skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the link you actually want:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1199460/responsive-doc...
Right, I'm not questioning the legitimacy of the activity or trying to say that it is bad (or at least, I'm not real concerned with that here).

I'm speculating that it is really only different from more dire authoritarianism in degree. If that's true, then we've essentially chosen a police state (it just happens to usually be friendly and reasonably egalitarian).
Deeper in the site they have a benchmarks page[1] that has a short "why not Cap'n Proto":

"Cap'n'Proto promises to reduce Protocol Buffers much like FlatBuffers does, though with a more complicated binary encoding and less flexibility (no optional fields to allow deprecating fields or serializing with missing fields for which defaults exist). It currently also isn't fully cross-platform portable (lack of VS support)."

[1] http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/md__benchmarks.html
"- Asses"

Pretty sure that doesn't mean what you want it to mean.
A giant list of resources for learning  iOS design
damn I thought it said 'GitHub Octocoins'

BEEN SMOKIN TOO MUCH BITCOINS

On a more related note, how do you people feel about the 'ordered list' icon having more lines than numbers, and the 'podium' icon looking like a drinking fountain?
Thank you I neglected to mention I was talking about an S-corporation.
It's good to see tech companies like Microsoft and Apple trying to make the artists happy, not forgetting every human being has their own artistic side. The last sentence is very inspiring, though.
> ..it just leads to more and more people fighting over the same sized piece of pie.

Wait, you say that as if its a bad thing. Giving more people the means to fight over the pie is exactly what you'd want. In particular, you'd want to disconnect "already having a large piece" from "being able to fight over more", which is exactly what free education does.
I didn't need a reboot after the install, but I'm on Win 8.1.
IT is hard to sound more bland than a politician on a softball morning news show. But Ive has done it.
I'm increasingly convinced most people don't understand what "introvert" means. Introversion is not social anxiety or shyness, you can be an introvert and have zero problems talking to people, enjoy going out with friends and socializing etc..
Agreed. Make Robocop a reality in Detroit. They need it now, more than ever.
He didn't say anything about process at all. He just reiterated that you must focus on the product.
There’s more to life than money
No, I can't believe it, if only for the simple reason that the invention of the IC preceded the founding of Intel by roughly a decade. One of Intel's founders was one of the co-inventors, but at the time of the invention working at Fairchild.
> You are a responsible adult capable of thinking about things like actions having consequences. You probably are also able to earn disposable income. You probably don't smoke, drink excessively, take whatever drugs your friends take or even have friends that take drugs. You might even turn up to work on time.

I'm suspecting you of having bugged my offices and house. You got most of that right other than that I don't drink at all and don't use drugs at all.

Incredible how you could infer any of that from such a short statement.
That seems like a good idea, and I could see hotel visitors wanting to select a room overlooking the parking lot (to watch a vehicle), or wanting to be on a particular side of the building (avoiding highway noise), etc. People have all sorts of little preferences, so I think that feature would get a lot of use. They also like being familiar with a room, so I could see them booking the identical one on their next trip.

Since we're talking about hotels, I think the business in general has a lot of faults. I get more perks at a $10 per night hostel or $50/night Airbnb apartment, than I do at a $300 per night hotel.

When you book a hotel for $300 per night, they nickel and dime you for everything. Wifi? You'll need to register for it at the front desk, and pay $20 per day. Oh, want a bottle of water, or small snack, that's another $10. That hostel, or cheap-o hotel will give you free wifi. I'd say half of the Airbnb places I've stayed at left beer or a bottle of wine in the fridge, and a few places had a giant fresh platter of fruit on the kitchen table.

Why doesn't this happen with a $300 per night hotel? To me, this is a complete turn off. I'll avoid the fancy hotels, because I don't know where it'll end. They're trying to gouge me at every single corner when I've paid a premium, and instead of being an appreciated customer, I feel like I'm being taken advantage of. My parents are well off, and I know they feel the same way. When they go on vacation and stay at a high end hotel, they have to tip people left and right. They're forced to use the staff at the entrance for carrying their bags up to the room, and then they need their wallet ready to tip them for that 2 minutes of work. What kind of awful first impression is that? You're on vacation, paid a small fortune for a room, and within minutes you need to shell out more cash.

Yes, I know their thought process is they can squeeze absurd prices out of people that have money, but I think it's completely backwards and destroys their image and sense of luxury.

I think there's a business for a mid-range hotel with perks. Take a mid-range hotel with $150 per night rooms. Add $15 of free perks, and charge $165 per night for your rooms. With that $15, you could give every visitor free wifi, 2 bottles of water, a couple of bananas/oranges, bag of chips, couple of health bars, bottle of juice, 2 beers or a bottle of wine, and small bag of nuts. To me, that's a huge difference in service and experience for a small price. It would make me book that place every night of the week, and I'd recommend it to others. I'd put employees or clients up in such a place, knowing they're feeling pampered. Why doesn't this exist? Would this not be appealing to anyone else?
Thanks for the link. We include a direct download link right on the page but ...

