skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much for the pointers. So fascinating!
> Perhaps I was just less brainwashed than most Apple fans

And yet you use Google everything, despite privacy concerns...
This is fantastic news!

Very glad to hear such a staunch supporter of Sublime Text joining their team. Congrats and good luck, Will!
Waze integration will be important...it has routed me around many a jam. Although I guess Google is using some of the data in Google Maps directions these days.
I think he is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Are-Twitter-s-ex...
A tiny task scheduler for Node.js
4, 6, and possibly 12 are retail.
Using a mobile device whilst driving is probably a bigger overall threat to public safety than stoned drivers (not that people should drive while high).
Well, of course you should get a nicer announcement if you die than if you are fired for incompetent decision making which has a good chance of having the company shut down as part of your 'compete by being willing to commit felonies that other companies won't commit' business model.
My iPhone 5 cannot run the newest version of Safari - too slow. I was forced to switch to Google Chrome.

Safari used to be fast two versions ago but something changed in a recent upgrade and now it is useless.
Do you do both banner and interstitial? What about native? I didn't know AdMob pays that well, usually they're mentioned on the low end.
More likely than not, the economics no longer work out due to the decreasing revenue from advertising.

GT is not the first internet video company hit by this problem. (hence Patreon)
Correction: people haven't been calling a bubble for the last year, it's been for the last 5 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2231352

So the majority of people called a tech bubble, unlike your claim that most people are "permabulls", and then there was a period of great growth and prosperity. There have been plenty of people predicting gloom and doom to happen before now and none of them are admitting they were wrong. So basically it's gone down exactly the opposite as you've described.

Eventually, the naysayers will, to an extent, be right. But it's ridiculous to act like financial market movements are obvious and we should all predict it perfectly. It's even ridiculous to act like a few resignations is indicative of a bubble popping. The strongest evidence that a bubble does not exist is all these weaker companies struggling, because in an actual bubble they would be propped up by the relentless speculation. Yet people point to failed companies as proof there's a bubble, even while many tech companies are doing great.

Either way, financial markets are very difficult to predict, unless you count predicting the same direction for years and waiting for it to be right. So stop acting like it's easy and obvious. If you really feel so strongly, put your net worth into shorting tech stocks and make a ton of money.
> But IMHO anyone who used the whole integrated Apple software suite and never looked elsewhere has been missing out on some seriously nice features this whole time.

I've looked elsewhere but I stick with Apple's software because I like the simplicity and privacy it offers. I don't want more than a handful of basic functions in my calendar app. I don't want a half a dozen new features to help me avoid reading e-mails. I don't need to install Google Maps to avoid driving off a mountain because Apple Maps works fine for me. I don't want to type the wrong thing into a Google app and see ads about it for the next 3 months.
Serious question.

Yelp's revenue model is a bad conflict of interest. They rank the destinations AND the destinations have to buy advertising too.

What revenue model could they do that would work and not be shady? I can't think of one. Charge users?
How WIRED Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking
Telstra confirms mass outage for mobile users across Australia
When I wrote ctadvisor[0], I continually ran into issues with certificates in the chain that weren't encoded the way I expected. Sometimes it was legitimate - because it took a week to realise I occasionally hit an email certificate that looks quite different, and sometimes it was just because some CAs generate unusual certs.

Everytime such a thing happened, it would crash, and just plow on. I never actively planned that. It's incredibly powerful.

[0]https://github.com/technion/ct_advisor
It is not that obvious when you take human nature into account - in fact, there seems to be a strong implication that the statement was transparently self-serving, and some other statements by the AEC undoubtedly were.
I still have my late 2008 MacBook Pro--the first 15" unibody design with a Core 2 Duo. I just spent about $250 for 8 GB RAM upgrade and a 500 GB SSD and did a clean install of El Cap.

It actually runs faster now than it did with the stock HD and Mountain Lion! Granted, I'm not doing a lot of heavy computing with it. For web surfing and the basics it still works great.
Does anybody think that writing down company values has any effect on anything ever? This is what people do to go through the motions of leadership when they have no clue what their employees actually do.
How to build an electric car
Once it's running yes. But if you close Spotify, pressing the play key will start iTunes. It's quite infuriating.
I call bullshit: http://screenwerk.com/2016/02/02/reviews-rashomon-plumber-re...
== slow clap ==

Great hire.
You win!

I literally laughed out loud for what seems like a while.
I figure I have none anyway. My working assumption is that every major government on earth could access all of my net activity with a few keystrokes, my devices are already pwned, all of my credit card numbers have already been stolen, and pretty much anyone could pretend to be me with little trouble.

