skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Seems like a no-brainer that this one is going to end up crossing the IPO finish line at some point"

On what planet is an IPO the finish line?
> walking into a busy city street full of cars (without following the signals) is almost certain to get you killed

This is total nonsense, easily falsified by just looking at daily urban life in the modern world. The behavior you describe is completely routine in Shanghai; deaths are rare.
Something Razor Should Learn from JSX
> the reason it is increasingly becoming unethical today

No, it's unethical because it's torture. Choke on that food for thought.
Good. In the age when the planet is faced with overpopulation, climate change, pollution and a myriad of other issues, including the shadow of ww3, the investors bet on a photo-sharing startup.

Down-voters rejoice, but I couldn't care less about pinterest and what it offers.
Maybe I'm getting old or maybe being a parent gives me a different perspective, but 11B for nicely arranged list of photos is idiotic.

I'm sure it makes a lot of business sense to the investors, which is the really sad part of it all.
Isn't Pinterest more like del.icio.us in the sense that if something better comes along they are screwed? I understand that Facebook is hard to replace because you need to get everyone to migrate. Does that apply to Pinterest?
I think of Pinterest as a visually inspiring search engine. A large portion of people there just use it to browse around, but many people are going there as you mention with goal of finding something to buy. Monetizing that intent is basically the same concept as Adwords, just in a visual medium.
GitLab Flavored Markdown (GFM)
I work in an office with a mix of highly professional, low-ego workers and highly dismissive, high-ego workers. No history of freelancing there that I know of. One group is multiples easier to work with... guess which.

If I were to try and draw a line, I'd be more general and say that it depends on culture during early career. You can learn one of two lessons: That aggression is required and accepted way to win an argument, or that aggression is an unacceptable way to reach the correct solution. Both lessons are true in certain contexts, and depending on which goal is valued more in your culture (winning argument or correct solution), you'll learn one or both of these two lessons. If you truly believe that you will find the most correct solution alone, without the help of your team, you're very likely to learn lesson #1 and behave that way. That type of person, though, is destined to make a huge mistake and learn the hard way how to collaborate.
The beauty of an API approach is the features we don’t quite fully support can be easily created by you within your application, and then work alongside our product.

We don’t explicitly advertise support for digital products at the moment, however, we can support it to some degree. Reach out to us on livechat or email and we’ll be happy to help.
Understanding Spatial Mean – Or Where to Put a Bachelor Party
The landing page is nicely designed with clear flow for the user to grasp the product (wordy at times).

http://venux.com/products/connect/download (only displays the Windows Icon which gave me the initial thought it was PC only until i noticed the compatibility statement)

Even though the site is inviting i don't trust the information i will store using the service. This may come with brand awareness.

*About Us page- I would like to learn more about the teams background

Good luck on the adventure.
You want him to explain the entire global economy in a comment thread? That seems a little unreasonable.

What's the actual substance of your complaint? Are you worried that Pinterest can buy Armenia? It can't. Are you just offended that two not-very-comparable numbers are X > Y instead of Y > X? That doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

Are you complaining that Armenians are poor? That's perhaps a big deal, but we don't know how to make poor countries not poor.
Strange that the example has 'js_dofile("config.lua")'... Is there lua in here?
Uber CFO steps down after two years of surging growth
The average speed in a city is probably around 20km/h, at least in the city I am in (Berlin, Germany). With perfect coördination of driverless cars, you could possibly raise that to 60km/h – which is the speed cars drive when they're not in traffic or stopped at traffic lights. That leaves a lot of road usage to disappear even if car usage actually increases.
Paki, an ethnic slur? I would've thought it was short for Pakistani.
Aurelia and angular 2 code side-by-side
You can find the website here if you want more information http://aurelia.io/
Misleading comparison. Armenia's GDP is the estimated economic worth produced annually by Armenia. Pinterest's valuation relates to the economic value produced by Pinterest for all future years, not annually.
To add to what has already been said, I sorta disagree with "they just have to be better than us." I would prefer the car to not just be better than an average driver, but be better than me. As any person, I'm sure I dramatically overestimate my skills, which makes that bar quite high. So it doesn't have to just be better than us, it has to be better than we (however wrongly) think we are.
I can't tell if this is exactly like GitHub flavored markdown or not...

https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/
I see this as roughly analogous in any form of media. EG, the commercially successful artists in music are generally pop (Katie Perry, beiber, etc.)

They are the buzzfeed of another market. It seems pretty clear that if you want to go big, you need to compromise on the quality.

