skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Letting third parties do the hard work of experimenting with user acquisition and engagement, then buying up the best and turning their backs on the rest was a masterful move.

It would have been if you assume that Twitter could thrive on its own. Since they have historically relied on third parties to push their product forward, and then cut them off at the knee, they should have been prepared for the inevitable stagnation that followed, and perhaps they weren't.

The masterful move would have been to carefully augment the base functionality offered by Twitter while encouraging the third-party ecosystem to continue to grow and thrive.

You can see, for example, Apple do this with iOS (albeit at times with a ham-fisted approach) by incorporating some—but by no means all—of the features that third parties come up with into the base OS.

This encourages third parties to continue to participate in the ecosystem while gently nudging them towards innovating instead of stagnating, because that's the only way they will be able to compete with the “free” Apple-provided software and make money.

Twitter was in the somewhat unfortunate position that it was born as a wide-open system that had little in the way of walls, leaving the new management with few options to gain more control over their product but to start restricting what could be done with it.

Instead of recognizing the value of third-parties and commoditizing their complements, though, they went all-out and systematically alienated anyone who wanted to share in their good fortunes. They placed their focus on attracting celebrities and brands (remember when Ev was “excited” that Oprah was joining?) and attempted to create a friendly environment for the average consumer by tightly controlling the user experience.

In itself, I don't think that this is a bad idea—Facebook has done it quite successfully, for example. Twitter's problem is simply that they are about to run out of innovation to acquire because there are no more small timers left who are willing and capable to take a risk on their platform and come up with some unexpected new feature that could later be integrated into product proper.
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You're quite right, and I know it's hard for me, in the depths of an argument, to admit the other person has the right of things when they have presented a piece of data that should change my opinion. Ego gets wound up in there, amongst other things.

One should be genuinely delighted when new information comes along and changes your understanding of the world. It rarely works out that easily though.
I feel strongly that depression runs in families. a majority of my family has been depressed at one time despite no major hardships or tragedies. I don't know if it's genetic or based on learned attitudes, but the idea that you need a good reason to be depressed is completely wrong.
What's your inspiration for the game btw? Also, how did you design it? :D Any advice for people who want to make similar games? :)
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Compiling GCC 5 on OS X
This is fantastic. A true undertaking. I have seen this attempted almost a dozen times before, but everyone gives up summarily far too soon.

Eager to investigate modding this.
But there's really no point in a patent if it can't be used offensively - by which I assume you mean filing a suit on the grounds of infringement of the patent. If you waive that right, then everyone is free to infringe your patent with impunity.
I wonder if technology becomes prevalent if we will see appliances change to run on DC.
Oh no! I'm so sorry to see you go! :(
But I think it's awful not to have at least one days or a few hours notice. I've been a loyal follower for years and have so many amazing playlists I've carefully cultivated on there. I know it was perhaps foolish to do so on this site alone, but my God, I'm heartbroken. Is there no way of recovering just the lists of song names? Pleeeease?
That line about beating up your kids was pretty much my parents' reasoning for not putting us in school (I was homeschooled my entire life), they both had negative experiences in school. But you pretty much have to eat a certain amount of shit your whole life in a working environment. I've been floundering massively as an adult because I was completely unprepared for it.
While I think this announcement is great news, there are at least two caveats to keep in mind that can mine the long term value proposition:

- If there are many users, the peak/non-peak price differences (arbitrage) will disappear. This is because of supply/demand law.

- If solar energy/battery storage takes off, it will be heavily taxed. There is an impending "Sun tax" being implemented in Spain, that aims to make more expensive running a home solar source than taking power from the grid. If necessary, they will tax Lithium.

So the Tesla value proposition is in all cases short term.
> What? No. That's not how the Vorlons worked at all.

But it is how they wanted to be perceived. ;)

Granted, Microsoft can quite easily say "We have always been here."
> PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

Isn't it already (semi-)official?

> An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Or that one guy that thinks that if everyone just tried LSD the world would change overnight and we'd throw out our politicians to live a new life of harmony...

Yeah, they don't really help the drive for a pragmatic solution!
Nice, I'd never seen multitail before.
On a free online game I play, Brazilians use "jaja" or "kkkkkk" or "huehuehue", how is that? Is it a "lol" equivalent?
Interesting definition for the word "normal" you have there.
I didn't get it from Sendgrid, but Microsoft sent it out to their Azure customers using Sendgrid on April 30th.
The issue is that at his age, no one wants to help. It's easy to say go help, but when you're friends are suppose to be a pillar of support, it's rough. Sure, you have family, but you're family will always be there. What you need to be is surrounded by people who care for you.

My brother went missing more than six years ago, presumably committed suicide. Going back through his emails and chat history, he constantly expressed the fact he was depressed and considered suicide. Instead, all his friends turned their backs on him and told him to talk to someone else. What they should have said instead is, how can I help?
I live in Europe and something similar happened to one of my friends. Abuses of power are everywhere.
By this analogy it would be a protect_data_transport method written by an amateur that has a bunch of nasty race conditions and buffer overflows. You're assuming malice on the part of the politicians when there's really no reason to. Just because we know the implications of the law they passed doesn't mean they would.
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Same as with anything else.

