skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue might be that Boomerang has taken on Vine's role here, and is more suited on the back of close Instagram/Facebook integration, whereas Vine is quite separate from Twitter.

Focusing on getting something like this into Twitter itself might be a better bet (though I suspect Facebook has it wrapped up for now).
How relevant is that metric given that users will predominantly use the mobile app?
Most miserable people also exist in miserable conditions where there are not that many chances for them to enjoy something or access to a philosophy that allows them to do that.

Please have a bit more empathy for your fellow man, and remember that nobody tries to be miserable on purpose: something must have went really wrong along the way.
I believe he was referring to Vine in the second part of his comment, not Instagram.
http://sub.blue/ is an amazing gallery of unique fractal art.
"[I]t has no power supply or fuel; it is merely a metal sphere."

There's something beautiful about that.
Okay, but are you testing every 'down' command on your prod DB? Large untested operations in prod may not be the best answer in an emergency.
It's just ridiculous that you have to jump through so many hoops.
This sums up most government jobs. Also, the job security is an added bonus. When was the last time you heard of the government having a mass layoff?
Because biology does not stop? The older the parents the riskier having kids becomes.

The last time I looked at science there was no vow of staying childless required.
What We Know about Cloud Market Share
I was comparing it a little bit to tech. I had a friend graduate from college and get a very respectable five figure increase in his offer for converting him to full-time by looking around at other companies. I don't think he would have gotten it without looking around though.
Legacy PHP code has an "Error" failure mechanism where the process just ends or execution jumps straight to a global handler function.

There is ongoing work to deprecate and remove it in favor of actual exceptions, which travel up the stack and are much easier to clean up after.
I agree, but surely as a public company there needs to be some kind of vision somewhere :)
Headline: Single theory solves 5 physics problems including 2 of my favorites, dark matter and inflation

Reality: Some scientists invented fields/particles to fit what we already know about inflation and dark matter

Prediction: Neither of these two particles will be found
Comparing abuse on Twitter and other platforms is like comparing Mt. Everest with Twin Peaks.

On Facebook and most other social networks, at least the subject of harassment can at least block the perpetrator, and refuse to friend an alt account. Since the primary use case for Twitter is to have public tweets and open replies/mentions, blocking a user making death threats won't solve the problem; they will just open a new account and flame you from there. On Youtube, there is less reason to look at the comments; a celebrity can focus on the number of views as a metric for success.

The reach of abusers on Twitter is far greater than on other networks. Add to that a lack of defined communities, as in Reddit, Facebook Groups, and other message boards: there are no community moderators on Twitter to react to harassment and the posting of personal information.

I see the handling of abuse on Twitter as a hard problem that will take a mix of pattern-matching algorithms for brigade detection, machine learning on tweet sentiment and content (doxxing, death threats, other TOS violations), and least scaleably, a large pool of tier 1 support staff to act on recommendations to ban users.
I run Windows on my MBP and MP, and it's a better experience than running Windows anywhere else I've seen. Since I install Windows from MSDN there's no bloat. My son uses it on his MB for gaming, and it's perfectly fine.

It's been said the best Windows laptop is a Macbook and I totally agree with that.
I think this has potential!
Are people really interested in seeing how the sausage is made or just politicians?

Sure, the average slightly-more-technical-than-thou person gripes about Google and Facebook being biased, and in some cases they're right, but ... would they actually be capable of discerning the truth correctly?

Or would they just be more overloaded with more information?
What about during deployments? You run webpack on the server before running collectstatic?
The "principle" could be "I won't let you manipulate me". It has some virtues.

But the "principle" could also be "I don't do business with people who lie to me". That principle seems likely to save a fair amount of trouble.
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but one thing that worries me about MobX is that it seems leakier than Redux. Something that I really, really care about is that a well-architected React application should hardly care what the data layer is. The bulk of the application is comprised of dumb/presenter components and only the handful of container components know anything about Redux.

