skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument seems to be that app developers aren't doing very well on the app store, and you're looking to the free and open web as the place where vast sums of money will be made? For the vast majority of these apps, I beg to differ. The web plays by the same rules as the app ecosystem: it's very expensive to monetize, unless of course you are creating value for someone who has money and minimal friction when paying.

"Unfortunately, the web platform itself wasn’t quite ready for the spotlight yet. It was sort of possible to build web apps that looked and performed like native apps..."

Are you talking about 2007 or 2016? Native apps will always outperform non-native apps - and not because of any emotional or "political" reason - but for perfectly obvious technical reasons. Web apps have an extra layer between themselves and the hardware. Native apps do not (or, at least, the layer is much thinner). Even if web apps increase in speed another 100x, native apps will be right there too.

Look, at the end of the day, use Android or iOS. I don't care. I've used both. But don't switch for this reason.
You don't need miners at all, if you're not worried about censorship resistance. You can use Ethereum with a single validator. That means you don't need a token (ether) and you get instant transactions. Plus it prevents the hacker issue above.
I don't want to pay per article and I don't think that it will catch on like that despite it being an idea that theoretically makes sense. I just don't think people conceptualise the value of articles like that and will find it a difficult proposition beyond the generic tech crowd.
Google Is Sharing Its Powerful AI with Everyone in Its Cloud
Science Exchange (YC S11) Announces $25M in New Funding
Power doesn’t make you a leader, caring does
Ignore who the guy is, read the article, form an opinion. You may find it interesting.
That's exactly what it is. And now they're going to take these LOIs to Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity, and any other money manager, say "We have $5B in signed LOIs for a Mach 2.2 airplane. Would you like to help us build it?", raise a few hundred million in capital, and then hire a lot of bored aerospace engineers out of Boeing, Lockheed, and Airbus to actually make it a reality. Or try, at least. If they can't build it, the financiers are out their money, but that's a risk they willingly bet on, and by getting the LOIs Boom has de-risked the other serious problem.

Before the late 1970s, this is how most businesses were created: big-talking entrepreneur promises something awesome to customers, signs them up, uses that promise to get money from financiers, uses that money to recruit the specialized talent that will actually build the product. Software threw a monkey-wrench into that, because having more people is actually a disadvantage when building v1 of a software product. But in many industries, the only way you can make progress is by lining up a number of commitments from people, all of whom bring something different to the table, and then hoping you can work out all the details later.
That sounds like "curl -O $URL" which writes to the current directory using the basename of $URL.
Ωpm – Check for Signed Messages from Package Developers
> Pretty much all they can do when they see a blinking light is take the car to a mechanic.

Why? Don't they have OBD-2 readers?
Thank you for this comment, I was wondering if I was the only one who managed to interpret the email exchange in this context.

I guess that both parties would benefit by being a little more verbose and clearer.
PriceZombie shutting down end of the month because of Amazon
If you normally eat "a lot" of sugar, then you'd expect your withdrawal symptoms to be pretty severe and prolonged relative to people who eat normal (still excessive) amounts.

I had about 3 weeks of brain fog and crappy feeling, and then felt 120% better. It's quite literally a withdrawal that you're experiencing.

And because it's been linked to diabetes, obesity, dementia, tooth decay, etc? And we're only putting more and more of it into our food?
Aren't Malaysian still using the "MH" designation?
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"But a reasonable person should be able to sort things out."

We have two articles on the front page condemning a two second soundbite at a keynote which was vetted by one of the most image conscious companies on the planet. I don't think your statement is true. If a code of conduct does not treat everyone as equals then it sets up a dynamic that will cause some group of people to shutdown and not participate.
> But in a situation like that, I can't blame npm because their hand was forced

was it really though? can you show me where NPM had any kind of obligation to unilaterally take one side in this dispute?
> No, not that kind of offensive. I gave the larping.org guy $10 for legal fees, even though LARPers are strange folk unlike us normal, sane tabletop RPG players.

Ok, I laughed. It's kind of true though, I'm always reminded of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ04mfAY2BU

I had a roommate that was into melee, where they'd all get together and make fake weapons and then fight. They had a point system and everything, it was interesting to watch.
If you don't care about political views of presenters, there's no need to bring inclusion to the table; just consider their technical talents and call it a day.

If you actually care about inclusion, you need to think about how including backwards-views that oppose inclusion itself could affect your effort. Banning only physically violent behavior is behind the times, it's obvious there are many ways of harming someone without lifting a finger. If you're supporting inclusion for inclusions's sake, including everyone may make sense. But if you really care about people who depend on you including them, it's obvious some measures must be taken to create a safe environment for the underrepresented.
Aspirin can kill in a pretty random fashion too - it is just much harder to show an association in these random cases. The risk is low, but there is always some risk with any drug.

