skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think you possess a fundamental misunderstanding of why this is happening. Could Twitter fire most of its developers and sustainably turn a profit? Yes, it absolutely could. But instead it chooses to invest its would-be profits (and a little more) back into the company, in hopes that they will be even bigger later on."

Indeed their only real option at this point is likely to start slashing cost and hope it doesn't impact revenue. I don't disagree with you there. However, realistically this is hard to pull off without sending signals that the ship is sinking and everyone should just go elsewhere.
In 2014 63% of Portugal's electricity needs were supplied by renewable sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Portugal
I don't want to be forced to login to software before I use it. Also, Microsoft can't be trusted. Look at the keylogger in Windows 10, for example.

PyCharm is a good Python IDE. You can get a lot of these features in Emacs (or try Spacemacs), or Vim, or Sublime (with plugins).
I'm baffled by your inclusion of a link to a four year old anti-wind turbine rant in the Daily Mail at the end of an otherwise sane and sensible comment.
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Seems pretty clear to me...
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I like that superposition of "Anti-mac's" Reality vs "Mac's" Metaphore. Dudes, even us, mere mortals only interact with "Reality" with interfaces through convenient metaphors delivered with imperfect senses to adaptive neural networks of the "mind". How can "Anti-mac" interface with Reality is beyond my understanding, some enlightenment would be much appreciated.
While that's a good approach, it has the problem that it starts another cycle of adding loopholes for the usual considerations.
A human does.
True enough... I've been using async/await for about 6-8 months now via babeljs, and tbh trying to explain it to people so they understand how it really works is a bit painful... a lot of people don't understand that an async function is simply a promise wrapper around a generator yeilding promise-friendly values.

It's kind of important to understand promises to use await/async affectively. I love the easier to read/follow code though.
so that's Redis :)
I've been following the progress of Snabbswitch for a while now, and I think it is absolutely fascinating technology. While its geared for network i/o, I think that the methods of reaching the performance gains attained by Snabb can be applied to other forms of software projects, too .. from my point of view, the architecture of Snabb would be very applicable to other applications in the embedded Linux space - particularly, for pro Audio/DSP applications. I think kernel bypass has a lot of potential to open up ways of developing apps for this market segment which I hope to continue to explore, and maybe .. one day .. commercialize.

I applaud Luke and the Snabb team - you've opened doors that I hope others will walk through, and see that the technology you've pioneered has value far beyond the networking realm.
The stock price need not matter at all to the company; the stock price is completely independent of the company. Once the shares are sold, the company no longer owns them, so whatever happens, happens, just like whenever you sell anything else. If a farmer sells some corn, and the price drops drastically afterwards, it makes no difference to the farmer.

However, the owners of the company might get together and force the board of directors to do something, like fire the CEO. The CEO, who probably has a lot of compensation as stock or options, would like price to be higher, so he is likely to take actions to get the stock price higher. Such actions may or may not be wise, and may or may not be helpful for the company. Frequently they aren't...
This is even true with SE Asian web developers - if there isn't an active Facebook community, a technology can't get traction there
Initial traction stories from the best startups
It's not really a fixed cost. Batteries aren't good for forever. They have a limited lifespan.

An electric car could be thought of as a gas car with a very, very large, magical fuel tank. If a battery costs $20k (like a Tesla) and I spend $200/mo on gasoline then that's 100 months (simple interest) or about 8 years, before we even talk about the cost of the car or the cost of the electricity.

I know that this doesn't feel good to talk about, but economics is more about numbers than feelings.
In scala, the body of a match expression is a PartialFunction, and PartialFunctions compose similarly.
I have two questions in my head:

1.) Is the foundational work that has gone into this going to be used to help support intellisense in other languages in the future?

2.) Will any of this make it into Visual Studio Code?
Fewer people they need to monitor with the level of scrutiny, people with clearance safely assume they are being monitored at.
To whom? You? Because Europe is a giant, they will never be irrelevant.
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There really is no point in using OSX if you need to keep some tools in Windows and some others in Mac.
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Sometimes intrusive linked lists are more efficient and require less cleanup
Rob Walling did this and write/talks a lot about how to do it: http://www.softwarebyrob.com
I am happy to see Eden following the path of BlueCrew and switching to a W2 model.
This is the future of the on-demand economy.
Customers should be aware the hiring a misclassified 1099 worker is illegal and risky
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IronPython. Might trick me once... won' let u trick me twice.
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I'd recommend an SBIR/STTR (or other govt grants) first for wet-lab biotechs - it's a good source of patient money while you show early technical traction. YC after you've got things rolling can be throwing gas on a fire. It was for us (Ginkgo Bioworks, S14). Awesome founder community/ partner advice / investor connections.
What do you mean? Did you read the parent comment?
"I use Siri all the time to set up reminders, but not much else."

