skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Twitter knew this rough patch was coming (albeit not so soon), why did they remove the Discover and Activity tabs from their mobile app? Just anecdotally, I, and everyone I know, spent more time on Twitter because of those two features. Isn't driving more engagement and longer time-in-app tied to revenues? Financial considerations aside, why remove those?
I would love to know who these "incumbents with massive political capital" are. Where i live most licensed taxi firms are small businesses run by local people providing local jobs.

Yes they are. And they group themselves (here in Portugal we have a single, national association of taxi companies, which was the organization that got the court to ban Uber) and have long standing relationships with local parties and politicians.

The fact that they're small business is irrelevant; we're talking about political capital, ie., influence, not money.

A good example is how the Portuguese court ruled without even hearing Uber.

Uber are now stomping these small companies by ignoring local law because they can afford the fines or just don't care.

By stomping, you mean competing?
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Have used Fortran. It's pretty nice, actually. I mean, it does have unstructured programming, but its structured alternatives feel pretty natural. Fortran code, like C code, feels a bit fragile but unlike C, Fortran doesn't seem to be actively malevolent. I only know Ada by its (excellent) reputation.

EDIT: Only true if you use the implicit-none flag when compiling Fortran.
HAHA, yeah can't picture that conversation going well:

"Hey guys, I know we are an non-profitable early-stage startup, but do you think we could all try to stick to 8 hour work days?"
I live in Waltham Forest, London, which is mentioned in the article. I am delighted not to have to own a car.

We're sort of on the edge of the naturally car-free zone: end of the Victoria Line tube one way, boundless greenery and suburban shopping barns the other. So yeah, lotta people here do have cars.
I love that the desire for developer talent is so great that many employers will bend over backwards to accommodate your desire for work-life balance.
This kid will go places.
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What time do you usually leave? In my experience people will come in at 9 or 10, but then work until 8 or 9 pm.
Best curses game I've ever played. I'd love to have this in the official debian repos.
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That's great!

We already have three data points.

A couple of thousand more and our anecdotal evidence could turn into a factual one.
Totally agree, I have stopped using it as much since they removed those.
Primrose is a text editor for use in WebGL/WebVR contexts.

I want to make live-programmable environments and create new user experiences that require VR, rather than adapting 2D UX to the stereo display. Having a text editor run in a texture is a necessary tool to start. I've demoed just the editor before, but this is the first time I've been able to demonstrate an environment constructed on the fly, using the editor.

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/capnmidnight/Primrose/
the 13" pro retina is an amazing laptop.
1) Not so stealthy ageism. So someone your age should be out of the trenches and on his way up the management chain and we're not saying you're fired because you're 30 yrs old because that would be illegal but you are going to work 60 hr weeks or get fired for not working enough, and not being sustainable is not something we care about because our pyramid says up or out in a couple years, so if you insist on staying 20 unsustainable years its not our problem, you're only supposed to sustain it for 6 years not 20. And we don't care about the large fraction who are kicked out either. Aren't we just the most lovable human beings ever?

2) Management is expected to falsify / adjust metric reports and manage appearances in this number driven company from the lowest to the highest levels because we're crooks and we know it, and this is how we train the front line to groom them for mgmt, and the 1 in 20 who get promoted (the other 19 in 20 will be ageism fired) will rely on their experience pretending to work to pretend to produce great numbers.

3) We all know we're lying to the client and upper mgmt and maybe the .gov, and you'll keep quiet about that or we'll have to notice that you're only putting in 30 hours of "real" net positive productive work per week even if you're on paper butts in seat 75 hours per week. You're productively working 30 hours per week and you'll shut up about the other issues or you'll only earn credit for the 30 instead of being the 75 hour "hero" you currently are. Now shut up or we start auditing your internet access logs too.

4) I hate my wife and kids and being a provincial idiot of a manager with no empathy for other human beings (hey, someone has to be the failure, after all) I assume all others are the same as me because I'm great so why don't you hang out at work for 80 hrs per week just like me? If my whole family hates me the problem can't be me because I've got an ivy diploma so whats the problem with staying at work all night? I actually worked for a guy like that and this is a paraphrase of a couple conversations I had with him. A sad, sad dude.
I used one for a week and kind of had the same problems I had with other tiny laptops...it is nice that is so portable but unless you use it really close to your face you have to hunch over in any other position then on a desk right next to your face. I found myself constantly having to straighten my posture when I was doing any sort of work on it for longer than 20 minutes - and when you do you inevitably start to hunch again as the screen is just too small. I would say this is really just for rich people who want to carry around a fancy email machine rather than someone who uses it for work.
I agree with everyone here. On a side note, I've just purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad T450s, had them throw an i7, 8 GB of RAM, and an SSD in it an it's a great machine. I'm running Ubuntu on it right now, it seems to have pretty good support, though the keyboard backlight is a bit finicky.
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Initially I disagreed with you until I thought about it for a second and realized Hex was technically an interpretation as well. You're mostly right, although I do think calling hex an interpretation is maybe not completely accurate. It's accurate enough, but I could see someone arguing the other way.

