skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter's user growth has been nearly flat. This is a fact. Whether this matters and whether Twitter can turn things around are different issues. Twitter's problem is that it went public as a growth company comparable to Facebook when it might just be a niche social network.
The use of wind in Norway hovers around zero percent.
It's quite interesting that the exact same submission with same title didn't get much visibility. I can't find the time of posting of the previous thread but this one seems to have been posted when the east coast woke up. Is that mere correlation or is it causation.
Adventures in typography
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California decouples utility profits from demand/quantity supplied, and has done so since about 1980. If they didn't, then as you point out, the utilities would be trying to get people to consume more.

Here is a two page CPUC brochure (PDF) about it: http://www.fishnick.com/pge/Decoupling_Explained.pdf
Here in NYC, I've always been confused by how offices are sweltering in winter from heating, and freezing in summer from AC -- the thermometer on my desk will easily read 82°F in winter, and 68°F in summer.

But what confuses me even more is how people still dress for the season -- guys are walking around, in the office, in sweaters in the winter, and in shorts and sandals in the summer.

Sometimes I wonder if it's all just psychological...
Not to be an ass, but what problem does kontalk solve that wasn't addressed by TextSecure/Signal?
Revenues are up. Losses are down. I might buy some discount Twitter...
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"Still, it seems to me that in the web world, nobody takes the time to pause, breathe and think things out for even a moment."

Hey, how about that, another person who thinks this. And this from someone who read the entire ES5 specification and built a JIT compiler for JS. She gives a good example of the web moving too fast. Already asm.js is obsolete and it didn't even mature enough to be used. It's starting to feel like complexity for complexity's sake.

Java and JavaScript both had a chance to win in the early days of the browser wars. JS came out on top, and it was vastly simpler than Java. Now they want to turn JS into Java. Maybe this will be the opening Google's Dart needed to take off.
> neither out of core tracing and sorting rays are feats of engineering

Presumably this statement based on your having shipped a production renderer that does these things?

> It has actually been done many times in both academics and commercial renderers from at least a decade ago

Academics, yes. Commercial--citation please? The only one I'm aware of is Weta's PantaRay, which is from only ~5 years ago (https://research.nvidia.com/publication/pantaray-fast-ray-tr...).
I know it's outside the scope of this post, but I'd like to add that F# adds a really nice feature called Active Patterns which are incredibly handy when your expression tree and logic become more complicated.

In the author's example, he matches on a few rules. A zero rule, an identity rule, an evaluation rule, and the default like so:

let simplify1 e =
match e with
| Add (Const 0, x)
| Add (x, Const 0)
| Mul (x, Const 1)
| Mul (Const 1, x) -> x
| Mul (x, Const 0)
| Mul (Const 0, x) -> Const 0
| Add (Const a, Const b) -> Const (a + b)
| Mul (Const a, Const b) -> Const (a * b)
| _ -> e

Active Patterns let you define these patterns as reusable blocks like so:

let (|IdentityExpr|_|) = function
| Add (Const 0, x)
| Add (x, Const 0)
| Mul (x, Const 1)
| Mul (Const 1, x) -> Some(x)
| x -> None

It has the effect of making your pattern matching code more readable with a syntax that somewhat resembles a Prolog horn clause. As a bonus, you can mix and match these patterns when doing advanced reasoning.

let simplify1 e =
match e with
| IdentityExpr(x) -> x
| ZeroExpr() -> 0
| ConstantExpr(expr) -> Const(eval expr)
| _ -> e
I guess my point was two-fold.

1) The end product will probably be cheaper than the kickstarter backing. (You seem to agree with this, at least in general)

2) People shouldn't see backing a product as a purchase. There's clearly risk involved in any transaction where the obligation of the seller to provide anything, let alone meet your expectation of exactly how the end product will be realised.

