skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty much convinced that (as someone with an actual academic background in economics) that most economic predictions are bullshit, regardless of who makes them. The economy may very well be headed to a downturn, but there's zero way to accurately tell how bad it'll be-Great Recession, early 00s, early 90s bad, something worse, something better? "Economic collapse" is so vague and alarming as to be useless (unless you have shares in a Prepper biz you are trying to inflate).
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I Miss Grantland
We do automatically parse most common log formats and you can query on those. You can also send us JSON and query on that too.
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> It sounds like she's wasting her life while simultaneously wasting her friends' lives.

It sounds like you spent more time writing this comment than she did to respond to all of her friend's snaps from the night before. Heroin is a waste of a life; Snapchat is just a distraction, and a minor one at that.
I actually caught a glimpse of this behavior a few weeks ago. I was sitting next to a kid who was maybe around 16 years old snapchatting to his friends that our flight was about to depart. He must have taken around 20 selfies, each with a series of seemingly nonsensical emoji's in the span of 3 minutes.

I was staring dumbfoundedly the entire time. It blew my mind, and made me realize how out of touch I am in my 27 years of age.
Investing in stable, boring companies (or markets) is a suckers game reserved for pension funds.

Or to put it differently, why invest in a company that isn't growing? How do you make money if you pay $X and don't expect the company to go beyond $X?
Yeah, they were useful all right! I was just doing some petty complaining about why they chose that particular style.

Everybody else uses either camelcase or snakecase for C types, so a type used to transmit information about zombie bites would be something like ZombieBiteDescriptorRef or zombie_bite_desc_t ...

But on Windows, the type would be ZOMBIEBITEDESCRIPTOR. And typically a variable's name would be prefixed with the type, Hungarian notation style:

ZOMBIEBITEDESCRIPTOR *pzbdFreshBite = WDGetLatestBiteEx(0, 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
...

It just looks so bad when you're used to the other C styles.
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I don't understand your first sentence. The second one is true, did my comment confuse the two?

A market is a group of people. A for-profit firm provides good or services (value) to individuals in a market in exchange for money.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body...
Tesla expects to be profitable by the end of 2016, and Wall Street is psyched
I've started doing this, but there's still the problem that those tweets that it thinks I love ... seem to disappear from the timeline.

If I see a "you may have missed..." tweet that was sent an hour ago, if I scroll down to that point in my time line, it's not there.

All I want is a fucking RSS feed of tweets, tbh, organized by date. Nothing more, nothing less. Go ahead and cram it full of ads, like they've already done - just don't try to fucking sort it for me.
The super evil thing is how the feds or whomever has a ridiculously rich facial recognition dataset being served on a silver platter
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Companies are compared to peer group companies by the banks. For example, small cap semiconductor companies are compared to each other on the basis of P/E, revenue growth, margins, etc.

What are Twitter's peer companies? Well Facebook is certainly one such company that is publicly traded and its metrics widely available. So Facebook's numbers, and in particular the numbers that Wall Street analysts decide are relevant, become the benchmark stats that Twitter is judged on, even if Twitter actually should not be put into the same basket as Facebook.
Quite simple: investors invested in a company that was going to grow exponentially. Now that it is not growing, they want out.

Which, IMO, is fine. I wish we lived in an environment where Twitter could say "we're making money, we're successful enough, invest if you like what you see", but Silicon Valley is frequently hockey stick growth or death.
It looks like anyone can create new myspace, facebook, snapchat, twitter, instagram, ... as long as they time it right with the previous one running out of steam and make it faster to interact with. I'm not sure what can be faster than snapchat though - live stream?
Perhaps you could come up with a way to express your concerns about identity politics without imputing concerns to the subjects of this story that those people clearly do not have.
As prescient as this was, perhaps.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2857587-how-to-prosper-d...

The author certainly prospered; it was on the bestseller lists for months.
"Hence my coding job and investments on one hand, and living on a self-sustainable homestead on the other"-Probably not very possible for most people. I suppose living in a rural area with a good job allows that, but a lot of people in rural areas/small towns aren't upper middle class programmers who live off the grid with "sustainable homesteads".
Along the same lines, I have asthma, and sometimes funky smells trigger my asthma. I've often wondered how much of that was psychological. It would be really freaking awesome to suppress the psychological portion of my asthma and boost the effects of my inhalers.
I've blocked Google ads for so long I didn't realize they had been allowing Flash ads.
Marc Andreessen's comments showed the true color of the Facebook.
That seems close-minded and overly judgmental. Snapchat might not have any use to you, but it's clearly the world to this girl (and many, many other teenagers).
I found it flabbergasting when I first saw marca's tweet yesterday.

