skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to ask yourself what _drove_ that initial valuation that you're now being "cheaply" That initial valuation was driven by the belief that they would be aggressively adding new users. It wasn't based on them doing a great job of extracting a better profit from a fairly static install base.
I thought P/E is calculated for companies with a positive EPS. Twitter is loosing money. Not sure how you came up with P/E of 87.
Volunteer to Teach Code in NYC Public School Classrooms
If you live close to a college or university, check to see if they have it. Almost all schools will let you into their libraries and let you browse (and photocopy) materials while you're there. Checking them out may be another issues, but you should ask about that while you're there as well.
As far as I can tell, 'shortage of talent in tech' just means companies are hiring.
One possibility: what if you used a version of libfreetype or similar, compiled via emscripten, and run it on the client?
To any non-tech person, "high DPI" is probably more likely to cause confusion and is just as variable in definition. To (almost) any tech person, "retina" is common enough that everyone knows what you're talking about.

Being trademarked doesn't really affect the meaning of a word once it's part of popular parlance - Kleenex, Band-Aid, Hoover, Google...
I thought it was nearly impossible to do software development and not learn continuously? Can't imagine what a dev workday looks like when you aren't learning. You rarely ever do the same thing twice, and even if you do you learn from past mistakes and become more efficient.
I've been using Ubuntu Mono for years and absolutely love it. Consolas and Roboto look nice as well though.
Same thing: you should probably be comfortable in a sweater in the office in winter.
Not necessarily true - if the value gets low enough it'll get the boot from the NYSE.
I think you have a mistake in what you wrote, but please correct me if I am wrong.

C++11 lambdas which capture free variables by reference can not be returned from a function in which the free variables occur, and be expected to work, because the function's variable (a free variable to the lambda) may no longer refer to memory allocated for use as the variable.

That's not true for Scheme. Scheme's underlying implementation of lambda and function call means that true closures are created: if a lambda refers to a variable which is not local to (or a parameter to) the lambda, then that free variable belongs to an environment, whose lifetime isn't delimited by popping a stack and returns, and is therefore still live as long as some closure (or stack activation frame) refers to it. Return of a lambda with free variables will work in Scheme, and can fail in C++11.
> What does one want a "simple" Javascript language spec for and what can it do?

To write proofs? You don't need to worry about the larger idiom of how the language is used for that.

And to write a correct implementation of a language you don't need anything except a correct simple spec. To perform well for idiomatic code you may need to know about idiom.
Anti-Virus Firm BitDefender Admits Breach, Stolen Passwords Unencrypted?
Feeding Forward are looking for "people who are hungry" What an unfortunate use of words. Pun intended or not.
By comparison, Groupon has $3.19 billion in sales, and is valued at $3.17 billion.

Why does Twitter deserve six or seven times the valuation that Groupon is getting? Especially given Twitter's user growth has fallen off a cliff. Of course they're in different segments, but financial results are all that matter ultimately. My opinion: they don't deserve the valuation, the market has realized it, and will continue to deflate their extreme valuation, eventually over-correcting due to negative sentiment. They're worth $5 to $10 billion today.

On the bright side for Twitter, Google will probably buy them after their stock sinks further.
Mac and Windows will 2x all images for users with HiDpi displays. You can use CSS to display the images as background-image then media queries are available to serve differently sized images for HiDPI. Alternatively, most images look completely fine scaled down, they just get blurry scaled up. If you use an image that is 2x bigger than defined in the img tag it will play nice on HiDPI.
Interesting project, but some of these look a bit... wrong to me. For example, ProFont is my favorite bitmap programming font and the renderer used makes it look bad. Just loaded it up in my Terminal.app to show how it /should/ look: [0]. Also while I'm at it, some cool fonts not mentioned that I think deserve some attention are tewi[1] and ProggyTiny[2]. Tewi glyphs are particularly nice [3].

