skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree, the revenue figures just do not backup the valuation. Having said that, its getting close to a realistic number right now.

Good company, great idea, amazing traction...just show better revenue and the valuation will follow. Good on them for having a successful IPO though, a lot of fuss has been made about it but i'm sure deep down inside they know they got the better end of the deal.
Or better still, tmux.

http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
I work at Twilio. Thanks for the kind words in the article.

It's important to actually watch people use your documentation, to see how effective it is. The OP linked to our HowTo section as a good example of focusing on use cases. In user tests the HowTo sections are one of the least effective sections of our documentation. Most of the howtos are only available in PHP or C#, and the way they are written now makes it difficult to translate that code into the language the user would rather use. They also put more focus on working code samples than on explaining the concepts - people really struggle with understanding what happens when they get a call or a text at their Twilio number. We're working on revamping our documentation to help make this stuff more clear.

So I'd be wary - the concept of code samples is good, but the devil is clearly in the details.
It's a total digression, but this brings a tear to my eye too. Kids today will never know the suffering that was endured by their predecessors.
> 20% increased risk of death or disease over the span of a generation is not worth getting excited about? For someone who's healthy, it may seem insignificant when the baseline risk is low, but for someone who develops a chronic disease, in hindsight a 20% reduction may be very appealing. Minimizing regret is important.T

You should read the article; the rest of the paragraph is as follows:

> So with lung cancer we could buy as a society the observation that cigarettes cause lung cancer because it was and remains virtually impossible to imagine what other factor could explain an association so huge and dramatic. Experiments didn’t need to be done to test the hypothesis because, well, the signal was just so big that the epidemiologists of the time could safely believe it was real. And then experiments were, in effect, done anyway. People quit smoking and lung cancer rates came down, or at least I assume they did. (If not, we’re in trouble here.) When I first wrote about the pseudoscience of epidemiology in Science back in 1995, “Epidemiology Faces It’s Limits”, I noted that very few epidemiologists would ever take seriously an association smaller than a 3- or 4-fold increase in risk. These Harvard people are discussing, and getting an extraordinary amount of media attention, over a 0.2-fold increased risk. (Horn-blowing alert: my Science article has since been cited by over 400 articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature, according to Thomson Reuter’s Web of Knowledge.)

The point is that we don't know if there's a 20% increase of risk if you start eating more red meat. We only know that the people who elected to do, and were sampled in the study (the top quintile), did have a 20% increase. There's a big difference here; statistics is subtle.

> As for scientific validity of those studies, doing proper scientific studies of diet is so difficult it might as well be impossible.

I agree, but then we should refrain from telling people that meat, and red meat in particular, is what's killing them. Especially when there are much more likely targets, like sugar.
How does one use that template? Can you show me a function that takes anything with a do() method? Like this?:

do<A>(a)
do<B>(b)

Can I take any arbitrary type with an "int do()" method and use that with do? Like:

do(Arbitrary)
It's not just a matter of gaining weight. It's also a matter of consuming things our bodies have NOT evolved to digest/use properly. I dunno about you, but I rather not consume those types of food often because they can lead to disease. There's plenty of evidence already out there that proves grains are not meant to be digested by most people.
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It would be helpful to have an email (ideally w/ GPG key :) somewhere so that you could be easily contacted.
"slope is defined as ∆x/∆y"

Do you mean ∆y/∆x?
Thanks.

A little further remark, I'm not actually opposed to applying math (or e.g. some kind of logical modeling), just to the "traditional" applied math subjects, i.e. numerical computing or statistics.
Visit a slaughterhouse and make up your mind. Cruelty to humans is bad, but cruelty to animals is ok?

Shouldn't we respect consciousness and the living force even in less developed creatures?
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PHP is not on Github, the project on Github is simply a mirror.

http://git.php.net/
https://github.com/php/php-src

EDIT: They are receptive pull requests, though.
Ok, I might be missing something here, but WTF? Does this bit actually have a use?

EDIT: Oh, April 1st...
Is it really so hard to see the real value a service like Facebook provides? I’m personally not a fan of Facebook (but found it to be tremendously useful for quite a few things in the past) but I know several people who find it very useful. At its worst it’s a silly diversion (ála Reddit or Hacker News, though certainly not worse than those), at its best it’s a rich communication infrastructure tailor-made for certain kinds of relationships.

Social networks are here to stay. They fix many of the shortcomings of older ways of communicating. Facebook has shown that it’s possible to make money with that. Their current numbers are most certainly not an invalidation of the business model or service, it’s more that they might have wanted too much.

