skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This podcast/show notes gives some good info.
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-185-m...

I moved to mac last year from windows I would recommend:

Mac App Store:

Window Magnet (drag and drop your windows/automatic resize)
Skitch (Screen Shots)

I also use:

sublime text
Virtual Box/Vagrant
MAMP
Sequel Pro

Other than installing your favorite browsers and extensions you should be good to go.
nerds have long used opinion/taste curation as an alternative mode of masculinity
Do you believe our population is effectively educated with government funded education?
And you're 106 years old?
Yeah, for the driver to use it. I'm sure the NSA won't be limited by that rule.
USB-C wall sockets? For charging laptops? I don't think so.

You're worrying for a coffee shop that doesn't even exist.
Security through obscurity is not security. Anyone with any knowledge of technology should be weary of this but they'll make millions anyway.
Does anyone else think 11B is insane? Higher valued than Dropbox and Airbnb? They must have pitched hell of a monetisation plan.
Fretsi reflects my skills only by worth or spread any article, video, course, event and book that i got a value from. I Love fretsi :)
Sooooo many reasons. Here are a few:

* http://orgmode.org/

* http://www.gnus.org/

* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/JabberEl
I don't think it's silly.
I think it's less then that. Pinterest's early days were rough, and I heard that their B or C round was on unfavorable terms just to keep the lights on before they blew up.
I think the main source of confusion is that mutexes and semaphores have different semantics, and people tend to forget that. You cannot easily (in userspace) implement mutex with semaphore(s) or semaphore with mutexe(s), because they by design have different semantics, i.e. mutexes have owners and semaphores do not, mutex can be unlocked only by thread who locked it, ant semaphore does not have this feature/limitation - any process/thread who have rights to access semaphore can unlock previously locked (by any thread/process) semaphore, trying this with mutexes will give you undefined behaviour, etc.
Close.

When we program it's from our heads. If anyone questions why we do something, it's as though they are questioning our intelligence, so the natural (for some people) reaction is to be defensive.
I agree. Don't know what commercial plans you had for it, but I'd love to see something exactly like this as an open source single-page JS app that I could run as file:.. (this would help w/ pull reqs too).
This article doesn't mention quantity in standard unit like ml and doesn't mention that coffee shouldn't be adulterated with pumps of sugars.
I understand the AGPL and the want to monetize the work, but it just feels so disingenuous to have to contact for commercial details.
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Google executive Eric Schmidt, man, makes total ass of himself at SXSW
Eh, simple tribalism seems like a simpler answer to me. It's the reason Navy folks talk smack about Marines, Target shoppers look down on Walmart, Yankees fans bash the Red Sox, etc. — I don't see why it can't explain a React fan hating on Ember or whatever.
Desktop crypto applications also suffer from security vulnerabilities, I think the same criticism applies there.

Clever XSS by the way ;)
Anyone know if the founders took any money off the table?
One could argue -- I'm not sure that I care to -- that the natural evolution of things would be for all new housing stock to be built well above the median of the market, and that as structures are a durable, but not appreciating asset, the deal would be that the rich live in new stock, the middle class live in older stock, and the poor live in yet older stock. As new stock comes into the market, it depresses the value of the older stock, and moves it down the income line.

In which case there would be no concept of "affordable housing" as a kind of development -- affordable housing would just be older housing.

Since structures are a significantly durable asset, this would operate over the course of decades, or even a century, not years.

In which case we could imagine that changes in the supply stock over 35 years (ie, rent-controlled stock in SF) would have a magnified effect on the well-being of the poor.

That said, I suspect this model is too simple to have that much predictive power. You are right to focus on schools (though note that in SF, public schools are built on a lottery system, and being local to the school gives you only limited access to it).

