skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think that Pinterest was a fad but that's because I had little understanding of its appeal and obviously I am not the target market but over the last few months for an article I've been writing about Pinterest being a silently growing dark horse in the social category I've come to realise it appeals to a lot of people. Amongst the fashion, make-up and hair niches Pinterest is pretty darn popular. Fashion stylists use it to create inspiration collections, make-up artists use it for helping create new looks and hairdressers especially love creating hair collections for inspiration as well.

There is also another segment that Pinterest appeals to and it's massive: women. Pinterest is used by a lot of women to create wishlists and curate their own look collections. My girlfriend has an avid interest in vintage clothing & decor and the TV show Mad Men and she uses Pinterest to create outfits that match those of the TV show. But not only that, she uses it as a shopping basket/wishlist of sorts and that kind of data is surely valuable. I know for a fact she has made purchases as a result of collections she has created on Pinterest, more times than I can count and I assume many other people have as well.

Many might not see the appeal in what appears to be from the outside an over-glorified image collecting service, but it's obvious it's a lot easier for Pinterest to make money in comparison to the likes of Facebook which currently struggle with monetisation. Don't underestimate Pinterest.
Someone I know works where a new regime is enforcing hours: 9 to 6. Effectively they have reinvented detention. (NB: don't tell me about Google and Cisco, because this isn't. A fair part of their staff is very effective at 35 hours per week, and another fair part is ineffective at any.)
The 'Cheap' iPhone Isn't Selling Because It Doesn't Make Anyone Jealous
Interesting, never had to use use StringInfo to get into surrogate pair support. Although its seems like this could be fixed since both char and string are abstracted from bytes, although indexing on variable length chars would increase computation or UTF-32 would increase memory.
Indexing on runes is expensive, since either you need to store strings as arrays of runes or iterate on each index operation. Indexing on runes is also less useful than it may first seem. Consider that a rune is distinct from a glyph--a single "character" on the screen may be composed of several runes. The occasions when you care about specific runes as opposed to substrings are uncommon. When dealing with substrings, there is no advantage to substring-of-runes as opposed to substring-of-bytes.

Note that many languages that appear to offer indexing by rune (e.g., Java) do not in fact do so, since their 16-bit "character" type is incapable of representing all runes. The fact that this is only rarely an issue points at the fundamental rarity with with code needs to deal with runes-qua-runes.
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So you're saying that landlords subsidize their low-income tenants' rent? That's totally going to be an awesome way to encourage people to build new housing and go into the landlording business! ... except not.

The destructive legacy of the War Emergency Tenant Protection Act (NYC's rent control law - the 'war' in question is WWII) is well-known and well-documented (and equally well ignored by people who think that it should work because they want the world to work that way). It's half the reason why the rent is too damn high - because no one builds apartments anymore except crazy luxury apartments. There's no money in it. Heck, landlords have abandoned hundreds of thousands of apartments over the decades because of rent control. The city took them over, and, at one point, realized it owned 70% of Harlem.

Clearly more of the same is the only answer. :P

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Postscript. When people ignore a consensus among climate scientists about global warming, we mock them. When people ignore a consensus among economists about the destructiveness of rent control (cf. the Whaples "where is there consensus?" surveys of economists), we elect them instead. Meh.
As one of the founders who was on right after you, I can say that it was awesome to see you guys get in right in front of us. We were a little disappointed that we weren't also called back as we walked off the stage, but after watching a recording of your talk with PG and Sam, I think you guys totally deserved it.
In a trading environment, the question of C# vs C++ is probably moot. The low latency trading languages of the future will probably be Verilog and VHDL.
It's not called out directly, but it's linked to from here [1].

[1] http://fontawesome.io/get-started/
I've tried using Pinterest, picked the sections I was interested in, like photography.

It really failed on all levels for me. It's just boring. The content is sooo mediocre.
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@miguelrochefort,

It's all too easy to dismiss a service of which you are obviously not the target market. How can you honestly say Pinterest aren't worth what investors think they are? Did you see those engagement metrics? Facebook which is arguably the most active social network currently in existence has nowhere near the level of engagement Pinterest does.

The strong purchasing intent coupled with invaluable data that companies would be clamouring for on what consumers like and what they don't is MASSIVE. Pinterest needs to exploit and utilise their massive trove of data and continue growing it and I think they'll eventually beat out Facebook.

People were once proclaiming that Twitter was a fad too, look them now...
And, strangely, Mahershalalhashbaz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher-shalal-hash-baz
Or if you don't like the dev's approach here, fork the code and turn on issues. I bet if you're more responsive, people will use your fork rather than the original dev's.
Sensationalized title. It appears this person may be using someone else's intellectual property. I don't see any indication that this has anything to do with the NSA. I can't be certain, but that's my take.
> Their service is trivial, and can't scale.

