skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So make them ... Forcing me to curate a list is a usability failure. I can pin things just fine, what I need is a reasonable default to find programs I have not used in 6 months.

So don't put them on your start page. The point is fast access, anything getting in the way of that is a huge failure.

isn't the intended use case. Several MS videos show people scrolling though tiles on their phone so it is expected behavior. Even though paging allows for much faster access to large lists.

it's no worse Slower to use = worse.
I didn't even see the 77 CE part at first. I clicked on the title, read a bit into it, and was very confused for a minute.
I tried it doing it a couple of different ways and in the end the one I did with talking points felt the best to me, it wasn't scripted but it definitely was hard to have a natural one-way conversation (solo founder).

I wish I could've covered everything I wanted to cover naturally but in the end I felt a disconnect between what I wanted to say and what I was able to say. Then again maybe that makes me a worse candidate, but I hope I get a chance to show I'm not in interviews.
We recently built out a small background task runner - we were told to use RQ+Redis rather than Celery because (and I'm repeating hearsay here) - 1. Celery's code is very messy and 2. because of the way it keeps jobs in memory, it is very prone to memory leaks.

Is there any truth to this ?
No, REST works with many data types but JSON has established itself as a de-facto standard when it comes to web API communication. Many frameworks (especially javascript frameworks) handle JSON object very well (in fact a JSON object is a valid data structure in Javascript)
Cloud9 IDE was founded a few years before Cloud9.gg and the two have no affiliation (or sponsorships)
Oh no, I have terrible eyes, that's the point! ;) I've been a happy user of f.lux for a long time! =)
the source code link seems to be down :( i remember being pretty impressed by how clean and readable the c code was.
In fairness, while the 45 minute mark is rarely hit in a single movement, 15-20 minutes is the length of the opening movement of most symphonies from Beethoven and later. And many other single movements out there.
I am not looking forward to all the noise pollution flying drones will contribute.
While the data is interesting I don't think it's very useful. For founders, many of these are things you can't change. One of the few actionable points for founders is about having the right kind of cofounders. For VCs this data doesn't tell them what they really want to know. VCs want to invest in outliers. They say right near the beginning of the article that they removed Uber from the data. Actionable data for VCs would have info to help identify potential Ubers or AirBnBs.
what is it everyone else at these companies, what are they doing exactly?

Enhancing shareholder/VC value.

Oh, and making more money than us, and claiming credit for our hard work and understanding.
I worry about my company going out of business more than I worry about getting fired...
Exactly. This looks precise but is not accurate. As some other posts indicate there are many other correlations here. I would love to see the underlying data they use. Good effort but disappointing results.
Middle ear, and no active noise cancellation is even needed.
Shitstorm was not just words - crybabies can cry whatever they want. But Eich got sacked, which is totally different. No retard was ever sacked for being called a retard.

EDIT: clearly you're failing to notice a difference between calling names and calls to action. "Kill all cyclists" is a call to action, evil and, likely, illegal. "All cyclists are dimwits" is calling names, innocent and funny.
Seems like an insurance policy, except that you get access to the details of past settled cases. Could I not just join as soon as I get served a notice?
Am I right to be excited about http://letsencrypt.org being about to make all of this much more sane? General availability on 2015 Sept 14.
Sorry to offend; I was referencing the "We require Mac OS X" part more liberally. It looks like this author could use any hardware as long as they had HDMI enablers to enable the GPU's in headless servers like the Xserve and Mac Pro.

I don't think they're opening up each row of MacBook Pro's continuously for they're software though. I think they've just got the lids open to make sure the GPU is enabled for better performance in remote sessions.
Awful lot of assumptions from 3 sentences.
It's not "innocent derogatory language". "Cockroach" is just a word. Cockroach was used to dehumanise Tutsi in Rawanda. Use of that language was a small part of the genocide of Tutsi by Hutu majority.

We see similar dehumanising language in other genocidal actions: it's present in Nazi Germany when they describe Jewish people as subhuman - the same word has been used against people with LD. Not just by the Nazis with their T4 program[1] but also by British eugenics supporters.[2] these eugenic attitudes lost popularity after the war, but they were still easy enough to find.

And apart from these dehumanising effects the word is used to creat fear, alarm, and distress among the people it's used against. People are routinely attacked with that word.

