skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really much to do with me - the credit there lies with fastly! This was the first time I've used a CDN, and I had a great experience using them. Highly recommended.
Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for Npm Scripts
His wealth seems to have recently increased 50% in one and half year, for amazing 11 billons. Anybody knows how?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg#Wealth
Damn, sorry about that. Do you see a loading spinner on the page at all? I don't have an Android or BlackBerry, so wasn't able to test with either.
The financial equivalent is more like selling an unhedged option than borrowing - the cost of paying back will increase unpredictably based on what other people do, not at a steady rate like interest.
RSA Encryption Backdoor
Look at the bottom-right of the infographic: the social networking apps. Facebook and LinkedIn are no longer unicorn startups: they are mature companies with a substantial presence on the stock market. Instagram is owned by Facebook, so why list it as a separate unicorn? That's double-counting the valuation of Instagram. Same for WhatsApp. In the "Big Data" section, there is Palantir. Palantir hasn't been a startup for several years now.

This infographic is garbage.

The rest of the article is an eye-rollingly superficial summary of irrelevant statistics. "6 years: the median time to become a unicorn". That's not a reflection on unicorns, that's a reflection on the technology market over the past decade.
RIPE atlas – global internet monitoring
I might be a bit embarrassed with the code quality - this was one of my first attempts at front end development. I was planning to expand the features of the site a bit, including genre filters, so perhaps I could clean it up a bit and release it when I've done that.
Is down worldwide.

API Status: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/status
Twitter down on web and mobile
Barista-ing may be one of the better outcomes. There are so many in food service, un/under paid research positions, perpetual adjunct professing, etc. Maybe Thiel is right...
For reference the market cap of all US publicly traded companies is about $19T [1]. Including names like Apple, Google, Amazon... Still funny name as "startup" those $1.3T companies.

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-the-map-of-the-world-...
Twitter Web has been down for over 20 mins. Are you affected?
I can confirm that Twitter for the web (mobile works for some) has been out for users in Nigeria and Ghana for quite a long time (over 20 mins). Are you affected too? What is your location?
Would someone be able to explain why these ledgers are of any use for the gvt? My understanding is that what they really achieve is to established trust in a decentralised (p2p) system where none of the parties can be trusted.

But how is that relevant to a gvt? The gvt controls all its servers so what do these ledgers add? I also see these ledger technologies being proposed for financial transactions clearing systems. Again, what problem are we trying to solve here?

The article says security if a central server is hacked. But if a client gets hacked you are not really better off.

Plus my understanding is that these ledgers do not scale. Each transaction takes a lot of computing power.
Thank you for stating this. I've believed it for a long time, and find it frustrating when others accept that those who are less fortunate or educated than them (or just generally disagree with their worldview) are always going to be that way and incapable of learning or change.
Windows, quo vadis?
In fact, there are already Marshmallow nightlies for the S3.

Interesting is that, even though you are running 12.1 on the S3, there was never an official CyanogenMod release for the S3, only unofficial ones. But now a maintainer has stepped up, made MM (CM 13) run on the S3 again and we get our official releases again.
My company hires me for doing digital marketing on Twitter.
Can I go home now?

Pls down again tmr, my dear twitter.~
Lock/Unlock Ubuntu using your iPhone
Their definition: every company younger than 25 years valued over 1 billion (?)

tristanj in this discussion linked to the document where they state that.