Many people are very hostile to the option to say, "Well, fuck it, SF is expensive -- people who want cheaper housing should live in more geographically remote places." It's hard for me to figure out where any concept of a right to live near place X begins or ends.
What would be really cool is if ffmpeg/avconv gained the ability to create lossy LZW GIFs, like in this tool:

https://github.com/pornel/giflossy
seems weird to raise so much money at this point in the game... a third of a billion dollars...
It frustrates me that they never give the official name of the panel.
Hooray! \o/

I haven't had a use for this yet, but I'm always amazed by how PHP manages to move forward without breaking BC.
Bridgeport Music themselves pointed out that Funkadelic's Sexy Ways (1974) is similar to Blurred Lines--and so transitively it's similar to Got to give it up (1977), right? But Bridgeport owns the catalog of Gaye and Funkadelic.

George Clinton's take: https://twitter.com/george_clinton/statuses/3682102168289320...

Statute of limitations is 3 years from last date of infringement (which I guess is today since this music is all still being sold).
And alcohol. I think I'll just say I'm a Muslim or something.
I don't think it's related to the physical nature of it. I think it's just that it's a field that is infinitely faceted (so room for different perspectives and opinions) and one which many of us have a serious personal interest in. I.e., it's not JUST a job for many of us. I am one of those kids who has been a 'power' user since middle school. Now I'm a programmer. If I didn't do it for a living, I'd still do it.

So what that boils down to is I have opinions that are semi-personal. A lumber-jack or a secretary probably has much less personal investment in their field. Personal interests yield opinions, and where there are opinions there are people who are aggressive about them, whether it be music, religion, sports, cars, or technology.
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Why the ad hominems? Such people may not be to your taste, fine. But theirs is as nothing to the whiff from a tailpipe. Live and let live.
I'm actually largely experiencing this issue right now trying to pick a front end framework for an FOSS project. I know I'm using Rails on the backend because that's what I'm most comfortable in, but I can't decide between Angular.js and EmberJS and 99% of the articles comparing the two just sound attack-ey and biased and I don't want to make a decision based on someone else's preconceived biases. If anybody knows a good compare/contrast between Angular and Ember for use with Rails that is, mostly, unbiased and doesn't resort to "this framework is better because holy shit did you see how the other one solved this same problem in a slightly different but horrifically terrible way?" I would greatly appreciate it.
Any method that makes axis-aligned subdivisions (which includes both standard median cut and octree), even in a space like HSV, is going to be pretty suboptimal. There's probably been more sophisticated things done since I looked at this in the 1990's, but Xiaolin Wu's 1992 approach [1] works quite a bit better than both (including the 1991 Wu v2 implementation of an octree method linked elsewhere in this thread). It's based on recursive PCA, dynamic programming to assign colors along the principal axis, and K-means refinement in CIE L* u* v* coordinates. Not the fastest algorithm, but the topic is "high quality".

And you can still dither the image without completely destroying compression. You just have to use an ordered dither [2].

[1] Xiaolin Wu, "Color Quantization by Dynamic Programming and Principal Analysis", ACM Transactions on Graphics 11(4): 348-372, 1992. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=146475

[2] https://xiphmont.livejournal.com/35634.html
According to the Daily Mail, it's currently 8 to 2 in favor of coffee preventing cancer - http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/a-z/c#term133

(Chocolate on the other hand is 2:0 in favor of prevention - http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/a-z/c#term121)
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I know nothing about their specific situation but based on this many rounds at this size they've almost certainly had the opportunity, and if they chose not to that would be very risky (and probably stupid).
those don't convince me, though maybe i'm not reading far enough in to see their significant use point. bbedit does what i need and does it well. i write css/html/javascript for dev work, and it works fine for keeping notes or whatever like that first link mentions.
You have not said why Stallman is wrong. You have said why you use Facebook. The fact that you do not care about Stallman's principles is a different topic.
Disrupted sleep has terrible effects. I don't see how these ideas can coexist.
to me a lot of "features" just get in the way. i code css/html/javascript, and for that bbedit seems to work better than submlime or atom.

however i guess for other, more complex situations, having more add-on options and such might be beneficial.
You know when you hear about a lot of insane valuations and your jaw sort of drops in disbelief?