If you think words can't hurt i) you've had a cushy life and ii) you spectacularly lack imagination and empathy.

Really: learn to English and come up with better insults.

[1] http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=100076...

[2] http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/12/british-eugenics...
"A very important aspect of lion conservation is what we call the perturbation effect: namely the cascading effects on the surviving lions of the death of one of them – in brief, we have found that when a male lion is killed, because of the way their society works, a likely consequence is the overthrow and death of other adult male members of his weakened coalition (normally of brothers), and the subsequent infanticide of his cubs by the incoming new coalition of males. We are working hard to study the consequences of Cecil's death on his pride and their neighbours, so that we learn as much as possible."

Donations to support WildCRU's conservation, anti-poaching & education projects can be made here

https://www.campaign.ox.ac.uk/wildcru
Andriod and iOS are probably not very good evidence that the road to fat quarterly returns is paved with sales services and SAAS subscriptions over a free operating system base layer...at least in the consumer space.

I'd say RedHat/Fedora/CentOS ecosystem is probably a more likely business model. Microsoft was already in that space (e.g. Mono).
This seems to be a lot of confirmation bias and use of data that is likely not significant.

For instance:

"The results were stark: Teams with more than one founder outperformed solo founders by a whopping 163% and solo founders' seed valuations were 25% less than teams with more than one founder."

How many of the 300 investments in their portfolio were solo founders? 10?

Solo founders are rare, and it's often harder to raise money as a solo founder. That means less companies have solo founders to begin with.

Source: I am a solo founder
Those are very wrong assumptions. If a serious drone delivery program (or multiple competing ones) starts, airspace will suddenly become congested and you'll have to do heavy air traffic coordination to avoid mid-air collisions. And when you comapre with cars, you need to compare one delivery car with a hundred drones. Suddenly you see that drones are not efficient at all, which is kind of obvious, as it takes a lot of energy to keep stuff in the air with active propulsion.
Word Lens is impressive. It came from a small startup. Google didn't develop it; it was a product before Google bought it. I saw an early version being shown around TechShop years ago, before Google Glass, even. It was quite fast even then, translating signs and keeping the translation positioned over the sign as the phone was moved in real time. But the initial version was English/Spanish only.
I find svisser's comment to be more than a little snarky. Reporting observed security problems to the proper authorities is part of being a good netizen and benefits us all.
You're right that they need to address those concerns. I'd like to see that analysis also include any possible reduced injury/death from fewer delivery truck miles and fewer consumer car trips to the local store.

I have no idea if it will offset or not, but I could see—even with a few thousand drones crashing every year—that a net benefit could still be realized because people are not driving to the store for some of their shopping.
I think at this point, most people have a really screwed notion of price ...

1. preinstalled / bundled Windows is not free, the "Windows tax" being very real

2. this upgrade is not free for XP / Vista users

3. Windows 10 is not free and will probably cost about the same price as Windows 8.1, which is $120 for the Standard version or $200 for the Pro version - it might turn out to be cheaper this time, but that's only because they are changing the license to be tied to a particular device

4. Windows being a platform, is a complementary to Microsoft's Office 365, OneDrive, the Windows Store, Exchange, etc... the Windows Store in particular charges a revenue fee and is the only source possible for "modern apps"

5. personally I can't use the standard version, as it is missing features I need, like BitLocker or the ability to make a bootable USB drive - things that with the other operating systems I get for free

So in case I haven't been hibernating to wake up in some weird future in which a beer costs $200 and comes with strings attached, yes, voting with your wallet is significant.
There are two possibilities:

* Either this is not OK for Open Source, and it will prompt people to move away from GitHub -- because, sure, we needed the INT_MAXth reminder that relying on a private third-party for a free service is a bad idea, or

* This is something most open source projects have no problem with, and they'll just keep going, while leaving open source "radicals" like you and me to whine about it.

Github didn't just magically become this super important center for open source work. It's an important center for the open source world because a lot of people are using it.

It can stop being an important center, that's not a problem.
It's insulting to some perhaps due to their own self-perception but the definition of the word and its word origins are separate from how somebody feels about the way a word may have been co-opted over a period of time. Retard is interesting because its meaning is pretty clear and innocuous. The word is also quite useful.

