone just seems to be saying mean or generically cynical things, though, that sucks.
Finding Optimal Friction
Interesting, thanks for the reply!
You can log into it, but not for that price. It'll count against your data.
You can email them slackfund@slack.com
British police arrest man over VTech toymaker hack
How to build a better PH?

Revert to the old PH design. I hadn't checked the site for > 1 month. There is an incredible amount of noise and bloat in the new interface. And it needlessly looks too much like Kickstarter, which arguably has discoverability problems of its own.
I think everyone knew (the NSA exists after all; wiretaps were a thing for beating mobsters). It's just the extent; we expect it to be more targeted than saving ALL the phone records.
Well, it's up to the package -- you can make it as slow as you want, in theory :).

But I confess it's just a hypothetical problem for me so far -- I haven't yet run into trouble from it yet. I think Go's general culture of restraint and light-weightness may help it here.

(I've had tons of problems w/ this in python, which makes me suspicious of the feature generally.)
If anyone else knows it's there or to even look for it. Never underestimate your local law enforcement's ability to go 'yup, it's a suicide' right off the bat and not look any further. Because any cloud based accounts are apt to be secured with strong encryption and passwords your friends may not be able to gain access to your accounts.
In retrospect, adding PAE support to XP SP2 would probably be less risky (though would still require new drivers).
They definitely exist, I used to work in this building:

http://www.americantwine.com

Here's another example:

http://www.thecmaninn.com/claremont/about-us/history.aspx

Here's an older paper from the state of RI:

http://www.planning.ri.gov/documents/tp/TP%20150.pdf

So one note from that paper: northern RI alone had 10mil sq ft of vacant mill building space.

That's a lot. It will take a lot of rebuilding to come close to reclaiming all the space in those old buildings.

Also, those old buildings didn't always take into account things like, say, HVAC efficiency. That kind of retrofitting takes money.
Logging in uses bandwidth
I have no idea whether this is satire or you're being serious.

+1
MaxMind's free GeoIP data is bad, but their premium data is actually very good.

https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo

Enough so that I've used it on GeoIP critical tasks in the past. Unfortunately it's an API, so you have a limited # of calls.
It seems like errors in the rewrite rules themselves would potentially create very hard-to-debug problems with the runtime code.
Isn't PH just another example of the typical business cycle? Found a startup, get big, get bought out/go public, turn into crap, then another startup is founded to attempt to dethrone you, repeat ad infinitum.
Slack makes a ton of money and it is unimaginable to me (and many others) that it's not going to be a massive force. It has been a revelation to literally every entrepreneur I know - and I'm from Virginia not SV (although I recently moved to NYC - same deal).

Now that it has established itself beyond almost any doubt, its INVESTORS have established an $80M bet around those who make the company a core component of their strategy. Slack, which has very low burn, seems to have contributed to this fund but we can safely assume it was a small amount (if at all).

This is a sign of strength. We're still creating transformational companies with real revenue models, and these companies often facilitate other great companies. Tech is strong - valuations may be wrong one way or another, but tech is a great place to deploy capital.
>It's very sad when you think of all the wasted man hours, much of it during one's prime, spent pursuing this startup game—

Speaking from first hand experience: after a while you kind of realize that even if you succeed, you'd have ended up far more wealthy in any true sense of the word had you instead lived those years to their fullest rather than having followed the startup path.
It's funny how we all know this type of technology exists, but we never stop and find out the backstory of why and how it came to be. Great article, but depressing in that I don't understand 50% of the content and am unlikely to ever do so, despite having two friends in the geo business - one collecting the data and one interpreting it.
They didn't return my emails on the subject. I might try faxes or couriered presentations on LaserDisc next.
We need a Mac to do it , make it cross platform and we'll have a deal here.
Is HN hiring posts REALLY representative of the industry as a whole? Seems more like the startup scene and often forgets about all the developers out there in corporations, agencies and other work that don't get represented here.
i've started using JKiss's DBeaver (java/Eclipse based) database management tool. If you're on a Desktop it's pretty nice.
Have you ever even USED Slack? The apps are amazing, it's 50% of why people use Slack. There have been apps since I've known about it which has been almost since it launched.
There are good lessons to be learned from Shark Tank. I highly recommend checking out James Altucher's article about it: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/ten-lessons-i-learned-f...
VGA is much easier to generate on an FPGA. Also, the project is a few years old.
Agreed. Read my other comments on this thread and you'd think I'm a super Slack fan, but be wary - other people's platforms when they're this young are opportunities but you don't know what the next few years bring.