"Why" is left as an exercise to the readers.
Few apps have impressed me as much as Readme.io. The attention to detail and beautiful yet functional UI are superb! It was a delight to create the docs for http://www.js-data.io with Readme.io.
The private market finish line
Something I would love to see in NYC. Not as new of an idea as it might seem either, here's an old pamplet from the 60s about it

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/goodman-cars.htm
My experience with Node School
no vi v. emacs?
Sure, there are terrible beans out there that may be worse than instant coffee, just like there are terribly cooked meals out there worse than microwaved dinners. Parent stated "What I have come to this this: few coffees compare to Nescafe Gold a.k.a. Taster's Choice." which is an absurd statement. Most beans you get from even Starbucks (as long as they are fresh and suite your tastes [light, dark, etc]) will be way better than the instant stuff, let alone the stuff you can get from the thousands of other coffee roasters around the country.
I'm not complaining about anything. I'm saying perhaps we overvalue marketing in general.
> I'm pretty sure an outdoor camera is better for that.

Sure, but an indoor camera can do a "good enough" job of that too!
Think of it more like Google in that people search Pinterest for things they like and want to buy and it is much more interesting than a scrapbook. You can't really type 'shirt and shoes I like and want to buy' into Google, but you can do that same sort of thing on Pinterest. Pinterest can monetize that intent through affiliate deals and advertising like Google does with search intent.
To put this in perspective, the population of Armenia is ~3 million.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Tbh, the fact that the advertising value of a company in the first world is worth that much is kinda silly imo. However, it makes your target unclear. Is it the fact that Armenians are so poor per capita?
Okay, so rich people act meaner.

But does that mean money makes you mean?

Maybe mean people are more likely to get rich.

Or maybe mean tendencies are evenly distributed, but rich people are more likely to think (quite rationally, I imagine) that they can get away with being mean, so they tend to act more meanly.
A look at Android 5.1: speed, security, tweaks
Presumably the poster would have about as much as a problem if the author picked the first 14 letters of the English alphabet.also, it is not a given that everyone knows the green alphabet, and it is harder to correlate symbols when you don't have familiarity and know the names of them.
When I went to UC Berkeley, I never lived in Berkeley. I knew people that lived in ultra cheap apartments and houses, but every time I went to an open house, there were 50 other people waiting with me. I always lived in Oakland.

A guy I worked with had lived in his apartment for 20 years when he finally bought a house (because he got married). He had been paying a ridiculously low rent for decades, and he just couldn't move and spend 10x more for what he got.

It may be counter intuitive to you, but it is not hyperbole.
Big TV show in Australia is The Block - a home renovation competition reality show. Each week starts with them looking at Pinterest for 'inspiration' for each new room or theme they're trying for - it's basically The Pinterest Show, weekly at 8:30pm on Channel Nine.
This shows that we are in a major bubble...finally poised for a major major market correction.
> I find surprising that sites like Gigaom and Dr. Dobbs which actually try to provide value to their users with original content, die because their ad revenues are not suffice to cover up their costs, while site like Buzzfeed, filled with clickbaity headlines, and dumb articles, pass $100M in revenues.

Sure it is -- but if you are selling eyeballs, then the content is king is content that is geared to get eyeballs and get the maximum number of ad views out of them.

If you are selling content to those consuming it directly, then the utility of the content to the consumer is the key thing -- but that's different than the advertising-supported model.
Mud and horse poop - before the car London as the biggest city had serious problems just getting rid of all the waste from the horses used on its streets.
That's ridiculous. Would you say the same about areas where people consume more microwaved dinners over cooked meals? That the people cooking their meals are just resistant to change?
I get the feeling no matter what comparison I make, you'd call it misleading, because that's really splitting at hairs. The thrust of the comment and the point of referencing Armenia's GDP was the scale of the figures. I've now edited it out since apparently nobody can address my point without slapping around the GDP comparison, as if it's important I get every word of my comment exactly right regardless of the point.

Imagine what the $11 billion one would spend to purchase Pinterest could do in other areas, such as the developing world, our inner cities, public infrastructure. That's the point. Is that up front enough and leading you in the right direction, or am I still being misleading?

Put another way, why do we value an online marketing tool at $11 billion and people efforting some real change like feeding starving children have to struggle for a meager five figure grant? And why are people here so hell-bent on feeding into it and silencing people like me who just have questions about it? Am I the only one that has ethical questions about spending my engineering career contributing to a market that values image distribution to push products and fuel consumerism at about the same order of magnitude as SpaceX?

You can look at me with a straight face and say that Pinterest deserves to be valued at $11 billion for what, its user count? Its potential to open up new revenue streams for advertisers? Same with Snapchat, same with Instagram. I feel like our priorities are broken, and that's all I'm saying, and as much as all of my comments are flirting with being grayed out, it feels pretty hopeless and depressing to be the only one, apparently.
In my experience, competent but unpassionate programmers will do a good job of implementing a flawed spec and be happy about it, because it's management's problem and they get paid the same either way; competent and passionate programmers won't be happy unless the flaws are fixed and they get to make a good product.