We made a conscious business decision to skip having ads, to not have a paywall, and even to let you view and download 100% registration free because it's what we believe in. But hotlinking PDFs on highly trafficked places has a huge negative impact on an already very tight budget. Using our viewer, or only downloading if you're actually interested in the docs, saves a lot of money and helps us continue our government transparency work ad- and paywall-free.

Thanks!
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I use many RamNodes for https://servercheck.in/ - the price is right!
What Keeps You Up at Night
Pet peeve: the verb is designing.

Besides that, let me rephrase here.

At <west coast startup, essentially a copy of earlier successful European businesses such as HouseTrip, but with access to stupid amounts of US capital and therefore more profitable>, we <make superfluous, keyword-laden, unverifiable claim about ourselves in the future>. We <continue to integrate feel-good community pronouns>. We <here discuss something only tangential to our core business and assert that we have allocated at least two people to this area>. We <have nothing better to do than write it up, because quite frankly, there's nothing more pressing for us to work on in an already automated business of relative simplicity>.

OK, so that's a bit harsh, but there's some points toward reality in there. Sorry, as someone who used to run a complex travel industry business (3200+ hotel contracts... all of them in Chinese, all business by digital fax (no convenience here!), constant rate changes, in 6 human languages and multiple currencies with a real time call center) and who co-pitched for VC with HouseTrip's management in London in 2009, I just have very little respect for AirBNB.
Or if you want to read it online for free: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
Microsoft are fixing those complaints for everyone. There's nothing unique about those complaints that suggest they only impact millionaires. It's just a quicker shortcut to deal with one person than release and corral feedback from thousands who don't always make their complaints clear.
>It is admirable, but their work towards a solution will be fruitless.

Any Microsoft employees listening: Go ahead and pack it up. Someone on the internet has told you all you need to hear. It's fruitless. Literally nothing you do will work, as this post has clearly pointed out. Look to this non sequitor full of opinion presented as fact for all the info you need: Until you switch to the hardware that OP knows is superior, your work will be for naught. Sorry.
Those are OpenVZ
>Or people just disagree about the definition of 'politics.' Once you get to a point where "no book is genuinely free from political bias," you've basically reduced 'politics' to 'point of view.'

He gives his definition of politics, which is not just 'point of view' as you claim: "Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after."

You can argue that not all books try to push the world in one direction or another, or you can agree with Orwell that they do, but your objection doesn't make sense. Yes, people generally disagree about the definition of the word 'political', but Orwell has defined it here for you, so you're supposed to use his definition when evaluating his claim.

I disagree with you. I think Orwell is correct, and I think that his use of the word 'political' doesn't dilute it at all, but rather, cuts directly to the heart of what 'politics' is all about.
Thank you for not SHOUTING this time.
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Cool, the Pulse Ox link at the bottom of the page is even better (and iirc you can use the pulse oximetry information to calculate heartbeat too). Low-cost wireless version with decent battery life would be fantastic.
Actually, for steam solar plants, this problem has been addressed for a couple years already using molten sands: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-use-solar-e...
See also Freelance Funnel. It's very similar and has been around for a long time: http://freelancefunnel.com
Great article Todd! Thank you for sharing your experience. Would be good to hear more about how you engaged with your customers post-survey which is one of the most important aspects of Net Promoter. Driving to that direct engagement (to either ask for referrals/recommendations from Promoters or recover Detractors).

We're very excited to have recently launched Promoter.io (www.promoter.io), a platform built specifically to help companies not only measure and track their NPS, but drive more valuable/actionable insights out of the data and open-ended feedback. We also heavily streamline the process of customer engagement post-survey.

We don't allow customers to change (or "break") the survey. Standard single question with an open-ended follow-up about the score.

One important aspect to keep in mind about Net Promoter is that you're attempting to identify what is causing the most loyal customers to feel that strongly about your brand, and who WOULD (not just who is) recommend/refer your brand. Once you know who would you can directly engage those Promoters to drive referral business you might otherwise never see. It's there.
A good point, and I would agree that Haskell is a good candidate for HDL. The following project nicely captures what I think of as a good direction (except for dependence on the JVM which is cross platform torture):
https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu
Under what definition? The word "architecting" to me connotes both the design and the implementation of a system.
How Google Could Soon Tell When the Next iPhone Will Be Released
By "European approach" I don't think you mean "European approach." The drinking cultures in, say, the UK, Sweden, and Italy are quite different. In Sweden it's relatively unusual to sit down with a glass of wine for lunch, and the UK is much more beer oriented than Italy.

