skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As noted in the other comment, I've tried a lot of different things with varying levels of success, but for the most part working on the product and App Store Optimization have been the biggest things.

I do have a lot of new ideas that I'll be trying over the coming months though. It's a different strategy putting more focus into a bigger app than one off sort of things. Many of them didn't get any outside promotion other than maybe a tweet here or there. 4 years ago the App Store was a much different beast. It really was build it and they will come. As the market matures though, you have to change with it.
"The decline soon after? That’s the Chomp search update followed by iOS 6 and the card app store layout. So sad."

Man, I do find that quite sad... the app store still has some major issues with regards to discoverability. It's funny because you'd think as the app store became more and more saturated, that they'd create more ways to deal with that, but many of the changes have actually made it worse lol :/
True, just benchmarked it and found the function call overhead to be about 1.85834729e-7 seconds (185 ns). Which isn't much, but the pure C version would obviously be single nanoseconds for the handful of instructions needed depending on the function call.
"Stress" here sounds like a kind of inverse analogue to the economic concept of utility.
While we're at it, please note that slavery existed for millenia before capitalism (at least before our western form of it).
one weird hack to run assembler-like code in the browser!

developers hate him!
I don't know if "amazing" is the first word that comes to mind when I think about my reviews of businesses being made available to advertisers in this way.
"The 22-year-old graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and studio art that cost more than a quarter-million dollars." ....how is this even possible?
>I'd love for Google to buy them so I could trust them.

I don't, you can still retain some bit of anonymity on Yelp. Google would probably try to force you to use your real name. I don't know what Google's problem with real names are, but it needs to stop.

The last time I left a legitimate bad review for a restaurant on Google, I was harassed through both Google and Facebook. I blocked the owner, his wife, and others, but it made me extremely uncomfortable.
The problem with yelp is that I don't trust other reviewers.

Too many bad reviews are docking a business for things I don't care about, or the reviewer went in with drastically different expectations than I have, or they are simply trying to extort the business.

A buyer like facebook could have some interesting abilities to fix this problem. Filtering to only reviews from people I know would drastically reduce the noise. Additionally, I theoretically know a few things about the reviewer - what their tastes are, what their level of expertise is, etc. That added context seems like it would add a lot of value to the review. In a sense, it becomes more of a recommendation than a review, which is what I really wanted in the first place.
Probably depends on which coast youre in. West coast and California is probably Vietnamese and east coast and new York is Korean.
IBM's Bluemix has a very generous free tier. If you can run an app or apps using a total of 512M of ram with modest data storage requirements, then that is free.
Why? asm.js is a hack relative to NaCL.
You basically say mass surveillance is (figuratively) "literally Hitler", and you think that's an "unpopular opinion" on HN? Well, have I got some fortunate news for you...

The fact is, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a police department flying an airplane over an area under their jurisdiction with the intent of surveying the area as an intelligence gathering activity.

What's actually absurd is the idea that they shouldn't do this. What the hell might you cite as a reason they shouldn't?
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At least with lynx/links, you don't get any javascript functionality and the experience as a whole is diminished.

With an ad blocker, you selectively block the javascript you don't like but that the operators rely on to bring in revenue, while still getting the otherwise 'full' experience.
When Trust Crumbles, Filming the Police Is All That's Left
Probably because there aren't many Vietnamese-Americans in NY, at least compared to Texas and California.
Santa Clara County drive to acquire cellphone tracker derailed
How do you explain this from a few days ago: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-the-biggest-privacy-... ?
Another Wu-Tang album is in the cards, does it even matter?
Exposure to Diverse Information on Facebook
"I went to a university [...] to no longer be poor, because I believed, as I was told by guidance counselors and the media and many adults and colleges themselves, that that was the only way to be not-poor."

Geez, who would have thought? You really have to be an expert to know that a degree in Art History/Gender studies/<insert random liberal art topic> won't take you anywhere.

Here is the problem with this generation. They want to be told what to do, they want everything to be properly explained to them and nice PC terms they can understand. They don't want to figure shit for themselves, don't want to think and certainly not take any responsibility for their poor choices.
I'm in the situation of being both a FTE at a medium sized company, and generate a fair amount (on track for $60k this year) as a freelance dev. I've been getting busier and busier on the side, to the point where I'm wondering if I have to choose one or the other.

While I was familiar with the 4-day work week concept, I hadn't really considered that an option for myself until I came across this discussion. My work/life balance has obviously suffered by running a business while working as an employee, but the opportunity has been too great to say no to.

