skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are Twitter's expenses so high? Don't get me wrong, scaling is hard... But at the same time, they don't have the issues of scaling photos or videos (like Facebook).
> But they haven't turned a profit, which after 10 years is a strong indicator that they can't turn a profit.

In those 10 years Twitter has changed leaderships multiple times. Twitter has never had stable and competent management.
> happiness of course to still be alive and see my family & friends and chat a little more with people on the Internet :-)

:) For what it's worth I wish you the full measure of more comfort and happiness.

So in terms of your legacy, I was wondering a while back regarding the split in ZMQ & the news of your health that do you feel you have achieved your broader goal of establishing governance model driven OSS as the basis for new organizations, taming the beast of ego :) More to the point: do you think ZMQ, as an undertaking, will continue to evolve as intended? (Kinda of like Apple: is Apple really Apple without Steve Jobs, so of Q.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse

i.e: let's get them to accept our generous "free" (as in beer) GMO and lax their GMO laws/attitudes, so that we can control farming with our licensed seeds.

Potrykus has enabled golden rice to be distributed free to subsistence farmers.[51] Free licenses for developing countries were granted quickly due to the positive publicity that golden rice received, particularly in Time magazine in July 2000.[52] Monsanto Company was one of the first companies to grant free licences.[53]
The cutoff between humanitarian and commercial use was set at US$10,000. Therefore, as long as a farmer or subsequent user of golden rice genetics does not make more than $10,000 per year, no royalties need to be paid. In addition, farmers are permitted to keep and replant seed.[54]
Oracle would probably sue if Google said something about buying Sun...

>“She just blurted out the two numbers that mattered. She just blurted it out,” said Judge Alsup. “If she had had the recipe for Coca-Cola she could have blurted it out in this court right now.”
Knowing revenue isn't exactly the same as knowing a formula. It's odd that Google cares so much.
Well, sure. I can only imagine companies are happy not to pay that cost and let customers continue to deal with it.
Quite possibly, just as one can be a productive physicist without reading, say, Einstein, in the original.
Or because exercising early means you pay some long term capital gains instead of income tax.
I'm not asking you or anyone else to kid yourself.

I'm personally pissed at Palmer Luckey for paying for shit-posting memes.

The fact that he's a supporter of Mr. Trump is his business. The fact that he's bankrolling people to troll reddit makes it MY BUSINESS, and I'm incredibly pissed off about it.
Nothing pixelated will stay safe on the internet
The current president killed Constellation, it wasn't Congress. The next president is likely to kill SLS, or perhaps just 'limit' it, so that SLS preserves the jobs, but loses the missions.
While certainly not breathtaking, it's an initial product on a development path. I was expecting more, but this is still an improvement.
I checked the Activity Monitor on OS X to see if it's the same and if I should do something. It's quite surprising:

bird	11,38 GB 119,8 MB
kernel_task	8,82 GB 23,0 MB
launchd	8,46 GB 77,7 MB
revisiond	8,35 GB 105,8 MB
Tweetbot	3,01 GB 50,2 MB
Safari	879,6 MB 10,0 MB
mds_stores 726,2 MB 570,1 MB
systemstatsd 695,0 MB 775,0 MB
nsurlstorag 685,3 MB 9,5 MB
Google Chrom 681,4 MB 303,5 MB
iTerm2	653,7 MB 1,6 GB
cfprefsd	509,1 MB 45,8 MB
Papers 3.4.7 465,9 MB 169,8 MB
cloudd	441,3 MB 9,7 MB
ruby	224,6 MB 1,7 MB
coreduetd	217,5 MB
Reeder	207,2 MB 28,5 MB
apsd	65,7 MB 11	MB
Safari	55,3 MB 12,6 MB

I've long gotten used to "bird" doing it's thing (something with the cloud I guess). But how can a twitter client write 3GB (while I'm not even actually using it?)
It's a dev box that only touches local resources.
Seems cool.
This is the wrong question to ask if you're investing, and I've already explained in the parent comment why this is the wrong question to be asking. Usually these things are indicators of profit potential, but they aren't in Twitter's case.
Was it stable enough to really use, though? Python also had gevent and stackless, but as far as I can tell, it never really got to the point where you could just count on it in production at high loads. It was never as stable as Erlang. They were more on the toy side that production-reliable side.