I feel the opposite when I think about Pinterest. My immediate reaction here is "yeah, makes sense." I guess it must stem from my marketing agency days. I had SO MANY clients begging me to get them into Pinterest ads when they released. I also sit at home and see how much time my wife spends on the site and how dedicated she is to discovery through the app, especially as she makes many purchasing decisions after seeing things she likes pinned, from food to furniture.

Seems like a no-brainer that this one is going to end up crossing the IPO finish line at some point, and I would imagine they have bigger and better plans moving forward. I barely think they've scratched the surface of profitability.
> Since launching in 2009, Pinterest has raised $764M dollars; once this round closes (whether or not they raise the full $578M), they’ll have surpassed the billion dollar mark.

For the sake of this comment let's assume that Pinterest has never had any income at all... can someone please explain what they have spent, or plan on spending, over $1B on? If there isn't a plan to spend this money, what other motivations could they have for raising so much money and why are investors still pouring it in?
How is that disingenuous? It seems pretty forthright about its licensing to me.
Great article, I myself have been both on the sending and receiving end of such discourse. I like OSX and love Node.js which can become a source of confrontation. Talk about node.js in the Reddit programming sub and prepare for the backlash :)
> There are 14 parameter values to determine, {β, ϕ, ζ, γ, δ, θ, ι, ω, μ, α, τ, λ, η, σ}.

Using Greek letters may follow in the economics tradition, but it is a pain for humans who need to match up symbols with concepts.
This times a thousand.
Enter : http://blog.tray.io/what-were-working-on/
"Three cups of espresso" means "three times 25-30 ml fluid (1 ounce)", not "three large 8 ounce-cups that you fill with espresso-strength coffee". So, three espressi remains below 200 mg caffiene.
Depending on who is cooking the meal... absolutely I'll take the microwave dinner!
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It looks like they're part of their proprietary navigation tablets, which means that it's probably being installed by a contract manufacturer in china.
From the link:

"Coffee consumption was associated with reduced risk of total mortality (3-4% lower mortality with 1 cup/day), especially cardiovascular mortality"
"Decaffeinated coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of death"

This makes it sound like coffee consumption helps and decaf consumption helps more when it comes to mortality risks.

Also, if I'm reading it right, that link says unfiltered caffeinated increases LDL blood levels, which I'm given to understand is bad.

It sounds like decaf is better...
I genuinely don't understand all of the native bias in these discussions. Like, if Joe lives in town A, and Frank lives in town B, and both would like to live in town A, and Joe and Frank are otherwise utterly equivalent people, lots of people seem to regard it as totally natural that Joe should have primacy over Frank.

I don't. I don't really know why anyone would. Like, ideally in a perfect world both Joe and Frank would be able to live where they want, but given that land is a persistently scarce resource, what's the basis for privileging Joe over Frank? And what is the magnitude of the privilege that we should regard as a natural right? Surely not infinite.
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Exactly. It's the modern world's equivalent of debating the number of angels capable of dancing on a pinhead. You have these chumps talking about future cash flows and dividend yield equivalents, all the while the board and executives march off with the actual cash.

The right thing is to eliminate the tax bias towards capital gains and make dividends tax-deductible for corporations, so they have incentive to pay profits out to, you know, the owners. Basically make them act like big LLCs, which is the fair thing: why should Grandma Jones pay the same corporate rate as Mitt Romney on her investments in Coca Cola before she sees a dime?

At some point it'll reverse, but it's been a good forty years, so... who knows?
Or, places with a "strong tradition of coffee drinking" are resistant to change independent of actual quality -- because coffee is ritualized -- and so tend not to prefer instant coffee even to cheap (in the quality rather than price sense) roasted beans.
nearly a million per employee. what the heck do they plan on using that much capital for... especially with forthcoming ad revenue.
Our system allows users to do reporting based on a wide variety of criteria. In general it works, but nothing prevents a user from running queries that will timeout. Timing out is a waste of everyone's time, and it would be better to just kill the request early.

