skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people enjoy shopping, so this isn't as obviously bad of an idea as some of the comments here imply. Open question whether this will be more like "hanging out at the mall" or "watching QVC."
Most startup founders are less "new nobility" and more "2007 housing crisis straw buyers" -- they're necessary grease for the cogwheels of questionable investment. Nothing new here; it's the same thing we lived through in the late 1990s, just with fewer Super Bowl ads.

It is interesting to see further anecdotal confirmation of what we already knew: a lot of soi disant "smart money" still basically consists of low-information investors who are easily suckered in by stories that superficially conform to a few outlier successes. The fact is that everyone who invested, from angels to institutions, thought that a hoodie and a purported Ivy League acceptance letter trumped industry experience and a pro forma based on market analysis. (To be fair to West Coast investors, it does appear that most of Amicus' money came from NYC, which -- to be frank -- in general doesn't have a record of desirable tech investments over the past few decades. They're bandwagon chasers over there.)

The fact is that the vast majority of what's getting funded are, even if successful, very short-term plays. I think we've reached peak absurdity with "Yo" and pizza-ordering-button apps; the bro-conomy can only support so much investment and, once it collapses, it's not clear to me where the money will flow. Until then, tech investors seem intent on partying like it's 1999.
I often go between PHP and Javascript (Node + Angular). :) I used to juggle a bit more than that too!
On the other hand this means that a second iteration of the Moto 360 will easily have a better battery life just by having a Cortex A7 CPU or even better, a Cortex A53, 50% more efficient than A7 and due next year. Something like a Snapdragon 410 with only 2 cores and no LTE modem would be great. The target is 130mw / core.

EDIT: apparently the G Watch and Gear Live have a Snapdragon 400 with 3 core deactivated. So I guess they could do the same with a 410.
Every day is pretty much a mix of Dylan (http://opendylan.org/), some Python, some JavaScript and either C or C++. Occasionally shell scripts.

My productivity in any of them is usually pretty decent, but it depends more on what I'm doing. In Dylan, I'm often hacking on the compiler or the runtime, so that's harder and slower going than doing some web services in Python, or Javascript for some visualization / UI. C++ varies from fairly easy work to modifying the standard C++ library to add instrumentation hooks, so again, the productivity varies.
It was enough to convict Steve Wright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich_serial_murders#Court_a...
Facebook already tried something like this when they purchased Karma and it didn't work out too well.
Yes, mostly Python on the backend, JavaScript on the frontend, and some shell scripting (Bash).

At home, I dabble in m68k (Amiga) assembly and C.

On the bus, Racket (don't ask me why).
It would be interesting to see if content writers can promote their content through this to earn money through micro-payments.
Likely Steps:
1. Capture attention in 140 characters.
2. Provide a good deal for the article/content at a small price

Just being optimistic about news, article writers. I guess we might soon see Economist stories with nice 140 character titles and eye-catchy pictures with a buy button to read full article, post which it's added to your twitter shelf.
I wonder if this just might prove to be the payment mechanism needed for such content consumption. Somewhat similar to the app-store economy, twitter might become the content-store. Let's see...

Though I hope the dominant commerce part is kept as a separate tab perhaps like "Discover" tab, as I guess I wouldn't want to have my twitter stream as a series of ads. One or two "buy" tweets might be ok though I think... Will have to wait and watch how this goes.
Thanks for pointing it out. I just added Gumroad, Stripe because they are well-known here in the HN community, and I though it was interesting to know (even if you don't read the whole article).
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My main concern is security. When Twitter stores your payment information it will be easy to buy something with a single click. But I've seen way too many Twitter hacking going on when I look at friends' timelines. If tweets like 'How I lost 100 lbs in 3 months! Click > bit.ly/youwillbehacked' can be posted without too much effort, these same hackers could buy stuff for free by just hacking into your Twitter account.
Exactly my thoughts. I think at this moment we are all so scared of possible future changes, always for the sake of profits against users' will, that something as simple and inoffensive as this is actually a pleasant surprise.

I hope they will be happy enough with the button's results to not jump to other, more irritating changes. And also hope that this is not just a door for some future ads spike.
I was wondering this as well?
Why not just start with awk or perl and not fight your tools?

Do you wish your screwdriver had a pliers attachment?

Are you familiar with the Unix Philosophy?
As I am typing this I realize how times have changed: I use Javascript, but only on the server. And then I am currently writing firmware in C++.

I find I typically mistype things 3 or 4 times per day, like var instead of int for variables, bracket positioning or === which has gone from looking completely weird to now looking correct, leaving me feeling that my comparisons in C++ are sloppy. I usually catch it immediately and if there is a productivity cost, it's so small that I don't notice it myself.
You need to reframe the question. The interviewer isn't interested in the challenge, they are interested in the how you solved it and why it matters.