The only thing that prevents this from being a massive pain in the butt is that they have also stolen the personal data of 300 million other Americans, and by the time they work their way down the list (my last name starts with 'T', after all), all that information - credit card numbers, operating system installs, addresses on file, net habits - will have changed anyway.
A great read before people get on the "Yelp removes bad reviews if you pay" bandwagon: http://screenwerk.com/2016/02/02/reviews-rashomon-plumber-re...
Ask HN: Should vs. expect. What do you like?
There are two popular assertion pattern for testing the Javascript. Should and Expect. What do you like more? And what is the reason? I just want to know.

My personal flavor is should, but I usually use expect for codes that has to be shared. Because the expect has more reference and documents. (For example, even api docs of chai use expect default. http://chaijs.com/api/bdd/) It reduces explanation costs when you use should.

How about your case?
The words "low" and "high" are relative terms. I would argue that by 1990 standards we've achieved all of these.
Except when "being your broker" means "some random sales dude with no training nor experience is handling your company's health insurance."

It's not particularly hard to get licensed (usually around $100, a training course of 40-100 hours (which they are large enough, they could set up inhouse), and possibly fingerprinting). Is it a hassle to get licenses in multiple states? Yeah--though most states honor other state's licenses, and just require the fee then.

In any case, this is table stakes--and if they can't get this basic aspect right (after being warned for years!) how well do you think they manage the tricky stuff? And why aren't they hiring experienced health brokers in the first place?

(The stuff about illegal rebates because they give away their software is garbage though. I'm 100% on their side for that.)
My personal fear is losing my photos when performing a sync. iCloud tops out at 5GB, which you can't effectively manage.

It's far safer to plug your phone into a Windows machine and using the file system GUI to copy the photos to the folder you want. Using Preview to import the photos as if the iPhone is a scanner is another safe method.

The multiple user/multiple computer problem that you're referencing can probably be solved by logging in to the corresponding icloud account on the computer.
How is this different from google or Yahoo?

I heard they also accept payments to remove bad reviews, but I'm not sure it's true. That would be a worse conflict in my opinion.
China Responds to Mark Zuckerberg's Spring Festival Message
It shows the Sacks and whoever worked on this with him are very very smart. Clear language requires smarts.
This is very nice to see. Just last week Sublime started releasing new dev builds after close to a year of silence. Sublime is my favorite text editor and it seemed like it was going to drift off into obscurity but this will definitely inject new life into it. Sublime didn't just make a hire, they hired the guy responsible for an arguably large part of sublime's success.
Thanks for that. 'expvar' looks like a great hidden gem for go development. Unfortunately most of our services aren't written in Go so we might have to write our own if there isn't a handy library we could write bindings for.
It's not that strange. Google does the same more or less.

Search for "insurance" on Google. Google ranks a bunch of insurance companies: Geico, Statefarm, etc. They also show ratings for some specific agents. Google also sells ads if you want to drive more traffic and not just be in the organic listings.

You can find nuanced differences between Yelp and Google, but the problem is not conflict of interest. The problem is that businesses are not seeing enough value in the ad product that Yelp offers. Many advertisers dislike Google, yet they still advertise.
As a gamer, i don't know why anyone would watch their stuff. It is slow, boring and uninformative. Many of their videos are just them talking over trailers, which means they talk over the one piece in game advertisement that usually contains the most lies about the product. There's also horrible editing. Just watch the first minute of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1kwXSkkk90 Over half of that could easily be cut. Or this: https://youtu.be/rnL76a2c2VA?t=266 He starts talking about how excited he is, while showing literaly no excitement whatsoever.

Are the "Trailer Score" videos literally them giving trailers scores?!
Is there anyone preventing anyone from making something 'close to Visual Studio' though?

I don't think Apple is blocking that. If you're looking for something for iOS/Mac dev, all the build tools are available as command-line interfaces.
Why does it take any investment to make an app like this?
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It stands to reason that the technology of the future does not yet make sense to us. Do you believe that we've already achieved the furthest possible wireless communication at low power? I think we can do better. This is pure speculation but I'm basing it on our past performance.
John Carmack working on Gearvr positional tracking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11061992
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad Out Amid Compliance Concerns
That's the wrong way to look at boom-bust cycles. The mistakes were made when investment unsustainably outstripped underlying value. You can feel bad in the bust times for those beneficiaries of the boom times, but they were simply paid forward for the bust years to come. That's just the economic sawtooth that will continue to happen as long as growth has insufficient pressure (regulatorily or culturally) for sustainability. It's all been seen before.
The green bar which drops down when you try interacting with menu items seems to be a sign-up wall under the guise of helpfulness. I have to click though fluff about how a week view or pomodoro timer works, only to be prompted to sign up with my email before I can proceed. I wanted to check out your ux, not hand over my email.
The two choices are not "anarchy" and "everything except the code we output should be private".
I hate to break it, but it could actually have the opposite effect by disproportionately increasing our consumption of concrete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
There's some confusing language in the article that might make you think that she worked at Reuters (the new employer) for a long time. In fact she was only there for a few weeks:

... who Thomson Reuters fired within weeks after hiring her in September

The bit that confuses it is this:

I also later found out that every editor in my section at Reuters had been well aware of the non-compete for years

What I think she's saying is that the editors at her new employer were well aware (and had been "for years") that Law360 (her old employer) used these non-competes, and (by implication) that she'd be subject to one.

