skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A native app is already lost at the start because it requires the user to install it

The billions of installed apps indicates that the friction isn't significant.

> I don't buy the efficiency argument at all, Java and JavaScript are both JITed

That's how everything worked back in the Gingerbread days. Android's ART system compiles applications to native code when they are installed. You can also install actual native code with Android's NDK.

If you like the idea of asm.js, then you should check out Go on Android. It does the same thing - offers a restricted set of the language that runs very fast.

There's definitely a subset of apps that work very well in a browser. But you can do more, faster, with lower power consumption with native apps.
Nearly Half of Youth Say 'American Dream' Is Dead: Harvard Poll
Airbnb hosts discriminate against black guests based on names, study suggests
Check out Blendle[0] - Dutch company moving to the US soon[1] (launched in Netherlands and Germany). Can't vouch for it myself but was on HN yesterday.

[0]https://launch.blendle.com
[1]http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/12/micropayment-platform-blend...
Thank you for this opportunity. I've noticed ycombinator has been trying a lot of new things, and trying their best to reach out to as many people as possible. You guys are great!
As great as this sounds (and I'm a full supporter of the idea), I don't think it's going to happen. Humans have what seems to be a somewhat innate desire to "work". If there aren't enough jobs, we'll just add eight more layers of management positions to fill the gaps. If an improvement in technology led to more free time, then we should already have vastly more of it than we did in the 1800s.
"Fascist" means "right-wingers I don't like" similar to how "socialist" means "left-wingers I don't like."
CS people aren't coming in and showing how it should be done probably for the same reason that Physicists don't show up at a bridge construction project and show the engineers how it should be done.

Theoretical computer science is quite distinct from coding and large scale numerical computation practice. Just as theoretical physics, or even experimental physics, is quite different from structural engineering.
rather than just saying an absolute, why not give some facts as to why "you agree with those who say paleo is BS".

I'm not suggesting it isn't but your dismissive comment doesn't enlighten those who are not aware of the controversy.
Google's D-Wave Quantum Computer: 100M times faster
> Even to this day, 2D simulations are fairly common and littered throughout the literature, and their justification (arguments of approximate symmetry) are suspect, at least to me. 3D sims are coming on the scene, but they often have to sacrifice things like spatial resolution that hurt's the simulation's physics in other way.

Sounds like the joke about the guy who dropped his keys in the bushes but is looking for them under the streetlamp, because there's light there so they should be easier to find.
...farmers and ranchers.

Haha, somehow I've refrained from shooting the cow that broke two of my fingers last week.
I would have hoped the world moved on to post-nationalism by this point. I can't say I had much hope for it, though.

I don't know if it's right to link all the countries which seem to be heading toward a more nationalistic government together, though. I think each case has its own causes and conditions.

For example, in some parts of Europe, it's the real or perceived threat to national security, and lots of reporting on terrorist attacks, and party leaders knowing how to take advantage of this.

What's the cause in Japan? Could it be that there's fear over what's happening in Europe, or could it be a threat from China, or something else completely?

The question is interesting to me, as I'm a wannabe immigrant. What would life be like if the trend continues? As I said, for my own wellbeing and happiness, I would have hoped we'd be heading toward post-nationalism. It's as if the "us and them" divide in Japan (this is the only country I know of) wasn't strong enough already.
Agreed. This could also be titled "I got damn lucky, and you should count on the same amount of luck too!" There's a reason 'good advice' is labeled as such - following it tends to improve your chances of success more often than not. This article is terrible, and full of terrible advice.
Does pinboard save the content?
Just get babel running without the webpack and modules gorp.

I thought it was all a mess too and wasted a few hours.

babel ./*js -s -w -d ../../target/

Move on to solving real problems with code.

I agree with your sentiment that you should try at least get es2015 going though.

Good luck.
>What's the cause in Japan? Could it be that there's fear over what's happening in Europe, or could it be a threat from China, or something else completely?

Threat of China, and the sense of angst that comes from 2 decades of economic stagnation, I'd wager...
With supplements, it's different, thanks to Orrin Hatch and his "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act". In that field you can sell next to everything, provided you label it correctly. Buyer beware! If your supplement contains any elixir of sulfanilamide it's your fault, you should have educated yourself on what this elixir of sulfanilamide actually is. After all, it contains what it says on the tin.

Diagnostics are thankfully more tightly regulated.
Christmas Gifts for Teachers – A Gift of Gratifying Memories
Paying for performance in a problem fixing job is dangerous. Even if you concentrate on deescalation. We already know of many cases of planted drugs. This would be just an invitation to "Hey, he had drugs (that I totally didn't plant) and I solved the situation without violence, even though he had a gun (that I also totally didn't plant)".
Or was the whole point of his puzzled naive persona to make the point "we could be selling these, but because we take this safety thing so seriously we are not".

