skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you fucking kidding me? Her writing is outstanding. Sorry it has some emotion, some reflection, some substance.

Would you prefer a log file of events?

Get real.
I would say that it's a problem with our population in general, and specifically our science education, than it is with the political system.

With a well educated populace, a stupid "better safe than sorry" act like this would result in losing the election, not saving it.

Now, I don't know if it's actually possible to achieve that state. But I think that any other fix is just going to work around symptoms rather than addressing the root cause of the problem. Political pressure still applies to appointed posts, after all, it's just somewhat less direct. Instead of the water commissioner making this call for his own election, he'd just be told to do it by whatever elected official is above him.
totally; the main reason for me is the idea of substantial long term investment by large support communities (including me!)
The Android version is going to need a lot of polish. The menu is jittery and the wrong icons are used. Also the whole app lacks touch feed back so there is no way of telling if you are pressing a button or not until afterwards. Finally, a few idioms like long pressing to edit items and such remain unimplemented which atl east made me confused.
It's kind of interesting that so many people have included Youtube into their media consumption diet, perhaps in the place of Radio & TV?
I would surely hope thats after payout to hosts...if not that would set their 'actual' revenue at ~$20million
Hi Guys--I'm a co-founder at HeapSort. We just launched our MVP this week and we're looking for constructive feedback from the developer and startup communities.

In the coming weeks we'll be launching a series of powerful resume building tools specifically for full stack engineers. It's not just another job board--we're going to totally change the way developers convey their skills to employers.

We welcome any thoughts, comments, or suggestions.

-Casey
Part of this is because most web media is awful for reading.

Column widths are standardized in print, magazine, and books for a reason: to minimize eye movement required. The larger that web screens get, the broader the column lengths often are, which forces more eye movement, which causes eye strain, which requires vision interruption, which impedes reading comprehension.

Smart phones are great for short articles because the screens are roughly the width of a newspaper column. It forces the text into an appropriate width, rather than expanding to fit the available monitor space like many websites do.

Screens also tend to cause eye strain.

Even if you do make pages responsive, chances are that the user will not realize that they should be using a skinny window or that they should shrink the text. Further, commercial web publications tend to optimize for maximized windows to display ads.

In print, we have hundreds of years of professional readability and layout experience. On the web we have some cobbled together standards. Most people who are responsible for handling web design aren't layout/typography/etc. specialists. So really basic mistakes get made all the time and few people notice them because our knowledge base has effectively eroded because there are so many other priorities to worry about on the web.
The right move is to educate people how to properly evaluate risks so that you can avoid the overreactions.
Lindora: online code editor with many features
Nonsense.
Starving artists and athletes like who? The esteemed poor? like the people who get lambasted for buying red bull with food stamps?
Americans idolize thugs who make money (biggie smalls, chris brown, dick cheney)

I think your perspective may be out of focus.
Also, Gliese 581g is unconfirmed, and there is a lot of doubt about whether it exists.
"Since your average Android application does not have sufficient permission to access /dev/* entries on your system, you must use a proxy called the mediaserver in order to communicate with HW codecs."

This is incorrect. Application access to hardware de/encoders isn't a matter of permissions. You can't get at them directly because the api isn't in the SDK/NDK. However, if you're willing to pull in headers from AOSP, and fool around with dlopen/dlsym you can develop and build against libstagefright.
Have you looked in to Balanced Payments? They enable ACH transactions at 1% + $.30 capped at $5.
Through a Google Glass, Darkly
Currently without a doubt: https://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk

An extensive series about machine learning (100+ videos).
That would be awesome. I was astounded the first time I saw one of their McGregor, Texas rocket tests from the point-of-view of a hexacopter flying near the rocket's flightpath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4

In this video, the copter is actually HOVERING ABOVE the rocket as the rocket descends back down to the launchpad. The only time I've ever seen something like that before was Hollywood (Apollo 13, and then when the footage was re-used in Austin Powers 2).
Pyro Board: An Audio Visualizer Created from an Array of 2,500 Flames
You're mistaking effect for cause. Americans aren't interested because they've been acculturated not to.
The C++ template will give you extra type checking that the varadic macro won't, which is worth the tradeoff for the obscure error messages for me.

(At least the errors have got slightly better in recent g++ releases with colourised error output.)
The easiest way to get anything you want without buying it
Microsoft adds another $1.126 billion data center in West Des Moines IA
it's not. revenue is a top line item before expenses. otherwise it would have to be stated as profit.
I liked this article, and agree it's nice to see some clear buckets defined. Obviously every deal is different, but this is helfpul. However, this article is about 3 years old, and a lot has changed. I'd be very curious to hear peoples opinion/experience on whether these buckets hold true today?
That's right. We are currently offering our service out of 10 major hubs in the US, although we do cover international routes. We're training our pricing algorithm and expanding the routes we cover all the time so expect to see many more hubs soon.

