skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headlines in this product make no sense. Seriously the main page's headline is:

"Pay it friendly.
Treat your friends"
[imagery of two friends eating popsicles]

Compare this to Square
"Start selling today.
Take care of your business anywhere with Square"
[picture of a square ipad reader]

I think it's clear which company illustrates better what the actual product is.
Great ideas to consider for the future!. We may decide to release an offline version of ParseHub eventually.
I have found (and let me qualify, I am by no means an old hand at this) that macros allow you to do a degree of metaprogramming beyond just being "dumb enums" that makes them powerful on their own. I'm half expecting to be struck down where I stand for this next statement on account of some fine point I'm not aware of, but aspects of modern languages; decorators in python, serve similar functionality to what I used to use macros in C for. I think there's certainly room for the preprocessor going forward, although it may be valuable to ask, as python has, can we make it more elegant/idiomatic/coherent with the language as a whole. C macros, when you get "involved" are... arcane.
This blog post may have been worth millions of dollars in sales for Acme if we knew the actual context.

Acme has chosen to provide a better value prop. They use this to justify their additional cost 100 times a day. The CEO noted that the value prop was subjective (does your company value XYZ?), and simply justified the gap. It's not magic, its logic.
Actually they may, if they only do some items. At least, they can wonder "wait a minute, why doesn't he like that?"
Would you care to explain why I'd want to use your application/service? If his article is half right and you combine the gaps and flaws with your name (which makes me think of the urinal), I think his conclusion is correct.

Note that I don't know your team or anything about your product, but you will be fighting public perception and the media. I would also say that the vapor-ware label is a bit unfair - I spent enough time in hardware businesses to know that some things take time.
(Live) Mangalyaan – Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) from ISTRAC, Bangalore
by funding millions to AIPAC.
… and the Blink team landed it today shortly after your comment:

https://codereview.chromium.org/566083003/

The tests show how simple the code is:

https://codereview.chromium.org/566083003/patch/120001/13000...
this site http://www.fandor.com/ is designed to serve exactly the audience that Netflix ignores, cinephiles if you like. worth checking out. full disclosure, i'm related to the CEO.
I started with Awesome in 2009 and switched to Qtile about a year later. Python is what I do all day every day, and it's really useful to be able to customize my environment in my favorite language. The other plus of Qtile being in Python is that it's much easier for me to contribute back to the project itself.
I suppose if the marketing was 100% effective they wouldn't have to answer pre-customer e-mails like this. That said, its always good PR to have the CEO go out and "bump" a typical customer scenario who is almost to the purchase choice.
I've heard that this is what Germany still does.

For every profession, there is an apprenticeship you can enter for it. You get paid (unlike an internship). Apprenticeships start after highschool or college.

I heard this years ago, so I can't remember the exact details, but maybe and German can speak up about it.
Get a job programming. 10-year average pay gap is about 33%, which is not an insubstantial amount closer to "rich".
Ad hominem aside, a lack of experience doesn't inherently make an argument invalid.
Marry into a rich family.
I have a handicapped son and as I've pointed out here before, I'd appreciate it if you would choose a word that indicated the writer (in this case) decided to not live up to their potential instead of implying their potential was somehow degraded.

Those with disabilities would thank you ... they often work very hard to do things we consider "rote".

EDIT: I forgot to say that I absolutely agree with the sentiment of your comment ... reading that was brain-twistingly horrible (usually you can guess what words the author's spell-checker changed). I'm wondering if that post was typed on a phone using two big thumbs.
I'm not the greatest fan of Go; the pain points of api weirdness and generics are too irritating for me.

...but you've got to admit: look at the graph. That's an exponential increase in people using go to access the service.

If you're a service based company you can't just ignore the people who use your service.

If people are using go? Provide a go library.

If you see an exponential curve of people accessing it using lua, write a lua library.

