skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still am honestly dumbfounded as to how the ipod won. I bought one of the originals. After having 3 of them die in less than 6 months I finally sold the 4th on ebay. Everytime it died I had to pay circuit city $100 to "renew" the warranty. Best I can tell the vibration from having it in my pocket while walking to class was killing the shit hard drives they used in the first gen.

I then bought a panasonic sd80 music player. Used sdcards to store music - I STILL have that panasonic player. I literally had it fly off my arm and bounce off a wall while doing sprints in a gym. Plugged it in and it was still playing. It still plays more formats in higher quality than the original iPod. Congrats on the marketing Apple, it definitely wasn't about having a superior product.

I wish it had won out, it was superior in every way.
http://www.qvc.com/Panasonic-SV-SD80-e-Wear-Micro-MP3-Player...
congrats guys! great partnering with you and look forward to seeing where you dig in with this fund
http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html is still my favorite.
I'm most interested by the umlaut in the domain name that apparently isn't respected by HN. Also a way to restrict your domain name to certain keyboards (easily)?
"Fix the fucking educational system and stop wasting people's time."

America spends more % of it's GDP and more $ / capita than any nation on earth.

America graduates far more people from college than any European country.

European Americans score better than Europeans on standardized testing.

Same for all ethnic groups: Asian Americans do better than Asians, African Americans do better than Africans etc..

The reason America - on average - fares a little lower than Europe has to do with it's ethnic composition. BTW - I'm not saying that some ethnic groups / races are 'smarter' than others, but that literacy, attitudes towards education etc. are multigenerational things, and most Latino Americans and African Americans are only about 1.5 generations fully literate, so it will take some time to fully catch up.

In fact - if you account for ethnicity - America has the best schools in the world - wherever they come in from - they do better than they would have from whence they came.

I'm not saying American schools are perfect or whatever - but it's worth noting that if you look at the facts, they don't fit the whole 'American schools are crap' narrative. It's more nuanced than that.
Isn't there going to be a huge sampling bias? I certainly refuse to eat Carolina Reaper, and can't be the only one.
lol. downvote facts. go hackernews!
alphabet is another one... this is ridiculous
That may be true, but the white Appalachian can learn to switch accents/mannerisms (code switch). A black urbanite (who may already have had to learn to code switch, depending on where they grew up) can't change their skin color.
> Despite your claims about socialization of higher education - which is perfectly true - America actually graduates a lot more people out of college than European countries. A lot more.

A lot of what would be a college degree in the US is done though trade schools in Europe. I also think there are much stricter requirements on what the degree is in most countries, as in the won't fund a lot of arts degrees.
I'm sorry, I must remember it wrong then. I recall that I had the option to buy either of them at the time and that I had to place a preorder for the Jukebox 3, which kept on getting delayed for quite a while. Also, this was not in NA, but a quick search for the original ipod release date in that country didn't yield any results, so I'm not sure if I'm just remembering it wrong and that there was quite a bit of time in between, or if it actually did become available at a later time in that country.
Spending is unevenly distributed. Poverty and drugs have a negative effect. Basically, spending 100 million on one baby born without a heart doesn't save twenty other crack babies.
Silicon Valley goes to Washington
History of Cosmetics
Here in Boston, we're paying the dreadful cost of letting Haiti go to hell.

SOmetimes, I'm in a cab and the driver's confused about directions, and I HAVE TO SWITCH TO FRENCH! THE HORROR!

Seriously, we could let them all in and they'd barely be noticed.
In Marlboro Country, a Big-Money Race for the New Smoke
Interesting - do you have a cite?
Fearing Trump, Bar Association Stifles Report Calling Him a ‘Libel Bully’
How many people does it really take to run Twitter?

If they need more than 100 people I'd be really shocked.
Actually it's worth reminding that it's the opposite that is true. Bureaucracy, paperwork, are the only known ways to reduce gaming and enforce equal access to justice. O boy I hate paperwork, but it's there for a reason, a good reason.
Could it be psychological also? Like a placebo?
Wouldn't you notice the blood...?
Take a step back and you might notice the following:

One side in the war is methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals.

