skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right. I was thinking yesterday how much I wish there were comment sections at the bottom of news articles that consisted of twitter posts (like how facebook has plugins for a comment field). It would make sharing the article or commenting thoughts very easy.
Doesn't vertical integration increase efficiency, when properly executed? Integrating legacy computer systems almost invariably leads to greater efficiency.
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Kind of surprised Facebook is not interested or at least there's no news of Facebook being interested. Facebook already owns social networking, messaging and photo-sharing. Twitter would fit nicely into this portfolio as a niche for breaking news. Plus this would be an amazing opportunity to build an integrated user profile across all these platforms.

Wonder what the DOJ and the anti-trust guys would think of this though.
It you can't monetise it, then how valuable it that data really? It doesn't matter how valuable your product is, if no one is willing to pay.

Perhaps the gossip magazines should pool their money and buy Twitter?
They became the defacto place for public discussion instead.

The focus on 3rd party api's hindered that and would have hurt their growth in that regard maybe?

Journalism happens on twitter first, it's where famous people talk to each other, not facebook, yeah?
The article seems to acknowledge Silicon Valley is good and prolific at startups to the point of metonymy. SV is the standard way, and so you get descriptions like "Un-Silicon Valley Way" instead of say the "Atlanta Way" (another startup from Atlanta called Coca-Cola appears to be doing OK too ;))

But why does this article have this tinged negativity toward SV? Why not just highlight MailChimp's success without the jab on VCs? Clearly both VC or bootstrapping approaches can work for a company (though both approaches fail in the majority of cases and journalism is in love with survivorship bias).

I'm not in SV, but it's obviously the place important innovation has/is/will be coming from (and some crap too). Innovation and growth is needed and should be encouraged in this economy.

Just frustrating to see big journalism knock SV for no reason.

Better story: "Chimps and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make it as a Primate".
I don't really disagree with your overall point, the arrows keys are not horrible, but I think for beginners removing all arrow keys is the best approach. I used vim for a while just relying on the arrow keys, and it wasn't until I disabled them completely that I really started to use vim. If I left them on in insert mode, I would have just ended up using them that way, just due to muscle memory.

I'd also add that if you remap Esc to something more manageable, leaving insert mode for a second to move around starts feeling a lot more natural. I still do get where you're coming from, the arrow keys do have a time and place. But since I do all of my moving around in normal mode, leaving insert mode to do it just 'makes sense' now and I really don't even have to think about it.
We humans tend to think high about ourselves (compared to animals)

What makes you think animals don't think high about themselves?

We are ashamed of our sexual desire so we developed complex system of rationalizations that we call "love".

Humans developed love? Seriously! Did we also develop gravity? Love is a universal (read: not limited to or developed by humans) attribute that we express to one extent or the other.
> Once you know window functions, you risk putting them all over the place

Agreed.

A few years of writing expressive, powerful, performant SQL in big blocks will really change your mental model of data across _all_ languages.

I highly recommend a deep dive into the relational world, and I feel super grateful for the SQL-focused job I held previously. Brought those lessons back with me to both FP and OO.
Or maybe it's just your perception of it. I still have fun referencing Zombo com and Teen Girl Squad on a regular basis, and find doge just as entertaining.
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For better or for worse we've got "terrorists" as the boogieman for the foreseeable future. But it's a good thought.

I just don't see Boeing being able to do this. They've gotten fat on US government defense dollars, they're not going to be able to do anything outside the ordinary, because they'll risk losing those sweet, sweet defense billions. That is, if they can compete with SpaceX,the Air Force will ask why ULA can't do better while it's on the Air Force nickel. That will cause Boeing to shy away from any innovation that the Air Force doesn't overpay for.
> The Great Wall Of China

...originally was mostly made of rammed earth and wood; it was rebuilt using brick only during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The Great Wall that tourists take photos on today has very little in common with the primitive Wall of two thousand years ago.
You only have to go back a couple of Presidents to get to one for whom that motivation isn't so far out of the question.
...but please, for the love of Mike, don't ship source code with -Werror.

There's nothing like the experience of trying to fix somebody else's code which compiled fine on gcc version 8.97 but which now fails to compile on gcc version 8.98 because the new compiler has some new warnings, which it's now treating as errors, and now fails to compile.