Oral contraceptives are one of those interesting drugs where not taking it is more dangerous than taking it (pregnancy is much more dangerous than the pill). If any drug should be available over the counter and heavily subsidised it is oral contraceptives.
Which, perhaps, could have been arranged, were not for the childish responses?
I did not know of this extension, and I am now a happier person. Thanks!
Opposite experience with a Nexus 6P--it's the best phone I ever had, and my wife who has an iPhone 6 looks with envy at what I do with mine.
I'd call those criticisms spurious. First off, the Concorde had a unit cost of £23 million in 1977 - about $130 million in 2016 dollars – for a plane 2.5x the size. An early-bird unit price of $200m doesn't seem all that unreasonable. Secondly, why should they have to amortize all their development costs on the very first sale?

Yes, there's still a ton of technical work to be done. But it's a hell of a lot easier to hire smart people and raise the funding you need to build stuff when you've decisively proven the business case for your product.
And its his decision alone that makes it worth it, indeed. Nothing to do with economic pressure.
This is the best synopsis I've seen of the communication breakdown in the thread.

All this angst from the lack of a 'c' in the cutesy name of a Yeoman clone...
That's a very slippery slope. Kik is an app and company that has been going on for years. It existed long before Azer's "kik" and, even if Azer does not know what it is, most people know "Kik" as the phone app and not the bootstrapping tool.

To extrapolate this incident to "companies will start snatching up three letter names, and nothing will ever be able to use a three letter name" is ridiculous.
"mistakenly deleted" there fixed it and avoided pointing a single person.
> how many things Atom gets wrong

Like what? I'm starting using it and I'd like to know.
For me "Continuity" [1] (ie phone call on computer if I can't find my iphone) is the killer feature for why I stick with Apple.

I know there are is something sort of like it for Android but someone showed it to me and it didn't really work.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681
Other airplanes have crashed too. I think it was deemed a fairly safe aircraft, they had some trouble with tyres, but that shouldn't be impossible to resolve.
You have your lossy compression turned up way too high.

"We want this name. Will you sell it to us?"

"No. I'll actually release something else with that name" [implied by 'I'm actually building a project etc]

"If you do release a project by that name, then our lawyers will have no choice but to enforce the trademark"

The rest of the exchange I can sort of agree with, but when you are actually negotiating, you don't usually call people names. That usually is grounds for terminating the negotiation, which happened.
But Android users never update there OS and there is a lot of old Android OS versions to support, correct? Additionally, the device manufacturers control the OS distribution and what's included.
yup, i have always maintained it is a recursive/fractal/recurrence thing where 90% of the remaining 10% is crap, ad nauseum. crap all the way down.
I don't understand why this is seen as required. A Nexus phone if very modular and easy to use.
Not yet, but it's on our list! and an HN user who works for them has personally committed to budging me if I don't get it done in the next month or two.

The way it works right now is that we have a keyboard shortcut to open the archive.org page for a url posted to HN—kind of like the 'past' and 'web' links we display at the top of /item pages, except faster [1]—and we use that when trying to find the date of an article. Sometimes the archive doesn't have it yet, in which case we click the link to add it.

1. Actually a number of HN features have started as moderator keyboard shortcuts. It would be fun to release that software, but... time.
The way his comment read to me is he felt compelled to tinker because of flaws in the device like bad firmware or poor design that didn't seem to work well for him.

So he switched to a device that worked well enough so he did not feel that compulsion. After all, he could equally choose to jail break his iOS device and tinker with it. But there's no reason (for him) to do so.
Will this require an update to groupme? If so, the site should mention that.
You don't maintain CPU's. 1,000,000,000+ parts and it just works.
The Chevy Volt is a fun hybrid that tiptoes into the future
Only one for me: get the previous icon back! I've really tried to like the new one but I still miss your previous icon.