Social networks are a sound idea. Facebook has a competent implementation of a social network. Maybe it’s not enough to rule the world – but I think it’s enough to make some money and be a healthy business (though Facebook seems to want more).
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I wonder if someone could take this and fix that silly namespace character.
I agree. I also don't think it's an issue worth devoting much time over. Just legalize it, and stop debating it. There's so many more relevant issues at stake in society.
One interesting fact: even though they are explicitly looking for Python devs, no actual Python experience is required. This is the second instance I see of something like this in London (the first being the company I work for, http://new-bamboo.co.uk).

It looks like there's a lack of experienced developers in London, or at least in some technologies. Therefore companies needs must resort to finding "generic" good programmers who can be trained.

Of course I don't have any statistically significant data, only anecdotal experience. However it does resonate with the difficulty that we have had finding Ruby devs at New Bamboo in the last few months.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I wonder if there's the same lack of supply of PHP devs.
Popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint have shifted away from it

What do they use instead? Just gnome 2.x?
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And unless I'm mistaken, home-schooled children tend to consistently outperform their public-schooled peers in testing, yes?
The same place you meet other regular people: bars, clubs, bookstores, grocery stores, classes, gyms, etc.
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I don't see how the design could be adapted to disc brakes. The majority of vehicles sold have drum brakes on the rear, probably close to the 90% figure the person in the video mentions. Furthermore, cars with disc brakes on the back often have a cheaper trim version equipped with drum brakes, so reverting these back to drum brakes would not be overly difficult - swap out the mechanical bits and adjust the brake bias.
Why should the government endorse practices only supported by you? You are not special.

Marriage should not be a purely religious ceremony. It should be an individual's choice, consent of both the partners.

I don't agree that a religious institution HAS to validate/conduct a religious ceremony. Again, it should be left to the individual.
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When there are 630 resumes in the pile, the read/filter will be done by a junior HR person who probably couldn't tell XML from SQL.

I'd rather be filtered by a programming test, where my programming abilities put me ahead of the pack!

With that said, most of the programming tests I've been given in the past have been fairly interesting so perhaps that biases my opinion. I'm certainly no fan of jobs where they send you a huge MS Word application form.
This seems like the optimal legal approach to me, too. And I'm not really sure why no progress is being made toward it: I've rarely if ever heard objection to it and a "government out of marriage" approach seems appealing to most people on either side of the gay-marriage-legality issue that I've spoken to. [Obviously this is anecdote and narrow at that.] I suppose it's just not politically possible right now — if it were to gather any steam, no doubt it'd get bogged down in "these people are trying to abolish marriage!"; and it seems likely a more difficult solution to legally execute well.

But the immediate question, regardless of whether government should be involved in marriage or not, is whether we should pass laws to cause the government to treat this institution that it is involved in in a fair and equitable way (and reject laws that would enshrine unfairness).
Of none whatsoever; but ego can be a great motivator.

The problem isn't being motivated by ego, it's being motivated by ego before you've proven to others that you can handle the responsibility. :)
Their target audience is not tofu eaters, it's chicken eaters. They put that stuff in to make it close to meat, that was the whole point of the article.
That depends on what test you run IIRC.
We effectively already have that. A legal marriage is obtained completely independently from a religious marriage. The simple fact that the legal construct is called "marriage" seems to throw the religious types into a fervor, because they somehow think that changing the legal construct has some effect on their own religious use of the word. I guess the fact that words can have multiple meanings and be used in different ways is not taught in Sunday school.

There's no reason to change the name of the legal agreement known as "marriage" to "civil union" other than to pacify the superstitious.
And the crazy thing is that you certainly don't buy stock if you dont expect the value to rise. Did these people really think that we would decide fb is REALLY worth 200b they were going to 2x their investment? The opinions were either: way too high or ehhh, I guess it could be right. That doesn't make me feel like a stock is undervalued and I will make money from it. No idea what these people were doing beyond buying a ticket on the hype rollercoaster.
>At the same time there are other libertarians who don't support a boycott because they believe that people are entitled to hold opinions that differ from their own.

Whereas I, a progressive libertarian (free-market progressive?) believe that worldview to be inconsistent with libertarianism, hence lolbertarian.

Companies, governments, organizations, institutions at large all exert and respond to their own social pressures and cannot be considered in isolation thereof.
That is what a marriage (in the United States) is. It is a civil contract. There is nothing inherently religious about it. You can go down to the county courthouse, pay $20 or so, and be married by a judge.