If you say a material is fire retardant, you not only are free to say this, it would be ridiculous to have to invent or supplant a new word because one was co-opted over time and personified, turned into a noun. People will disagree, but it takes mental gymnastics to be offended by things like that.

That's why people have developed the SJW social justice warrior moniker and I think it fits well. Because it's an imaginary problem and working within that framework these kinds of people will eat themselves to death. So why engage or contribute to it at the expense of time, logic, and a reduction in cohesion of everyone else working towards goals.

You have to give people the power to use words like this where a true meaning well defined is absent of insult and if used as insult, if not specifically directed at someone, you can't allow another person's claim of offense to affect the conversation thats apart from them.

this is my biggest problem of a lot of the narrative spread by certain people and the media. maybe it's a thing with modern society where foolish people misidentify real problems and instead use their valuable time on things like microaggressions thereby taking focus (sometimes on purpose) off actual aggressions. And so far it's recipe for a failed state. Christopher Hitchens said it well. "The fact that you’re offended has absolutely no bearing on the truth of the matter"

The sad thing, the very sad thing is the media do better on these kinds of controversies because they generate views. I have chosen to participate here on this in hopes it might actually set somebody straight. The people who claim this kind of censorship are the same people who purport that there is strength in diversity. But unfortunately they don't really know what diversity really looks like in terms of diversity of ideas. They imagine it means comfort but they are wrong. Understanding diversity means bearing with discomfort and dealing with the imperfections of speech, perception and letting go of this idea that you can break down useful frameworks and infrastructure and it will make things better. That's not how one becomes a valuable participant in anything and they make communities suffer.
Drones can be engineered to be far more resilient to failure than what we are currently seeing today.

The DJI Phantom for example only has 4 rotors and a single battery, so any one failure of a component in the power train or controller will likely bring down the entire device.

The type of drone Amazon is likely to deploy widely in this scenario would of course be much larger, but would also have many more rotors, think of a copter with 8 arms and 2 motors per arm, with the power trains wired up as 4 independent systems each with 4 opposing rotors and it's own battery capable of keeping the device flying independently. Flight controllers can also be built hilariously cheap, so having 3 or 5 in a voting configuration is equally simple. Now you have a machine that can stay airborne and under control with over half of the rotors disabled.
A piece of MH370 may have just been found
Why did YC.news deleted the post about “Who is going to be the next president”
This link from the Siag.nu homepage was up:

http://siag.nu/pub/siag/
Surely this would be handled no differently than if your car was rear-ended by a UPS delivery truck.
Stupid, Git, Retard, Idiot, Dimwit etc.. In the context they are used all have very similar intentions to put someone down for not being smart.

There is one really important point to keep in mind, when someone is offended about something someone else says or writes that is their decision and it is their problem not the one who did the offending.

I personally don't generally use the term "retard" I also don't generally put slurs of any kind in my code. However I do take issue when someone says that I can't.

"Whoever is the stupid fucking idiot who made this dimwitted decision should go get their brain checked."

That's no less offensive then using the word retard and it's anyones right to down vote the comment on that basis or to just ignore me. Thus my point has been made.
I think that if someone is a legacy at an Ivy league school (in the sense that you are implying) then that person probably isn't trying to lead the lifestyle that comes along with launching a startup.
> I just think if you have a conflict of interest, unless the value of the news is significant, writing about X should be avoided altogether

It's a little trickier than that: Not covering something also can be beneficial. For example, what if the Washington Post omitted coverage of bad service at Amazon?
Don't get me wrong, I think GitHub's move is retarded.

It's just that no one has a right to whine about it any more than they have a right to whine about what their retarded neighbour does in their apartment. If your retarded neighbour has a "no cursing" policies in their home, you can either not be his guest, or not swear while in his house. Either way, it's his right.
My first piece of advice is to post a link whenever you're talking (even tangentially) about your project.

Second, promote it within a community who needs it. Some ideas: Subreddits for large metro areas (or suburbs), Facebook groups. Hopefully this gave you the spark you need to come up with others.
You know even if they don't land on people, I sure don't want an Amazon drone falling on my house, or out in my pasture, or on top of my shop. Will Amazon pay up in full if it punches a hole in my barn, harms livestock, or destroys a car I have sitting outside? If they're going to have a non-zero number of these drop from the sky, they better know they're not getting that drone back, for starters.
An Open Letter to WeWork
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If he can do it faster in excel, isn't that a good enough reason?

