skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I think it must be based on the average karma, because my profile is older and I have more karma than wheelerwj but I have no downvote capacity.

Also, I can't even imagine the amount of contributions that are required to reach the amount of karma you have.
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> These guys won the side-project lottery

This is far from the truth. There was a clear demand for free image hosting that is easy to work with, and imgur fit the bill.
>Many researchers prefer to spend this money on actual research.

Compared to the cost to license journal access from Elsevier and the other parasites 3k per published item is cheap. The problem being that it comes from your grant funds instead of the Uni's general fund, or the Dep't funds.
Members of Congress are already exempt.
For some heavily graphical subreddits (r/funny and such) the imgur subcategory is almost better, you skim faster through a gallery than through titles list.
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> The iPhone 5, 4s, 4 etc has sold out too, despite not having one.

The iPhone 4 added a gyroscope, the 4s added a better microphones and associated audio chipset to improve speech recognition. The iPhone 5 added support for Airdrop. Following your logic then Apple really has no excuse not to add features like a digitiser because they will sell out anyway.

> They did it because it enables some things

Yes, and a pen digitiser and palm rejection enables reliable note taking, annotation and illustration.

> the technology doesn't offer much outside of that market (designers, painters and painting enthusiasts etc)
That's like saying that only journalists and novel writers need a keyboard, only photographers need a camera. The success of the iPad over traditional laptops has come from a natural way to interact with things directly like they do in real life. In real life people use pens everyday to jot things down.

> If it was, Surface would have faired better too.
What? The Surface does not have a pen. Only the Surface pro which is $400 more expensive than an iPad and doesn't run iOS.
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Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?
Just learned from Venturebeat & Techcrunch that JustFab closed $40 million in a Series C round of funding [1][2].

It kept me wonder why a company with very questionable (I will try to avoid using the word "fraudulent") business model was able to raise big money. Didn't the VCs have to do the due diligence?

I didn't have any direct experience with JustFab. The victim was my girlfriend. Back in January 2012, one of her friends emailed her a link to JustFab, then she bought a pair of shoes from www.justfab.com and never visit the website again. Then 8 months later, in September 2013 she finished her Master study in the US and returned to her home country. She was appalled to find out that her credit card has been charged a $39.95 fee for the last eight months. Yes, $39.95 for 8 months, without getting anything from JustFab.

I then did a bit research on the internet. It turned out my girlfriend wasn't the only victim. Apparently JustFab works like this: once you buy something from their website, you become their "VIP member" without your knowledge. Then you will have to log into their website between the 1st-5th of each month and click “Skip This Month”. If no action is taken (either skip this month, or cancel your account), they just charge you a $39.95 fee every month.

According to article published on BusinessInsider, JustFab "generate about $100 million this year" in sales, I wonder how much of this $100 million are from people like my girlfriend who simply didn't read their entire 2,500 words Terms of Service and were unaware that they were charged $39.95 a month for nothing.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/26/justfab-sews-up-40m-to-become-global-fast-fashion-empire/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/justfab-has-raised-another-40m-led-by-hong-kongs-shining-capital-to-take-its-fashion-subscription-commerce-model-to-asia/

ps. This is a re-post of my last year's post [3], hoping it will get upvoted to the frontpage of HN so that more people get to know the shady business JustFab does. Apparently VCs don't do due diligence any more, as long as scam companies like JustFab can bring them money.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778
The reason why Imgur got so big was because all the other image upload providers started monetizing themselves by blocking direct links and limiting traffic. No one else wanted to be stuck with huge bandwidth bills on hard to monetize reddit visitors where most of them have adblock.

For some reason people feel obligated to link to the Imgur page instead of directly to the image. This allows Imgur to make money off the ads on the page. Maybe this is because the founder made it seem like he made the site just to solve Reddit's image hosting problems for free(he also made a similar announcement on Digg).

Without this support and the growth of unlimited bandwidth servers, I don't think Imgur would have became so big.

If they decide to disallow hotlinking or add more intrusive ads, another replacement would pop up. This is probably why the founder wants to focus on getting revenue in a different way.
I'd love some examples of where to find this data?
That might be an android problem! iOS doesnt allow but android does allow carriers to shit around.
Everyone uses a pen.
Some people asked why it took her 8 months to find out [3]: she was studying for her Master degree in the US, didn't have a SSN, was using a credit card issued by a bank in her home country, her father paid the bill for her at home and didn't notice anything unusual until she finished her study and came home to look at the credit card bills.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778
You can use it in place of Google. https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-search-results

The price is low enough that you should have no problem running adsense against results to make back the cost and turn a profit.