Siri, Google Now, or Cortana are on the verge of becoming something quite useful. Hopefully, all three.
Voice as a user interface is perfect for many tasks:

I use Siri all the time with Apple Music:
https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/apple-musics-killer-...

Someday soon, we'll even use voice recognition to help write code:

https://www.extrahop.com/blog/2014/programming-by-voice-stay...

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html
Censorship wouldn't be so bad if it was just "click yes to proceed"!
Holy Moly, they seemed to just have changed the player a few hours ago. And you're problem seems fixed.
I'm surprised Twitter's stock has floated as long as it has. While Facebook has diversified into different, successful, products and platforms, Twitter has stagnated, fumbled around and underwhelmed. Much like Yahoo. Perhaps I'm just a bit cynical and biased against Twitter though. I find the mostly arbitrary 140 char limit, 6 second video communication concepts a cute gimmick that will eventually tire.

I wouldn't be surprised when the tech bubble bursts, these social media experiments will be the first to fall back to earth. Any significant slashing of advertising budgets (due to e.g. macro economic affairs) will seriously strain the revenue model (and investor patience) of these services.
Back in the day before Google, MetaCrawler _ruled_ :)
@ nemo1618
I agree, books can be bad, too. We try to monitor what they read, but it's just as hard. They are going to sneak and hide the ones we don't want them to read - human nature. But, as a connected parent, I make it priority, even for just literally a few minutes, to sit down and ask about what she is reading. That way, she knows I'm participating. It makes a big difference. And, we do struggle with her reading constantly.. we get her out and go for a walk, bug hunts, etc.

The downside to a connected parent? I see one TV show a week with my wife, I'm tired, the laundry piles up and the living space is a lot dirtier.

Back to the point, I feel we are both making: It doesn't matter the medium, too much of one thing is bad. But, it's so much easier to put 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 year olds in front of devices, because it's easy parenting. By the time they are 7, they won't want to read - it'll be too boring.
You can certainly mine various altcoins that are still GPU mining based and see some return on it for 8K. Although AWS GPUs aren't that good at mining in general.
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Most academics disagree that there is such a thing as "Wall Street delusion". TWTR was and is accurately priced at all times. In the past, it was more valuable as investors had larger reason to believe in the future growth prospects of the company. Now it is less valuable because we have seen that the company has failed to live up to those expectations.
This is how it was for Windows 7. I think it was introduced in 2003 R2 or Vista.

This is a non-story, it's the same behavior Windows has had for almost a decade. People are only getting excited about it because Windows 10 is trending.
Anyone who "pre-orders" from Soylent is a bozo. They say September and if their initial launch is any indication that will quickly become 1Q 2016 and then Mid 2016.
If someone is wondering about the relationship between sum types (discriminated unions / case classes) and the visitor pattern, I've written about this here [1].

[1] http://paulkoerbitz.de/posts/Sum-Types-Visitors-and-the-Expr...
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A video platform lives or dies by the quality and discoverability of the content on its network... If FB wants creators to invest in its video service, it has to build systems that facilitate tracking usable metrics, monetizing content, and keeping control in the hands of the rights-holders. Otherwise all of this leads to an ugly series of lawsuits involving stolen IP and an abandonment of the platform.

Would love to know more about what Facebook is on the hook for with the freebooting, if any HN IP specialists are around...
If you watch broadcast TV on a regular basis, you get to know the times when it's going to be decent and the times when you might find nothing remotely interesting. It's all on a schedule, and that schedule puts better and more expensive entertainment at a time when more people will be watching.

I would say your complaint about quality shows as a percentage of broadcast time is a valid argument for moving TV to more on-demand media (watching a show on Netflix or Hulu vs being on the couch at 9PM on a Thursday). There's still some decent stuff out there. The only thing this doesn't solve is sports programming, which is practically worthless if it's not live and from which NBC makes a fortune as a "premium" football channel.
G. I. Taylor did it better!

See around the 13 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51-6QCJTAjU
Science needs to happen for the sake of science.

If you do science for the money you will soon run out of fish.
Hydraulic is far from negligible in France, around 10% of the total production (source in French from 2012 : http://www.france-hydro-electricite.fr/lenergie-hydraulique/... ).