That some religions have a "marriage" ceremony is orthogonal. What makes you married in the legal sense is the marriage certificate you get from the government. Any ceremony is just for show. What the US Government defines as marriage is purely a civil thing.
It's not a design limitation. Gamepads are designed to handle multiple use cases, not just one. That's why the analog joystick works as a substitute for the D-pad for many games.

To presume that there's only one way to hold it is just narrow thinking.

Hell, this guy (Brolylegs) was a top bracket player in Street Fighter in EVO and he uses his face on a gamepad to play a game that requires directional control and six buttons to play properly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va2QO-qtb_Q

--edit--

>> claiming it's superior to another device designed without those limitations? The PHP hammer springs to mind.

So "hey, I can use a device designed for text entry as a game controller" isn't like a PHP hammer?
Keeping languages of different paradigms or whitespace conventions straight is pretty easy.

I echo the article, though, on the perils of using similar languages in the same niche. I love using regular expressions; I hate that every language's regex engine has slightly different syntax and features. So a bell went off in my head when I saw that was one of the topics he found appropriate to take notes on.
It's not just the cost that's the problem, it's the huge risk of a bone marrow transplantation. I've worked in a transplantation ward, and the mortality rates are huge. In our case, about a third of patients was cured following the procedure, a third died within the first few months, and another third developed serious graft versus host disease, a complication where the donor cells attack the host body (5-year-survival-rate 53 % in our patients.)

In patients with leukemia, you usually try at least one round of chemotherapy first, and reserve transplantation for desperate cases where the drugs don't work. Even if this turns out to be viable as a cure for AIDS, I expect it'll work the same way. It's just too deadly as a regular treatment.
Just pointing out: bandwidth isn't half as important as latency is in this context. We still don't know how good latency will be on Google Fiber.
The default is to install from the App Store or signed developers. That's not unreasonable and it gives you a error when it wont run. Googling the error message would give you several different options to run an unsigned app. The "new file system" as said earlier is 100% optional. You can use local storage the same way you did in 10.7. Yes you have autosave but for most users that's probably for the better.
I'm still not sure I understand the criticism. I'm sure that Kahn must eventually get to rate of change in his algebra course. The criticism is then supposed to be that Kahn didn't motivate his students on why they should care about slope soon enough?

If so, that's a completely different criticism, however, from the criticism that Khan is putatively making an alarmingly dense stream of gross factual errors.

I think that we can all agree that Kahn is not the best possible teacher that exists in the world for each given subject. Is that a decent argument against what he has done? Hardly! That would be letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Considering that so many people learn from the Kahn Academy these days, an argument can certainly be made that Kahn's lectures should all eventually be replaced with lectures by the actual best teacher in the world for that given topic. For all we know, this is already in the works.
"Personally, I think this was a fraudulent deal by GS/Morgan Stanley -- Given all the criminality in banking thats been painfully obvious for years"

Please point me to a link that shows all of the banks and employees that have been charged with crimes.

I hope you don't actually think that the lack of being charged with crimes means no crimes were committed. This is an awful line of logic.
Sane defaults is fine. Hidden options limits its capabilities which are sometimes essential.
There has to be something regional/cultural about this that I'm missing since I hear this complaint a lot, but don't know anyone personally that experienced it until very recently.

When I went to high school in Pennsylvania the 90s people were still encouraged to into the trades. I have some friends from high school that have gone on to be very successful electricians and welders. Even when my brother went to the same school and graduated in 2007 he was never pushed to go to college. He ended up getting his AA at a local university and is now a paramedic/fire fighter for the same city.
I think this debate does sadly just come down to semantics, and I tend to side with Kahn on that merit. Once I got past a certain point in my math education (first half of intro of calculus 1) "slope" wasn't used anymore. We moved to derivatives and gradients. In my education we've always used slope as a purposefully simple/geometric term for 1 dimensional lines plotted in two dimensional x-y planes.
Did you read the first (highest rated) answer? This has nothing to do with iTunes trying to be "an algorithmic DJ" rather than truly random, it has do with the confusing intersection of two features: You can pick the first song in the randomly "shuffled" playlist, and a shuffled playlist holds its order until it is re-shuffled.

The user posting the question assumed that when he double-clicked on the first song in the playlist, iTunes was re-shuffling the playlist. It wasn't. It assumed he wanted to start the playlist again. If he had picked any other song to double click after playback was stopped, it would have re-shuffled the playlist.

