skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is part of our philosophy as well. The balancing act is how 'verticalized' you make a product. Too vertical will entail challenges when you transpose to another market. Not vertical enough will entail challenges in the go-to-market.
Has to be something that lets you fix it up and present your "best self"; looking cooler then you really are in a critical component of any social network.
> I can't help but wonder...how many real-world businesses could benefit from the same type of invasive tracking that online businesses seem to think they have a right to subject us with?

Most companies that collect data use it to make money. That's not true ONLY on the web.

> For some reason, though, we don't allow that sort of privacy violation in our actual lives.

Really? Do you have any grocery store loyalty cards? Do you use a credit card? That data is shared and sold. Do you do any activities that show up on your credit report, like pay bills to a utility? That data is shared and sold. That's how the credit rating agency got it. Do you have a set-top box? It's probably selling data on what shows you watch. Do you have a cell phone? Location data.

If you actually restricted yourself to purchases which don't involve anybody who shares your data, you'd be living in a cave.
Can someone give me a decent explanation of how blockchain will speed up a securities settlement?

E.g: Big Bank sells 200m of some bond to a hedge fund. Bond is actually "given up" to a third party who hold bond on HF's behalf. Appreciate there's a whole load of operational shenanigans that go into making this happen. Just not sure what, or how blockchains will help.
> (...)it is pure propaganda that society fails without a state. It is certainly true that wherever states fail, others come like vultures to pick apart the corpse.

I basically agree with that, with the caveat that there will always be organisations which try to live off other people's work, and you could do FAR worse than modern western states.
Right, so it's interesting to consider why they don't feel used.

Considering this was done consciously what is message we are meant to come away with?

Is it

a) to show the world that black women can be engineers at successful companies?

b) to show the world that companies can be successful with black women engineers?

c) to show the world that companies are more successful with black women engineers?

In each of those cases what are the implications of them not feeling like a prop?
I Was a Super Bowl Concession Worker
I wasn't familiar with Charles Rangel until I read this article..

For anyone who suspects the US is engaged in a "Buy American" (or else) campaign to sell domestic evasion/financial services, the man who apparently wants to be identified as behind FATCA seems to be the poster child of evasion the patriotic way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rangel#Unreported_asse...

The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States (bloomberg.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978847
Why not just use browser-based React inside a wrapper like Electron to build desktop apps? Is performance much better when using a desktop implementation of React Native?
Fascinating. I've not before this comment seen someone mention Dynamics CRM as "quick development" (and at one point that included knowing actual Dynamics CRM devs, but that was back before .NET integration and the worst excesses of X++ were still plentiful).

From my perspective across a number of jobs and project clients, SharePoint installations are rare (and often out-of-date and equally often loathed) and I've never actually seen a Dynamics CRM install in the wild. (I know they exist, I've just never seen one/worked with one.)

I admire your use of Dynamics CRM as a hammer for all nail-like objects as a means of job security.
> BROOKE: I don’t really see what they send. I tap through so fast. It’s rapid fire.

> I closed the tab at that moment.
It's anti-choice drek because it implicitly assumes personhood of a fetus, and in fact, starts an inter-species war over the assumption of personhood of a fetus.

The correct corollary between a fetus would be the uncompiled source code of an AI, or possibly an unexecuted binary. Neither are alive and certainly neither are conscious.

An AI literally exterminating humanity because "abortion is murder" is clearly self-insertion on the part of the author in a way that civil society should not tolerate any more than an AI being a white nationalist.
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There are plenty of front ends for NPM so hopefully you guys can figure out something for this!
It's a HP Spectre x360 running Windows 10. Intel Core i7 (I forget exactly which one but you can google it), 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Intel HD 4400 Graphics

http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Offer.aspx?p=c-spectre-x36...

The site claims 12.5 hours battery. I've gotten close to that on one occasion but real-world usage is nearer to 6-8 hours like I said.
We 100% plan to support Android.
"i luvu" via Gmail

Ouch. Right in the onion sensor.
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I like good food, so I wouldn't mind the free boutique meals, but I'm not willing to sacrifice salary for them. Plus, I'm pretty picky so if they get their boutique meals from some over-hyped restaurant that doesn't have anything on the menu that I want (like some weird vegan place), then suddenly that benefit is completely worthless to me.

Alcoholic drinks at work sounds like a recipe for disaster, and a good way to get sexual harassment lawsuits on your hands.

And dogs at work sounds like a horrible idea. The last thing I want to deal with at work is dog barking and dog smells. What a pain in the ass. And what about employees who are allergic to dogs?