(On completely tangential side, and as a good comparison when speaking about wealth creation, Mike Bloomberg seems to recently got personally 11 billion richer in one and half years, if Forbes is to be believed, even if his company isn't public and is more than 30 years old, so I'm really curious how.)
Google+ was a copy of Facebook, in that it didn't introduce really different new concepts or differentiators. I know, "What about circles?" Well, one big thing that people demand was privacy. That's why people built Diaspora & co and Snapchat. Google got Circles right, but one can't trust a social media which also owns your emails and Youtube comments, and they indeed screwed us with the Real Name Policy and the intrusion of G+ in all things Google.
My company hires me for doing digital marketing on Twitter.
Can I go home now?
Google has done JS for years now, far more advanced than just AJAX
If you want to read more on this topic, i highly recommend you to take a look at Bad Pharma book by Ben Goldacre (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5lnD5gfVd69ZmkwMktvbjNEcm...).
May I ask how many people you had dedicated to this task/how long it took? It's an incredible feat..
That is a rediculous definition.
Tunisia: Down.
Yes, but it can take years before countries have to do anything. Ireland has often waited years before implementing rulings, (e.g. for decriminalisation of homosexuality)
> Because it makes absolutely no sense for the vast majority of online content.

Hey, not so fast with conclusions, please.

Do you want an ISP filling your recipe reading with their advertisements. Nope? Or a random dude spoofing a Starbucks WiFi hotspot and serving you a malware on what you think is a trusted download site. Still no?

That's what TLS is for. Not for random paranoid geeks or "just email and online payments" security.

Oh, but, yes, Let's Encrypt is not yet completely production grade and still have some compatibility issues with older systems. Currently the only non-paid options I know are WoSign and StartSSL.
It is down for me here in Germany as well.

Just posting the status link http://status.twitter.com/
They are aware.
Down from Pakistan as well.
This article is full of incorrect data: Etsy and Groupon are already public. Instagram, Whatsapp acquired by Facebook, Yammer by Microsoft.

The industry definition of a unicorn: a non public company, that took less then 10 years to have a market value of over $1B. Which is why - ironically - the company I work at, Skyscanner is never listed as a unicorn on any of these lists. This is because it took them 11 years to reach the >$1B valuation mark.

Disappointed with the quality of this Venturebeat article.
down also in France
It's just the current "Blockchain" frenzy. It's now a bigger buzzword than Bitcoin and everyone wants to use it for everything despite not understanding the basic concepts.

Satoshi's paper never included the word.
United Kingdom: Down.
Appears to be working here (West coast, USA)
Error!!!
My job is to do digital marketing on Twitter!
What should I do now?
Switzerland: Down as well.
Oh IBM tried building it: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/half-an-operating-sy...
Shop or we shop for you for free
Quicksprout displays random errors to sign up visitors
If you make a perfect simulation of a real brain, you also have to simulate the physics to make that virtual brain work. And that brain would also need to have sleep, unless you modify it.
Isn't it the contrary. If Internet would be practically unavailable in China except for domestic resources, due to every single server using TLS for absolutely anything — would Great Firewall survive?
UK down.
India (south): Up
"The company initially confirmed the outage by, somehow, tweeting, from its @support account. We were unable to see the tweet, because Twitter was down."
Apple May Be Using Congo Cobalt Mined by Children, Amnesty Says
Do you mean the current execution is bad or that it is just a bad concept? I can think of plenty of times where TTS is the perfect interface for the problem at hand. For example, a Sat Nav giving turn by turn directions.
Turkey too.
Twitter is quite a critical infrastructure to have a single point of failure.

I just logged back into my APP.NET account https://alpha.app.net/

I know it's wishful thinking to assume this could revive it but I wish Dalton would email everyone to inform them there is still a way they can argue with strangers online. :)

Jokes aside, most people have zero ways to interact with people they had been in constant touch with via Twitter now that it is down.

Crazy!
How big organization have to be to make twitter down - single US agency, Country ?
> France does have regulation, but so does the US

It isn't about the presence of some regulation. It is about the burdens and costs associated with it.

French regulations are very cumbersome and costly, especially when it comes to labour market. For example, every company with 50 or more employees needs to establish a works council (Comité d’Entreprise). This costs money and time. It is also one of many examples of regulation that brings about the culture of hostility between employees and employers.
Antarctica Gets a Wireless Network for the Internet of Things
The emperor spent a billion dollars on his new clothes. A small child pointed out that he's naked. He's presently trying his hardest to make naked chic.