Things like this (from the docs) make me nervous:

const TodoView = observer(({todo}) =>
<li>
<input
type="checkbox"
checked={todo.finished}
onClick={() => todo.finished = !todo.finished}
/>{todo.title}
</li>
)

TodoView is a dumb component that operates simple data passed via props, but now it needs to know that it's an observer and presumably rely on some facet of MobX to work?
Google Assistant launches official channel on IFTTT
We also use a bootstrapping view for our single page app. It sounds like your application is multiple pages or make a request for every "page"?

The nice thing about react router and client side routing is you can have a very clean separation from your backend data model and your actual UI/website.

I would agree that react router is like a 1000 pound javascript routing gorilla.
Hands-on with the Surface Studio, Microsoft’s first desktop computer
Uh, not really. To start with, it's physicists on both sides in this case.
DataEngConf NYC: 2 day conf bridging the gap between data engineering and data sci
SAP H[y]bris V6 P_HYCD_60, Study Guide with Mocked Exams
Yeah, I'm more and more tempted to do it. But I do also debug in XCode, and I have a base resistance to relying on a personal hack project in my professional life.

...but, so tempting.
CACROS: A Context-Aware Cloud Content Roaming Service [pdf]
I don't think we'd have many kids at all if everyone waited until they were ready.
Commercial surveillance is far more intrusive and damaging to privacy than anything Western governments are doing.
This is really annoying. I don't and haven't ever used vine, but how much could it really cost to keep hosting it, and let people continue using it? Why can't companies be okay having products that are revenue neutral that make people happy?
Token based auth is stateless, so your first assumption stands true -- no need to join them at the hip.

I've tried working with tools like Djangular and whatnot, and no matter how many times I've tried working within that ecosystem, I've always had better results, cleaner and simpler code by keeping the UI and Backend completely separate.
But git rollback is something you get for free. These 'down' commands have to be written and tested.
You can turn those off, or ignore them. Either way.

Windows, by default, will kill your machine and reboot it to apply patches, will install them when shutting down, and generally goes out of its way to be as annoying as possible. You can turn this off, but it's a lot harder to disable all the update settings.
Thanks for the feedback and closing the loop. +1 for transparency, congrats!
I'll share mine: http://cabada.mx

It's a grid of all the "cool" personal projects I've made since I started coding.
Big companies are not foolish. The information asymmetry exists because it is benefitial for them to keep it that way. Then again the asymmetry can work in your favor as well.
First, I apologize for the reddit style. I deserve the down votes, which I will happily pay. Using a position of power to force employees to divulge personal information really pisses me off.
To elaborate on this "production grade" comment, Quantum is using the same code that's in Servo. I think the fact we were able to build a production grade style system so quickly (and that is 4x faster!) is a testament to the advantages of Rust.
What I wouldn't give for a Mute button some days.

You know that Good Will Hunting scene, "It's not your fault"?

I wake up to my inner voice saying, "It's all your fault. It's all your fault."
> The way it is opened as a command prompt, in an unresizeable window (unless you fiddle with the settings every time), with no possibility of using shortcuts for copy/paste.

God yes. Windows shell folk use ConEmu the same way everyone on OS X uses iTerm - see pheouk's link below.
One thing that bothers me: Much of the value calculation assumes the seats taken by these lifetime pass holders would always be 100% utilized and never empty. I don't think the opportunity cost is nearly as high as the article states, but I think that AA losing tons of money is more a result of other poor financial decisions than issuing around 60 lifetime passes.
Governments can't innovate but can absorb a ton of risk (like waging war levels of risk), Businesses can innovate but really cannot take large risk.

When a government absorbs risks by spending on research it can have businesses do the work on the promise the benefit is shared. Christopher Columbus finding America and the companies that launched Apollo both worked this way. It seems to work well in practice.