What is the most meaningful contribution you've made?
It's true that the Kuok family, the current owners of the South China Morning Post, are somewhat pro-Beijing. But this isn't a chinese newspaper. It's an english-language Hong Kong newspaper, founded in 1903, with a strong tradition of british style journalism. I think that defect was used in exactly the same context as "so and so defected from Google to Microsoft".
Productivity depends on your previous experience and the domain you're in.

Sometimes Im way more productive in Bash than in Python, sometimes its other way around, and sometimes Im most productive in Java.

You cant do web development with Bash so I guess me or anyone else would be infinietley more inproductive trying to use that for web dev.

Similary just some stuff you cant do in your favourite language.

Choose wisely and you'll be productive.
Javascript (Node + Angular), Objective-C, Java (Android)
I see him in Gstaad every year. He's a tiny guy.
Would anyone mass-produce a driverless car if Lidar were so expensive?
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Programming in HTML and CSS sounds awesome.
Here's what the problem is: twitter isn't a product company. It's a service company. They didn't just invent a protocol, like the SMTP guys did, they provide a service for free. That means they need money to hire people, maintain servers, and survive in general. Even if they didn't want to make any money, if they never cared for profit, they would still need a way to have their service generate income.

I agree that it's a conundrum for them, but with this solution at least they're trying to do it in a non-obtrusive way that doesn't jeopardize the entire platform.
I hope it was clear in person/context, and I also tried to keep it clear in every slide (agree that reading the fine print shouldn't be necessary).

And thanks, glad you liked the slides!
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really? i do remember the wow moment when i worked it out for myself but i was pretty young...
There nothing in communism that requires a centrally planned economy. In fact, a lot of communist ideologists would insist that a centrally planned economy is fundamentally incompatible with communism, as it requires a central authority to enforce decisions and many see a central authority as incompatible with a class free society.

I'm in the UK, and libertarianism here most certainly does mean anarchism to a lot of people, socialism to others, though it is probably today more commonly used about factions of Thatcherites.

The word itself was first used by a French anarchist and communist, and it has a long history in Europe (150 years+) of being used about left wing organisations, and only a few decades of use about the right wing.

In the UK, the use of the term date at least as far back as the 1880's, when some prominent members of the Socialist League (1885), which counted people like Engels and Eleanor Marx as it's supporters, considered themselves libertarians.

> Also remember why communistic economies fail

No country to my knowledge have claimed to have had a communist economy. Some have claimed to be socialist, and many socialists would disagree with that as well.

Your comment seems to assume that these terms are applied to just one ideology. Meanwhile there's an old joke that if you put two Marxists in a room, you will have three different opinions about what Marxism is. And Marxism again is just one of many dozens of socialist ideologies that differ widely.

Even in Marx' days, Marx and Engels devoted a substantial proportion of the Communist Manifesto not to criticise capitalism, but to criticise other socialist ideologies that they saw as ranging from hopelessly utopian, to reactionary: worse than capitalism.
Twitter offers 2 factor authentication for account logins (SMS a code every time you login).
Go, Ruby, Bash, javascript, coffeescript

- I try not to work with 2 languages at the same time

- Try not to carry paradigms over wrt var names, module functions, deployment options

- Keep a single editor (vim) for all of them

- I might need a few minutes to 'warm up', specially when dealing with go-routines, threads or a magical change in syntax (ex: from Javascript to Coffeescript)

- Warm up gets harder if I don't touch certain language for a while. Ex: Focusing on a single language for 1 - 2 days makes me extremely comfortable with language X, but harder to switch to language Y
With or without the buy button you are seeing the adds.
php, javascript, html, sql
i like how the points merge, thats what makes this more than just a dumbass simulator imo. :)

took a while for me to work out though.
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A single day might span Objective-C, C, Swift, Dart, Python, JavaScript, and even PHP... usually just a pick of two of those. I do think it's more productive to be heavily immersed in no more than one or two day-to-day because otherwise I start to confuse APIs/syntax from one with another.
I'm somewhat surprised that everybody missed the fact that Scala 2.12 has more to it than just Java 8 compatibility and stability.

We're working on replacing the whole backend in scalac. We'll ship faster and easier to maintain optimizer that fixes lots of long-standing bugs in scalac. In fact, it will allows us to fix the second most voted issue ever: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4633?jql=project%20%...