Both approaches can work, but it's not good to mix the two personality types within a team as their goals are mutually exclusive.
> A few days later, the county asked Harris for a demonstration open to county supervisors. The company refused, Mr. Simitian said, noting that “only people with badges” would be permitted. Further, he said, the company declined to provide a copy of the nondisclosure agreement — at least until after the demonstration.

> At the meeting in Santa Clara County last month, the county supervisors voted 4 to 1 to authorize the purchase

How on Earth are our elected officials agreeing to such insane requirements? Our Democracy requires transparency to work, and that especially includes allowing oversight by our Legislative members and allowing them to communicate that oversight to their constituents.
For founders, employees, and investors that will make significant financial gains from the IPO.
Actually horse transport did kill a substantial number of people you might not know that today horse riding is a dangerous sport.
I agree with you but would quibble on one thing "women are about as financially independent as men"... I would say that women are about 70-80% as financially independent as men, due to the gender pay gap. That gap is even higher if you consider women's under representation in high paying jobs (e.g. tech).

However... That's light years better the past when women were essentially considered to be the property of their father or husband.
It's fine – I probably have a puritanical side. More than that though:

I believe cities just aren't the right place for cars. It's a tragedy of the commons that car usage creates a situation where public transport cannot be funded to an adequate amount and traffic conditions scare away people who would otherwise take a bike.

Cities also suffer because cars encourage a structure of big, centralised shops that are easily accessible by car, but nothing else. I do get the convenience of a mall (and the economics), but, wow, how much would I miss the social environment of a lively city.

It's possibly a cultural thing … you prefer whatever environment you grew up in, and that just happens to be 'old Europe' for me.

OTOH there's nothing better than a curvy mountain road or the Arizona desert in a convertible. I'm not a complete Luddite.
I'm not sure that I would understand the green alphabet.
repealing Prop 13 would drive down house prices

By increasing supply, I would imagine, at the expense of older, retired home owners. In my community, there are a lot of old people that wouldn't be able to afford a fraction of my property tax. Many would be forced to sell and there would be a glut on the market of new homes, which would likely drive prices down.

I hate paying the property tax rate I do, but I would also hate to drive all the old people of my community to cheap, depressed housing stock in some remote place.

What's the way out of this? I really don't know.
this. Its actually cheaper for me to live in rent controlled SF than "close to BART" Oakland. Bart isn't cheap. Owning a car isn't cheap. With the state of our transit, I would never want to live in Oakland without a car, but I would definitely live in SF without one.

Basically, if we had the mass transit system of new york, the rest of the bay might actually not be that bad compared to walking to work.
Maybe this will help you:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Paki

Starting with the very first sentence under "Usage notes".

In summary, a strict prefix of some place name or nationality is not automatically a harmless contraction. For instance, "Jap" is not a word which has exactly the same nuance as "person of Japanese descent".
Delicious never acquired a truly mass audience, they never got out of the niche of traditional bookmarks as far as their peak audience days were concerned.

I'd say Pinterest has a few strong things in its favor: 1) it benefits from network effects, beyond anything Delicious saw; 2) people accumulate value in their use of the site, to leave is to abandon that effort; 3) they have a national (early global) brand, whereas most people never heard of Delicious 4) they dominate a demographic that is extremely valuable in line with their monetization plans, Delicious had nothing like it 5) Delicious was founded in 2003, the Pinterest scale potential in 2015 is drastically larger, with mobile opening a global audience of a billion potential users

It's also worth noting that bookmarked web sites rot, disappear, etc. Being able to visually go back and look at concepts, ideas, inspiration - is far more useful over the long haul (eg after three years of content accumulation as a user).
> ever increasing divorce rates

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=divorce+rate+over+time...

not sure your premise is true.
I love pinterest because the type of people on Hacker News are obviously not the target audience and so can't understand it.

Someone gets engaged. Almost every day between that day and their wedding will be on pinterest to get great ideas on every single item / food / clothing involved.

It's like amazon referrals on steroids
A lot of people here dismiss Pinterest as just a "digital scrapbook" or "marketing tool". And while Pinterest is those things, it's also a new way of searching. And that's where the real value of Pinterest is. Their search technology has the potential to rival Google. I think that's worth a valuation of several billion dollars.
Agreed 100%. There's so much purchasing intent on Pinterest. I think it could be a stronger platform than Facebook for advertising non-digital goods.

Every bride uses Pinterest (and now most wedding vendors and bloggers).

My mother-in-law uses it every day to plan all her home remodeling projects and she's 60-something.
I love PHP.

I think of it as the English language of programming. Picking and choosing all of the best bits from every other language, and bastardizing them into it's own everyday use.
C++ is an abomination - it should not only be avoided when teaching, but we should make all the effort to avoid it whenever possible. Learning programming using C++ as a language is like learning to walk on a grass-covered minefield - almost every feature hides something that can blow your leg off.