Spaced repetition.

That said, I'd be pretty picky about deciding what to keep "conscious". Recalling every detail is almost always pointless. Once you've been exposed to something in any detail recollection and reuse is easier.
At the very least it might make some sense to have a 5V and a 12V rail to charge stuff. USB(C) and car lighter socket.
One problem with this is that most companies that are small today hope to be large tomorrow. "Small" is not an intrinsic characteristic of most companies (at least most companies that would have patents), so there is little incentive for them to band together based on that characteristic.
Well that's cruel and insane.
> If I see someone list HTML, DHTML, XHTML and HTML 5, alarm bells start ringing

I understand where this is coming from, but I think the author should realize that lots of companies have non-technical people (or robots) screening resumes and they're looking for exact matches. You're a Phonegap expert? Sorry we need someone who knows Cordova. Its better to overlist than underlist.
'xactly!

That's a succinct way of summing it up :)
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What? The article says that that meeting, where he was dismissed, was a result of his seeking counseling.
That raises a question: if one were to build a new house with solar and battery integration present from the start, would it make sense to run DC appliances?
If you're talking about cost/benefit that's a reasonable calculation to make.

If you're talking about being "disgusted" and wanting to completely avoid polluting at any cost, not so much. Sacred values and all that.
> Their eyes lit up at the prospect of a way out of that. That was in 2001. Why don't we have that yet?

The companies making word processors make word processors. They don't make revision control systems. They don't make document management systems.

It's a failure of vision. Their vision is narrow, and doesn't match their customers work-flow.

Sure, Word has "track changes", but it doesn't have "merge two documents". Because that problem is hard, and the word processor people have no idea how to solve it.

The revision control people look at diff'ing binary files, and go "bleah, use text". So revision control systems don't work for binary blobs like Word files.

And never the twain shall meet.
> My intent was to get Osmium to try the watch first for functionality before complaining about the looks of a tool for the blind.

Maybe try working on your tone? It's never a good idea to start a comment with "You don't get it."
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"it's not about you."

Actually, a casual comment expressing an opinion is typically about the person posting it.
I'm not very good at C, but from my understanding this library uses longjmp functions which means it's cooperative multithreading rather than preemptive isn't it?
That's probably prohibitively expensive for many students.
Perhaps not making (very) addictive drugs easily and cheaply available to the general population, but making them easily available to registered addicts, who can get some counselling but also be provided a cheap/free fix so they don't need to steal to get more.

The cost to society would be far less.
Well obviously. Everything runs off AC, no one would buy this battery pack if it didn't have an inverter.
Is this how the term OO got degenerated?

In Communicating Sequential Processes, you only communicate via messages (C) & the processes (P) sequentially (S) run to completion.

Go is not CSP. It is fair to say it was inspired by CSP.
Go has a preemptive scheduler, and passing shared memory references is idiomatic and at times unavoidable.
Politics and image. Even if they're not liable in any civil or criminal sense for his behavior or treatment, a student suicide on campus would be bad for business. It brings unwanted publicity to the school, and a lot of nosy reporting (though it may not last long).

But even if they're not liable, they're still, to some extent, responsible for the students at their university. 18-22 year olds are adults, but many are still developing emotionally and have just moved from living at home and the K-12 educational model into an environment where they're expected to be independent and fully self-responsible, and the academic work is likely far harder and more stressful than anything they've ever experienced before. It's a transition period and the university is, rightly or wrongly, viewed as a pseudo-guardian during this time. If they don't provide the image of performing this role, then they'll be viewed poorly.
a person close to me had a similar experience in high school. she attempted suicide, and afterwards the school wanted nothing to do with her. they didn't let her go on the class trip. they say they are protecting the other students. clearly fear of litigation is a factor. but I also think the institutions don't want "people like that" in their culture. they would prefer to continue believing their institution is made of hard working positive people. lack of empathy is the ultimate cause.
Because of the way most non-text files are encoded, it's nearly impossible to collate changes in the way a VCS requires. At work we're using a graphics engine which stores layout data in binary blobs, then exports those to XML(Don't ask me why, I don't know). As a result, you would have to use their IDE tool to perform any merges, and because of that you can't annotate/blame the file at all, which eliminates a lot of the usefulness of the VCS as a repository of history.

When companies start shipping real comparison tools for their binaries then you might see more widespread adoption.
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The picture all this paints for me is one of risk management.

From the time they first identify the risk, all further actions seem to focus on washing their hands and distancing themselves from that risk. Rather than helping him themselves, they rush him out the door to a dedicated facility; they forbid him from being on campus, thus ensuring that if things go wrong it'll be on somebody else's watch; and they drag their feet about letting him back into the system.

Just my opinion, but the appearance is that their primary concern was to stay out of liability's way; the actual danger to a student was secondary at best.
> False pretense of security can be worse than visible insecurity.

