skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. Can you deal with right-to-left, left-to-right, and vertical languages with different glyph forms on the same screen while also coping with multiple accessibility settings, sub-pixel anti-aliasing, embeddable GL components, component reusability, efficient updates on state changes without a full re-render, and platform support for over 200 different graphics chipsets?

I'm just saying it's a problem domain that is consistently underestimated.
Understandable. I also get emotional, though differently.

I reminisce when I see old buildings, even those in poor condition.

They make me think of the history of the place, and the connections I have to the past.

Also, I've lived in a lot of humble circumstances and have really liked the people I got to know, so I'm somewhat biased towards less modernized settings. I understand that there are a lot of problems in indigent places, and I don't want to minimize that at all, but I have fond memories.
YC alumni see each other's usernames in orange. That plus the job post on the front page are the two YC-specific things that HN has. Both have been in place for a long time, and moderators try to be meticulous about not giving special treatment beyond that. (I say "try to be" because no one is the best judge of their own biases. But we do try hard, sometimes to the point of overcompensating.)

I don't think the colored usernames affect voting ring activity much. YC alumni and startups certainly are not exempt from the penalties we put on such activity, and frequently get hit by them. The first thing we always tell YC founders is not to solicit upvotes for posts because that backfires.
Approaching ‘Uber Moment’ in Financial Services
I agree to some extent, but not completely. Some day population-wide studies fishing for a p value below a certain threshold will be looked at with the same disdain that we look at homeopathy. "They actually believed you could do studies across genetically diverse populations like that?!?! wow! Didn't they understand that everyone's metabolism is different?"

Throw in a bit of pharma companies funding their own studies and I don't think the situation is as black and white as you say.

Preachy overconfidence in the clear superiority of enlightened scientific medicine actually bolsters public support for alt.med as a reactionary movement.
A big challenge super early companies/products have is getting eyeballs on the product. PH can get you thousands of users with little to no effort. So it's not about your product living or dying from PH, but it can take startups months to get that kind of feedback from users using the product. It won't determine success, but can certainly put you on that path.

We ended up being featured on PH's front page after one of these "insiders" found us on twitter, and posted us. Had no affiliation to us. Got hundreds of upvotes, and thousands of users to try our product out. Over time we lost all our PH users, but the feedback from them was awesome, and is likely what has kept us around 6 months later.

So not the sole reason, but definitely a significant one.
And they would be wrong. Probably got it confused with the Dutch East India Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
> I sometimes wonder why Detroit, with all that available, inexpensive facilities and infrastructure, doesn't advertise itself as a center for engineering talent.

They are trying. http://opportunitydetroit.com/

But so is almost every other small / medium / large city in the Midwest. It's hard to stand out by trying to use a "me too" branding.
It's always been open-source, at least according to its author's blog post, which was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10573561
Sweet. Thanks for the info
Nope, that's not it, makes no difference.

Saying that all audio technologies have issues is a dodge. Technology is hard, software is about dealing with problems not about passing the buck and saying "sorry it sucks, it's hard and I gave up". Computer audio isn't exactly rocket science, tons of products get it right, browser makers just can't be bothered to invest in it.
It's not like your JS won't run on ES6 browsers. That's the whole point of backwards compatibility. Besides, older features will probably have better performance as they have been tuned for years, compared to newer features.

People in the JS world should seriously drop the NIH syndrome and contribute to existing tools instead. The last thing we'd ever need is yet another framework/library/tool that's just a bit more than what's already existing.

http://www.isaacchansky.me/days-since-last-new-js-framework/
Designing Facebook Collage
Are your tab groups remembered after a browser crash? YouTube has a tendency of crashing Firefox/FF forks (incl. Waterfox and Pale Moon). I'm forced to restart maybe once every other or every third week after YouTube hangs the browser. When this happens I lose all of my tabs which is completely unacceptable for me. Tabs were also lost when updating the browser which was the straw that broke the camel's back and caused me to ditch Pale Moon and return to Firefox.