Here's a list of the airports you can currently fly out of:

• Atlanta, GA - Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (ATL)

• Boston, MA - Financial District - Waterfront (BOS)

• Chicago, IL - O'Hare International (ORD)

• Dallas, TX - Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW)

• Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Airport (LAX)

• New York, NY - JFK Airport (JFK)

• Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Airport (PHL)

• San Diego, CA - San Diego International (SAN)

• San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Airport (SFO)

• Washington, DC - Dulles Airport (IAD)
So, I'm not against deletionism, but it's a pain in the butt when I spend the better part of an hour writing and citing only to see it deleted by someone who probably knows nothing about it and were only justified by speedy deletion criteria. I would like to charge the deletionist with the responsible for A) preserving the material that was written, and B) my time (I figure $150/hr is about right).

Alternatively, if you would like to help buff up the article before it goes live again, I sandboxed it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Niels_Olson/DigitalOcean
I am invested in microfinance and want to invest more, but there's a constant news stream of problems with the providers and I'd really like to know who I should invest with.

This article references a few complaints about Kiva's lack of transparency. Two weeks ago there was an HN article on Zidisha's lack of transparancy [0]. Zidisha's website lists their repayment rate at 74.31% [1], which seems very low compared to other providers which report 90%+. This author likes MyC4, but they appear to focus on European investors (given the Euro currency symbol).

If anyone has any solid suggestions on who I should invest with, I'd love to hear them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7546394
[1] https://www.zidisha.org/index.php?p=43
I can barely imagine a more fitting love sonnet for good old (modern) C99/11. My eyes, dear $deity my eyes. I'm sure OP is a fantastic(ally) smart dev but I'm kind of glad I don't have to work with that.
https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ

A jet engine mechanic way up in the Canadian north. If you've always wanted to get hands-on with a gas turbine, this is your guy.
You are close, but not quite on point. The issue you discussed isn't really an issue that utilities face under normal circumstances, the law of large numbers tends to take care of that. Utilities typically use these systems to control the load during abnormal usage periods such as during a period of particularly hot outdoor temperatures. By throttling their customers AC usage, they can reduce demand and avoid risking blackouts/grid failures or having to resort to using 'peaker plants' which tend to be older and more polluting (and due to latency requirements, must be kept up and running for the entire peak period, even if they are never needed).
Game of Thrones Tours of Locations starting now in Northern Ireland
In order to be performant, since the check is not against your actual password but just against a stored hash (salted/bcyrpted/etc), I wouldn't be surprised if they simply stored all 3 hash results.
500 million of 10 billion is 5%.
That sounds like an altogether terrible idea. All it would take is several birds to fly over the water and it'll have fish in it. And then they'll go to the restroom and so on. :/
Nope, no virtual DOM. I like that concept, but I wanted to keep it simple. I'd like to make a virtual DOM plugin but it's a non-trivial task.

It still batches all changes using requestAnimationFrame and it'll support Object.observe when that's ready.
In my Environmental Engineering class we learned that in the USA, unlike much of the rest of the world, water is chlorinated during the treatment process. The residual chlorine left in the water makes tap water less susceptible to contamination than other treatment methods. A quick google search indicates tap water in Portland is in fact chlorinated (actually, chloramined, which is even safer but has similar benefits), so a small amount of pathogens shouldn't make the water undrinkable.
Yeah, but having more unique desktop users shows dominance in the modern online world in way similar to how having the most equine-propelled vehicle sales does in the modern world of personal transport.

No it's not. Lots of users are on mobile, no doubt, but Yahoo's presence is also there.

Facebook has over 1 billion active monthly on mobile, 1.3 billion total. So, yeah, I'd say that's pretty far off

That's not far off at all. At best, that puts Yahoo at like 0.6x the MAU of Facebook. That's huge.
When valuations get this high the dilutive impact on the founders is actually pretty low. $500m at a $10b pre-money valuation, means they only sold 5% of the company, which is a much smaller dilutive impact that even a typical seed financing.
I'm not an expert on AirBnB in the slightest but I think that's what you would consider their competitive advantage; you make the homeowners assume the responsibilities normally reserved for the Hotel.

That way AirBnB just acts as an intermediary and doesn't need to deal with the fussy details.
Oh man, if this does what it says on the tin, I'll jump from Travis in a heartbeat!
If your family invested tremendous amount to raise you and send you to a good school, is it bad that they want you to be successful[0]?

[0] I think part of the issue is that in U.S. success is judged by how much money you have.
I would love to see someone try to use HN at 9600 bps. That's bits per second, so 9600 / 8 = 1200 characters per second, roughly.
It took me all of 10 minutes to get it working the way I like. And the extensions are simple javascript....easy to hack if you need to. I get what you're saying, but I think you're overstating things a bit...probably because you just haven't tried it.
[video] Sliding Pi – a 2048 game calculates Pi like an ancient mathematician
> On top of that, the hw decoders don't even give the profile and level they support, so you have to guess them.