It's pretty obviously the right thing for them to do.
It's almost like film consumers don't realize there are transaction and frictional costs to the licensing and distribution of a film, even for streaming, and many films are not popular enough to earn back those costs in the foreseeable future.

I don't think people realize how expensive it is to manufacture a film. I don't mean in terms of hiring big-name actors or in terms of striking prints and pressing DVDs, although those can be very expensive indeed. But even if you stay digital all the way it can be very expensive. Look at this distribution contract, in particular the list of deliverables on pps 19-20: http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/2011_bui...

Every time you have a rights transfer (eg to a new licensee) there's a agreement and a bunch of deliverables along those lines, which have to be negotiated and QCed. It's not a matter of just taking what people have an uploading it to (say) Netflix's servers; if there's something wrong with the digital copy or it isn't conformant to (ever changing) standards, then dissatisfied viewers are going to blame Netflix. The absolute bare minimum to get a piece of content through a distribution pipeline is about $5000.

People will put up with bad torrents of something because, well, it's free. But if they've paid for something (even though a subscription service) and it doesn't play back properly, that becomes a PR problem.
I find it artificial when the lecturer reads the presentation - it's not a joy to listen.
The author said he struck out with sfpl, but a quick search showed that there are 10 copies, with 3 available. Am I missing something?
I've never seen an engineer of a product coming on HN to defend the product in reply to negative comments work out very well...
Medicare? Medicaid? Welfare spending? It just starts at 24%.
That feels like an awfully strict definition of failure, especially since IF Dropbox and/or Square are acquired, it would be for well over 10-11 figures.
steal, inherit or create value.
"Really nothing infuriates me more than when CanIStream.it tells me that the movie I want to watch is unavailable to stream for purchase or subscription on any service."

It's probably in window for in-flight service only. Ha ha only serious.
Uhhh no. The government distributes welfare payments. The gov't runs Medicaid (a few exceptions). The gov't run Medicare (a few exceptions).
You'll get no argument from me that they are poorly run.
Courses on computational sustainability, green computing, buildings
I searched 'Queen' knowing it has several meanings and I was curious to how it deals with this. The rock band and football club came up first.

Then I searched random things like; dog, cat, London, weather.

The vast majority of searches lead to music results even when you wouldn't expect it like the latter 2 KW's listed above. The results dont seem overly useful but glad to see people playing in this space as Google seems to be turning into one giant ad and so I like to see work being done in this area
I was referring to the implication that the only actual copy of the file would seem to be on the cloud service in this scenario. ("I'm not going to pay for a TB of storage until I can moves files I don't need on my SSD anymore (ie RAW photos I've developed) into Dropbox and have them removed from my computer seamlessly.") Which may be OK but not necessarily something I'd be comfortable with.
Waiting for that very answer here:

www.ProjectAmericanDream.com
A lot of this reflects something I've noticed about development in the Gnome world: they decide exactly how interfaces should be used, and lock that in. As time progresses, they drop more and more customizability out of their products, and as a result, you're increasingly left with a choice between doing things their way, or mucking around in their re-envisioning of the Windows Registry or even program source code.

A big one for me is keyboard input: at one point, I could use the Super key for whatever I liked, and I could easily set the right Alt key to be a Compose key. Now, there is no reclaiming the Super key from hard-coded shortcuts (Unity is even worse about this!), and the Compose key is outright missing from the keyboard settings menu.

The obvious fix is simply not to use Gnome. I'm personally partial to Openbox; it's amenable to customization in a way I don't think Gnome will ever be again. The problem is that with the flurry of new system(d?) technologies -- dbus, policykit, consolekit, who knows what the hell else -- nothing works. I can't even mount removable drives from any file manager under an Openbox session now. At the moment, Gnome is the only system sufficiently tightly coupled into this stuff to work at all, and that's frustrating.
Just a reminder: you posted this on a thread for git tutorials.
Some laughingstocks really are laughingstocks ... My only recollection of Clinkle before this article was that the name might not be taken seriously (perhaps during a discussion here on HN). Who declared them to be a laughingstock? Probably not those who invested - and I'm not going to second guess the VC talent that put up their money.
That's a rather interesting startup/service idea. On setup you tell it what services you have accounts on, and then when you search it will tell you the options (with links to signup on new services), and always with a "BitTorrent at your own risk" fallback.
Out of curiosity, what theme do you use?