If those two issues have been fixed I'd likely very quickly switch back to Pale Moon.

As an aside, I'm aware FF is removing them as well in the near future. I've already frozen myself on FF 40 for other reasons. Before anyone mentions - I'm aware of the potential security risks of doing so and have decided given my internet browsing habits it is very low risk. Low enough that I don't even consider publicly announcing my use of FF40 to be a significant security threat.
> ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken develo

Do you have a citation for that? I still see tons of user land projects using angular 1.
British Police Arrest 21-Year-Old Man in VTech Hacking
You still probably have sleep apnea if you are ever waking up fully without the ability breathe. The human mind can wake up from deep sleep to stage 1 sleep in order to breathe better dozens of times an hour without you perceiving a thing. It only wakes up all the way when it's really bad. In fact, the acid reflux is often a symptom of sleep apnea, attempted inspiration with a sealed off airway literally sucks acid out of your stomach. Get yourself a sleep study. If I'm right, get new doctors and dentists, they all should have caught it by now. Good luck.
This is because "fancy, high definition, multi-channel audio" has >40ms latency, so you cannot compare it with Web Audio, which is meant to be real time like in digital music settings, where often <8ms is required. You clearly do not understand the problem you are claiming to be simple.
Yeah I agree to an extent. I think there is a specialization here with technology advances that has developed over the years - mainly with the goal in optimizing development iteration speed and scalability. Would you agree?
Woah, thanks bro!
kolmogorov complexity and mutual information are the things that explain the difference.

The super mario rom is a very compact description of the super mario game, in the context of its environment.

The jpeg environment isn't very well designed as an environment to display a single frame from a flat colored video game.
"Subresource integrity allows developers to make their sites more secure"

Cryptographic verification of scripts and other linked resources is very cool. Not an official standard, but I'm glad to see this.
Meh, standard ploys from the tobacco-industry playbook.
But you'd expect a CEO to be able to hire someone to negotiate the cost down.

$38 a day per person for what should be a company-wide catering concession is unusually generous.

Meyer generally seems to have made some hard-to-justify spending decisions.

She won't be the first or last CEO to go on a spending spree - see also Autonomy, etc. But the usual idea is to get some value from the shopping trips. If that's not happening, it's a strong signal that the CEO isn't shopping with clue.

I think the board could have been much more critical of the Polyvore deal in particular.
> Only in the confused world of Silicon Valley is accepting $100M+ to fail considered heroic. Giving the money back would be kind of heroic.

THANK YOU!!!!

It's pure insanity. Not only have we reached the point where entrepreneurial reward for managerial risk has become the norm, but you can get it while FAILING MISERABLY!!!
University of California launches $250M fund for student startups on campus
When the machines take over, they'll go for our fridges first, so we won't know what to do.
Preparing for the zombie apocalpyse - an academic approach
I wrote something similar a while ago, combining the easy-to-use asynchronous programming model of Node.js with the speed of C++.

http://gladdy.github.io/c++/2015/07/26/NodeDemystified-pt1.h...

source code: https://github.com/Gladdy/Mininode
Boilerplate for creating libraries with rollup
Government surveillance is as old as the telegraph
Yahoo's Anthelion crawler is now open source
How does this prevent someone from voting more than once with different addresses? The whole bandwagon onto Bitcoin doesn't seem valid in this case. What can Bitcoin do to make online voting better? No matter what you're going to need some external way to verify a user. Otherwise your votes are just going to be a measure of computing power. That's not really useful in this context.
Can anyone comment who's used it? Is it generally accepted by most browsers or is there more issues than that?
State regulators propose new rooftop solar fees while rejecting utility plans
Clojure for Objective-C
The extent to which this article is recrafted according to where it geolocates you is surprising:

"Consider Denver, our best guess for where you might be reading this article. Spending on Medicare patients is about average in this area. When it comes to private health insurance, spending is also about average. Denver is one of the few places where spending for both programs is very similar – in most, there is some degree of mismatch."
We always tell people. False positives by the voting ring detector in that case, IIRC.
But it does tend to keep people on campus and socializing with each other if it's a) good and b) free.
Personally I find this problem can be OS dependent, so you should mention your OS when saying things like this.