Our media is reporting that one side in the war is methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals.

I'd say the former is connected tightly to the latter.
I've loved Haskell for decades, but not yet had a chance to use it to pay bills. IMO, Haskell, more than any of the 1e3+ other PLs I know, shines in enabling 1) elegant and 2) robust ("better bugs") solutions.

Elegance comes from the non-strict functional part, enabling succent and modular implementations.

Robustness comes from the static typing which forces you to be explicit about the range and domain of functions.

What's unique about Haskell is that the type system is _very_ expressive, making this a practical approach. IMO, the type system is absolutely key to Haskell.

Where Haskell disappoints: Int. For reasons that I still cannot phantom, someone chose to infest a beautiful language that is almost free of pitfalls with the atrocity of a "C-like" Int type. Indeed, in Haskell, this isn't always true:

a < a + 1 where a :: Int

which is a real shame IMO. It fails the largest value of Int (which BTW is implementation dependent). The correct answer would either to have (my preference) Int == Integer, that is arbitrary sized integers always, or at the _very_ least, have (+) fail on overflow, that is, return bottom like head [].
Google buys Eyefluence, which builds eye-tracking technology for virtual reality
Mattermark Daily – Monday, October 24th, 2016
Computer Programming as an Art (1974) [pdf]
Is forty years a long time?
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I'd wager a bit more than that to maintain existing services. But they haven't given up on growth yet, disappointing news doesn't = throw in the towel. If these rumors are true, best of luck to those affected.
Two points in response:

1. The US also doing something does not invalidate my correction.

2. The USSR did this after the US had already done it. The first person who deploys weapons like these can claim ignorance of the issue of children picking them up - at least for a while. The second, much less so.

That being said, both sides hands are clearly dirty in this case.
Garry was one of the first investors in Coinbase and acted as my CEO coach for the first ~6 months of the business, during a very stressful time. He was incredibly helpful to us early on! Would recommend them as a firm.
To people who agree with this post, I have a genuine question: Is it a general principle of yours that the parents' efforts and accomplishments should not carry on to the child or there should be a limit to the benefit? Aren't you ignoring that, excluding historic inequities, rich people's parents didn't grow money on a tree? If Rob Rich's and Pete Pauper's grandparents had the same opportunities, but Rich's used their resources more wisely, made better decisions and fewer mistakes, shouldn't Rich benefit from that? Or is it that you think most old money is tainted? If so, do you have a # of generations in mind beyond which the money should become common good instead of go to heirs?
Welcome to the walled garden of love. At least this walled garden "just works".
And how many people do you need to monetize Twitter?
Why? It allowed navigating up and down. And you could select. A simple plus sign like button did this.
There are more genes in corn than in people. But in this case the count doesn't matter, it's what you do with the genes.
I'm sure glad we don't allow HN commenters to work at the Trademark office.
fusionanomaly: http://fusionanomaly.net/nodes.html

aitrui: http://www.aitrui.com/

deoxy: http://deoxy.org/

levity: http://www.levity.com/

timecube: https://wayback.archive.org/web/20160112000701/http://www.ti...

zero: http://www.t0.or.at/texts.htm

biblioteca pleyades: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/
Though you may not agree with it, a lot of people use crowd funding as a mixture of fundraising, marketing, and market validation.

I'm not sure exactly which mix of benefits FA has in mind, but personally, I don't mind it.