It is hard to say that we would definitely be this far without Government spending. It is reasonable to make a case we could never leave the planet without an Apollo like initiative. How would the space industry would have gotten started purely in the private sector? Its not like they could have contracted the launches out, there were no launch companies. I don't hold this extreme view but I can see how it could be held.

To go to the most extreme view I can see possible: It is entirely possible that without that spending humanity wouldn't have GPS. It is also possible a foreign power that was hostile could have GPS and use it in war against us. With a few tech changes like that in the worst of these scenarios there could be enough tech lopsided-ness that MAD never worked and one side could have ruined the planet with nukes during the cold war.
Failures in Community Clusters: The Case of Conte [pdf]
The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) Won’t Fund Native Apps
But it's a massive pain in the ass to do it.

Like I kinda want it, but not all the time.

Just like I kinda need to be forced to update, but not just suddenly "Well, that's it, we're shutting down now".

It's my fucking computer, if I really don't want to restart right now, what's the big fucking deal?
That's thanks to Windows and Linux being designed for portability, rather than any engineering feat by Apple.
He was been ironic. Twitter is clearly doomed, and killing a good app is only one more mistake, I guess. They could at least sell it, make some money and downsize their team.
Your question comes off as as self-righteous and overly critically. Why shouldn't he have kids? Clearly, he found a way to provide for them, to a higher degree than most, I would add.
I'm not sure I feel the same way, and I will probably be downvoted for it.

Microsoft's entire existence is largely based on incredibly aggressive, (perhaps) unethical behavior against its perceived rivals. FUD, threats of litigation and patent extortion, etc. Trying to destroy the entire open source movement. Why do they need forgiveness? They are a profit-seeking entity that has tried to crush many things I hold dear. Think about where we'd be today if Microsoft actually succeeded in what it set out to do long ago. It's only because they failed that we are having this discussion.
Great more rights I need to click away before I can use my phone or TV.
Content ID is automatic and relies on matching fingerprints of existing video. If you upload something that's known to be copyrighted and where the fingerprint is already (or subsequently becomes) known, content ID is what monetises or blocks the video. You don't get copyright strikes for content ID hits, and such a hit is not a "takedown" - that term refers to cases where a copyright holder notifies youtube that a specific video infringes their rights. THAT is when you get a copyright strike.

You have, of course, the ability to appeal - basically saying "Samsung are full of shit, put my video back and tell them to sue me if they don't like it" and that's exactly what happened here.
I'm saying it seems to validate the joke about how physicists approach theory problems.
Who says it was revenue neutral?
Bandicoot: A Python Toolbox for Mobile Phone Metadata [pdf]
What happens to previous Angel SAFEs at YC funding?
So, I'm raising some angel money from friends and family using YC SAFEs - 5M, 20%.

Now, my understanding is that if we get a series A at 50M valuation as the next round, the angels will get a close to 10x bump. Also, one angel asked me about taxes and we told him that their conversion at Series A will not be taxable (and that will be their base price?)

Now, if YC funds us ($120k for 7%) in a couple of weeks, what happens to the angel investments? Is this a pricing round?
Why is wishing for a world where it would be better to help eradicate suffering rather than work to accumulate imaginary play chips bad?
You can do original microbiologist research on the cheap. For an extreme case, Einstein did useful theoretical physics without a lab.

Money vastly expands the scope of work you can do, but breaking new ground is often less expensive than making minor refinements to well understood areas.

PS: The real risk is will likely will go 20+ years without finding anything, but if you have tenure that should not be a problem.
Gdyk
Hosting, computing and bandwidth cost won't be a small thing
> It seems like usually you job prospects and negotiation power are much better when you are already employed

Definitely, but it tends to be less significant if your move isn't finance -> finance. Having GS on your resume for several years will get you in any door. People have a distaste for finance due to recent events, but it's a pretty huge industry with highly transferable skills. A shrink in the finance sector is rarely a shrink of available jobs to employees in that sector. Employers in other sectors tend to acknowledge how demanding an industry it is. For example, I worked as a discretionary equities trader for half a decade. As more and more algorithmic trading encroached on my territory, I moved to software development. I was hired for back end development at a point in which the extent of my programming skills was data munging in R. 4 years later, I still struggle to adjust to a work atmosphere that continually tells me to chill out and go home. Sure, I took a pay cut. But it's not even close to the % reduction in hours worked.
Periscope is live video, it is different.