We actually put together a codec tester that runs right before the first time a user plays a video precisely because of this. It throws a few frames of every profile/level we plan to support at each decoder component on the device to figure out which profiles we can use and which component to use to decode them. :(
10 Billion "Pre Money" valuation = 10 Billion + 500 mm "Post Money" valuation.

The 10 Billion figure is typically "Pre Money".
Annoying isn't it? Looks like PG problem #23 way back from July 2008 - http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html - is still an opportunity.
These are tours of all the locations where Game of Thrones is recorded in Northern Ireland - Winterfell, Iron Islands, Riverrun. Nearly all the indoor scenes are recorded in the largest studio in the world, in a warehouse previously used when building ships - like the titanic!
I checked spot instances just now, and it was less than $0.10 an hour. So for batch jobs that might be an option. And if you're using it interactively, than you can always go EBS backed and just turn it off when you're done.
As far as I can tell Wikipedia simply isn't interested in articles about for-profit companies unless they're multi-billion-dollar and completely impossible to ignore.
They start making it look easy. I wonder how many grasshoppers were damaged until they had the controls set up right.
I've used Balanced Payments before but they didn't have the $5 cap. I can confirm they now offer it but do you know when that started? My googling hasn't turned up any blog posts, currently going through all of their posts.
With $4.6M In New Funding, Preact Helps Software Companies Keep Customers Happy
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Google's Project Tango: NASA SPHERES
I can think of worse hard-to-break habits one could have.

Thanks for the list!
Of course pure source transformations (classes, let, const, splats and such) just yield ES5 source directly, and so you lose native browser support for those. That's no big deal since most browsers really aren't really up to scratch yet in ES6 support.

I'm not sure about the runtime, but I think I remember it doing some (very basic) feature detection while browsing through the generated code during a debugging session.

EDIT: Frankly, I think it would probably be a good idea to polyfill all browsers until they all really implement the ES6 spec.
Its ripple.min.js is 30kb. Not so tiny is it?
I hate when people say you "should do X". It'd be a whole lot nicer if they de-compiled their opinion and stated something more like "Doing X gives you Y benefits". I ignore the "shoulds" as noise and seek the pro/con breakdown.
In NYC at least, you don't have to live in a pricey neighborhood in order to get your kid into a good public high school. Your kid will, however, have to do well on a standardized test.
You are correct about this, and I have updated the code to include the replay protection. (Apparently I became sidetracked before!) I am not sure if the method that is used in the quicktun source to prevent replay is ideal, and I am fairly certain that I need to revise the method used to generate the nonce too.
Not electric boats? I've heard of electric boats being allowed in reservoirs, but not gas-powered ones.
Does DO actually need and warrant an encyclopedia entry? The Netcraft article about them says they had 7,000 hosts -- versus 165K at Amazon and several million at BlueHost at the time, the other companies mentioned as points of comparison.

DO is well-known on HN, but I don't know anyone else who's heard of it. The deletion reason was "A7: No explanation of significance", which requires "a credible claim of significance or importance" to have a page on wikipedia. Merely being popular among entrepreneurs, or having some number of customers, doesn't make a company significant in the encyclopedic sense.

It was deleted again for "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion", and the five sentence article about their "fast, low cost options" does in fact read like an ad. It wasn't fact-checked, either, since DO is not larger than Amazon nor does it operate its own data centers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

edit: It isn't the same, but in Michigan, all navigable water is a public right of way. I would assume similar rules exist in other states.
This is revenue, definitely AFTER. A year ago, they had more than $2 billion dollars in bookings so $250 million is absolutely their net billings.
You are correct. Besides, raising x amount of money at y valuation, doesn't mean the company as a whole is worth y. Investors typically get preferred stock, which are worth more. Marc Andreessen had a nice tweet chain about that exact topic yesterday, ending with this one - https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/457017580385873921
> They're super easy to use but not really meant for anything secret.

If you read their privacy policy, neither are CircuitHub's services, but given their target audience, it's probably a good choice.
0 I think. I think there was only one Grasshopper, which is now retired (visible in the video!) and replaced by F9-R.
I don't know why it was deleted but, most likely, the article didn't meet the required standards. A good article about DO should have no problem staying up (if notable enough).
I was saying that NZ sounds like the Nordic countries. With that I meant the way it's structured.
Well, "turn it into Lisp" may make one a crank on a Rust mailing list. It's not a conspiracy theory, but within the context, it is nutty...

