skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This app shows the top tweets your friends liked, retweeted, quote tweeted, or replied to.

It's not "self-serve" yet, but this is a link to the app running on Marc Andreessen's Twitter profile (ie. the people he follows). Just want to know if it's potentially interesting or useful, and if you have any comments or suggestions :)

Features

= Top Tweets =

A 'Popular' feed that balances the popularity and recency of recent responses.

A 'Personalized' feed that shows the top tweets your friends reacted to that aren't globally popular.

The 'Social' tab shows profile changes (e.g. bio and profile pic updates) and upcoming birthdays from your friends.

= Photos =

Popular, Personalized, and a 'Friends' feed that shows recent photos shared by friends even if they haven't been liked/retweeted by others. Uses OCR to remove tweets with screenshots.

= Video =

Popular, Personalized, Friends

= Links =

Top links your friends have shared directly, or engaged with indirectly by liking/retweeting/quote tweeting/replying to a tweet contianing the link.

As with the other modes, below the links it also shows the actual replies and quote tweets.

= Audio =

Podcasts and music your friends reacted to.
Well technically everyone treats addiction as disease. It’s the possession buying and selling part that’s a crime. You’re free to be addicted to anything you want as long as you’re not buying keeping or selling prohibited substances.
>Unethical fevelopers that work at shitty companies with shitty lawyers were annoyed that they couldn't use React. That's all there is to it.

Apache is an unethical foundation with shitty lawyers? I admire the goal of eradicating software patents, to me BSD+Patents was an unsuccessful way to do it. It hurt OSS projects more than it hurt private projects.
It already exists and is called the Apache license. If you want to disarm patent trolls but don't want to compel the preservation of user freedoms on other distributors of your software license it ALv2.
If you don't care about GPA, why do you need me to be a college graduate? I'm genuinely confused about the point of college. I can spend four years drinking and partying without going into debt if that's what I need to get a job.
Reminder that FB had already relicensed RocksDB following https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303
Yes, you can disable what you don't need. For example you can even disable the repository and have just an issue tracker.
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My guess is so that way when people talk about "BSD-licensed Facebook software" there won't be any confusion as to whether it's BSD or BSD + Patents.
It's actually a common policy when it comes to patents. If you are found to infringe on a patent and it can be shown that you knew about it, the penalties are much harsher. This is one of the many reasons people consider the patent system to be badly broken.
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One positive thing about being in a fraternity -- it provides experience in dealing with and resolving conflict in a large organization.

For better or worse, navigating the internal politics of a clique such as a college fraternity is often similar to what many people later experience in the wilds of the corporate world.

You also get a lot of practice meeting & building rapport with a wide variety of peers (both male and female), if your fraternity socializes frequently.

These 'soft' social skills are just as much of a factor in determining salary as technical ones. And for all their warts and downsides, fraternities do provide you with good practice. Of course, you need to be wealthy enough to pay the dues, etc...

However -- more time socializing means less time for studying. So GPA goes down, but interpersonal skills go up. These new interpersonal skills pay off dividends later, though.

Just an extremely non-rigorous hypothesis.
I'll cite my personal experience. I've paid hundreds of dollars for a hotel night when on an expense account. As a tourist in the same city, I'll pay much less.

The loyalty programs are irrelevant for this issue. There's a bit of cartel behavior going on. So long as no one drops price dramatically, all the "business" hotels can stay roughly equal. The "cereal wars" of the late 1990s show what can happen when an industry competes on price -- demand stays constant and revenues drop. Maybe hotels are different, but I'd suspect that's only for tourism. Business travel is likely inelastic with respect to hotel costs.
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> If predicting that unimaginable benefits will flow from this space...makes me sound like a naive blockchain cultist, so be it.

Yes, that is what belief without reason looks like.
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My bad, there was a bit about C# in their article about GDScript on their website, read it wrong. You're right, took a peek at the code, it's a regular module.
http://facebook.com

http://linkedin.com

Now that I'm done being flippant, there are other things like IVY which purport to be exclusive networks that give you access to events and networks that will help your career and social stature, but at their core any and all of these things will be businesses that will extract as much money as they can from all parts of their client base. Contrast that to a fraternity, which seems much less like a business, at least in the sense that the proprietors are separated from the consumers of the product.

All I'm saying is that SV's motivations in creating something like this may necessarily not provide folks with the same authentic experience that a fraternity would.
How can one tell if the price coincides with intrinsic value?