Ill-informed tweet indeed from someone that should have known better or better yet not said anything.
I used to use Xero's personal finances tool before they shut it down. I've started using Money Dashboard which seems pretty decent too.
Wow. Buzzfeed on HN.

This article is quite interesting to read, but I still hate to use Snapchat.
It could be something like hobbyist vs. professional programming. I would bet that pull requests generated as part of someone's job are typically higher quality: they're more thoroughly used/tested before submission, the authors can spend more time on them, etc. These are more likely to be submitted from "work accounts", which can be deliberately vague (e.g., if shared) or just not fleshed out very well.

It might be possible to flesh this out by looking at the domain names.
In the out of court settlement, Warner agrees to allowing a judge to declare the song to be in the public domain, however, the judge will have to agree to it.

"the settlement stipulates a proposed final judgment and order that would declare the song to be in the public domain" ... "An agreement to have a judge declare the song in the public domain is no doubt unusual and will likely command some attention by the judge on review"

Why is Warner suddenly graciously agreeing to this, you may wonder: "By agreeing to the settlement, Warners avoids going to trial to determine whether it should be punished for collecting licensing money for many decades"

Disclaimer: IANAL
I feel like all these python to javascript transpilers will be used as a crutch for those who know python but not javascript. The problem with that is javascript has spent well over a decade developing tool-chains, conventions, and best practices, to assist in web development. When people start trying to apply python to web development, they throw all that away.
echo "deb http://repo.logdna.com stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/logdna.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes
logdna-agent sudo logdna-agent -k 6a7b7c622290d1a49bbe5a94dc6828d

Haven't tried this yet but the install instructions don't include adding a GPG key. Instead it has the option "--force-yes" which I believe skips that check.

That would work for the initial install but wouldn't it complain down the road when you try to update the package?
My point is that we need more people in tech, and we do that by leveling the playing field at the education level. Asians studied sciences disproportionately relative to their representation within the us population.

* I don't think we should use demographics as a ruler for hiring.

* I don't think we should stop hiring (or start firing) Asians because they are overrepresented.

> Let's totally forget you know, us Asians (people of color and a visible minority in the West) who contribute to tech companies at a high rate and who also have had to overcome racism, stereotypes, and artificial ceilings.

I feel like you think this is some sort of rebuttal to me, but I find us saying the same thing. Many Asians studied sciences, and at disproportionate amounts relative to their population size. So now there are more Asians in desirable professional positions.

I personally find it super offensive when someone conflates success with 'whiteness'. The most salient example being the "You talk like you're white" statements often delivered as a compliment.

I think, as I stated above, building a pipeline is the most important thing. Not simply using demographics as a yardstick and removing the percentage of Asians above a line.

Also if we use a yardstick it should be family income or the median income in districts to capture people who are disadvantaged. This will have the affect of boosting disenfranchised populations like hispanics and blacks while capturing other races and segments who are also disadvantaged.

While I think hiring bias exists it is likely fading. The nice affect of promoting more education and skill at lower levels is that we will create more opportunities for nontraditional segments to start companies and set their own cultures.

Many people in the industry have instead focused on education instead of directly building companies because they feel a sense of need to help people overcome the hurdles it takes to become skilled (economic, demographic, cultural, etc).

I look forward to when they don't have to do that because mechanisms will be in place to serve these underserved places and people, and those entrepreneurs and engineers can get back to engineering.
Google Launches Cloud Functions Alpha Version, Competitor to Amazon Lambda
Think he may have been referring to Andreessens back down.
India's growth rate is a fairly consistent 6-7% and the growth rate of the upper class (read: anyone > 1/2 US poverty level) is probably significantly higher.

Zuckerberg is running a long game here.

Furthermore, anyplace where Facebook isn't huge is a place where a competitor can grow. Note how Whatsapp spread from India/Africa to the rest of the world.
West of Ireland! Ok, I'm biased, I live here. But the scenery is nice, the pace is easy going, and everyone speaks english. It's also not going to break the bank to get here. It's not nearly as expensive here as Switzerland / Norway / Sweden etc. Westport in Co. Mayo is surrounded by beautiful scenery and was voted best place to live in Ireland. Pretty views, nice friendly people and great food. Internet can be slow if you venture away from towns, but most towns have decent speeds.
Because "people in such prominent positions" are people too. They make mistakes. They say stupid things about subjects they don't understand. They sometimes don't empathize or realize how something might sound to someone in a position that they (the speaker) has never been in.

Remember, these Valley idols share almost all of their DNA with the rest of us.
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Well done JdeH. Being able to keep a python hat on when writing client side and server side code could be very useful.

