skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would anyone want to buy Twitter? Sure they have a great brand, loyal fans, but pretty much no way to monetizing them.

It's pretty obvious that Twitter has access to tons of interesting data, I just question if it's anything more than simply "interesting". While Twitter is huge, it's not really ubiquitous enough that you can use it for measuring things like effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
Just a question of practice, I found. I was a regular vim user in the past, and this was my criticism of in when first starting out - but after a while I found myself unthinkingly coming up with surprisingly complicated sequences of keypresses. It's possible to get very good at subconsciously sizing up editing operations.

These days I use emacs, and I pretty much always move the cursor using the mouse.
IMO reasonably high testosterone levels is one of the best feelings in the world.

I run a startup and during the inevitable valleys where my self-perceived status is low, my testosterone falls off a cliff.

I've suffered from low testosterone in the past and now that I understand the importance of sleep, diet (greens!), and exercise I can mitigate the drops quite a bit - but status is still a big ingredient.

It has become taboo to discuss the importance of status and sex for male health, but there is an epidemic of males who aren't thriving.
Maybe not official, or even expressed motivation. We humans tend to think high about ourselves (compared to animals), that's why we tend to rationalize our basic instincts.

We channel our hunting instinct in FPS computer games, or professions such as soldier or policeman. We are ashamed of our sexual desire so we developed complex system of rationalizations that we call "love". And we don't want to admit that we enjoy dominating others, so we call the jobs where we are in charge, such as governor or mayor "public service".
If you try and hit your finger with a hammer, your subsequent behavior is undefined. Please do not do that.
I own a 5x. The camera will be the primary reason I upgrade before I really need to. Its mostly decent but occasionally bad: Out of focus (or incorrect focal point), extremely poor in low light, occasionally crashes (not doing anything fancy here). I think the phone overall is good, and I can't imagine using non-vanilla android. But prior to the Pixel announcement (and after owning this and last gen's Nexus) I'd started considering giving the iPhone a try based solely on the camera.
Front end mobile prototyping - high fidelity & animatable
Humans are adaptation executors, not fitness maximizers.
Juggling Databases Between Datacenters
Does anybody know why they have never tried to create a premium version?

I've just googled, looks like they're making $0.55/user/month [1]

I would have totally paid $7-$10/yr for no-bullshit version without ads, focused on user experience instead of manipulating my attention. I bet many other people would too. And I would use it way more actively as a result.

Why do neither twitter nor facebook offer premium/business accounts? It's not like it would cost them users, many people can still use the free ad-supported version....

[1] http://qz.com/131932/twitter-average-revenue-per-user/
You would take a pay cut and there are many in Atlanta who would still complain that you are making too much and be thinking about how they could move your job to a low cost country. I've had conversations with startups "leaders" in Atlanta where they have expressed this sentiment.
When you install, are the apps completely deleted or just reverted to their default installation?
I figure, if you're capable of coming up with an argument which convinces Linus to move away from C, you can use that logic to convince anybody (who is capable of being convinced by logic in the first place).
This is a really good guide.
True but there is more. To go deeper on this you can check Signalling Theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory

Spent, Geoffrey Millers' book is a fantastically good reading on this subject. You would be surprised on how much that theory can explain and predict.
https://www.amazon.com/Spent-Sex-Evolution-Consumer-Behavior...
How many news stories are there every day about a politician or a celebrity tweeting about X? Just because it isn't monetisable doesn't mean it isn't valuable to the right (media, probably) organisation.
That's basically right. linkerd is a proxy that deals with a bunch of operational things like service discovery, metrics/observability, tracing, load balancing, etc. It's a proxy so that you can deploy one solution across all languages/frameworks without having to modify your code to deal with these things.
That's how I discovered "K". Which is usually not what I want, and tends to provoke a moment of "where did this garbage come from and where did my code go?" panic. I'm close to masking it out, but I remap very reluctantly.
This is a niche answer, but you can put them in a VR headset with lenses that spread out the screen over a much larger fraction of your visual field without looking too pixel-y.
Honest question: How does Emacs help with this particular problem ?