On OSX FF is slugish and can take a while to start up, however on Windows 7/10 its the snappiest browser I have. Weird i know but that's how it is for me.

I should mention neither use plugins.
IMO, this is really concerning. A university, as an institution, is very different from a tech incubator. It is a place that should be somewhat removed from the commercial world where the idealists have a space to explore their interests without being subject to in-your-face money-making activity.

This also introduces a lot of complications. Say a professor starts a company, is it ethical for him to ask students to work for him? If a student starts a company, and an influential professor wants a board seat, can the 19yo student comfortably say no?
I think you have oversimplified my position. My specific complaint was related to Costco demanding government-issued ID to start a membership.

Frankly, I am not sure what your article or statement is intended to show: that we should just accept it because stores are doing it "subtly" in spite of the customers' objections?
Put some propellers on the balloons, and a computer to control them.

If we can get drones to avoid trees while flying through a forest at high speed, we can make balloons maintain a safe distance from one another at an altitude way above most storms.
Perhaps it's time for Icahn to 'save' Yahoo?
"How BitCongress works: Your Design Here"

http://i.imgur.com/cgwTawB.png

And what's Axiomity? Is that the specific app meant to interact with the BitCongress protocol? For that matter, what's BitCongress?

I feel like this was submitted to HN prematurely.
Started to work on a frontend for realtime automotive networking systems in angular2. I used angular2 services which provide all (non-constant) state via Observables to the components - and I'm really pleased with the result. Totally reactive, and the implementation effort and complexity is relativly low.
I thought you struck a good tone while pointing out the insider advantage and how everybody seems to take its existence for granted in their descriptions of how to succeed. It certainly didn't come across to me as haterating.
If you're interested in IncludeOS, runtime.js is also worth checking out: http://runtimejs.org/
You're not missing much; it's mostly placeholders.
Netflix Re-Encodes It’s Video Library to Save Bandwidth
Run Multiple WhatsApp Accounts on an iPhone
Startup founders care way too much about getting featured on HN, PH, TechCrunch etc. If you look at the successful startups of that last few years (http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/) many of them were successful before they were even noticed by the technorati. Unless your product is specifically targeted to these people, you are wasting your time.
They mention that in at least one case, most of the fraudulent purchases came from a single IP. Whomever it is has arranged a place to drop-ship the boards that will be untraceable. Perhaps they use addresses of unoccupied homes, then just pick up the packages from the doorstep. I know in the past, criminals have used fraudulent accounts at local mailbox rental stores, which they rent for a month and then dump.

Point is, there are plenty of ways to launder shipments, if you are doing it with a plan and at scale.
Hola,

Sorry to hear about the rejection. If fb/google/goldman sachs/blackstone/kkr hires a stanford mba, instead of you, it has nothing to do with you being a latino. It has everything to do with the fact that you are not a harvard/stanford MBA. If you were a harvard/stanford latino mba, they would have hired you.

Tech/VC/HB/PE/IB elite companies look for elite credentials. That's how the American system works: lack of 'culture fit'.

What is 'culture fit'? You can answer it negatively.

1. You don't have an elite mba (harvard/stanford)
2. You don't have an elite undergard (hyp, s, etc)
3. You don't have an elite job pedigree (you haven't worked for McKinsey, BCG, GS, etc)
4. You don't have elite genes (you are not a kid of a billionaire/senator/president/dictator of Pakistan/etc)
5. you are not a wealthy white (you are not a Rockefeller)

You can add many more to the list.

