skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah and eventually Diaspora will overtake Facebook. Oh wait...

If the VC model did not work it would have simply gone out of business. The reality of business is that doing things at larger scale requires capital. Sure you might be able to pull-off your lifestyle, but its going to be hard to motivate employees when the VC funded competitor gives them michelin star chefs, 50% higher salaries and a shot at windfall in few years. Sure twitter might be laying off few employees now. But before that it made its founders billionaires and several employees millionaires.
My ancestor's neighbor attended then (one of about 20 or so students in the Harvard class of 1655 of whom about 2/3rds droppped out in protest over a 4th year being added to the formerly 3-yr bachelor's degree) and ran up a pretty large bar tab across the river in Boston but not in Cambridge itself, which wasn't much of a party town, apparently. (And I'm not kidding about any of this.)
Yum a really good British mild too.
I personally try to avoid interactive pages. Most of them seem to be built by people who hire psychologists with the goal of preventing you from doing other things.
I've come to realize that to cope best with a long flight like that, you have to be well rested and have had enough food and so on. You tolerate stress much better if you are well prepared.
But exactly. The so-called OO languages are worse at the key tenets of OO paradigm: polymorphism and message passing. I didn't even attempt to clarify that in my original post so forgive me for that.
People LOVE being sold things/ideas they agree with.
e.g. How many people tune into to Apple's product announcements?

People don't like rasping attempts to change their mind.

The key to selling is that it should never feel like "sales", as the listener understands it.

Many here will argue that Apple's announcements aren't really selling, they're informative, exciting, useful, keep one abreast of the latest, useful to know in the space. etc. That's perfectly executed selling: I'm _not_ being pitched. I'm deciding on my own that this fits my wants and needs.
Actually, it's not that much of a deal. You will barely notice it. The whole transrapid ride from/to the airport is a bit.. underwhelming.

For me, Hong Kong and especially its skyline was much more futuristic and fascinating. If you've never been there, go for it!
Sorry for the late reply: I'm definitely not afraid of travel. In afraid of traveling to another country in order to meet someone who has just tried to scam you.
There is a difference between 'having a degree' and 'being educated.'

Maybe you did make it the way your dad showed you :)
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Looking through the code it supports fuse, but the documentation in ENG is sparse. It also looks to underpin Tera: the Baidu distributed DB.

I think a low read/write latency dfs suitable for real time applications would be a game changer. I'm hoping they up the documentation from here and engage the English speaking community.
More generally, visual simplicity will be penalized. As an example, http://jsbin.com/milelocito gets a score of 0.011, and http://jsbin.com/fejevatihi a score of 0.035.

The site timed out while trying to calculate the scores, so I had to do it manually. The respective sizes were 3377 (html), 283130 (png) and 3323 (html), 92815 (png).

This example is a bit contrived, but you'll see the same effect for more subtle decorations as well (e.g. box-shadow, ...).
It's rather badly explained, but it seems they've developed the Schottky transistor, using a TFT manufacturing process. Conventionally TFTs are slow and leaky compared to a regular CMOS FET in silicon. It sounds like they've greatly improved leakage, although I can't figure out where they say this in the paper. This makes printable low-power circuits more plausible.
I used to live in Barna for a couple of years. Now in Berlin :)
> However, Ballmer was simply inarguably an effective CEO from the perspective of investors.

Reasonably effective, but not inarguably, since investor basically care only about one thing only: RoI. Under Ballmer's reign, the stock generally remained flat. Microsoft paid dividends, so investors still got some RoI, but not even close to what they could get on Apple in the same era.
Under Nadella the share prices went up by 50% (100% really if you count from when Ballmer announced he'd be leaving), so Nadella is inarguably a more effective CEO for short term investors by several orders of magnitude.
Nadella's strategy may be slightly more risky, so Ballmer might be an arguably better CEO for risk-averse long-term investors.
Sad. Algiers was a good place with a nice atmosphere to sit and read for a few minutes. I'm not too worried about the Square loosing it's feel though - new places will pop up and develop their own lore.
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> I have competition, and this competition continues to expand.

Fallacy is here.
Oeh, I should trademark 'inter-' and '-net' and then profits. Sounds silly this 'gram' thing. 'Instagram' I can understand, but not just 'gram'.
I don't really have any insightful input into this other than to say, I hope they're cutting the people they most likely don't need.

Twitter is the only social platform I actually like and still use, and the only thing that could replace it would be similar but decentralised and as widely adopted.

Why / where are they failing - are they failing? I know more people on and using Twitter than ever, many of those have left other aging social networks after finding them irrelevant or too invasive of privacy.