Google in 1998: "Their service is trivial, and can't scale."

Linkedin in 2003: "Their service is trivial, and can't scale."

Facebook in 2004: "Their service is trivial, and can't scale."

Twitter in 2007: "Their service is trivial, and can't scale."
As a Product Manager, I'm familiar with being on the other side of an outburst like this. I run a relaxed dev team with regular flexible hours, plenty of work-from-home, scheduled check ins and clear project timelines, with a sprint maybe at most twice a year lasting for 4-5 days maximum, and I still get these outbursts.

Im curious, because sometimes I think regardless of policy, some devs put mental pressure on themselves to the point of outburst and project it on policies or office issues or management. How much of this do you think is the policies you hate, and how much if it is your own internal struggle with what you'd rather be doing.
This won't go over well with the YC crowd given the forgiveness-is-better-than-permission indoctrination, but I find the scale of Pinterest's copyright infringements (users or Pinterest copying images from blogs and other sites and republishing them on Pinterest pages) to be really mind-boggling. I guess as long as it's not music or movies, both with powerful lobbies and lawyers behind them protecting their interests, still images are fair game (forget fair use) and rights-holders, often individual bloggers who took a nice photo, are at the mercy of DMCA. So Pinterest just pisses me off.
For accuracy it's worth pointing out that if Zookeeper dies only registration/deregistration goes down. The local HAProxy processes will continue to run, and applications will continue to be able to communicate with services. Zookeeper isn't a single point of failure for communication; it's just a registration service.
> Metrics only indicate what people think they want, not what they need. Metrics are only accurate if you look for trends. Long-lasting businesses don't rely on trends.

This really does not make any sense. Metrics as a general concept can and do encapsulate all the positive things you just mentioned (long-lasting value, what people need, etc). Just because a subset is shitty/misleading does not invalidate my argument. Obviously an investor must sift shitty metrics from good metrics, and shitty teams (that appear good) from good teams.

> Facebook, just like AirBnb, make a lot of sense. You don't need metrics to understand that.

Firstly, hindsight is 20/20, so that's easy for you to say. Obviously everyone now believes Facebook is a good idea; the same is not true back in 2004. Good investors recognize that they cannot necessarily tell the good ideas from the bad ideas, so they focus on team/metrics. The most revolutionary ideas typically seem like bad ideas.

> Do you want to live in a world where investors all throw their money at the next Instagram? Or do you want to live in a world where they invest in the next Xerox Parc?

You have not provided a reason we cannot have a world with both. Those are not mutually exclusive.
I get a blank page but hte content is easily viewable in the source (in a meta-tag for some reason?)
The low self esteem typical of those born to millions, decorated for their military service, and from a young age continually elected to public office?
I was born after JFK and never really "got" the mystique with the Kennedy family. Whenever a Kennedy family special show used to broadcast (pre-cable) I'd always just switch the channel to something more interesting or just turn it off. On the few occasions my Grandmother or Parents insisted I always found the obsessive fawning very tiresome.

The brief bits I learned over the years seem to point to a pretty seedy family history full of unprosecuted white-collar crime and general hustling before anybody caught on and criminalized it. Then turned the family wealth into political connections (as organized criminals are wont to do) and was put in charge of "campaign contributions" and the rest is history. "America's Royal Family" is a shameful appellation. I never thought they were terribly photogenic or glamorous or really all that interesting.

Using that as a background framework, none of the "scandalous" things I've ever heard about JFK or the family ever really surprised me. This is just yet another thing to add to the list. So...meh?
http://www.icnfnt.com lets you subset Font Awesome to just the icons you need. Based on v3.0.2 though.
I'd wager that social referrals refer to affiliate fees gained through their users buying products shared on the site.
The iPad is the pinnacle of the marketing job of making people forget everything that came before :)

But, seriously, Haskell, for example, is quite practical (better than the imperative languages) for a big set of applications. One problem is that people want a language to rule them all - and that language can only be imperative; the other problem is that people don't want to learn different things, and a new paradigm is as different as you can get in programming. That makes everything else unpopular.
Not the biggest Jack Welch fan, but I think his quote on work life balance is most accurate:

"There's no such thing as work-life balance, there are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences."

You don't need to rationalize spending more time with your family and less at work or vice-versa, just be honest about the consequences of it.

I worked a ton before I had a family, 7 days a week, always online. Now that I have scaled back I do accomplish less work, and I am 100% ok with that. My choice is more time with my wife and kids, and slightly less money (and alot less chance of a big $$ windfall), but I couldn't be happier.
How are they going to log in to your email account to MITM it, exactly, other than sending your password in cleartext to them? I'm not saying the connection itself is cleartext, but that they will be storing your email password in cleartext(!) to access your account at your email provider...
When some established researcher say "this is impossible", that's a great experiment to do.

