skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent about $100 trying to promote my history podcast curation site on Twitter, and only got about 5 hits.
You obviously never used one. It gave you full, immediate control over how fast you scrolled, which buttons could never do. It enabled you to immediately change direction without lifting your finger. You could start by placing your finger anywhere on the wheel, which made it easy to use in the dark, and moving your finger from the wheel to the button in the center was just as easy.

It was, and still is, the best interface I've ever used for navigating through large, grouped lists.
They should. The unlimited pockets of Travelers Express against the unlimited pockets of Facebook. Everyone is a winner, especially the lawyers!
But they had no way of knowing that, and the recruiters were acting as agents of the state. It's a breach of contract.
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If you're building an extensible platform of some kind, maybe, but otherwise I'd use a build system.
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Looking at some of their clients I would say you're right. Thanks!
That is exactly why Apple cleaned up and previous players didn't.

From a technical point, that is correct. From a usability point, it isn't - because it took a previously digital control (button pressed or not) and made it feel analog (just turn the wheel).

And it's much easier to precisely navigate over large distances with an analog(-feeling) control.

Of course it wasn't only the wheel that made a difference, but it was the mindset behind it: Take things that to most engineers are functionally equivalent and choose the one that makes it easier for the user. Or find something that makes it easier for the user.

That is a lesson that many of the products of our industry are still missing. What matters is not only functionality, but how easily and intuitively I as a user can access that functionality.
Sanjay here from Boosted S12. Garry and Alexis and team were one of our first investors and have been some of the best people we've worked with. I am so excited for them and for all the new founders who will get to work with them.
> they're never happy

It's hard to be happy with that little trash can.

The tower models were great. It's a shame Apple stopped updating those.
I just talked to amluto who explained that the race can only be triggered by a write that uses the "force" flag to get_user_pages() (a kernel function). /proc/pid/mem and ptrace() do this but regular writes and process_vm_writev() do not.
Because it was tactile, and allowed for you to spin at higher and lower speeds. Good luck pressing a button with any velocity at all, and I've never seen the "press and hold for higher speeds" thing done half as well. Not to mention that it completely lacks in terms of feedback.

The smartest thing they did with the click wheel after the wheel itself was the little clicking noise they played as you spun it. It made it feel mechanical, and gave you immediate feedback about how fast you were going.
I don't know that they're "liable" in the sense that people could win a shareholder suit- the bar for those is set pretty high and I doubt Twitter would qualify. My comment was more in response to the accusations that the market is somehow being "unfair" for "punishing" Twitter's lack of continued growth. They're only punishing Twitter for failing to meet the expectations Twitter itself set.
To be fair, I doubt the rest of the industry sold more than a few million units.
The only thing that comes to mind is a poor man's Clojure(Script)
One is that there is a much better chance that your user is going to have the font pack already cached.
There's something special about 432 Hz that has nothing to do with how the music is perceived -- if you're tuning the traditional way, by forming fifths above and below A as ratios of 3/2 and 2/3, then a lot of the numbers you hit are nice integer numbers of hertz as well, because 432 is 2^4 * 3^3.

Meaningless in practice, but it makes it convenient to describe the tuning of, for example, a stringed instrument.
You're leaving beta. Any stock that fluctuates with the market is expected to have a much higher return than inflation, and with good reason.
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I basically learned Haskell at my first job (writing a compiler), and it was pretty easy to productively contribute starting on day 1, especially because there seems to be less risk of breakage than in many other languages. I also helped teach it at the next job, and developers found it pretty easy to pick up, just different from what they were used to.

Prior to this, I had some experience using it for hobby projects, but there was a lot more to learn for real-world use. My colleagues and I helped each other learn new concepts and write better code, as best we could, but we did end up making some questionable design decisions. I think you still need an experienced Haskeller to advise on good program architecture.
Well yeah. "They" would be fired, and new leadership would be brought in to do better. When you're reporting to the board or shareholders they run the show. And they want more money.
Why should a meritocracy be individual based instead of family based?

