skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many startups focus on growth because acutal profitability is largely irrelevant - just show enough sustained growth and you'll get bought by Apple, Google or whomever. Focusing on retention would require them to actually care about people using the product, and not only about bringing more of them to increase the metrics that lead to the Big Payoff.
A Precision Brain-Controlled Prosthesis Nearly as Good as One-Finger Typing
I use Meteor.js and I love it. As for time needed to learn the framework, I'd suggest 80 hours. Overall development speed, 3. Maintainability of the code -- can't judge yet.
Some domain registrars send postal notices. However they don't charge discount pricing.
I think the self-reported data that you're going to get is going to be worthless. Anyone who says (for example) that they learned Angular in 3 hours probably didn't really learn Angular.

If I were you (and honestly I wish I was, I loved being a student) I'd focus much less on analyzing an arbitrary list of JS frameworks and instead turn my attention to questions like:

Why are there so many frameworks in the first place?
What problems are JS frameworks trying to solve?
Why does it seems like new frameworks are constantly being produced?
Why can't any single framework achieve critical mass?

You might learn some very interesting things about the web as a platform and JavaScript as a language.
Regulations imposed to protect incumbents. Evidence on the insurance fees? Evidence on licenses? Evidence on price? Anecdotally in my city they're 300% cheaper than taxi's.
Evidence on paying drivers 'badly'?

Investing in growth > short term profitability (which they could do of they wanted to miss future markets)
I think "Leaked documents suggest Uber operating at big losses" would be a clearer headline. I parsed it at first to mean Uber's losses were due to document leaks, or that they suggest leaking documents because of losses(?) Especially when they also have headlines like this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-31771046
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Are there any clear and concise sources regarding non-compete and non-solicitation clauses and their enforceability in various states? Basically, some kind of primer on the topic?
Is anyone surprised by this? Amazon had a net income of (241,000,000) in 2014 and a market cap well over $100 billion...

I know the comparison is a little strange, but these big startups/tech companies (i.e. Uber/Amazon) feel remnant of the old Standard Oil days. Standard Oil would routinely operated at a loss to hamstring competition. A tech company (similarly) can operate at a loss, undercut it's competition, and skirt regulation until it reaches an economy of scale. At which point competition has been decimated and a monopoly (or oligopoly) is established. The ideal scenario for a profit maximizing business.
There is a Standard ISO committee (JTC1/SC22/WG14) - for that, please!
I think a lot of their problems in this area stem from an arrogance that they seem to have where they think they're right or doing the right thing at all times, or at least don't seem to acknowledge their mistakes properly.
The Humble Programmer (1972)
Tesla Model S Can Be Hacked, and Fixed (Which Is the Real News)
Simple Email Security
Difference is a strength if it is different enough. That is, if devices are so different that building an exploit for one means it will not work on another.

The problem they're trying to highlight here is that Androids may be similar enough for exploits to be widely applicable, while the absence of a centralized update channel that they control makes it hard to distribute fixes quickly. This arguably means that, in terms of security, they might be dealing with the drawbacks inherent in BOTH a monoculture and a diversified culture.
I wanted to ask if anyone seriously believed that Uber was making a profit, while requiring funding at their current scale, but then again what are they spending all that money on?

Sure they need developers, infrastructure, marketing and all the stuff required to run any business, but the drivers and vehicles aren't costing them money. So why do they need $1bn in cash? It would be very interesting to see the Uber yearly budget.
But that's not what the author is saying! He's not saying "here's how I feel", he's saying "this is the state of Apple software".
ractive. It's the best kept secret in web development.

Want a live binding, 2 way, super performant virtual DOM, that feels less like a framework and more like something that came with JavaScript?

var binding = new Ractive({
el: '.some-class',
template: '<p>Hi there {{ name }}</p> <input value="{{name}}"/>',
data: { name: 'Alex' }
})

It's created and maintained by The Guardian interactive team.

http://www.ractivejs.org/

## Time needed for Learning the Framework (in Hours)

The basics take 30 seconds because almost everyone is familiar with handlebars/mustache templates, but 4 hours total.

Eg, ractive has promises for when stuff changes, and you'll have to decide how to load templates (eg, ES6 template strings, or browserify fs). Once you've done that there's not a lot to learn, which is great.

## Overall Development Speed (0-3 Points, greater better)

Development speed: 3. It's insanely fast to work with because it's simple.