More details: http://magarciaepfl.github.io/scala/

--
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I'm curious how you would detect debris on the road at speed reliably without it. I wouldn't trust a visual system to distinguish obstacles from discolorations, and other systems wouldn't have the precision or range.
This is too thick on startup buzzwords such that it makes it difficult to understand any argument.
regularly switch between C, C++, Java and Objective-C

necessary for cross platform development

C++ for the win. its annoying apple and google break the universality of C/C++ by forcing you to use tools built on top of C/C++ :P
Well, it's certainly older. It's not really so ambiguous since the CSS version is "LESS". Speaking as someone who cut his teeth on the command line, I clicked the article thinking that it was referring to LESS since the idea of modernizing less never occurred to me (even though it's a much older piece of technology; LESS is much more broken...)
>IMHO there are different modes you are in, while coding: (0) prototyping (researching the problem, reading API documentation) and (1) implementing a robust solution; In the first case, again, the time it takes you is more constrained by the thinking you do, and in the second case you probably know the API and important functions already (from the previous step) so the auto-complete is not needed anymore.

I find in the first case, I can be much faster when I can just think. Instead of having to switch mental contexts between "What's my logical process" and "How does that translate specifically into this language/framework/whatever." A simple example is if I want to iterate through every item in a container, I'd like to just type 'for', tab, the first few letters of the container variable, tab, and have it all set up. Resharper does this, and will even name things appropriately for you (if the container is something like myInts or intList, it will name the item myInt).

I used to do most of my planning on paper, or in a text file for this reason. But it's much nicer to be able to merge planning and coding as early as possible.

In your second case, well (1), maybe this is true for you and others. But not for everyone, myself included. I have a pretty poor memory for specifics. Is it myList.length(), myList.length, myList.Count, len(myList), count(myList)? On top of this, every one of the previous examples is valid in a language or framework I use at least on a weekly basis, if not daily. I may be doing python and javascript all day at work, then go home to work on a game in C++. It leads to a lot of confusion. (And about 30 minutes until I remember I need to use brackets and double quotes again, haha).

Everyone has their own ideal purpose of an IDE, and JetBrain's goals are pretty much in line with what I want. I agree that many of the fancy features they show off are just getting around the short-comings of C++. But to me, that is the point. I like the IDE to remove the actual "coding" aspect as much as possible. Allow me to think through the logic and control flow. Not whether the current item has to be dereferenced or not. Let me think of the actual data structure, and not whether it needs to be called .push_back() or .append() or .add().
I think I just learnt something about gravity and oscillations: http://i.imgur.com/OrUUFj7.png

Using the rapid-click feature on my mouse to place a dense circle outline: http://i.imgur.com/14IN5pi.png
This post is the fourth reason why I wouldn't ask Atomic Object to sign my NDA.
For what do you use so much VBA on a daily basis? My only experience with it was writing Excel macros back when I worked with data.
Pardon my white male patriarchal cishet privilege here, but... what's so "racist" about this email? If anything his criticism is on white fans for being afraid of being in a majority-black crowd. It all appears to me to be as neutral of an observation as one could have in an inherently volatile subject.
He was also already a suspect in the murders. The assistant chief constable wrote that Kosminski was a suspect because he "had a great hatred of women ... with strong homicidal tendencies." In one of the murders, Kosminski was identified but apparently the witness refused to testify against him.
We are planing LLDB integration: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-359

As for the other build-systems: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-274
Coming from an agency background to more application focussed it's not unusual to cover most, if not all of the following in a single day; C#, html, css, javascript (client), sql.
Yes, it's pretty much sure HP-UX, you can see it in banners several times throughout booting. Also this thing being made by HP using HP custom hardware you can be quite sure that it runs HP's Unix.

Since this device is still not rooted I don't have access to a command line... yet. There's a telnet daemon listening on the network interface, but that's it (I didn't crack the passwd entry yet).
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Aren't your repos already backed up locally? I mean that is where I created them...
very useful... only for someone who wants to start his/her own Aereo.
Cannot should be "have not"
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TECH PIONEER LAUNCHES NEXT EVOLUTION IN ONLINE VIDEOS

Vusay Transforms Online Viewing
Into a Powerful Interactive Social Experience

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2014—Wendell Brown, founder of groundbreaking tech companies Teleo, LiveOps, Nularis and eVoice, announces his latest venture, Vusay (pronounced view-say). Vusay is a powerful platform that makes online videos interactive with any device, vusay.com or any website with digital content. With Vusay's point-in-time commenting technology, instead of just passively watching videos, viewers can immediately add their thoughts and comments at specific video moments they connect with, then instantly and seamlessly share them via Facebook and Twitter without ever leaving the video screen.
Vusay disrupts the fast-growing online video industry with this new, powerfully immersive way for fans to engage with media, brands and millions of other viewers around the world. Vusay’s free embedded technology integrates with virtually any video player on video content websites. The Vusay sidebar features real-time comments flowing at precise moments in videos, making the old scroll-down commentary format—which buries each comment and lacks connection to specific moments—a thing of the past.
“Social media is a vital transformation in the way we engage and communicate," said Brown. "Especially with video, it's a moment that matters. With Vusay, comments will no longer be afterthoughts at the end of videos. Now, fans can Vusay their comments in videos at meaningful points, thereby connecting with content, and each other, on a much deeper level."