I think before kill vine, they could have used to test new discovery/search options that could end up in periscope and twitter. 5 millions people using daily is a great base to do that.
Company sold tickets for the price they wanted. They made the rules. They excluded everything that wasn't allowed in those rules.

Time passes and company finds out the deal wasn't so good anymore (or never was in the first place). So they decide to go after those costumers who are using the tickets in unexpected ways, but that weren't forbidden.

When the company has an extra profit for your last-minute ticket, or your cancellation (even when very ahead of time, so that they don't loose some revenue), it's just business, for-profit, hallelujah. When company does something that isn't profitable, they try to stretch rules' limits, the costumer misbehaved, costumers aren't allowed to gain from the company just because the company miscalculated something.

Yes, it's good to be a company this way.
Those are lots of assumptions about a company burning half a billion dollars a year.
The post, post Upwork debacle
update:

his contribution was 638k past 10 years.
employer contribution was 87k.
And bulk is in 401k and individual after tax, not Roth.
The darker side of machine learning
She should have demanded measures against "terrorism" and "pedophiles", like other governments. People seem to be ok with censorship presented this way.
InterSCity: Addressing Future Internet Research Challenges for Smart Cities [pdf]
+1, it's the best way to roll.
Up next; FCC Censorship rules.
It only opens as a command prompt if you open a command prompt; you can launch powershell.exe directly. Also, as of Win10:

- CTRL+A, CTRL+C and CTRL+V shortcuts work (as does CTRL+C as a BREAK command--it understands by the context of whether or not you have text selected)

- There are a bunch of new shortcuts[1]

- If you edit the properties of the Powershell terminal once, it should stay resizable (I think--correct me if I'm wrong, please)

- If you right-click on the Taskbar and edit the properties, you can make the Win+X menu replace its Command Prompt and Command Prompt (Admin) with Powershell Prompt and Powershell Prompt (Admin) [2]

- If the terminal isn't to your liking, you can try using the Powershell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) that comes with Windows. The Powershell ISE has debugging, syntax highlighting, and support for multiple tabs.

- Pretty much anything you see in a new Windows 8/8.1/10-style window (e.g. the Settings menu that has largely supplanted the Control Panel) is, under the hood, written in Powershell... So anything that they do, you can do with Powershell.

- You can make GUI applications relatively easily [3]

Most of the benefits of Powershell are the same benefits of any other CLI--you get repeatable, powerful commands that can run locally or remotely and that will function basically the same on any two given systems (assuming same version of Powershell and same Execution Policy setting).

Powershell is relatively verbose, but that means that everything is pretty clearly named to indicate its purpose and function. The commandlets have excellent documentation, complete with description, usage instructions, examples, and links to additional online resources/articles. Also, it has tab-autocompleting out the wazoo. And you can use wildcards with the Get-Help command--want a Powershell command for manipulating Services settings but don't know if such a thing even exists? `Get-Help service`. Want to see a list of every Powershell alias, commandlet, etc? `help *` (help is an alias of Get-Help).

If you're accustomed to BASH, you can enjoy the default aliases that Powershell makes for BASH commands (e.g. cd is mapped as an alias of the Powershell command Set-Location).

OH! And you can browse the registry as a filesystem! Try `cd HKLM:\` to access the Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandProm...

[2] http://lifehacker.com/replace-powershell-with-the-command-pr...