I really wanted to be happy with Gnome 3, but the focus issues (strange stacking order issues, sometimes closing dialogs would leave no window with focus, launching certain apps with global hotkeys wouldn't bring them to the front) made it impossible for me to keep track of what I was trying to do. I'm curious if maybe there's something about my setup that's different than everyone else (because I know there are plenty of people who are happy with it) or if maybe I'm more keyboard oriented or something.
This could be helpful to you for purposes of comparison:
https://www.wealthfront.com/tools/startup-salary-equity-comp...
I used to not drink, partially on the basis that my understanding was that it is healthier. Then someone showed me the mountain of evidence for the positive health benefits of moderate drinking: http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/AlcoholAndHealth.html#.UlasF...

Now, I drink moderately, an option that seems left out of most conversations about this topic. That means I never drink more than 3 "standard" drinks a day, rarely fewer than 1. I never drink those 3 any faster than an hour (because I'd never drink 3 glasses of anything else that fast either). At that rate, I'm never drunk. I'm never unable to drive a vehicle. I'm never foggy-headed or otherwise impaired. Likewise, I never have a hangover.
It was so good I wish It was thursday.

I want mooooore!
"...and Netflix sells off its vast supply of DVDs for drink coasters..."

Can we get off this, at long last? CDs and DVDs are terrible coasters. They're too thin and not at all spongy or porous, so the condensation will creep all the way around to the table side. I once ruined a desk by leaving a cold drink on a CD overnight. Admittedly it was a cheap, second-hand desk, but still.
> no plans to improve the NDK beyond the existing support

:| really? Got a link to that?

I really thought that they'd finally gotten over themselves and realized that lots of people want and use the NDK.
Ah interesting. We wouldn't be using it in every scenario, basically only scenarios where we believe there to be a match and want 100% confirmation.

Thanks for sharing!
2-3 trees actually do give you log-time concatenation; most species of balanced trees do, including red-black, AVL, splay (amortized, of course), skip lists, and treaps.
Dmitri from Branch here. When a user has already had a fingerprint matched once, we can do future matches with much higher certainty, so as more and more users click links and are matched, the chance decreases.

Additionally, as Alex said, though most uses of the links don't require a 100% match rate ("any growth is good"), we do have an option for links which require a 100% match.
And if the studios are OK with that arrangement, then more power to them. I'm just tired of them whining and moaning about piracy while desperately trying to cling to an outdated distribution model.
> as soon as you turn the drive on, presumably you refresh the charge

No, bits lose their charge slowly but it doesn't matter whether the SSD is powered on or off. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/256180-32-read-longevity

As a side note, the really interesting thing about this endurance test is that almost all the drives fail badly at the end of their life. Even though almost all the manufacturers specifically claim they "fail safe" into a read-only mode.
Go into finance?
Looking for any feedback! Thanks!
I've realized and accepted this for some time now.

Netflix and similar are really good for satisfying "I just want to watch some movie and be entertained" needs, but really not great (and likely getting worse), sadly, for "I have a very specific movie in mind and I want to see it" needs.

It's a sacrifice I've learned to be okay with, but it is a little sad. I have a few movies on physical media that I had to give up due to them taking up space, and I knew that while they're currently available on Netflix, that may no longer be the case in the future. :(
Would have loved to give the name, but the founder asked not to be named. Sorry about that. It was his email, so I deferred to his judgement.
Thus why your logging library should have a configurable log-level, and the first thing the user-facing log() function should do is check the arguments against the log-level and early-return if the message isn't important enough.