There was a time Stanford MBAs wanted to work for PE firms like Blackstone, KKR, etc. Now Facebook product mgmt roles attracting/recruting Stanford MBA's tells a story about how the valley has changed over the time: more routes are closed for ordinary mortals, esp if you don't want to be a programmer.
The autotune of acting!!!
And writing the algorithms. And setting policies. And employing the moderator. And ...

Whether this privileged position leads to different treatment for YC companies is a different question -- as Dan says, they try not to be biased and potentially even overcompensate. Still, the privileged position is certainly there.
When I hear the Faceboo-React people talk about "MVC", it seems like their experience of the term is from Native-UI frameworks, especially those with active Views that call themselves "MVC".

Then we have "Javascript MVC" frameworks like Angular, which have "bindings" and this makes them MVC.

Then I think about the Server-side web programmers (i.e. Rails) which are also "MVC" that render the whole response for a request.. the view is often just a template. This is also "MVC".

Basically the term has completely lost it's meaning at this point.. It's simply a pejorative term now, because we don't take the time to name/reveal the particular things we don't like about certain frameworks, we just call them MVC.
How can you tell it's disobeying standard JLS semantics?
Shit and unreliable? Sounds like a description of Europe and their politicians.
> "Apple's market (capitalization) has risen from less than $2 billion to over $16 billion under Steve's leadership since his return to the company two and a half years ago," Apple board member Ed Woolard said in a statement.

> "Steve has taken no compensation thus far, and we are therefore delighted to give him this airplane in appreciation of the great job he has done for our shareholders during this period," Woolard said.

http://www.cnet.com/news/apples-jobs-gets-jet-shares-in-bonu...
This is a static site, at least from the examples given. Using MVC to build it is a way to go but it seems like his way is equally pointless.

Let's take some strings and hardcode them into JS and make the user's browser render this page dynamically every time it's loaded instead of WRITING SOME STATIC HTML... It's all well and good to try a new way of doing things but writing a blog post decrying MVC frameworks for a static site that you're building dynamically with javascript is silly.
I don't buy your premise: I'm pretty sure the number of JS-disabling users has dropped significantly and we're getting to a point where it's acceptable to require JS. Server-Side rendering is implemented to satisfy search engines (and even that's changing) or to speed up the first page load.

Your second point is a tautology. Of course it's impossible to run JS code on the server if you don't want to run JS code and the server and don't want to rewrite it in another language. FWIW, both ES5/6 as well as coffeescript vastly improve 'callback hell'
Mark Lombardi’s Narrative Structures and Other Mappings of Power Relations
It looks to me this article is mostly about client side development. As an all round developer, I usually think about MVC in the backend (server side). Now that I recently got more into bigger client side applications it does surprise me there aren't any good MVC kind of libraries/frameworks. To my taste there isn't any good satisfying way to efficiently manage a lot of data on the client side.

I'm talking about doing complex querys on your data done through a sophisticated ORM like that of Django for example. Having relations in your data instead of having to loop trough all your arrays or doing REST calls all the time.

In that aspect I think there's still a lot of nice steps to be made in client side development.
Well, given that the person a pharmacist, I would hope that's not the advice they give.
> Say a professor starts a company, is it ethical for him to ask students to work for him? If a student starts a company, and an influential professor wants a board seat, can the 19yo student comfortably say no?

I'm not sure why these are particular concerns with a venture fund backed by the University's investment office focused on endeavors emerging from the university community (faculty, staff, and alumni.) They are issues that, to the extent that they exist with such a venture, exist whenever students and faculty members are involved in business ventures (no matter whether they receive funding for those ventures from a university-affiliated venture fund), and are quite likely already addressed in university academic ethics and conduct rules.
HN does favor YC startups by letting them post job ads, and YC alums by coloring their usernames. It's important to realize, though, that those two things are all the special treatment YC companies get on HN.

Some other things people sometimes think we do, like promote or penalize stories because they're YC-related, we consciously err on the side of not doing. That's the #1 rule of HN moderation and was literally the first thing pg taught me about it.
Sounds a little bit crazy to me at first but when thinking about it, it is a nice idea.

