skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but I think you're considering Twitter to be a media company, like a newspaper company? If so, I don't think that comparison is accurate so there'd be no conflict of interest really.
The I is Emacs. It adds a heapload of tools on top of what's already there, integrates what is already there, and is a frankly awesome enviroment. It has most of what you described, but it starts faster than an IDE, and is generally better: I don't think and IDE will be beating Paredit and Slime/Geiser, or JS2, or gdb-mode, any time soon.

Not to mention, compared to most IDEs, Emacs is trivial to extend. You know those really simple plugins that provide a tiny amount of incredibly useful functionality? Yeah, we have those, but most of them are so trivial to implement that they're just snippets you can copy into your config. Once you get the hang of elisp, you can be writing real, useful commands in a matter of minutes. Sure, not the big stuff, but still things that matter.
> Why is it crucial if it's just a "5 second google search"?

Because you can't google every single symptom. And sometimes the symptom is only mentioned very briefly in passing. And sometimes the patient is hiding the symptom. And sometimes the important piece of information isn't a "symptom".

So, you need to have these in your head so that you can connect the dots to "I thought it was X, but new data Y suggests it might be Z. I need to go push on abdomen, put stethoscope to stomach, right now while patient is sitting in my office." A good example of a non-symptom that would go into your diagnosis--patient just got divorced and started dating again ... hmmm, STD's are probably back in the probability pool again, might want to check for one given the other symptoms.

Where computers are useful, but, sadly, we don't have good implementation is spotting localized trends. If one person comes down with Karposi's Sarcoma, that's an anomaly. If 10 people come down with it, that's a problem. It would be good to have databases with data from multiple doctors so that we could let the computers spot those things.
> LA is literally sucking them dry with the aqueduct

Those alfalfa farms where the entire crop is shipped off to China are a huge chunk of the state's water usage. The Central Valley could also move from almonds and other water-intensive crops. If it was just vegetables and tree fruit it wouldn't be so bad.
Disregarding what they say, 98% of humans live as if "human life is worth more than animal life".
Diversity of experiences and opinions are good, in my opinion, because they allow problems to be approached in ways that I wouldn't otherwise have considered, if it was a singular mono-culture.
I've just come to accept that my ISP and their backbone providers keep a list every server I've ever connected to. That google keeps a list of everything I've searched, every video I've watched, every link I clicked, and every ip address I've logged in from. That my phone maker, my service provider, and google keep a list of every GPS coordinate I've ever visited. That facebook keeps track of every picture I've looked at. ...

And I accept that a high enough ranking employee at these companies can view this information at will. And that the US government has a copy of all this data too.
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Are you sure "fortunately" is the correct word when comparing unfavorably to Facebook and Google?
...exactly. So there's computing power to spare.
Does google fonts' css include do this directly? It's been a while since I've considered it, but would be nice to see a font-famly 'NotoSans' and 'NotoSerif' that has all the unicode ranges spec'd.

As an aside, I'd love to see something similar in a fixed-width font (where the asian block characters are double-width)
Damn it, I even looked it up because I was unsure. But the German word Ebene translates to plane and plain and I missed that.
> The question remains whether any company has an incentive to make a product that is not designed to fall apart or become obsolete.

What a patently ridiculous question to ask. I can't even fathom how the writer thought it up, but I can only imagine they must have gone into a coma immediately afterwards. It's a question in the way "I wonder if elephants can fly?" is a question.
Gotcha.

I don't know anything about the value of customers that dont pay yet. Obviously they have a value but no idea what that is. Twitter good good valuations without making money because of very fast growth. Slow growth and people not paying money? Not sure.
FYI, this doesn't merge two _sorted_ lists.

The correct answer would be to loop while neither list is empty and always put the smaller element into the new array and remove it from the original list.

Then you iterate over each of the lists individually (one of them will already be empty) and copy over the remaining elements at the end.

Edit: See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5958169/how-to-merge-two-... for some solutions (in one of the answers there, they made the same mistake.)
It's a combination of education/credit card access/disposition against toll (EZPass guesses the numbers to pre-fill for you, people on tight budgets can't have $50 randomly disappear from their debit cards). Some people are driving cars they don't own.