It's sucky that you've had such a bad time with this KS though, the real value in backing ought to be the opposite of what you've experienced!
Just apply. See what happens.
From the linked pdf:

"We have limited our studies to nuclear power because its capital costs are lower than wind and solar-electric power, and it has significant environmental advantages over fossil energy sources, which are not carbon-neutral."
Those are closures (btw, did you mean generators instead of decorators?). Until nonlocal (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/), python closures were limited (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141642/what-limitations-h...). Even though nonlocal solves the problems, the resulting scoping rules are messy: global, local, nonlocal, ...
Employers are generally picker in companies who's primary service/product isn't software. But they're still among the loudest to complain when they can't find anyone to come work for them for peanuts.
Twitter's valuation problem is that they sold Wall Street on a user growth story instead of revenue growth story. Had they done the latter, they stock price would be much less volatile and Dick Costolo would still have his job.
This was it for me. I don't really care about the stupid "hit the monkey and win" blinking animated .gifs, and lived with them for years without really worrying, but in 2015 ad blockers aren't sunglasses, they're condoms.

Furthermore, I installed uBlock in Firefox for Android because ads were getting so bad that it was essentially impossible to view some sites. It was a last-ditch effort to offer the content one last chance to survive. If publishers would prefer I not see their content at all, that's fine... I was almost already there, anyway.

In response to jedberg's question: I personally don't mind but I don't believe I'm as petulant and entitled as the typical loud mouthed redditor, but reddit made that bed, and now they get to lay in it.
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Facebook? It's so obvious and I'm not sure if it counts...

I started a simple paid monthly platform for meeting new people a few months ago - if I would put even a little bit of effort into marketing then I'm pretty sure it would be a liveable monthly wage on 5h/week within 2-3months...
I cannot vouch for this one, but Apple has a suggestion https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Net...
guantanamo bay is pretty lame in comparison to what other oppressive regimes will do.

I would suggest changing it to something more direct like "Breaking kneecaps" or something along those lines.
I don't know what Cramer was saying a year ago, but for the past few months he has been very negative on the company. He was one of the loudest people calling for Dick Costolo to resign.
And this is how the Lisp Curse is born.

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
That she pushes hydrogen so much is disturbing to me. The source we need will either be water or polluting processes. Water is something we should be protecting and conserving with battles going on for it all over. Definitely don't need to be putting Niagara Falls worth of it into cars. The alternative is commercial production which is anything but ecofriendly. That it contains less energy than gasoline for same volume will impact efficiency, logistics, and safety in some setups. Overall, hydrogen fuel is a very bad idea. That she pushes that undermines her credibility to me.

The reason I like electric, on other hand, is that makes the power-source neutral and could spur investment into our strained grid + battery tech. Yet, it has its own environmental consequences that should be carefully considered by anyone claiming the moral high ground. The environmental impact of manufacturing has a nice summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Environmental_asp...

Or, we can just look at a picture of Nichols' "green" and "clean" vision...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-C...

...then guess what a 2000+% increase of that would entail.
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Proves even further to me that Terminus is superior.
Unless it’s using the same rendering engine for the images that your OS uses it’s pointless anyway, as demonstrated by the fact that there is a “renderer” option on the page itself.

This is only meaningful as a comparison between those two renderers on an unspecified version of Windows.
Company that never made money, Priced at 12+ times Sales, little Growth. Stock falling?

While companies are making real money, Twitter like companies are creating the Bubble chatter this time.
A primer on service and network virtualization
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What? I use feedly daily but don't have a feedly extension. You can just go to feedly.com
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Try http://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ ?
I've always preferred MacType[0] over the old gdipp project. It improved upon elements from the gdipp project in many ways. You can try out my config if you like: [1].

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/mactype/

[1]: http://pastebin.com/YP23PP5v
Gcc -flto modifies symbol visibility
Not spending the credits is like giving them back to Amazon
Unions have their purpose but mainly serve unskilled labor. It has a lot to do with the nature of the work. Similar to the reason why lawyers, doctors, architects and accountants don't have labor unions. Unions also tend to be anti-technology as technology tends to automate peoples jobs.

Collective bargaining has little to offer white collar workers.

