skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Reddit have had a hard time simply installing Ohanian or Huffman as the CEO? Why would they need covert machinations to put the founders back at the helm?
> Everything else is niche,

Niche isn't always a bad thing.

> recommended by people drinking too much Kool-Aid.

Sure, it's just because of Kool-Aid that people choose to use C, Lisp, Haskell, Python, Ruby, etc for projects instead of one of your blessed 3 languages.
It was written clean-room in some client's office (no NDA, but still, engineering ethics), but I may have a copy somewhere on a backup in offline IRL storage, but it was written for JDK 1.2-1.4 IIRC so it won't run and it's chocked full of confidential / proprietary apps (which it installs). It called a few C Win32 APIs to create icons and write registry entries, on Linux I think it just wrote files and maybe ran `ldconfig`. It was super dumb, fugly but it shipped and worked consistently. There was even Swing (pre-AWT) skinnable branding background images. It was probably 450 lines of Java and 80 lines of C. Autoplay even worked decently on Windows and it came up in under 8 seconds because I optimized the ISO image for file load order to minimize seeks, and that's booting an entire 1.4 JRE from a 4x CD-ROM drive to a usable, interactive state.
Tweet Sentiment analysis prediction, incremental training, visualization
This is a first GUI based tool for sentiment prediction of tweets using a model trained on research level tweet sentiment data. The tool allows a user to incrementally update the model with more information. It also supports a sentiment based timeline visualization of tweets.

All kind of feedback in welcome. Do contribute to the repository if you like.
I have been at one company where the chairman got involved with the company operationally, and the result was the ouster of the CEO.
Man arrested after charging iPhone on London Overground
Official Facebook Messenger and Instagram Apps Released for Samsung Z1 (Tizen)
Interesting article, though it forgets the elephant in the room: self-driving cars.

The two will probably work hand in hand, but it is unlikely, in my opinion, that any electric cars will be charging at home very much, because most electric cars will be owned by companies, not individuals. Why own a car when you can pay a tiny percentage of a cab fare to go anywhere? When a journey that currently costs $50 costs 20 cents, private car ownership will plummet.
Well, for that song, that does not matter, it is hugely successful so it made it into our culture despite everything.

The problem is all the moderately successful art. They matter to a generation, but they get forgotten because the legal framework is just a bit too much for the fan to keep them relevant or even to simply preserve them.

I am thinking about a few authors that my grand-father loved. It was stories about life of teens during the second world war in my country. Plenty of more successful authors have been preserved so nothing important has been lost, but that series of book just died. You can´t find it online, can´t find it in the library. It is probably somewhere, but the point is, I can only look for it, I can´t actively do something with the books. I can´t publish them, I can´t put them online. I could maybe publish a sequel, but why would I risk it[0] ?

[0] talking hypothetically here. I´m not an author.
Except that it doesn't shell out, so it ignores ProxyCommand...
I just remember that prior to this, Yishan also commented publicly on Reddit about the reasons for terminating a different employee, which struck me at the time as a profoundly undisciplined and --- candidly --- dumb thing to do.
Charles Dickens' notes solve the mystery of unidentified Victorian authors
Back in the 80s, the concern was not germs, but heavy metals. That's 100% understandable. If somebody told me there was lead in my tap water (and I believed them) I'd switch to bottled water in a heartbeat. But according to the article, the municipalities responded and got the metals out of the water, so I guess the problem is misinformation?
I found iterm2 to be my most-missed piece of software when switching to linux desktop. Terminator just doesn't compare with ease-of-use, look, and feel. Gnome terminal is nice but lacks some of the rich features.
> Reddit's management forgot that the community is a huge part of what makes Reddit successful and if you go against them, you're not going to have a fun time.

The community around /r/askscience or /r/askhistorians perhaps. The community around /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/coontown, and /r/creepshots probably not so much.
Do you think happiness living in SF peaks at 75k?

Disclaimer- does not live in SF.
No, they're the suppliers, but pissing off suppliers can be just as bad as pissing off customers, particularly if there's no other supplier easily available. You can't just pick up the phone and find a new source for 35 million people to provide you with free content.
That's why voting for the best candidate is so important. Your decisions today will affect your grandchildren. So, make very wise decisions.
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Closest research I could find by Stephen:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259824170_Perception...

Can find the rest of his publications here:

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen_Onufrak/publicat...
Repeat after me: Reddit is not a content provider. Your Cable/TV company buys content and resales it to you. Reddit does not buy content. The content of Reddit is provided by, moderated by, and upvoted by the users. You can treat them like a consumer, but it is at your own peril as they quickly wander off to other sites. Social sites like Reddit do not fit nicely in to the little boxes businesses like to make when predicting profits.
Just a quick nitpick: the second link in the article (the one to AWS Lambda) should have an all-lowercase URL; the URL's case-sensitive and - in its current capitalized form - is resulting in a 404.
For GSM, number of parts is a required item in the multipart message header.[1] It's field 5 of the UDH.