...and you've got stuff to do, and the program isn't even broken.
Even in their own product, they kept deemphasizing the messaging aspect of it -- from small things like timeline filtering & reordering to large things like Moments.
I'm surprised they didn't start something along the lines of Reddit Gold. It could have possibly helped cover some of the costs.
I'll definitely give this a look.

I've been making posts every time this comes up and no one has been able to answer, or even quantify, what 'formal methods' where. The last time someone tried to sell me on them was accompanied by the pitch that "it means that your code proves itself that it's correct and that you will never have a bug ever"

Naturally I laughed at that as I can see someone peddling bullshit when I see it.

Do you mind if I email you about this powerpoint after giving it a look?
I was talking about mobile, connected to your phone number, a la What's App.

But that's exactly my point.
With MSN it would should have been so easy to put out a good mobile app and capture the market.
Musk is a savvy businessman before anything else. He would prefer to not have competition.
Nothing comes without a cost.
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-- I can't imagine a worse actor in the IP space than Disney

Why do you say that? Just curious.
Last few clients were from those posts, and I'm really happy with them. Right now I would say it's one of the best sources for leads/clients.
The difference was that WhatsApp was about execution with a small team. The Atlanta way would have been to hire 2 engineers and then a army of marketing people to sell it.

It's a shame because there is a lot of potential, but the leaders concentrate on the marketing of the community instead of actually developing a better community. Lots of cargo culting with incubators etc., but not a lot of large wins. There are pockets of awesome in the town, but Atlanta is more about who you know and your image, not the substance that has made runaway successful tech startups.
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This is what an RSS reader does.
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The eminent public american philosopher Tony Montana worked on this problem and, I feel, has the final word on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ7HZATMKBY

More seriously, most male/female social differences can be explained by the fact that women can have perhaps ten children in a lifetime, whereas men can have ten children in a day. Therefore the base sexual strategy of males is "many", and the base sexual strategy of women is "best". Men, therefore, must strive very hard for "best", particularly in winner-take-all societies. Lifelong monogamy attenuated both of these tendencies and, in my opinion, is the bedrock of civilization.

One man and a thousand women is a potential civilization, whereas one woman and a thousand men is a horror movie.
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Just editorial control over the line of "what's acceptable here" is a huge power to control the boundaries of debate.

That power can be used to make massive amounts of money.
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Why share things that are not freely available on Internet? I don't want to subscribe to read more...
Or... or... they are waiting for the portrait mode to come out of beta. Just a thought.
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Still Twitter is the fastest and the least spammed medium to follow the cream of your / any technological industry: follow just a selection of very relevant influencers or firms and you are done, you have a live coverage of news and issues. Neat and passive.
The theory is that most VR games target the 970, as soon as you find yourself in the 10X bracket you should be all set. I was using my DK2 on a 660Ti+2600k just fine. I demoed the setup at work with a few games (mostly DiRT and NoLimits 2). Out of the 30 or so people that tried it, only one person felt uneasy.

One thing I'd definitely recommend you do before purchasing a VR setup is demoing it for a decent amount of time. If you're susceptible to VR sickness, that's $800 down the drain.
Note that d2wi and c2w are not exactly equivalent: d2w will consume trailing whitespace after the second word, while c2w will not. FAFAIK, there is no exact equivalent of d2wi using c. I usually end up using c2aw, but that will also consume any word characters preceding the cursor (not a problem for me since I usually navigate using b and w).
Yeah, that might not totally fit in the point I was making on compliance side. It does fit into overall picture of answering losvedir in how they'd be collecting and searching everything in real-time. The next order might force a tap on the cables on the inside. Much like the "pen register" Lavabit was going to have to add.
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Well, I though the 5x used the exact same sensor and software as the 6P. I guess I was misinformed.
Exactly. This isn't even subjective critique, it's math. Your math is right or it's wrong. Lastly from what I can tell there isn't even any value judgement attached, simply a notification of incorrect math.
Very impressive. I had no idea the software had gotten this good. Thanks for the links.
I was at the event, and this 'vow' didn't really come off as a vow to beat Musk.

We all know about Musk, but Muildenburg is someone worth checking out. His story is about as classic Americana as it gets. Raised in the midwest. Parents and grandparents were farmers. Trained as an engineer and then went to work for Boeing right out of school... I think he said what he said because he was just trying to share the room's enthusiasm to do big things with our future. Besides, he just might be right, so it might be worth taking a look at him.
From the article:

"In earlier societies where marriage did not exist..."

