skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very different technical approach but the use cases are the same: the customers who are interested in Docker will also be interested in unikernels as the technology matures. And customers who are sort of interested in Docker but unwilling to use it (either for security, or for performance, or because Docker doesn't isolate enough) may be willing to use unikernels.

A bad analogy could be made to Mac OS 9 and earlier multitasking, and Mac OS X multitasking: the implementations are wildly different but you keep (and gain) customers.
True, the future is looking quite dystopic. I am not a pessimist though: as usual, a new generation will come which will reject all this authoritarianism (as it happened before with sexual behavior, for example).
option - q will get you œ, but at least in informal settings, typing "oe" is acceptable, I think.
Just a word usage nitpick:

In your "Hacker News for Moms" idea description, you say, "Higher quality posts and articles than the dribble that most moms read on their Facebook feeds" (emphasis mine). I believe you mean "drivel" here. Many parents do deal with their fair share of dribble, but that's something else entirely.
Answer to that one is easy: with the level of details that this board can provide, one can't find the sex of the fetus - whereas placental location is still possible - and allows the medical staff to inform the mother and prepare the birth =)

Still, an issue.
Universal applications get the best of both worlds. That is why we created GlueStick https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick/
Ask HN: Online, Multi Brand Strategy
Some companies seem to adopt the idea of having a multi brand strategy where you build 1 common platform for different brands. Each brand would serve a similar product just for a different target audience, E.g. one for age 20s-30s, one for age 50s etc. What is your take on this, do you agree? etc.
No VC has "a few" $200+ billion investments. The $1+ billion are suppose to be the successes that make up for the $1+ million failures.
I literally just posted that and deleted it in a comment. It had something else that was inaccurate. I was about to repost it just saying Renesas had SOC's, SuperH chips, and their on fab then saw you comment. :)
Trillion.

Here's a chart of debt as a proportion of GDP:

http://dailyreckoning.com/dr-content/uploads/2015/06/Histori...
Is there a list somewhere? I didn't see one in the article.
Great work! As someone who never does data exploratino or use python, I appreciated how annotated your iPython notebook was. It was fun to read through. (link https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2016-01-tennis-betting-analy... )
I am and that's certainly a factor - though I lose points in the 'respectable citizen' department for long hair, occasional beard, and tattoos.

My wife is not, though, and her experiences have mirrored mine. But anecdotes, etc.

I'm not saying that it's always going to work out, nor that there's never a time and place that OP's method is appropriate - only that starting a dialog that way is unnecessarily antagonistic.
I think it's because the Fed's past easy-money policies (QE). The idea of QE is that the Fed puts a ton of cash into the market in order to encourage investment. However investment pushes asset valuations higher. Once asset valuations are high enough, people stop investing because the fundamentals don't support the valuations.

The money injected by the Fed will eventually be absorbed by inflation and the Fed reversing course and raising rates to suck money out of the market. But inflation's been low and the Fed's only done a single, very recent increase in interest rates, so "eventually" hasn't arrived yet.

I think the "big thing" they're waiting for is for the investment market to become less competitive. One way it becomes less competitive is with investors exiting the market (because they have things to spend their cash on, like bonds), another way it becomes less competitive is with more startups to invest in.

So by this analysis, the next couple years will be a great time to own equity/options in a startup -- those balance sheets are just waiting for the right opportunity to make an acquisition.
VC and PE? 5%. But add to that exposure to the publicly listed tech sector, for aggressive funds, that could be as high as 20%. Then there are secondary effects like a downturn in Bay area real estate.
You mean Veblen goods :)
Inside Google's Fight to Regain Mobile Ad Relevancy
Just like Second Life killed real world conferences. [1]

Spoiler Alert. It didn't.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2008/nov/11...
Yeah, I'm not sure what the author was trying to say there, because that's not even close to true. The US wasn't getting anywhere near to paying off the national debt in the 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...
I experienced some cognitive dissonance between "privately" and the Facebook/Google login buttons. Don't get me wrong, maybe it's always a temporary token and there's a plausible distinction between anonymity and privacy.

But why not just a unique URL via cryptographic hash from a pass phrase?

Good luck.
With React you have to Reason about abstract things pretty early, especially if you're using something like Redux. You have to know how to think about code in the abstract. A lot of people are just trying to get specific behavior on their website. They're thinking "I want a form that does this x", "I want a button that does y". They don't may not know how to think about abstract architecture and they may not see the value in it.

React doesn't really let you write code this way easily. You will run into problems with the lifetime cycle. You will be constantly fighting the library. Angular on the other hand lets you write a basic CRUD app without having to worry about those things. It's friendlier for people new to development.