## Maintainability of the Code (0-3 Points, greater better)

Maintainability: 3. it's small, so super readable.

## Why did you choose that Framework?

All of the above, plus the support side. It's been around for two years and everyone I know who's used it loves it.
One short curated growth hacking idea a day to your email
Their plan is to become a household name. A trusted name. Something synonymous is transportation. Then in 5 or 6 years buy thousands of Google-Cars.

If they keep burning cash like this I dont think they will make it 5 years and still be in a position to purchase automated cars without additional funding.
Basic HTML/CSS
So I made a basic page in HTML : file:///Users/CaiGengYang/Documents/CaiGengYang.html

Thinking of what product to build to get some users to test and use it. Any ideas/suggestions ?
What happened to Something Awful? My friend was really into that site and tried to get me to join but I ended up gravitating towards Reddit in the end(around 2010/11)
I'm not sure I follow your examples - you seem to ignore that anything happening inside a conditional that depends on a tainted variable becomes tainted itself.

So if you read my cookies and then access the DOM (to trigger a reflow or inject JS), then all future accesses to the DOM will be considered tainted.

This doesn't taint "everything", but it should taint exactly what we want to be tainted (all possible paths to our sensitive data).

Yes, the challenge would be to find and treat all covert channels (time, GC, PRNG etc.), but that seems surmountable. The very exotic channels (like your GC example) are best handled by trimming down the general API for trusted extensions.

I.e. most extensions don't need any kind of GC access to begin with. If your extension does then all bets for fine grained taint-checks are off and it must be marked as "fully trusted" by the user before proceeding.
Some people manage dozens, or even hundreds of domains. It's quite common in the "custom website design" world for the company (often a small agency) to manage the hosting of the site and domain.
For me it's football that makes a difference. Other than that, I stopped watching cable years ago.
how can something be 300% cheaper? do they pay me to take rides?
Most of them offer automatic renewals--they love customers that click automatic renewals. Godaddy literally changes your setting to automatic renewal.(This would be a good class action lawsuit--for such a classy company?)

The problem with automatic renewals is its fine if you just have one domain. If you have a lot of domains it makes financial sense to shop around? I've always gone with the cheapest registrar(that I feel will be around in a year, or two), and never had a problem. Personally, I heard a long time ago the true cost of registering a domain is around $7.49. I don't know if that's correct? I don't like to pay much more than that per year--just on principal.

Since, people are throwing around companies, Google domains are $10 bucks a year/with free privacy. (At least they were a few months ago?) Godaddy did away with renewal discount codes; I see no reason to use that company anymore?
Wait is that true? There is no error correction in system memory? That sounds like a huge waste. Usually with coding not only reliability increases but you can decrease power consumption a lot too (so you're not "fighting the noise" with power only).
It's true that people find things by googling them, and so it usually doesn't really matter if a hostname is www.gimp.org or eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion, while it does really matter that the search link via www.gimp.org can break suddenly for no good reason. It also matters that the pages at eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion are dependent on a server operator.
Splitting hairs here...but is it really "security through obscurity"? Or is it more like "human encryption"?
lol :-)
A certain dating website was featured in an article which ended up on HN some time ago. I vividly recall a comment[0] that encouraged to make an account there and see what tactics they use to keep you there. It was a most enlightening experience for me (and an expensive one).

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274218
During the 90s, people argued that teens watching movies like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre would get a twisted notion of what normal was. The detrimental effect on teens was seen as such large that they banned the cartoon darkwin duck for TV, and blamed TV violence for the increase in violent crime amongst youths.

Those claims has since proven at best to be speculative, at worse outright media fabrication. Studies have shown that even very young kids can distinguish that what happens on a movie is not real, and that the social rules that gets shown on a movie does not exist in real life. Teens and adults has a more mature brain and longer life experience that if there was an effect, movies would have destroyed them long before.
EmberJS, once u learned it u will get enormous amount of productivity.