For further proof of my point, I submit the fact that you are basically correct, yet those technologies never took off, even in their own communities. The dominant way all the scripting languages are written are as single threaded code, and the second most popular way is as event-based code. It's not easy to bolt that stuff on ten years after the fact, which is what most of those technologies did.

Lua would probably be the better thing to cite as the possible counterexample, in that it does seem like a lot of the people using it are at least using coroutines, though I believe it is not possible/feasible to get them threading in any nontrivial way.

(I'm not taking the out of claiming dynamic typing counts as a "new paradigm"... probably the single largest true programming change in the last 20 years is the mainstreaming of dynamically-typed programming languages. Which I think was still a good thing for static languages because it raised the competitive bar for them; I've personally swung back over to static typing, but the easy of the dynamic world has pushed the static world to greatly improve its cost/benefit proposition, in both categories. If my only choice was dynamic typing or what we had in the 1990s, I'd still be in the dynamic world.)

As a final postscript, may I observe that while I think that Go was a modestly revolutionary combination of concepts, I consider it an indictment of the programming community that it did not happen sooner. I don't see Go as if it somehow won a big race by being the best... I see it as a situation where it's the first thing that bothered to show up, years late, somewhat desultorily.
You could at least just compress the data with LZF or any of the really fast text compressors.

It'll compress to about 30% of the size, it's easy to do, and it shouldn't add more than a tiny CPU overhead over formatting the JSON itself.

It solves half the problem with like 15 minutes of work.
Unsuccessfully, I'd wager.
It's a problem if it's not configured appropriately. Remember the use of SQLite is entirely internal to the application; it's not for users to know how it's used, or even that it's used at all.

In the case of a Chrome (many versions ago; may have changed), we manually tweaked that pragma in all our users profiles. I recall something like an order of magnitude reduction of pressure on the /home server.
Bower is a package manager for Javascript libraries.

So the only attack vector would be a MIT attack, intercepting the requests to the Bower registry.
Although I think integration with mainland China is probably a good thing it's things like this I find alarming:

Hong Kongers are sensitive about encroachment by mainland law enforcement. Last year, several Hong Kong booksellers disappeared after publishing thinly sourced, salacious tell-alls about China’s leaders. They turned up later in detention in mainland China.
Remember when memes were lauded as a part of the millennial culture? Now when they are used for something you disagree with, it's seen as 'evil', 'wrong', or 'unethical'.

The problem is that the vast majority of voters are swayed by emotion, not fact.

These sorts of things are only going to get worse, because it is the only way to get people to vote your way. Even if you have a good idea and a sound plan, you need to dress it up in emotion-laced slop to get people to come out and vote for you.

It also doesn't help that the mainstream media, which is a very powerful force in the US when it comes to politics, is biased toward the Democratic party (as seen in the recent Wikileaks emails from the DNC). It means that to counteract this, you need to try another tactic, like posting on the Internet.

Even our leaders are swayed by emotion. Both Obama and Hillary have commented prematurely on important events ('Clockboy' and various police shootings) without having professionals and science weigh in on the actual facts of the events after a real investigation.

This is one of the main problems with our society today: anti-science winning out over facts and assuming someone is guilty before even attempting to see if they are innocent.

There was even a book on the New York best sellers list called 'Weapons of Math Destruction' claiming that math and statistics are somehow 'racist'. Think about that for a minute to let it sink in....Facts are now racist.

Social media has made it worse because instead of just having the mainstream media feed us hyperbole and rhetoric, anybody with a Twitter account can do it too.

It has now had some real-world consequences and resulted in many people getting hurt and even getting killed in riots over half-truths, hearsay, and rumors.