May you should take a look at Rump Kernels and build your stuff on top. Then you do not need to implement the OS stuff - It's done already. May I am wrong but it seems to be a similiar idea but the following project is currently at the OS level only but some applications like ngnix are working already. I was very confused when I first read about Rump Kernels and after reading a while and watching some conference talks a lot of stuff made sense to me even if I do not understand in detail what they are doing.

http://rumpkernel.org/

https://github.com/rumpkernel
Yahoo is FuckedCompany.com in slow motion
Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No”
>the urban blight there is exclusively a product of systemic racism against blacks in the United States.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=detroit+indus...
It might give people a good jumping-off point for figuring out which set of arguments is fact and which is bunk.
"Legislating, voting & budgeting all in one platform "

Sounds like what kickstarter should be or the key functionality of a working DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization).
I didn't realised they finally got the guy to sell firefox.com. They had to use mozilla.org/getfirefox.com for ages.
Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
Why you should always use HTTPS
The shadow from a balloon six kilometres up is basically non-existent. When was the last time you noticed a shadow from an overflying jetliner cruising at that height?
Show HN: Daterangepicker for jQuery and Knockout
Hey, game developers: Adding chat can help revenues soar
Ended up writing my own (more-or-less API-compatible) GeoIP server after the free Telize service shut down: https://github.com/kz26/balise
He later demanded backdated stock. A lot of it. And he got it. He also demanded the jet.
Well, it helps that Tencent simply had to observe the West then copy them for product ideas, due to China's isolated Internet.

ICQ/MSN? QQ

eBay? PaiPai

WhatsApp? WeChat

Dropbox? Weiyun

PayPal? TenPay

Uber? Dididache

Those are just copies of Western products, they even have an extensive history of copying other Chinese companies to the point that the CEOs of Alibaba and SINA have accused Tencent of blatant copying.

In response, quoting straight from Tencent's CEO and chairman:
"[To] copy is not evil."

They do have quite a bit of innovation too, but I'd say the company is about 50% copy and 50% innovation.
That one gets disabled with the new update, I believe.
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Also, I'm on a fairly recent MBP Retina and that page is really laggy for me. Chrome 47.0.2526.80
Nobody has commented yet. I can only guess this is because all agree: it goes without saying that this sweeping generalisation is patently untrue.

Still, allow me to humor you and give just one (of the many) reason(s) why: async I/O.

Yes, it's possible in Java. Yes, Java has futures that make it not just possible, but also a reality in this universe.

Unfortunately, Java has made the inconvenient decision to retain backwards compatibility and keep all its synchronous I/O operations available. Perhaps not a complete folly. For all of the good that decision has brought, there is one downside: any code (any lib) can still lock up an entire OS thread. Result: all libs actually do this. No matter how Future-istic your codebase; use any lib and you're back to sync I/O.[1] This is absolutely killing for high concurrency, I/O bound servers, who now lock up not just an FD or two per conn, but also an entire OS thread.

Javascript's threading model, on the other hand, is so shit that it came out the other side. By being inherently single threaded, all blocking I/O must be done through callbacks. Result: you can't block an OS level thread in javascript! So all libraries are inherently async (from the OS level).

There are, of course, many more reasons why Java is not "much better suitable for the server side than node", but this is just one of them (libraries, existing knowledge in your org, community, ...). In reality, both have their uses. Node has proven itself by now.

Disclaimer: I actually hate Javascript. And Java. Including Java 8 (for all the shit it, wisely, keeps around).

[1] E.g. Amazon's official AWS SDK, which is sync IO. Want async IO for S3 (or anything there)? Write it yourself. Which you won't. Because there's already a lib. "But it's not async!" // TODO.
That's why you need land value taxes. Let them rich people (foreigners and locals alike) bid up the land all they like---and pay higher taxes.