skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, this is a problem of imprecise communication on the part of the speaker. It is a human problem, not natural language one.
Amazon.com to Acquire Twitch
Show HN: Dispatch.tv, mobile video sharing for teams
Show HN: New app, CHEEKY, connects the contact photo with a photo messenger
Drinks and french fries represent the largest margins, but profit on other items (in the restaurants I managed) was solid as well. I think the misnomer is that soft drinks and fries have huge margins, and that foodstuff has standard foodservice margins.

Back in the day soft drinks cost ~.15 for a 32oz/1L serving, which sold for ~1.50 (including cup/straw/ice, Canada, 90s). Fry portions (large) were somewhere in the ~.20 range and sold for ~1.80. Burgers were generally 30-40% food costs (and 30-40% overhead). Not as profitable, but far from unprofitable (given the large volume sold).
And one consequence of that, which is often overlooked when evaluating any AI application, is that humans can be really "bad" (or at least inconsistent and indecisive) at these types of problems. People miscommunicate and mishear each other all the time. We disagree about whether things are grammatical, the definitions of words, the implications of someone's tone, whether two people look alike, what a hastily handwritten note says, etc. When evaluating an AI application, people always assume that, even if the problems themselves are hard, the responses are obvious and trivial to verify. But that's not the case even for everyday human interaction.
That top post was my first-hand account (and it's all true, so glad I left) but... let's not focus on the small picture of safety/quality of life.

The BIG picture is general cost of living in all major metropolitan areas where AirBnB has made in-roads. Fewer apartments/rooms available result in higher rents. This has been noticed all over the world (Amsterdam, Berlin, NYC, San Francisco). While I like the the basic concept of AirBnB (let no resource go to waste) the skirting existing rules/regulations which are in place for a good reason simply has to stop.

With regards to the AirBnB post in question, my best guess is that the DA has decided to require details on those properties which indicate actual illegal hotels. The most likely scenario for 'innocent' hosts is that they will need a permit, like Berlin, and in the process of applying for one, they will be vetted appropriately.

A recent CNet article outlines issues in cities other than NYC [1].

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/vexed-in-the-city-the-sharing-econo...
What about AUTO-UPDATE ?
I believe Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin is the only reasonable answer to this question. :)
I would build a new city. Not some attempt at utopia, but a fresh start in a remote but desirable destination. The town would be seeded with a university and focused on outdoor recreation, startup (and self-employment) culture, and diversity. Basic employment would include the university, but also tourism and startup incubators. Non-basic would initially include something like a brew-pub and grocery store. Basic amenities would include subsidized internet, alternative energy grants, public transportation to outdoor recreation and nearest major airport. The planning of the city would be based on Traditional Neighborhood Design and include a large buffer zone to prevent sprawl.
I liked my 4 (non boilerplate), readable lines in nemerle -

https://gist.github.com/vai/4647768
Today I released the first version of my new app (ios only for right now, android is in the works) CHEEKY! It's a photo messenger that connects directly with your address book so you are able to send photos to your friends that will automatically become your contact photo in their phone. There is a download link on the FB page link or you can search the app store for "cheeky!" and its the one whos icon is a yellow wink face. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
I'm sure that I don't need to tell you that there are many things in this world that look easy, but are in fact very hard. Even things that are very simple at the core turn out to be very difficult in practice.

I mean, to be a little flippant, all you need is abstraction and application, and you can compute all computable problems, right?

More to the point: what I was trying to do was to point out the irony of saying "building a garbage collector is easy" and then, only a few sentences later, saying "this code may have subtle bugs." Saying "this code is not fast enough for production" would be one thing, saying "this code is not correct" seems to put lie to the assertion that building it is "easy."

I personally have never built a garbage collector in anger. But I suspect that the problem of building a passable garbage collector (that is, one that somebody else would be willing to use) is quite a bit harder than it is made out to be in this article.
Amazon.com to Acquire Twitch for $970M in cash
I heard a rumor that I was a direct inspiration for Urs's "no asshole rule". Can you confirm or deny?

The truth is: maybe I was a bit brash but time has proven me right. Had I been listened to on that product, it would have succeeded.

Anyway, your account of Google is spot-on. They hire a lot of brilliant people and have no idea what to do with them, which turns these underemployed smart people into "jerks" because of the need to prove themselves.
If you'll notice, none of the options particularly make sense

That's why I thought it was wrapping a real Linux command line program. ;)

If you're wrapping a CLI, there's not much more you can do than take all the CLI options and shove them into a 1990's style window peppered with options. But it's not helping anything - anyone who knows what the options are and do, and who is not put-off by heaps of options, is likely fine with the CLI version. Anyone who is offput by heaps of options isn't going to want to face them in CLI or GUI versions.