Plus since we return Json you can do more styling to your liking. And we return the Social Icon/Avatar, the OpenGraph Image, and you get a summary of the page rather than a snippet, so I think you get a much better set of features for your users.
The iPad has already mastered touch tableting. Adding a digitiser does not change that.
There's also #rust and #servo on the same server. We're very very nice!
no one has paid apple to do that. It is not an advertisement. It is more of like internet explorer built in. Whereas undeletable advertisement bookmark is like having a unchangable wallpaper by some third party.
Unrelatedly terrible results:
https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+ros+pcl+download+hangs+f...
This is actually in the "reference" implementation of the current web interface: http://seld.be/rustdoc/master/std/from_str/trait.FromStr.htm... (the [src] link.)

(That feature has yet to be ported to the Rust port of the HTML generator though.)
Web Developers are a neat bunch. It's amazing what kind of inference you can do with exploiting document structure to make different kind of inferences alongside more traditional approaches like word frequency analysis, LDA, or even deep learning/word distributional inference. NLP on the web especially question answering and search, can still be greatly expanded upon.
> "I've seen some pretty nice office space in converted warehouses and repurposed industrial areas. "

I've looked into these spaces before - they are surprisingly expensive. Even if you can find an empty disused warehouse, it takes a truckload of money to bring it up-to-spec for office use. Brand new plumbing, brand new wiring, TONS of interior work...

Repurposed industrial buildings look and feel great, and have a lot of soul, but they are counterintuitive frequently more expensive than a boring highrise office tower with drop ceilings.
What Causes Some to Participate in Bubble Markets?
Sure, there's value in rare words, but I don't think anything that occurs across the corpus fewer than 3 times is going to tell you anything useful. You need a certain amount just to have it be a real signal. What was the least frequent useful word in the data set, msalahi?
Invites to WebRTC screensharing
Your book is definitely an excellent contribution (I bought it as soon as I found out about it). When I first came to the language I was a little surprised that O'Reilly didn't have a book out, but I guess it was too unstable even for them. Having a good reference that covers not only the syntax (which isn't that hard to learn, let's be honest) but the best practices and common patterns in the language is always a real help.
Good grief no. They might build another Space Shuttle; bigger and stupider than the last one. I know it sucks, but let's wait the bureaucrats who're in charge now out for just a few more years.
Someone asked for links, here are a few:

geodesy: http://pbo.unavco.org/data/gps/realtime

Earth: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/

space weather: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/

time-domain astronomy: http://voeventnet.caltech.edu/feeds/Catalina.shtml

The last one is pretty neat. It contains an XML event summary that can be used to target a telescope automatically, if you think that event is of interest to you. The events are automatically found by an image-processing front end which taps into a near-earth-objects survey. In other words, they did the hard work already to find unexplained brightness variations.
I use BitBucket for private repos and GitHub for public-facing resume stuff. Generally works best.
Why are Americans giving up their citizenship?
I'd like to add that they also provide many useful features, like nice album views and bulk downloads. And I suspect those useful features, combined with the eye-friendly design, help make people much more likely to paste non-direct links.
Because they are not highly qualified to teach in a university, let alone remedial material in high school, let alone control kids. Ph.D's teach you how to conduct research/scholarship. Unless you are getting a Ph.D. in education, that has nothing to do with how to teach. Even then, it's tangental.

Moreover, the rigid, controlled form of teaching used in most schools is for almost every Ph.D. student the antithesis of the teaching environment they are used to.
I thought it was some kind of sarcasm. Confused, I went and googled SpoonRocket. It exists. This comment was not sarcasm.

You start your comment with "wanting to work for a cause" and end it with a sentence about a fucking food delivery startup being "something to get fired up about". It just blew my mind.
All of the "A-tier" companies pay $100K+ for undergrads with co-op experience. This is Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, among many others.

As a Canadian expat, Canadians who stay in Canada frankly get royally fucked in salary. The curve doesn't exactly close up either - I'm a few years out of school now and the gap between me and a salary I could command in Vancouver/Toronto is still about 100%.
this is why i drop "of thermodynamics" because that calls for many-particles situation. Referring to "2nd law" i mean the generic "non-decreasing" entropy principle, and i'm wondering about its violations - mainly i believe that there are no violations of it in the physical world (as the known laws of physics seems to obey/describe that principle), and this is what prompted my original question about virtual particles.

I understand that pure statistical interpretation allows for non-negligible chances of the violations. What i'm wondering about is whether strong, non-statistical, interpretation is valid - ie. whether anything looking like a violation is just a non-complete calculation. After all it is pretty fascinating that entropy principle applicable (at least in statistical interpretation) on all scales - from the whole Universe down to quantum systems and for all the physical laws/forces.
Tuition for members would be $19,400 (8*$2,425) over four years [1].