I also like how you've kept the output as close to the original Python code as possible. The generated scaffolding code looks neat and easy to read too.
Transitions: a lightweight finite state machine python implementation
They did ask him to change it. And the "punishment" was just to not publish him. Hardly severe, given the large number of other publishers available, and now the pretty good option of going without a publisher altogether.

"Publisher asks author to change book" hardly seems worthy of attention.
This analogy makes little sense. Nature is the man with the hammer. After you die he smashes your brain to bits. There is nothing left. You cease to exist forever.

Cryopreservation is an attempt to stop the man with the hammer. By preserving your brain, you give yourself a chance that you can be revived, if technology advances that far. Which certainly seems very likely.

It is a tragedy that the majority of people who die are not cryopreserved. It's absolutely silly. Even if there is only a small chance it will work, it is still absolutely worth doing.
Its to create an impression within India that the internet == Facebook.
That seems like the sort of thing you might say if you had no clue what the East India Company was or did.
the real problem is still verification of the shipped product

In that vein, there is a lot about a modern FPGA that's a "binary blob". Do you fully trust Xilinx? Do you fully trust Altera?

Do you continue to trust Altera now that they are a subsidiary of Intel? If so, why don't you just trust Intel directly? Perhaps it's turtles all the way down? :)
I highly recommend manually tracking in spreadsheet in addition to whatever automated tool you use. You can start with a simple, date, merchant, thing, and amount columns.

I used to use a spreadsheet. Then came Mint, and I thought my days of manual work were over. But then I realized that now I was less careful with my money. I would check Mint daily, I would look at each transaction but by removing manual step of inputting amount spend, I sort of got immune to big or a lot of spendings.

Now in addition to Mint & Personal Capital, I also record each transaction almost daily. This way it is very hard to ignore multiple transactions in a row for dining out or buying junk etc.

Also if Mint goes away or they start charging you will still have your spreadsheet.
With the bureaucracy... I need to show that I have familly, work, and social ties to the country:

http://www.mvcr.cz/clanek/udeleni-statniho-obcanstvi-ceske-r...

A large part of the process is a motivational interview.
I think a social network is slightly different from the other companies where that argument applies. The Internet was a fun place with 300m people on it, but growth made it better. Same with Facebook. People bring problems, but in general networks are better with more of them around.
I wonder if people may begin to go back to older browsers for surfing once ads have completely transitioned to HTML5 :-)
Whoa, that's actually really exciting to have a full, official release.
> Um, if you're in the U.S. probably not. Most have some kind of limits even on 'unlimited' such as your connection goes to ISDN speed.

Yeah... but in Germany the biggest cap available is 10GB for 25€ (http://www.billiger-telefonieren.de/mobiles-internet-verglei...) and these are data-only SIMs, truly unlimited does not exist for us.

On the other hand, while shockingly low caps are generally accepted on mobile, people do protest whenever a provider tries to place caps on landline (VDSL, DOCSIS) contracts.
>it really confuses me why people in such prominent positions don't stop and spend some time considering how comments like his might be interpreted.

A lot of these types of people, if not all of them, are pretty much surrounded by 'yes men' and asskissers 24/7. I think there's a big problem with the wealthy and social disconnect. Its probably unsolvable.
According to the author, they had already killed the book before they even sent him any notes. That seems to be the biggest part of what he found so upsetting.
Nitpick: code samples have smart quotes in them:

context.success(‘hello’)
Yeah I'm not holding my breath waiting for TSX to be stable enough to worth investigating.
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Judging from the article, I'd lean heavily toward the latter. Nobody I've seen uses it this much.
If that was how it was for you, you were hanging out in a pretty crummy part of the internet, which is really sad considering how easy it is to find a different part. You missed out on some quality times.
Have they taken your stapler yet?
Do you match preparers by state/local?
This post would do better to provide citations for these facts (is this 1% growth for nearly 200 years?), and what was the original purpose for the term 'Hindu' rate of growth?

Also, why brand 'many in the west' as ill informed - was that nessisary?
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On the other hand, they have a lot of free time, and need to find ways to get social validation. I used to spend hours on ICQ or whatever, and there will always be something they use for that point. All in all, its something that is socially important for them right now, but that doesn't matter on the long view
kickserve wasn't on my radar but I'll take a look. Was there anything that you loved with kickserve in particular?

Our routing feature allows our users to get door-to-door directions based on the scheduled jobs they have in our system. They can 'optimize their daily routes' to minimize distance traveled, or sequence their jobs if they have set times they have to be at certain properties.