Have you heard of the health benefits of being naked? Naked is so easy to clean. You never need to mend naked. Naked never goes out of style. Naked is easy to color coordinate.

It isn't entirely relevant to the emperor whether he succeeds in getting naked accepted as the latest fashion or not, as long as he succeeds in not getting laughed at. Being naked is ultimately survivable, being tricked is not.
when pony 1.0 release?
Took me a few popular authors to find one that was in the database, and when I finally tried the book I'm reading, the only recommendation it said it was like was way off - The Devil in White City has no relation that I can see to The Lost Symbol.
How come that SICP is not here?
Wouldn't Tesla and SpaceX count as decacorns? This infographic is infuriatingly low-res, so I can't even tell if they're here.
The common misconception being
that the poor are poor
because the rich are rich;

But there is no causality. Not even a correlation.
"The resulting continents were clustered near the equator where there are higher temperatures – resulting in increased evaporation of water from the oceans"

What am I missing here? This makes no sense to me. If the continents are clustered closer to the equator, then the oceans are at disproportionately higher latitudes, resulting in less solar radiation reaching them and making for less evaporation.

Also, the link for "flush dissolved minerals via rivers into the oceans" doesn't work.
There are use cases where a distributed database is a better tool, the big advantages you can scale multiple nodes and have a very robust network with no single point of failure and you no longer have to worry about the individual security of each node.

The downside you have to replicate all the database in each node or at least in several nodes of the network, you can have a sub-node structure.

If you depend on computation power algo for synchronization you can have very expensive hardware and electrical bill.

If you use others alternatives like prove of stake you can do it with very modest hardware.
If that's their definition... then where is Google? They're worth $500B, yet they aren't in the list.

So not only do they have this ridiculous definition, but they can't even follow their own rules.

Edit: Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, Netflix, PayPal also qualify. Also excluded.

They should add these.. it'll make for a better click-bait headline. That's $1T in additional value right there.
See Review of Vilros Arduino Uno Ultimate Starter Kit
> People should be a lot more concerned with whether or not their job rises to the level of "dumb as a worm".

They are but there are pills to fix the outcome of that.
I built a little tool to help with that, but pretty much the first result on amazon was always right - for books with more than one match, at least.
Twitter down / where to look
"Something is technically wrong.
Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

Where do we go to when twitter is down?
“Subject: Urgent Warning”
I used Ubigraph for erlang to visualize process linking in BEAM. http://eddwardo.github.io/elixir/links/2015/11/04/links-in-e...
Tongue-in-cheek statements like this are proof that the guardian is still a british news org
http://status.twitter.com/ , any of the Slack channels you have open, or HN.
Any rules for not being down? Twitter is down today.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179292
Quite a down period - lasted at least an hour here in Denmark now.
Google's date based search broken
In Belgium, the small stores versions of the big supermarket typically run premium prices.

They also store less products in premium shelves and only the expensive brands (and no bulk for things like sodas, milk, etc.).
There are some issues that are still prevent using their certificates in production¹. For example this one prevents Windows XP clients (not just IE, but anything that uses system X.509 libraries) from connecting: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/1660.

Still there's WoSign (free for everyone) and StartSSL (free for non-commercial use).

____

¹) Only where 3-5% of more obscure clients still matter.
It would also make bitcoin completely unusable, as the block time would be tied to the time it takes to find a new prime. So transactions would only go through every few years. So that would not work.
What happened to that Greece btw?
But the real question is how many new jobs will be created to support the new robot infused economies?
They don't follow their own definition then. Maybe they mean every software company? (But then why include hardware companies in the graphic?)

Here are some fun facts I gathered in the last few minutes:

* There are 2,266 companies listed on US Exchanges currently with a market cap above $1bn

* 874 of these companies have IPOed since January 1, 2001.