ON THE OTHER HAND: Twitter and Facebook make money on ads, and that's what caused them to change course. Salesforce apps are still a huge business and that's closer to Twitter/FB than Slack.
Is this really an improvement, or are more people plugged into our global economic system? Here's a hypothetical story. All names & circumstances are fiction.

Take Tan Bao, who lived in a pastoral barter system in his homeland in north-western China. Tan's family had the same trade over many generations. Their flock consisted of 63 sheep, 3 horses, 28 geese, 6 ducks.

Tan Bao made $0, yet was able to support his family. Everybody pitched in to subsist.

Now developers bought the land that Tan Bao's family has lived on. Tan Bao & his family are evicted. They move to Xi'an. Now, Tan Bao makes $2 a day working in a shoe factory.

Hooray! Tan Bao is no longer living in extreme poverty. Yet he & his family miss their ancestral homeland & old way of life.
Also big with speed camera installations. A spate of accidents occur, speed cameras get installed. The rate of accidents falls, the speed cameras are claimed to be the result.

The problem is that accidents are randomly spaced (assuming some level of road design and driver training) and putting in a teepee beside the road would probably show the same effect. Particularly so if the speed camera is not obvious, so is unlikely to have an effect on a driver unless they travel the route frequently and get fined.
That's the difference from being just a tool, or a platform. The former is easy to copy and replace, the latter goes in monopoly position once you have an ecosystem around you (see Salesforce, Facebook).

$80M is the price they have to pay to go in monopoly position as soon as possible and become a platform.
Google uses Angular in over 1000 internally and externally facing apps, including some on Angular2 already. They are also on the main trunk, and update on commit. The test suite for Angular at Google actually checks not only the Angular tests, but also all of the tests for all 1000+ apps at Google that use Angular, before allowing it to be deployed.
That's a really good explanation and fits American attention span. He's covered most critical stuff within 3 minutes. I'm keeping it. :)
Very cool!
How do you manage this in production? We use supervisors for other services. Is plumber aware of USR1, SIGHUP,etc signals to trigger restarts,etc
>Raise the minimum wage and you'll see a lot more robots and kiosks.

Good. Humans have no business doing what robots can do anyway.

The question remains: How do we adapt the humans who lost their jobs? And before you write them off as 'unskilled,' remember that your job could just as easily be next.
Strong disagreement. The Dragon Book is super expensive, spends all its time discussing the easy part (parsing) as if it was complicated, then spends no time discussing modern algorithms in code generation.

Working from an example like LLVM or reading Appel or Wirth's books are better.
/Launch Platform – Slack Developer Blog
Integrate MS Excel Spreadsheet in Node.js Using Powerful Aspose.Cells Cloud APIs
Dipster – Disposable email in your iPhone
It's always been rigged and it always will be, so long as there is a significant amount of money involved and people act as they have for millenia. The problem is that we keep letting them make us forget this, and when we don't remember this we can't act to mitigate the problem in whatever ways we can.
Thanks, I didn't catch that. I'll have to make some time to play with this, especially once it gets further along.
Angular2 wants dependency injection and for that to work well it needs named interfaces and thus ends up with TypeScript as its first citizen language.

This is fair choice but it shows the background of the designers of Angular and that they in some sense really don't grok JavaScript.

Here is a blog from mr. Ruby-on-Rails explaining why DI is a stranger in the Ruby world:

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/dependency-injection...

With some parallels I think.
Agreed. One would need to actually present actual implementations to compare.
(Stripe's CEO here.) It is ​emphatically​ against our policy. The employee involved was identified before the article was published and they no longer work at Stripe.
In Defense of Product Hunt
Reject all you want, but at least be classy about it.