As for people telling shitty companies 'no', what really happens IMO is that people leave. Just look at the turnover rates in software. I left a job once mainly because of the lousy work environment; I can't be the only one.
Has anyone reproduced (or tried to reproduce) the rat studies by Robert Ader or Manfred Schedlowski?
The safe drinking water act requires water supplies to not only create reports but also distribute them to their customers. My water company mails them out, thats probably par for the course. Putting them online might be optional, but they have to distribute them to their customers.
Outside of a bare handful of places in the world before 100 years ago, 1% was wild, extravagant growth for a pre-industrial economy.
Not only is this version updated over previous public releases, but it's also released under a more permissive license.
Sure, there are indicators, but we're terrible at predicting those results. Or specifically predicting when they happen and when they don't. I'm sure some collapse is coming soon. (for high values of soon) Then again, people collectively predicted >100% of the economic failures so far.

So unless you say when, why, and what are the steps to validate it on the way, why should anyone believe the collapse happens in their lifetime?
Controversy sells, also sadly evidenced by the 2016 US political process. :/
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It appears that there are two issues that affect small parts of the captured datasets:

1) Colored character names are not handled properly. I looked for <th> tags, not <th bgcolor="beige"> tags.

2) Character names that start with a lower case character are not handled. This may have to do with other episodes using lower case prefixed table headers for stage directions, I have to double check.
There are a lot of reasons why. Just one example is advertisers. The largest advertisers need to work with properties at a certain scale. TV has that. Google has that. Facebook now has that because it grew to be huge. Pinterest doesn't. Twitter doesn't and more importantly now looks like it never will. So if your service's primary revenue stream is advertising but you're unappealing to the largest advertisers it's a big problem.
> twitter, far more than facebook in my opinion, democratizes the dissemination of ideas and information.

Not any more since the last wave of closing "alleged ISIS" accounts. I can't stand those religious retards either, but banning people just because they follow a religious cult of killers who spread hate and murder threats?

You could use the same argument to ban practically everything... including followers of Donald "Muslims out!!!" Trump, Frauke "Shoot refugees at the border" Petry, Recep Tayyip "Kurd Killer" Erdogan or whoever is the King of Saudi Arabia.

None of these groups are in any danger to be banned from popular social media sites despite their ideology being very similar (or, in case of Saudi Arabia, identically) to the IS and their followers equally murderish and morally depraved (Erdogan, Saudi Arabia, the neo-Nazis burning refugee camps down in Germany).

It's inconsequent and the mere possibility of banning someone over anything that members of another (whiter? religious-er?) group are allowed to do opens up highly complex moral issues.
Read the comments. Most people eat this stuff up. Companies do PR because it works.
After 25 years, Visual Basic gets its due with DICE award win
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Because I haven't yet found the time to make something decent. It will change, but cannot promise when...
Fair enough, thanks. :)
Reminds me of Brave New World, where the general population lives in a shallow lifestyle void of any meaning.

Seem like a pattern, predicting that future, is emerging. E.g. My parent's teenage hobby was musical instruments. Mine was playing video games. Kids today it seems is responding to selfies.

pg also has a good essay on the Acceleration of Addictiveness* that seems relevant.

*http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html
The great thing starting with a baby is you get to grow with them -- you don't have to be an expert right off the bat.

Gloria Wall (mother of four, spouse of Larry Wall) also has great advice that is worth repeating: You don't have to be an expert in children to be a parent -- you only have to be an expert in _your_ children.
> But Facebook is not a charity. Facebook is not a social cause. If it were, Zuckerberg would have sold his shares and reinvested the cash back into Facebook when announcing his plan to donate $45bn.

Could you elaborate on your reasoning for this? I've reread this a handful of times and haven't been able to figure out the rationale for such a move under those conditions.
I read an article* about ARM using imprint lithography to create a working Cortex M0 microcontroller. Feature size is equivalent to a 2 um process (which was achieved about 30 years ago in silicon), but it still seems pretty exciting - I could find use-cases for something like that in my own day-to-day hardware projects if hobbyists ever find a way to recreate these kind of machines for cheap (much like the DIY CNC machine & 3d printing scene has done)

* https://semiaccurate.com/2015/11/18/arm-charts-path-printed-...
Wrong. From wikipedia: Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj,[1] "raj," lit. "rule" in Hindi[2]) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Sirajuddaulah surrendered his dominions to the Company,

Also India pre 1947 was a civilization; a 2000+ year old one. Closest analogy is Europe. Do people vex about the existence of Belgium (a small country)?

India went from exporting finished goods to exporting raw materials from the 1780's to the 1860's. Coincidence?

To repeat what I said below:

the industrial revolution in textiles kicked into high gear in England in 1822, a good 50 years or so after India was under effective company rule. And textiles was an industry where India had a comparative advantage before company rule. Wonder where Britain got all that raw material to make textiles from?