Twitter is simple, Twitter is what it is and it doesn't try to be more than that, it does what it does well and it always has done. This - I enjoy in a product.
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
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Presumably because they've got algos so awesome that you can't replicate the performance and that their training sets (by virtue of being a public service) are much larger than you'd be able to obtain yourself.

I share your scepticism though.
my original iPod still works to this day, of course I haven't used it in ages.
Title edited to fit 80 characters. Real title:
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Twitter a billion dollar company, a social network used by presidential candidates and tens of millions of people is a niche?? Do you understand the dictionary meaning of the term "niche" if anything Twitter is opposite of it.
i wanted to write awesome too, so i'll be more detailed :)

Seems (have not tried it yet) awesome because:
- another big party offering such software, the more choices the merrier for the users/sysadmins
- sandboxed
- scalable to 10k nodes
- no single point failure
- ssd and traditional disk usage via the disk manager
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While the implementation is not optimal (favors photograph content as PNG is not going to win JPEG here; overall favors pages of few colors) the idea is actually quite decent.
> Many landlords are happy if you want to paint the walls etc., though.

Many landlords scam tenants into "refreshing" costs of the apartment. The cost of the lawyer to litigate is accidentally of the same order of magnitude as the cost of the "refreshing" so many tenants just give up (unless their daddy is a lawyer).

> The deposit has to be put on a special, locked bank account. The money can only been withdrawn if both sides tell the bank in writing that the rent contract is over

Not in high demand areas i.e. any major city including Berlin.
"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
Apparently (can't find the article I read on it) the noise would be much less of a problem today.

The magnitude of the sonic boom is relative to mass, and modern planes are being built lighter and lighter (to save on fuel). Something like a 50-seat mostly-carbon-fiber super sonic aircraft at 50,000 ft might well be perfectly fine to fly over land at Mach 2. The smaller size might also help with the problem of empty seats. As well, ideas like wings that change shape/angle for different portions of the flight could also help.

Someone just needs to put down the R&D money and take the risk to build such a plane.
Lifetime first class ticket by American Airlines would allow you unlimited flight on the concorde?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAirpass
Right wingers and conservatives wanting smaller government and fewer powers is a complete myth in my opinion, especially looking at the last few decades of western democracies and republics.

Abortion laws, vice laws, surveillance laws and increased law enforcement powers to name a few things. Just look at the Republicans in the US. They are the antithesis of 'small government'.
This sounds like a kind of library utopia I'd readily pay for. But, from my experience in the UK, our libraries have evolved from a quiet reading/reference resource to 'everything for everybody' places that are the exact opposite of what you describe.
If it's a high composite number is all you need, then why not define 440 Hz as any highly composite number of your liking, ignore the SI-related-fractions and don't worry about odd ratios anymore. Or is this more about an issue with cumbersome input on digital (tuning) devices?

Just to pick two:

45360/100 is not that far away either

55440 (a superior highly composite number, 2ˆ4 ⋅ 3ˆ2 ⋅ 5 ⋅ 7 ⋅ 11 ) would have a built in Base-10 mnemonic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_numb...
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I like that it references itself under 'Miscellaneous'.
The 200ms default reaction time in the simulation is wildly optimistic. I remember 1500ms from rider training and http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/reactiontime.html seems to bear that out.
Possibly another example of the common mistake of web developers - extending "don't put business logic in views" to "don't put logic in views". That leads to invention of the silly things called "template languages", which desperately try (and fail) to avoid being programming languages, and they create a mess because they manually glue HTML (which is a tree) from dumb strings.
It needed to be refueled right after takeoff, before it had gone high altitude. In part because it never took off with a full fuel load (to limit strain on the machine and risks in case of takeoff flameout), in part because the fuel lines were literally leaky on the ground (to allow for thermal expansion, and because the fuel was used as coolant and fuel lines ran throughout the machine) and in part because the J58 had been designed specifically for high-speed high-altitude operation, they got more efficient with both speed an altitude as they switched from turbojet to ramjet regime. Sub-sonic SR-71 burned fuel like nobody's business to say nothing of takeoff itself.
Thanks very much for your informative and comprehensive reply. It's a complicated system, but I understand the reasons behind that. HN is such a (relatively) high-quality forum, and it's interesting to me how that's partly because of the underlying software, and partly because of the policies and how the community applies, and is governed by, them.

Let's terminate this off-topic discussion here! :)
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no, but it was a pretty significant event that essentially shaped today's phone and tablet space.
It has sentimental value to some people
I'd very much prefer script bloat calculator.
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As someone who used to spend a lot of time working from a coffee house when the library was much closer:

Libraries have no food.

The need to be quiet sometimes makes me uncomfortable (I really go to theses places for the background noise anyway)
Yeah, whether it'll pan out is in question but it makes much more sense for non-commercial business jets than for regular flyers.
not really, you just click the button 5 or so times after first boot and it works.

usb-c hubs and ethernet adapters are everywhere and all 3 of mine work perfectly.

