skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I tell you, this'll have an impact on Burning Man. What, I don't know, but it's actually a kind of a huge point out there that "no, you can't just tote up". I couldn't tell you the arrest numbers for weed, but my anecdotal understanding is that it's the #1 mistake that gets you searched that reveals all the other stuff...
I read "Decaffeinated coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of death" to mean that they lack sufficient data to quantify it, not as a comparison to caffeinated.
Zero sum is not necessarily a bad thing, though.
Using easily readable/recognizable variable names is one thing computer programmers got right. It's always frustrating to read mathematic or economic models that use symbols instead.

I'm sure there's a good reason for it, but I haven't heard it yet.
There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. - somebody
From the linked site:

"Why? Because V8, SpiderMonkey and JavaScriptCore are all too big and complex. MuJS's focus is on small size, correctness and simplicity."
Why not try a quick prototype with both? FWIW Rails + Ember seems a fairly common choice.
Interesting stuff, it's clear from this economics perspective that sexual behavior is tightly coupled to risks and societal influence. As birth control became more available, the risk of premarital sex went down dramatically. I think societal norms are slowly catching up with this, hence why "we" (i.e. Western nations) are more liberal now than say 70 years ago.

Here's a related thought experiment: could ever increasing divorce rates be explained similarly by risk? There is much less risk of divorcing now, women are about as financially independent as men, and it could be argued there is a greater safety net for single parents (e.g. [1]). This is interesting because it would imply that in the natural state of things, men's primary family purpose is/was as a provider/protector of some sort. So as that need diminishes, perhaps it shouldn't be the norm to expect everyone to get married.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Assistance_for_Needy_...
>it's unlikely to do anything other than make you more alert and awake.

I find that extremely hard to believe.

If I drink 5 cups of coffee per day I get heart palpitations, an upset stomach, and am extremely irritable in general. The same goes for my significant other.

I actually went to a heart specialist and wore a heart monitor for 48 hours last year because I was having an irregular heartbeat and would black-out occasionally after jumping up out of a chair. The diagnosis? I'm fine. I just need to ingest less caffeine.

I think I'll stick with my one cup per day, below average amount.

It's just enough to wake up me, keep me alert, without any of the negative effects that caffeine brings with it.
This is generally true in the US, but you can't be using special equipment (e.g., super long tele lenses.)
Gonna hate here, but I've had to work with angular and it was unpleasant. The api is strange and the docs openly recommend hacking around it. Lmk if you want me to find an example.
robbiep -- thanks for reaching out. It's pretty amazing that there's no middle ground between those super-expensive infusion pumps and hand counting. We used 3D printing for our early prototypes, and it was great for quickly figuring out which physical designs made people's eyes light up. Now we're doing injection molding to get the quality control for the medical sector. And sure -- let's talk about Australia!
When this business name was chosen, did that process actually involve the firing of a synapse in someone's cerebral cortex?

People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble".

Large numbers of people, I suspect.

Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
How does it compare with duktape: http://duktape.org/ ?
500+ employees.
Having grown up with Moccona freeze dried coffee in Australia, I would rank it ahead of drip or plunger coffee in most cases, but decent coffee prepared properly using an espresso machine is far ahead. There's just no comparison.
Into 5.4, actually.
Interesting, see this blog from NYT two days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/business/dealbook/when-emp...

"What companies really need to measure is not how engaged their employees are, but rather how consistently energized they feel."
Let me comment that as an author of the library. There are a few reasons actually. First, as mentioned it was biased to spectral methods from the very beginning. Second reason is that I didn't even know how to implement and train neural nets properly. And the last reason why it is not here yet - unfortunately I don't have much time to implement that yet so contributions are welcome :)
Mission Control or Alfred has contributed the most to increase my efficency whilst my transition from PC to Mac
I think Pinterest is way more valuable than Dropbox. They have a great product, very large dedicated user base, and a very clear path to monetization.
The whole "they'll keep saying the opposite thing anyway" argument is tired. Sure, there have been prominent reversals, but usually behind it is an industry lobby group, not science.

There have been studies attempting to show coffee is harmful for decades (basically, there seems to be a general suspicion that anything people enjoy is probably harmful), and the results have been consistently ambiguous or in favor of coffee.
Yes, what kind of crazy designer would do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4531088
It looks to me like you can.

> PROMPT: The prompt text, may be str or function which returns a str.

If you need non-built-in values in your prompt, just set PROMPT to a function, and call something like `date` within the function. Use `%` to format `date`’s output into a template string, and then pass that template string to `xonsh.environ.format_prompt` to get the final value to return from the function.
The title is, though perhaps not inaccurate, not particularly useful: there is one (and only one) White House office (the Office of Administration) that had previously been understood not to be exempt from the FOIA, and which, therefore, has a set of regulations addressing how it deals with FOIA requests, as is normal for agencies subject to FOIA requests.