Most of HN, and all of Wall Street, knows they are not using their own tests. I doubt this investor is unaware.
Thanks, that's very kind of you to say that. I really appreciate it.
FYI they had that because EV Certs are tied to the official company name, so if you want a more 'colloquial' name, there's a special field called something like 'doing business as'. Then the displayed green bar says:

> Official Business Name (Colloquial Business Name)

Which in the case of two very long names...
It's an easy benchmark for the common consumer to look at and feel they have selected the right product. They don't have to know about the differences between A35, A53, A57, and A72 much less why those models are better than the A7, A9, A15, A17 processors. They don't need to know that Android isn't 64-bit. They don't need to know that the 1-3GB of memory in their phone isn't going to benefit from 64 bits.

They do feel that no one is going to sell junk labeled as 64-bits, and I mean come on, why would the manufacturer display it's got 64-bits unless it was really important?
You don't need to double-tap. Just touch (don't press) your thumb to the Touch ID sensor and put the back of the phone on the reader. The phone will wake up and automatically pay with your default card, as long as your registered finger is on the sensor.
Problem being that you're now relying on the willingness of people to learn your new language, which creates a friction point, like someone here was talking about.
For a single person it is 24k to be considered middle class. What?
He did 100 chin ups one at a time. If you can do six in one go, you can probably do 100 over the course of 5 hours pretty easily and safely.
I remember being surprised by this sequence of priorities when first learning them on first-aid course. I guess we like to picture people like you as heroes, bravely stepping in to save the day, ignoring the risk to themselves, but we don't stop to consider that this may not be the most effective course of action. As usual, the optimal way of doing stuff is quite different from what we see on TV.
Why does this utilize the phone's camera instead of RFID? Fiddling with the camera seems annoying.
Zinc throat lozenges are a weird case: there's evidence that they're effective but they haven't passed FDA muster (and arguably don't have to, being zinc supplements under US law). Note that they are marked as homeopathic, but the active ingredients are not listed as having been diluted to "basically just water" levels.
Similar to how Coin and Plastc and all those stupid "aggregated cards" don't solve an actual problem that existed.

"Hey! How annoying is it that you have to carry AS MANY AS FOUR CREDIT CARDS?"

"Um, it's... not really..."

"Well how about CARRYING FIVE?"

"What?"

"Well, ours merges those together but... it doesn't really work anywhere so."

"TAKE MY $50!"
"My money's on them using the money to lobby the FDA to change the laws, just like other 'disrupters' are doing." - - Exactly. Why else would Theranos' board of directors be filled up with Senators and Washington power brokers instead of scientists and doctors... I mean, for cripes sake- Henry Kissinger was on their board at one point!! Wtf is he doing on the board of a medical device company.

Also on the Theranos board: three former U.S. cabinet secretaries, two former U.S. senators, a retired Navy admiral and a retired Marine Corps general. Ridiculous.
Node v5.2.0 released
My point in that phrase was mainly that active practitioners of a given religion don't believe that _their_ religion is a lie.
Why We Built an Untrendy Company
I don't think we should be trying to emulate Japan in this respect. I don't think the Japanese themselves want this sort of life.
What's currently in your JavaScript stack? I'm probably going to suggest getting rid of most of it if possible so that you can focus on your code. Here's a dirty secret: you probably don't need a JS build system or anything from ES2015+ if you don't feel like learning it yet[0]. If you're using React, you probably don't need to integrate any of the latest tech like Redux and tcomb-form and all those other super cool innovations. You can even get away with using Node modules in the old-fashioned "link to a script file" way[1]. Sure, someone can claim that each of those tools serves a purpose and can prevent a whole class of headaches that might happen. What they won't say is that trying to wrangle them all together right away is causing you a bigger headache than any of the others!

I'm working on an application that has about 15K lines of hand-prepared React/Flux JavaScript (well, TypeScript) and it is planned to scale up by maybe an order of magnitude eventually. It's built with ES5 and plain old revealing modules. I'm managing dependencies by hand. I'm not using Node or CommonJS modules at all. Heck, I'm not even using JSX yet because my version of Visual Studio doesn't have TSX (TypeScript+JSX) built in. Does this mean some headaches and extra labor? Sure! Do I feel like an imposter when reading about all this awesome fancy new stuff? Sometimes!

But the headaches are surprisingly minor and barely figure in most of the time. If/when these headaches get bigger (I suspect this will start in earnest when more front-end developers join the project), then I'll take another look at integrating a module loader, or a form generator, or an automagic React router, or a super-cool atomic state system like Redux. In case you're wondering the application works amazingly well and most of the time implementing even far-out crazy features has been easy and fun.

