skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't hold my breath. It's entirely possible that the new DM APIs will be restricted to approved clients or accounts.
Have you tried asking other people? It seems presumptuous (and perhaps even arrogant) to believe everyone thinks a certain way just because you do.
One has the right to be rude if someone else is rude first. Right now you're being rude, for example, because somehow my rudeness offended you.
IoT startup bricks customers garage door intentionally
Comparison of various OpenApi/Swagger to Slate conversion tools
It's a conundrum. He could tell the branch manager to fix it since it was their mistake, but with the low level of competence displayed by said branch manager it is doubtful he would ever see his money again. Maybe try to elevate it to the district manager in the hopes that they can find their ass with both hands?
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Two things I really want:

* Tweet count on a URL

* Read a tweet feed without auth

Also - the HN title is super misleading. The actual title is: "New APIs to power the future of customer engagement in Direct Messages".
It's not like the only options are "take the money" and "let the customer liquidate it".

The middle ground is "notify the customer and freeze the accounts while they're responding".
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> Marxists did a better job predicting the trajectory of Capitalism than any one else, so this doesn't bother me.

I'm still waiting for Lenin to hang me with the rope I sold him.
This is the least important issue of all time but somehow it is getting the most press. It should just pass and be done with. By the way I get annoyed when people say LDS is the majority here - LDS only makes up 41% of the entire state, and closer to 30% in SLC. The citizens aren't voting on this bill anyway.
This is what I meant!
Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.
'Concise and precise' seems the be the goal of this language. Like assembly language. It doesn't seem useful for mere humans. I would prefer playfulness and ambiguity.
100%.

The UI is insanely difficult to use. I frequently find myself wondering how to do the most basic tasks.

If it weren't for Halo, I'd be gone a long time ago.
There sort of already is one bank, IMF
For some reason you seem to be ashamed of your own culture. What's wrong in calling the Mars mission by its Hindi/Sanskrit name? Do China, Japan and Russia not use names from their languages for their missions? And what's wrong with old people appearing in the webcasts. They are the people behind the mission. They know the most and can inspire the best. NASA always puts their scientists (which are mostly old) in their webcasts. Do you recommend NASA do the same to attract youngsters?
Would that be why people raised in dysfunctional or abusive families have very deep rooted issues? Everything learned later in life seems more fluid, but some of those problematic attitudes or personality traits are extremely hard to change. Seems consistent with those parts being build in lower layers with a decades long training experience. And yet at a higher level things can be learned and changed fairly easily.
Well, it is impossible to fit the "reality" in a text comment, so yes.
Step by step procedure to become a programmer
There is a shortage of software devs who will work for under market price i.e. "cheap software developers".
they provide a generic "walgreens" competitor to all the other incumbent products. verizon is gonna do the same thing.
Have you tried to develop a (simple) Sailfish app yourself?
It works, it just uses a heck of a lot of CPU. Using Chrome in El Capitan if that makes a difference.
Arianspace and ULA are building new rockets to reduce costs. So there's a datapoint for how those 2 companies balance reliability vs cost.

Note that Atlas V had zero failures when it was young. So there's proof that new development doesn't necessarily hurt reliability. You're correct that the track record of reliability will be absent for the first couple of dozen launches, which will be quite a while for at least Arianspace.
Another very important point with no-deletes is: you can't deny history. You can't, in real-life, take back something you said. The mechanics of digital deletion in centralized systems is a big problem for History. I remember Julian Assange describing a corruption scandal that was essentially erased from History because a digital article by a large media company was deleted, and not replicated fast enough.
I agree and I regularly miss the blade dashboard from long ago. Every update keeps making it more and more difficult and intuitive.

When you don't have a mouse or a touch screen, putting things in non-linear places makes extremely difficult to navigate to. I find myself regularly going down and over and up and around. Almost circling things to select them.

Old gaming menus were horizontal or vertical but not both at the same time.
Mastodon: a free, decentralized, open-source social network
Indeed, although I'm not as familiar with transfers this far (that is, fine-tuning models is really common with image recognition tasks, but often you take a model trained to recognize objects in images, and train it to recognize different objects in images, but you're still recognizing objects in images).

This feels a bit different, in that yesterday I would have had no strong intuition that "a char-rnn can detect text sentiment better than sota". Looking now, I can rationalize that idea. I get why it might make sense, but it was non-obvious.
Do you disagree with any of that? (and if you do, I'd love to see this distance of transfer in literature, its always cool to read up on these things)
This is also consistent with how tables are typically laid out in HTML (cells/columns inside rows). Considering that grids are supposed to be the modern/responsive/semantic/etc. equivalent of table-based layout, the conventions here are not terribly surprising.

