skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the SPORE (Specification to a POrtable Rest Environment) approach better. You create a description file in JSON and each native language client can use that file to access the HTTP API. https://github.com/SPORE/specifications

SPORE already has clients for Clojure, Javascript, Lua, NodeJS, Perl, Python, and Ruby. I have used SPORE in a few projects and I was not disappointed. Another approach to solving the cross language library problem.
That IS active users. They have far more accounts. Last I read, 1.1bn MAUs.
That's with respect to high protein diets, and not necessary to keto, which is typically a medium protein, high fat diet. I'm also not certain an uncited webmd link is the best nutritional reference.
> Edit: my comment is still correct thanks to parent's 2nd edit.

If you're playing the retroactive-history game, let me point out that that edit had not been made when you made your comment. If party A issues a statement, I point out that it's nonsense, you say that you agree with party A, and then A recants, that doesn't make you right by virtue of the wording you used to agree with him. It makes you foolish.
It's priced for revenue growth yes. Which just means they need to increase ARPU.
Interesting, I'm currently working at a startup where the Sonos is booming, did a short survey over here and everyone thinks they are more productive with the music on.
Have some real metal from a fellow hacker that blasts while coding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FttgsegQyAU

Have a very metal season of darkness.
But they were getting slapped when they were distracted: not every 5 minutes whether they were focused or not.

I'm having a hard time imagining constant interruption being good for concentration.
The problem with posts like these is that you assume you know what's going on in the head of another person. That's a dangerous game to play.

Also, just because someone makes a decision that's different from the decision you would have made doesn't mean their decision was the "wrong" decision. You would have taken the money, I would have taken the money, and I'm sure a lot of others would have taken the money. However, choosing not to take the money isn't the "wrong" choice, it's just a different choice. And, given that he had all the information about the deal (or at the very least more information than the rest of us), I'd say calling his decision wrong when you hardly have any information on it at all is its own form hypocritical hubris.

Anyway, morals of the story are (1) different !== wrong and (2) it's best not to judge the actions of others, especially when you're lacking the details.

PS. I am so judging you.

PPS. I am also fine with being a hypocrite.
Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction for 2014 Is Viral and All Wrong
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If you used TOR for the queries, then it would hide the possibility that I have drug dealers/prostitutes/bookies in my contact list. I am not sure how you would then be able to rate limit it in this case.
All storage drivers are unit-tested, but our integration tests (./integration/ in the repo) are currently tied to a specific host environment: namely, ubuntu 12.04 with an aufs-patched 3.8 kernel, version 0.8 of the lxc scripts, etc).

We are working on upgrading the integration test harness to handle a wider matrix of target systems, including those that don't handle aufs.

If you are interested in helping us out on this, come say hi on #docker-dev on freenode :) We are always looking for help and love to get new contributors and maintainers up and running.
> If the companies didn't want you to do this, then they wouldn't let you do this.

This is the kind of behavior and attitude that ruin nice things for everyone.

My car can go 100 MPH in a residential neighborhood, did the manufacturer intend for it to be used like that just because it can?
My Dad has sold cars for as long as I've known him. He was a top salesmaster for GM for several years in Canada.

The interesting thing I found each this podcast is how consistent it was with the stories he'd tell us over dinner. We always thought he was just having a tough time with poor management, but it seems that he's not alone. Since moving to fleet many years ago, the dealer would often sell cars at a loss so they could not only hit numbers to be ranked #1, but also for the incentives from the manufacturer.

One thing the show left out is the unbelievable amount of paperwork involved in quoting someone an accurate price. Also, the amazing shuffling of cars that goes on between dealers. With certain models only being built for a short period of time, the custom orders take hours and hours of hunting and pecking. On the consumer side it feels like I ask for a bunch of stuff for my car and a week later it shows up as expected.

As others have noted, this is an industry primed for a major disruption. The tools most car salesman use on a daily basis haven't really progressed since they left typewriters.

The other major struggle for the industry is that a lot of salesmen have been salesmen their whole lives and don't want to retire. Thus, there's an office full of 70 to 80 year old hanging around while the other half runs ragged to make a few hundred bucks.
yea, I think it would be a ton of fun. The concern with paint balls may be warranted but with their case it would take an amazing shot to cause phone damage. I think the airsoft angle is the real killer. When I was younger, I always wanted a videogame style play for outdoor play. This could be it.
The next Nest product will be a home security system. If you already own Nest thermostats or smoke detectors, their motion sensors will do double-duty as security alarms.
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Of course they do.

If I am controlling the spying, every top law and business school student and people close to them would be under surveillance the day they were accepted.
No, he's an investor, who understands the concept of risk. He's made a bet that the value of companies he's invested in will increase, and it may or may not come to pass. His opinions on his investment however, maybe largely biased.
This is so true:
"But since we're still in the early days of Cloud adoption and since it usually takes 5-10 years to build a large SaaS company, you also need lots of patience."