I personally think it's okay for families to give their inheritance/assistance to their children even if the children don't "deserve" it. etc. Working towards bettering your children lives is a reason many of us get up in the morning.
I for one, would be interested in the results of that!
See also: "50 Shades of Gray" :)
Even the word punishing is really too strong. The stock market isn't making a moral judgement. It's merely an estimate of the value of the company. As twitter's growth prospects decrease the value of the company goes down.
I'm not sure if you meant to imply otherwise, but your last example won't (and shouldn't) compile with clang/gcc.

clang++:
error: cannot assign to variable 'b' with const-qualified type 'const somestruct *const'

g++:
error: assignment of member ‘somestruct::moo’ in read-only object
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my people.

got any more?

i posted a bunch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778836#12784417
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Something needs to exist before you can improve it. Continuing along those lines, the initial innovation to bring unique products to market is at least as important as polishing it.
It's murky, and depends entirely on how concretely they made those promises. To me, common sense should dictate no, but to others, it might [1].

(Story covers lawsuit against Twitter for misleading shareholders on user growth numbers).

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-17/twitter-su...
If you would compare the Bill of Rights to the UK system, I'd be interested.
I use Tweetbot on ios and I don't see promoted tweets
I really don't need a lesson on how transcription and translation work. I have a PhD in genetics. I am of course not disputing that DNA is transcribed into RNA and RNA is translated into protein.

In your original post, you state:

Central dogma reminder: DNA -> RNA -> Protein

and what I'm actually arguing with is your description of what the central dogma is stating. Because it actually states

Nucleic Acid --> Protein

My criticism was a technical one regarding information flow, and I wasn't trying to argue against the importance of developmental factors downstream of genes to the production of complexity.

Sorry if I seem pedantic, but we have to be careful with our terminology, because otherwise as soon as someone learns about reverse transcription they write an article saying how the central dogma is dead.
Jonathan Blow gave a talk to Berekley college students a few months ago, complaining about the poor quality in modern software.

He picks on Twitter in one part, showing the graph of the number of employees by year, challenges their claims to the complexity of implementing Twitter, and mocks a UI problem he just had.

Twitter starts at 7 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wra39lwA
I've used one. I find them a little annoying when it comes to selecting the actual song. Not a real problem, but neither was using a regular button.
Well, there is an election coming up. Perhaps consider voting for someone other than a Democrat or Republican?
My Cowon iAudio 7 is still going strong, and I don't know what I'll do when it dies. I like having a standalone music player that plays ogg-vorbis, and presents as a mass storage device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAUDIO#iAUDIO_7
Companies stop growing all the time: it happens all the time, and no company grows forever. A stock price is not just the value of a company's business today: It has future growth and risk priced in. What the stock market has been saying to Twitter is that the public believes that Twitter's ceiling is far lower than we thought in 2014.

In practice, this says that all the bets on hypergrowth were wrong, and the company must adapt: The stock grants that looked competitive before don't look competitive today, so top engineers leave. Staffing plans designed to keep a system operable at 10x of Twitter's current volume stop making sense, so projects change, and people are laid off.

So this has nothing to do with liability to promises (they've already IPO'd), but with the pain of becoming a less promising company. Twitter is too important to disappear in the near term; all you have to do is look at how big they are for journalists and presidential candidates to figure that out. There is, however, an opportunity for someone to make a competing product that fits the same needs and is easier to monetize.
It's risky -- it's hard to compete with 'free', because it takes no money and very little effort.

If Twitter charges even just a little for influencers to post, lots of them will just shift more of their announcements to Facebook status updates -- a somewhat similar feature of the other social app everyone already has installed.

Despite no one platform offering exact feature+UX parity with Twitter, there are several other free platforms that are good enough for people. If Twitter makes changes that make posting on it harder, its still-organically-growing competitors could see an influx of people who will choose to abandon Twitter.
The Economist, for one, has a "The Economist, Once" account that only tweets articles once, when they are published!
Ads. Pretty incredible right?
My recommendation is that your friend contact their insurance company rather than relying on insurance advice, regardless of how well intentioned, from the mechanic's shop.
Didn't twitter say years ago they had a business model plan that didn't revolve around advertising?
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That's what "punishing" means when people use it in the context of stock prices.
Don’t be a crehater
They're shedding costs in anticipation of delivering poor subscriber and revenue numbers this Thursday.

If the stock falls below $10, pretty much any company can swoop in and buy them for a song.
I think that would be a network effect.
As I understand, no. There's some suggestion that small children, usually under the age of 10, can acquire perfect pitch, but no adult has ever been documented acquiring it.