And currently, they've gotten well over double their original goal - which is huge validation that the market likes what they are doing.
It is soluble in alcohol! Now, I don’t know if drinking alcohol with spicy food actually helps the burn, but it can certainly help take your mind off it.
No, it doesn't go without saying and thank you for saying it because every single reply to me has been essentially dismissive. This is what a lot of women mean when they talk about rape culture. And I find it enormously frustrating that no one here seems to see why a woman would feel that a group of presumably all men responding in a consistently dismissive fashion would create a threatening atmosphere that has the potential to encourage bad behavior towards women of the sort described in the article.
Yes a rio. Those were great. And you could just mount 'em in linux without having to go through the dreadful apple software. Way better.
I agree that segment is demanding, but there's really only one box we want to tick:

1. I want to legally run OSX on top-of-the-line hardware.

I don't want a fancy design that's unnecessarily difficult to rack-mount or store anywhere, I don't want to try out new ports while abandoning common ones, and I certainly don't want to be 3 years behind.

A matte black rectangle would be a lot better than this. Why the need to be so fancy, to the detriment of your actual users?
I'm visiting California right now, and this is painfully true.
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This is very cool. CT is a good step in monitoring for CA misbehavior. My employer's users can be target of phishing attacks, so having all TLS certs in CT is a great source of data to detect phishing sites earlier.

I wonder how this will work for "internal" domains issued off a private CA, though. Will this be enforced by chrome, or is this just a CA/B rule?
> Level layouts in modern games (even bland ones like CoD) don't make much sense either, but they're better at hiding it.

Modern games usually feel waaaaaaay less realistic to me because they fall right into the uncanny valley.

You'll have some photorealistic landscape, or some crazy fantasy landscape that looks real enough to touch.

And then the realism falls away because half of the simple doors in the village can't be operated by your character (even though he's strong enough to fight a 50-foot dragon with his bare hands) and there's a 2 foot high fence you can't jump over even though your character is a literal superhuman. And all the characters look "real" but move like slightly creepy photorealistic mannequins.

That always feels a lot less "real" to me than something like Doom that's just the right level of abstract.

The levels in Doom don't feel realistic (compared to any place that exists in reality) but they feel real in the sense that they are tangible, understandable, consistent environments.
Well, either a lot more or a lot less.
Very similar to the people who had to be physically forced to evacuate during the recent floodings in the south of the US, because they felt that somehow they'd be okay.

Humans tend to be very irrational in times of duress, particularly when sentimental things are at stake, like the house you raised your family in.
Because sometimes you're eating some boring-ass flavorless overcooked chicken breast with no skin and you need something to make it palatable distract you from what appears indistinguishable from tough, stringy cardboard. :)

But really, it's just fun. Enjoying extreme spiciness has nothing to do with enjoying food. Think of it as just a totally separate activity.

And I get that plenty of people don't find tongue-numbing to be fun at all. For all I know, there's a gene for it. But for those of us who do find it fun... it's fun!
The Moneygram people should file an objection. There are lots of US "Gram" trademarks.
I've always sort of had this question that continues to feel naive - but I'm not sure I know the answer: why do so many companies feel like they have to grow perpetually? Why can't Twitter just be happy being Twitter, knowing its limits and making a stable profit? Instead it's more users, more VC money, more staff... constantly burning as quickly as possible. There's a ceiling on every business; it's all bound to come crashing down eventually if you don't stop somewhere. Either you do it gracefully or hundreds of folks have to eventually lose their job unexpectedly (very sad).

Is the answer simply that earlier VCs put pressure on the executives to keep growing so they can multiply their investment?

Personally I dream of making a living establishing a patio11-type software business. Something where I can do a high quality job and own all of the decision-making. The ceiling doesn't have to be very high for one guy to sustain himself, and software is appealing because you can automate away nearly all of the "work".
Unless interest rates start to trend up.
Garry and Alexis were early believers in Cleanly and have been incredible seed investors. Highly recommend them if you can get them on your side.
That seems like a logical conclusion
One admirable thing about librarians is the committment to patron privacy as part of their professional code of ethics. They take that stuff seriously; the new Librarian of Congress famously fought Ashcroft over provisions in the Patriot Act that required librarians to violate it (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/15/carla-hayden...).