It all goes soooo much slower than expected.

We've also been distracted many times by this: "Similarly, if one user requests a new feature or a change in the product that's no reason to do it, unless you think it makes sense for a large part of your target group."

And we've also failed to plan, but a certain level is indeed necessary (once you hit a certain point). A defined roadmap is very necessary, albeit not always desired...
"Become clear on what you want to achieve in 2014 and what this means for your product roadmap, your marketing plan and your financial plan."

Spot on article. Thank you so much :-)
At the time, I was still aware that it was a much better search engine than anything Yahoo had.
Does Fortune's Dan Primack need to go?
For Adium we got an email confirmation ~3 weeks before things went away. I'm not sure how (if at all) we configured that. Seems like a short notification window, but at least we got an email.

Did the owner(s) of the Python account not get that email?
I think not selling for a clearly outrageous valuation tells us something else is at play here. I suspect, this is this mans life's work and he doesn't wish to sell it.

When you find your life's work (as I have), you will understand.

Until then, your assumptions that your priorities are more important or valid than his shows your own ignorance, not his.
Not realistic. If it's open-sourced I can go examine the code for sure, but it's not a good use of my time (and I can actually read code, but even if someone had the time but can't read code?). I also have no way of knowing if anyone else has looked at the code at all, and if they have, whether they're skilled enough to determine that the code is kosher. Again, if I struggle with that, how on earth is a non-technical-minded person even going to begin?

The second question I haven't seen asked here yet, is why we need everything to be social to start with? My social needs are covered by Facebook and Twitter, and I don't install their apps on my phone either.

Given those two things, if an app (any app!) requires access to my contacts I don't install it. Period.
Thank god, finally some one explained it to me. I'm so released now.
Being a millionaire is a great idea. Execution appears to be the hard part here.
Could you use an enormously expensive hash function so that building a lookup table is infeasible?
Classic Microsoft in its high-productivity period was strictly private offices for everyone, solid doors and almost all with outside windows, soundproofed so each office could have its own music without requiring headphones, with deskspace and network connections in each office for several computers and seating for at least three people in each office so that people could work together privately when they wanted to. If that standard has been eroded in recent years, then we might understand why MS is now relatively unproductive.
Depends what you mean by "target". You can specify the whatever minimum OS version you want for an app.

You have probably heard something like "[After Feb 1] new apps [...] must be built with the latest version of Xcode 5 and must be optimized for iOS 7."

That only means you must use the latest dev kit and satisfy some other requirements. It does not mean that you need to disable support for older OSes.
You are wrong, using return policies to get test devices is morally wrong. Your friend is stealing the cost of discounting the returned item + the cost of processing the return.

Buying something that might work, trying it and returning it if it doesn't isn't morally wrong.

The difference is your friend is buying with no actual intent to keep and own.
Anybody with some law knowledge can help me get this right?

He says the clause doesn't violate the First Amendment because he is freely agreeing to "forfeit his right to speak freely".

Are constitutional rights not inalienable in the USA then? In my country, in case of conflict laws of "greater range" take precedence over laws of "lower range", and contracts are at the bottom of this hierarchy. That means that a clause as the one being discussed here would be void, since you can't give up your right to speak freely even if you wanted¹ Isn't there a similar concept in the USA??

¹ That also means that if laws mandate 3 weeks of holidays, you can't take only 2 weeks in exchange for a bigger pay even if you wanted (happened to me once).
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Except he explains that it works like it does in the Messages app. If you're not familiar, the keyboard in Messages slides down/recedes when you start scrolling through past messages so that it's not in the way and you can see more content. Give it a try if you have an iOS device, it's a very useful interaction.
Not really.

Illustrator is better for the drawing stage of your UI than Photoshop but both are equal when it comes to checking spacing, color values, corner radiuses and so on when it's time to actually build that UI.

It's also a bit more straightforward to export an object drawn with Photoshop than it is to do the same with Illustrator.

Also, decent-to-good "Photoshoppers" are a dime a dozen because both businesses and schools have a weird love affair with Photoshop but decent-to-good "Illustrators" are harder to find. You'll have a hard time convincing your client to make its team of ADs and designers switch to Illustrator.
That money isn't coming out of thin air. Why is the onus not on Facebook or Google to use the $3 billion and $4 billion they were going to use to buy Snapchat on something more meaningful? Why is it Spiegel's responsibility? Especially if he didn't ask for the offers in the first place?
If you'd like to call or get in contact with Senator Sanders, try:
http://www.callcongressnow.org/profile/S000033

Just click the call button, give the microphone permissions, and then it will call his Washington office for you via Twilio.