(In languages that support macros, you could also just make debug_log() a macro that gets compiled out on release builds, like assert(). That means a whole bunch of object files are going to be functionally different between debug and release builds, though, which is annoying for a lot of operational reasons.)

My favourite solution by far, though, is the one recently implemented by Elixir: log() is a regular function, but takes a closure instead of a string. That way, you can actually put all the work required to generate the log message (inspecting data structures, doing intermediate lookups, etc.) inside the closure, and it all gets elided when you decrease the log-level.
One day Pablo Picasso was sketching on a park bench. A woman recognized him as the famous artist, and asked him for a portrait sketch. Picasso flipped to a blank page, looked at the woman for a moment, and with a few strokes of the pencil drew her abstract portrait.

The woman looks at the drawing and is ecstatic. As she reaches for it, she asks how much it will cost her. "Five thousand," he says. "Five thousand?! But that drawing took you less than a minute!" Picasso replies, "No, madame, it took a lifetime."

* * *

The point being: The email is worth nothing; the value is in the person writing the email, and their knowing what to say.
I also loved my Kardashian Kard ... even if you could only purchase pedicures with it. Now all I'm left with is Kim's wisdom (in combination with Soren Kierkegaard's philosophy): https://twitter.com/KimKierkegaard
Maybe we have different definitions of open. For me that includes freedom of speech and net neutrality.

These things don't exist unless you make laws to protect them.
It's worth taking a look at `dplyr`. You can work with data tables or data frames (or a database), and the functions are in the same neighborhood as data.table functions in terms of speed. Also, in addition to `reshape2`, there is `tidyr`.
Unfortunately, this company will remain an SV punch line for a long, long time to come.
Speaking for myself? Sometimes, yeah. I'm kinda impulsive at times. When it's 2:00am and I'm just struck by the urge to watch some random movie; if it's on Amazon Prime Video or Netflix, or if I happen to own the DVD, great. If not, I don't feel like driving somewhere to buy a DVD or waiting for Amazon to ship it to me. So yeah, I'm probably just going to torrent it.
Unlike magnetic HDDs it does not matter what the "powered on" time is for an SSD. The most significant factor is the number of blocks erased (and presumably written to). High temps can also affect SSD life.
This would tug at my heartstrings if there wasn't so much fuzzy math in Hollywood keeping actors and workers from getting paid appropriately. I shed as many tears for the record companies that gleefully screwed musicians out of their royalties for years.
The Grand Tour, 2.0
"part of the pitch"? Does that mean there was some other product or feature that was more central to the pitch presented to investors?
" would have run down to my local video store, but I don’t have a local video store. I struck out at the San Francisco Public Library..."

So why didn't he go to Le Video? He even mentions it later in the article. Sounds like the author was intentionally constraining himself to make a point.
It's frequently assumed that breakdowns are geometric random variables and we can extrapolate the rate by testing many drives. For example, test 100 drives.and find when the first one breaks.

The numbers in this test should be interpreted as an average with some drives breaking earlier. Now consider the failure rates for drives where the file is spread across multiple disks.
CanIStream.it is 90% of the way there to your idea.
Yes, that does sound interesting to me, the reason I got into R in the first place was for machine learning. I will check it out!
While I really like the non-tech topics (I remember one about raising chickens as well), and I love reading all the HN comments (more detailed how-to experiences, startup metaphors, and beehive monitoring devices), I really did not like the tone of this article. I felt the form actually detracted from the content enough to come here and mention it.

I like learning about the details of a new field, and I like to hear about issues facing beginners, but this article seemed somewhat pretentious and naïve. I'm all for admitting and learning from mistakes, but not making them into some Shakepearian drama (loyalty, death, duels). The whole tie-in with literature seemed formulaic, not to mention strained, as if it were an assignment for a writing class. I felt this story would've been better served with a straight-up blog-like narrative--just the facts. Not every story belongs in the New Yorker.
Big companies move to where real estate is cheaper.
Its ridiculous how many companies are keeping the human in the feedback loop of the internet of things. Sending notifications to a phone is not automation.