It gives the impression that she worked there for years, but that seems to just be an unintended consequence of the phrasing.
it's pretty much google and every other search engine model. I believe competition it's the only thing that can make it not shady.
Hoping to Lead Great Lakes Lampreys to Demise by the Nose
I gave up on Navdy and cancelled my order after the 3rd delay and literally no progress updates for nearly a year until they hired a whole new engineering team. 90% of their "progress" updates is them showing off vapor-ware again at some random electronics show. I'll wager if they deliver that thing this year, it's no where near the promise.

(I'm harsh because I've worked at a hardware startup before. It's difficult stuff, but honesty with your backers and early adopters is the only correct path)
Only on Hacker News is Rust considered a mainstream language, but I see your point :).
Only on Hacker News is Rust considered a mainstream language :).
To clarify I was mainly talking about the days when HTML video was newish and flash was still a big priority to Adobe, and there was uncertainty which would win. I agree with what you're saying over the long run and certainly today.

But I'd have to quibble with saying flash was never better than native playback - presumably so for raw performance, but that wasn't the goal. Flash video was never great for being technically superior, it was great for cutting the Gordian knot that was the codec problem (and indeed one presumes technical tradeoffs had to be made to that end).
Speculation is that it might be the result tectonic activity given that the Taiwan earthquake was around the same time.
They also replaced their awful old forums with Discourse (which Atom also uses): https://forum.sublimetext.com.
a clock in the context of a distributed system is a method of providing a partial ordering (a happened before b). most blockchain implementations use a merkle tree that uses predecessor transactions as inputs to the output as the clock

regardless, blockchains as implemented in certificate transparency and bitcoin aren't actually consensus systems, they are just (highly accurate) approximations
North Korea satellite 'tumbling in orbit'
No, they probably mean group health plans (companies covered) sold. Probably average a dozen lives per policy maybe.

They "signed up" 10,000 companies as of a year ago[1]...but I'm not sure how many of those they sold health insurance to!

[1] http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/01/15/zenefits-releases-grow...
Unless you have big cash savings, i don't see how you can benefit from a crash.
You lost me at "ALWAYS LISTENING". We've got enough of those already.
The only Apple software I use is the operating system. Everything else (including the core utilities) are third party. Google Docs for word processing/spreadsheets, BusyCal for calendaring, Chrome for web browsing.

I may occasionally fire up the core Calculator app but with Numi in my menu bar and Alfred a quick Option-Space away, I rarely even use that.

Having been burnt by Apple disregarding other software I've been a big user of in the past, I'm not going to let them do it again.
Man accused of tossing alligator into Wendy's drive-thru window
'Let it crash' is a philosophy geared toward handling errors.

Circuit breakers are geared toward handling resources that may become unavailable.

While they seem similar, they're conceptually very, very different. Let it crash is mostly for things where one's own code, one's own state, may end up faulty, and where recovering in a known good state will solve the issue. And it turns out this is really effective for most 'bugs'.

A circuit breaker is where -external- state, environmental state if you will, may become faulty. This is really effective not for 'bugs', but for predictable periodic issues such as one's network going down, a database becoming inaccessible, etc.

Everyone who writes a reasonably complex system in Erlang, that interfaces with systems external to it, learns the shortcomings of applying 'let it crash' to those instances (a network hiccup overloads your supervisor threshold with crashes, leading to parts of, or the entirety of your system going down), and goes looking for (and hopefully finding) the circuit breaker pattern.
Good riddance. Zenefits is the most bug-ridden piece of software I've ever used. It's completely unusable at times.
Github says it's C++ because of the .hpp/.cpp extensions but if you look at the code you will see it is more C than C++.

Maybe it is because of LLVM build system?
How did you get great battery life from Ubuntu? I've never been able to get anything close to the runtime I get on OSX. In my experience, OSX gives me the longest batter life, second is Windows and any flavor of Linux is terrible (maybe 3-4 hours on a machine that Windows gives 5-6 hours).
I've concluded that spec sheets in advertising are at best excuses, and at worst lies. Most users don't care what the exact pixel count is, they just want enough pixels that everything looks great. They don't care exactly how much RAM or storage there is, so long as they don't run out of it (either "brick wall effect" or discernible slowdowns). They don't care exactly how fast the processor is, so long as it's perceived as "fast enough". If specifications are presented, it's done so precisely to convince the user "this is good enough" ... but if it was good enough, customers wouldn't be looking at those numbers to see if it's at least above some criteria indicating "well, I guess I can put up with it since you put it that way".