But regardless, I agree that no one is really going to be looking at raw binary. Atleast I can't think of a good reason why anyone would.
I suspect -- but have no proof whatsoever -- that Apple is the target of a widespread astroturfing campaign. The quality of other subjects on HN seems to be close to the normal (high) quality. Threads involving Apple, on the other hand, see an immediate influx of stupidity. As the downvotes accumulate, the thread drops of the front page.

I realize that Apple has always been controversial, but this seems to have become especially egregious since the sometime around the beginning of the year.
Due to Internet connection issues I can't use a cloud IDEs. However, I think https://cloudpebble.net/ is one of most populars.

Wish they support VIM keybindings as well.
seriously, that's a great looking resume - though it would be nice if i could click on one of the skills (e.g., Print Design) and see some examples
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To be fair, short paragraphs has been the BBC's style of online news for years. This story from 2005, for example:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495.stm

Edit: clarity
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Yes this, My ownership vests at a rate of 1% per year/ then i become fully vested after the 5th year.
This exactly.

I always get people wanting another "email when this happens". When I dig bit more into the details, a confirm page on save is a far better solution.

I find the worst are semi technical managers who have been promoted too early, as they come up with junior level programer type solutions and think they are being helpful working out that for you.
The whole Valve team are doing a great job with Steam, I hope gamers get on board with supporting companies that push the realm of gaming platforms, or at leave Valve.
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Evernote?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/evernote
> absolutely nothing about the content of the article other than the emotions it's supposed to provoke, which usually turns out to be a gross exaggeration of the article's actual emotive pull.

Furthermore, at least according to the BBC article, this tweet was responsible for the massive crash, in that the crash only happened after that tweet revealed the source (and investors panicked when they saw that the info came from a reputable source). That chain of causality may be up for debate, but the facts reported in the article at least support the headline.

The reason Buzzfeed & co. are so reprehensible is that the articles themselves often don't match the headlines they use[0]. I always feel cheated when I read one of those articles, because it's a bait-and-switch.

[0] It's not surprising that Buzzfeed headlines don't match the contents, since AFAIK they A/B test headlines and location (on the frontpage) obsessively. It's hard to optimize for both clicks and relevance when you generate headlines algorithmically, and it's pretty clear which one they care more about.
> He first had to acquire the chip, designed to be injected into cattle for agricultural uses, from Chinese company Freevision (see images below for their animal products and the sizeable syringe used by Wahle). But the chip, which has just 888 bytes of memory

Something tells me that the 888 byte memory limit is intentional.
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Paul Graham wrote about this very phenomenon: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
I doubt it's astroturfing; it's merely that Apple being supremely evil is an important religious matter for many people (see r/technology on reddit for the ultimate example).
Just to add another anecdote, I feel like the people I know who are able to whistle generally recall pitches very accurately, they just can't name the pitches without further training.

Whistling isn't hard to learn, and it is easier to control pitch through whistling than it is through singing (in my experience). I feel like whistling can be very helpful in revealing "perfect" (or very accurate) pitch recall in people.
Wouldn't be the first time someone did this... For years trains arriving at London Victoria and a few other stations where the concourse was too well covered took 30+ seconds to open the doors because the driver had to override safety systems to unlock the doors after a new system was put in place that automated which doors to open based on GPS location (there's a lot of variation in how long the stations are, and some long distance trains will operate with up to 12 carriages even though they may stop at stations with space for possibly as little as 4 on the platform, and the platform may be on either side)
Hmm... from a cursory glance, this looks very similar to Write[1]. Wonder how it compares?

[1]: http://writeapp.net. Incidentally, I've been using it for a few months and it's pretty nice.
Compared to something like Jupiter that has 300 Earth mass, they are quite Earth-like.
Though Uranus is 15 Earth masses but it's quite far from the sun and is significantly composed of gas and ice.
Not quite, IMO. This headline actually contains all the relevant details - one tweet knocked $6bn off the value of Twitter.