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/3A0HEqu.png

[1]: https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font

[2]: http://www.proggyfonts.net/download/

[3]: https://rbt.asia/boards/g/img/0379/00/1383925217833.png
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Arab Spring (what happened post Arab Spring isn't on Twitter)
I've had Prime for a long time and was surprised to realize I could share shipping with up to 4 people. That just seems to be a big money sink for Amazon, so if they cut back on this I wouldn't call it sucking, I'd call it a smart business move IMO and wouldn't fault them for it.
While I have no idea how many you specifically will choose to purchase, 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, but our current batch is not comprised of average hardware companies;)
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Ask HN: AWS vs. Digital Ocean?
Hi HN,

Not trying to start any sort of flame war, just wondering.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of using AWS vs. Digital Ocean for a new startup?
For what it's worth, lawyers, doctors, architects and accountants, along with many other skilled professions, including engineers, all have unions in Norway.
I think the real draw for following celebs on twitter is not that it isn't broadcast, but the idea that it's a more "unfiltered" broadcast; that it's more likely you're getting an off-the-cuff remark straight from the actual celebrity instead of a scripted press clipping from their PR flacks.

At least, that's the illusion. And while there are plenty of "managed" accounts run by paid "ghost tweeters", there have also been enough embarrassing deleted tweets to show that at least some remarks are coming straight from the horse's mouth.
Advice on how to build a scaleable web company is not universally applicable on how to build biotech companies.
Virtually nobody who uses the term "baller" in its douchey sense, ironic or not, is implying "sexual coercion". Is Aziz Ansari bragging about being a date rapist every time he uses the term? Obviously, he is not. I don't know why you're trying to defend this obviously hyperbolic argument.
Emergency situations and natural disasters, where are the discussions? Real life has the two and yet there is no real life discussion of what one should do with a pure electric car. Snow storm his the Midwest and nocks out the power. You need to get someone to the hospital or you work at a hospital how does one get the electricity to ready their vehicle? Electrical core for cars yes but pure electric cars for real world scenarios does not fit.
I think it's a reasonable usage of the word. By the dictionary, it is used in this sense only for voting and demographics, but it is a natural extension to use it for other fractional values.
I've tried various programming fonts, and I keep coming back to DejaVu Sans Mono. There are a few others that are as good, but none that seem so much better to be worth getting used to.
> do people really move to New York City without having jobs lined up?

Yes. Plug in "move to New York without a job" to a web search provider and you'll find sites like http://www.movingtonewyorkguide.com/moving-to-new-york-city-... , which starts:

> Moving to NYC with no job may seem like an impossible feat- but thousands of people do it successfully every year.

or advice like http://newnyers.com/2009/09/02/should-i-move-to-nyc-without-... or people like https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070310180400A... saying "I moved to NYC without a job.".
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thanks craig. publicize is different from traditional pr firms because as opposed to charging 6 month retainers for $10,000/month (a $60,000 total commitment), we provide a month-to-month PR service for $400/month ($320 if purchased longer-term). we're 100% transparent, listing out the journalists we plan to contact, and we also create all of the editorial as well. we follow a specific process, which we list out in a client's dashboard, and look to pass on savings to clients.
I am pretty sure that you don't need money for that. And, allegedly, if you do it right, it can be very lucrative.
I wouldn't call that 'mindlessly', faster sequencing is going to unlock a whole slew of new offerings just like 'faster transistors' powered the computer revolution.
Inconsolata-dz is a great font, though I recommend

https://github.com/DeLaGuardo/Inconsolata-LGC

for fans of Inconsolata that would like bold and italic weights, as well as extended glyphs.
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If I'm on a Mac there is no setup; Ruby is pre-installed. Also, if they are just starting out and they don't want to keep things around there is tryruby.org.

For kids using Windows I usually have them sign up for a free account on Cloud 9; again virtually no setup required.

Also, now you are trying to compare LINQPad, a tool, to just using a language?

In your example you used `Console.WriteLine("Hello World")`, excuse me if I'm wrong since I don't write much C# anymore, but isn't that an invalid statement? I'm pretty sure that's missing a semi-colon at the end. Try explaining that to an 8 year old; because that's the age of kids I start working with.