That's precisely why Apple doesn't give specifications for as many products as they can get away with. RAM specs are limited to regular computers. Devices with "retina" displays don't list pixel counts any more (or at least overtly so). Given how they're pushing to make storage size irrelevant on mobile devices (iCloud, dynamic app deletion/installation, Photos cloud storage, etc), I expect they'll eventually drop exact local storage specs in most ads (opting for "small/medium/large").
It's useful to note that there is a billboard off of 101 NB, as I recall just south of the 280 interchange, that literally tells you to call 911 if you see anything suspicious. In San Francisco, calling 911 on this is just following instructions.
As others mention, these are amazing news. The last months were void of communication from Jon and the forums were in a constant state of spam+complains, so hopefully this (and the recent updates) signals something is changing :)
My biggest pain: It is 2016 but we still have to log into PayPal to cancel subscriptions manually when someone requests to downgrade their account. API does not support it because our subscription numbers start with "S-" which seems to happen with old PayPal accounts.
agreed. I call it #theCapitalCycle
https://medium.com/@alexanderbcampbell/more-than-500bn-of-we...
Exactly. I don't think it's a bad thing though. Just because you had an idea or built a MVP doesn't make you a good CEO.
Eh, maybe. 20 years would put you in the late 60s/ early 70s for thermonuclear bombs, I think. I could see it staying classified for a while past that. And, if releasing the information will put someone's life in danger, sure. But I suspect situations like this account for a fraction of a percent of stuff that stays classified for decades.

If the reason the government keeps something classified is to protect a person's career, or (as I assume is usually the case) just because they can so why go to the trouble of declassifying it, that is not a good enough reason. The default state of information held by the government is that it should be public domain, and anything classified ought to be scrutinized heavily - and regularly - to confirm it should be so and should remain so.
French data privacy regulator to Facebook: 3 months to stop tracking non-users
damn, their audio sucks in the first vid you shared, way too long and verbose. I think they didn't really spend any time on it. That said, they have 500000 yt subs. I would figure out a way to keep it up rather than just shut down.
Thanks mjhea.....dockerman
Haskell resonates well with me, although it is hard/almost impossible to get a job as a Haskell dev. I also like the idea of the Haskell-like languages that even enahnce some of the features, PureScript, Elm for example.

Even if you only ever do basic Haskell it is very useful to have that mindset when using lambda expression and functional programming features embedded in other languages. Or to use the FP languages tied to a platform, like Scala and F#
But that's not really a Flash versus HTML5 issue, that's a device support issue. Adobe failed to get their Flash platform on all the devices you want to support so you're using an alternative platform, which is fair enough. If you limited the comparison to the places Flash runs you could be making the same games with HTML5, couldn't you?
maybe A.I. will be better at avoiding crashes... but are we there yet?
w3schools.com

Keep the link as a reference but it also provides some good quizzes to learn and practice basic concepts. 8 years ago that's where I started learning HTML/CSS/PHP.
And Elon made a ton of money from PayPal, yet he founded and is running two companies that are a lot more impressive than an enterprise SaaS provider. Not everyone is content to sit on the sidelines after they've hit it big.
Congrats to Will and Sublime, great everyone involved!
Zenefits is lucky to have David Sacks for CEO.

But this is an important reminder to Fintech companies: compliance is your life.
The code can be commoditized, but the work of finding the users and getting said users to join is a long way from being plug and play.
I use it so I can have a laptop that just works with minimal fuss and a decent unix-like environment as I have only ever deceloped for the server side targeting Linux and BSD.

However, while I routinely upgrade to the best MacBook Pro, I'm not a fan of the physical aspects of the hardware. To me it's more like MacBook Poser than a pro machine. Just doesn't compare to the Thinkpads I've had for durability and quality of the keyboard.
The big downside to using whitespace in this way is that if you are trying to generate python, especially from another language, it's a nightmare. Explicit delimiters make meta-programming much easier.
I implemented https://threegoodthings.xyz/ in Haskell (code: https://github.com/thedufer/threegoodhaskells). It took longer (although be less than I expected) than my first implementation, and the type system has cut down on bugs by a lot when I add new features. The lack of libraries for things that I'd expect to be easy has been a bit of a pain occasionally, though.
Neat product but the "familiar user interface" for a Quitter is literally a copy of Twitter. That's not a good look.
Seems like it. From Fortune...

In a memo to employees about the management change, Sachs didn’t dance around the company’s issues when it comes to regulatory compliance.

“The fact is that many of our internal processes, controls, and actions around compliance have been inadequate, and some decisions have just been plain wrong. As a result, Parker has resigned,” writes Sachs. “In order for us to move forward as a company, we cannot seek to hide or downplay the problem.”

http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/zenefits-parker-conrad-resigns...