I feel like with every editor, it involves repeatedly hitting J, Ctrl+N or down arrow, which is inefficient.
Do you have a way to get to a particular line that does not force you to think too much about how to get there ?
To me this is just ridiculous. ULA is so far behind SpaceX. The whole Vulcan engine recovery thing just seems so likely to fail and they have to wait for the BE-3 and who knows how far out that will be.
I find it very disconcerting that people are trying to fend off criticism of previously published studies by calling it "bullying" or sometimes worse. What do feelings have to do with science?
I'm rockin' both a 6(work phone) and a 6S(personal phone) on the latest and they're doing great.

Have you considered that it may be user error?
Agreed. iMessage handles this great. I was hoping Allo was the iMessage killer. I'm a google fanboy, and this next gen messaging direction by G is really disappointing
What a lot of people miss (including the author) is the time factor. Yes you can bootstrap a business and grow things organically once you have found decent product/market fit. The problem is that it will just take a much longer time until you reach certain milestones than with a VC-based approach.

"There is perhaps no better example of this other way than MailChimp, a 16-year-old Atlanta-based company that makes marketing software for small businesses."

This just kind of proves the point. If you have a company with great product/market fit and lots of VC in the bank you would either reach their numbers much quicker or have higher numbers after 16 years of operation.
Here's the GitHub page:

https://github.com/MicheleNuijten/statcheck

And if you're curious how it works, as I was:

Statcheck uses regular expressions to find statistical results in APA format. When a statistical result deviates from APA format, statcheck will not find it. The APA formats that statcheck uses are: t(df) = value, p = value; F(df1,df2) = value, p = value; r(df) = value, p = value; [chi]2 (df, N = value) = value, p = value (N is optional, delta G is also included); Z = value, p = value. All regular expressions take into account that test statistics and p values may be exactly (=) or inexactly (< or >) reported. Different spacing has also been taken into account.
Twitter going to Google can be there only good outcome.
Boeing certainly has the infrastructure to jump in (I'm assuming)
My best guess, just from observing Google from the outside, is that they have a real problem doing boring stuff. Maintain something? Boring, won't do it. Fix developer-facing bugs in Android? Boring, won't do it (instead, let it sit ignored for 2 years then inaccurately mark the bug obsolete). Document anything beyond some surface-level relatively-fun-to-write stuff? Boring, won't do it. Update docs? Boring, maybe half-ass it and leave the rest outdated, but don't bother to mark it as such. Nitty-gritty work to really support e.g. Material Design? OMG so boring. Port existing library/SDK to one of our other platforms (I'm looking at you Android Maps API)? Ugh, no, I guess I'll do the minimum possible so I can move on to something more fun. Improve performance on any of our many poorly-performing products? BORING BORING BORING, no.
I've thought that Apple has been in a rut or declining for over a decade. Their hardware designs are trite & a little ugly; their UI just is neither attractive nor easy on the eyes; their cloud services don't really deliver privacy and security (iCloud isn't end-to-end encrypted, and iMessage allows Apple to MitM).

At a certain point, one has to ask: why pay the premium? Why not just use Linux?
I sure hope all androids will be able to utilize the Camera app new gyro video stabilization feature
Working Together to make great products
the lack of tilde doesn't drive you mad?

This is built-into my Lenovo Carbon X1 (gen2) keyboard, drives me bananas as I use tilde quite a bit (being home on linux):
http://www.lenovo.com/images/gallery/1060x596/lenovo-laptop-...

What kills me more though is that "Shift" is now caps-lock if you double hit it (because home/end are where capslock normally is). The standard way I wake up a machine when it's locked/asleep/blanked? Tapping the left shift key a few times. ergh.