If you want shit posting to stop, we have to live in a society where it has to stop working so well. Maybe even holding people responsible for posting lies that lead to riots or death.

Edit: sigh. I always try to have intellectual conversations here on HN and am always disappointed. Most people here seem to just want to hear the current San Francisco narrative about the world and live only within that bubble. It's actually really sad.
"Even if you file an 83b election, you are still liable for paper gains between the value of your options when you were granted them and the value when you exercised."

Wouldn't this be taxed as capital gains though - when exercised?
This little experiment is HUGE and should not be taken lightly. Progress (good and bad) doesn't happen overnight, think in terms of decades.. The automobile changed our lives dramatically and the ability to travel anywhere at our own pace was an amazing concept that was celebrated the years that followed. This legislation stands to potentially change all of that. What do you think?
I am 64 and still love to write software, but currently unemployed. Unfortunately the software industry here in the San Francisco area seems to think that a 20'something who has memorized a few buzzword algorithms from their recent college experience, has no social life and willing to be in a cubical for 12 hours a day, is a more valuable employee. Their lower pay grade may have something to do with it.

I had a real job interview last month. The 25 year old "team lead" asked me (in broken English, his second language) to write a bubble sort - in real code - on the white board. Seriously.
I observed something similar several years ago: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/697061-Whe...

I still think the worry about it wearing out an SSD is overblown. The 20GB per day of writes is extremely conservative and mostly there to avoid more pathological use cases. Like taking a consumer SSD and using it as the drive for some write heavy database load with 10x+ write amplification and when you wear it out demand a new one on warranty.

Backing up the session is still sequential writes so write amplification is minimal. After discovering the issue I did nothing and just left Firefox there wearing on my SSD. I'll still die of old age before Firefox can wear it out.
The FMV of common stock should be calculated through a 409a valuation, which should take into account the preferences. The company is supposed to do this on a regular basis, and certainly should have a current 409a a the time of an option grant. An individual can't really calculate an FMV on their own (outside of a sale, which unto itself creates an FMV).
We do. I pay $30/month for 100 minutes (rarely used anymore) and 5GB LTE. If I have a busy month where I use a lot of minutes, I can add another 100 for $10 from my phone.

Only real complaint is that I can't do something similar for data. I have yet to go over 5GB in a month since I use WiFi at home and at work which covers probably 90% of my data usage. Still, I'd like to be able to do something similar to buying more minutes where I authorize another $10 payment from my phone and add another block of 1GB.

I think that's the biggest issue I have with these overages people deal with. Whereas my plan just drops me down to some useless rate like 128k/sec if I go over, they get nailed with huge charges.

All these bigger carriers need to do is cut you off and offer you the option to refill. They could even charge a premium over what you normally pay for data because perhaps you really need to stay connected. But it's one thing to use up the 5GB you bought for $30 and then have to pay $10 for another 1GB when you run out on the 25th. It's another to just let you keep racking up charges that are both exorbitant and often unknown to the customer until their bill is $100+ more than usual.
I guess my kids are 'evolved' then? Different from their mother and me (and their grandparents).

I'd reserve 'evolved' to describe something more dramatic.
The way that Twitter has become so pervasive despite not really solving the profitability problem makes me think of how a lot of the original constructors of skyscrapers end up building icons and then losing their shirts and being forced to sell it to someone who ultimately sees it realize the initial promise.
Because it's bullshit PR by Twitter.
This is a model that Line has taken, and had some success with (particular in parts of Asia and Europe).
You're forgetting that options/equity/shares/whatever have many conditions AND on top of that there are complex schemes which can render them nil. The stockholders/VC know that and they are very good on the legal stuff.