In 2009, as a result of a lawsuit that was initiated against the Bush White House, a federal appeals court ruled that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the FOIA at all.

The Administration is now removing the regulations that have been obsolete since that court decision.
I can't say the FDA process is the most fun thing I've ever done, but it's been a great opportunity to bring the rock-solid engineering framework to our product development. We use a combination of in-house testing and external testing labs to get the rigor required by regulatory agencies.

Probably the most important part of startup culture that's letting us innovate differently is the ability to create product development processes that prioritize human centered design. It means we develop and test in a different order, and our failure criteria for tests are not just about function, but also about form.
Sir Tim, as a UK citizen in the late 20thC would have used many drugs in his lifetime, paracetamol, aspirin, penicillin, vaccines... I think you may have leapt to a conclusion about the drugs the parent post meant. Are you thinking about those recreational drugs a bit too much ... :-)
A few weeks back i put together a sheet for the various applications i utilize. https://medium.com/@elyrly/developer-setup-early-2015-d3f6f6...
This should be taken with a huge grain of salt: The article pointed is dated Feb 2015 but see all these articles:

[1] from September 2014

[2] from Feb 2015

[3] from September 2014

[6] : From August _2012_

All from this "Dr. Travis ..." . They all quote "New research from Johns Hopkins Medical School" , without ever giving the source of that research. If you google a bit for it you will find some information from Johns Hopkins University[4] : "Caffeine Has Positive Effect on Memory"; some study [5] from The Johns Hopkins Precursors Study in 2002 (so hardly "new") discuss about coffee, but "these associations were not statistically significant". You will notice that from August 2012 to February 2015, it was always "New research"

In conclusion, this LinkedIn blog post (from which all articles copy/paste from) lacks a lot of sources, especially if written by someone who holds a dual Ph.D. in clinical and industrial-organizational psychology (according to his Forbes personal page).

[1] http://www.ihcus.com/2014/09/11/the-effects-of-coffee-
helpful-or-harmful/

[2]http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-drinking-one-cup-of...

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140908162020-50578967-caffe...

[4] http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/stories/caffeine_memory....

[5] http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=21133...

[6] : http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2012/08/21/caffe...
I played this game a bit in the late 90s and early 2000s, and ... it's just so tiring. And largely pointless. So many good points in the comments here, they've triggered so many more thoughts. I talk about this topic on and off at user groups now and then - informally, not full on presentations, but usually get thanked by someone afterwards.

There are so many tool choices that it's really really hard to even trust anyone's 'review' of the tool landscape, even in a particular vertical niche. And so many people that are writing the tools (and promoting them) are, in fact, primarily tool authors, not necessarily having to face the sort of 'in the trenches' problems that most devs have to deal with (both technical and political).

Denouncing tech XYZ because you're using ABC is often, I've found, done because the person wants some external feedback that they made the 'right' decision. Public (on forums or f2f) signaling of the choice you made, with some 'reason', lets people support you and your choice. There's certainly more to it, but that seems to be the root motivation I've seen in a lot of people in my locality who behave this way in public.

I've told the story about being at a ColdFusion developer conference, helping set up chairs the night before. One of the speakers starting ragging on PHP. Of all the people to be picking on an 'easy target' like PHP, I would have thought CF devs would be more sensitive to that sort of trash talk, likely having been on the receiving end more often than not. Not this guy - we were all treated to a 5 minute rant about how shitty PHP was is, PHP devs need training wheels to use the internet, etc. Unbelievable, but right there in front of me.

When I did it, I was trying to make sure my reasons for my choices were 'correct' (tech X was faster to write, faster to execute, cheaper, etc). After a few more years around the block, it became apparent that there are generally so many more factors at play that are not always readily apparent, and often, the best choice is the one someone already knows, because estimating learning time for 'newtechX' is essentially impossible (doubly so for stuff that's not even out of beta yet).

Argh... maybe we can get Rachel to come speak at one of our local dev groups - this message needs to be driven home more, I think.
Then they are in excess of $2,000,000 per. That don't seem like the reason.
If the stock market melts down - which it's prone to do once or twice per decade - the ability for Pinterest to IPO and take advantage of favorable market conditions will close, perhaps for years. Simply put, raising money in this environment is extraordinarily favorable, a company may only get this window once every seven to ten years.

The Fed has yet to raise interest rates, but may choose to this year. The end of QE has already removed some liquidity from the markets and set the dollar on a massive run which will put pressure on almost anything priced in dollars. If the Fed raises interest rates, it will sap at least some liquidity from the venture funding market (which is red hot right now).