Finally, don't get too worried about making the "wrong" choices, and don't bail out for something newer when you hit your first roadblock. Most of the options you have available these days work great! The things we expect them to do are totally incredible, that's the only reason people are still proposing alternatives all the time.

[0]If you don't need to support older browsers, ES2015 is pretty easy to include. Otherwise if you need to use examples based on an ES2015+ version, just paste the code into the Babel REPL: https://babeljs.io/repl/

[1]You can get any bundled npm module here: https://wzrd.in/
> It's important to note that there were no indictments handed down in this case.

OTOH, those who complain about police excesses usually also complain about prosecutors being uninterested in pursuing abuses by police as crimes, seeking indictments, etc. So, "no indictments" can be viewed different ways.
Software Versions are Broken
There are three versions 512MB, 1GB and 2GB.
>the crazy extreme right-wing party getting seats in Parliament

The BNP doesn't have any seats in Parliament.

I assume you might be referring to UKIP?
AMP-Html Pages coming to Google Search
Kat's great! Easily one of the most competent people I've met and she went out of her way to sit down with me in New York.

Bonus: For some reason Twitter now sends me a notification every time she tweets about Rick and Morty.. I'm mostly ok with it!
Are We Heading for an Economic Civil War?
I work in USA on a visa. Can I apply under international category?
AWS isnt paying us
My impact as an academic researcher: Why fundamental research keeps me happy
the $25/year plan does, yes
The ultimate version being complete capture of the Internet at large with hour to hour snapshots and history perhaps using deltas between versions.

Git Internet!

I've personally started saving sites I want to keep using the print-to-PDF feature. Bookmarks aren't enough when you really care to save the data.
This post is enough for me to decide to get this NOW.
You've already proven to yourself that the tooling that you are trying to use is costing you time, not saving you time like you want.

Just don't use them for this project. Just build the project using what you know now.

You can pick up that new tooling again at a later stage when you aren't so pressured to deliver something.

99% of being a successful programmer is coming back tomorrow, and getting a tiny bit more done, and learning a tiny bit more.
Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
I don't think I understand this comment enough to refute it...

Are you saying that there startup job offers aren't inflated? Or that they are?

Are you assuming I live in SV?
I very rarely update my website. (Most of it predates modern CMSes, anyway.)

One of the things that I do when I put up a page, though, is make PDFs of everything that I link to. This way, if the link dries up, or is changed, there's still something to fall back to.
I've had my own share of interesting S3 Pro issues expecially with Windows 10, but almost all of them have been software / firmware related. You tried restoring to Windows 8.1 and same problems?
So the sentence should be the unprecedented electoral success of an extreme right wing party in France? That's not a big stretch. And his point, for what it's worth, stands.
Wikipedia handles redirects mostly fine. Mostly.

The one big problem with Wikipedia redirects is those to sections: if a page is moved or disappears, the software notices, but it doesn't if a section changes its name. Thus, frequently the anchor in an intra-wiki link is broken.
No one is proposing we stop people from working. Go ahead and be a farmer, you may not be efficient as the robofarmers, but that's OK you aren't going to have to sell the farm.
I was hoping it was the AI that was designing the hardware.
I think many individual public servants would be happy with pay for performance, if a workable scheme could be devised. Unfortunately, public sector unions would fight that tooth and nail.
Programmer will be the last job, but most programming jobs will be a part of the first wave to go. I can't tell you how many days I've felt like my job (wire up this API by googling then massaging a code sample) was such an obviously mechanical process than the AI needed to do it was not significantly more advanced than where we are now. I do not expect most of these jobs to last another two decades (at least by then ageism will have pushed me out anyways).
This sounds great for those who are able to participate, but dare I ask why it's divided by race and gender?

If it's about helping those who most need it, who most needs YC's help: Obama's daughters or a group of poor white boys?

If YC is reaching out to marginalized people, are race and gender really good proxies for "marginalized"?

And if YC is seeking to increase the diversity of its membership, how many children of blue collar workers from Montana, say, are in YC now?

...

Downvotes instead of honest responses. Sadly predictable.
Most people don't have their phones in their hands when they shop, either, especially at a Walmart where you're more likely to be pushing a buggy than anything. The only time I usually see someone with something at Walmart other than their object of payment is if they found an ad at another store which is cheaper. Payment by phone is largely a solution looking for a problem.
> apathy does not necessarily manifest in bad morale

Apathy is defined as a lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern, the text I quote is about Feynman finding none of these lacking.
I don't quite understand why you're being so dismissive of this. By this logic, a scale doesn't have much actionable value because its just telling you your weight, its not getting you to lose any. Of course all the 'real hard work' still needs to get done, but a dashboard like this gives you a tool to visualize state and progress to help direct your 'real hard work' effectively. Personally, I think there's a lot of value in that.
> As Wiki gets more 'reputable', newspapers will posts links to it. Wiki being what it is, the reference to the page will go stale.