If you and I looked at a chart of the history of btc prices, where would the match points be? In between highs and lows?
Most schools have dry rushes and recruitment teams select members who have good grades, athletic ability, and leadership qualities, just FYI.
And to grow a company to that he’ll need multiple rounds of VC funding plus ESOP and so you need to estimate how much of the company he might own at the end of it all. It’s not going to be $400m. So if he has a 100% option to take $5-$14m off the table today vs a 20% possibility of taking $100m off the table, I’d be included to take the former Given the resistance he/she is getting raising a seed round.
>Those rejected by fraternities, even though they have higher GPAs, earn 36 percent less than those accepted by fraternities.

This is not a correct statement based on the abstract of the paper.

The group of people that did not join fraternities does not consist entirely of "those rejected by fraternities", but those who are rejected and those who didn't bother applying in the first place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15304210
Georg Rockall-Schmidt released a fine video on essentially the same subject, yesterday: https://youtu.be/VVdh6-4Hgys
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>Or bring snacks from home (or a convienence store which is a bargain compared to a theatre)

Movie theaters almost universally do not allow outside food or drinks, so that isn't really an option. But these days if I ever go to a movie I pretty much exclusively go to a dine-in theater(alamo drafthouse, studio move grill, etc) because at least there I'm getting decent food instead of a paying $20 for tub of popcorn and soda that cost them probably less than a dollar, not to mention they have comfy recliners instead of those awful padded seats most theaters have.
It's not irrational when your companies lawyers say that you many not use React due to the licensing, and there is a very real chance you will be terminated if you do. Unless you mean that lawyers are irrational, in which case I would agree (throwing in judges and politicians and anyone else in the legal profession while we are at it).
Which license is PyTorch?
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Curiosity question: why didn't you patent some key element of your value proposition to protect against someone copying it?
Probably 50/50 over the long term, but I'm usually either in a mostly-design mode or a mostly-coding mode. If in design mode, I'm spending 1/3 of the time doing productive work, and the rest procrastinating. If in coding mode, I'm spending 8-12 hours a day head-down writing code, with small breaks to step back a bit and think.
My goal with Serpent.AI is to lower the barriers to entry when it comes to using games as sandboxes for code experiments. It unlocks your entire existing game library (Steam, DRM-Free etc.) to be used as potential game agent environments and it does so natively! No Docker containers, No VNC. It is simple enough for beginners & hobbyists to dabble in, but also powerful enough to drive serious machine learning and AI research. The framework provides structure and conventions so you can focus on your experiment exclusively. It also doesn't try to dictate how you solve your problems. Your game agent is your canvas!
It's very unlikely that the Chinese government can force Kik to share data through a minority investment from Tencent. Their power is limited to behind their great firewall.

I also find it inconceivable that Ted @ Kik would do this. Disclosure: I've known him for years
> Silicon Valley already does have its version of frats: companies.

Ew, no. Work-life balance?
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Not to mention your brothers will often push you into situations out of your comfort zone. OF COURSE this means you sometimes get peer pressured into making mistakes, that's part of growing up. However, my social skills went through the roof by constantly being "forced" to socialize and my own self-confidence grew immensely. Net positive for sure
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I am a [piston-engine] pilot (only use mine for business a few times/year; most is personal/family travel). However, I spend a lot of time with other entrepreneur pilots and many believe that their airplane is instrumental in their business.

Being able to show up, in-person, walk around, shake hands, interview the customer, look them in the eye, walk their factory floor or otherwise see things first hand and then still make it home to put the kids in bed is far more impression setting than dialing into a video call.

What little I've used mine for business, being able to be out and back the same day, direct, makes it more likely that I'll bother to show up (vs call or visit annually). Video conferences are better than phone calls, but a poor substitute for an in-person visit.
You should* also be working with a banker who sells companies for a living. They will take some % (10%? Who knows) of the deal, but in my limited experience it seems worth it, since they will also help you make introductions and give advice - maybe not perfect advice but it will be advice that will either raise the price of your sale, make it happen faster, or promote some corrupt agenda the banker has (i.e. work with a banker who comes to you from someone who can vouch for them)

There are obviously some things to be very careful in terms of shopping for a deal, but that's also how higher valuations occur. And, if the acquiring company doesn't want to deal with it they can give you a "no-shop" offer that is higher, in addition to the breakup/no-deal fee.