The Library of Congress has some remarkable collections and APIs available online; it's worth poking around their site (http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html).

They also have an "Ask a Librarian" service that connects you with expert research assistance in any domain, for free, over the Internet. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/).
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But 3,750? Does anyone think Twitter needs that many people? Scale back to the bare essentials and regroup. Clearly the people there haven't been good for ambitious growth, time to shake it up, find a buyer (which will be easier with less overhead), or close the doors.
Ask HN: Good examples of well-written developer docs?
Does anyone have good examples of well-written developer docs? Not just from a comprehensiveness/design standpoint, but more so from a "wow this is great, clear, writing" perspective.
Garry and Alexis have been a huge help in getting Priime started, and have consistently given us solid feedback along the way. I can't say enough how excited I am to see them launch. Congrats guys!
This is the future of computational chemistry. The field of "Molecular Dynamics" could easily be swept aside by machine learning. It is why I switched from running "Molecular Dynamic" simulations as a graduate student to modelling genomic data with TensorFlow as a Postdoc.
Even to grow, does twitter really need 3,800 employees? The site hasn't exactly seen much change in the past few years.
Yes, a long time ago — I forgot what it was called but thanks for the reminder! My 15 mo old at home will love it!
Linux section says it's coming soon.

Android says almost the same in even less certain terms.

OSX not even mentioned.

VS based builds.

Is this really cross platform?
I know this is premature, but I can't help but wonder what the effect of Twitter going under would have on the Bay Area tech scene.
That's not actually true, we invested in their seed round directly from Initialized Capital. Apoorva's in the thread above with a testimonial. :-)
_Every way_?
Couldn't they just not take in immigrants? This seems like a false dichotomy.
You'd think they would have figured out targeted ads by now. If I follow people who post about RF/Microwave, antennas, SDR, and ham radio, one would think I'd see ads from Keysight and Tektronix, but no, it's garbage like football and pop music. FAIL!

I also don't like that I don't see all the tweets from a person. They are pruning the timeline.

Good riddance to twitter.
oh I have some experience with this. The answer is a marijuana grow op - it was my dads place but I don't believe we were ever compensated after the police raid...

Bad tenants are probably over represented in the rental pool since they're looking for a new place all the time.
Let me guess ... you used [a]
I got a Wansview camera and assigned it a static IP and just don't allow any traffic not originating from the chromecasts or tablet -- it's nice because all the TVs do picture in picture with the baby camera.

Still pretty weird seeing the constant log entries trying to reach a couple servers - I've been doing traffic capture since I'd like to see what it's trying to do. One is obviously the plug-n-play stuff, but it's crazy that those packets apparently get broadcast outside the network (? - I haven't really looked into how that PnP IP/port is handled but it's getting caught at my firewall).
They apparently need an army of Social Justice Warriors with gender studies degrees to sit and ban people for "fat shaming" and supporting Trump!
You will grin ear to ear the first time you ride one. Not your typical e-bike experience. Very natural flow as you ride. Gives you just the push you need. You can set how it behaves from the app. Worth the price of admission.
It's not in this post, but this will only apply to publicly trusted roots, not "enterprise" ones.
One reason is the rise of other players.
what is this? qemu?

site nor repo has any description or faq
False. You could certainly get insurance. Even my dad, a 105-pack-year smoker with diabetes, emphysema, obesity, and hypercholesterolemia got insurance.

It may not have been cheap, but it was cheaper than the "insurance" I as a 37-year-old perfectly healthy individual am now paying. >:(
Is there a third party app which would not show promoted tweets? they are so annoying and un related
Medical codes date back before modern computer systems - this is what legacy process looks like.
Cek Point
Agreed -- same worries for the vibration. But for something like light notifications alone...