Unless the page was non-notable and got deleted, there'll be a redirect.
I was having the same problem with my bookmarks disappearing from the internet. Searching for a solution I eventually made a browser extension to send bookmarks to an online archiving service (archive.is). I then added an option to save archives locally in mhtml format. I have around 370 bookmarks archived that way and it takes 240MB of space.

The addon can be found here: https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror.
The Steam Controller Update
Off topic: This seems to be an odd emphasis on the word "good". Can a native English speaker confirm?
I went back to school at around 27. I took a handful of classes in Math and made an "A" in all of them.

Math is quite easy actually. The difficult thing is learning "how" to study, which (in my opinion) is a little different than you study for other subjects.

First, there is a huge amount of available resources online and many of the books have half the problems answered in the back. Use those. If you're lazy, math is hard.

HERE IS THE TIP THAT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE FOR ME:

Don't study all at one time -- like in a 4 or 6 hour block of time. That's really just cramming. It's possible to get in the groove and me able to answer all the problems in your homework - while it's fresh...but then never really learn it or be able to duplicate it on a test.

Study 1 hour a day and always start with a problem you think you can do first. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER - look in the back of the book before you complete it. If you have to look in the back of the book -- mark the number down and make sure that you can repeat it tomorrow without looking.

Do that, you will do well in Math.
No offense, but you're going to be one of the "old" people by then. AR will be embraced fully by newer generations.
Trump or Hitler
Reminds me of a black hat/white hat distinction. Both occupations require basically the same skill set and provide similar thrills, they're just on the different sides of the law.
Because innovation happens faster when there are more perspectives in the mix, and communities improve faster when there are more successful people in them.
Puzzle: The Fabulously Fair Feast
Hosting the content or having your own copy of something is the only real way to be certain. I had the same experience and I've started saving all my work. Thanks for the idea about the blog though, I need to go back through mine and export everything.
I find that no matter how many charts I see detailing why one thing is better than another, the decider is whether it has good tutorials written for it. If it doesn't have a good tutorial then the rest of the documentation isn't going to be much better and any actual problems you encounter won't have a stack overflow solving them.
> Programmer will be the last job, but most programming jobs will be a part of the first wave to go.

No, because the first wave of white collar jobs to go has already been happening, and it is mostly middle management. (I suspect the next wave will be a lot of domain-specialized professionals in research/analytical roles -- but not so much solution design and implementation -- roles.)
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I'm happy to see that there is someone who is trying to help those who don't want to or can't go the traditional route of undergrad => grad school. Certainly I'm sure there are many others like me who have a strong, but amateur interest in a subject. Here I mean amateur in the sense that it is unpaid and done only out of love, as opposed to some measure of skill.

Sadly I have no intention of studying theoretical physics. If anyone could point me towards something for theoretical computer science and algorithms I would be most grateful
And so we do. Two surveys placed mid-1800s average work weeks in manufacturing at close to 70 hours per week[1] with modern hours hovering around the common 40 hour work week, which is still actively being challenged[2].

1. https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

2. http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/02/news/economy/sweden-6-hour-w...
At least with this self driving car we know where the bugs are.
What's fascinating is how fast the washington post is, and how you get different image types depending on the browser you use. Off to check out that CDN provider they use.
Because markets aren't infinite.

I can easily turn $5 into $10; buy candy bars and sell them to my neighbors next time I watch a sports game in person.

So I'm really confident I could double $5. But could I double $50? I'll definitely get caught trying to sell $500 worth. So I just sell a little more all the time while remaining cash flow positive, and that's how I learn the limits of the market without going bust.
Pull down your repo and your assets!
BCG study finds that reshoring with robots works
Plans for building a birdhouse are completely incomparable to what the parent is talking about. This would be like me having an "open source" birdhouse design where the birdhouse is made of glued-together Intel™ processors.

Sure I've opened the schematics, but unlike a birdhouse made from wood you have zero chance of being able to build one from scratch on your own, or sourcing the Intel™ processors from another vendor.

This is the same reason for why if I release the binary of a program produced with a secret compiler as "open source" I'll be laughed at, it completely goes against the spirit of the thing, which is that anyone should be able to change any part of the thing I've released.

It's good that they're doing this. But it's completely incomparable to actual fully open source hardware.
You did. I didn't not write that nor edit it later.
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