1. It took me month and documentation is sufficient well enough to learn it faster. (I'm slow at learning, of course learning speed is vary, depends on habit of people)

2. I would give point 3

3. also 3

4. reasons why I choose this framework are it's productivity, u will get good development habits, good patterns while using it and it's good ecosystem

sorry my bad english.
That's what I don't grasp about this situation. Why can't content industries just accept that the gravy train of yesteryear is over? Just figure out a new business model. They've had well over a decade and a half to throw enough heads at the problem to figure out how to prevent further decline in their revenues. But it just seems they're as stubborn (if not more so) as an ox when it comes to accepting reality.
Lobbying, lobbying, and lobbying. It’s cheaper to lobby against mandatory insurance than to actually pay for it.
almost like you need to do things Without Their Permission
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If you have speakers attached to your computer, be sure to turn them down (or put on headphones) before choosing an item. You'll get a breathy, lusty sounding "Oh, yeah" when you click an item.
This dumb phone might change your life
Spoiler alert: "the terrible twos" / "toddler" and "teenage years." So, a broader range than the clickbait title implied.
Doesn't stop "growth hacking" from being a thing, unfortunately.
I don't see what's hackernews worthy about this.
Your are (most probably) wrong.

Has your client ever reported a bug?

Was it a bug you cared about?

Why haven't you discovered it during testing?
The pictures were taken over 5 hours. You can see that the satellite is in a stationary position over the day side of earth.
What falls under "Cost of Revenue" and "Cost of Sales" in their documents?
I find it really hard to believe that Reddit's users aren't like the rest of the internet. Only 1% of users on a site create content, followed by 9% "participating" on top of that newly created content, followed by 90% just lurking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

Even if it's not that exact breakdown, I'd be extremely surprised if the lurking users didn't dwarf the active users, and the just-commenting users didn't dwarf the actual creators. The "content" on Reddit isn't made by its users, either. Redditors are just collectors, no less than any Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, or G+ users. No less than BuzzFeed or BusinessInsider.
>they're supposed to be burning through their cash

I don't think that they're supposed to, that's potentially dangerous thinking, depending on their business strategy. It's not an uncommon practise though.
To me that doesn't seem to be the problem. The problem as I see is that hardware manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, and etc will feel obligated to cover their rear ends and force consumers to verify their non-DRM content. So, if you can't verify it then you can't load it on their phones/players. The reason why they would do this sort of thing is to cover themselves in case of liability. If you can't load up non-DRM content then you can't sue said company for aiding piracy under something like TPP.
Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme
At the beginning of online video, YouTube started with the same "we can resell your videos and do whatever we want without asking you" clause. Vimeo didn't have that. A lot of content producers would only upload to Vimeo (vimeo also had full HD support years before YouTube). Over time, people realized they can't beat the reach/speed/search/recommendations of YouTube, so now everybody gives in and lets GooTube just do whatever they want with the content in exchange for better and more-consistent-across-platforms exposure.
Reverse Engineering with JavaScript
And they're widely used. What could happen though is them to be renamed to "retention hacking" and thus legitimized.
If you don't know who McCabe is, he was most know for his software change control, TrueChange[0] .. which was a huge pain in our development process ;)

0: http://www.mccabe.com/cm.htm
> 1. "uninitialized var usage is error": unfortunately impossible without at least one of the following compromises: Automatically initialize variables (wastes CPU); False alarms (see Java); Built-in formal proof system; or, Require compilers to solve the halting problem.

Isn't this just explaining why such useage can't be made a static error? It seems to me that raising runtime errors would avoid each of these compromises (but maybe that's clearly not what was meant).
The court case in Germany has all the evidence you asked for.

UberPop was banned (not UberBlack, though) because Uber refused to only hire drivers who had a chauffeurs license; because Uber refused to pay insurance.

And anecdotal evidence of the uber pricing is that it’s not a bit more expensive than any other taxi or chauffeur services.

Paying drivers 'badly': There were multiple submissions about this topic on HN, use the search.
Found this newsletter not too long ago, tried it out, some actionable stuff in these short emails, wanted to share.
As others have said, I don't think it was poached, more likely it's in the 30 day grace period for a missed renewal. Hopefully they'll get it sorted soon.

And yes, domain poaching is very douche-y, and is basically extortion.
Edit: Not any place you want actually...

Per ICANN if domain is made innactive the page that it points to if it points to a page (it doesn't have to you can just put the name on hold) needs to describe how to get the domain back. Once again that's only if a page is displayed displaying a page is not required.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/errp-2013-02-28-en

"2.2.4. In interrupting the DNS resolution path of the registration, if the registrar directs web traffic to the domain name to a web page while the registration is still renewable by the RAE, that web page must conspicuously indicate that the domain name registration is expired and provide renewal instructions."
I built a gear warning system for my glider. The usual ones just have either as steady tone or a pulsing tone. I made mine do a pulsing tone with different speeds, then it actually spells out "WARNING GEAR UP" in morse code. I don't know morse code, but I figured the irregular pattern would make it more identifiable and harder to ignore.