I know that the rate of work I've been doing the past year isn't sustainable. I'm intrigued by the idea of working ~32 hours to try and balance that.
I imagine they're thinking of something like ARGUS, detailed in a great PBS program called "Rise of the Drones"
I've heard gunshots in SF more than a few times. Several times in the mission, once in the tenderloin, and once was a half block away from my house in the Richmond. I walked over right as EMS got there and saw them trying to stabilize a neighbor in a pool of blood.

I also made the dumb mistake of tapping on a window sitting on my couch once when I saw a bunch of funny dudes with helmets just outside it. When they looked in the window I realized it was actually SWAT, right before they raided the house two doors down.
How do want the state to do it's job? Because step one would be a whole lot of deportations. There's not much political support for that, especially in Manhattan, and if you have the government selectively enforcing wage laws while ignoring immigration laws, you've got an glaringly corrupt system. So they ignore it...
I stopped wearing headphones for the most part since I work out of an office with isolation, but when I have to work around others or noise, my headphones are on way to loud likely. I use it to drown out the exterior sounds so all I hear is my music and my thoughts. For the most part vocals for me will fade into the background and I am more listening for the beat to keep me focused and undistracted.

But as for volume, I don't know a number but it is generally loud enough that if I take off my headphones you can still hear the music clearly a couple of feet away. btw -- I wear mid-grade Sennheiser over the ear headphones.

Thankfully I don't have to do that too much anymore so I can just have background music on in my office, but when I used to work in the "open" environment I couldn't function productively without headphones and music.
Yelp is the worst company. I'm not saying that just because of the small business owner bullying that I was subjected to, or the frivolous one-star review that they refused to remove, or the horrible customer service I was subjected to when I paid for their premium advertising plan. I say that because Yelp provides a platform for businesses to work against each other. Unscrupulous business owners that see a local competitor on Yelp will write bad reviews to lower their Yelp rating and write fake positive reviews for themselves.

The ideal replacement for Yelp in my mind would be a service that allows customers to state positive and negative aspects of their experience, and a Foursquare-like search that lets you easily see on a map which businesses are operating in your area. Business owners should be able to address the negative aspects, and consumers should be able to vote up/down positive and negative aspects of business to combat frivolous statements.
> I'm confused by the argument made here. An economic system fairly different from the modern world, which was not called capitalism at the time ("capitalism" is mainly an 1880's+ idea), used slaves. Slavery was abolished and later that system evolved into capitalism.

Capitalism was a term coined in the late 19th Century to refer to the post-feudal economic system that developed through several centuries and was in full swing by the mid-19th century, and overlapped considerably with the use of chattel slavery.

While its critics hadn't yet called it "capitalism", the system which they did get around to calling "capitalism" did not evolve only after the abolition of slavery as you claim.
Indeed. A huge push in my agency is to comply with the initiative to make research data publicly available (https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-...). This isn't lip-service, we have strict local deadlines for getting data online.

The hurdles are entirely technological, almost everyone who works here (scientists anyway) love the principle.
MMM definitely makes most sense for people who enjoy doing the sorts of things MMM enjoys doing. I happen to really like a lot of the around-the-house type DIY projects, so it's a good fit for me, but I don't think there's a moral imperative to it. MMM sets the "$30k/year" bar for frugal family living with his DIY lifestyle, but there are plenty of people who do it differently. My wife's extended family are for the most part recent immigrants, so a lot of them live in that range (comfortably enough!) with a completely different type of frugality.
That report is a shameful whitewash
Your last statistic ... isn't so useful, I haven't heard of Bloods and Crips laying down suppressive fire with General Purpose Machine Guns ^_^!

Even going to, say, the statistic I read some time ago of police hitting about 1 in 4 times they fired isn't so useful, because this I take this to be a metric of shooting incidents, in which multiple gun shots were probably fired.
He picked a bad example, because honestly you are right.