Anyway, the fact remains that you need much fewer syntax lessons to get started with Scheme compared to anything else.
Seems to me that the most obvious interpretation of that statement – that each action on Meerkat generates a Tweet – is also the correct one.
I dropped Ubuntu after three sequential bad quality upgrades (blocking bugs, lost configuration for upgraded packages, Unity). I won't use Windows because the command line isn't unix-style. Remains Mac OS X. Never had a single day of administration. What we need is open-source with a budget...
Man Fakes Suicide to See How Facebook Suicide Tool Works, Gets Detained
Switching from native iOS to Ionic: Why Hybrid doesn't suck (anymore)
So is nutrition, preventative medicine, and FDA enforcement of various public health ordinances.
+1 Knockout is a treasure chest of powerful patterns from remarkably few core concepts.
but what you've said could be an argument for why it's worth 111B. I wonder why it's so underpriced? 11/111 is only 9.9%... I wonder what makes them so cash-starved that they would firesale this round at nine cents on the dollar compared to what we've seen they're really worth? /s

seriously while I appreciate your comment, none of what you've said has anything to do with any financial numbers, even to within an order of magnitude. . . it's nice that this is your reaction but don't you think an analysis of... something should enter the equation at some point? there are 3.5 billion women in the world, so you're valuing every user past and present that you've described, at $3. Why not $10 and call it 35b in revenue for a nice 110B valuation at a fair multiple of earnings.

seriously shouldn't we be looking at...something here? these numbers are literally astronomical. (as in, getting up there with the number of stars in the galaxy.)
How does BitBucket? They don't, and that's okay, there will always be those who push the boundaries of the rules, but most people will be honest.
Money is cheap right now.
Can somebody explain this to a non-phper? So PHP got strict types, but only for Scalars (Ints and floats) and they can be enabled on a per-file basis. Right?
Pixa! Available on Android or iOS. I also liked Doug Dug by the same author.

Indenture was also nice.
> In summary, people have made the choice to have more money instead of having one parent stay home.

Not really, disposable income has gone down, savings have gone down, while health insurance and mortgage payments (for roughly equivalent housing) have gone up.

It looks like having two earners is more out of necessity than preference for the middle class.
I have the nasty feeling I'm being trolled, but ... try watching these to get a feel of what a proper programmable editor is capable of:

* https://vimeo.com/13158054

* https://vimeo.com/30721952

Basically, the idea is that your editor becomes your entire world. News, email, chat, source control, code, running code ... everything merges into the one system, and efficiency gains in one area tend to be applicable to others.

All your keyboard accelerators, macros, etc. etc. are available to all functions. Want to kill to the end of the line? It's C-k ... in everything. In your editor, in your email client, in your scheduler ...
Keep fossil fuels in the ground to stop climate change
> Torture works.

No, it doesn't. All available research shows that torture is one of the worst ways to get information.

The best way to get information is to befriend the person being interviewed. Put them in an open room. Wide windows. Light colors. Talk to them. Treat them like people.

The comments from the American WWII interrogators are telling. The one I recall was "I got more out of the germans over a pool game than the guys in Guantanomo bay did waterboarding people"

Torturing people isn't just unethical. It's that it doesn't work.

Yet despite everyone knowing that for decades, the US still spent enormous effort at torture. Killing people. Raping people.

Why? My best guess is a mideaeval sense if justice. KILL THE BASTARDS. RAPE THEIR WOMEN. BURN THEIR VILLAGES.

Modern society is a thin layer over an animal instinct.
> That the people cooking their meals are just resistant to change?

That's not what I said in the coffee case; I said that the preference differences between places with strong coffee traditions and those without may be partially due to the fact that having a strong tradition of coffee drinking includes a culture attached to the ritual of preparation.

I did not say that the people in an area that has a relatively strong preference for instant who individually do not are "just resistant to change".

That being said, you certainly might see something similar in regional distribution of preferences for prepackaged foods vs. freshly-prepared foods that aren't explained by other socioeconomic factors, though I'd expect that "food" is general enough that you it would be a very weak factor (though probably much stronger if you look at specific foods rather than "food" as a whole.)
Putting people into different groups is enough to get people from one group to hate the other.
If YouTube can increase ad prices without losing advertisers, why aren't they doing that now?
That's always a possibility, but I think at this point it would be just as hard to dethrone Pinterest. A lot of the content on Pinterest is pinned from within the site itself. I dunno what the percentage is, but most people I see that use Pinterest are usually just browsing their feed which is made up of pins from the people they follow (and the topics they are interested in). You also have to consider the amount of time that people invest into creating their boards and organizing all of their content. My sister has somewhere close to 20,000 pins now organized into very specific boards. She also has hundreds of followers and follows a ton of people.