That said, I don't tend to use the shorthands.
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The original comment has positive rep because it's actually pretty good. What HN doesn't like is a wall of memes and in-jokes that are actually pretty repetitive and boring. Without a high bar for humor that is what all tech communities will devolve to, witness Slashdot, Reddit, etc.
The reason i didn't like this particular brand was that it's at the expense of the OP, who I presumed was tense about the interview. At the time I commented, there was 1 useful answer and this useless (and funny, but not that original, there is a interview-bashing thread once in two days) one was at the top.
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Maybe he meant adding arbitrary token count limits out of the blue that forced countless 3rd party apps to close shop once they became successful? Or the fact that new features like polls are absent in the public APIs, years after they have been introduced?

I'm sure you're very excited about these new APIs for #brand #engagement, but don't pretend that Twitter has been a great steward of its public API over the last few years.
I would LOVE something like this for Facebook, but I understand that there is little to incentivize companies to do this other than the "emerging markets" argument.
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The post starts by introducing two people (one in a boat in the ocean and another in the mountains in Hawaii) and states that they are communicating to each other. I thought this post was about some new long-range wireless protocol that sync'd via satellites or some such. I was disappointed to see this:

> Every time two Scuttlebutt friends connect to the same WiFi, their computers will synchronize the latest messages in their diaries.

Ultimately this technology seems to be a decentralized, signed messaging system. What problem are they solving? That facebook and twitter can delete and alter your messages?

Meanwhile I'm in search of a long-range, wireless communication system that can function like a network without the need of an ISP. Anyone know anything about this?
Been thinking about a trip here for a while. I was in Eastern Turkey a few years back and a taxi driver that was taking me to a ruined city called Ani stopped at a small memorial at the side of the road on the way. 'This is where the Armenians slaughtered a whole village including pregnant women..' etc. etc. Sorry to say it, but what a load of crap the Turkish are taught/speak about their history.

I feel like I owe it to Armenia to visit. Seems like they have suffered a lot of hardship over the years.

edit: bollocks to the visit, I could already retire there!
http://www.escapeartist.com/blog/live-armenia/
(Speaking personally, not sure what an official Keybase opinion would be.)

No, I don't think the tech is quite there yet. Even just handing out human-readable usernames requires blockchain-style consensus, and we don't have a blockchain being followed along by everyone's machines to adjudicate consensus requests (yet!).

The folks at Blockstack Labs are doing fine work in this area, though: https://blockstack.org/
Is it actually possible to have a comfortable life in the US of A without a family lawyer?
I find the DB part to be the only sane part of my stack these days. It's funny though, I got the hang of functional programming by cross-training in SQL first. Writing attribute expressions is a lot like writing pure functions of immutable data.
I'm starting to suspect that CSS was invented by Taylor Swift.
That was the original problem that sent him to the branch. He couldn't view the court order online and it said to go to the branch. The branch manager apparently never gets a copy of the court order and just blindly executes whatever comes in, so they were no help in resolving the issue.
Depends on the size of the startup & the acquirer and the role that you played. Usually:

- Prepare a master presentation explaining the architecture, infrastructure, security, usage stats among other things. You will have to present this to different stakeholders (CTO, CIO, VP of Engineering, Product Management) - so keep it generic, but be prepared to dive into specific topics depending upon the audience.

- Get documentation in order. Design documents, Use cases, processes, all services used along with cost per month/year

- Get Copyright issues in order. Ensure that you are in compliant with licenses of all components that you are using. You should have a document assigning copyright to the company from all employees and contractors.

- Be prepared for a code review.
They probably can sell at a loss and make it back on Xbox Live subscriptions and other licensing.
There isn't, but if you see the base system as the library to build your tools on, a library function to get all files in a directory and, optionally, sort them by name, doesn't seem like a good design.
It's amazing how well that stuff works when dealing with big companies. Years ago I had an issue with Dish. Spent hours on the phone getting passed around to different people who would give me their left pinky to avoid resolving the issue. Finally filed a complaint with the BBB and within a week got a phone call that the issue was being resolved (and the person making the call was not happy about it).
By the broad definition used to define a PC, a Chromebook is a PC. My perception of a PC is just skewed.
I want to Armenia for fun lat year because nobody else I know has ever been. It was so fun! I regret not trying harder to get out of Yerevan. If you want to see a part of the world that doesn't make the press a lot, but has charm, old-world flair, beautiful and unique scenery, worth the trip!

The co-working spot Aeon is pretty cool.