I'm not advocating for Angular, I very much dislike it and I exclusively write using React, I just think React too hard or too much for normal people.
I live in Zurich and have been thinking of switching.. If you don't mind, I have a couple questions:

How did you handle learning it given so many layers? Stickers seem like trouble..

Do you find it better or worse for dealing with use of occasional accents/etc from a 3rd latin language, (i.e. French) than a more traditional compose key route?

Thanks!
I think another way to look at it is that Lisp took untyped lambda calculus and turned it into practical programming language, although in an opinionated way that was necessary at the time for performance reasons.

However, modern FP languages always start from some form of typed lambda calculus, because it has more desirable properties.
Better Internal Documentation with GitBook, Express and Auth0
Looks like the TL;DR of this article is: "Corporate leadership, being so much smarter than the rest of us dummies, sees something big on the horizon coming. They're saving all their cash so they can later invest because "the next transformative innovation could be just around the corner". Apparently they're smart enough to hoard all this cash, but not smart enough to know exactly what that transformative innovation is so they can get started on it right now.

Let me propose an alternate theory: They're no smarter than the rest of us, and NOBODY knows what to invest in anymore. Corporate leadership is uncreative and can't think of anything else to do with that money that will produce returns in excess of what they're already doing. Shareholders don't want the money back (they'll just turn around and invest it into another company that already has a pile of cash). And they sure as shit won't throw a bone to employees (whose wages have been stagnant for a decade). So, what are they going to do with it all? Who knows? Let it sit in a bank account!
Is this because Unicorns aren't real :)?
>It's the same reason I save my money: for opportunities when prices are low.

So then you buy low, and no longer have money saved for even lower opportunities. The logic of this plan doesn't make sense. You can't both be saving for and spending on opportunities, and you have no way of knowing when or what opportunities might arise.

>Most people with any kind of money think this way.

According to...?
How much at risk is the U.S.'s critical infrastructure?
Driving is a privilege. People agree to certain rules when they start driving. According to the states this is one of the rules. If you don't want to play, don't drive. And that's exactly what they do. If you refuse, they won't charge you with criminal offense necessarily, but instead take your privilege to drive and impose a civil fine.

That is a bit different than rape as far as I see, but I guess you don't see it that way.

You are also voluntarily giving up freedoms when you sign up for the military or get a security clearance. You can try to claim free speech for divulging state secrets, but you'll still go to jail, because you signed a contract to that effect.
France wants a new keyboard to protect its language
I doubt the goal is to be JavaScript free. The compilers typically enhance the language or give you access to functionality that is destined to land in the future JavaScript. ES6+ shows a lot of promise and thanks to Babel we can use those features now.
> Apparently the cigarette industries' attempts to associate smoking with personal freedom in advertisements have been successful in your case.

Not really, I used to smoke but I quit.

That's a straw man, and also quite patronizing. You can hold a rational ethical position without buying into the mythology of Marlboro man. The question still stands: if you accept that health benefits can outweigh personal freedom, where do you draw the line?
This is incorrect: "Corporations are meant to serve the public good by encouraging investment and limiting liability of investors not involved in decision making"
Corporations are meant to do one thing, make money for the share holders at any cost, by not breaking laws or not being caught breaking laws (or rewrite them). Corporate behavior today reflects this.

The key to improving investment is to prevent corporations from moving their wealth to offshore hideaways. The government must ensure that corporations better serve the public good, because many corporations receive multiple benefits from government: reduced taxes (too many), human resources & infrastructure (to name a few)
surprising there is lot that these minute devices could do. Preventive Health Care & Fitness industry may be up for more disruption.
Czech Republic and Slovakia use QWERTZ as well. However, most keyboards are double-labeled, so it isn't much of a problem in my opinion.
Theoretically the value of all that cash should be baked into the share price. If shareholders think they can better invest the money, they can sell their shares take their money elsewhere, and only have to pay capital gains tax.

If the companies repatriate the cash, they have to pay tax right now which eats up a substantial percentage. Then they still have to find something to do with the cash. If they pay it out to shareholders there will be an additional dividend tax at the individual level so most shareholders would receive like 50 cents on the dollar for the dollars abroad.
No. In the 90s, there was a brief period where the US managed to not have a deficit (ie, it was taking in as much as it was spending). The US has never eliminated its debt, nor should it; that would essentially mean withdrawing the US dollar from circulation.
Can't upvote hard enough. Applications on the web are amazing, and developers must embrace JavaScript heavily.

That said, the apps do need to remain accessible to those with screen readers, vision issues, motor impairments, and cognitive issues. They need to be accessible to those with slow or spotty connections. But search engine optimization is about content sites, not necessarily apps.

Static pages are perfect for those cases, and I am thrilled to see more people coming around to that.
If they paid it out they would have to pay the corporate tax and it's shareholders the capital gains tax.