[3] http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/building-gui-applications-in-...
Regarding vast majorities of PhDs not getting jobs in professorships, I think this is just true for pretty much all PhD's no matter the subject..at least anecdotally speaking. I was given an offer to teach at a community college however I declined as I just don't really like teaching. Most of my peers joined government agencies or lobbyist firms due to the nature of the field (Public Policy.)

I didn't find the PhD to be too stressful, from the jobs I left to enter education I suppose I was well adapted to stress management. That said I think it's a mix of adviser and individual's personality. I despise the work force (that is an understatement) and love learning. Part of the reason why I browse and lurk on HN as I love coming across stuff that I'm not at all oriented with. I don't think I'll become a programmer or anything..it's just I love learning even things I barely understand (e.g. Quantum anything!)
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Not sure if you'll make it back to this thread, but I found the other (much more interesting) manufacturer of bar-type displays:

LiteMax and their spanpixel line of panels:

http://www.litemax.com/en/product/category/Spanpixel/22

I see smaller (15 and 19 inch) displays as well as the "smart shelf" displays.

Here is a 3840x536 display @ 43.5", which is the one I am interested in:

http://www.litemax.com/en/product/Spanpixel%204355-INU/40
This belief that there is an always an understandable algorithm you could look at is an interesting one. More and more decisions are being made by systems that are opaque even to their designers, who can only shrug and point to the training data. Among other things, it's a very effective way to disclaim responsibility.
I don't think it is poor reasoning. I was making an observation about their technology prowess. And where most people were expressing their opinion about whether or not ads are bad which has been discussed at length, I thought I'd make a different point. My argument is that if improving browsing experience is the purpose of their service and removing ads is one of the ways they do it then I hope they pay attention to page bloat. I wanted to point out that they hadn't paid much attention to javascript page bloat in their own web page.
The JPMC moves were something like 10-15 years ago and none of the tech people I know there moved (only a handful even made it to Jersey). They all quit instead.
That's useful, thanks.

The case I was interested in is where you'd like to have Django server-side-render the first request based on url, and then have react handle the rest via react-router and apis ala django-rest-framework.

As a backend dev who got by with jquery soup and 0 frontend build tools before (use django bundling tools), even starting to approach the React ecosystem is a little daunting.
Hate to disappoint you but Google's 'Do no evil' principles died years ago. Today they are no better than Facebook or Microsoft.
>the majority of software/engineering jobs out there are not doing "something more beneficial to society" ... other things need to get done. And the majority of people have bills to pay.

This is a big problem in itself.
How would you go about making any money off it though? Nobody's going to sit through an ad when the video is only a few seconds long
I didn't down vote, but the comment would be better if it were expanded with some details about why he thinks people who are good at their jobs should avoid open salary workplaces. I would think nearly all employees benefit from open salaries. For most companies, the salary information asymmetry is an effective way to keep the salaries of high performers DOWN. If you don't know that the mediocre guy who sits next to you makes $40K more than you, you're less likely to complain or look elsewhere.

The people who have the most to lose from open salaries are the dopes who somehow are making top-of-market salaries.
Pretty well? Seems to me there's a big problem in the public sector of extreme difficulty of terminating non- and even anti-performers, but that's orthogonal to relatively narrow and seniority-based compensation bands. But those are just my nth-hand impressions on both. Would love to read some good papers on either or both.
thats wrong. but asimov was a notorious lech at conventions
Are you REALLY SURE you don't want to switch to Edge?
Vine to discontinue their mobile app
Scope Wars
I have an XPS 13 from this summer. lspci says:

3a:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4350 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 08)

The driver works mostly but once in a while I have to `sudo service network-manager restart`, rmmod/modprobe mwifiex_pcie, or worst-case reboot the system. Obviously this happens at the worst possible times -- meetings and in the middle of important work.

Their 'developer edition' uses intel wifi, I think, but is intermittently sold out and weirdly more expensive. You can buy an intel card and add it.
Everything needs maintenance.