A better example might be how the DoD influenced/compromised the design of the Space Shuttle. The only reason it had those big-ass wings was so that it could fly polar orbit missions for the military. It never actually flew any of those missions, but it did fly a few classified military missions: STS-51-C, STS-51-J, STS-27, STS-28, STS-33, STS-36, STS-38, and a few others.
That's a interesting study about strong and weak ties on Facebook. I wonder if the result apply (or not) for other social networks, and what is the impact of recommendation algorithms on our own information retrieval.
Thanks! It was most helpfull when I got to know tmux.
Your data scientist position is in San Antonio?
I wrote something like that a while back:
https://github.com/iangudger/basicGoAPI

No rate limiting, but it has pretty much everything else. If you want to add it I would welcome a pull request :)
You don’t need a mentor
I've always wanted a "friend circle" yelp where It showed you recommendations from friends of friends/people you know so you could temper the rating with what you know about the person reviewing.
A lot of the more experienced engineers had cooked up their own regexes / bash aliases / crazy combination of vim macros to handle the above, but everyone had their own one-off solution that was either hard to learn or hard to generalize. The demand was definitely there though which was part of what got us motivated to build something anyone could use and learn.
FYI a Pebble can go 7-10 days and it charges pretty quickly and does quite well for a smartwatch.

I like to think of watches as being function first since I don't wear jewelry, but some people have different opinions here.
Very good list of attributes for a lead dev.
I'd say organic mostly. I read stories of people making the most money they ever made on launch day, and almost none after, but I've only had that experience once, with Debt Snowball. And it still has made more over time than it did at the launch.
Nah, Clancy just got taken in by a common fraud:

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/24/local/me-26013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker

There have been dozens of similar frauds since, where the snake-oil-salesmen just dress up a dowsing-rod with blinking lights.

Remember, Tom Clancy was a fiction writer in the same vein as Dan Brown novels or CSI TV shows. His main nod to realism was in realms like military jargon or describing the correct fire-selector for a given model of gun.
There's no need to be disparaging – NaCL is more ambitious but asm.js has a backwards compatibility path. Both are valid engineering decisions, particularly since it's really easy to imagine a world where if NaCL delivers some major benefits the same toolchain could generate both for a seamless upgrade.
Holy crap, that's amazing. I had no idea, thanks for spreading the word.
Why limit it to smokers? The simple, necessary act of breathing emits CO2.
I'm sorry if I phrased that sentence wrong. I certainly don't think "enjoyable" things are "non-productive". In fact I think that the things we truly enjoy are likely to be some of the most productive things we do.
There's a logic to it. A person who values their safety - most do! - has an incentive to deal with safety issues, regardless of whether they are compelled. Less so with emissions issues.
Sounds like real names have power, then, no?

If I know that you, as mawburn, are backing a review with your personal reputation, I'm going to believe it a lot more.
Yep, this is where our regexes start to fall short. Mind opening a github issue for this? We can likely add another option in our "fallback" regex, but it's a fine line to draw between overmatching and undermatching.

For instance, we currently match on "add/remove" output from git status which is less than fortunate. For performance reasons we don't actually go check if each of those files exists (since sometimes you want to pipe hundreds of results into fpp [EDIT: and are using an expandrive or network mount])
"Informed helplessness" probably isn't the best frame for the concept, but maybe more like a cost-benefit analysis for giving a shit (CBAGAS), or the Gaullic shrug ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). My brother and I both lived in DC once upon a time. We both got parking tickets, some of which were legitimate and some of which were made up by the meter maids because the DC government is banking that you'd rather just pay $20 than go through the hassle of an appeal (which they usually just ignore). I would get enraged; my brother would just shrug and say "cost of living in the city--you want to walk home from your favorite bar or to your favorite restaurant, this is what you put up with." It wasn't that he thought it was okay, he just decided it wasn't worth the mental energy to get mad about it.

I still get mad about them, but I can see that his perspective is far preferable.
Wifi would certainly drain the battery much more than Bluetooth Low Energy.
MathCard.us is a memory
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MathCard is a free app
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Open Source Version
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So, will they add Opus support for audio tag too?
We built this @ Techcrunch disrupt NYC last weekend, spent a few days cleaning it up and decided to opensource & share it with everyone. All feedback is welcome.
The US military kills people with high powered machine guns, uses tactics like suppressive fire, trains constantly with live ammunition, etc. I'm not the comparison is very relevant.
Ask HN: If web technologies were reinvented, what would be done differently?
If TripleByte’s software was even trained on a sufficient volume of data, Taggar imagines it could even make the hiring decision if technical ability is the sole criteria.

When is technical ability ever the sole criteria? Granted it would be incredibly useful to know up front if a candidate is technically strong enough but you still need to establish if a candidate would work well with your team. Technical ability is worthless if the candidate has a horrible attitude.