*This "should" in addition to everything else above is just an opinion. I've only been in a company once that was acquired successfully and heard stories about other situations, so take it for what it's worth which might be nothing :-)
Webassembly is incredibly hard to debug in the browser. Source maps give you a decent stack trace, but you can't evaluate variables. I'm hoping this situation improves.
I disagree all of your criticisms. Apart from the last one, they are all subjective and I disagree without a reason. I like what I see. Wrt sizes of the click targets, HN, unlike many products of elegant (!) design, let's you zoom in an out, so that is not a problem.
The entire point of the patent license is that they can't sue you for violating any patents that cover the library you're using. So it's at least a bit over-broad to it puts all the power in their hands.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15309393
+1 this is amazeballs :D

I'm guessing the idea is make an exact 1:1 pixel recreation of the original, but it's _really_ small, any chance we can get a "zoom" function or a @2x version?

Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Yeah, we've already settled on Vue (because our lawyers forbade us from using React), but now I'm sure they would approve React. So... do we abandon our work on Vue (which so far is amazing) to switch to React since the React ecosystem is so large, or do we stay the course? Sigh. I wish Facebook had made this change a year ago.
I haven't looked into the Equifax hack, but plenty of highly competent programmers have music degrees. Rich Hickey for example. (source: https://gist.github.com/harfangk/f98e627f7567b7b5741fe0c239b...)
Many argue that the difference is between the old explicit grant (which was one-sided) and the new implicit grant (which is more two-sided). Reverting to BSD doesn't remove the fact that the explicit grant was revoked, so the real comparison of one sued is BSD with no inplicit grant to MIT with an implicit grant.
Try keycloak (easy to setup and get started) or openam (harder to setup) for single sign on across services .
I'm not sure the graph entitled "A Stark Difference: Drug-Related Deaths" proves any point: Portugal has indeed the best stats and the US the worst, but you cannot conclude that it results from Portugal's vs US's policy on drugs. In fact, France, right below Portugal on the graph, still has quite repressive policies.
I was a little unclear about this, but I meant Java in the broad sense of the Java ecosystem, including the JVM and the language. I was mostly wondering if languages will move toward WebAssembly as a target instead of the JVM, and what consequences that will have.

On the other hand, maybe I had Java the language in mind unconsciously at some level. You're right that you could have Java targeting WebAssembly instead of its standard bytecode, which I hadn't thought about.

At least now, it seems like the JVM offers some stuff that WebAssembly doesn't, but I have a hunch it won't stay that way in the long run.

There's been a lot of good discussion here about WebAssembly versus the JVM; it seems like lots of people have similar thoughts about this topic.
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This looks like damage control and is limited to a select few open source projects of theirs. Feel free to change your mind, but think twice about committing to depend on projects from a source that didn't seem to have a problem with this license before the exodus. Will it happen again?
Email me: einar@vollset.com - I suspect that if the numbers your quoting is correct, there should be many more options on the table for you.
Maybe you are not a "more effective team member" but only a "more team member."
Rotten Tomatoes is a bad system because it's binary - ie thumbs up/down.

Which means a 'consistently good' film can get almost all thumbs up - even if it's not that-that good.

Whereas an unevenly good films, with pangs of genius can get not so many thumbs up.

It tends to skew way up or down.

Metacritic I think is much better.
Interesting--this seems forward-thinking and useful.
Craft brewers are not in strict competition with all other craft brewers for the whole market. They would have to expand their operations immensely to do so (and likely no longer be considered "craft"). If I want a pilsner with more or less hop, a smooth saison, or a high-alcohol belgian-style wheat beer, no craft brewer I know of can afford to serve all of these whims. That said, a craft brewer could seek a local monopoly on the citrusy saison, and collaborate to serve different niches.

Craft brewing is almost defined by a premium on variety, and that marketable variety creates an highly recursive system of market segmentation. Since flavour/atmosphere/taste has so many facets, and there is so much variance in terms of "customer success", all product categories which are differentiated by flavour and/or atmosphere and/or taste tend to multiply markets rather than consolidating them. Coca-Cola, for example, could be seen to have no competition at one level (the market for Coca-Cola specifically), and enormous competition (the market for all beverages). Legal restrictions on transportation and processing of raw coca leaf, and on marketing products as "Coca-Cola", help the Coca-Cola company retain a monopoly on Coca-Cola specifically.
Sure, some people treat it as an investment that can be hoarded, but that doesn't change the fact that it can be exchanged. Your narrow definition of medium of exchange sort of excludes any deflationary currency that someone may hold on to as an investment.

It could even be expanded to include inflationary currency in a country where hyperinflation is occurring. People will hold on to USD or some other currency as an investment because it'll be worth significantly more tomorrow than whatever currency the supermarket down the street accepts.
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So this post is getting downvoted, but no one is arguing why they disagree or believe this is not a realistic outlook. Emotional responses don't really help anyone, and this is not Reddit.
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"--which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants--becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
How long has fivethirtyeight been using thirteen trackers on their pages? (per Ghostery)
Drupal was also close to picking a new library to replace or supplement Backbone, and React was just dropped out of the running (with a strong favor for Vue) a week or two ago.
If you cleared $10MM on the sale, you could absolutely buy and operate a baby jet (a 501, 525, 510, Premiere, etc, maybe even a 560) without going broke.