From wikipedia: During the period, 1780–1860, India changed from being an exporter of processed goods for which it received payment in bullion, to being an exporter of raw materials and a buyer of manufactured goods.[20] More specifically, in the 1750s, mostly fine cotton and silk was exported from India to markets in Europe, Asia, and Africa; by the second quarter of the 19th century, raw materials, which chiefly consisted of raw cotton, opium, and indigo, accounted for most of India's exports.[21]

Starting in the 1830s, British textiles began to appear in—and soon to inundate—the Indian markets, with the value of the textile imports growing from £5.2 million 1850 to £18.4 million in 1896.
> I see a few people pointing out that the book wasn't really banned, in the sense that it was not published as a direct result of government intervention. But is this really a meaningful distinction?

Yes, there is a meaningful distinction between a publisher deciding not to publish a book, and a book being banned. While there may certainly be conditions where private action is so powerful in a given marketplace it is substantially equivalent to a government prohibition and raises the same issues, this isn't one. There are other publishers, and there has never been a time when self-publishing and bypassing major publishers -- especially for an already successful writer -- is easier.

The fact that this whole complaint is actually a promotional piece for the book, which is in fact being published through Amazon's direct publishing offering, demonstrates exactly why the distinction between a publisher choosing not to publish a book and the book actually being banned is a meaningful -- night-and-day -- distinction.

> The book was prevented from being published

No, it was, in fact, not prevented from being published. The first two sentences of the article are "I launched a book this week and I went Indie with it. Indie means I released it on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing."
by placing backdoors in his technique.
I would say "Do you want to be the dominant platform because your users like you, or because they're stuck with you?"

I totally get it that a social media platform can do things that the majority of their users outright hate. Facebook even admitted that they intentionally caused their mobile app to crash randomly, just to test user retention!

But people can always find better options. MySpace was on top once. Digg was on top once. User loyalty is an important part of a social media platform, doubly so when there's someplace to jump ship to.
AWS SNS -> Lambda -> Firehose -> S3 | Redshift

Done.
I think "past" is a bit of a cop out. It has to be current and in the moment to be applicable.
It's not possible to be "bigoted" against a white man. White men have literally all of the power and privilege in society and denying that is literally oppressive.

Any moral human should react in exactly the same way his publisher and I did: revulsion that someone in 2016 would have such a backwards idea.

On a personal note to you, society is changing, and like all other social shifts, it's best to consider what side you want to be on. Do you want to be JFK or George Wallace?
It's interesting that despite being long open, both the problem and the solution are stated using only elementary linear algebra.
Before I reply let me clarify that I don't work there anymore and my thoughts could have diverged since leaving their corporate hive-mind collective of the sort that employees often claim not to represent.

> Why couldn't it just be a document flavored SQL? Having a DSL for writing in-database procedures is fine. But tying all external queries to a Builder is, from a purely aesthetic POV, pretty ugly IMO.

Having raw SQL in an application is insane. Being able to connect directly to a database and hand-rolling a query in SQL to look at stuff directly is not. But building such a query in Javascript like you do in the admin UI is fine too (actually, it's way more annoying than the Python or Ruby API's), with the benefit that you have only one way to learn to write queries, instead of two, and with the downside of not having infix operators and having to close many more parentheses and such. There might also be training costs if you have a semi-technical role that would have involved making SQL queries.

I don't believe in an aesthetic POV. Unless ease-of-use is the aesthetic.

> Yes, I realize the Builder supports map/reduce as well. In practice I'm skeptical how well that works in an on-demand fashion.

SQL databases already have aggregation queries, so there's nothing going on that they wouldn't already do. Map/reduce isn't, like, a big deal, other than in the mundane way that a table scan is generally a big deal.
Interesting. I receive no emails and rarely any push notifications from Twitter. I use it every day while riding the bus, although I'm mainly a consumer and hardly tweet anymore.

Did you and I fall into different categories or something and somehow that led to you receiving invasive marketing where as all I ever see are a few promoted tweets? Pretty curious about this because you mention that your experience is happening to a large portion of the user base.
Indeed, sounds like Snapchat is using gaming techniques[1] for a social app.

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[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine...
Another alternative is Postman [0]. Supports C, Java, Go, Ruby, Swift, etc. Available as a Chrome app. Not really the same (doesn't convert from one to another AFAIK), but it gives you a common interface.

[0]: https://www.getpostman.com
You implied that billionaires donate to charities because markets aren't great at solving such a problem, even though charities are market institutions.
My younger brother had the Borderbund one. I recall it being a pretty decent piece of software.
> Normal people aren't structurally important parts of the economy.