And anyone who doesn't like facing them, but who can deal with it, will wrap the CLI in a shell script that specifies the options they use most often and hides the rest.

The whole thing is missing how and why CLI and GUI programs are different. Chrome isn't a wrapper for WGET, Finder and Explorer are not wrappers for ls/mv/cd, and PhotoShop is not a wrapper screen full of toggle and dropdown options around ImageMagick.
Actual confirmation from BVP who are investors in Twitch:

http://www.bvp.com/blog/twitch-time-wild-ride-start-finish
It's surprising to see this kind of title from someone who's never worked at Google.

OP seems to be mostly disgruntled by Google's recruiting process, which seems horrendous, to be honest. But just because there is a lot of red tape before you can get a job offer doesn't mean the job will suck.
When I say your reaction is strong I'm referring to the use of value-laden extreme language like the phrase "stupid poor minority" (which I'm not sure why you quoted since they were your words) and calling me a Marxist, an apparent attempt to escalate what could be a reasonably calm discussion to a heated argument.
Looks pretty but I dont know how well this will help with detecting a compromised system. Once a system has been compromised cant it lie about its network usage?
I would expect that most people set their alarms in 5-minute increments, and dial in what minute they choose to meet the needs of their commute and morning routine. This forces variations away from a "sharp" time spike. Also, alarm clocks are almost never right on time; I would expect that most alarm clocks are more than a minute off. This factor would smooth out the 5 minute steps I'd expect to see in the data.
The alarm clock inaccuracy may decrease over time as people move to using their smartphone to replace yet another device.
I think this makes sense for Amazon for two reasons:
1) One of the barriers to entry of live-streaming sites is the expensive hosting costs. With AWS infrastructure, Amazon could potentially have another competitive advantage over other live-streaming sites. They may even provide a better service through higher resolution streaming as they wouldn't be as constrained with bandwidth costs.

2) As Amazon enters the online advertising space to compete with Google Adwords and Adsense, they'll want to own web properties with high impressions for their display ads. User based video creation is great for that but comes with risk for copyright violations. Twitch solves both these issues as it'll give display ads high impressions without much concern about copyright violations as these will mostly be legit user-originated content.
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There are mac binaries.

Part of the issue for sage with tying into a lot of academic software is it has to tie into a lot of academic software, and that sort of stuff isn't always made with a lot of concern beyond 'can the graduate student compile it on the graduate student's machine and maybe the local cluster.'
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Nope, smooth here. But now that you mention it, resizing (only) is behind the cursor a bit. Honestly never noticed, I'm not in the habit of resizing my windows often enough for it to matter much.
I come from windows and now use a Mac (iOS dev). I was so used to all windows shortcuts (shift+ctrl+keyright to select a word, ctrl+c to copy, etc), I know what you mean!

I use KeyRemap4MacBook, which kicks in as soon as I connect my hardware windows keyboard to it (which is basically always when I sit down to code). It has a lot of default windows compatibility settings, but you can customize at will. I added a few myself by hand as well (also to get desktop switching the same as I was used to from Ubuntu :).
To hang out with pseudo-friends who have a common interest from the comfort of your own home.
A small typo on the how it works page:

>Nobody can compete with us! We'll give you free tags and therefore free protection of your item's.

Should be "items", not "item's"
You forgot to mention our lovely Ottawa Valley humidity. While this summer has been relatively dry (27 only feels 31 today), we usually get a few stifling weeks in either July or August (sometimes both) where the highs are mid 30s+ and the humidity 90+%. Ugh.

My wife and I went to the US southwest a few years ago. When we left LA it was a bearable 115F (dry as a bone). We got home to 21C and had to start the AC because we couldn't breathe - it took us a day or so to reacclimatize, it was so humid.

You also left out how windy our Ottawa winters can be, and how much snow we can get (cf, e.g., http://ottawa.weatherstats.ca/metrics/snow.html)

There's a reason we invented humidex and issue so many wind chill warnings.

(Ottawa is one of the most beautiful cities ever, and was recently ranked fourth most livable city in Canada by MoneySense, after Calgary and two suburbs of Edmonton. Not bad for an urban area of about ~1M with sticky hot summers, frigidly cold winters, and some of the most aggressive drivers ever (we really do need to chill). It makes up for these with a splendid natural setting, ready access to nature and the arts, and only one major source of pollution, the car.)
What graphing components do you use?
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It's the nature of things, you can't have edge forever.

Just as each day the HN community degrades a little VICE will lose a bit of its edge whether owned by News Corp or not.
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Here's a secret for those who still want to work at Google. Put your resume on Dice and you'll probably get contacted by a contracting company. My friend who did this has no college degree and just had to do 2 non-technical phone screens. He gets free food and whatever and has his dream "job at Google". Now if you want to get a job at Google doing something interesting, all bets are off. He works on a large angular app that shows hardware allocations for an internal team. It's his first programming job at a software company though so he's learning a lot.
So you're attacking a group of people that fight for civil rights and equality issues by speaking on behalf of them and voicing their opinion that they all hate video games?
Wouldn't the primary key be SSN anyways?