I'm likely to buy one if I ever crack $7MM. $5MM is a bit too snug I think though to contemplate owning a jet personally (unless it's a business enabler).
The WebAssembly grouo may be different, but in every other group I've seen, the browsers simply didn't care about what everyone else was doing.

To the point that they redefined the URL spec and then complained that cURL didn't fulfill it.
I quit cold turkey about a year ago after many years of a pack a day.

I remember when I first set foot in China, I smoked a cigarette inside the customs building while waiting for my visa to be processed. Over half the men are smokers in China, it is the norm.

Fast forward a few years and I move to San Francisco. One of my strongest impression was how I was perceived and treated as a smoker. It probably contributed to my decision to quit, so I'm selfishly grateful for it. But man, it is a harsh thing to experience.

I'm not sure it's a good thing overall. There are a lot of smokers who do not want to quit despite the risks. I personally try to be tolerant with them, live and let live.
The same thing happened at my company (Fortune 150 company). We settled on Vue too, and it has been amazing. But if this had happened back when we were considering things we probably would have gone with React.
"which they're not "

Many of them are though.

If you ever get a chance to study some 'old film's in Uni or whatever, it's pretty interesting.

A lot oldies can seem a little bland to us, but they're like novels - they are much richer than we grasp at first glance.

Also there is context.

Best example would be Charlie Chaplin. I mean, it can seem ridiculous ... but really it's genius.

Pacing and language has changed so much especially - we have such short attention spans these days ...
I always thought a group based around the giving pledge would be great.

You filter yourself to high value people because they're more likely to be able to afford 10%. You have a sacrifice these people are making, and a reason to help others. If you help some random guy land a job where he's making good money it further your goal of increasing donations to charity.
GraphQL has an ongoing discussion about this (that predates much of the recent flare ups about PATENTS): https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351

The complicating factor there is Facebook actually has a patent covering the GraphQL specification (along with the fact that they're applying PATENTS to a specification, vs an implementation): https://www.google.com/patents/US9646028
The + and non-+ versions are effectively different models, thus eight.

Besides the size, the only difference are the camers between the Plus and non-Plus models.
Reading this I'm struck by a bit of sadness that this kind of market manipulation is the way some obviously not-entirely-dumb people choose to use their time. But I guess manipulation of a market for personal gain isn't too terribly different from manipulation of people's emotions via reality TV in order to sell ads.
First, a sale of $14M doesn't get you $14 - you'd get less than 10 - best case.
Second, your after inflation return in the current environment may be quite ugly - $300K or $400K a year will not feel rich in any east or west coast city.
I switched to vaping about 4 years ago. Even on nights that I forget to charge and thus end up with a dead battery, I still go outside and hang with the smokers every so often.

I still appreciate the reset from the conversation at whatever social place / gathering I'm at, as well as the switch in context and opportunity to meet others. And generally, smokers don't care whether you're also smoking.

I also take the equivalent of smoking breaks while I'm working. I can vape at my desk for hours, but I like to go outside for a bit to spend 5 minutes away every so often.

It's one of the few positive (and free) habits I got from being a smoker for 22 years, and I'm not giving it up.
That said, if you've got COBOL, Fortran, etc on your resume you're pretty much guaranteed to get asked about it in an interview.
Only 2 that you know of. I work for a Fortune 150 company and we settled on Vue almost solely due to the licensing issue.
"Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price.

Without malice aforethought I had given them the best show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing of the Pilgrims!

It was easily worth fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over." - Charles Ponzi

I too can quote the thing I believe Bitcoin is most like. I can even reason about it: Bitcoin is like a Ponzi scheme because the only value comes from selling at a higher price than you buy it for before it hits zero. Because no value is being created, only moved around, for anyone to make money they have to get out before everyone left loses everything.

Why do you think Bitcoin is like the internet, aside from the fact that the internet was not believed to be valuable, and it turned out to be; and Bitcoin is not believed to be valuable? Many things are not believed to be valuable, they do not all become the internet.
Houses of worship often serve these purposes.
I bought a phone in the USA with cash, no id required. It seemed to be the norm.

As in, I was fully expecting to at least show a credit card or passport, but there was never any hint of that at all.
Patents offer small companies no protection in a dispute with a large company. The legal fight is too expensive.