If you'd like to find another member of Congress, just visit the root domain:
http://www.callcongressnow.org/

This is a little app I've been working on and I'm just starting to talk about it today, so bugs are to be expected. If you find one, please file an issue here:
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Congratulations Danny and team, looking forward to the $100k blog post!
One of those burly OtterBox cases would nullify that risk pretty completely, I think.
Punditry is not journalism. Journalism is not punditry.

That said, I find it morally repugnant that 001sky seems to want to quash the right of either to engage in public speech, simply because said speech calls some entrepreneur's credentials into question. It's fine for any person (be they a research-oriented journalist or a bloviating pundit) to raise these sorts of questions, even if I think their position is weak and a tad ridiculous.

If you, as an entrepreneur, are too weak to handle public scrutiny (including scrutiny from people who are quite unlike yourself), then you should find another line of work.
Did you buy from an authorized retailer?
In fairness, spying of congress (and the president, judges, etc) does seem much more concerning then spying on most citizens, as it would allow them to break the checks on their power that those bodies should provide. In fact, one of the largest concerns I have heard about surveleince is that it would allow them to blackmail politicians.
I've been really pleasantly surprised by Amazon. Once I accidentally ordered two copies of a book, they refunded me the extra book and allowed me to keep the extra copy (don't know what I'm going to do with two, but that was nice). I've refunded a digital download game as well, which was unexpected.

Haven't needed to do it with anything pricey though, but again it doesn't hurt to ask.
I think this is the longest delay they have reported yet. I was really getting excited to get my order and start drinking it this month. It seems it'll be another 2 months before I get it. :(
Good design...it opens up so many doors.

CSS galleries, Dribbble postings, trust, sharing on social media, being followed by designers/developers/marketers, etc.

Great design is truly appreciated and breaks down massive barriers when someone first comes to your sites.

It also happens to be a great traffic generator - so don't neglect it!

I run http://hookfeed.com and http://minimalytics.com. And I'm writing http://howtobuildarocketship.com
How many shares did Zuckenberg sell? He has not cashed out completely however he has certainly hedged his bets quite significantly.
Tencent faces a markedly different environment in China than Snapchat faces in the United States.

First, gaming consoles are illegal in China. Second, Chinese people prefer to pirate rather than to buy software. Third, Facebook is blocked by the Great Firewall of China.

This means that Tencent faces no competition from console games, from packaged PC games, or from Zynga and clones. Thus, Tencent gets to collect a large percentage of the total gaming dollars (or rather, yuan) spent in China.

What's the likelihood of Snapchat getting game consoles and Facebook banned in the United States?

Does Snapchat really have a 10% chance of turning into the next Tencent? Or is it more like 1%? Or 0.1%?
So if Evan Speigels had been female, black and poor (i.e. not privileged) he would have taken the money and that would have been the right thing to do? Why because people without privilege are incapable of being stupid or greedy?
I really don't think his background/race/gender is much to blame. I think it's more of him being overly idealistic and letting all of his success go to his head. It's great that he thinks that Snapchat has the potential to go onto be something worth more than 4 billion, but he needs to be realistic. Snapchat is just a social utility app. I don't see an obvious path for revenue generation and growth without some sort of acquisitions/merger deal. Hopefully he has some good plans for Snapchat's future.
Are you sure it was searched (indexed or imaged) rather than just checked (powered on and/or checked for hidden contraband)?
Semantics and definitions are what the law is :)

In this case, as the parent points out, this is entirely the wrong way to ask the question.

You don't ask them whether they did X, you ask them what information they have, and then for each piece of information, how was it acquired.
They used to be under the Treasury Dept. They are now under the Dept. of Homeland Security:

http://www.dhs.gov/department-components
Good points and rebuttals, but I had to laugh out loud at the end because that last sentence sounded like a command rather than a suggestion.
At the time Google turned this down it was still completely unclear how they would make any money at all. The thinking at the time was that search was a more or less solved problem that had zero profitable potential (hence Yahoo becoming a "media" company). Only now, years later, does a company that sells ads on search results and makes cars that drive themselves on the side seem like a "logical" outcome.

This is the problem with trying to focus on working on the "important" things instead of the things that interest you: its incredibly difficult to know what will be important ahead of time. Who would have guessed that a strange abstract math that only dealt in 1's and 0's, originally invented in the 1800's would later be essential to powering every machine in the 2000s? At the time you could have rightly criticized Boole for having the luxury and privilege to focus on something so useless instead of using his time in medicine for example. Someone arguing that Boolean algebra would actually be instrumental 100 years later in machines that can cure diseases would have seemed like an absurd counter-argument.