(I was one of the lucky ones with a full+ tuition scholarship. My wife had a half-tuition athletic scholarship, which was essentially full-tuition because her dad is faculty so she only had to pay half.)

[1] http://finserve.byu.edu/content/tuition-and-general-fees
But the question is: Would those other image dumps would have stopped putting in hotlink protection if they knew people would change back to non-direct links?

Or is it because the founder of imgur told people he made imgur just to help Reddit users?

Before imgur, most links were direct.

The answer to this question should be interesting to entrepreneurs here: Is it a good strategy to create a business for a large social network under the pretense of public good? Is the sheer number of users more important than how monetizable they are and the likelihood they will reciprocate?
I mean, I don't wanna draw conclusions, but it's very strange that so many accounts are compromised compared to, say, facebook. On facebook, it happens, but it's because you were phished.

Too bad there's no insight from twitter itself.
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Thanks for clarifying. To reiterate my point, I think the way free speech ideally should work is that you are technically free to be stupid. Don't be surprised if you get fired from your job. That is the responsibility you take on for spouting your opinion. That however does not mean that is something "sad" or "awful" which the parent post was implying. It simply is a function of outliers existing in a distribution of people. I am sure I can pick such outliers in any country of your choice.
So essentially everything is on-topic since anyone who responds to a complaint regarding relevance will claim it gratified their curiosity.
"Haha IFR is a fancy-sounding term but you really mean you just find a road and follow it to your destination as though you were in a car"
They also offer pro accounts too for ~$25 a year, which I would imagine is fairly useful if you are a heavy user of their service.

For example, since the pro account as no inactivity pruning, I bet you could setup a photography website that hosts tons of images, and use imgur as your primary image host to offset bandwidth use...
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Let's look up help on how to write a function

:h function

Ok, that's wrong.

Let's look up vimscript then, that probably has function information

:h vimscript

Nope, that's not what we want. But obviously function is further down the list

/function

Oh dear.

Let's say we want to do something on opening a python file, and we see someone else using Bufenter

:h bufenter

Ok, no usage examples. What to do?

Eventually we find out about autocmd, by luck. What if we want to include multiple statements in an autocmd?

:h autocmd

Nothing

/multiple

Nothing

Let's say (when you get lucky, again) and find out about :cmd1 | cmd2, you want to learn about |

:h |

nope

:h pipe

not even close!

Ooooooooooh maybe we have to escape it?

:h \|

what?

ooooh wait, we're in command mode, DUH

:h :pipe

aw, shit.

Maybe we want to split an array in vimscript.

:h split

Nope.

:h arary

Nothing. Maybe it's a list?

:h list

Nope. No splitting today, I guess.

If you think :h i_ctrl-w is intuitive, then, well. Have you ever been treated for schizophrenia or psychosis?

Let's say on entering a ruby file we want to press enter.

:au bufenter *.rb <cr>

open rb file..

trailing characters: <cr>

Oh god what the shit?

:h bufenter

nothing

:h ... it's now impossible to look up help on this problem. It's also impossible to google for it

We want to change the background color

:h background

Uhhhhh

:h color

Ok, I get it, I'm not going to find help on this. Time to give up.

I want to figure out how to set guicursor

:h guicursor

Are you 98% serious right now? Why are the examples using :highlight Cursor? Jesus.

Vim has horrible help. I will wait patiently for you to upvote my answer as opposed to downvote it, and I'll consider us even.
So I get downvoted by stating the truth. It shows how many HN readers have done portable development across real UNIX systems.
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> Free speech does exist. But do remember that any free country also stipulates that the freedom comes with the responsibility that you do not use your freedom to hurt others.

There is a distinction between "hurting someone" as in "yelling fire" in a crowded theatre to "hurting someone" as in going on twitter and spouting random crap. Sure, you can sue for emotional damages or whatever if you please. However, it really is not the same thing. At least the way it works in America. I know that in some European countries, one's free speech rights are limited (e.g. when it comes to holocaust denial or whatever).
Sorry, "my own Web site" should have read "my company's Web site", with user forum, product knowledge base, tutorials, articles, PDF documents, and the like. Planting AdSense on it would be nonsense.

We used to pay $100/year for Google Custom Search. They had problems processing our payment for this year's renewal, which they did not bother to resolve, so I've been looking for alternatives.
"Unlike other countries, Americans are taxed not only as residents of the US but also as citizens, wherever they live."