This applies to HTTP as well. That's why Firefox and Chrome will be visibly warning it's insecure.
Seemed worthwhile to post so people sitting there hitting refresh could take a break
Actually, Word does have Merge Two Documents:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/306484

If you could extract the changeset from that then you would be well on your way to supporting version control in Word. One problem I've seen is that people tend to conflate version control and document control, and so they end up using version control systems to prevent revisions to documents, rather than to collate revisions to documents into a history.
Used to gamble a lot: casino at least once a week, online for sports betting (mostly UK football, horse racing, sometimes US baseball, and occasionally other sports like tennis), and sometimes online live dealer casino (you see video of a dealer giving you cards, and use the online interface to manage your hand in, for example, blackjack - would only play this late at night on Skype with one or more friends also playing it, usually while drinking.)

Was always for fun not as a profit-generating scheme, but decided I should cut back about 3 years ago, the only sports betting I've done in the last year was during the Cheltenham Festival (four days of horse racing in the UK), and I go to a casino maybe every 2-3 months. I've also cut down the amount I spend - now I won't lose more than £100-£300 in a casino, whereas a few years ago I could easily win or lose £5,000 in a night. Sports betting used to put on between £20 and £100 on most bets, during Cheltenham this year I was placing £5-£10 bets.

I love gambling and think as long as you know when to stop, or when to cut back, it's a great activity.
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Now it's time to grow (a bit) and I'm looking for a Javascript virtuoso to join me on developing core Pinegrow features.

Our company has no VCs, C?Os, VPs... Instead we have a good product and paying users in 100+ countries that find Pinegrow useful at their daily work. Our revenue is organically doubling every four months. Here's a short story about that: https://medium.com/@mattront/pinegrow-year-in-review-2014-fr...

Ideally, you're better than me at:

- building optimised HTML, PHP, CSS (LESS, SASS) parsers

- designing and implementing effective UI

- separating what users actually need from what just looks nice

- being highly productive, even when compared to whole teams of decent developers

- finding simple solutions for complex problems - and then iterating on them

- having in-depth experience of high-performance Javascript coding and web development, both pure and with contemporary frameworks/tools

Bonus if you're good at:

- creating tutorials and online courses about web development

- marketing

You would get a decent fixed sallary and significant profit share. That's how I imagine my dream job offer would look like.

Get in touch at info [at] pinegrow.com
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Permanent, full-time roles in London, New York City, and Seattle.

We are hiring for a bunch of roles at the moment - you can read more about the positions (and the company) here: https://www.distilled.net/jobs/ but in short, we're a digital marketing company, specialising in organic and paid search, content, and digital PR.

The jobs - in order of those most obviously of interest to HN:

LONDON: Front-end developer with some experience (£30-35k)
http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/55137

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LONDON / NYC / SEATTLE: Digital marketers (range of experience)
See list - http://distilled.workable.com/

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LONDON / NYC: Client development / Sales consultant
London: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/54965
NYC: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/55636

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LONDON / NYC / SEATTLE: Recruitment & HR manager
UK: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/55167
US: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/56764

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We recently had an all-hands email thread where people discussed what brought them to Distilled, and why they are still here. It got many great replies (including a number talking about how people's friends had typically had 2-3 jobs in the time they'd been with us), but this one stood out:

"A combination of an informal environment, freedom, and high expectations - I wanted a place where I could be myself and grow doing/learning things that I was passionate about, while having lots of smart people around me to collaborate with in doing so. I came from a huge, strictly regimented and siloed company, and was fed up with being told "that's a great idea, but it's not your job", and Distilled seemed to be the polar opposite."
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Thanks for the input. I created an issue for it https://github.com/mocco/feedhuddler/issues/52. I haven't looked into wallabag, so I don't now if we are able to do it. The issue will be updated with status as I look into it.
If she has a duty of care towards you, and you ask her for help, and she says "no, I won't help you. In fact I'm going to ban you from talking to me" then yes, she might.

But of course analogies are sub-optimal.
>Rebase allows you to deal with merges a single conflict at a time, instead of dealing with all the conflicts at once with a merge...

Not sure what you mean by 'deal with a single conflict at a time'. To rebase or merge, you will have to resolve all conflicts that merge/rebase produce, right?
So the Linux kernel is worse quality now than in 1991?
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We're a profitable (and valley VC funded by some of the best funds in the valley) education startup that helps make classrooms more engaging. We've got some really cool problems to work on and your work would be impacting a huge number of students daily.

Our dev team is in Toronto but we've also got an office in the US. If you're not based in Canada or the US but are willing to relocate feel free to contact us, because we do cover relocation expenses and will help you manage the work permit and VISA process.

Send your resume/github account to steph at tophat dot com.
Nearly all of my drug related regrets were under the influence of alcohol.
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A very exciting update this month!!! We’re excited to announce the close of our Series C round ($20.5MM). It will continue to spread online, but here are some highlights of the initial coverage -

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But Word does have the ability to merge two documents. And you can even configure VCS clients like TortoiseSVN to launch Word as the merge tool for .docx files.