Some phones have had trouble with reassembly. There's an old Android bug which manifests as a new incoming message being reassembled with parts of an old one, sometimes an old one from months ago.[2][3] That indicates a broken reassembly implementation. It's easy to see how that can happen. The "unique ID" on multipart messages is only 8 bits (16 bits with an alternate header format). That number is generated by the calling phone. Unmatched fragments should be discarded (or delivered as an error) after a few minutes. Android keeps unmatched SMS fragments for the life of the phone, resulting in the occasional reuse of long-forgotten message fragments. Worse, when this happens, when the correct fragment comes in, it's saved as an orphan. So once there's been an orphaned fragment, 256 long messages after that, there will be another bogus reassembly using the old fragment, with the correct fragment being saved as a new orphan. Some users changed their phone number to get around this bug.

Google's reaction to years of bug reports on the problem was to close the bug report as "Obsolete" without fixing it.[3]

To work around this botch, there's an app: "SMS Multi-Part Cleaner". Really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
[2] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17769
[3] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=28697
When I visited Sofia, Bulgaria, it was amazing to see people carry bottles over to this square where there's natural hot spring water. The water really tastes great and it was so much fun just being around there. People don't seem to feel awkward about bringing lots of bottles with them and stocking up on water.

In Berlin, where I live now, there are fully functioning manual water pumps in some streets. People don't really use them much, but there's something quite charming about them too.
So, my understanding from what you wrote is that it may indeed be possible to slowly release the accumulated pressure, but we don't really understand how that occurs naturally yet, let alone how to trigger it artificially.
I've lived in the northland for a while and my car generally has an emergency kit that includes some survival stuff. Getting stuck in your car in a blizzard is no damn fun. My Dad always kept $40 hidden in the car, but that was more a "need to pay for gas because these damn cards...." thing.

I would suggest against the suitcase in the trunk more for social reasons[1]. Hidden compartments are illegal in some states[2].

1) it is a sign of cheating

2) drug laws, go figure
Ah cool.

Also, what data is collected permanently, for how long? What happens if the venture where acquired? Whom would own that?
Alexis isn't a woman
As much as I like these drama threads (I get to enjoy them while viewing myself superior to those who watch the Kardashians), and I like seeing reddit have problems purely for the lulz-factor, such threads are typically low quality. It's not like we have a great discussion about how to manage online communities. Some of the comments are even spreading obviously incorrect rumors.

Same applies to "political" issues, like antigay CTOs, or nearly every gender related thread. It'd be great if there was a way to get high quality discussion, I'll settle for just burying the crap. Even if it's fun and ostensibly relevant.
I don't think it's accurate to say that Airbnb pivoted into a different market. They didn't discover that their original idea was bad. They followed a smaller stream to successively larger ones.

The apparent lameness of the initial niche doesn't let investors off the hook—ability to see beyond that to what a startup might grow into is a big part of being a good early investor [1]. Throw in not "missing the determination of the founders" and you may even have most of it.

By the way, Airbnb didn't seem lame to everybody. PG used to run a couple straw polls per batch asking founders who was most likely to succeed, and I recall Airbnb winning both the votes in the W09 batch by large margins.

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html
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Ask HN: I keep trying and failing at startups, what am I doing wrong?
I'm 34, based in London, and for the past 5 years I've built and launched several ventures. Each of them failed. I'm not dumb, and I get that I need to be technical and have some domain knowledge preferably. Hence, I've taught myself Ruby (just the basics) and design all my products on my own using Photoshop and sometimes HTML, CSS. I've spent 1000s of hours (I kid you not) designing my products. I almost always manage to convince a good developer to join me. And yet the products keep failing. Here are some:

Current:
Online money transfer - transfercorp.co.uk
Get your energy billing issues sorted - getpowerhelp.com
Check if your name is on a sanctions list - stoplosttransfers.com

Previously (repos are on git):
Reloved - a mobile shopping app for home decor products
Research Nation - a trip advisor for market research reports

To be perfectly honest, I've never had more than 5 users for any of these products. And that's after investing between 50-150USD on Facebook and Google Ads..

I realise I've only shared links for 2 of my products which are currently online so you can't really diagnose what I did wrong on the rest..

Is this typical? 5 years, 5 products, less than 5 users per product? Or am I just really really bad at this founder thing and should just suck it up and stick with early employee at startups from now on..
I just went through and made wills for myself and my spouse. Excellent interface and indeed, it took about 10 minutes which just kills (no pun intended) what I was about to go through with a lawyer.