In any case, does your logic extend to other forms of alcohol? Only a few decades ago it was common in the US to have a three martini lunch, and watching the TV shows of the 1960s shows an incredible amount of leisure-time drinking. See http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/cocktailhour.htm for examples from Bewitched. Has the amount of binge drinking and DD rates in the US gone up now that those are no longer as culturally acceptable?
Freelance Funnel: Taking the headaches out of finding new leads
If anyone is interested in something similar for full-time jobs I distribute a somewhat weekly newsletter[1] for free.

1. http://devjobs.io
I think this also explains why most startup founders are the age that they are. The further my 30th birthday recedes into the past, the more the "success is mostly luck" hypothesis rings true. I'd be much more reluctant to roll the dice now than 10 years ago. (On a related not, fame and fortune seem less appealing now as well.)
London Welcomes the Tech Set and Its Money
PewDiePie is an interesting case. The YouTube gaming community envies his popularity so much that nearly every gaming commentator has tried to emulate his tactics: face-cams which overlaying game footage, exaggerated reactions to on-screen content, merchandizable catch-phrases, and nicknames for viewer fandom.

Some have been nearly as successful as PewDiePie (Tobuscus is one), but PewDiePie has effectively created a content quality black hole on YouTube.
My cents:
- Add search box
- Free/Paid filter
It works, 4 million dollars a year can attest to that. So even though I intensely dislike it I can't really argue against it.
Article ends with another Ben Horowitz quote showing off his idiocy:

‘‘Every executive who knows how to build a $5 billion-plus company is in Silicon Valley,’’ said Ben Horowitz, an American venture capitalist who has backed tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Groupon. ‘‘It’s a big advantage. Tech companies are global, and Silicon Valley is the best place to build a business.’’
When I was a kid, I always promised myself I would never become one of those lame adults that said things like "kids these days, look at the junk they listen/watch etc...!".

PewDiePie has single-handily made me break that promise. WTF are kids watching these days????
Link to get around paywall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
The same "I can't argue with it because it works" logic can be used for startups who "growth hack" their way to success even if it means harassing their users with interrupting modals and deceptive links. That doesn't make it unimpeachable.

Atleast with PewDiePie, you know what to expect.
I don't disagree with you that disruption is often misapplied and mindlessly praised, I just think this article didn't do a good job of illustrating either of those points.

I think the NYT article I cited did a much better job of addressing both points.
I don't think it's that people don't want "the poor" to solve their problems, but there isn't an immediate benefit for others to solve that problem for them. Many have their own problems (even if they aren't as series as those faced by others).
Hmm, my personal (biased) opinion is that using variable offsets and vtables (as FlatBuffer does) is a lot more complicated than Cap'n Proto's fixed offsets.

"Optional" fields (ones that don't take space on the wire at all) are not clearly much of an advantage. The usual use of optional fields in Protobufs was to emulate unions, which Protobufs itself never supported directly, but Cap'n Proto does. Also, when wire size really matters, Cap'n Proto offers a very fast compression pass which deflates zeros, and unset fields are always zero, largely mitigating this issue.

The lack of VS support in Cap'n Proto is of course a very fair criticism, and a huge sore point in Cap'n Proto adoption. MSVC is finally catching up in its C++11 support so I hope this can be solved soon.

(Disclosure: I'm the author of Cap'n Proto, and also the former maintainer of Protocol Buffers.)
If you think PewDiePie is ridiculous but still popular with kids, you won't believe YouTube's Minecraft subculture.
Congratulations on getting published. Having finished the paper I thought it was informative and well written. I just started interning for you guys today and I look forward to an exciting month!
It doens't neccesarily have to have predictive power to be useful....

But it seems pretty unclear if the theory of disruptive innovation has any predictive power at all.

You seem to be avoiding coming down on one side or the other. Do you think the theory has predictive power? If so, on what basis do you think that?
What happens to the person staying in that room who decides at the last minute to stay an extra day?
Care to do a write up of what you're doing as far as fraud prevention goes? However you feel about Airbnb, this was an interesting post. It's not ground breaking or earth shattering, but it shows the tech stack that a large company is using to solve a real problem, and that's useful. They even did a fairly good job of explaining the why.
I read almost this exact question on reddit a few months ago, and here is the answer someone else gave:

Hotels don't cater to vacationers or casual travelers. They cater to business travelers. Business travelers who aren't using their own money, can expense everything back to their company, and don't really only care about convenience. Hotels know this, and prey on it.