A vast amount of empirical data suggests that recruiters are very, very bad at this.

And many companies, when engaging candidates directly, aren't much better.
It depends, if having a slack integration will benefit your business and theirs and they are willing to help fund it, seems like a win win.

Of course you are correct that you would never want to bet your business on their platform.
Yes you can!
We are using requirejs, babel,es6 to have a react setup that runs completely in the browser. But for some reason, react makes this information really obscure.

It works really well. Including breakpoints in chrome,etc.
There seemed to be an implication that Hindley Milner type inference leads to unpredictable performance, you can see that is untrue with ml and ocaml.
Slack Raises $80M Fund to Support Platform Strategy
The statement is correct.

"Sufficiently large" is implied and also not strictly necessary for the statement to be correct.
Jonathan Cadden – We talk Business Rocks, creating a startup, and recruitment
> I'm not saying that PG has built a cult of personality around himself

Heh. Are you kidding? Paul Graham could post a fart on Hacker News and it'd get 1200 upvotes in 10 minutes.
Assume you are talking about OVH or Hetzer? Those companies have their issues too.
As a counterpoint, there are a decent number of people learning it around where I am in southeast Michigan. There was a conference in Detroit, they said that they got a ton of React talk submissions. I used it at a small business print shop, admittedly they just let IT do their own thing.

I think there are probably still more Angular devs, but I'll be interested to see how it evolves in the next few years.
50% that's a stretch.

Useful, yes, 1/2 of interactions, questionable.
Also Muchnick's book is good for the middle end.
Thanks for chiming in your opinion about the Philly weather. I personally prefer Philly or DC's weather than Boston's, but these are all subjective. :)
Until they are in your business also...
If you have no JavaScript these days then largely you can forget job hunting.

Not true. And weird, counterfactual statements like these are exactly why I don't like dealing with recruiters.
I don't really get it. This is more of an integration showcase than app store right? Can developers charge money for their Slack integrations and get paid-out? Is there a marketplace?
Startup iOS game chat app
Hello guys! I'm Chris from battlecryhq in ShenZhen, we're currently developing an iOS and android app for destiny (and other games in the near future).

I won't go into too much detail but it has similar functions to whatsapp, kik and wechat with a pinch of 100.io and some of our own flair.

We've got some contact with bungie but we need to bring them an app which stands out before they're willing to help us, but we can't make that app if we don't do a little research in what the community needs.
I'm trying to reach out to the new users of destiny in a bid to keep the community strong and figure out ways to help them. You can take a look at the survey yourselves and let me know what you guys think.

Sorry to hassle you guys like this. Thanks in advance, Chris.

www.surveymonkey.com/r/25LNZ2J
I'm a fan of Sequal Pro if a desktop application would work for you. http://www.sequelpro.com/
It's nice to have a company cafeteria. It doesn't matter to me if the company is paying for the food or if I'm charged market prices.

However, if the company is paying for the food it's presumably with pre-tax dollars for the both of us.
Yes the government is very involved. My mother worked as a nurse in the state government health service and from what I have personally seen; the quality of government care is good and very cheap (sometimes free). But its not just the government; there are a lot of private institutions too in the state that provide quality healthcare.
Why was this `[Dead]`, preventing people from commenting? High level of irony on that.
Behaviorialism is bunk.

>we could simply test if shouting has any effect on performance

Maybe we are using different definitions of performance, but what you want to test is essentially untestable. You'd have to be able to observe the exact same situation twice, once with shouting and once without. This is impossible.
I had a positive experience with ng-book for ng1. Although I've only read about half, I found it very useful.

I haven't started using ng2 yet, but if I do decide to learn it i'll be purchasing ng-book 2.
ASP has had server-side "Javascript" for years. The magic sauce in Node.js is the combination of async, JS, and package management.
I think it's a fantastic idea, but I struggle to comprehend how they can possibly think that $80 million is an appropriate amount of money for such a venture.