Only point of feedback - you say you're going to email the people we appoint as guardians etc. with their responsibilities. Would be good to know what they're going to be sent, when, and be given the option to add a message to what they're being sent. Might also be nice to even be copied on that message. These are obviously sensitive conversations so seeing exactly what someone is going to be getting from you seems important.

I live in Illinois and you guys don't support living wills there yet - do you have any sense of timetable for the states you aren't supporting yet?
"Oh, she's faking it!"
Let me take you back 30 years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDhpcOJ2zzM

If you go back 40 years, the MRI wasn't even invented. In fact, there wasn't an Apple computer. The PC revolution was a few years away.

A lot will change in 30 years. Whether we're 10 years from the singularity, perhaps not, but technology is increasing at a more rapid pace.
I would like to think this new designer/developer relationship transcends a single libraries implementation.
Thanks freehunter, I appreciate you taking the time to do that. :)
I was thinking of the contrast that serious separatist movements have gotten no traction since the Civil War in the US, but India has had two of them and wondering if a third was a thought.
How would one code, e.g., a rich text editor using such an approach? And would it be able to handle texts, of say, hundreds of pages?
The problems with unfettered anonymity / harassment stem from two major "features" of reddit: It's trivial to make a new account that doesn't even have so much as an email address tied to it, and it's almost as trivial to make a new subreddit community like /r/punchablefaces and grow a community of "like-minded" people.

The only way to do this that wouldn't require added staff would be to a) require these features to have some traceable information, like an email address, or b) require these features to cost money, or at least only allow subreddit creation if you've donated reddit gold in the past or something.
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clickable links to current products: transfercorp.co.uk, getpowerhelp.com, stoplosttransfers.com
There is a 2006 article by the same author [1] which was updated
recently, and it includes a link to MATLAB source files for some of the
algorithms [2].

[1] http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1274485

[2] http://m.eet.com/media/1061430/max-round-filter-source.zip
It's the cascading service failures and related economic costs that would be the most damaging (and hardest to really quantify until a scenario really happens).
As I said in my first comment,

>Was your point only that everyone who buys a flagship smartphone is paying 'waaay too much' for their cellphone?

Your statistic only shows that android serves all market segments, and does nothing to show that Apple phones are more expensive than the phones with which they compete. Yeah the Moto G is less expensive than the iPhone, if thats your point the discussion should stop there, because we are comparing a budget segment phone to a flagship segment phone.

>I paid $1 for my Galaxy S5 upgrade, with a two year contract extension. Essentially I got the phone for free because I planned on keeping my carrier for the next two years anyway. That cost was subsidized by my carrier, and probably indirectly by Samsung also. I've never paid sticker price for an Android phone, and I don't know anyone who has.

Ok, so lets do a price comparison that way

With a 2-year contract on verizon (couldnt find contract prices on tmobile):

LG G4 - $199.99

HTC One M9 - $199.99

Samsung Galaxy s6 - $199.99 (after $50 mail in rebate)

Samsung Galaxy s6 edge - $299.99 (after $50 mail in rebate)

iphone 6 - $199.99

iphone 6+ - $299.99

The galaxy s 5 is the same price as the 5S, both last years flagships
Sorry, I'm a bit confused about the difference between an Ajax powered page vs an SPA
If you want to work on interesting, challenging stuff, work for a small company* that depends on software for their success. The last company I worked for had 3 employees - all engineers.

* Not necessarily a startup, just a small company.
Also, please don't move to San Luis Obispo / Avila Beach. We have a nuclear power plant on a bluff near a fault line.

Come visit though. We have great tri-tip and outdoor activities.
"I can't think of any applications that couldn't be made with JS and html5, so institutions must have no reason to use Java besides wanting to harm their users"
Political messages are based on what works, what's appealing to our moral instinct. Personally, I hate the "born this way" argument for gay rights. It's irrelevant and it's not necessarily true. It might not even be ever true, who knows. But, it's getting the job done.

But if a neurologist proves that sexual orientation is acquired during childhood, are we going to throw out gay rights?

In any case, I think these moral arguments are (a) more of a counterpoint argument to the pseudoscientific racism of the Nazis and their predecessors and (b) more about innate genetic potential than socio-cultural traits.

I think the stronger moral argument is about equality of opportunity and (hat tip to a charmingly american ethos) individual merit. The idea is that it is more moral to judge people by their personal merit, rather than profiling and assuming even if that gives you a better chance of being correct.
> What certifications should I avoid and what might be good to consider?

Who exactly certifies the certifiers?

Best to be known by doing good work. Here's a great read by Josh Kaufman> http://joshkaufman.net/alan-weiss-on-certifications-and-cons...
Wouldn't it make more sense to say that Samsung et al are paying waaaay too much for cost of goods sold?