We do try to keep the reporting limited to what can be done efficiently, but I don't know if it's really viable to avoid everything ahead of time.
There's a good reason for this - pick an unpopular toolchain and you can become unemployable.
We don't need landlords.
Good, world needs more consumer internet startups. All the B2B has been getting depressing.
> Best case scenario would be: 33% * (75% angel) * (75% series A) * (75% series B) * (85% series C) * (95%^4 Series D-G) = ~10%

Doesn't this assume that the earlier investors either didn't get pro rata rights (unlikely) or didn't choose to exercise them (conceivable for later rounds)?
rent control basically traps people in a single apartment for the rest of their lives.

It doesn't "trap" anyone; that's just hyperbole.

The main effect is that it gives a significant number of people a chance to stay in the city in a profoundly deteriorating market for middle-class housing stock (driven, in NYC's case, to no small degree by external factors such foreign investment, and radical and -- in the view of many -- essentially undemocratic "pro-building" changes to the local zoning laws).

this is one of the ways that ghettos come in to existence.

Perhaps. But given the vastly greater forces at play (racism/classism; the collapse of inner-city manufacturing base; and deliberate wholesale razing of neighborhoods in NYC, Boston and elsewhere; mistaken notions about the wonderful community-building effects moving people out of quirky single-family housing and into massive high-rise development projects; and just the inevitable effect of multi-lane freeways in high-density urban areas, generally) it seems you'd have a hard time pinning it as one of the major factors.
Step 4 is not at all obvious and would require some significant justification.

General intelligence is, well, general. My primate brain may not be able at all to intuit what it is like to move on a 7-dimensional hyper-surface in an 11-dimensional space, but thanks to the wonders of formalized mathematics I can work out and tell you anything you want to know about higher-dimensional geometry. If the super-intelligence itself is computable, and we have the machinery to verify portions of the computation ourselves, it is in principle understandable.

Of course there will be computational limits, but that's hardly anything new. There is no single person who can tell you absolutely everything about how a Boeing 787 works. Not even the engineers that built the thing. They work in groups as a collective intelligence, and use cognitive artifacts (CAD systems, simulators, automated design) to enhance their productive capacity. But still, we manage to build and fly them safely and routinely.

There is no law of nature which says that human beings can't understand something which is smarter than them. Deep Blue is way smarter than me or any other human being at Chess. But its operation and move selection is no mystery to anyone who cares to investigate its inner workings.
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What are they going to do with the money? How good can they make their website?
The pre-business model unicorn thing still confuses me. The kicker in your comment -- scratching the surface of profitability -- is what I find interesting. What if they start digging to find there's no depth behind this surface?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-fo...
This seems like an amazingly high valuation for a company that basically does digital scrapbooking.
As a Doctor, just have to say that this looks great.
I've often thought about how ridiculous our infusion pumps and syringe drivers cost, and have thought about playing around with 3d printers and working out my own.
I think it's a great way to drive down healthcare costs.
If you have any interest in developing an understanding of the Australian market then please reach out ( I have experience selling apps as a service to the clinical side of the public system here)
So I guess this is slower than JavaScriptCore and you have to get commercial license to actually embed it. Why would one choose it at all?
"You can't have skyrocketing rental prices. That's economically impossible."

"If you do have skyrocketing rental prices, you should buy yourself an Econ 101 textbook and educate yourself about why this is impossible."

Please explain; genuinely curious.
If you are someone that doesn't eat many vegetables or take vitamins, I can see why coffee would be recommended. It does contain a very high amount of flavanols antioxydants...
I'm not a big fan of the caffeine however.
When I still drank coffee, I preferred instant coffee because I could control the strength of it by merely adding more than was intended to the water. No messing around with expresso. Coffee was always a means to an end for me though, that end being caffeine.