A salary comes with no trap. You can ensure every month that you got the money.
When Money Talks – And Says Horrible, Bigoted Things
Firefox is relying too much on session restore to deal with bugs in their code. Firefox needs to crash less. With all the effort going into multiprocess Firefox, Rust, and Servo, it should be possible to have one page abort without taking down the whole browser. About half the time, session restore can't restore the page that crashed Firefox anyway.
Godot Engine – Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine
Until you have a NFS homedir...
I'd love something similar, but implemented as a browser extension.
Good list, one thing you left off: Google is already showing realtime results from Twitter. They're well positioned in the deal because they know how many people click through
If you look at it that way the stereotypical startup that's:

-US based

-Incorporated

-Recommended

-with Revenue

- 2 Founders

has only a .71x.85.8x50x46.3x61.3 ~ 8% chance of getting in.
I do wonder if their mobile version have a similar problem. I have noticed it chugs badly when opened for the first time in a while on Android, meaning i have to leave it sitting or a while so it can get things done before i can actually browse anything.
I thought the numbers seemed small as well, it's probably a foot-in-the-door kind of deal for Palantir. If they can sign NYC, municipal governments follow.
Sure, but you can revoke them without changing your password or revoking other app passwords, making it much easier to recover if they do leak.
The start is straight out of Ready Player One for James Halliday.
Show HN: WikiRoulette – Randomly browse Wikipedia
Quantum Neural Machine Learning – Backpropagation and Dynamics
Yes and there are multiple databases available on the net:

http://openbmap.org/

https://openwifi.su/?lang=en

https://wigle.net/
Zuck offered Twitter a lot back in the day, Twitter leadership at time severely disagreed w/ Mark's vision of the merge. Particularly how he wanted to use Twitter to complement FB's goal of logging personal matters and in some cases over-stepping ethical and privacy boundaries. I commend twitter for not giving in at that time
Lenovo, Intel, Synaptics and PayPal working to kill passwords on your next laptop
In order to use erl/erlc from the command line, would I have to launch an "Erlang Terminal" from the menu bar or is there a convenient way to get the current default Erlang's bin folder on my path?

Edit: I mostly work with Elixir and have Erlang installed via Homebrew right now.
Well, but it applies to every other such case, too.

You can't publicly index newspaper articles that are already decades old and irrelevant, you can't publicly index photos of buildings, you can't publicly index the names of people even.

Every of these things requires written approval of everyone listed, be it StreetView, the application of the Right to be Forgotten, or collecting WiFi SSIDs.

So the question is: why does everything require approval, except for SSIDs?
I enjoy reading hn smoking a cigar outdoors - at the park or rooftop bar
Some US carriers offer this as well. The problem is typically that the largest carriers (mostly re-formed from the same telco monopoly that was broken up decades ago) use their market advantage to avoid this sort of thing. Why offer unlimited data when you have the only towers in a region and you can rake in overage fees from a captive audience?
> The cost to embed your brand in the minds of Americans like that would be far greater than $10B.

Just because something costs money doesn't mean it's valuable. Being at the center of the zeitgeist definitely seems like it would be profitable, but de facto it hasn't been for 10 years, so it probably just isn't.

Being in the center of the zeitgeist isn't a substitute for making a profit.
Not if you have a family.
> IMHO the pendulum has swung too far.

I don't think it's gone far enough.
I think someone who has equipment engaged in DDoS attacks might be a bigger cost to the telecom than they are paying anyway. Those 20,000 customers are either using disproportionately more bandwidth and resources or they are at least unwittingly involved in illegal activity, so Comcast would have either a financial incentive or social obligation to temporarily suspend their service. The company should be complaining to the customer, and they should be worried about losing their service. If every competitive provider had these very narrow standards, customers should be more worried about not having Internet because of their security illiteracy.
Why can't youtube live replicate this streaming service and give even more split ad revenue back to NFL, CBS, etc.??
You have a point, but power outages are very correlated.
Will the left survive the millenials?
Agreed — it's a pretty weak reason to "strongly oppose" a bill, which is why I'm wondering how likely it would be for the Administration to change their position. Like, what percentage of the time do they issue a statement in strong opposition but then end up passing the bill anyway?
Big Tobacco has hardly a thing to do with cigars. They are very different concepts and implementations, with a different market. At the very least, skill, culture, reasonably honest marketing, and enormously different end products distinguish them. I think most people's opinion of tobacco might change if they observed it start as a plant, be picked and cured, pressed and aged, then simply rolled before their eyes into a cigar. And for those who make the careless assumption that tobacco is evil, they might inquire into products such as Swedish snus, which are processed without heat and undergo minimal fermentation, resulting in a pure tobacco product with negligibly low levels of nitrosamines (the culprit for carcinogens).
The Trademarking of “Taco Tuesday”
I don't think that they care about that so much as making the point that nobody else should think about copying Oracle's tactics. The attorneys for Oracle were remarkably unscrupulous in the way that they conducted their case, IMO, and this is part of the payback, from the judge as well as Google's lawyers.
Freedom of speech only applies to the government. The media have freedom to do whatever they want as well.
German Bundeswehr Hackers cracked Afghan mobile network
No, I remember all those. You should know what they are and how they may be used against you, and you also should have a fairly good idea if your founders are likely to do that. Just because some people are untrustworthy sociopaths does not mean all people are.