Joke aside, HackerWeb is an awesome example of a webapp done right. It's the only web app on my home screen, and my favorite Hacker news reader on mobile, beating any native app I've tried.
Awesome job! Do you have any feedback about issues your encounter for the development? I'm thinking about iOS updates, responsive design with iPad etc... ?
A conversation between Tay and a parody Twitter personality:
https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712737096528625665
I'm pretty sure the news networks are ecstatic that Trump is in the news. Their incentive is not really aligned with delivering scientific information.
https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...
This problem is largely solved in npm 3.
They were not "forced" by court order or any other legal means, but they were "forced" because I can imagine going to court over the entire ordeal would have been incredibly draining on their finances and manpower and ultimately pointless. I'm willing to bet that whatever fallout this results in for npm (even as big as this has become) is ten times better than whatever would have happened if they'd decided to fight Kik over it. They probably just wouldn't exist anymore as a company.
Deep learning solution for the Netflix prize
Honest question here: I thought US citizen could talk to his representative and discuss with him that he (citizen) concerned with that kind of bill. Isn't how democracy works in US?
Some investors don't believe that an oil price rebound is inevitable in the medium term. Boom is a great opportunity for such an investor, because it has different characteristics than does selling options.
I look forward to the day when this will include magazines and papers from most countries, rather than just Holland or the US. The one-stop access has attractions. However, at the moment, it does not seem possible to even switch between these two. (New User)
In my last job I was a member of an IT team of three, one guy was the CIO + he did sysadmin and IT support for an office of about 60. I did sysadmin and support for about half a dozen offices, 200 odd staff, in two countries with a geographical spread of several hundred kilometres. The third guy was support and sysadmin for our US office which had about 12 people (cushy job). I popped out there once for a week or so to help train the guy on our new systems. They had an old backup system that copied diffs to disk which he had to take home every day, but he didn't like doing that so they invested in a very expensive off site system. I was having a dig around when I was over there and it appeared to me that the diffs hadn't been happening. I confronted the guy and he said that he hadn't set it up yet and knew that would bite him in the ass eventually. They hadn't run any backups for six months, but he had been giving positive reports to both his manager and the rest of the IT team about the hard work he was putting in setting it up, and how it had been so reliably backing up, we celebrated when the first full copy of data finally finished, etc. Needless to say he lost his job.

We were very lucky that I caught it.
> would subject a manufacturer or operating system provider that knowingly failed to comply with that requirement to a civil penalty of $2,500 for each smartphone sold or leased

And Apple just two days ago announced they have 1 billion of active iOS devices!
That's probably what all the clauses about leasing in CA are for.
Many Chinese citizens' digital lives exist solely on Wechat. You can even hail a taxi from Wechat.
I'm not aware of any RFCs on the matter either. Some DNS servers do this to protect against DNS rebinding attacks, though.
dupe, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845
Polite request from kik
Maybe not professional at all times, but what about polite?
According to a deleted tweet by someone in the know; everyone on the LAN would be able to get admin rights.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3047221/techology-business/...
Ok, what kind of assistance do you need? Note that someone reading your posts here would not be able to give you the help you want, with what you've currently written up.

Specifically, someone who "just needs assistance" could be someone who can't even /spell/ Powershell, or someone who has a script that isn't quite working. Or somewhere in between those two.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845

Also, please don't editorialize titles.
I accidentally all the data...
Intel ditching tick-tock, shifting to three-stage CPU generations
They didn't say hate speech was not bannable. They simply confirmed that the potential of hate speech is not sufficient to preemptively ban an individual without significant evidence. That seems about as much protection as you can provide without just permanently banning people who have ever expressed non-inclusive world views.
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Actually, I suspect you're right. I was being a bit generous with my characterization. :-) Maintaining the status quo allows Intel to add significant margin to their enterprise solutions.
I do not find it offensive. But, I do know people who found it offensive, and wanted it changed. If that is the case, I can see no particular reason not to change the name.

Who exactly is being excluded? No-one (it seems to me) watch attached to .bro, it only existed for a couple of days.
I hear what you are saying. I have a very large number of cores in my workstation and it's disappointing/frustrating how many applications—most poignantly, Mozilla Thunderbird—are in practice single-threaded. Even using Firefox with Electrolysis and a bumped dom.ipc.processCount setting yields an experience that seems routinely stuck waiting for a single user interface thread to do something.

And multithreaded JavaScript for webapps seems like a pipedream. Virtually no one uses Web Workers because they were designed to avoid sharing data between threads, making them inordinately cumbersome to use in any routine/real-world cases.

There is a lot of room for improvement across many fronts. But I am hopeful it will occur sooner or later because I suspect adding more cores will be easier than increasing the speed or each core for the foreseeable future.
How a single validator any better than relying on, let's say, Keybase?
I think it's more developers getting lazy. Why bother with SIMD and GPUs when you can write in a high level language like javascript, design with HTML / CSS, deploy your app with embedded libchromium and have a faster time to market. SSDs and fast CPUs have made efficient software somewhat of a rarity these days.
What is the importance of an LOI? Its non binding. So why does it matter, except as a PR exercise?
>Maybe I am misinformed but I was under the impression part of the reason concorde was retired is because at those speeds you tear up the ozone.

That really wasn't a reason for the Concorde's retirement. It was an old plane. It was marginal economically. It had a fatal accident. And then, just as it was returning to service, the travel slump after 9/11 happened.

Environmental opposition was one factor in the cancellation of the Boeing SST program. Although the bigger one was almost certainly that it didn't make economic sense.
"There's no problem that sales can't solve."