The solution was to toggle shuffle off and then on again. Then he'd force re-shuffling.

iTunes does have a separate algorithmic DJ feature, by the way, called iTunes DJ. No need to mess up shuffle. Shuffle is truly random.
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I'm not sure how your first paragraph differs from saying that some social consensus, at some point in time, constitutes ethics, for no other reason than that consensus.
If you already have a business that can sustain itself for a few years, it's unlikely you need any VC money at all.
>Please point me to a link that shows all of the banks and employees that have been charged with crimes.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/

Don't be a pedant. Have you not been paying attention to everything that has been going on the last several years?

What about LIBOR?

My comment is not "anti-bank populist sentiment" - it is solidly founded in fact.

You appear to be in denial about whats really been going on in finance.
The design decreases the efficiency of the car in total, through increase in weight, increase in mass and probably a few other things we haven't thought of. It makes up for it by allowing you to replace gasoline with electricity, which is much cheaper.

Less efficient, much cheaper, and hopefully less environmentally harmful.

I like what this solution offers - a chance for someone like me who will probably never buy a new car to easily modify an older car to run at least partially off electricity.
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"Government out of the marriage business entirely" would be great. Also agreed on the government providing civil unions that give all the current rights and privileges currently set up under what is currently known as marriage.

As far as I can tell, the only feasible way that we get there is by the states allowing same-sex marriage, and then the FedGov comes along for the ride, followed by FedGov doing a ''mutatis mutandis'' change in law to talk about civil unions.
>So why do you think they need to revolutionise the controller?

I don't. I wanted to point out that they copied an existing, working design. Which is probably a smart thing to do for such a project.

>As for their abstracted nature, one of the distinguishing features of humans vs animals is our ability to use tools, devices which are one step abstracted from direct action.

Careful with such claims ;) Even birds can learn that.
My son has been watching Sal give lessons for the last year. Sal makes mistakes sometimes. My son usually notices and asks for clarification. We end up with a nice discussion about the topic at hand and arrive at a correct answer. If it's math related, I've got it covered. If it's not, we do some research.

Classroom teachers make mistakes. Textbooks make mistakes. But the system is set up to disallow question of these two authorities. Example: Math class is the first class of the day; teacher follows textbook and textbook is wrong; child questions and is waved off; is that kid gonna remember at the end of the day that she needed to ask mom about this problem? No.

I much prefer when Sal makes a mistake because it makes for a learning experience. What's nice is when my son comes back some time later and tells me that Sal's video has been corrected.
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The stitched-together movement that is overflowing from the Wall Street protest can have a huge impact if it holds firm against a malevolent corporatism and the political hucksters who dangle promises of “hope and change.”
Before MS/GS were appointed, the tech press was already talking about a $100bn valuation - Do they know what they are talking about? no. Are they to blame? no.

The final go ahead to the pricing of a company going public is down to the shareholders/board/CFO; not the banks. Banks are great escape goats, but not the reason why FB had a ridiculous valuation.
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Not much alternative :
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator
This is the best, simplest way to describe what's going on. Well said.

Personally, I think this is the ideal behavior. I want a random playlist, but want to play through the whole thing as time goes on. Pure shuffle would give me a new playlist every time I went to a podcast or some other random song, whereas shuffling a playlist means I can go back to where I was in that random list, and not worry about hearing the same stuff again.
According to the Water Education Foundation, it takes 2,464 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef in California. In contrast, only 25 gallons of water are needed to produce one pound of wheat.
Could also be a function of triage. AIDS patients may not have been high up the list for bone marrow.
> and we can establish something like a civil union contract law to handle issues like joint ownership of property, child custody, and inheritance.

We have such a contract. It's called marriage. If you look at the law of marriage, there is nothing in there that's predicated on there being a woman and a man, and there is nothing in there that is specific to religion. In the United States, which never had ecclesiastic courts, marriage has always been a strictly civil, contractual legal construct.

The problem with a civil union contract is that the law is full of references to marriage. E.g. in the law of evidence there is the principle of marital immunity, which is that spouses can't be forced to testify against each other in criminal trials. Do you want to go back and rewrite all of that?
What fields of maths are you interested in ?
I solved this problem by creating a smart playlist that only includes songs I haven't heard in X days. I actually went further and made it include 5-star songs I haven't played in X days, 4-star in X weeks, and 3-star in X months. I hear the songs I like the most, but the constantly updated list prevents the "random" shuffle algorithm from picking the same songs too often.
Sidenote: The writer is selling his own book - "Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc."
Google still has Street View WiFi data from UK, several other countries
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