10.times do

puts "Hello World"

end

That is just easier to explain to a YOUNG child than the following

// Sorry: Using Java here since I don't do much C#, but I think we're in the same ballpark

public class HelloWorld {

public static void main(String[] args) {

for(int i=0; i<10; i++){

System.out.println("Hello World");

}

}

}

None of what I said was an insult against any language; it was based on my experiences trying to teach programming to elementary aged kids (8 to 11 year olds).
Airbnb has the "fuck the neighbors" mindset. Interesting way to think of the inherent evilness of different companies. Google and Facebook have the "fuck user privacy" mindset. Microsoft has a "fuck competitors up" mindset. This is fun.
Had a quick play and it's quite slick. Can see if being useful with custom blocks.
But if you could guarantee that huge energy demand for nuclear reactors, then it would (economically) justify the scale-up that would allow nuclear to power a bigger share of transportation: they could just run at high loads all the time and simply use any excess to produce liquid fuel.
That's part of the appeal. Twit something just before you go to bed, and find out that it got misheard and created a twitterstorm overnight and in the morning your boss says you are fired because someone figured out where you work and DDoSed your employer's network in retaliation.

Usually you have to juggle chainsaws for a similar rush.
That's a shame. Although I guess it is difficult to avoid the request if you have lots of static pages with the script link in them.

Perhaps we could have something like a <link> or <img> track flag, so my browser could decide whether or not to fetch the link based upon DNT settings?
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Debts and Investing Situational Breakdown
If you have the budget go for AWS as that will scale better as you grow. Do consider Google Compute Engine also as an alternative to AWS too.

Also if you are leaning more towards Digital Ocean, do consider Linode. I prefer Linode.
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Correct. However, the illusion of engagement can be powerful. e.g. Obama and Clinton campaigns were able to use dinner w/ candidate or famous supporters as a fund-raising lottery tool. Would people engage more with Twitter if they knew there was a small but real chance of getting a non-canned response from celebs?
NCI SBIR/STTR applications can be contract solicitations for specific problems, as you point out. The majority are (as I understand it) funded however through the omnibus solicitation, which can be directed to high-priority research areas or to general problems within the scope of the NCI. I assume the same is true for other NIH agencies.
Soylent actually competes pretty well on price too! The calories on those recipes range from 140 to 386 per $1 serving. That's $5-14 for 2000 calories, while the new Soylent formula is $12. (Slightly more if you don't subscribe, slightly less if you get the powder formula instead of pre-mixed.)

Plus, the recipe cost assumptions must be pretty generous to get to $1. One of the recipes calls for 1 pound of ground beef and makes 6 servings. The flyer for my local discount grocery has the ground beef at $4.50, but the nicer grocery nearer to me is already over $6 just for the meat, let alone two cans of tomato sauce, some pasta, some carrots, shredded cheese... I'll bet in a real-world test of those recipes, Soylent would beat the average cost.
when i clicked on the link, i thought it might be an article about actually programming the design of a typeface - generative glyphs! algorithmic aesthetics! oh well... one day...
Nice little write up, but doesn't the iPhone provide the same functionality without the watch? So was it really about the watch or that the user turned on the app?
This would be ignoring history though. The concept of "being online" started centralized with heavy weight players - AOL, prodigy, compuserve, etc.
Minecraft. Braid. Flappy Bird. Rudy Hyunh
I wouldn't read too much into it: I simply consider Airbnb a highly-valued and socially-impactful company.
Inconsolata all the way.
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Now if you were Jack and you were semi-entertaining trying to be co-CEO do you think events post earnings would absolutely put the nail in the coffin in your mind of being Twitter CEO? I have to believe you'd be like "Who wants this job?!" realizing just how far and long the road ahead is. They're basically Yahoo now with a strong core base of users but little growth prospects.
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Agreed, and I think the critical inflection point will be the development of an open, decentralized hosting+sharing+identity protocol.

Why all three? Well, I can't imagine an open hosting protocol without the hosted information being private by default (otherwise the proverbial cat starts outside of the bag, and good luck getting it back in). That implies end-to-end encryption. To do that and still be able to communicate requires a key exchange system -- that's the sharing bit. And to know who you're sharing with requires an identity definition, which has to be stored somewhere. And now we've closed the loop.

There are definitely people working on that problem (I know, because I'm one of them).
Snabb Switch – A toolkit for solving novel problems in networking (kernel bypass)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008963
Thanks! We are working on more blocks and will be able to release with stable version. Blocks creation is easy too :)
That would be a big mistake for Google to buy them. Twitter was hyped by the media since it's used by the media, which led to its overvaluation. It is used surprisingly little by the ordinary masses.