I'd have to get one and try it out first, though; it seems like a reasonable compromise.
The start of World War II, how Adolf Hitler came to power in the Weimar Republic, why the Nazis gained power and what motivated them to do what they did. I'm especially interested in the "unknowing participants" of the Nazi regime, like Wernher von Braun and Albert Speer. People who basically bought in to the ideal of a better German world and didn't really consider what that might cost in money, lives, and culture.
This just shows that password-based authorization doesn't work for normal (not computed engineers) people and needs to be replaced with physical cryptographic keys. This is a script kiddie level attack any teenager can do and it succeeded.
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facebook wants new users so it came up with free basics shit.
Would you buy a stock that is guaranteed to stay flat for the discernible future? No? Then you have your answer.

(let's not forget that, thanks to inflation, 'flat' is actually losing money over time.)
I think the problem is the mindset. And it's slowly spreading because it's considered rude to challenge it. It's this mindset that leads to unvaccinated children and the use of amber jewelry[0] that's a choking and strangulation hazard on infants and toddlers because amber has supposed magical healing properties. That article is from late 2013 and if anything it's more prevalent.

[0] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/amber-teething-neck...
I'm not confused. Your link shows how DNA is transcribed into RNA, which is translated into protein.

That's not the central dogma; it's the misinterpretation of what the central dogma states, which I pointed out in my above comment.

Please follow the link I gave in my earlier comment. I'll quote the pertinent section here for you:

The Central Dogma: "Once information has got into protein it can't get out again".

Here's a follow-up article by Crick, from 1970 (which he wrote in response to repeated misinterpretations of what he'd originally stated):

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/CrickCe...
Twitter employs around 3900 people total, 2300 in San Francisco (numbers are from some random google sources, so may be off by a bit/time).

In the first quarter, Yahoo laid off 3,135 people in the Bay Area.

Twitter going under would be newsworthy, but I don't think make too much of a splash in the job market -- at least not any more than the normal tides.
Can we talk about Fabric again? Fabric [1] is a product done by Twitter but heavily de-emphasizes the Twitter association -- it's a value-added Twitter SDK that apps can build into themselves and get crash reporting (ex-Crashlytics) and ad network integration (MoPub) too.

In the scheme of Twitter's self-reflection trying to figure out how to cut costs and find what it wants to do, do you feel Fabric fits into it? Do you feel the 'core platform' i.e. the microblogging site fits into it? Should the less strategic one of these be spun out; or should they be less separated?

[1] https://get.fabric.io
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Yes http://ambiata.com/
usually, the business that does not grow is just one step away from going into decline. Do not remember where I heard it from. The idea is that a business has to grow; if a business is stagnating, it's too easy for it to slip into a decline and then oblivion.
My father was a high school director. It was a 900-student school for lowerclass jobs, with... well, many lowerclass situations with students who hadn't necessarily ever touched a phone, in the 80s. Part of the job was managing financial resources and deciding of his own salary. He decided to lower it, because he didn't feel like he needed that much. And he decided to apply it retroactively upon two years. He gave money back to his school. I wonder whether I'm plain selfish for thinking he would have had better credit taking the money (even to give it to charities) than returning money to a public institution. But I find the gesture admirable.
People have answered this before, and what it boils down to is: because they took VC money, and then went public. If you bootstrap a business from nothing and grow it on its own, then sustainable growth and stable profit is fine. But Twitter got VC and IPO money with a promise that it would have Facebook-like growth in return. I think the analogy I saw used was that they promised investors a Porsche and instead delivered a Toyota Corolla- it might be solid and reliable, and perfectly fit for purpose, but it's not what they promised when they took that money.
I'm surprised we haven't seen anything exploiting rompager yet. This is a very widely used web server in home routers

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=rompager
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2861232/vulnerability-in-embe...
Good idea, but I think it will be more useful once more photos are added and categories (and/or search) is implemented!
IIRC, that'd get the apps API access cut off.

But if you want to have fun, keep blocking promoted tweets. After a month or two, things get... "interesting" in terms of what you see. Well, at least entertaining.
That horse left the barn when Microsoft trademarked "Windows". Likely before.
What do you do with your old oil?