Should get a gen3, they reverted to a more sane keyboard layout.
What is netflix's competitive advantage? They have some customers and some technology, but the customer's probably care more about the content. They don't own the content. Their own IP is limited. The Studios own Hulu so they are better off licensing their content to Hulu.
You're forgetting some people (like me) don't put price as the top factor. The OP3 is too big, I hate large phones. I also have this borderline allergic reaction to third-party skins after dealing with years and years of Samsung. Then there's the final nail in the coffin - bugs. I used to root and then roll cyanogenmod and there were always these small little bugs that never quite got worked out. I had the same issue with my original OP1, and it appears the same sort of thing exists with the OP3.

If oneplus worked with Google to put vanilla android | a fully supported bug free version | onto the OP3 I'd consider it, but the form factor would still likely be a deal breaker.
yea I don't want another messaging client. I want less apps, less things. Make me more efficient. Its a shame cuz the assistant in Allo is kick ass.
The company's business model is doing testing and publishing (and selling results) the results (as well as selling actual cameras for the iPhone and image processing software).

Their methodology and scoring algorithms are open.

https://www.dxomark.com/About/In-depth-measurements/DxOMark-...

They have evaluated 1000's of cameras, lenses and sensors, and all of a sudden they are biased because Apple doesn't ship pre-production units to get reviewed?

This is beyond pathetic, I love my iPhone but I never considered it to be the king of anything, even as far as the camera quality goes, it was overall one of the best rounded camera's but for quite a long time it wasn't the king.

The iPhone 3/3GS had pretty shitty camera's, like god damn awful, things have started to pick up with the 4 and 5 and the 5 was probably the only period where the iPhone might have been more or less uncontested, but since the 6 there were phones that were getting very close and even beating the iOS devices at certain aspects of the camera, and with this generation things are pretty much dead even as far high end devices go.

P.S.

It's quite likely that their full reports are available to purchase indirectly, this is how many of these niche firms work, this doesn't mean that there is bias, it's just the nature of these things these reviews are extremely expensive.
Likely because people who are willing to pay are more valuable eyeballs to reach. IMHO that's the wrong leading metric to design for however.
How much would companies pay for access to this API?
Hi! Person who hires other people here. I too am self-taught, so I'm sympathetic. But these two things in combination scare me:

> [nine months] professional experience

> just give me a week to look through your website's codebase, I'll figure out how you guys do things and I'll start being productive before you know it.

I get why you think you can be productive. But a person with 9 months experience has no experience with long-term maintainability. Your definition of productive and mine are likely very different. And that you don't know that there's a difference means I can't trust you to write production code. You're in the "hazard" stage of expertise:

http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/04/three-stages-of-expertis...

Novice programmers are great, and I've successfully hired them in the past. But that requires a context where they can work closely with experts who help them improve while keeping them away from doing things that feel productive but are long-term harmful. Left unsupervised, they can, with the best of intentions, be fountains of technical debt.

> the way I think about getting things done with computers isn't tied down to any one specific framework

This is a dangerous way to think. In software, everybody is bright. Everybody is a quick learner. If your operating theory is that you're just way smarter than those fools who have spent time learning something more deeply, you're going to keep yourself from advancing in your chosen work. To me, you come across like this:

https://xkcd.com/793/

> Apparently I should've learned it all `n` years ago, and it's too late now?

Find yourself a context where you can spend n years and dig in. Go make things. Go maintain things. Go find the edges of your knowledge and develop a little humility. Because without it, you're going to have a very hard time successfully asking people to give you a job where there going to have to give you a lot of help.
I can't speak to the Sony phones, but for at least a couple of generations (Galaxy S6, S7, Note 5, Note 7, etc.), Samsung phones have been right there with the iPhone in terms of camera quality. The S6 beat the iPhone 6S+ by about the same DxOMark margin as the Pixel is beating the iPhone 7.

Looking at any sort of comparative review, you'll find that on some shots the Samsung produces better results; on others, an iPhone looks better. Each phone may perform a little differently in different situations -- low light, high contrast, whatever. But taken as a whole, at least some Android flagships' cameras have been as good as the iPhone's for a couple of years now.