By hording it, it keeps the stock price high as they "could" pay it out in dividends. Then the shareholders go and get a nice almost zero interest loan using the stock as collateral and service the interest via the much smaller dividends or other sources of income and pay no taxes on the loan.
The L Train closure – what data can tell us
That's not a half-bad idea, you could do that relatively easily with current-gen tech by building a powerline-ethernet adapter into the charger brick. You might need to use a "dock" connector that has pins broken out for the ethernet.

Powerline Ethernet has some issues, its bandwidth is limited and it can be susceptible to interference. But when you can't run a real ethernet cable, it's a very solid option. In particular it's much lower latency than wifi.
One is far, far stronger than the other. One is also usually being done in badly ventilated areas.
Late reply but you can actually do this with the library as is. It's not designed for it so you'll have to use fftw yourself and call some borderline internal stuff, but it ought to work the same.

float* samples = ... //load audio samples here
int len = ...
fftwf_plan p = fftwf_plan_r2r_1d(len,samples,samples,FFTW_REDFT10,FFTW_ESTIMATE);
fftwf_execute(p);

RDResolution* res;
size_t count;
RDMethod* m = resdet_methods();
m->func(samples,len,1,1,&res,&count,12,m->threshold);
> photons are gauge bosons and thus are automatically their own antiparticle

So is W^+, but it is charged, hence not its own antiparticle. W^- should in this case be considered the antiparticle.
With 'Latinos' its even weirder. Cubans are almost never treated as minorities (disclaimer: I'm Cuban). White-mexicans are treated as if "you're not really who we're talking about." I have a sneaking suspicion that minority is doublespeak for brown people, but even Indians get excluded from this category... for some reason. Even though I've heard countless heart breaking struggles about first generation Indian-Americans dealing with the pain of culture shock, exclusion, and discrimination...

In the end, everything breaks down when you frame things in terms of race, because framing things in terms of race is lazy and dumb. In fact, "race" is a dumb concept. It only makes sense in Middle Earth. What is the significant difference between a "white hispanic", and a "non-white hispanic"? Is there a "hispanic-hispanic"? What about "black hispanics"? Do we call these folks African American (they're not from Africa), or are they Latino? Why do we lump all these cultures together anyways? Is it because they all speak (various dialects) of Spanish? Then what about Brazilians? Are Spanish speaking people from Europe called anything? "Asian" is another absurd category that lumps hundreds of diverse ethnicities and cultures into one.

For some reason, the government (and most other institutions) desperately seems to want to lump you into one of 4 or 5 unscientific categories. All the categories are old racist ones with PC wrappers. It's all anti-intellectual. IMO we should culturally wean ourselves off of using these categories.
Cool, would you mind sharing your set up?
>> The current US debt is over 18.900.000.000.000 Am I getting the author right that the US managed to put on 18 B $ in 20 years?!

Google image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=US+debt&biw=1217&bih=755&sou...

Check this one:
http://wolfstreet.com/2014/12/02/us-national-debt-jumps-181-...

So not quite, but at the end of Clinton there was a small surplus. Bush looked at that surplus and said the following:

1) There's a surplus
2) We're not sure why
3) We don't think it will go away
4) Tax brakes and refunds for everyone!

I'm not sure how 3 can be said in light of 2. But we all got a check instead of reducing the debt.
With minimum valuations of $1 billion each, that's well north of $129 billion in valuation that's about to go up in smoke. I know that's not an actual dollar amount invested in these companies, and in many cases is honestly just people proving they can add a few numbers together to make a billion, but a lot of real money is likely to be lost.
Politics and the Future
Adding in another market distortion isn't going to help matters, you only create opportunities for people to game the system in an ever increasing effort to explore the law of unintended consequences.

Those funds are held (usually) as US Treasury securities, or are at least hedged against any local currency risk, much the same way that any sovereign maintains a certain amount of foreign currency reserve.

The most direct way to solve this issue is simply to say that profits earned in foreign jurisdictions are free from US tax. That's effectively what the British do and it's worked well for them vis a vis tax policy.

The second most direct way to solve this issue is to offer reduced taxes for profits earned overseas. This encourages an export-driven economy because funds earned overseas are taxed less than funds earned here.

The "problem" that everyone seems to be solving is: how do we enable the government to take the money of these evil corporations?

That's the wrong goal.

The best strategy is to align the goals of the country/people and the corporations. We haven't done that for a long time.
You don't have to argue for government to notice that bubbles are inefficient and therefore not desirable.
Thanks for advice.

Do you think that working on the same project for many (10) years affects me negatively and makes me to see world clearly around me harder?
Why isn't everyone using HTTPS?
Some one had to take out those NINJA loans it takes two to tango.
I think the definition of Unicorn doesn't work -- it made sense when it was Uber, AirBnb, Dropbox and a few others. But when a dead man walking MDM vendor like Good is a "unicorn" that is subsequently purchased by a zombie like BlackBerry, something is wrong.