Huh?? Just because you are a US citizen, you have to pay taxes to the US wherever you live? Is any other country in the world having such policies?
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I can see your point, but as someone with a long sting as a manager in Silicon Valley I can tell you what happens in real life. Employees divide into two groups: the "honest" ones and the "work the system" ones.

The honest ones take sick days when they are sick. Out of ten sick days they take one or three or eight. The number they take each year depends on how sick they got and how often.

The "work the system" ones take the full allotment every year.

So the system is unfair to people who are honest.
You make a good point, but what is the benefit of going down with your ship here. It's not like the gun debate where there are two sides to pander to. In this scenario, there are people who hate spying, and people who don't care. I have not met anyone who wanted MORE spying...Shouldn't she just turn around and champion dismantling the NSA, to win popular support, so she can stay in power.
I've been writing Rust code off and on, and even moving some code from back in February to the recent trunk codebase wasn't that painful: Yes, there were some changes I had to make, and the code isn't perfectly idiomatic modern Rust, but it does run.

I wouldn't devote a crucial project, school assignment, or startup to rust. But for some toy side projects, or small programs, it's not so bad right now.
Tail recursion is its own reward.
ASLR works much better in a 64-bit process.

mmapping files without blowing out your address space works a lot better in a 64-bit process (and system libraries love to mmap things like fonts, which can quickly take up a bunch of address space).

I just took a look at the address space usage on my Mac, and the spotlight indexer seems to be using about 1.5GB of address space (and 350MB of actual RAM, for some reason?), and a number of other built-in things (WindowServer, Apple80211Agent, Dashboard) are all north of the 500MB address space mark.
See that's the thing, I believe you. What I don't believe is the kind of salary like that in Vancouver as MAGZine stated.

The good news is that Vancouver salary is either close or at the same level with Toronto. That was not the case a few years ago.

The bad news is that Vancouver housing price is, we all know about this, awful.
Criminally inane reporting.

Edit: I am offended. Never have I read such a condescending article.
The cause is not delivery. The cause is healthy food that people can realistically purchase daily. Customers were the ones who (perhaps foolishly? Who knows?) traded away health for convenience by buying cheap fast food. SR attempts to eliminate the necessity of the tradeoff.
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Microsoft has about 60k of employees in Redmond alone back in the 2007. They can influence the economy of that city.
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Relevant reddit links:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to... (2009 - launch of imgur after 2 months of side project coding)

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_guy... (2010)

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_... (2011)

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eicjf/im_the_imgur_guy... (2012)
The common definition of spam is something that most people consider junk but a few people might use, thus justifying inflicting it upon everyone. Your definition is almost the opposite: something that most people find useful but that you happen not to need. This is an abuse if not outright misuse of the term.
Also, wouldn't anything like the traditional lightsaber glow constitute losses of photons from the crystal structure? That might become a problem.
That doesn't mean it wasn't a side project. I'm not sure, but I'll bet Alan Schaaf got pretty deep into Imgur before he quit his day job for it.
The headline isn't even accurate within the Star Wars universe: lightsabers aren't powered by the Force. They're just a piece of technology. That's why Han Solo can use Luke's on Hoth.
You can try it out.

put your companies name on the front of Samuru

http://cnn.com.samuru.com does cnn.com

If you want to search your company just put mycompany.com
on the front.

That will let you see if you would like the results.
I find that your comment about mercurial's data model a bit ridiculous.

The reason why most introductions to mercurial do not mention its data model is because it is _not_ important. You really do not need to care about it at all on your day to day use. I've been using mercurial for years and I've never had to ask myself what is mercurial's data model.

IMHO the reason why git forces you to understand its data model is because its UI is terrible. It is a failure of the tool when you need to understand how it works internally to use it. If git's UI were better its awesome data model would be something that only git devs would need to understand.
When my friend's mother opened her restaurant in Koreatown, they received, amongst other welcome-to-the-neighborhoods: phantom Yelp reviews (describing tickets and events that never occurred) and a string of big table reservations (no shows). One such "review" complaining about a rat infestation was written by a then Yelp Elite member rather than an obvious sockpuppet.

Who can you trust when even trust is gamed?
Don't forget about PDS! The Planetary Data System is where all NASA-funded data ends up eventually: http://pds.nasa.gov/
Those other libraries have "stringly typed" interfaces.
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Well, no income tax either.
What part of their success shouldn't you emulate? Are you suggesting people shouldn't do side projects because they might not be wildly successful? That doesn't sound like good advice. Sure, if you never try, you can never fail -- but you can also never succeed.
Not to diminish UT reputation but both UWa and UBC ranked the highest among Canadian universities when it comes to the annual ACM competitions.