Unfortunately I could not query when these companies were founded, but is it possible that many of these companies were founded in the last 25 years? I think that's possible. In which case this graphic is probably missing quite a few companies...
Could this solve Elon's drone ship problems?
A great gesture, but sadly I'm sure all these national letter agencies will find a loophole in laws or pass some bills to push their agenda anyway. You know as a usual story goes -- "but terrorists!", "think of the children!" etc. Enforcing EHCR ruling was never a strong side, on the way of it becoming a national law (if ever), it often gets diluted or (purposely) misinterpreted.
Some amount of decentralization is still nice for them I guess. The big problem they don't have to solve is an anonymous defense against a Sybil attack.

They would probably be better handpicking a group of institutions / people / orgs and have them regularly sign statements of what's been going on since last time.
I use taskpaper.vim for the same purpose. I can't recommend it highly enough. https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim
I agree with you! Zalando went public in October 2014. Hudson’s Bay has agreed to acquire Gilt Groupe for $250 million in cash. PCH International acquired Fab for an undisclosed sum...
Twitter api(s) are down https://dev.Twitter.com/overviewithstatus
As a comment on TC says:

"What the article is referring to as stack fallacy is the work of Physics Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson: https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~wktse/Welcome_files/More_Is_Diff...

Let's give credit where it due please."
Took a brief look. Seems like a cool idea, but it smells like early days.

The example listed on github (population count of 1s in a 64bit register) I thought was a little underwhelming. It took a poorly optimized loop, for some reason came to the conclusion that 0's would be more popular than they would be with a uniform distribution of inputs as you'd get in a compressed stream of bytes, for example (did I miss something there?), so it added some overhead to special case 0 even though 0 only takes one iteration through the loop anyway, and the loop still required up to 64 iterations if you have the high bit set. If doing population counts on compressed data (most of what traverses the internet), odds are you'll generally have at least one bit set in every byte, so it'll usually be doing a lot of iterations.

If the code matters, then on an x86_64 arch, you can definitely burn a few cache lines to use lookup tables for considerably more speed. 256 byte lookup (4 cache lines) to bring the loop down to 8 iterations, 64k (1k cache lines) to bring it down to 4, assuming you're confident you can warm that latter table up in the dcache with enough activity.

I guess it isn't making guesses with lookup tables yet, but that's when I'd get all nipply.
Yet it is still better than nothing. After the ECHR decision, the citizens should be able to challenge laws that do not respect their rights, and the governments can't hide behind stupid reasons that ignore the ruling of ECHR.
Dead Certainty
I don't know a single french entrepeneur that doesn't think about leaving the country if its start up starts to become successful. And those who are successful all tell me either to not hire anyone ( work with contractors instead), or leave the country.

Our culture is rotten to its core. Emmanuel macron is trying to change that, but he has no power at all, and every single president is scared to death of the risks he would take by going too far on the liberal side ( liberal candidate never make more than 10% ). French like big, safe, and conservative structures. They complain a lot about it, and then vote for the candidates that promise to maintain the status quo.
China's Meituan-Dianping raises over $3.3B in funding round
So you don't like the MacBook therefore nobody could have any valid reason to like it?

Consider why these companies given employees MacBooks in the first place. (The answer is usually that Linux doesn't work well enough for them.)
Importance of Intrapreneur in an Organization
Pakistan Lifts Its Three-Year Ban on YouTube
LinkedIn built its new iOS app completely in Swift. Only with Swift 2/Xcode 7 it seemed to be feasible, and then still required Mac Pros to compile everything

http://www.slideshare.net/KyleSherman/swift-at-linkedin
This article is almost six weeks old. 12/10/15
I wonder if they can be jailed for signing concordat[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordat
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The basic advantage of the blockchain is to replace government not to upgrade it.
Most organized people sometimes get disorganized. At those times, if you have all your life in a single (or maximum 2) place, getting back to some level of organizedness becomes possible.