If your boss wants to fuck you over, there are plenty of ways for them to do so, in career-ruining ways, even at a salaried job.
if it happens during the sync you could be arbitrirly broken.
Most ML algorithms can be treated as an optimization problem.

Convex optimization is not high school level math.
It's not just his tweets, likes, or his support of Trump. It's proven in detail now that he is actively funding a fringe alt-right group that peddles bigoted/racist/xenophobic crap.

Most of us want to live in a world that says this is not ok.
Just another jitterbug, but you gotta have faith that I'm once bitten and twice shy.
Debunking Economics by Steve Keen. Though be warned, you might not quite appreciate economic textbooks afterwards.
Open Data requires democratizing analysis of that data
I don't mean this as a criticism towards you personally, but I've heard this same sentiment about remote working and I just don't get it.

I could never see myself accidentally working until 9pm. I understand having a passion for programming/work, but aren't there other things in your life you would rather be doing, like seeing friends, going out for a bike ride, trying a new restaurant, having sex with your GF or wife, or cooking a nice meal? I really don't understand the obsession with work (especially if you're on a salary and don't get paid for the additional hours).
fb doesn't do that. Twitter can follow what fb does. Right now twitter is very light weight, un-cluttered. It can change UI/UX to advertise more. Of-course there has to be value for advertisers as well - which I think is there (350M users).
Why would it be unnecessary?

Because you hear the data volume, the function, and you think there has GOT to be a better way
I've gotten to like Staples' Arc notebooks. They fold over like a spiral notebook, but pages can be moved freely like a 3-ring binder. Downside, instead of holes, sheets have notches in them to keep them attached to the rings that form the binding. This can be problematic sometimes if you keep moving a sheet around a lot, but I typically don't move a sheet more than twice (once to put it w/ related content, again to archive it if I get around to that). And they aren't suitable as pocket notebooks, but I don't consider that a major issue for myself.

But this helps me a lot for pen and paper notebooking. One of my biggest issues with getting a spiral notebook or moleskine-styled notebook is that entries are completely jumbled, organized only by when they were entered. These let me reorder my pages freely as different projects and types of entries are inserted.
This would be an interesting survey.
Debunking Economics by Steve Keen, though be warned, you might not quite enjoy economic textbooks afterwards.
Related discussion from earlier this week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548656
I'm assuming he doesn't want a community with only people he doesn't like nor a community with only people he likes. So he wouldn't move to a service where all the people he dislikes moved.
There's quite the difference between a textbook and an investing book. If you read my comment again, you will notice that I recommend getting textbooks.

Damodaran's Corporate Finance is a textbook. Taleb's books and any other "philosophy of investing" are junk. Some philosophy of investing books provide some value but only after the reader already has quite the knowledge and experience.

tl;dr - Read the curriculum, not amazon's top section.
Yeah, it might be a good idea. A parser plugin to parse valid typescript, and a strip-types stage that strips them out.
To see how Medium would deal with massive DDoS attacks and whether they'd kick Krebs off.