There's other stuff that's less acceptable - suspended licenses/old registrations/out of state drivers can't keep their EZ pass up to date. There's also a decent amount of Americans living a cash-mostly lifestyle. Many many americans blackballed from ever having a bank account because they let one go too deep in the red.
Sort of but again no. He problem is if you have really wide coded stripes your I/O costs to reconstruct after a failure will be astronomical, and the probability of one failure increases with the number of participating devices. Besides you could not reshape the stripe in response to anticipated failures without reading and writing the whole thing, in which case you'd be better off in terms of I/O costs just evacuating the device in question.
Git is just repeating all the same mistakes all over again, just when it looked like things were starting to maybe get a bit better. I'm amazed you're citing that as a positive example.
Google made a study in 2007 that stated: "SMART models are more useful in predicting trends for large aggregate populations than for individual components."

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Even in the USA eradicating corruption is difficult. Can you imagine how difficult it would be in a country with a culture of corruption and much weaker rule of law?
I believe recently they moved some stage ahead with English for Korean speakers, but it seems to be taking forever :(
I'd bet cold-E-mailing could actually work, but how do you find comps to guesstimate the cost of the business if it's not for sale and not much is known about it. I could imagine E-mailing CLOSELY_HELD_SMALL_PROJECT I think I could run better and getting back, "Sure, I'll sell. We generate $5M in FCF and I'd take 3X that!". Me: Uhhhhh, aww shit.
But diversity in tech usually revolves around skin color, gender, and sexual orientation.
I really want to know the model behind this chatbot
I'm sorry that happened but I don't think it's indicative of some trend in the industry.

I've been a minority almost my entire life. Most of the issues with being a minority are not really present on software engineering teams. The demographics are too widespread.

There is no in-group. I would estimate 50-60% of software engineers are immigrants. That group is further segmented by country of origin. Everyone is different from each other.

Country of origin transcends both gender and race in terms of shared experiences and commonalities. American born people of all races and gender are more likely to befriend each other than to befriend a person who speaks broken English.

This diversity on software engineering teams minimizes the effects of being different because everyone is different from each other.

Software engineers also tend to be more introverted and immigrants are more polite (due to unfamiliarity with American culture).

For people to make inflammatory comments and get away with it, they need to have allies and be part of an in-group. These prerequisites are much more difficult to fulfill as a software engineer.

Software engineering is one of the best professions to be a minority in.
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Trying to think of a better way to get this info without code.

I like talking about how testing works. How code review works. How deployment works. I think those all tell me more than I would learn looking at the code.

Could they lie about test questions? Sure. But I am sure they could show you cherry picked code that lies also.
Right. And obviously the plan is that we would be ramping up growth with these iterations. Of course, that means someone with more money than us also has to believe those plans will work.
> Scalia, groovy, kotlin

Mentioning Scala or Kotlin on a CV says something different than mentioning Apache Groovy does. Scala and Kotlin are statically-typed languages designed for creating applications, whereas Groovy is for scripting, e.g. tests and builds.
Only certain types of information. It's not a great way to display, for example, a comparison between two similarly-edited movie trailers. Or a map of Bremen. Or the annotations on your 2016 second quarter financial sum-up spreadsheet.

The big problem with the entire Unix philosophy is that it assumes all important data is text, when in the real world very little of it is. If you're one of the few people who can get away with text-based everything, it's great. If you're the vast majority of the population, it's a terrible idea.
Do you (or anyone else) know of a book in the same spirit covering the more recent Unix tools?
Hm, they've been caught before for trying to do something illegal; they are not allowed to give any form of discounts as a turnpike on the federal highway system. (To prevent perverting the cost structures to in-state user's advantage.)

Are they not going to charge fees for these paper bills when paid on time? Can one pay one in cash and without needing a stamp? Even if they've sorted those two out, a third of people not paying and that being made up in fines makes it sound onerous which is against the spirit of the rules.
I can only speak for myself, but as one of the founders, I don't regret a minute of the time I've spent building RethinkDB.
What's the hidden message behind being late to an interview?
If you're going to hate on something almost universally respected, you're going to have to explain yourself.
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With solar panels and LEDs you can shift the spectrum of incoming light into the ideal range for photosynthesis. My understanding is that this outweighs the conversion losses.
Oh shit. I just failed the interview then. I'm just not that smart, more of a code monkey type, not really a mathematician computational type programmer. I want to be better, but I think I'm just cut out for line of business type things where you don't need any CS knowledge even though I will have a CS degree soon.
The interesting thing, is that the laws are being passed by your elected officials, not a lobby group. Yes, I know the lobby groups bribe the lawmakers, but why do voters allow that to happen?

Why not take those lawmakers to task?

Voters don't seem to care, really.
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Computers are better at diagnosing when the problem is very specific or low/counter-probability.