What's more, we have dammed almost everything we could dam ...
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If you have offices in Europe it is. They can always fine you it is too expensive to comply, or until you close your offices and end your corporate entity there.
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If you want to make a BSD do so, do not turn the whole of Linux into one.

Gah, i keep using source repository when i should be using source tree...
Not to forget about companies offering warehouse movers for businesses as 1099. That's pretty much criminal.

On health insurance, to be precise the cost is $0.10/hour if a worker reaches a precise threshold in weekly hours, so far below 20%.
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Agreed. Clearly I'm being unfair, but I think I may not be alone in my aversion to the old Ballmer brands. Perhaps SN should "do an Edge" on the VS moniker.
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Fed to the teeth, ADBLOCK TIME!
multi-level threaded discussions would ruin twitter.

you have reddit for that kind of discussions.

twitter is just really for 1:n-communication, to give your followers an update. don't try to change the way a social network works, just use another one which suits your needs.
From what I have read it is only tied to the motherboard as others have pointed out.

But to be clear the support conversation appears to be related to the free upgrade process. Sounds like the guy completed the free upgrade, swapped hardware out, and now he can't reinstall Windows 10. Right or wrong, I can actually see Microsoft doing this. The free upgrade is just that, an upgrade. It is intended to install only as an upgrade on a system currently running an earlier version of Windows. If a hard drive was replaced and you needed to install Windows 10, you would have to either (a) install the full version - which would require a purchase; or (b) install an earlier version and go through the upgrade process again. The problem there is that Microsoft may only allow one upgrade per license key, in which case your previous upgrade voided that license key for future upgrades.

It would be similar to having Windows XP running on your system and wanting to upgrade to Windows 7. You go out purchase the upgrade license (cheaper) so you can perform the upgrade. A few months later your hard drive crashes, you try to install from the upgrade license and are out of luck. You need to go through the upgrade process again or have a full version available.
Ah, I see now. Thank you for the clarification! :)
I think he is on to something ... EACEA, PIRLS and PISA (standard tests for schools) has shown a steady decline in reading comprehension from year 2000. And it's starting to look a bit alarming, as it currently states: 1/5 teenagers today can't even comprehend the simplest of texts.

We can all contribute to stop this trend though, if you have kids, sit down and read books with them!
YAAAY!! See, some complaining on hacker news and BOOM - progress. Your welcome.
> a majority of the hardware startups in our current batch will have product for sale via Amazon and other channels by summer 2016. This sounds strong given the history of hardware companies...

with all due respect, it sounds weak in the history of hardware companies, because no hardware company worth $10 billion - and there are many - had any point in its past when it could go from a standing start to shipping product for millions of people's homes in 12 months.

You might think this means that your companies are above-average. I disagree. I think it means that you pass on most $10 billion plays in order to fill a stable with people who have picked something they are ready to ship within a few months.

More power to them, and they have real companies with real traction. But to say it sounds strong given the history of hardware companies is to ignore both history and the power law.

I have the utmost respect for the support YC gives to these hardware companies, but would never apply with a historically ambitious one. This is very unlikely to change any time soon. Still I hugely support the push toward supporting hardware companies!
>Personally, I’m a big fan of simplicity and minimalism in programming language design. I think that smaller languages have the potential to be easier to implement, optimize, teach, debug and understand.

Citation needed.

Python is a popular first / teaching language and it has as many (and probably much more in 3.5) features as JS.

And Scheme is supposedly simple, but not that popular with any large amounts of people, beginners included.

There are features that interact in mysterious ways and can be difficult to master (C++ has a lot), and features that are mostly orthogonal (e.g. template strings don't complicate anything related to arrow functions and vice versa).

What I'd like to see, with regards to Javascript, is for "strict mode" to extend to the correction of old, long standing warts (e.g. crazy coercion rules etc). But I guess with this new shared "bytecode" for the web announced, we probably wont have this problem for long.
If I already own a perfectly good ICE car, as most people do, it's much less wasteful to start feeding it synthetic gasoline than replacing the whole car with an EV. And the benefits are immediate.

Edit: Also, the energy density of hydrocarbons is unmatched. Synthetic kerosene could be used to run 747's; battery technology can't do that.
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Something that came up in another thread today [1] is the LLNL graphs about how energy is generated and used [2]. From these, it's apparent that about 2/3 of the input energy for electricity generation becomes waste output instead of usable output.

Improving the efficiency of electricity generation must be one of the keys to Clean Energy.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994294

[2]https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/2014_United-...