I am extremely disorganized too, and I have seen org mode helps me in the getting back business - though you do have to invest seriously in org mode first to be comfortable enough in it. But org has the answer to this too : org-drill.
This is not really a "text to speech" but an voice search engine. It is called Mobvoi and is invested by Google.
http://chumenwenwen.com/global.html
I just wish GCD was ported everywhere and not just FreeBSD.
It's much easier to work and think in terms of queues and groups than threads
Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently? – Opensource.com
Germany too.
The best free color tools for graphic and web designers
GCC's inlining has been a bit brittle, especially when dealing with vector arguments, and also depending on the ABI (4x double vectors without AVX, etc). It's much better in GCC 5.x now.

I generally use always_inline for vector arithmetic functions, just to be sure. You never want to have a function call to do just a few SIMD instructions.
I hope when all the software and entrepreneurial people on this forum are going through hard times instead of good as we are now we are not judged as harshly as you judge those going through harder times now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10925843
You can use the wayback machine to get old versions and diff the two raw html files (little bit dirty, but it works). Only found changes in the wording of the "description" and "og:description" meta tags.

<meta name="description" content="The insect
is so large — as big as a human hand — it's been dubbed a &quot;tree lobster.&quot; [-It was thought to be-]{+Presumed+} extinct,[-but-] some enterprising ento
mologists [-scoured-]{+found them on+} a barren hunk of rock in the middle of the [-ocean and found surviving Lord Howe Island stick insects."-]{+ocean."+} />

Edit: Is there a way to get the raw html from archive.org without the rewritten links? It pollutes the diff badly.
Interview Questions on Internet and HTML Set-5 – InfoTech Site
> Because it makes absolutely no sense for the vast majority of online content.

So you use postcards for most "the vast majority" of your snail (postal service) mail, right? Because envelopes[1] make "absolutely no sense"?

Besides the security issues that have already been mentioned of someone modifying the content as a MITM - something which ISPs are already doing[2] - this is really just another version of the "If you have nothing to hide..." falacy. You do have things to hide, because you shouldn't let every node that handles your traffic compile a database of your browsing activities.

[1] https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

[2] e.g. "X-UIDH" and the various ISPs that inject javascript for various reasons.
Ask HN: How do I hire a designer as an indie dev?
I’m about to hire a designer for the first time for Readlang (http://readlang.com).

My previous experience is limited to spending $20 on fiverr, see the results here: https://medium.com/@SteveRidout/redesign-my-landing-page-for-1000-kudos-72f0cd57c04a#.3g3uz1i7h

This time I’m looking for a designer to help with the brand, color scheme, fonts, logo, visual language, (optionally) illustration and to apply this to the landing page. I’ve offered $1000 for this in the above Medium post and on https://www.reddit.com/r/designjobs . The deadline is Fri 22nd Jan. So far I’ve had 33 applications, and would like some tips on:

- How to choose the best applicant?

- Is this a good approach?

- Does the price ($1000) sound reasonable?

- How do you find a good designer?

These are fuzzy questions, but I’m interested in opinions about this from both sides - designers and those who’ve contracted designers.
agreed, google forced us 100% https. i cant imagine theres that much difference in ad revenue anymore
Eroq-plugin-neo4jclient, 0.1.4-RELEASE released
Down in italy as well... but strangely not for everyone O_o
Because your complaints about the article make no sense. The article neither claims to be an academic paper, nor is there anything particularly wrong with it. You even admit you didn't read it so why are you writing comments complaining about it?
Peter Lynch writes about it in his book "One Up on Wall Street". He calls it 'Diworsification'.
> To put it another way: how do you as an employee make sure that your "equity" (including, say, unvested options) is protected?

AFAIK, there's nothing employees can do to prevent e.g., the company taking on financing with unfavorable liquidation preferences -- besides I guess... quit.
It would be great if the graph was larger. Or rather - any non-trivial graph, with diameter > 2 and interconnections (rather just star of 6 nodes).
Actually my usecase is to deny all traffic except for special applications - I'm often on mobile/tethered connections so I only want my browser but not crap like automatic updates or other background tasks to eat up my bandwidth.

Impossible on OS X and Linux without shelling out $$$.
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