If the prices are the same to the consumer, and Apple is able to extract greater profit, how is that a poor reflection on the consumer?
I've always found it kind of funny that in "capitalist" US, there is free water all over the place. It's one of my favorite things to drink good, clean water for free in Portland after getting off a long flight from Europe. In "socialist" Europe, you're pretty much stuck with expensive bottled water in places like airports, unless you have a cup or something and don't mind drinking from the bathroom faucets.

OTOH, one of the great things about cycling in Italy is that every little teeny tiny town has a water fountain, usually near the church or town square. Even on the hottest days of summer, you could probably get by with one small water bottle if you're willing to stop regularly.
That is because Tusk isn't following you on twitter. D. followed by username and then a message sends the tweet as a direct message to that user.
if the title were accurate this was exactly what Carl Pilkington said would be exciting technology on the Ricky Gervais podcast / audiobook, teeheehee.
Given the abrasive nature of the dog's tongue and the anti-septic nature of its saliva, if the fountain wasn't clean before the dog used it, it certainly was afterwards.

But it doesn't really matter if the outside of the fountain is clean or not as long as you don't actually put your mouth on the fountain. All you care about is the water pipes inside the fountain, and those are just as clean as water pipes any where else.
If you don't actually touch the faucet and let the water run for a few seconds before drinking it, what's the danger? Anything that the dog would've put on it would be washed away, no?
And if that doesn't work, what about just adding antibiotics to the water supply? It works for cows....
What they did is gross and immature and sure there's the ick factor, but the water flows one-way out of the fountain and you don't have to touch it to drink.
I think that "never had more than 5 users" is really the center of the problem.

You just need to remember that customer/client opinion matters most. Try not to be too revolutionary and make sure you listen to feedback from potential customers. Do not ask your friends, they are a super unreliable source of product confirmation (because they like you).

If you cannot get 100 users, you really shouldn't put much time into that specific idea. I know others will give you their unicorn story ("It worked for me"), but if you have given it five goes, I would focus on what your potential customers are saying.

Hope that helps!
Looks good. What kind of design patterns are you using to achieve this?
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The design is not antiquated; actually it's pretty brilliant. However, if the water pressure is insufficient, the main protection doesn't work. And that's distressingly common.
Investors like to categorise ideas into macro tech trends and hypotheses. There's a good reason for this but it also means you can miss the biggest ideas (the space-defining ideas).

I imagine a lot of investors looked at Airbnb and thought, "cute". Then someone coined the phrase, "sharing economy", in the wake of its growing success and a lot of other "cute" ideas raised money.

From my experience, what investors often lack is an understanding of the vision. I remember someone describing Airbnb to me back in 2010. I said it would never catch on for XY&Z obvious reasons, including it sounded like a bad experience. That's because I wasn't pitched the vision correctly. I bet the Airbnb guys took a long time to figure out the right way to pitch it.

Investors like to be objective/data-driven and therefore don't spend too long building an emotional relationship with the product. Again, there's a reason for that, but sometimes founders have products that don't look like anything that exists elsewhere, so it's super important to convey how it really works.
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Yes, but only in Soviet Russia.
Nice idea and progression of difficulty. I second this as very good and smooth intro.
So what do you propose? How would you fix it?

As far as I can see, if you've already got nearly half of your pensioners living below the poverty line, the answer is not more cuts to their payouts. With unemployment at approximately 25% there are many people who can't save money to supplement their pension, plus right now we need Greeks to invest in their own future rather than save. The only solutions I see for the Greeks (if they stay in the Euro) are to stimulate growth and raise the retirement age. Do you agree, or do you see it differently?
This reads like a very good list of things to implement in your SPA.

Having said that, you should also be supporting simply rendering the pages on the first request, and progressively enhance it, rather than a blank thing that then goes and fetches all the JS and render itself. The HTML/CSS should arrive and render as soon as possible. His reference to twitter's 2012 writeup is good.

Having said that, take a look at this:

http://platform.qbix.com/guide/pages

In our framework, we've always supported the concept of Pages and Tools (components to put on the pages). We handle all the swapping of CSS/JS, loading what you need only on demand, caching (even in the phonegap bundle!), retaining tools you still need while pages get replaced (instead of re-constructing them expensively from scratch every time). And of course removing event listeners for tools and pages which have been unloaded.

Ideally, all your pages should be cacheable to the point of being static, with dynamic content being populated by JS.

Also there is a security implication with CSRF. If you use a nonce in the session to prevent CSRF then this nonce has to be delivered to the client, either with the first page rendering, or -- if the page is cached -- on subsequent requests.

The point is ... it takes a long time to build all the supporting technology. We've done it. But it took us years!

You can check out an SPA here on desktop, tablet or mobile:

http://qbixstaging.com/Groups
>Make sure they use scholastic modelling

Yes, and more specifically, make sure that they're a Thomist. You don't want to be taking finical advice from Averroists or Ockhamists!