So, let's take heart attack diagnoses in emergency rooms--a fixed procedure laid down by following statistics is WAY better than human judgement.

Generalized abdominal pain--computers aren't so good. There are a lot of possibilities and most of them are about equal. The doctor is more likely to tease out the problem over time through conversational randomness.

Some obscure genetic disease--a computer is going to be FEROCIOUSLY better than a human. A computer can keep all of those .00001% options in mind as tests and diagnoses rule out the far more common problems until the low-probability things pop up into statistical relevance.
It's really hard to prove discrimination on a small scale, both majority male and majority female companies are probably recruiting from their employees friend network, so it is very possible that neither is discriminating on the basis of sex.

Meaning, they are hiring in proportions which are consistent with their applicant pools, those pools are just different because of friend networks.

People that study these things always take a macroscopic view and talk about sexism/racism in the industry in aggregate and rarely in any specific company.
Yes. If you see that dive gallon bucket of blood in the photo? I made bood sausage with it.
>What does such juvenile rudeness accomplish?

If a few more people were genuinely afraid of being humiliated for blindly cargo culting google's hiring practices it might go out of fashion quicker.

At least, that's my hope. Which is why I usually tease people for doing this (yes, that upsets them).
This is an advert, right?
Why has it been on the front page for hours, YC funded?
I think the idea is that as the speed approaches 0, the energy cost also approaches 0.
For me - in 3D computer graphics. Check out SideFX Houdini, Maya, etc.

It's incredibly fun, engaging, and satisfies both of my drives, for creativity and for technical stuff.

When you're a digital artist(generalist), in one day, you can write a python script, experiment with rendering and shaders, draw a sketch, animate a character, whatever you want.
I personally love the work of C-C Shan¹.

Read "From word to sentence. A computational algebraic approach to grammar" by J. Lambek. Your university library should have a copy, if not press the issue to your librarian.

Start though with Smullyan's "To mock a mockingbird".

These suggestions reflect my taste. Art is a language, so understand how language is studied and use it to approach art.

If you're serious about the art part, make sure you make art, or at least dissect art you like using the formal tools you're introduced to.

Have fun!

¹http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/ccshan/
> Bear in mind that this was at Google, and these were candidates who had already made it past the first line filter.

Are you sure that Google's first line filter is actually good?
Founders get too much credit: A thank you to the team behind Paribus (YC S15)
Implement bubble sort? That's a terrible question.
Beef commands a premium if it is labeled “grass-fed” or “naturally raised,” but the Department of Agriculture withdrew oversight of those terms in January and no longer verifies such claims. Even in cases where the U.S.D.A. does certify labels, the rules can be slippery. The term “humanely raised,” for example, has no standard definition, and the U.S.D.A. does not conduct site visits to confirm enforcement for those approved to use the label.

In other words, the industry has been given the power to police itself. What could possible be wrong with that?

The USDA is supposed to be monitoring these guys, but is now working with them to make sure that no monitoring takes place.
“I want to stress the importance of being young and technical,” he said. “Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30? I don’t know. Young people just have simpler lives.”

I imagine that lawsuits not far off.
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> Call me old fashioned, but I think it's important to know what words actually mean [...] To quote Thomas Stoppard

It's also important, when pretentiously namedropping a writer and bragging about how you actually read them (all to win a pointless internet argument about a throwaway 'sarcasm' tag) to actually know that writer's name.
Do your due diligence with financial statements. Any business will file taxes and any corporation will additionally have income statements, balance sheets, etc.
Shame...you could've just dismissed the popup and not missed out on an interesting article, it's same energy expended but with a nett gain instead of your loss. A small price to pay for BackBlaze willing to share interesting stuff like this and hardly the most egregious examples of this type of thing. Also these types of complaints have been done to death here over the years and are really, really tedious. Please complain to BackBlaze instead of trying to take this thread off-topic.
Actually, I was wondering the same thing (circumventing TOS).

>Exceptional
How? Shyp is nothing new. These services have been around for ages (Pitney Bowes, more recently Stamps.com, more recently than that Shipstation, Ordoro, the list is fairly extensive) and these terms have been around for just as long. If you want to use UPS in your app, better get used to playing by their rules. I bet we see a change very soon in the way Shyp presents pricing to the end user.

>If you're big enough...
eBay and Amazon both do NOT show side-by-side cost comparisons for shipping services. Neither do ANY of the established "apps". Big enough for you?

>Small
Shyp is below the radar as of until right about now.