When Apple was started the big computer companies laughed at the notion of a personal computer in every home. Steve Jobs' dream of everyone owning a personal computer is arguably one of arrogance and privilege: why focus on that in the 80s when there were so many "real" problems to work on?

Twitter is the epitome of silly privilege ideas: a company based around people yelling short sentences into the ether. Who would have guessed that would empower real time delivery of current events like a hurricane or a tidal wave?

No one knows what will be the idea that revolutionizes the future, but a lot of people do know what they're passionate about. If you focus on something you think is important but you're not passionate about, the result probably won't be great. If instead everyone focuses on what they're passionate about, we'll have a lot of top notch incarnations of an incredibly diverse set of ideas. Tons will be duds, but a few will change things, and they probably won't be the ones you predicted.

So why not accept that some people are interested in different things than you instead of trying to determine whether the owner of Snapchat is focusing on the right thing or not. You don't think its a great idea? Then go work on something else. The proof is in the pudding.
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I'm still actively using a low end 6 year Toshiba laptop. (All original components, no ssd.)

Runs 24/7. Super reliable. You just have to keep it cool - I underclock.
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Sure, but how would I distinguish a 5-minute-interval vibration from the myriad email notification vibrations?
I've been looking for something like this, awesome to see it. That's the issue with marketing, there is a subset of users that are looking for your product, or know they have some sort of problem that needs solving. How you get to specifically them is the tough part.

I bet there are a lot of other up and coming products that just get drowned out/fail to get traction, yet these are the ones that are really trying to innovate.
As a corollary, I try to think through this any time I say something "isn't a big deal". Is it really not a big deal to me?

What people often mean when they say "it's not a big deal" is "it's a big deal to me, but it shouldn't be to you". Usually, they don't have any right to make that decision for you and it's really just a manipulation technique.
I got a Nexus Q from someone who went to I/O a couple of years ago. They had announced a release date and everything at that point. Now, it is basically a brick.

The point being, don't do it if you expect to get your money back. Things change.
Probably to use your account to make the requests to Twitter's API. The API is very rate-limited, so using his own account for everyone isn't viable.
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"Renaissance Engineer" <- samiur is another arrogant asshat, upset that his pet project (and I'm only guessing samiur is a guy) isn't worth $4B to Google.
Fine. You could have made that point without bringing his race, class or gender into your argument.
This seems like an immensely useful service (looking up executive level social media accounts). Are there companies out there who provide this service?
1- Nothing says that there were 1000 islanders on the day the alien made his speech. Some may have discovered they eye color and died before.

2- Compare:
“how unusual it is to see another blue-eyed person like myself in this region of the world”
with:
“how unusual it is to see other blue-eyed persons like myself in this region of the world”

To me, it is clear that the entire tribe the day the stranger makes his speech consists of N brown-eyed, and one single remaining blue-eyed.

They immediately understand the same thing, and all commit suicide the next noon.
Check the refactor-fns branch[1] for recent commits.

[1] https://github.com/joshaber/clojurem/tree/refactor-fns
The linked usenet discussion is worth reading, partially because a student asks for help on their homework, and it eventually pulls in Linus Torvalds: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.arch/_uecSnSEQc4/jkdcQc...

The actual discussion is good, too.
"This was one feature we really wanted and implementing this was painful as hell. I can’t believe it’s now just a boolean value away." - So awesome yet so frustrating! haha
Reading a novel amps your brain even after you are finished
TL/DR: Have Amazon handle this for you, they are awesome at customer service.

I had a one year old HTC Desire which malfunctioned under warranty (Europe here = 2yrs mandatory) and sought to return it to them for repair. They were a huge pain in the ass, refusing to pay shipping to the repair depot despite this being explicitly covered, and so I asked Amazon (from whom I bought it) for assistance dealing with HTC. Totally shocked when Amazon told me 'No problem, here's a free shipping label, send it back to us for a full refund. The price was hundreds of pounds less by then and they refunded the original price. It was in pretty good shape but not at all in 'like new' condition. I immediately bought another from them and kept the difference - they weren't interested in just exchanging it.

Fast forward to now, and it's pretty much the same deal with LG and a defective Nexus 4. LG agreed in writing to reimburse shipping prior to me sending it, but now want to change the terms & added an NDA and are illegally withholding payment[1] of their debt. I contacted Amazon again and they told me the same deal: 'Send it in for a full refund any time, no problem'.

Needless to say, I now buy all electronics on Amazon. This is probably their goal and we're both okay with it. As for HTC and LG, at least in the UK, they are bastards and I'll keep hoping for better support from other manufacturers when I can.

[https://twitter.com/tombrossman/status/418003090059448322]
I don't have Excel installed, but can PDFs just fine, thank you.