If Pinterest can't IPO for five years because the stock market crashes in nine months and the economy turns south (almost six years since the last recession already), then ideally they'll want a cash war chest to keep up with the other giants they compete with (directly or indirectly) that are already public or are well funded.

Saying it's prudent for Pinterest to have a billion+ in cash is probably understating things.
And since the tech industry is known for its high concentration of workers productive well into their later decades... ;)
When funding is announced the amount put in via pro rata rights would be included in whatever the total that is announced.

If a startup said they raised $10 million led by XYZ VC, that means that XYZ VC probably put in $5-7.5 million, and the rest would be filled with other investors and previous investors.
Update (5 days later): It's added! If you're an Arq 4 user, pick "Check for Updates" from Arq's menu to get it. Go to Preferences, Destinations tab, and click the + button. Pick "Google Cloud Storage" for the destination type.

It's really great. I'm using it instead of Glacier for all my personal backups.
For anyone who thinks this is high: when my wife (and lots of other women in her social group) is in the market for clothes, or wedding ideas, or baby/nursery ideas, she goes to Pinterest first. That is huge potential for monetization from advertising and affiliate sales.

Pinterest is where shopping starts for tons of young women (primarily) with money.
I'd like to see some examples. Not specifically because I doubt you, but because I don't. That was my early impression of Angular, but I can't remember anything specific, just an overall impression.
The web site seems very solid to me. The design is good, clean, very professional.

Your message isn't nearly as clear. I understand you encrypt data and somehow make sharing, or keeping, my data more secure. But I don't see to what end. I don't get a clear sense of what MY problem is and then how you are solving it.

So let's say I like to video chat online with my college bound son using Google Hangouts. I am also security and privacy conscious. How do I go from downloading your software to having a chat with my son? By the way, there is not a chance in hell I am going to download your software, hand you my account information, and get my son to do the same thing BEFORE you describe to me how the software works and what benefit I am getting. Give me a simple "walk through" of what you want me to do and why this is going to make my life better and maybe I will. Something like:

Google Hangouts are insecure -> government officials/naughty hacker people watch you while you chat on Google Hangouts -> You love privacy and want security -> Downloading Venux is easy -> connect with Venux to Google hangouts makes hangsouts secure! -> Venux secures you and blocks out government officials/naughty hackers!

You also make some sensational claims about your security. Mathematically impossible? How do I know? Have you been peer reviewed? Have you been audited? Can I look at how you implement the algorithms? Or should I just hand you my credit card and believe? I am not trying to sound difficult, I just want you to think about how you talk about your product.

There is a TON of data on your front page and frankly I get lost in all of it and it doesn't really tell me anything I want to know in order to decide if I want to actually download your software. It would take me a while to critique the entire experience. I would suggest simplifying the entire page and giving me a simple path to realizing I have a problem and then showing me that you are the solution.

Edit: One other thing I guess I would like to point out is you could, and probably should, niche this thing. For example, look at Tarsnap[0]. The website design won't win awards. They aren't attempting to market to every person in the world who could use an online backup. I believe it takes a high level of technical prowess to use their product. Yet, they have a very very profitable niche. I am not comparing your product to theirs (though I guess they both have a security component). What I am saying is pretty web site designs don't sell products. Finding the right customer and then making sure that customer knows about you sells products.

[0] http://www.tarsnap.com/
I would not cry if I got, say, 1% of an $11B company (that is to say: $110 million).
500 employees * lets say $150,000 per employee * 6 years is only $450,000,000.

That leaves ~$150m from previous rounds to spend on infrastructure etc before they need to raise more in the latest round.
Is the drip assist connected?
Well Airbnb is at 20B now, if that helps....
It's more about positioning of the solution, and thinking of new markets, not replacing existing markets.

We also have a business model that allows us to leverage software in ways that lower costs of doing business -- some traditional areas like sales and support, and some non-traditional ways as well.
From the voting page:

> The decimal system (or more accurately the infinite supply of numbers we have) makes it easy for us to skip a version, with plenty more left for future versions to come.