The additional utility offered by collective bargaining for programmers is probably not larger than the negative utility of having to pay a middleman army of union organizers, employees and lawyers.
>Notice how there is no way to pay google for using gmail, maps

There is; get your own domain and sign up for https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/. It's $50 a year for a single person, no ads, plus phone/email support.

It's technically business, but I don't think that's required to sign up.
This type of domain expertise may not be perfectly purchaseable, but it is purchaseable, and given the money involved, I'm sure they will. (And partially have already.)

Also, gaining the relevant knowledge to filter nonsense from sense here isn't necessarily as hard as you might think. And some of the filtering can be done with information theory, basic economics, probing deeper until you find the "and them some magic happens!" step, and some other non-biological tools that apply everywhere. I'm not saying it's easy, it's still months of work potentially, but it's only months. You don't actually need a PhD for nonsense filtering.
This is (in my humble opinion) a fantastic introduction, and relevant to a much wider audience than the title implies. If you want to keep up to date with LLVM developments, you might also be interested in my LLVM Weekly newsletter (http://llvmweekly.org/). I try to highlight interesting commits, mailing list discussions, and blog posts (tips and submissions always welcome!).
Twitter may out of steam, but the days where being a machine fueled by runnaway hype IPO's are not going to go anywhere.

I don't think twitter's discourse ever helped anyone, any group, or any society.

Can someone brighten my day and tell me a way twitter has helped us, somehow?
Let's be honest - the only place that really matters for biotech is Boston, and the movers and shakers there have no desire or need to work with YC or anyone in Silicon Valley. San Diego's biotech scene is mostly just companies mindlessly pursuing cheaper and faster sequencing.
They actually beat analyst expectations for revenue, but the sales pitch for a long time has been, "Revenue doesn't matter, because massive user growth!" That doesn't pan out so well when user growth is OK at best.

The real problem is core to the product (it's really hard to become an active user), and one that's both really difficult and really time-consuming to solve.
"Started a tech company in grad school"

How could you do that if you don't have a degree? Very few grad schools will admit someone without an undergrad degree.
It does. Hardware startups need more experience than software startups, because there are more moving parts (contract manufacturers, component makers, distributors, standards bodies) and because mistakes are harder to fix. It helps a lot to have one guy (Luke) spend half his time keeping current with everything, and half his time disseminating this to startups as they need it.

Another factor is that when dealing with big companies (like most contract manufacturers and component vendors,) a single early-stage startup has no leverage to negotiate good deals, but a community of startups does.
Yeah but Facebook wasn't sustainable at the beginning
> It's not a number's place to know how to do looping

If we consider a number as "zero or 1 plus a number", then the "Number" class could very well be the one that knows how to execute a piece of code a number times given that representation. It's actually pretty similar to the Church encoding of numbers in the lambda calculus[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding
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do you want to learn AWS specifcally or do you want to learn to code stuff in general ?

If latter, may I suggest you try digitalocean then ? I know you are talking about AWS sepcifically but for your use case, get a $5 DO VPS and play as much as you want.
No, in fact there are also a number of tech companies up right now because they are showing growth. Meanwhile twitter has been flat. The investment community didn't decide to gather around and pick on twitter because it would be fun.

edit: apparently people didn't take too kindly to pointing out that not all tech companies are having a downward trend. Here are tech companies that are up compared to one year ago: $FB, $GOOG, $MSFT, $AAPL, $AMZN
I really hope they don't go to something like this. I realize I'm not the common use case but I am often ordering things to be delivered to my home, office, inlaws house, etc depending on where I'm going to be on its arrival date and where I need to actually use the item.

Eg in the last couple weeks:

We needed wanted programmable thermostats at the family vacation house, had those sent there so I wouldn't forget them.

Wanted some new pens at the office, had a few packs of Pilot G-2s sent to office.

Needed a new scale for the kitchen since my 10 year old one stopped working, delivered to home.

Kid was staying with grandma for a couple of nights and needed some more diapers, had those sent to her house.

Not all that uncommon for a week or two for me.