Regardless, most sites will not allow you to change your username for all past comments. To do this naively would break searching by their old username for other users.
I find using subtrees much easier than submodules - http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submo...

The command line is a little obscure (at least, I can never remember the command to pull the latest remote changes first time) but overall the use of them is a lot nicer, for the way I work at least. Being able to have "local" edits to subtrees while still allowing remote updating and colleagues to clone the repo with the local updates is rather useful.
speed limits are way below the capabilities of how safely cars can move today

Speed limits are for people, not cars.
While I am happy for the Twitch employees on the news of acquisition, I fear this is going to hurt the user base more than it will help it. With the recent changes to VODs and music issues, people are already starting to leave. This news could push more people to leave. We've already seen services change after being acquired by a large corporation (YouTube is an often-cited example). The best case scenario is that the extra money helps to make the service better, but history has shown that that is not always the case.
Yup I know. Our SSL is in progress. For "Stripe Checkout" their documentation suggests: "we suggest that you also serve the page containing the payment form with HTTPS as well"

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Doubt it's "from scratch" -- a lot of projects use Eclipse as the base for their "custom editor" when in reality it's just a bunch of plugins strapped on top of the base Eclipse. (Android editor, CTools editor, etc). You probably can just install the Dart support plugins and get the same features.

Eclipse is a very robust, very flexible editor.

UPDATE - Here seems to be the plugin: https://www.dartlang.org/tools/eclipse-plugin/
Jeebus. What a load of shite.
> What I don't get is, why he seems to like Dart so much.

Dart has a good mix of fast live-reload dev workflow, great IDE editing and debugging experience as well as productive optional typing analysis and feedback. Which seems to suit @notch's GTD/experimental coding style.
Wow. How many videos is this?!
I have no idea what the color scheme means on SERPs listings. Numbers are obviously color coded... but I can't figure out any explanation as to what green vs red means.
They did: theirs is called Scumblr. Scum != Scrum.
>> all RBI wants is the service provider to settle money in India if paid by Indian customer to an Indian Customer

And it should be that way.Why should a local payment be routed outside and after an Ed'Snowden episode , i would rather feel more secure with things kept simple.

India like most countries has its own homegrown payment networks and i don't think it would be very difficult to run such businesses in India.
It is now official:

http://www.twitch.tv/p/thankyou
vCLI (Windows, Linux, & Linux appliance) and PowerCLI (Windows Powershell) are both quite extensive.
http://www.irfanview.com/ free image viewer for Windows, has "File" -> "Batch convert / rename" which can crop, resize, convert and so on.

I'm surprised you have settled on using a thing you dislike which doesn't work for you, when there are likely dozens or hundreds of wrappers, GUIs, APIs, programs and apps for image bulk editing to choose from.
As an aside, the story of the author's (David Carr) life and challenges is an amazing one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pag...
I know many people love Vice but I find their news coverage to be fairly vapid. Their journalism is more about generating a reaction and less about providing accurate in-depth information for the viewer.
Twitch CEO just confirmed: https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/503996320349057024
At least there won't be any google plus integration.
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Desert areas of BC hover around 40C much of the summer, and areas of southern Ontario hover in the 30s with ungodly humidity.
This was an interesting failure, I agree that if you don't break eggs now and then you aren't pushing hard enough. But I was particularly interested in the 3 engine test. Is SpaceX looking to abort/return to base on an engine out? I can see how it would be pretty amazing to land a satellite if you knew that you weren't going to have enough oomph to get it into orbit but I had not seen any mention of that. And the tests on the F9R in flight so far only needed 1 engine to return to the ground. So all in all an interesting test in a number of ways.
... Why? I don't think at any point did they actually imply that's a real tag ID. You'd get an error if you put in DEMO, as well.
Minor nit, not everyone has their notification area at the bottom right of the display (I use a vertical taskbar on the left). It'd be neat if the notifications showed up near the notification area.
Thanks for your feedback. We'll try to add more transparency. The calling home is for software updates and it shows up on the graph, and GlassWire can even block itself.
Congrats to the Twitch/Justin.tv crew!
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> I always marvel how our legal systems manage not to collapse given the imprecise language they use.

That's only surprising if you consider the language of laws to be of paramount importance. But generally, that's not the case. Most legal outcomes just come down to the discretion of police, prosecutors, judges, and juries, in descending order of prominence.