Examples: controlled release polymers, iPS cells, neurogenetics.

"Someone saying a thing cannot be done is liable to be interrupted by some damn fool doing it."
Someone is obviously bored in Killeen,TX.
Netgear ReadyNAS vulnerability
PSA: iOS 7.0.3 breaks hotspot 
Wtf apple
Project: Roadless
It's not what you make, it's what you keep. In SV, it's hard to keep much. That's the trick.
Congrats to the CodeCombat team! Their recruitment-oriented business model reminded me of an 80's movie called The Last Starfighter [1]: A young guy living in the middle of nowhere masters a space fighter arcade game. He has no idea that it's actually a fighter pilot training and recruitment tool until one night, when he's picked up by a "headhunter" (in a spacebound DeLorean) to join the force defending the galaxy against alien invaders. Fun flick, with some decent early CGI.

The parallels, I think, really help demonstrate how the CC concept has the potential to change young people's lives.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
Makes you wonder WHY Facebook is building their own city, or employers provide these types of perks.
That seems far more of a series of workarounds than a solution in order to save myself a few minutes (collectively) a month.
If it's outlawed (as suggested above), he refuses to pay the fine, persists in doing it, and goes to great lengths to refuse subsequent incarceration, then yes he will face something akin to getting beaten with a rubber hose.
Well the way I was thinking was that the higher-income tenants would subsidise the lower-income ones -- but within a certain range (i.e., no more than 10% higher for the high-income ones, and 10% lower for the low income ones -- adjust as necessary). This could be implemented via something like a sales tax, but would apply to the monthly rent, and would be progressive based on the tenant's income (above a certain income level, tenants would pay more, and below a certain level tenants would receive a subsidy). The apartment owners would still get the same overall income though.

This should only have the effect of driving higher earners out of the city, which would then cause the desired effect of lowering property values, and therefore lowering rent overall.
It looks like a great start, but Sparrow still feels nicer to use. I hope Airmail becomes Sparrow's eventual replacement, it certainly looks to be going in that direction.

I dislike all the options in Airmail's preferences pane. I hope they choose what they like best and stop offering those choices to me.
I have to open PSDs that make use of layer styles on a regular basis, so I'd love to pay a much higher price, would it fully support PSDs.
I can't see that, unless you mean the complicity of the press in keeping this stuff quiet.
Wouldn't be particularly meaningful since I use mutt.
Company like Apple COULD make different phones every week but there is no reasons why they wold want to do it. It is highly impractical for many reasons.

Imagine IF Apple just made one iPhone in different color each week. Then imagine if Apple tweaked the internals each and every week. They’d be supporting at least 52 different versions of iPhone every year.

The weekly “design, build, redesign and build” process should not replace a thoughtful R&D process.
Using GPU accelarating GPU design
Normally when you have shared storage, you can use that shared storage as a quorum device (i.e., via an exclusive scsi lock). If you have something like DRBD, then you still have the issue where each node can't see each other, but an outside application writing to the database served up by the cluster can see both nodes -- and if each node wants to bring up it's shared IP address, some writes will go to one node, some to the other. Then you have the database on each node not having all the current data (even if it isn't technically "corrupted").
Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling
Ah yes, but don't forget this is all changing in Python 4 :) -- remember the "List Revolution" thread when Guido finally agreed to switch to 1-based indexing...

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Christopher King <g.nius.ck at gmail.com> wrote:
> The first element in a list is element zero, the second is one, the third it
> two, and so on. This some times confuses newbies to the language or
> programming in general. This system was invited when single bits where
> precious. It's time to update. Keep in mind this is something for version 4,
> since its not reverse compatible. I say we make the first element 1, second
> 2, third 3, and so on. Other languages would follow. We are python, made for
> easiness and readability, and we are in the age where you can't even get
> something as small as a kilobyte USB. We must make first one, second 2, and
> third 3, like it is supposed to be. I give this:
> +1

Consider it done.