Nexus phones have been noticeably worse, but they've also tended to cost 60% as much, so it's not exactly an easy comparison to make.
I feel stupid now, I've been using htop for years and never noticed that...
Are you using a US-QWERTY keyboard layout? If so you're losing "switch case" (~); close alternatives are 'gu' lowercase, and 'gU' uppercase, not quite the same. And, "goto mark" operator (`); close alternatives is "goto mark, beginning of line" operator (').
I'm not defending Nixon; fuck that guy.

I will, however, say that Allende is oft depicted by the left as some universally beloved leader that only the aristocracy despised. I have not heard this from my (many) Chilean friends (and they aren't part of that aristocracy). Also, it is hard to overthrow a leader when they actually are universally beloved. It happens because the people let it.
If I understood you correctly, you are suggesting that the Linux kernel codebase should move away from C. What I missed was your suggested replacement and the rationale for it.

Thanks.
I might have skipped TouchDown at the time, because 1) it does not integrate with the native calendar and contacts (or at least the screenshots imply that it is a built-in functionality), 2) it looks like from Gingerbread era, 3) has separate versions for phone and tablet.

Nine had neither of these issues.
Or if you don't have to use gcc, just -Weverything in clang.
I can see the sunset announcement already.
Google could by them, move the whole thing to AppEngine as a show case product for illustrating how well AppEngine scales.

Any one paying 17 billion USD (or even between 5 and 10 billion) would need to be able to extract at least the same value from the purchase. If not, the buyers stock price is going to take a huge hit. It will anyway if the purchase of Twitter can't be rationalised from the start.

But pretty much anyone buying Twitter would have to kill it in its current form.
> I started FreeRADIUS in 1999. Started making money in 2007.

It sounds like you did essentially take venture capital, and you were the investor.
Terror Management theory (Ernest Becker's Denial of Death) would suggest that these needs are based on the psychological desire to transcend death - making oneself immortal - through gathering not only great wealth and status, but any achievement that would reach past that person's lifespan.
They get removed, not soft-uninstall. Moreover, those apps (docs, spreadsheet etc) were not present initially, I had to install from play store. The fact that, Samsung/LG won't let you uninstall (only disable) their crap-wares is the main reason I stick to stock Android.
Disney owns so much IP: Marvel, Star Wars, Disney. You expect them to come up with that much stuff in 5 years?
I think it's a bad thing that hacker news is so allergic to strong editorialization.
How did you measure your testosterone levels? (Just curious)
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Check out

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutwindprofile.shtml

In summary the peak is highly variable for every storm but is usually somewhere around 500-1000 feet above ground level.

Its not irrelevant that its so high off the ground ... a tree thats uprooted, picked up to 500 feet, accelerated to 150 MPH, and dropped on you might land on you in merely 100 MPH winds, but it'll still be flying at 150 MPH (maybe faster?)

Note there are plenty of broadcast transmitter towers where the top will get winds 50 MPH faster than the surface. 500 feet is only maybe 50 stories for a tall building. So there is some impact directly on the largest constructed things.

"How come the 150 MPH rated water tower survived but the 160 MPH radio antenna next to it collapsed?" well the water tower was in 130 MPH winds and the antenna was in 180 MPH winds at the same time so ...
Can't forget the quality of the optics, either.
Atlanta has the 3rd largest LGBT population behind SF/Seattle and is pretty diverse in general. It's the other parts of Georgia that can seem backwards. Same goes for North Carolina. A person from SF would feel at home in Asheville or Raleigh despite everything going on in the news.
Thanks. While our examples are usually "pull from some device and push to a database", with farmOS we experimented with "pull from a database and push to a device". In this way, pipes are used to transfer state of a device two ways. This depends on a database UI giving users the option to modify the state of something, something that IoT databases like Phant (http://data.sparkfun.com) and Adafruit IO (http://io.adafruit.com) don't currently support.
While I use j and k a lot for local moves, for bigger jumps I almost always use other means: jumping to a mark, searching for a string, :123 to jump to a line, gg and G to go to the start and end. Or, less often, I fold and navigate around the folds, although I'm not a big fold user. I very rarely hit hjkl more than ten times in a row.
Rich people buy assets that allow them to influence the world or simply have it as a trophy. See Bezos and WaPo, John Henry and Boston Globe, Carlos Slim and the NYT.