A lot of people, and probably especially programmers and engineers, think of the legal system as a formal system. It's quite common, when discussing some court case, or perhaps some unscrupulous act from a government official, to hear people say "but isn't that illegal?" The surprise implied by that question only makes sense if you assume either that a legal document has actual power to prevent an act (which we know it does not), or that the people who decide legal outcomes are somehow bound by the meaning of a legal document rather than the other way around.
How the language you speak affects your future decisions
Thanks. I was thinking at compiling a Racket application to iOS or Android in the way RubyMotion compiles Ruby code to iOS. Probably my original question wasn't so clear.
Yeah, re: the dropout rate, I think registering for a MOOC is more like browsing a book than registering for a college class. If I get through week 3 or 4 and take a midterm, then I find I tend to stick with the MOOC and finish it.

Without that momentum, it gets saved for later and I sometimes return to browse the content long after the class ends. More like a book.
The submitted article is shorter and more concise, but you're not missing anything by only reading the official announcement.
No love for NASA's MPCV (The spacecraft formerly known as Orion)?

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29
I think News Corp just likes money and sometimes it uses it's size to exert power of things (and/or governments, whatever...) so that it can make more money.
It is sad that this is a good thing. When discussions first came up I thought wow, how annoying would it be in my timeline/newsfeed to get get videos pushed there all the time?
Great site btw ;)
We actually did a test run earlier this year. Our metrics are pulled form our experience during the test run and worthy consumer data sources.
I don't think they would do it, but they could somehow integrate Amazon accounts. I don't think that would change the platform as much as G+ accounts did to YouTube, though.
"I'm doing it in Dart because it's fun." -Notch
I never thought of that. We'll see how we can move the notifications so they are near the GlassWire icon.
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If you're noticing the same thing I did, he's doing that because he's working on OpenGL shader code that's embedded in a string inside his Dart code. In this case, the IDE only sees a plain vanilla string, so Notch has to indent the GLSL manually.
I went through the same thing twice at google, but actually failed the over-the-phone interviews. Bank of America had a firm offer the very next day after the interview. I've been there 4 years, get great vacation amount and benefits (401k match, etc) and it's 20-40 minutes from the house, depending on traffic, instead of in Venice, which would be 1.5 hours. And I get paid well. On top of that, the work is interesting and challenging.
Anyone else having trouble submitting the application? I'm not sure if this is some kind of weird test but I doubt it. I can save, just not submit and it does the same thing in other browsers. Acts as if the submit/click handler isn't working.
That may be the case, but it's still not acceptable in my opinion. Calling home to fetch a new database of malicious hosts and such is fine, but calling home for analytics is not okay. At the very least, clearly disclose it and make it easy to opt out.
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I will have to make it more clear, because many people are asking about it.
Is there a reason you're looking for an alternative?

There were 183 founders in the last YC batch. 74 were not born in the United States. That's 40%. They didn't all just come from Canada and UK, they came from 27 different countries. There were actually 17 French founders in this batch, which is the highest concentration we've ever had in a funding cycle.

If your users/customers are in Europe (or elsewhere) and it makes sense, we're not against you learning and raising the money that you need here and taking it back with you to grow.
I don't think EWD's point is that we don't need natural language at all; just that it's not a good way to program a computer. Which I do believe to be true.

We can explain to a human how to fill out a form because the human has probably seen a lot of forms before. Humans make a lot of assumptions that often end up being wrong: but enough of them are correct that they're still useful.

We trust computers to be unimpeachably accurate because we as humans are not. If computers need to make the types of assumptions that humans do, then they lose a good deal of their accuracy (and their usefulness).

Human language is also visually difficult to read. The biggest improvement that symbolic languages (specifically, modern programming languages) make is the use of spacing and symbols to break apart complex processes into sub-sections, loops, etc.

Furthermore, I disagree with your statement that "natural language is a standard we already have and works fine." Language is not static, nor is it standard. Sure, we may have "standard" grammar rules, but even those can vary from region to region and many people don't follow the rules on a day to day basis. It's not a static target, so developing something that could interpret natural language means developing an artificial intelligence capable of taking nuance, context and the like into account.

EWD was simply claiming that such a system applied to general purpose computing would be so complicated as to be wildly impractical.
Please consider that alcohol induced behavior may destroy even the lives of people around the consumer.

That it is addictive.

That abstinence can literally kill an addict.

That many people live crippled lives or have their lives cut short after consuming it frequently (and abusing it regularly) for decades.

That hangovers are a living hell.

That camels were the shit back in the day: https://www.google.es/search?q=doctors+recommend+camel&rlz=1...

TL;DR: Alcohol is a drug. Drink responsibly.
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Sure - but that's not the issue that people have with this. The issue is that Jawbone decided to release personal data (aggregated, but still personal) to people who did not own the data.

Like I said above. . . it's not a data issue. It's a trust issue.