I suggest we try to remove them to see what happens! :)
Yeah, my mom was an EE-in-practice and my wife's a surgeon. I'm totally open to being proven wrong. :-) I just don't think this is the study that's going to do it.
Roughly speaking, this method: http://www.wikihow.com/Balance-Chemical-Equations

Showing work is required, and if work contains a matrix then they'd just mark it as zero.
Moment.js is a must-have.
When it gets hot, the FED prints money (they call it quantitative easing) (for 5-year-olds: throw money at the problem).
Look at 2008, where they ramped up the money stock like crazy. And afterwards, all these upward bumps were quantitative easing steps to "stabilize" the markets.

However, just realize this is exponential growth. You don't need a maths degree to realize that you can't keep on printing money like crazy and expect the markets to stay stable for much longer.

It takes one person to dig into the matter and ask the question: "But what covers this money?" and bang, you got a stock market crash.

And let's not call it money. What the FED "prints" is currency, sheets of paper. Money has inherent value (gold is money for instance), but not this FED-Dollar lie we live in every day.
Since 1914, America has been tricked into believing into this system. When Nixon turned off the Gold standard in 1971, the entire Bretton-Woods-System (built on top of the Dollar) sort of went Berserk.

It's a system built to fail.
The comments on the post linked seem to be good, in addition to the post linked.

I didn't really understand all of it, which is why I said seem to be, instead of are.

What I did understand was interesting though.
Snapchat is a surprisingly great platform. I'm 23 so I guess I'm pushing the target audience, but all my friends and I use it, and it's probably made keeping in touch with them about 1000x easier.

It's just so simple. It takes sending photos down to its very base level.
Actually, I think being blocked by a retail channel with the absolute dominance Amazon has is a lot more significant than being turned down by a publisher.

The former is a significant bar to reaching customers, the latter not so much.
With people shifting their layouts over to Flexbox, relying on "box-sizing: border-box", "display: table-xxx" and friends, older browsers will mess up the layout beyond belief. IIRC some older browsers even failed to apply an entire CSS file if they couldn't parse a single rule - good luck with ::before, ::after, ::nth-child and friends.

CSS, unfortunately, isn't really backwards compatible unless you invest a LOT of effort into testing and development.
You touch upon a very important point. It's actually a very delicate balance regarding how 'vertical' or 'horizontal' a product should be. We found that previous companies in this space have failed because they were either too much of one or too much of the other.

We found that for industries where technology isn't ubiquitously used, the one-stop-shop model is tremendously critical.

That being said, and to your point, we have a material portion of our core technology (invoicing, scheduling, billing, etc.) that is 'transposable' to other markets. We are definitely thinking along this line but it is part of the long term vision further down the road.
Whites are a minority race when you take the world thus we should reduce the number of non-whites to combat this underrepresentation inside the human species.
This is simple math. I also pity you for living in some delusion of botched equality
isn't the real point that India was delayed in being able to industrialize their economy due to exploitation by British colonial rule?
It's still valid python code, the libraries are just different.
> This is a great example of how virtue signalling can be a great way of promoting your brand to young progressives.

I'm not up on, ah, promoting one's brand by way of virtue signaling, but is this a great example? It reads like something out of a bad college application essay.
Having gone to the trouble of reading said first chapter ... wut. It's the "AI sees a human do something that can be interpreted as callous, starts thinking, decides maybe this is going to be a problem" trope (and, actually, as a firmly pro-choice person I find that the human action in question being one I wouldn't condemn actually adds to the horror inherent to the trope).

The ranty and bitter tone of the author does him no favours, certainly, but taking him off the publication list before contacting him, and for something so (to my mind) frankly silly, quite understandably would feel like enough of a kick in the teeth that irrational anger is pretty understandable.
There's a school of thought that says that people use apps like this not to follow the pleasure principal, but that these platforms provide a brief escape from the neurotransmitters asdociated with anxiety that make us feel bad (1). This actually okay Buzzfeed article (who knew?) pretty much confirms that, only the thesis is distorted by the sample group being excitable teenage girls.

Seeing the film Boyhood reminded me of how fluid your identity is at this age. I think these teens will discard Snapchat forms of communication in a few years, as you change so much in this window.
(1)
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-...
You do realize that the AI represents the villain in this story, right? Villains aren't exactly known for being reasonable, civil, or even rational.
Can you share more detail as to how you would alert on drift? What acts as the canonical source?
Exactly. Any time I start a project, if it's going to working with strings, I automatically pick something else, anything else, besides C, no matter how great C would have been for the task for performance, because its string-handling is just that bad. C++ isn't great, but it's a lot better.

Personally, my favorite for good performance is C++ with Qt. The QString class lets you do a lot of amazing stuff very easily.
It's almost as if Snapchat is a direct reaction to the permanency of social media. Once schools/parents started teaching kids to be careful online, they moved to a service where it isn't as much of an issue.
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