I've since switched to caffeinated gum. Probably more expensive if I ran the numbers, but way more convenient and I burn my mouth less now.
It's not a preference over all of them. It's that most makers of coffee do it as an afterthought and a few particular brands of instant beat that quality level easily. Also they don't like Starbucks.
You are aware that you made this comment on a post that was at the top of the site with over 100 points, just because it sorta-kinda looked like justification for SF renter butthurt?

The overall lack of self awareness is what is nauseating about HN.
I hear you. After not consuming any caffeine for around five years, I ordered a small caffeinated beverage to sip on while I watched X-Men: Days of Future Past in the theater. That turned out to be one of the most stressful moviegoing experiences I can remember. The movie was pretty extreme, but I was talking my buddy's ear off during the more exciting scenes and felt like I couldn't stop thinking and just enjoy the show. I walked out feeling pretty raw and chuckling at the thought of the caffeine as a light indulgence that I had thought would just remind me of my younger days. I'm still not dead set against caffeine for everybody or anything, but I doubt I'll drink it again by choice.
Pulled valuation data for each round from the pitchbook.com platform:

http://i.imgur.com/OfBDZz0.png

Let me know if you want to see any specific cap tables, happy to pull those out.
I'm not going to tell you anything new here, but there are reasons to use GIF instead of video. WebM isn't supported on Safari & IE. H.264 isn't officially supported on Firefox (though I believe OS X and Window may now provide their own decoders that Firefox uses). To get a similar experience to GIF, you need two formats and it needs to be embedded in an HTML file using a <video> tag. Compare that to the GIF experience, where you link to the image and it works the same way everywhere.

There simply is not a video-based standard that implies "short, silent, autoplayed, looped video" in the way that animated GIFs do. There are ways to approximate the behavior in HTML, but none of them are perfect in the way GIFs are.
Well a worst case scenario might be something like:

33% * (66% seed funding) * (66% angel round) * (60% series A) * (60% series B) * (70% series C) * (85% series D) * (90%^2 series E/F) * (95% series G) ~= 2.4%

Still > 2% of an 11B company isn't bad.
Maybe. If the machine shared your values.
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I work for a magazine corporation that does 86 million visitors a view a month. From the publication and media industry, this makes total sense. Within content circulation, Pinterest is often in the top tier of traffic referrers. They are often right after Facebook and in some cases even higher.
Caffeine is a surprisingly benign "drug" (especially since it appears to have evolved as a natural insecticide).

Personally, I'm not a "fan" of taking vitamins.
and, sadly (at least in my case) a greatly increased chance of gastric reflux :(
It's a nice device, but it doesn't make enough. It's only perfect if you're alone and you want ~8oz of coffee (They recommend you to water down the Aeropress's output, but I don't know why. It's not strong enough, like espresso, to water down.)
How is it that no one in the US market competes on price right now?
Surprising fact: a normal cup of drip coffee (8 oz) typically contains more caffeine than a normal cup of espresso (1 oz). For example, see http://coffeechemistry.com/caffeine/caffeine-content-in-espr...
What are your testing methodologies like? Startups aren't what come to mind when I think of rock-solid engineering - but as a medical hardware company I'd expect a thorough and rigorous testing practice. What sort of automated or manual testing do you do? Is there any formal verification of the software?
You have violated the First Law of Computering

"Thou shall not start an editor war, for they are without end, lacking all rigour and decorum."
Does anyone have good sources of information on historical levels of "learnedness" in the United States? And it might be interesting to compare that measure to the number of years of formal education.

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/01/were-colonial-americans-m...

As to the specific question of self-education, for some reason I'm inclined to believe that post-civil war literacy among the former slaves skyrocketed, and this wasn't because of compulsory education. Maybe someone has an interesting source to confirm or falsify my vague recollections? Sounds like that would make a good book.
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