We are definitely looking into potential marketing tools we can provide our users (in addition to operations software). What type of marketing features would you get the most value out of if you were still in the home services business?
Stereotypes about Native Americans and alcohol debunked
With several other people who make in the neighborhood of 47K.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0nkoJgDM8

It's pretty simple. Get rejected, complain about how the man is holding you down, and hope the free publicity rolls in. It's marketing.
Makes me wonder. Are we typists? It almost never happens to me to have to copy a text from paper - and never more than a few lines in any case. So I can freely stare at the keyboard while I type, I'm concentrated on what I'm typing anyway. Also, I don't think that my output is in any way limited by the amount of words I can type per minute - more by the amount of words or lines of code my brain is able to produce in a minute, which is not much.

Finally, if there is something that really makes me cringe, is when some colleague or friend proudly declares to type like real men do, without looking at the keyboard. They usually sit in the correct ergonomic position, back well straight, eyes on the monitor, and start typing. A word. Mistake. Backspace. Again. Mistake. Backspace. Space. Mistake. Backspace.

And they're typing code. With auto-completion, intellisense and everything.
Ask HN: Can we talk about the role of flagging on the front page?
I'm often surprised by how large a role flagging plays for how long stories live on the front page. For example, I presume most (all?) of the precipitous drops in this chart are due to user flags:

http://hnrankings.info/6/1-10/

That's a lot of discussions that are prevented from happening because a small minority thinks they are inappropriate for the site. Is this a good thing (because it preserves harmony) or a bad thing (because it shuts down productive discussion)?
Scores and Chains, as mentioned in the article, sound pretty skinner-boxy. Plus, every time someone sends you a response to a message is a skinner box reward, in a sense.
Yes, but I, an average nobody, know that basically no one will notice the things I say in most cases. Therefore, I feel a lot less cautious about spouting off online (whether or not this is wise). Someone in his situation has to be thinking differently and, if they're not, maybe they need a reality check like this.
> there's still the problem that those tweets that it thinks I love ... seem to disappear from the timeline

I had not noticed that! I always dismiss the "you may have missed" without reading, it's quite insidious. It's time I changed clients
Comparing the rate of growth of an independent country vs colony is not really required.
Having/Being a colony is not justified, whatever be the growth. An independent country where natives freely decide how to run themselves is far more important than any metric.

When people say "xyz was ill informed" - thats BS. Marc should educate himself before he opens his mouth. He can make an ill informed investment decision but if he makes a comment that hurts a nations sentiments then there's no way to justify it.
This was incredibly insightful, thank you for your explanation. As far as I am aware I can only sell the shares back to the company. They are very tightly held in fact I'm the only one with equity besides the owner.
Out of curiosity, what would your counterargument be to those who say, "Facebook does all the things you list wrong, yet look where they are today. Why should Twitter do any differently?"
The "copy as curl" feature is very useful when doing penetration testing of a web app, because you can quickly iterate on what requests you're sending. It also helps to download large files if, like me, you don't trust browsers to download your files properly (or if you want to download something from a server).

APIs aren't the only thing HTTP is used for. Although, you could stick curl commands in shell scripts as well to have dumb API scripts.

There are use cases for every feature.
This is what happened the last time AT&T tried to work with the government to create a backdoor into encryption software. http://www.crypto.com/papers/eesproto.pdf

Maybe they aren't fighting backdoor legislation because they have another contract with the government...
The title of the linked post literally says "Conservative author banned".

It is totally fair to infer that the book is a representation of the author's abhorrent political views.
The more users you have the more you can demand advertisers work with you to implement custom ad units or ad types. Since twitter seems to be focusing on promoted tweets and other twitter-only advertising methods, you really need a lot of scale to justify advertisers building custom creative for you.
A full-blown culture war is ripping this $2B startup apart
> Does messing with puberty in this way not affect health and mortality probabilities?

One of the compelling reasons for treating gender dysphoria -- including by this means -- is that doing so (or not doing so, in the other direction) does, yes, substantially affect health and mortality.
I heard that line in a Cher Horowitz voice when I read it.
Quite possible too. They compete with FB for ad revenue. Social networks tend to be winner take all/most. If Twitter continues to be small, then it has to have a small valuation
I think this pretty much nails the wall street perspective. Interestingly enough I left the party because their attempts to monetize were really invasive; Emails, many notifications on my phone, etc... I think some subset of their users (to which I belonged) appreciated the simplicity of the product. Their attempts to increase engagement decreased it with what appears to be a significant portion of their user base.
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Boo. No mention of the [lightning network](lightning.network).
That crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed on HN.
> Good damage control by Zuckerberg

Sort of. I mean it sounds lovely but he is just saying words. Do people really pay attention to PR and if so how would this comment influence what anyone is feeling?

He is emitting positive signals but they are weak. Where is the substance behind these (cheap) words? IMHO Zuckerberg would have to actually DO something extraordinarily profound to come across as a sincere human being.

I am not trying to imply he is evil but all his actions fail to make me believe that he is a well meaning guy.