Source: http://www.zainea.com/absolpitch.pdf
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Similarly, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
I thought the definition of one second had been updated to the time it takes light to travel c meters? Although when I think about it, it does seem very circular.
When I was in Shenzhen recently I noted that smart watch shops were everywhere, with literally hundreds of different models to choose from... but very few people were actually wearing one! I believe this will be (er, has) become the CB radio fad of this generation.
Ya I know. I just don't like it because of the moral context that normally comes with that word. I hear you though.
In the US at least, I believe trademarks are scoped to a certain industry or something like that. So Microsoft would only have claim to operating systems named Windows, not the word itself in all contexts. Which might still be a bit broad, but not as crazy as it may sound at first.
As soon as you begin accepting user data, all your code bugs, even those as simple as forgetting to collect some metadata you might need later, are data bugs. And to the specific point about serializing logic being considered harmful, I'm sure https://www.periscopedata.com/ would beg to differ!

Seriously, though, there's nothing wrong with using this for a presentation layer. Define a group of user-selectable client-side filters in a JSON constants document, which will have a much smaller "error surface" than defining custom filter functions. Just because it looks like JSON doesn't mean it necessarily needs to be serialized.

That said, there are a number of inefficiencies in the implementation. Certainly not production ready, but a great effort.
Lots of companies don't grow and do fine.

But if your current value is based on a huge amount of projected growth, then going to "no growth" will be hugely painful for investors, founders, and employees.
I'd say Russia being widely suspected of hacking her and all of her friends to help her opponent is a sufficient explanation for her to talk about.. them doing that..
Nope, appears to be a completely different emulator. Looks to have been initially Windows only, although there's a version for Linux now.
Take another step back:
One side is defending its territorial integrity with help of Russia.
Another side are terrorists receiving support of US/NATO. Why shouldn't former totally obliterate the latter? Because of their big bully ally? At least don't make it looks like human rights defense, this is all propaganda.
I've seen similar XML based approaches for expressing configurable business rules but never any as JSON. Love it
Kolmolgorov complexity, conditional entropy, beach holiday write off.
I taught myself Haskell because people say it improves you as a programmer. I didn't see that, but I have a math PhD so maybe I'm just too familiar with abstract types to gain new insight from Haskell.

As a language, it's sterile. You can tell it was designed by committee.
I bought a SmartTV on woot a couple years ago. The input lag is so frustrating at times as well as random freezes.

I much prefer to plug in the Fire Stick and use that interface, so much faster and easier.

I'll never buy another smart TV. I'm of the mind the OS/Hardware should be agnostic to the display.
Sounds likely to be

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I do not know. And I have no real first person information on Syria except for one friend who is half Syrian who has some family in Homs[1]. However I'm dubious about the 300,000 number since it just seems to be reflexively repeated for years. And because sounds like the number of people escaping Eastern Aleppo is a small trickle. Despite that it's barely a functioning city at this point.

Also there is this.

> While aid groups estimate anywhere from 175,000 to 300,000 people still live in eastern rebel-held Aleppo, it is difficult to gauge the accuracy of figures from rebel territory. For example, Darayya, another besieged rebel-held city, was said to have more than 8,000 occupants. But last week, when government forces evacuated the entire town, they found fewer than 2,000 people still residing there.

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-aleppo-m...

[1] And she of course knows little
As to the first, without seeing their internals, they might simply not have enough ad volume from more niche advertisers to cater to such customers. Everyone loves "brand" advertising because the decision to, say, buy a Chevy is essentially unattributable, and they spend a lot on ads to achieve saturation. By contrast, small "product" advertisers might actually expect to see ROI.

They are leaving an enormous amount of money on the table by not inserting their own affiliate links though.
It's hard for me to understand how Twitter has so many employees when:

a) The site has relatively few major features beyond displaying lots of text in chronological order.
b) The site is so overwhelmingly shitty.

They had a great thing going for themselves years back when developers were really excited about building on the Twitter API and experimenting with it in all kinds of ways and creating great new apps daily. That stopped when Twitter started running wild and harassing devs and making investment into the Twitter ecosystem practically impossible. They could have kept their costs down and just needed a small number of employees to keep the infrastructure up.
Big congrats, Garry. I've been a lurking fan of yours for many years now and this day honestly feels like an inevitability, even though I know it's required a ton of effort largely invisible to me.