Airbnb/hostels don't cater to business travelers, they cater to casuals, and casuals want everything included.
Hey, brianwski the author here, unfortunately I didn't realize my (2008) web page was on Hacker News until somebody told me. :-) Anyway, in my old age I feel that the "ambiguous size types" in 'C' are outright evil. Size is REALLY important, it's not like you can just declare an "int" and know in your heart it is "big enough", you need to absolutely be sure that the values you put in it will fit. So I like using explicitly sized integers in all situations, why not? The ONLY argument I can fathom for "let the compiler decide on this integer's size" is performance, and frankly if that is your performance problem (and not disk I/O) then you need to be focusing on that problem WAAAAAAY more than just letting the compiler decide how big your integer is.
http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/architect/
There's an interesting back story to this team that you won't find on their website. One of the founders spent 5 years in the Marines in Somalia after receiving an engineering degree, then went to law school, and returned to Somalia to start a law practice. And he writes software on the side.

Who cares, you ask? This is someone who understands the importance of the rule of law -- having seen life without it as a soldier and as a lawyer -- and what it means to live in a country where promises can't be enforced. The rest of the team is just as impressive (and modest). That experience appears to inform the philosophy behind the project:

"Given that the aim of Project Ðouglas is to demonstrate the utility of ÐAOs in everyday applications and to advance the state of the art, it is our view that compliance functionality is not only an added feature - it is a prerequisite. Public, corporate, institutional and government buy-in will require it."

It'll be exciting to see what's next.

Congratulations Dennis, Casey & Preston.
> This is part of Steve’s legacy. Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing and making. Form and the material and process – they are beautifully intertwined – completely connected.

This is also true of modern web design. It's easy to work out which designers embody it:

* old-school designer - is still slinging over PSDs with little concern or consideration around multiple screens, technical limitations (is there a webfont available for the typeface(s) etc). Doesn't embody the philosophy Ive expresses.

* modern web designer - provides designs as static HTML, necessary to reveal the 'developing and making' considerations around assets, responsive design experiences etc. Definitely embodies the philosophy Ive expresses.
That was basically "twerking" for me.
> In practice, 'removing' IE from windows at this point would just mean removing iexplore.exe

And this is exactly what happens if you don't install IE with Browser Choice in the EU. The rendering engine and all the DLLs are still installed, It's just iexplore.exe which isn't.
Thanks so much Stephen! We're so excited to have you on board.
Yes, I understand. But sounds of goofy to refer to them as FOIA. If you say "FOIA" people assume you are referring specifically to the federal law called Freedom of Information Act and that you are probably trying to request a record from a federal agency.

My state also has laws to help the public access public records. We just dont call them FOIA because they have a different name as they do in other states.

I understand its probably nitpicking. :>
Fine, give them a limited monopoly.

But for 20 years?

Um, no.
That makes very little sense, it's a theory that can apply to anything at all.

For any X at all: Sure, there's not actually a lot of evidence that X is correlated with success and/or social benefit, but might as well do X anyway on the off chance that you'll be doing society a favor!

What? That's kind of religious thinking, I guess.

(Also, what about the 'off chance' you'll be making society worse?)

But I'm not sure "be disruptive" actually means much at all anyway. I'm not sure you do either. The scientific method is 'basically disruption', for what definition of 'disruption' exactly? Apparently everything is 'basically disruption'. Or only the things we like?
I'm not buying it. I want to see your timings and proof. First of all, this only applies to a very few internal loops that don't touch disk, so you can use the "cross platform rule" for 99.999 percent of code. But if you are down to that last inner loop that runs your 3D video game, I'll admit you will need to have platform dependent code paths. But this describes an infinitesimally tiny subset of the code in the world. The rest of the time, write easy to understand cross platform less buggy code!
Deleting my long rant here. It’s not really on topic for this thread. Suffice to say, I think MS Word is a pile of junk. For the curious: http://pastie.org/9297613
It looks like it really stumped the FBI to determine what "leetspeak" actually is, given that the only responsive document is the Twitter acronyms summary. (Is it even fair to call most of these "Twitter acronyms"?)
Micro guide to app-market fit
I've had bikes stolen from me. I know lots of people who have had bikes stolen from them. I have never heard of anyone who had a bike stolen and the gotten it back. Do such things happen in the real world?
You're right -- if that were the issue, it would be a bad objection; let me try again.

The problem is that in real life, most such cases (of buying the more expensive item) don't result in a pure savings, but rather, leave you better off in some ways and worse off in others. The cheaper shoes, IOW, will not actually be so bad that you have to replace them entirely, and you will in fact end up with with more liquid savings. The temporary discomfort and greater savings are much harder to compare to the alternative than the example suggests, so wealthier people do not always have some obvious choice that leaves them better off in every way.

So, on top of that, it's not an issue that is fixable simply by pointing this out to the poorer person and loaning them the money.
Great job Steve! If you don't have them yet, get a copy of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" and Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language". I'd love my Rust documentation to have the same level of conciseness and clarity.
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But the government doesn't get the profits (or 'risks'), the private entity does.