I could stop reading right there. There are essentially no known human societies, past or present, in which marriage does not exist. (Possible exceptions for a few very small societies in highly unusual situations.) Marriage is considered a human universal by anthropologists.

But a bit further on:

"This study looked at research being done on 33 nonindustrial populations (nonindustrial = pre-marriage, pre-contraception)"

You're seriously equating nonindustrial with a lack of marriage? You understand that the industrial revolution was less than 200 years ago, right? And that people have been getting married for all of recorded history?
Twitter should be owned as a worldwide co-operative at this point, it's too useful as infrastructure to hand it over to some greedy jackasses.
I was agreeing with you :)
Well indeed such coordinate systems exist but you've still got the cost of translating a large body of cartography into them.

Plus as pointed out by another commentor the number of KMs around the earth is not a round number, so you need to do some fudging to get a metricised spherical coordinate system (and you want a spherical coordinate system because the 60th of a degree = 1nm equivilance is very useful for simplfying the mathematics required for navigation).
It's hard to tell if this is sarcasm. You are aware that Allo has been widely criticized for its deep message inspection when outside of "incognito" mode right?
My understanding (at least for Europe) is that since neither Twitter or FB charges 'users', there is no market which they are considered to be monopolising.

Of course they are in the advertising market, but there are not dominant there.
Monetisation usually implies end users paying for a product. I don't think Twitter will ever get to that point. But a media company like Disney (who, remember, own ESPN) could absolutely capitalise on the value of Twitter for live sports, for example. It would be valuable to them.
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We actually just updated our article with latest data in October. It looks WAY worse for every single country.
Can you uninstall Google Play Games, Google Play Movies & TV or Google Play Music? I have a Nexus 5X running Android 7.0, and it appears these can only be disabled, not uninstalled.
OMG it's a match made in heaven...
I've had it tested. Now, with some experience I can self gauge by how I feel.

I do not take exogenous testosterone but will be open to it as I age if healthy lifestyle can't keep it up.
So why aren't Twitter profitable? Because Jack Dorsey is a nice guy, or not smart enough?
"The impossible is possible, at zombo-com"

Which led me back to "End of the World" and a bunch of other Flash animations. Back when Flash was used by animators and not advertisers and malware authors.
I actually updated our article with new data from October. It looks WAY worse for every single country.
At least the Windows one is the function I wasn't willing to assert exists. However, it does not appear to have the "a lot of other stuff in that snapshot which is not [linearizable].". The resulting structs[1] are missing many things that ps may want to display in Linux, which you will have to fetch nonatomically.

The OSX one, I don't know; I scanned over the docs and it went over my threshold for what I'm willing to poke through for a HN post.

In other words, this is exactly what I left myself an out for, and I see nothing that contradicts what I said for the Windows case.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
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Who conducted these studies and are any of them public?
I got put off on using twitter for so long. It was till probably 8 months ago I started using it. And was able to get over their character limit. (which was mostly my reason for not using it)
> Yes and no. There are pictures you just cannot take without a zoom - you can only zoom with your feet if the subject is on a path where you can actually walk.

Well, if you want to get that pedantic the longest focal length lenses Canon makes aren't zooms, they're primes ;).

If we're talking professional photographers all of them are going to be using two bodies(aside from the craigslist specials) simply because having your one body die on-shoot is going to make for a very unhappy clients. Like a parent comment mentioned earlier, this dataset looks shifted towards the non-professional dataset which is important to consider when looking at the data.
Objectivity is listed as a problem with science curriculum. Welcome to the future.

http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2467&co...
By fostering a larger talent pool competition insures a dynamic long term future, lack of it it often leads to creative stagnation. This is the case in natural systems as well.
Email requires all participants to play nice and write their emails with subjects and quotes in a manner that other people and their mail clients can work with, read and understand.

However, many clients have different defaults and many people have different preferences.

Do I quote above or below? Does the subject line start with RE:, RE:RE:RE:? Maybe my client is setup in a different locale and the reply is prepended with SV: or what have you. Maybe a participant hates RE: and removes them from the subject line, or write the subject line as the main point of the reply.

I've never been able to setup a client to show me what is going on on a mailing list or show me nice tree structures that could help me follow the different branching a discussion goes off in. I often get mails in the middle of a discussion and can't trace it back, and read the thread from the beginning. And it is every client for himself and I'm the idiot for not having everything setup nicely and everybody else is smug about it.