Just keep an eye on the politics before going.
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> I can accept that "social networking" is a bad term, but in popular usage it encompasses the "personal feed" almost by definition.

Yes, but just because no one has tried to create a different social network. That's why I made my initial comment in the first place.

> What you are describing has existed for years and we called it Usenet. Or a forum. Or a mailing list.

I don't know about Usenet, but forums and mailing lists are generally oriented to narrow topics, it is not something in which you'll see your school friends or people with multiple areas to discuss varied subjects.
Searching for nano cards for every traveller is impractical. It's so tiny and yet high-capacity that it's very easy to hide.
> I feel like the author is a front end developer and just hates the fact that JavaScript in the browser can't communicate with a database server directly.

Author here. I hate the fact that here in 2017 we still write login code, again, for every application. I hate the fact that if I want to trigger re-renders, or run workers off database changes all my options suck.

> it is also possible that database could provide a generic enough interface that would work

Exactly. It doesn't have to suck - our databases could provide a nice interface to do all this stuff cleanly instead. We just need a resumable event stream, with versions and some other API tweaks and we can do computed views out-of-process of the database, written in whatever language I want. I'm firmly of the opinion that all databases should provide a Samza / Storm / Kafka / etc style event log.
You still cannot release a twitter client that doesn't get maxed at 100,000 users. Why bother implementing ideas when it will probably meet with the same problem due to our success.
The golden rule is NP. A moral compass is P
The branch didn't even have a copy of the court order, there is no way they could have matched the SSNs. They were just doing whatever the county clerk told them.
This is why I coined the phrase "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" j/k

So having a big release and advertising these 3rd party tools could be completely motivated by a need for someone else's innovation? Or are there businesses left standing who are innovating and successful with their services? They've worked great for me in the past, but I've never done anything beyond using them for OAuth or showing a hashtag list of tweets.
Big picture mode is OK, but plugging my laptop into the TV and launching steam is a multi-step process, esp. compared to just pressing the playstation button on the playstation controller (everything's already hooked up, it just comes on).

I also have a gaming PC hooked to my TV and I run big picture mode on that. It's slick, but it's not as smooth as a console. The controller will wake up the computer, but I have to hit the button twice (once to initiate the wake-up and once to connect the controller, which fails to connect on the first press because the computer isn't awake yet) and then there's a 50/50 chance that the controller won't let me get past the windows 10 login screen.

The console is an appliance made for running games, and the whole experience is so much smoother.
Lyft raises $500M
As much as I agree with you, I wonder if the changes in leadership at the company since then might mean a different direction. Reading their blog posts, it seems like a "reboot" of sorts.

I am in the camp that still thinks Twitter is an important tool: both as a communication medium, as well as a competitor to Facebook/Snapchat/etc. Whether or not this vision for the API platform plays out as history repeating itself, or as a way for Twitter to continue to grow - remains to be seen. But I definitely root for them to try and try again when they fail.

To OPs point, definitely tread lightly at first, and don't bet your whole company on Twitter's APIs. I'm excited to see where this goes.
I see a couple of interviews here:

http://hayek.ufm.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Do you have a suggestion of which one is good to start? I really want to dive deep into this guy.

Also, to be fair, theory travels. A lot of time it's more interesting to see how a concept is misused than applied correctly.

EDIT:

lol. it seems that yea, he thinks price-signals are the only thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV7-2Aua4_4&feature=youtu.be...
Great work, thanks.
I think so. Conservative could mean 1) preferring gradual change over abrupt change, or 2) resistant to any change (stubbornly conservative?)
This is great. Hackintosh builds using the GTX 1080 will be fairly powerful now.
I don't see how that is artificial. It is well known that your abilities are impacted long before you reach the legal limit.
Does playfulness necessarily exclude preciseness?
This is the reason we're working on RESTfender https://restfender.co We're in semi stealth mode but more to come soon!
This is an interesting idea, would this not be similar to an incubator?

I have a similar problem where I have a side project but can't really quit my job and work full time on it.
If you read up on what Taleb writes about Lindy Effect, you should be able to understand.

OP said that it's probably good because it has lasted so long. I would agree.
React and postgres are great. I think you already have a solid stack with just those two. React offers a lot of what a large framework can eliminating a lot of the fluff things like Angular seems to include. That being said, I don't use frameworks and code in pure TS -> JS these days and borrow things a specific project needs from more popular frameworks, tweaking it for what I need.