If anything, the annoying as !@#$$ nvidia optimus switching that I still haven't got working on ANY distro is a show stopper / waste.
WhatsApp is a simple, single purpose app.

It's not a complex engineering problem at all. Maybe it could be if it were done in the year 2000. It is not nowadays.

[Granted, there is still work to be done to make a decent product, they had great people and they executed very well.]
It was Gen 3 that introduced the 30-pin Dock Connector and Windows compatibility by means of USB in April 2003. My sister still has a working unit she uses almost every day.
Oh, no problems, thanks for saying thanks! If you have any questions feel free to ask and when I notice my comments I'll reply.
I'd be very, very careful about deciding on regulation. The industry has done very, very well for us with no regulation whatsoever.

The state of the industry also changes so fast, it's hard to see how regulation could even be relevant.
A lot of Japanese websites are the same. All the navigation buttons are images for example, I found that quite a bad experience over slow wifi!
The keyboard is the best laptop keyboard I've typed on OTHER than a Macbook Pro / Macbook (I like both the high and low profile keys in different ways) which I think still are the best I've used.

The touchpad is SO much better than most windows laptop touchpads, even smooth movement, good 'finger texture' (never thought I'd say that!) in linux current with the new libinput replacing the synaptics driver two finger right click only works on touching the pad with two fingers, not with clicking the pad with two fingers, but I haven't looked at it as it doesn't bother me at all.
> Of course, making it usable is often the hardest part and adds the most value for the consumer.

As someone that considers UX and a user-centric approach to technology as their "edge" compared to most technologists, this is what keeps surprising me - because honestly it doesn't seem to me like it actually is or should be the "hardest" part at all. Compared to something like, say, solving differential equations, then I'd say that it seems fairly obvious, trivial even, to practice basic empathy and ask simple questions like "What could an average person get out of this technology?" and "How many of the technical details could we handle automatically so people don't have to bother with them yet still get most of the benefits?". At most I'd say it's the last 10-20% of the work on top of all the hard work on the tech (not because it's a small amount of work, but because the tech that comes before is so hard and time-consuming). But the company that gets the final part right gets most of the rewards (Pareto FTW!). Yet for some reason this tends to be different companies, doing the ground work and successfully commercializing the tech - why is that? Is it that hard to foster both a deeply tech-oriented and user-oriented culture in the same company? Is it too costly to invest in building expertise in both areas, so companies tend to choose one or the other? Is it because B2C is much higher risk than B2B, so it attracts a different kind of entrepreneurs?
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Ruby and Rails in 2004. I'd been a Perl developer for 8 years till that point but had basically given up on building anything substantial with it and was transitioning to being a freelance writer. Ruby and Rails got me straight back onto the development track and had a huge influence over my successes since.
Too bad that the documentation is so poor...
Having PRs in Chinese is not ideal either.
If anyone wonders where the odd NTSC frame-rate ratio originated from, Matt Parker (standupmaths)
did a comprehensive video, with some original write-up on this recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GJUM6pCpew
It is honestly easier to find some ingredients in Oslo than Trondheim from what I've heard (and easier here than in the smaller towns) - probably simply because there are more people there. I find the Norwegian stores to be hit and miss on them: Sometimes Meny has birds eye, sometimes Coop has jalapenos (at the larger stores).

"Norway is a horrible country for food" .... It is a great country to live in if you want to vastly improve your cooking skills, though :)
There are several reasons why inflation might be lower than the rate of depreciation. For example not everything is imported, not all cost increases will be passed onto consumers and some retailers will try to recoup costs by having less sales and offers.

The CPI is also unlikely to be able to capture hidden inflation, such as using cheaper ingredients in food to offset currency depreciation.

These are just off the top of my head. Calculating inflation is complicated.
thats what you get in IE 6 society
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more info from their filing[0]:

> During the twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, we recognized $682.1 million and $631.6 million of expense related to stock-based compensation, respectively. As of December 31, 2015, we had unrecognized stock-based compensation expense of approximately $1.25 billion related to outstanding equity awards

[0] see page 47 https://investor.twitterinc.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=15645...
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> What often kills companies with slowish growth is that they lose their best people to other companies with a more dynamic environment.

Till the best people get tired of stuff everchanging and breaking, combined with the lack of resources and the 70 hours startup week.

Then they drop the 'dynamic environment' and come back to Big Goompany :D
Advertising is a great model.

Twitter's problem is that their ads don't work very well (compared to Google and FB), and their audience isn't growing.

Both of these things are solvable.