As for the execution of the app itself. Why print an estimated delivery range (Fedex 1-6 days) when the exact date is available through API? Sometimes Fedex Ground is cheaper but a day slower. Price of delivery isn't everything (Prime has proven that abundantly).
> vi + shell + standard utilities + what I build

That is good.
Can you tell us, what exactly did you build with "vi + shell + standard utilities + what I build"
I have discovered over and over that most genuinely good things are created by one smart person. After that person creates it, then the masses can run with it.

Bittorrent is a great example. All the pieces had existed for a while, but Bram Cohen put them all together into one place. After that, lots of people created other BitTorrent clients. However, without that first, smart person, it wouldn't have appeared.
Which is a very, very good proxy for diversity of experience and opinion.
this is HN, so i was talking only about systems admin and nuts-and-bolts development, but i would also argue that in all of your examples, having a terminal in addition to the other display formats would help convey more information as well as offer a better command interface. a good example would be autocad which has the drawing window but also a powerful terminal (i believe it was lisp-based) that you used in parallel.
I don't remember the timecube website saying that people should be exterminated?

It called the author the wisest human and such, but I don't think it called for extermination? Did it?
Many locations have too high a population to feed locally, and eating locally appeals to many people. LED farms in basements could help with that.
Exactly. Limits only become reasonable when they're meant to stop you from uploading hundreds of megs worth of data and monopolising resources. A 1kb password or even a 1mb password supplied by a tiny fraction of a percent of users is not going to make an impact on you, but can provide that small group of users with a massively increased piece of mind.
They resist the whole parent / has selector avoidance with incremental rendering and performance issues.
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> a few billion fickle users

If Twitter actually had a few billion users it would be pretty valuable. IIRC it has just a few hundred million.
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"Yeah, and when are we going to see subsidies for buggy whips?!" -Confused Author

I'm not sure how else to interpret this article; are we supposed to buy shit for the sake of buying shit?
OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center
Thanks for the answer. Do you know why they changed the scheme after the initial upload?
The problem is, say you have developed an app that is on par with Slack.

You launch and are trying to grow your business.

Then Slack shows up and is giving away a similar product because they have VC money to burn. How do you compete?
So where do you draw the line? Should there be one computer company, one car company, one airplane company, one movie studio, one agriculture company, etc? That's the natural conclusion of your logic. Either you add a bunch of special cases (that doesn't work in X, Y, and Z industries, or in country A's economy or culture), or your logic is flawed. And if you add special cases, you have to justify them.

So either you think that there really should be one company per thing (for whatever definition of thing), in which case that's a whole 'nother ballgame, or your theory is logically inconsistent.
We get that.

We also get that they are shooting themselves in the foot like all social networks before it.

If they want to IPO and buy data centers and acquire a bunch of other burgeoning social networks while creating new features in the core product in a desperate attempt to "increase engagement" driving people away faster, then thats the exact route they are going on and we've seen this story already.

From a consumer perspective, I and others hope they find a way to buck the trend. The real answer for them, and all these companies, is that they don't really need their engineers, designers and product team anymore. In the mean time, consumers will have to put up with the inevitable bloatware.
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Facebook IPOd at ~$100B with annual revenue of roughly 4B. Snapchat is estimating 2017 revenue at 500mm-1B so it is not much different than what FB IPOd for. While the comparison of FB and Snapchat may not be the most valid, I still think it is worth noting that the Snapchat valuation isn't exactly unheard of.
I have huge respect for Evan Spiegel. So many others, like the Instagram and Whatsapp guys took Facebook's money and folded but Spiegel went for it creating one of the rare new successful independent social networks. Bravo.
There is nothing about text streams that prohibit tools from understanding whatever language you're writing in. Unless you have an very interesting compiler, your IDE is processing text, too.

But also, you seem to believe that somehow communication between applications is somehow limited to pipes, which makes the comparison inapt.

Ignoring the category error (text format in a data file vs. server application + storage), please explain what your IDE does that cannot be communicated over a socket? Or dbus (oh god please don't, but the point stands)?
Isn't that what the pipe operator is for?
I forget where I read this, but someone once talked about how a new standard can't just be "better". Instead it has to be _a lot_ better and probably even bring a lot of really good new stuff to the table, otherwise not enough people will bother switching to it.
That's a great attitude and you all have so much to be proud of. You did something and made something pretty cool.

Good luck.
About risks, the article notes:

> Github would improve its Issues product and render Codetree irrelevant

That seems like a very large risk, especially given GitHub's progress to date. How will it be addressed?