I totally see someone famous buying Twitter just to own it, or another company like Disney who just wants it to break-even. It has cultural and influential value now separate from profit.
It's a good question. Going down that route takes a significant amount of time before one can expect the first paying user. We've originally funded it out of our own pocket and later raised VC funding for the project as well

http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/07/deepstreamhub-raises-1-mil...
> Pixate Studio will no longer be available for public download. If you still need a copy, grab one here for OS X and Windows.

That seems like an odd choice.
http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Twitter+Inc&job=Software+En...
How do you know your testosterone levels dropped? Do you regularly get tested?
If it's valuable, isn't it monetizable?
Only in the same way that every hobbyist is an "investor" in their hobby.

Let's not pretend that hobbyist tinkering is the same as VC investment. It's not, by a long shot.
>> Does Donald Trump strive to be a president to get more women?

No, he gets the women because of his drive and social status. What the author fails to go into is that females have also evolved to seek men of high social status to father their children. The female genes are more likely to propagate if they mate with such a male, as their children will have similar traits. The other interesting omission is that women seek more masculine men when they are ovulating and less so when they are not - this has been repeatedly shown in studies. So women seek the alpha male for reproduction and the beta male providers the rest of the time.
Right. If you can't handle critique (or embarrassment from invalidated conclusions), don't publish. Write in your diary instead.
> Why do neither twitter nor facebook offer premium/business accounts?

Because it will cause their ad revenue to plummet. The users with money are the ones advertisers actually want to reach, so if you let them opt out of seeing advertising you'll just be left with an exclusive pool of users who won't buy anything. And no advertiser wants that.
Also autonomy. Not having control over one's destiny is stressful and unpleasant.
Profiling Go Applications in Production
How do you get any of that from the linked article? It's a factual description how a large company operates internally, nothing more. Is an article about how an automaker uses robots on their factory lines also promoting socialism? What do think is distorted in the article?
> its important to get [out] of this single-dimension "who was greatest"

That was the entire point of the article. Read in particular the last few paragraphs, noting the wink-and-nod tone...
With a 6s or SE or higher you can shoot DNG as well and compare to what Apple spits out of their image processor. I played around in Lightroom for a little bit and the differences were definitely there.
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Elastic Stack을 이용한 서울시 지하철 대시보드
Steve Jobs/Tim Cook
Ehh, on the Memcached side it was a few contributors (including two major ones, iirc). They're great engineers, but I don't think it's accurate to call them "the Memcached folks".

As far as I know, Memcached's longtime maintainer / primary contributor (dormando) is not involved with Couchbase, and neither is Memcached's original creator (bradfitz).
They target totally different markets. Constant Contact is a superior product for the less technically literate crowd. The hacker news crowd probably isn't their target customer. I think live support is their key differentiator.
Is there a way to hook into keybase? https://keybase.io/ This project looks great, I use Fastmail but would like to have an IMAP web front end I host (I used to host my own stack), so I may give this a go. Thanks for sharing it!
Fitness trackers unlikely to make you healthier
I seem to recall them saying the Galaxy Nexus had zero shutter lag as well. Makes one wonder why this isn't the norm now.
moz.com is a good example of raising bad money. They had an excellent core product and thus a business worth millions, then raised money to try to take over the world. It turns out they couldn't take over the world, so now all they have is the same core product and business they had prior to raising money, except now they also have dozens of millions of dollars of VC preference in the event of an acquisition.

I've toyed with the numbers in my head and I can't make them work; I think they would have been much better off not raising any money.

(I'm just an outside observer.)