The clickbait headline would be "You won't believe what this one tweet did to Twitter's stock", or "Twitter's stock lost $6bn in one day - the reason why will blow your mind"
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You'd think Apple would be more considerate of tattoo users than any other company :) Now that the iPhone has made them mainstream, so long, tattoo crowd!
Yeah, IMHO it's good to learn quickly that other people's perceptions of you - if they don't achieve results that you need them to, don't matter. Making sure you are happy is the most important thing. Trying to make people you don't respect respect you and is also kind of a terrible thing to force yourself to do, it feels like selling your soul every single second. It's worse when the people you are trying to get to respect you already don't, so it's better to drop the illusion. Care about helping people who care that you are helping them.
So far I've stuck to Eclipse, but I wonder about using one for Scala.js (which I'm planning on using for my next personal project) just because of the toolchain and because it seems like it could make the edit-test cycle shorter. Is there anything out there with integrated Scala.js support?
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See also castnow, which is a node based chromecast client.

https://github.com/xat/castnow
My bet would be that your experience does not match with most users. They do base these decisions on analytics after all.
Cat flaps already do this...
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But I never wanted a button that worked like that.

That's not what I care about when calculating percentages.

I don't want an inlined relative percentile value, based on prior terms. I almost never need that, and thus never use the percentage key, because that makes it useless and the behavior is counter intuitive.

What if I have a much longer chain of calculations to tally up? What I need, then, is a percentage for one of the terms in isolation, BEFORE I start calculating.

If I have an arbitrarily large number, and an arbitrarily complex percentile value, which makes the percentile value difficult to determine in one's head, I want a button that performs as follows:

37.82726419 percent of 9999.928374666666 equals ???

Which gets keyed as:

37.82726419 % 9999.928374666666 = ???

Then, I take that number and roll it into any other subsequent equations.

Too bad the button will never ever work that way, because "tradition."
So what was the technical reason for the gaffe? Was it just someone simply messing up effective from timestamp?
Meteor works on Windows now.

https://win.meteor.com/
If a single tweet wipes $8 bn of your value - you are overvalued. Probably by an order of magnitude ...
Apparently optical heart rate monitors also often fail on dark skin (or have to shine a brighter light, so they run out of battery faster). So they might have a "racist HP webcam" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM) situation on their hands.
It is very 'batteries included'. The demos use data islands and localstorage. You'd hook your DAO to something like Firebase instead. The Tutorial has a bug where it refers to DetailView it should be foam.ui.DetailView or something like that.
My experience with a lot of 'Javaheads' is that they get a little too emphatic about Java's optimizations, most especially the claim that it can out perform C.

BUT

In this case, to be fair, I took his statement to include Hotspot, which can do some pretty cool stuff provided you meet the requirements for it. ie, be long running, have enough memory and horsepower available on the machine to run hotspot, and have paths through the code that rarely jump around (meaning most executions go through the same path).

If you can meet those requirements, my understanding is that the Java ecosystem does a damned fine job.

The issue is that a lot of javaheads will extrapolate that out to the rest of the language and tech and start making claims about Java being the best overall at X, or as fast as language Y (C or C++, take your pick).
Hi, thanks for asking...

At the time, I didn't have any game-specific tutorials for Swift when I started. That's largely because I started with the first Xcode beta (Xcode 6 Beta 1) that was released with Swift support in 2014. It was so new, that there just wasn't much out there.

That said, I used the Swift documentation that Apple released as a guide to the language. I also used the Objective-C (There wasn't a Swift version at the time) SpriteKit Guide [1] as a way to get a handle on SpriteKit. If you aren't familiar with it, it's essentially an Apple framework for working with sprites, physics, collision detection, etc. It's similar in spirit to Cocos2d, if you are familiar with that.

Then, I just brute-forced my way through a Swift equivalent of the syntax. It was a slow process. My first version of the game was just displaying the player's ship on the screen, and then I iteratively built the game up from there.

On a related note, I'm really proud of the way the enemy drones fly in the 3rd level. If you go to this link [2], it's the 4th screen-shot from the left. I implemented a Catmull-Rom spline generator that creates flight patterns for the enemy drones.

Fast-forward.... now, I think more game-specific Swift tutorials are available. I would definitely check out http://www.raywenderlich.com , for example.

Good luck!

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Graphi...

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rocket-renegade/id955229059?...
Not only pretty markdown editors. Software applications tend to be prettier in general under OSX.

There's the financial incentive, as pointed out in other comments.

Then, what I think it is most important, the technology support. Take just Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz Composer and you are already light-years ahead of the competition. I won't even talk about things like the Win32 API or the existence of Swift.

'Pretty' Windows apps, in particular, are a royal pain to create. Unless, maybe, if you target Metro.