Well, except if you want to sell your company at some point in the future or actually have some idea of COGS or know how you are actually doing.
I guess we can agree to disagree on that one. Every trend we look into, we see signs of it's death from memory prices to Intel's struggles on recent chips.
Thank you -- that's the one.
Where did this come from? Is someone planning a remake?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343993
Key sentence:

> The Google Cloud Speech API, which will cover over 80 languages and will work with any application in real-time streaming or batch mode, will offer full set of APIs for applications to “see, hear and translate,” Google says.
That's so interesting, thanks for sharing!
I think this more directly competes with the IBM Watson speech API, not Nuance?
In the last 3 months I bought 2 Toshiba 13 inch Chromebook for $300.
"A properly configured iPad, leveraging iCloud for device backups, photo backups, email credentials etc, solves all of these problems."
but a Chromebook does all of that with close to zero configuration with a device that has a built-in keyboard, and a 13 inch 1080P screen. You do loose the touch interface, but end up paying roughly half of the iPad's price.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343993
I find actually meaningful engagement on Twitter can help ease the "cold call". What is meaningful engagement? It'll depend on the person/industry but something for THEM rather than for YOU.
What makes me wonder is that nobody mentions the fact that they'd have a really hard time to fight for the 3-letter word "kik". A quick search in the USPTO's Tess database or WIPO's ROMARIN shows that there are way too many registrations under this name to make protection of a word mark likely (disclaimer: I'm very far from being a trademark expert, just interested in all the shenanigans some companies try to play under the name of patent/copyright/trademark laws).

Edit: Even worse, they don't seem to have a word mark registered. It's a design plus words mark (so basically, they protected their logo, not the word "kik"). http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:1rt...
Three US hospitals hit by ransomware
My point here is not about declining 2013-2016 years of BCC business.

My point is about growth in ~2008-2012.

Back then in Patrick's stories that growth looked impressive. The same ~2008-2012 years of BCC business do not look as impressive anymore.

Now we can see how BCC was time-consuming business with profits that are not really exciting for software developer.

That said, the learning aspects of BCC for all of us still look great: baseline for our businesses, realistic expectations, and relevant know-how.
I doubt any spacegoing rocket will ever be expected to match the durability and maintenance schedule of e.g. the average 767.
that the parameters are not codependent, as it's called in linear algebra, perhaps?
I never found it very hard because I spent time in an academic environment where grad students & professors call and write each other all the time. They are not going to research your credential in 15 minute so you don't need an academic affiliation, the fact that you are reading what they write is a good enough connection.

If I have a focused question about their work and have a PMA about it, I would say my success rate is awfully close to 100%, in fact I cannot think of a time where I did not get a thoughtful response.

Anyway, Tim Ferris talks about this in the "4 hour work week" and says pretty much what I told you. It may be intimidating if you are not in the habit, but people who write books and other literature are usually very happy to hear from readers. Getting a whole hour might be tough, but 10-15 min on the phone is not that hard.
>A: Both iOS and android have fully capable web browsers, I'm not sure what's missing here ?

Specifically he mentions his WebRTC video streaming app "just works" on Android Chrome and Firefox.

http://caniuse.com/stream

According to that, it does not work on iOS Safari. Not any version. Ever. Apple only allows Safari on iOS. Therefore, any application that would like to do streaming will have to be native on iOS. Will have to pay Apple a 30% tax. Will have to live with Apple's approval and release schedules.

Apple has allowed Safari to stagnate in significant areas that would permit web apps to compete with native apps. This isn't another iOS vs Android flame war. It's more an indictment of Apple's development priorities on the mobile browser.
There was an attempt recently but it was aborted. The concept art looked a touch dodgy too me (pink tiger strips on spaceships) so I'm kinda glad it never became anything.

Wish someone would do a full scale remake though (LotR style big)
pretty disgusting, but completely unsurprising.
The KKK is a political position with sizable historical backing. I don't see how this is relevant to either side of the argument here.
already submitted 10+ times in the past 2 hours, discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845
Building Custom Elements in TVML
> If you don't want to implement it - it's fine, don't, I understand it.

If you want to address a unique instance, do it by instance ID. If you want to address all of them, use the command example Mike put forth. To add an index is redundant. Use fabric if you're interested in that level of control.

Not SSHing to your instances works just fine, until you need to tweak a knob without launching a new instance, or get logs that you didn't know you needed to get. If you feel the need to get on the immutable infrastructure hype train though, go for it.
Eh. The EFF sorta handwaves genericide there, but that's literally the exact reason why companies do this stuff, and it is a real concern.

> This is very rare and would not be a problem for Canonical unless people start saying “Ubuntu” simply to mean “operating system.”

Well, yeah, but that's what can happen when you don't police it. That's sorta the point of policing it, so that that exact scenario does not come to pass.