I've seen it advised to turn off the aircraft radio when it's not useful and you're in the middle of something tricky, like climbing out from a low altitude, or landing in a field.
UK to build world’s first power plant with negative emissions
Promotional rides for new users.
Let the framework wars begin...
The point you are making is correct and well argued for. I also think I sucked at expressing myself and haven’t been very polite at all.

I also think that this is a much better comment than your first one. I really think one should be very careful when dragging victim terminology into this discussion or, in fact, any discussion about weight. I have been unable to lose weight for years (all the time being extremely aware of how shitty I felt all the time and the negative impact on my health) and now after I did I’m still not sure how I actually did it.

Point is, it’s not as simple as telling people to just lose weight. Because just losing weight is extremely hard and it’s time we acknowledge that. And I’m not talking about the raw mechanics of losing weight here – those are easy and work with mathematical precision (well, ok, I myself may be generalizing too much here, but for me they did: if calories out minus calories in are equal to roughly 7000 I had lost 1kg, maybe ±.3kg, though that’s probably mostly due to the inherent uncertainties of estimating calories).

It’s about psychology and accusing people of playing the victim or trying to insult them to lose weight is just not a workable strategy. It just doesn’t work. Or it may even work for some people, but I don’t think it’s in general a wise strategy because it’s plain dehumanizing.
Hackers take control of a Tesla Model S and turn it off at low speed
Liste des signatures de nouveaux contrats par l’ICANN
I wasn't thinking about this type of problems. I was thinking about domain squatting, poaching and various ways people try to make money off people's honest mistakes.
I mean these things are bound to happen. He does not have a trademark.

This is not free advertising. Imagine someone bought his book thinking its for google's "go" language. That is not a happy customer, that is an upset one who wants a refund.

It would only be right for google to reach out and at least start a discussion. If they don't sounds like they are just in the mindset of "we're google, we do what we want" (which is kinda of not too far from the truth)
Somewhat related, I found my Son's bilingual exposure very interesting. From 3 months to 20 months he was in a bi-lingual montessori (english & spanish). Teachers and assistants always use both languages to work with children. We also reinforced at home wherever possible. Our limited spanish skills were mostly from the things he brought home and told us and a few books.

Then we moved and he was in another school, english only, from 21 months to 38 months. The decline of spanish skills was slow at first, even while we worked with him at home, then became very rapid. English skills continually improved, as would be expected.

At 39 months we moved back to the original bilingual montessori. He quickly learned/learns new spanish words and phrases, but the previous ones (colors, numbers, shapes, animals) are mostly gone. Even though I recall 90% of them, all learned as an adult, he doesn't.
However, it is more effective at discouraging behavior than negative reinforcement.
http://vuejs.org/

1. 5 hours to learn 80% of it
2. 3 Very productive
3. 3 Easy to extend and change
4. Easy to learn, easy to use, simple to understand, and highly productive. It is based on ES5 using getter/setter js features to make N-way bindings and data updates easy. Key was looking at todomvc in less code while being very easy to understand how it worked.
> Status changed to Unfortunate.

Wonderful.
Suppose that instead of applying for an SDE position, you chatted up the manager of all SDE's in SF at a party, and a week later you got a call about a "web development engineer" out of the blue. That's the best model for what happened...someone talked to you and decided what need you met.

Did you get sent to the minors? No, because even if an SDE position at Amazon is the majors, you weren't one. To push the analogy, you are a prospect. There aren't many 18 year old major leaguers. They pretty much all play A or NCAA ball before going to the show.

Every general manager isn't Billy Bean calibre. Scouts use conventional wisdom because it keeps them from getting fired. Enlarging your network at a company you seem interested in joining doesn't seem like a bad investment of time. It's a date, you're not obligated to say "I do" to the web team, or prevented from saying "I undo" if you take it and it turns out to suck.

Good luck.
The profits on a business in a rapid growth period, where everyone expects losses, is not a problem. It's all about expectations and communication with the investors. If this is the plan, then they are on track.
As a Reddit user and advertiser, I was disappointed when they doubled their ad CPM's in June without notice to advertisers (as mentioned in the article).

I can understand incrementally increasing the price with demand, but doubling the cost of CPM's without notice is a big fuck you to advertisers.

Now they're more expensive than Facebook and with less targeting capability and you can't change or edit your ads once their live.