(And "use S-expressions" is pretty close to "turn it into Lisp", at least in terms of syntax.)
gzips down to 8kb though, and that's the standalone version. Using it with component it will usually share dependencies with other components.
If Only I Knew This When I Was in College
Some of my references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Polygon_approximation_era, http://ceemrr.com/Geometry2/InscribedPolygons/InscribedPolyg...

Free game download: http://bit.ly/1kFNy2X
Much of the author's analysis is lacking economic perspective. In particular, I'd argue that a large contributor to 20 somethings with 'dead end' jobs is the obvious lack of 'real' jobs. Additionally, giving everyone a college degree is not going to magically place everyone on career paths - it will probably just debunk the assumed correlation between college degrees and careers by sinking all of the "x percent of college grads" stats.
I believe you are incorrect. See this report from over a year ago which states $2 billion in bookings:

https://www.eduson.tv/blog/airbnb
Parroting Andreesen from Twitter last night:

The valuation number is misleading. You're looking at the snapshot price of a relative small fraction of Airbnb's equity at a particular moment in time; just as 1,000,000 shares of XYZ will likely trade at a lower price than 1 share, so too might the valuation be lower for the whole company.

More importantly, these aren't common shares; they're shares with privileges attached to them, and thus command a higher value.

Finally, VC's perspective towards share valuation is different than that of a "value investor"; a VC looks at the shares as if they were options, with a limited (1x investment) downside but an uncapped upside.

These aren't my insights; they're taken from a bulleted list Andreesen twerped last night. They sound convincing to me.
I wrote exactly what I went there wanting to know about DO. If you think you could contribute better words, please help the sandboxed version

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Niels_Olson/DigitalOcean
San Francisco - Pinterest

Pinterest is a visual discovery tool for collecting and organizing things you love and enjoy. Millions of people use Pinterest daily in their lives and work. No matter what you're interested in, there's a place for it here.

As a Software Engineer on the Growth Team at Pinterest, you’ll have a huge impact on how we design, build and deliver our service to millions of people. You should be a generalist who enjoys working across the software stack with a strong focus on data and a keen eye for product. Prototyping, running A/B tests, pushing code into production, weighing in on the best ways to grow Pinterest and engage Pinners...if that all sounds good to you, then this might just be the place for you.

Responsibilities:

-Find ways to get new users on the site and engaged with the product. This includes SEO, signup optimizations, new-user experiences and any product change you think needs to happen. For more about how we work, read all about how we recently rebuilt our new user experience and created our SEO sitemaps on our engineering blog: http://engineering.pinterest.com/
-Be heavily involved in every step of the product development process, from ideation to implementation to release.
-Build new features that increase social sharing both within Pinterest and externally with friends (SMS, Facebook, Twitter).
-Improve the messaging platform so that we can send our Pinners engaging and timely notifications and emails.
-Run experiments on new and existing features to improve the overall Pinner experience. For example, check out our blog post on how we recently added animated GIF support.
-Build and improve the tools and frameworks that let us quickly run experiments across all our platforms, including our A/B experiments system, funnel analysis system, experience framework and more.

Requirements:

-BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience (2+ years programming).
-Proficiency in a dynamic programming language such as Python.
-Strong focus on data and love for improving the Pinner experience.

Find out more on our site: http://about.pinterest.com/careers/openings/?gh_jid=8122
And check out our engineering blog:
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That is in fact the best way... until it's not. If I understand correctly (and I may not), there are times when you have to write it.
> they have 7,000 hosts

ah, no, that's a growth rate of 7,000 a month.
yes -- https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ARAX
I hadn't heard of bluebird at all. Does it work for any library you require?

When I used promises for real in a section of my code processing data:

1) I found it hard to use mostly because of all the work I had to do to "lift" non promise code up into promises, before I could use them.

2) When chaining them, it wasn't clear how you would handle a "fan-out", where a piece of data generated an array, which you then had to process with callbacks.

3) Unless I inserted a fail() after every then(), it was hard to tell where exactly in the chain something failed, and the stack trace wasn't very helpful.

I suspect maybe I'm doing something wrong--that even though you can chain promises sequentially, you generally want to make functions using promises, that you can then chain? I still haven't seen well written promise code. Anyone got examples other than toy examples?
Is there any way to see the deleted article you created? I had this problem before and created a new one following Wikipedia's editors advice and it got accepted. Maybe the article wasn't that good or maybe it just doesn't make sense to have an entry on Wikipedia about Digital Ocean for now.
Wrapper classes + RAII is superior to this approach:

1. Easier to read

2. Easier to use

3. Doesn't rely on bleeding-edge compiler features

I used to do some fun stuff with templates back in the day (CRTP), but I had trouble reading this.

Usually, the number of discrete resources you have to wrap this way is fairly small. I tend to cheat and write header-only libraries because the classes are tiny, don't change much, and shouldn't be used in every compilation unit if you have any semblance of a decent architecture.

Edit: clarified that I mean wrapper classes due to nerd sniping