If prime locked down to a single address I would seriously consider dropping it and I've been a member and big fan of it pretty much since it launched.
Sorry, I guess what I meant was that Hyperion is perfectly capable of being used in test renders. The amount of time before you see any resolved pixels is of course dependent on the size of your scene, the desired resolution, etc. It could take 15 minutes before a pixel shows up, but that's not a standard case for production test renders in an artist's daily work.
For clarification: Your website is an advertisement for your business. You don't need an ad for your business obscuring your ad for your business. It reeks of desperation, and the vast majority of people visiting your page right now who are seeing that modal pop up, will promptly forget you exist.

I shouldn't need to explain why that is that case, of course, because public relations and marketing and UX are based entirely on the same psychological principles. And therein lies the problem. You're a public relations company displaying the inability to relate to the public.

Don't fix this "today", fix it right now. It should be your top priority.
When you say Retina you mean high dpi since retina is just a trade marked word for dpi of 220 inches or higher and means different things at different models.

Sorry to be a stickler but Retina is a worthless term and just causes confusion.
I felt the same way having rediscovered tries writing a word-search algorithm to cheat at Scrabble. (Hey, don't judge me!) "I wonder what would happen if I made a binary search tree, except it has a branch for each letter..."
From the Font Book application: (sorry for the formatting. EDIT: Hey, it sort of worked!)

Manufacturer	Bitstream
Designer	Jim Lyles
Copyright	Copyright © 2009 Apple Inc. Copyright © 2006 by Tavmjong Bah. Copyright © 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Trademark	Menlo is a Trademark of Apple Inc.
Description	Menlo is based upon the Open Source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font Deja Vu. Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc., designed by Jim Lyles.
Enabled	Yes
Duplicate	No
Copy protected	No

I don't know if that helps you or not? But presumably you can show images of the font in any case.
I don't think it is an issue of shipping, but an issue of any one person having a need for most of the companies that come through YC.
Nothing, it ignores your request. It doesn't ignore it when DNT is disabled. As Piwik ignores DNT requests by itself, I guess nobody bothered to disable the snippet on server side when DNT is detected.
Hi, I wrote a guide just a week ago that may have quite a bit of relevant information for your target customer - http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2015/07/21/An-intro-PR-guide-f....

I love that there's a few people starting to innovate in this space, but I'm having a pretty hard time from the outside getting an idea of what your product actually is. Are you strictly focused on outreach to outlets, or is there more to it. Is it even a product, or how are you different from other PR firms? Would love to be able to get more clarity on that without having to create an account.
I wonder why they didn't just use ! like Ruby does? Is that not allowed in Java? I always mentally say the ! version of a method like a real exclamation (oh no! save!) to make sure I realize it's going to change something. Using $ just seems random.
Very accurate. When you interview you are selling yourself. The difference in pay can be significant for those who do this and those who don't. When I was working for companies as an employee I never realized how much of a difference that made for me. I had friends making 10-20k less than I did who had more experience but couldn't articulate it or sell themselves. That was a huge eye opener for me.

I also had friends that would interview 10-15 times before getting an offer, and yet I typically would interview just a few times and have an offer. Not being cocky, I really think the only difference was that I was selling myself whereas they were just answering questions.
What they don't seem to mention is how much of recruiting in general, and tech recruiting in particular, has devolved to low-wage, short term contract-based, easily outsourced, basically spam outfits. My ex is a 30 year tech recruiter and her and all her peers are having a miserable time of it.
Could still be true if 2000 new for-hire vehicles are being added every month, and 1000 old for-hire vehicles are removed.

Net change, an increase of 1000 per month.

Not saying this is what's happening, just pointing out that there may be an explanation.
I don't think 'selling stuff with a margin' was ever their business model. In almost every aspect of their business they act as a platform (platform to sell things to consumers, host photos/ music/ etc, watch/ listen/ subscribe to content, AWS). I feel like Prime's goal is to encourage customers to stay within the Amazon ecosystem and although its a revenue stream, it doesn't necessarily mean that 'monetization is now tied to walking the fine line between positive experience and pissing people off'.