You can make them pretty even on Windows. However,if you want to keep using native controls, the effort will be enormous. Many applications switched to using embedded browsers because of that. If you are not using standard controls, then you lose things like screen readers.
Vice did a show on synthetic drugs recently. This isn't the full episode but includes parts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLD3AKoyV5Q
So while this is common trend I really wish developers would stop using the "Download on the Mac App Store" graphic when it should be "Buy on the Mac App Store". Also there is NO MENTION of the price or even the fact this is not free (other than linking to trial which implies that). I really hate this practice of baiting and switching.
I think the seriousness of that one was a bit exaggerated by the press, really. I mean, I used an iPhone 4 for 3.5 years. I could cause signal to drop a bar or two by pressing a specific point, hard. In general, I got better signal most places than with my old 3G. Maybe if you lived in an area with extremely poor mobile signal and held the phone a certain way it could be a big issue, but I never really saw it as a problem.
In other news, the sensor is really something. I wonder if it's possible to identify people uniquely with it.
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Clickbait title. Afaict it was the bad revenue numbers that made the stock fall, not the tweet that carried the news.
The game still has to be paid for to play the mod. Bethesda _already_ got their cut when the user paid for the game before even considering the mod.
A lot of newer aircraft have built in checklists now[0]. For a bunch of reasons (e.g. safety, automatic double-checking, and expedience).

Yes, it would be non-optimal if an aircraft had an issue without a handbook, but assuming that communications haven't been lost, someone on the ground can easily read out items.

[0] http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2006/april/i_ca...
I don’t get this. Text and widgets on the screen render at the same size as on other Apple laptops, nothing is shrunk. When adjusted for viewing distance, everything displays basically the same as on a monster 27" iMac. Are you using System Prefs to render the content smaller? Why not reverse that?
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Agreed.

A friend of mine once wrote something similar to your sentiments. May have been posted here in the past.

"I don’t like advice like “Do what you love and the money will follow.” Not because it isn’t true, but because it’s a monkey’s paw: it’s true under the right circumstances with the right people, and for everyone else, it’s just bad advice."

http://rachelnabors.com/2014/08/19/dont-do-what-you-love/
The salient information:

Well, it seems that Nasdaq slipped up here after Twitter furnished the exchange with earnings details ahead of time ready for official publication.

...

Selerity then made sure that everyone knew about it through Twitter's own platform, but it did not break any rules in doing so as the results had already been published and were effectively in the public arena.

"We inadvertently released an early version of their [Twitter's] earnings," Nasdaq said.
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So I have a database, 4 years on from the initial design, a relationship between two central tables goes from one-to-many to many-to-many (I asked at the time and was promised it wouldn't happen).

Neither Agile nor Waterfall are going to save me from a pain in the arse of a change that affects a lot of the application.
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The issue was the early leak.
Well it's mostly teenagers you know, they want to be and look "independent", not to have their (embarrasingly dressed and outdated) parents cheer them up in school functions...
> Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter.

I guess you missed this.
Oh yeah, and killing every second male in Ireland by Lord-Protector Cromwell is also grossly exaggerated.
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Thank you guys! :) I will probably add this feature or just send people more detailed portfolio via e-mail.
This is apparently why Apple uses infrared LEDs in addition to the green ones.

Plus the real power drain is when trying to measure heart rate, which the watch only does once every 10m so it probably doesn't make a large difference in battery life.
I'm not a developer; the closest I get is managing a few web servers for clients on the side. That said, if I were I'd spin up a Vultr or Dropbox instance and use something like Codiad[1], that way I could have complete control of the back end.

[1] http://codiad.com/
requirements creep is a nightmare when people get into the habit of it.
How did you find all the open data and is there cities that you couldn't do because of that?

The rendering is really nice!
My reply to that would be "I'm working with adults, not babies". If your team can't deal with seeing someone leave early, then you should fire me. I honestly wouldn't mind, there's plenty of work around here.
SOAR, not SPURS.

* The window overflow and underflow are complicated to handle correctly for the OS.

* The fixed window size means a tax for deeply recursive functions that doesn't need the 16 registers.
As long as the information communicated is good, then I'm all for a more attention-deficit-friendly format.
Most people weren't against the idea of paid mods. They were against the poor execution of it, including but not limited to:
* Stealing free mods and either directly uploading them or making a knockoff paid variant.
* The revenue split (30/45/25 to valve, Bethesda and the modder respectively)
* Resistance to change. Skyrim is old, it's modding scene established and entrenched around nexusmods.com and a certain culture. Valve/Bethesda disrupted it.
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