That being said, the idea of accumulating significant data over a significant period of time and actually defining what makes a successful engineer is intriguing.
> Given that the US military uses up 250k rounds per killed insurgent

I'm willing to bet that average engagement ranges in street violence in the US are closer, and the involved parties less effective at using cover and concealment, than is usually the case in battles between professional modern military forces and insurgent groups that still exist after several years of ongoing combat with professional modern military forces. Also, the weapons used are different.

So, generally, I wouldn't use statistics for the latter as a yardstick for evaluating shots/victim ratios for the former.
How would your suggested replacement prevent unscrupulous business owners from writing fake reviews?
There is a lot of hate for the app store by developers, and i've dished out some of it, but frankly with over a million apps it's not an easy problem to solve.

I actually think the store is in a pretty decent state right now overall. You can't possibly make everything very visible. It's a pretty good deal to be on the shelves, now you just have to work harder on your own promotion.
I'll agree with most folks here that you aren't a CTO.

You don't NEED a CTO, today, and at this point it might even be counter productive. Your either going to hire what you can afford, or pay a lot of money for little code return.

Do you need an architect/director/VP/tech-lead? Probably.

What you have already done in "reducing the time to goto market and cost- quality has taken a hit" is make a sound business decision. Without knowing what your road map, funding level, growth projections and anything about the existing codebase we are being asked to give advice in a vacuum.

Your real issue (and why I would say you ARENT a CTO, or VP or any of those other titles) is that you lack a network. If I need advice, a sounding board, an outside opinion or a shoulder to cry on, I have a list of folks I can call 24/7 who I trust and have worked with in the past. Sometimes it isn't wise or possible to get this kind of support within your current company, and as a manager outsiders who understand may be your ONLY outlet.

Your a founder, you just got some cash, set aside 2-3 hours every day to just TALK to new people. You want to buy me lunch and pick my brain for 2 hours, thats a fair deal, and its easier for me to be objective about YOUR issues, and YOUR drama (its going to happen). If we got along and started to get together regularly, I'm going to get insight and continuity that you just can't create in a form post. If I'm willing to listen to you for lunch (and I have do so for others) I'm sure a lot of other folks are as well. There was a story a while back that there were folks willing to give up their passwords for a snickers bar, just imagine what you can get from sandwiches, cheeseburgers and the occasional beer.
The Man Who Found the Internet in a Wireless Place
East bay here, while I don't necessarily fear getting shot, it would be very nice if I was able to feel safe walking home at night, feel safe having my phone out, etc... I really would prefer to not be constantly checking my surroundings every half second
A ponzu scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from citrus-flavoured soy sauce sent to the operators by new investors.
I actually immediately went and purchased the Learned Optimism book on Amazon after reading your article because it seemed like it would be quite interesting and useful.
Is there any indication this was anti competitive and not simply because Meerkat was spamming and misusing the API? Meerkat said they knew they were going to get cut sooner or later, they were just hoping they'd slip by quickly.
"ARGUS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
If census information is used to apportion government funds, you'd want the money to go to where they were from (which, if it has such a high number of prisoners that their population numbers are affected, probably really need the money), as opposed to going to whatever community managed to lobby to build the prison.
MBTI is largely bullshit.[0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indic...
Couldn't the federal government require it? For example, I know that a number of the most populous counties in Texas require vehicle emissions tests as part of the annual inspection. This being Texas, it's a good bet that they didn't voluntarily decide to do this. With the possible exception of Travis county (Austin).
Of course, collecting metadata -- especially via centralized services like Google Analytics -- means you're creating a very tempting trove of information for both the government and private entities that may make use of it to your users' disadvantage.
There are gigapixel cameras available for enthusiasts today, but they're based on huge (think 20x30 cm) analog film negatives that are subsequently scanned at 3000+ dpi.
Interesting. How soon could you tell an app was going to take off and have a lot of organic growth? Would you give up on an app if it didn't have enough growth soon enough? Also how much was based on having the right search keywords? Sorry if this is too many questions :).
The state does its job http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToReportViolationtoBOFE.htm

What makes you think the cosmetologists are not owners themselves (and hence self-employed, exempt from minimum wage), 1099 independent contractors (and hence exempt) or simply undocumented in the United States?
It's true though that vectors are basically 1D lists if we're speaking about elements from the vector space R^n. Is it true that tensors are multidimensional arrays if they come from the space R^{m1 x m2 x ... x mn} ?

I'm also confused: do you think about a tensor as a vector from vector space? as a object that maps between vector spaces? or something completely different?

I realize there's a LOT of detail here - just trying to flesh out my 500,000,000 mile view a little more.