--
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

Source: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-Septembe...
There is this though so who knows:

“Sec. 15. (a) No person may, except with the written permission of the Director of the National Security Agency, knowingly use the words ‘National Security Agency’, the initials ‘NSA’, the seal of the National Security Agency, or any colorable imitation of such words, initials, or seal in connection with any merchandise, impersonation, solicitation, or commercial activity in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such use is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency.”
Great idea but I don't think it's the solution to the captcha problem. There's a lot of visual noise for a person to analyse and I found it considerably harder than reCaptcha types. However that may be a bonus for deterring human solved captcha à la deathbycaptcha.com
If so, we are doomed. The set of non-programmers that can competently think about formal rules is getting smaller by the day. And it'll only decrease as long as computation remains relevant.
I am only trying to help because I like the idea of this project. However, it's the "Patches Welcome" attitude of devs that kills projects. Honestly, after reading this thread and the attitude portrayed, I suspect this project will die with only a handful of users and no maintenance before everyone resorts back to Sublime Text. -- Maybe he doesn't want an active community of users using his software, which is fine. But then why post it on HN?
One thing to remember is that Lua arrays are 1-based by convention, not requirement, since they are really just tables indexed by integers. So you can have zero-based arrays in Lua, but you'll be making life difficult for yourself as the convention, the libraries, and array literals will all want to give you 1-based arrays.
You should contact Microsoft and tell them that creating PowerShell was a mistake because GUIs are the future. I'm sure they'll weigh your "GUIs are the future" argument carefully, as we have.
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Your assertion is doubtful.

From wikipedia:

A study by the investment-research firm Strategas which was cited in The Economist and the Washington Post compared the 50 firms that spent the most on lobbying relative to their assets, and compared their financial performance against that of the S&P 500 in the stock market; the study concluded that spending on lobbying was a "spectacular investment" yielding "blistering" returns comparable to a high-flying hedge fund, even despite the financial downturn of the past few years. A 2009 study by University of Kansas professor Raquel Meyer Alexander suggested that lobbying brought a substantial return on investment.

From the second article abstract mentioned in that excerpt:

In this paper we use audited corporate tax disclosures relating to a tax holiday on repatriated earnings created by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 to examine the return on lobbying. We find firms lobbying for this provision have a return in excess of $220 for every $1 spent on lobbying, or 22,000%.

From articles writing about the first study mentioned in the excerpt:
As the chart on the right shows, the firms that leaned most heavily on lobbyists have outperformed the S&P 500 by a whopping 11 percent per year since 2002.

The outright return on lobbying costs, according to one of the various studies that served as inspiration for the Strategas index, was $220 for each $1 spent.
Huge power imbalance and employer-employee issues here. He deserves to be fully criticised for a lot of the behaviour outlined.

"I stood in the shallow end of the pool and performed my duties."
This looks great. I kept a food diary on paper a couple of years back and discovered a correlation to MSG and headaches. I remember a discussion about food allergies here on HN a while back that I lurked on. I was surprised by how many people seemed angry that anyone might be sensitive to MSG. Keeping a food diary helped me tremendously.
Personally, I prefer just seeing raw text on a screen, without a fancy IDE, just a plain vi session. If it is my own code base, then I already know what is where, and can navigate / update very efficiently. If however I am working on someone else's code base, then it is necessary to study it for some time before diving in. What can really help in this case is a "code map" -- a document that gives a tutorial introduction and reference to the code, what is where, and why, etc. Included in the code map would be both program flow, and data flow (what data goes in, how it is transformed, and where it ends up). So what is needed is tools to help maintain that code map document so it doesn't get out of date.
I don't think the average user understands that at all.
Perhaps one was more of a relationship than an instruction from an employer?
I can't find a license.
This isn't a story about all capitalism. It's a cautionary tale, a story of what happens when capital is not responsive to local conditions and social factors. This is why the concept of Triple Bottom Line accounting was created http://www.economist.com/node/14301663 . However, power in late American capitalism still stems from short-term decisions in finance, ignoring the issues of natural finite resources, ably conceptualised by the Rocky Mountain Institute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Capitalism:_Creating_th... .

I also recommend the writings of American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen from 100 years ago on how it is remote capital that increases the likelihood of businesses to have terribly deleterious effects on the physical, biological and social environment.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/438
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen

Change happens, and often it brings benefits: but unless we are mindful, as say Elon Musk attempts to be, in our desires to improve the world with our technolgies, then dystopias will follow.

I can also recommend the various works of David Brin on the near to medium future, whose mind is quite as sharp as Musk's and other meta-systemic thinkers we know and appreciate. http://www.davidbrin.com/
Seems like a neat idea. I'm a software guy, so don't know much about the area.
We get to decide for ourselves through educated dialogue with our community. That's why discussions like this are important.
It's not very quick or readable, and it's not useful for users with impaired vision.

Technically it has two weaknesses:

- non-map images are chosen from a small set. Good implementation will need equally large set of non-map (and presumably non-offensive and deceptively map-like) images.

- satellite photos don't seem very hard to identify, e.g. even using histogram as an input to a simple classification algorithm could give decent accuracy (gray/brown/dark green color scheme dominates) and tree shadows, cars and rooftops may be easy features to detect with fancier algorithms.