Meteor is good for prototyping and getting something up fast. I find it very amateurish and highly abstracted. If you're a green developer, you aren't going to learn anything using Meteor. Also, I believe support for this framework is dying. Its highly, "Meteor's way or the highway"

Express is more just glue between your front end and your server/backend that uses Node as its adhesive. Its pretty great for eliminating a lot of boilerplate you would otherwise run into.
I once tried to use the XBox360 and it wanted me to verify the account before I could update, which took me into a hell that I wouldn't emerge from for 2+ hours. At the end, I was so upset at the BS I had to put up with (including >30 minutes on the phone with their support), I was ready to throw the machine out the window.
Post author here. I actually think it would be much cleaner to support an event log API and run this stuff out-of-process. My database shouldn't have to support the language-de-jour, and I don't want my react rendering process slowing down my database servers. You can totally decouple this stuff with a clean kafka-like eventlog API, but postgres doesn't provide one.
This is amusing because you can get unfiltered internet roaming in China if you bring a foreign sim, apparently
I would also like to see Atlas expand to include B Corps.
It's interesting that you choose to use the word "spoiled" here. It is a testament to how firmly entrenched the class system is.
Malls have more selection than Amazon? I seriously doubt that, but if there's evidence to the contrary, happy to reconsider.

It's more convenient not to go to the mall. Convenience won't be the seller here.

No single mall can compete w/ Amazon's warehouse and delivery system: it's huge. Many mall stores already do online ordering w/ in-store pickup. There's certainly some room to expand this, but "convenient" isn't the way I'd compare someone bringing it to me and me having to go get it. To me that seems obvious on the face of it, but maybe I'm missing something.

What malls allow for is trying things on. Having a tactile experience with merchandise. More space to provoke impulse purchases.
not sure why anyone would spend double money when you can get about the same performance using a gtx 1080 TI. The performance looks marginal IMO -- optimizing the code on gtx 1080 TI (cuda and/or shader assembly) would probably yield very satisfactory results and definitely better perf/buck.
In the very early 90s, my personal computer had a UUCP feed for email and news from a local BBS. I didn't use bang paths on it; the provider had a proper Internet connection. It worked satisfactorily well.
If the problems were solved for people on native, there wouldn't be this much focus on reinventing the wheel on mobile.

Clearly for some subset of people, "something" is missing for those native solutions (I can guess - portability, convenient 'moddability', etc) which they believe the standardization-reliant web can better address for them.
When the alternate is Soviet Russia labour camps no wonder German scientists where falling over them selves to surrender to UK or USA
Of course LLCs can offer employees equity. But it's not simple, and it's not easy.

And its not just VC funding, you should be wary of LLCs if you think it's likely you will need any kind of investors, as typically investors prefer not want to deal with partnership K1s.

If your startup is intended to be profitable quickly, and plans to distribute those profits to the founders, an LLC offers significant tax advantages. If you want to build a big business, it can offer some significant limitations.
One message I hear repeatedly from cyber security pros is their organizations claim security is critical... That its, until you show them the price tag.

So long as they aren't willing to resource to security and they aren't held accountable for breaches this trend will basically continue.
Yep, more info here: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/mcy/6074610360.html

Price is the "craigslist price", so it's negotiable.
This! And I should know. My Twitter to Facebook client. http://2fb.me was crippled by Twitter for trying to distribute tweets. The main purpose of Twitter and a Twitter api is distribution or so I thought. Facebook on the other hand has been a great friend. And the Facebook page gets a few new followers everyday even though the app has been reporpused. Facebook.com/toTwitter
Comcast jumps into wireless business with unlimited data plans
I'm not pretending - I've been responsible for the public-facing APIs (since 2014). We've launched mute, accessibility text for images, multi image and video upload, etc etc. We haven't added every single feature, but we've done what we have done in a very methodical and careful way that ensures platform stability. Polls are a complicated issue because they depend on cards, which are also not currently part of the API. By publishing a roadmap for the first time, we're providing visibility into what's coming. Thanks for the feedback!
Verizon Wireless and Verizon (hardwire) are separate companies, afaik.

Verizon (fios, phone, ..) does not exist in the west coast anymore.
Can you explain how "native" solved the problem of performing minimal MVC-style updates to a UI "decades ago"?

Decades ago, we had the Win32 API, which didn't even try to solve this—apps had to roll their own.
One of the best ways to put life back on to long unused desktops lying around is
1. 1050Ti ($150)
2. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I did this to a 6 year old Dell XPS 8300, and now that thing rocks!

(I do a little bit of Tensorflow playing around on it).
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I might be wrong but

3 General White board coding rounds by SWEs(with some emphasis on data processing appropriate data structures, computations etc)

1 or 2 rounds specific to machine learning with some one working in that research area ( 1 or 2 based on the level you are coming in probably)

But as someone in the comments thread pointed out recruiter would be the best source