Clearly one unique value proposition of your fund is that sweet combination of check amount, time to close, and stage of investment. That's certainly appealing.

But I've learned over time that I care most for my fellow founders in the trenches. I love my people. And with your fund, the people involved – especially those in your portfolio – appears to be a huge draw.

I've had the privilege of interacting with at least a few founders of your portfolio companies and to a person they are all stellar. Fred of Rainforest and Brad and Matt of SendWithUs were all kind enough to come on our fledgling little podcast (thanks again!). And I first spoke to Jarrett of EasyPost as he dove into responding to my support emails; still wear my EasyPost t-shirt all the time!

Some questions that popped into my head while reading:

- One of YC's great strengths is your community of peers. How do you plan to create such a community within your portfolio?

- How strong a hand do you expect to have in guiding your investments? (Trying to get the mental model right of where you'd sit between an AngelList syndicate, a YC, or a full-service firm like a16z.)

- Do you expect to be amenable to alternative exits, for example distributions at some multiple, a la Indie.vc?

- Why are your checks typically in the $500K - $1M range? (Personally not sure my company would need that much capital, so I would like to be careful of being cash rich as much as cash poor.)
But then, I hate having to charge my phone every night... When are we going to have a major advance in battery life?
> When people treat open source projects as their day job everybody loses.

That's a new one. How does someone getting making a living while developing open source software mean "everybody loses"?
> except you are not allowed to download videos from YouTube or most (if not all) the popular video content services.

If you're not allowed to download videos, then how come they show up on my screen? That information wasn't on my device before I pressed the play button.
Thanks. Someone else pointed out to me that some of the advanced features offered by DNS providers, particularly around geographic redirection, is something that is not standardized between providers and so can't be easily duplicated. I can see that - and understand why it would cause you to use only one provider if that was a service you found of value.
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You could also adjust the volume through your pants, at least with some versions. It was just sensitive enough that I could do this with jeans without having to stick my hand in my pocket. Honestly this was one of my favorite features, at least until the headphone remotes.
"Since we sent roughly 80,000 messages to each other in an 8 month time span"

Over 330 messages per day? Is this not absurd to anyone else? Am I not sending enough facebook messages to my loved ones?
I used to be able to handle really hot peppers up in till college and then one day during college completely over did it .

I'm not sure if that "day" was the cause of my increased sensitivity or if I just age related but now I can barely enjoy red pepper flakes. Oh it goes down just fine but later... later I'm writhing in pain rolling around in the bed at night ... and then later on the toilet ... well I think you know what happens next.

As I get older it seems to get worse which seems like it shouldn't. Shouldn't the receptors be more tolerant? Or maybe it is more like allergens where there is a certain threshold and then once that threshold is exceed you become more and more sensitive (e.g. poison ivy does this).

BTW capsaicin does have a theoretical LD 50 based on mice. So yeah if you eat enough it will probably kill you but it is an outrageous amount (~ 50-100mg/kg). You would have to have it extracted to do it (some one actually went ahead and did the math here on how many peppers: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6810/can-you-die...).
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Thanks. Yes, as you say, it's obvious now... but when you consider that each of those DNS providers has their own globally distributed network involved many servers (via anycast), you can understand why people think that one provider is enough.
I don't think we're going to ever be speaking on the same plane of reason in this conversation.
A well-known NJ law among truckers. Do not pass the ice cream truck. You might kill a child.
Not a lawyer, but I’d guess that if a company releases a product in this jurisdiction, with “gram” in the name, and it falls into one of these categories:

“Downloadable computer software for modifying and enabling transmission of images, audio-visual and video content; downloadable computer software for viewing and interacting with a feed of images, audio-visual and video content and associated text and data; computer software for social networking.”

Then that company can be sued by Instagram for trademark infringement. It seems overly broad; I wonder how it would affect, say, Telegram.
> How many people does it really take to run Twitter?

Given that the Salesforce buyout fell over because Salesforce didn't want to be associated with the alt-rightists and other assorted neo-Nazis running around the service, apparently more people in their abuse team than they currently have.