If the problem is that the spreadsheet later becomes an unworkable mess, isn't that an argument you can use to convince him to use other tools? And if he remains unconvinced... maybe excel was right for him after all?
The problem is the historical usage of "retard" toward the mentally disabled and the trend to use the word to call not mentally disabled people mentally disabled as an insult. The "mentally disabled as an insult" part is why people don't want "retard" to be used.

I don't use either of the words because I'm an adult who isn't British.
Next, try the taggers on a more realistic setting than the standard corpuses -- e.g. a product review that compares several products, and you'll instantly see how incredibly poor the current state of the art NER is.

Technology is really going to advance once we have anything that comes close to human level on NER and relation extraction. Kind of like self driving cars, the basic ideas have been around for decades, but performance in realistic adverse conditions remains awful for almost everywhere that it could theoretically be used.
Nope. And yes you can blame a doctrine that people follow that succinctly makes recommendations to violence for being a cause of violence. Perfectly acceptable and so far quite accurate.
In this case the tech team recently switched to Ghost for blogging and didn't realize that it doesn't automatically scale images when you upload them :)
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440351 (written by another imgix employee)
C4 on the mall is not the real issue (although it's always interesting to see how technological changes change the face of criminal behavior.)

The real issue is that I don't want a drone highway over my house. If I don't want planes flying over my house, all night and day, I don't live by an airport. If I don't want traffic noise, I don't live by a highway. But if Amazon decides that 300 feet above my house is the best route for deliveries or some other logistical exercise, I have far less recourse than I would for a road or an airport.
I disagree. Mobile performance is fine; modern smartphones and tablets provide more than enough power. It's enough power to be able to churn through huge photo libraries and power surprisingly capable video NLEs and multitrack DAWs; why should any website ever need more power than that?

No, what we should pursuing much more fervently is browser engine optimization and more efficient JS. I've always been a strong supporter of baking more functionality found in commonly used JS libraries into JS itself (allowing aggressive optimization and reduction of number of libraries loaded) and while I may be wrong, I suspect that the web could benefit greatly from dependency sharing systems (if [lib] is already loaded from one source, don't try to load it again).

And of course, nothing will have as much impact as thoughtfully written JS. There needs to be a big push in the web community to take responsibility for performance because expecting browser developers and increasing hardware power to magically make everything OK isn't a solution.
Just for the record, this article seriously paraphrases the shit out of an actually very specific part of the ToS.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...

"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:
1.comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;
2.protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;
3.operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or
4.protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services - however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law enforcement."

Definitely close your accounts if you want to protect your data, no fault there :) But make sure you know that this article doesn't actually tell an accurate picture.
I think that's accurate for this situation as well, though. Your information was exposed to hackers -- whether someone does something with it is another situation entirely.
I would expect there to be a requirement for an independent parachute system on such drones - independent power, sensing, etc. If it senses that it's falling, it deploys the chute. That module would have to be FAA certified.
Just for the record, this article seriously paraphrases the shit out of an actually very specific part of the ToS.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...

"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:
1.comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;
2.protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;
3.operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or
4.protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services - however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law enforcement."
Great article, it's good to hear about IDE companies dogfooding and using that to improve their product.

I don't want to call you out but in https://c9.io/blog/content/images/2015/07/recursion.png you're really only running C9 in C9 - the rest have the same URL.
Unless you want to run games, VMware Fusion. Parallels is slightly faster for some use cases other than games, but they lost my business last year when they installed their Parallels Access software without asking me first and without giving users an easy way to uninstall it without also uninstalling Parallels. (Parallels Access is their remote access software, so it potentially opens your Mac up to remote exploits and requires a subscription after a three month trial to boot.)
> Just knowing someone had previously used the same dataset could have saved him 7 weeks of work.

Information about data is not black-and-white in the corporate world. Even in the same company, internal data is usually on a need-to-know basis, with necessary NDAs. A service that tells you who else is using the data would defeat the purpose.

As an extreme example, what would happen if a service allowed data-sociality with HIPPA-protected data? Not good things.