Even some of the more legit "unicorny" companies like Dropbox have issues. I've been a happy user of Dropbox for many years, but they refuse to provide a service offering that I can actually justify paying for in my personal life. And while they have an awesome service, they refuse to make the security investments that would allow my employer (who desperately needs a good solution in the space) to give them money. Anecdotally, I've found a few people with the same takeaway -- they want to give them money, but can't justify it at home or deal with service gaps in a business settings.
You could take the money from smoking taxes and spend it on things that benefit the poor, like food stamps, free education and healthcare.
Create and run React.js examples in the browser
I don't think the reasons are that hard to understand. M&A opportunities outside the core business are especially hard to integrate in the software sector. Google and Apple never got social right - social is a field with such extreme network effects that it tends to create natural monopolies. Buying up smaller companies in that field doesn't provide a lot of help in cracking FB's castle.

OTOH, Apple and Google are outcompeting each other in mobile - no other company is currently making big inroads, not even MS, even though they see it as a critical playing field for their future.

And why would one of the big tech giants buy out old-economy companies (eg. in automotive) if they believe disrupting that field with innovation is much more likely to succeed?

In the end, the international financial system let's them get away with hoarding and shuffling around the billions and the companies don't see killer investment opportunities. In a low-inflation period, just stuffing the money under the pillow is probably better than burning it on failed M&A.
Why is it that people always talk about only one side of the accounting ledger?

The US has a net worth of nearly $150 trillion dollars. Who cares about the absolute value of debt?
Here Comes Another Bubble (YouTube 2007)
Unikernel Systems joins Docker
looks interesting, but I'd rather have a tool that exposes a data API so that it can be plugged into vim/emacs
A New Ebola Case Recorded in Sierra-Leone
Mobile app optimization as a service
Note that we do have limits on what a motor vehicle can output, those limits are being tightened, and the recent company scandal where a certain company lied about those limits should be punished. Smog is a major issue in some cities and should be dealt with and greater emphasis should be put on electric vehicles.
Let's list Youtube's features that could be done with no Javascript

* Displaying the video

* Controlling the video (although with the browser's default controls)

* Being logged in

* Listing videos

* Voting

* Commenting

* Suggested videos

* Subscribing

Actually, I can't see a single thing that can't be done without Javascript. It has no complex notification system aside from annotations (and I'm not sure anyone enjoys annotations), nothing that isn't provided by browsers.
But no javascript would require page refreshes, which makes for a worse UX. Eh, we survived refreshes before. Maybe browsers could even agree on a standard to refresh only part of the pages by querying the server themselves. Throw in five lines of JS to save to localStorage the current time on the video and restore it on reload.
The alarming threat of Zika virus
I wonder if a closed source language for data processing tasks can thrive on the long run. The concept for timestamps is nice though. But I do not want to spend time of learning proprietary languages.
As a corporation, the traditional thing to do with cash you don't need is to return it to your owners, either through dividends or through share repurchases: If the owners wanted to own money sitting in a bank account, they could put the money in a bank account themselves. If they wanted to own a company, they'd be better off owning just the business part without a chunk of low-return cash attached. Beyond basic liquidity needs, a pile of cash can only drag a company down.

Naturally, returning money works much better when taxes on dividends are low, or when stock prices are low (so you can give the remaining owners a better bang for the buck). Both taxes and stock prices have risen since the crash, however, and spending a cash horde on taxes or on overpriced company stock are a worse drag on the company than holding it.
Unikernel Systems was supporting the community site (i.e. paying for stuff) and that will continue with Docker. It's important that the open-source work continues to grow and that all the projects benefit from each other. unikernel.org just got started so we need help to grow it and make it the place to go.

Also, the word 'unikernel' is used like a generic term and as far as I know it's not trademarked.
OCaml is a fine language that most people don't use. If I want a unikernel in my own language, do I need to build one myself? I wonder if someone is building a unikernel that have external language bindings, which will allow one to create "High-level" unikernels. This will open up the possibility to completely bypass the installation of language runtime. For example, I can just type some Python code into a browser editor, the backend can take the source code and fork a Python unikernel to run the code. Docker can currently do this but one still has to rely an underly OS to manage all the packages etc.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could simple write "import xyz", and the unikernel takes care of fetching them automatically?
so us plebs working in sv / london should just tug forelock and say "thank ee kindly Master Frodo for that bag of potatoes" and not get above ourselves.
That's not what I said. I said the EU has sales tax. On everything, even work hours, if you're a freelancer and sell your time. They call it VAT. They could even call it a whistle for all I care, but it still is a tax on sales.