It isn't at all clear why people think there needs to be a new model. Advertising has worked well for hundreds of years (newspapers/radio/tv/internet) but it needs an audience. Twitter nearly has this.
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Are these added added to the database as needed, or did a (group of) bureaucrat(s) make these up in one sitting?
Yes, this is exactly the interesting part of the article. I didn't know Apple originally considered making the iPod Mac only. It doesn't seem like a far stretch to imagine, that it would have significantly reduced its impact.
Is there a site or software that allows you to really convert your site to an image map?
But before that it made its founders billionaires and several employees millionaires.

Without ever earning a penny in profit for its shareholders. What a system!
Not that I'd possibly remember the details, but in 1992 / 1993, during my freshman year in High School (living in 312 as well), I visited a new HS friend at his house and he showed me his array of 6 or 8 modems running a BBS.

By that point I'd only tried out BBS once or twice from my old Laser 128, and didn't really get it. After my new friend invited me to hook into his BBS, and I found all this great stuff to download and try out, I was hooked. I feel like that's where I first learned about the Anarchist Cookbook as well.
And the Vulcan. Beautiful sound, beautiful plane.

Its said that once a USAF pilot saw the Vulcan manoeuvring and remarked that it was awfully big for a fighter...
The problem with the moon is that it's being constantly bombarded by small rocks - anything you place on the surface will be eventually hit. So you want to bury things - and that's a completely different scope of problem than just landing things on the moon.
Computer vision API seems pretty shaky outside of very basic object recognition:

Royal Coat of Arms, "Two giraffes with a book."

Astronaut above earth, "A motorcycle mirror."

Twin towers behind statue of liberty: "A tall clock tower towering over the city of london."

Che Guevara: "A woman wearing a hat."

The emotion API doesn't seem as shaky. Presumably because its a better defined problem with a smaller search space.
Why hasn't this been discovered during earlier MOTs? You say the car is out of warranty, so I'm assuming the car is older than 3 years, so it must have been through MOT test before, right?
> 440 actually sounds better

I'm curious how you can tell. A double-blind test spaced a few minutes apart (enough for you to forget the frequency so you couldn't tell if what you were hearing was tuned higher or lower than what you heard on the previous trial) would be interesting.
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Because Twitter has received investment on the promise of eventual profit.

A low / no growth model is only feasible if they don't have investors / shareholders bucking for returns at every decision point. Twitter, has made a deal with the devil in becoming a publicly traded company because at some point needs to show their stakeholders a path to profitability. Job cuts, cutting expenditure whilst hopefully maintaining profits, are a good way to demonstrate this.

If Twitter wants to become a public internet utility, like wikipedia, existing investors will demand something like a share buyback, how will Twitter afford this without a period of profitability?

Finding a sugar daddy to buy them out is one option but the recent sutors probably felt that twitter stock is overvalued, largely because of the lack of profits.
Why would I commit my breaking, work in progress experiments to a branch? Isn't that what stashes are for?
Thanks. I saw that gitless has the option -p that is documented as allowing to select parts of a file to commit. I'm curious to test that. It seam possible to reshuffle commits using `gl fuse` which is a kind of `git rebase`, but there is no interactive mode as with rebase.

Just found a limitation in gitless. I can't publish tags.
I guess thats a given with the amount of ease and fast prototyping that it provides, it had to have taken a lot of decisions beforehand for you...
> But the reason git beat out the competition isn't git's excellent UI or large marketing budget, it's that those features actually provide significant value.

I tend to think that the reason git beat out the competition is github. It was the first VCS hosting service that actually provided a sane UI that enabled non-vcs-experts to at least observe what's happening. github doesn't provide an interface to a lot of gits features and so do the github-provided native clients, but they are sufficient for at least 50% of the population that I know. Many people don't know and/or don't care about all the other power_features that git provides.
Twitter makes ~$530M/quarter from advertising and ~$70M/quarter from selling bulk access to the Twitter data stream.

These are revenue, not profit numbers. They spend a lot on people.
But I mean day to day how's is this reinforced. Is there some kind of subtle bullying or gaslighting going on?
Why is it always a bad idea? For example there can be content that is triggered by rules and these rules need to be edited by non-programmers. Furthermore these rules need to be evaluate in different execution contexts (in our case in Android and iOS) This is a situation that requires describing simple logic alongside data.
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What will happen with certificates from internal CAs?

I created a CA. I imported and added it to the trusted roots. Very useful for development.
In the UK there is still a lot of this, even though healthcare is centrally funded and (somewhat) centrally administered.

I worked briefly with a company doing medical transcription. It opened my eyes to how much billing-related paperwork goes on in hospital back offices.
Just my IMO - takes a bit to learn the basics but it's good enough, move on to more important problems such as privacy, security etc...
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