"Today, more than 1 billion unique users watch more than 6 billion hours of video each month on YouTube alone, with online video users expected to increase globally to 1.5 billion by 2016," continued Brown. "There’s a massive opportunity for Vusaying to become an integral component of the video-watching experience."
www.vusay.com.
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Clicking http://ideamarket.com/founders.html gave me this:
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Phone-oriented SoCs have aggressive frequency scaling and power gating, such that the newer chipsets have lower power consumption in ordinary usage and only scale up to similar power usage in high-utilization applications.
Not when you use several different computers, or when you're done with an old project and delete your local copy.
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Sure, and that's obviously useful, but it doesn't help with social engineering. If the site had a copy of the login page, I can see many people falling for it.
Yes. Some impressive weasel words from GNU to try and make Mozilla sound bad there.
Most consulting firms do in fact sign NDAs. It's uncommon for VCs to do so, but it's not at all unprofessional to ask a contractor to do it, and certainly doesn't make you look inexperienced.

Perhaps some firms prefer not to sign NDAs before they have a master agreement in place and some commitment to work. Fair enough. We'll sign an NDA immediately, though.
2. How about "DeGrub", could even be used as a verb...
The advantage is particularly that you don't have to use basic auth. Basic auth in a browser context is more or less a non-starter. The browser's basic auth implementation will take over and provide a generally poor, uncontrollable user experience.

For server-to-server authentication, there is less to recommend this, although it does allow services to authenticate without having to check a credential against a data store someplace.
Raid5, so six 6TB drives?

You don't think they are measuring un-raided capacity with six 4TB drives?
Because it opens the doors for referrals and sponsors.

Personally I think it's a good idea, for the brands and people I follow I know I'll only be getting shown the 'Buy' button for targeted items. However, I know my friends and family follow people who are clearly paid to promote a product.

Just to give you an example, Mark Wright is a reality TV celebrity here in England, and it's clear he is paid to promote diet supplements. if you check out his tweets you'll see that he's always retweeting, and taking pics of them (https://twitter.com/MarkWright_).

At the moment, conversion metrics are quite hard to get, however imagine if each one had a Buy button. It would be super easy to see which tweets leads to sales, which in turn will lead to a more aggressive sales pitch in order to bump up your conversions and maximise on referrals, as they'd likely to change to a percentage of sales rather than a fixed fee now that conversations are recordable.

There used to be a thing that you have to disclose your affiliation (think it was cmp.ly) but don't believe it ever got enforced, much like the EU Cookie Law, kind of.

Don't get me wrong, in my feed I trust people I follow and this won't happen. But for casual tweeters, it's just too easy to be exploited.
Plus, you can use this to backup someone else's repos in case they delete them.
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At least for programs written in C, most (all?) modern Unix-like platforms should include the functionality in the base install. On the language side, C89 requires support for wide and multibyte characters in a conforming libc implementation. And POSIX furthermore requires a locales/iconv system to specify and convert between encodings. Neither of those strictly require that UTF-8 be one of the supported encodings (C89 predates Unicode), but any reasonably modern implementation will include Unicode locales. And if it doesn't, I think at this point you can just consider that to be the system's problem: the current assumption for POSIXy programs is that they will use the system locales, not try to implement their own encoding machinery.
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Datamining correlations like that confuses two issues: sampling error and 'everything is correlated'. When you find a correlation like that, it's unclear whether it's a spurious correlation which will disappear if you just collect more data (and caused by slicing the data in a thousand ways without any compensation by this) or whether there genuinely is some sort of opaque correlation which will persist no matter how much data you collect (maybe 'US spending on science, space, and technology' really does correlate with
'Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation' through something like government stimuluses and economic growth).
Please re-read the comment text (which is clearer than the title).

That discussion was about protecting the USB device, by preventing data flow. This thread is about something different: protecting the USB host, by restricting which types of devices can be used (including ones which use the data pins).
The sensor fusion reminds me of the F-35 JSF. The software seems to be one of the big things in the fighter project.

So actually this might be a good fit for Google after all. Sensors are getting trivialized.

I'm sure Google is working for a LIDARless car. They've published their stereo vision to 3d library.

https://code.google.com/p/openvis3d/