Hard to argue with that!
The office coffee geeks had a discussion of coffee-making devices (hardly a panel of experts, so take it for what it's worth) and the consensus is that the best way to make coffee is an espresso machine. This is a pretty neat device, but it's fiddly and slow and has lots of failure modes. Some of the better espresso machines (such as mine) are almost foolproof, and you can go from beans to coffee in less than two minutes (using a separate grinder).
I think programming can be very mentally taxing. I prefer empathy over dominance.
Because front end is so much more than vanilla html css etc. You have Sass, handlebars, svg and more to deal with. If you only use the basics, maybe a simpler solution works for you. But calling the others into question just because they don't work for you is pedantic.
I always build my own as, afaik, it's the only way to get full support for the more interesting codecs e.g. fdkaac & h265.
Eloped with Windows 9.
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Yeah, and you pay McDonald's to cook the burger for you -- but you can't do it cheaper than they can.
I never wanted any movable ads while trying to read something on the phone. Even less the movable the cat gifs. If something is not worth the click, it's certainly not worth to be inline in the text.
Well, it depends where you go. Amsterdam is certainly dense and claustrophobic, so are a lot of smaller towns built around markets. Then you have cities like Edinburgh or Paris that are built around the notion of wide boulevards. Most likely you'd find some fractal pattern in the distribution of wide vs narrow streets in most older cities.
Technology acquisitions can be very useful for a company like Pinterest, whether for talent or the tech. It's not difficult for a company to spend tens or hundreds of millions on acquisitions.

There are no doubt useful companies out there for Pinterest to buy, no different than there have been for Facebook, Twitter, Google, et al. over the years of their various stages of maturity.

At Pinterest's size, and given their long-term ambition to be a large, successful business... it's for all the non-obvious reasons you can't think of that a billion dollar cushion might be useful. Always raise money when you don't need it; raising it when you need it, is the worst time, you'll go begging on your knees or at a minimum will be in the weaker negotiating position.
Depending on your requirements don't rule out other frameworks.

I use Knockout (which is supported, just had a release, picked up some new core devs and added component support) extensively and I like it a great deal.

It's not as large as either Angular or Ember but it's worth a look.

Steve Sanderson has an awesome video on it [1] which is worth a watch even if you aren't interested in Knockout, fella clearly loves and is passionate about what he does.

[1] http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2014/06/11/architecting-larg...
No, it doesn't make sense. You've explained Pinterest as a marketing company that happens to have 70+ million willing participants. Now explain to me how in the context of the human race, being able to push a product to those 70+ million users is worth EDIT: about as much as SpaceX.

Just because it makes sense in the current model doesn't mean it makes sense.
> Ideally, for smaller screens it would split across multiple lines.

C'mon, nobody deserves to be subject to automatic TeX expression breaking. Even careful hand-tuning with help from the breqn package can often look pretty bad.

> Two commands I used all throughout my thesis are:

At the risk of turning this into TeX StackExchange, I just want to point out that these kerning manipulations are entirely possible in MathJax. The problem is that, maddeningly, they chose to have non-math commands like kern and lower work exclusively in math mode, and not outside one like in a hbox. Therefore, if you change your second command to something like this:

$a \kern-1em\lower0.4em\hbox{$\scriptstyle \rightarrow$}$

then it will work in MathJax. Of course, this would then break in regular TeX because you're not supposed to use kern and lower in math mode. I keep myself sober by remaining optimistic about a potential overhaul in the MathJax latex processing code.

In the meantime, I think we would benefit from a stopgap service that renders these things in an actual TeX engine running on a server into high-res PNG (easy) or SVG (doubtful). There's been quite a resurgence in effort to make latex rendering into a scaleable web service lately. I'd love to collaborate with someone from, say, ShareLaTeX on that, if possible.
I'm not sure what your point is?

1) Youtube isn't profitable, but it's taking more and more "hours watched" out of the TV market. Google can keep it running at break even for as long as they want, and then adjust the ad prices up very, very slightly and start making profit based on the huge audience.

2) Video watching (usually) has very little commercial intent, especially in terms of some kind of "commercial value per byte served" measure. This compares very badly to Pinterest, where a very significant amount of usage has almost direct purchase intent.
Are you suggesting Greek letters are not suitable for human comprehension.
Not currently. The approach with the design was to focus on basic functionality and ease of use. We wanted to keep things simple. In addition, keeping things simple has allowed us to eek out 290 hours of battery life out of a single AA. Something our users have really appreciated.

We have already gotten strong feedback for more connectivity, so that's definitely something we're working on.
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> I haven't had a use for this yet, but I'm always amazed by how PHP manages to move forward without breaking BC.

This. If I were a Python developer (of the language itself), I would be paying very close attention to how PHP has handled deprecation and breaking changes.
We have support for modifiers (size, colour, etc.), singles (gift wrapping, etc), input (custom options or labels). We’re working hard to make sure our new docs platform has all of this in it, but you can find it in the API reference and use these via our dashboard (forge).

If you ever have any problems we’re always available on email or live chat :)
What those WiFi devices are doing is literally a man in the middle attack. Anything that prevents the attack is going to break it, because it's doing something it isn't supposed to.

What are you describing as the "legitimate reason" for WiFi devices to do this?
There's been an effort with PHP 7 to try and avoid a Python 2/3-style situation. The PHP 5 to 7 jump should be much smaller than from 4 to 5.
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