The nice thing about closed standards is that all clients follow the same rules. When you click reply, you are replying to that message, no matter what you write in your subject line.
That seems to be mantra for a lot SV companies. Grow fast make the original investors some money and then sell.
I don't like Cython very much. I much prefer CFFI or Numba, which have none of your stated problems.
There is a good chance you are right, but Bret Taylor works at Salesforce now and presumably he'd end up running it in some shape or form. That gives me some hope.
Not anymore. Check out our new data. Just updated the article in the same link.
Disney has been illegally replacing american tech workers with H1b Visa Holders for years now. I was making a smart ass comment about that, but ya it makes no sense for them.
One wonders about her opinion on the cost and benefits simulations that lead to the Affordable Care Act.
Right. I guessed and I guessed wrong. I've seen them do it so many times that I jumped the gun.
How would you monetise the backbone? At least with the website/app they can use advertising.
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> looking forward to open on GE, FR and US very soon

You mean DE? Because GE is the code of Georgia. You're very welcome, though... ;)
> dedication

We would not be talking about this if it were a number of unmistakable volunteers quitting after running out of dedication. Add 200$/month and you get a situation where both sides are prone to confuse a bit of thank-you-cash with an actual job.
For secure messaging, I trust QTox and properly vetted Onion-aware applications.

Pretty much, if a for-profit company offers it, I can only assume it will be used to the fullest extent for their profitability. And they will, depending on popularity within... certain sectors... heavily leaned on by the US government to provide secret access to their database.

Technologically speaking, that's why I have more innate trust for things like Tox and Tor. It also makes me a very interesting target for "lists". But, whatever. I've done nothing wrong (and not like you can prove otherwise :) .
no, its was Grow Grow Grow IPO Profit screw the bagholders
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Tell HN: Chrome is ignoring a major usability issue. #EndTheFlashbang
The white flash between page transitions on Chrome is killing my eyes. I use dark themes on every app and website that supports them, and every time I click a link in Chrome, I have to close my eyes to avoid being blinded by the white background. Why hasn't this issue gained more steam:

http://superuser.com/questions/580228/prevent-white-screen-before-loading-page-in-chromium

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/Rmd8IyUjG68

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=119871

Issue after issue gets closed. I want a setting that allows me to set the background to black. I don't want a work around. I don't want an extension. I don't want to edit a CSS file buried in Chrome's temp files. None of those solutions are appropriate for a general user.

Anyways, clearly opening issues for this isn't working. The biggest issue I see is that this is an issue that affects users without them realizing it - you just get eye pain and you don't know why. I'm curious if we can gain any traction, so I started the hashtag #EndTheFlashbang. If you agree, please tweet your support!
That only works if there are many types.

I work with molecules, expressed as molecular graphs. The algorithm development I do is mostly graph manipulation, with a small number of types. For example, given N molecules, find the largest subgraph (in terms of the number of edges) which are in at least k of them.

Or, think about computing an FFT, or clustering a data set.

Types add little to how to think about these problems, so TFD provides little structure to this sort of algorithm development process.
Let's hope the bidders will factor in 'change of control' risks because depending on who buys it those could be substantial. Twitter is one of those companies that may be worth substantially more or less depending on who is bidding.
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Two weeks ago my clickbait blocker was posted on Hacker News and people were kind and thought it was okay. So now I'm posting an enhancement to google and bing searches that I just built. It allows you to do things like sort your results by fewest ads or to see what frameworks the website behind the result uses, etc. The code is open source so if you have any issues or feature requests, you can submit them on my github repo.
We are using uWS for our platform which is completely written in native C++.

I haven't tested the scalability to a million clients, but I have no reason to doubt it could handle it.

On the other hand, I have tested with 20k clients each sending 100 x 128 byte messages a second.

So I've tried pumping 2 million messages a second through our platform (which is at the envelope of my expected load), and the server just sits there and takes it. At these levels saturating the network interface is the main issue.

I've also tried it in single core, 4 core, 8 core and 20 core threaded configurations. Everything works as it should and contention is quite minimal.

The ability to achieve that over WebSockets is largely due to the work Alex has done (and continues to do) to squeeze every last ounce out of the stack.

As far as I'm concerned uWebSockets 0.10.0 is rock solid and at the point where using it in production is totally fine.

I can totally recommend it.

Congrats on the release Alex and thanks for the lib!