Just imagine if your traction control system only alerted you to your loss of traction, or if your hvac system just told you it was too warm, instead of those systems acting autonomously to rectify their conditions.

The killer apps of the internet of things will not notify humans of changes in stimuli, but will take corrective actions taken in response to those stimuli.

But, its no surprise. Because, when the only tool you have is an iPhone, everything looks like a push notification.
> Even if its doubtful anyone will use it.

Great grammar!
Ask HN: Single channel textures on iOS and OpenGL ES 3
How is this different from all the reward cards out there?
Two words: IBM Deathstar.
I've been watching it for 8 minutes as of now and despite the fact that the content looks good it really bores me to death that he is reading the whole thing like a robot. It does not sound like a natural converstation or presentation. Does anyone else share this feeling?
Yep, I know about dplyr, I plan on spending some more time with that. Thanks for the 'tidyr' reference, I haven't heard of that one yet and will check it out!
So much for the promise of "The Long Tail": that, vast storage being cheap as air, everything would be available on line.
It's a television show.
The presentation style is a bit rough but the material is gold.
The difference between Google and Bing
its really sad that he is reading the presentation..
This is what Ive been saying all along. First world countries are fine...ATM.

However, the more people that are infected, the more chance of Ebola mutating some novel route of infection.

I.e. in the worst case....airborne.

Then it becomes a serious issue in the first world. An apocalyptic issue...
On my side, I didn't consider that it might be copied from the book, given that copying from the web site should be much easier than either OCR or copy&paste from some e-book. Your first posting didn't mention that you had spot-checked against the book, and I assumed that the infringement you were talking about was from xkcd.com and not from the book.

Regarding a hypothetical Houghton Mifflin; I can conceive that Munroe is in a special enough position as to make special demands. (This is, in fact, not true - people on xkcd.com say that the e-books are DRM'ed.) I can also conceive of a mixed situation, where the book contains additional material not on the web site, and where only the new material was under a more restrictive copyright.

(Another minor detail; the xkcd.com copyright license may be less restrictive than most, but it not free. There is still copyright protection on it.)

I personally think the author doesn't much care about the matter. A review of the other book reviews shows they are more like digests, with many long, unmodified quotes and very little review or commentary.
Dustin talks about Financial Reward and Impact of "why to do a startup" for examples like Facebook and Dropbox here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYhVcO4WgI#t=2161

Are these values correct? If you join Dropbox as employee #100 with 10bp, you're 10bp is going to get massively diluted through subsequent rounds, no? Isn't it more like $1-2mil? And also this is wealth on paper, which means that you don't all of the sudden have $10mil sitting in the bank. I don't think he explains that but that's how it's portrayed, and is probably worth explaining, given the audience.
"Journalism is printing something someone else doesnt want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
Partialy,
I do backups of everything that is mine, documents and stuff like that. But restoring the entire system with all tweaks and packets would probably take weeks.
Negative mouth to mouth because you had to go to the store to see the price options? There are two, fwiw. Lots of people pick the lifetime upgrade option.
I have an OCZ Vertex LE that's still going strong after a little over 27,800 power on hours and ~18.6 TB of data written.

I would be shocked if "Judge reliability on drive models, rather than manufacturers." was any less true in the SSD era than it was in the HDD era.
I am concerned about the lack of read-only at EOL.

I, for one, would much prefer slightly less longevity and better reliability than vice versa.

I mean, I do backups, but backups only do so much.
1) Don't link to sites that you think may have been compromised. It's poor form...

2) Yes

http://www.riskiq.com/resources/blog/jquerycom-malware-attac...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8356062
What would you pay?
Why should I use this instead of my rewards credit card?