skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know no one likes to hear this but rewards are generally about risk. Someone, investors, risked their money. If their investment failed they'd be out $$$$$$$. Employees rarely risk anything. They get paid $$$$$$ a year. If the company fails they made $$$$ a month for the time they were employed.

Now of course the response will be the employee took a risk by joining risky company A instead of stable company B or by risking a lower salary for potentially higher rewards but those risks are far far lower than the investors risks and hence get far far lower rewards.

If you want the bigger return you have to take the bigger risk (in general)
I agree with pretty much everything in this article - I firmly believe that we're due a "post-app" world where progressively enhanced web sites provide 95% of the functionality we require. But we're not there yet - I'd love to see better WebView integration into native UI components (UINavigationController and the like), to provide things like swipe-to-go-back, which is monumentally hard to do on the web.

But hey. Maybe, just maybe, we'll end up back in a world were cross-platform development is viable. If Apple lets us.
Even if you have all that, you still need to trust that the data was collected as described and without any hidden biasing effects – so, again, you're trusting the authority of the author(s)...

It's turtles all the way down, in some ways, but I don't disagree with you – code and data are a critical first step and they enable both the verification of findings and better chances at accurately testing the verifiability of the research. It's much better to go out and get your own data and compare apples to apples with the same analytic process (assuming you agree with the analytic process which you should assess even before collecting data, but I digress...)
There have been links to child porn in the Bitcoin blockchain. To date, this has not resulted in any courts preventing full nodes from running in the US.
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Posted above by JeanMertz - "... in The Netherlands, there's already a collective of journalists who created a non-profit umbrella organisation to represent freelance writers, who have been onboarded into our system."

Seems like a good case study is in the making.
> the most out of wack of any industry of all time.

While I cautiously agree, the pedant in me feels the need to remind everyone of the number of industries that have built on the backs of slavery where each individual may not have added much measurable value to the prospective company's bottom line, the fact that the wages were 0 means they were still infinitely worse off than any of us.

Considering there are large industries around the world that still operate based on this model (search Thailand fishing slavery), I need not have even used the past tense.

Just a little perspective before we all return to complaining about our first world injustices.
I have an i7 930, I bought in 2010. Like hell I could benefit from a USD 600 iPad Pro. His statement actually only shows me how preposterous it is to buy an iPad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
As someone who had to develop for that thing - it was underpowered from day 1. iPhone 3GS hardware with 5x the number of pixels to push and higher expectations on software capability? It was never going to work.
The article itself cites things like the lack of support for WebRTC and Service Workers.
It does feel like an MTU issue. I'd grab a tcpdump at all 3 points (server, host, vm) and see what is getting dropped.

From what I know about tc, to only delay ip6 traffic you've got to create a root qdisc that has multiple subclasses (like tc-prio [0]), and attach tc-netem to one while passing the other straight through. Then classify packets between the two, although I'd do that with iptables rather than figuring out any more of the tc workings that necessary.

[0] The default pfifo_fast has multiple subclasses, but from what I remember it had some problem with child qdiscs?
Those people deserve criticism, because they're making bad decisions.
Actually it was mentioned in the post: "I told Julie it had to be something terrible. I mean, a car company? We’d run reports on the launches of new vehicles, lots of them. They never looked like this."

So they knew it wasn't about a new car model, but some negative event.
About 1.5 million nodes (not that big), most of queries followed 3-4 edges.

Joins are good. :)
>FUD

So this video is wrong? He made TWO videos showing how easily Nexus 6P bends because people accused him of faking it the first time.

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIaUH6PIvo

Fact is that Nexus 6P is incredibly poorly engineered due to the placement of various button cutouts and battery position.

Can you take your phone and do what he did and prove him wrong? Go ahead. Until then, this is not FUD and your post is nothing more than a rationalization.
Every company that does this loses all their auditing capabilities on the systems that use these accounts. Not good.
You need to get better chocolate. I have had the 6p for over 3 months now and try as I might I cannot bend it. I don't see how the phone can bend in 99% use case scenarios.
i think the author is trying to make a buck selling ready made logos for silly unicorns...
> There are just some things that a web browser should not do. Exposing things that previously required escape from sandbox attacks is one of them.

Why is it any different from an app doing it, though? There will be the same permission prompts etc.
I figured it was fiction by the end, but I couldn't really tell. I can't tell the difference between fiction/satire and reality anymore. The world is too strange.
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+1. To most people, a (computer, laptop, tablet, phone, ...) is a tool. For many, it's a tool that lets them use Facebook/Instagram/Word/Excel; they don't care HOW or WHAT they use as long as it lets them do those things in a way that doesn't slow them down.

An iPad Pro is very good at filling in the gaps for MANY MANY people. The only problem with it is that its much more expensive than a second-hand computer (a relatively new Dell refurb with low end, but "good enough" parts, costs ~$400 with a monitor. Same deal with a cheap laptop).
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I would love to know what sort of problem has such an odd solution.
Hah! You made it sound like it was a more recent thing.

What did high tech mean back then? Banging some rocks together to make fire?
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HN would be unusable if everyone stopped writing comments and just pasted links to an ephemeral third-party service.
Fascinating. There may or may not have been anything in its neural net when it went live, but there certainly is a lot of content in it now!

It was observed long ago that non-technical users have far better conversations with chatbots than programmers do.[1]

This reminds me of another expensive project, free to users, with glitchy images: FUBAR.[2]

Non-technical users will actually say things like "When somebody asks you 'x' you should say 'y'" to a bot.

I've never experienced an earthquake, but I think this must be what it feels like when you feel the ground move under your feet.

s/ Good thing corporations have all the resources. /s

EDIT: Sorry, lost my train of thought there and said the opposite of what I meant to. I'll try again:

s/ Good thing corporations have all the resources. /s Wait, consumer oriented corps like MSFT, GOOG, APPL aren't the only ones with resources... TLAs and banks have the rest of (or more of?) the resources!

1. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/09/alan-turing-at... ctrl+f 'ELIZA'

2. http://fubar.com Note: they mention how REAL the users are. ;P
>I wonder why NyQuil is outside of quotes. Did a professor of medicine really make such an unbelievable mistake?

It's more likely the professor either talked about NyQuil in a follow-up question where the direct quote did not flow nicely, or expounded on it in much longer length than the author wanted to quote directly.
I just tried the https://www.pokedex.org/ site on Chrome for Android, and I could add it to my home screen, but that doesn't add it to my app drawer.

That is annoying, I don't want it on my home screen but it seems to be the only way to turn it into a 'native app'.

I don't think Progressive Web Apps are ready for the mainstream, but I'm hopeful that in the next few years we can get there.
If you'd like to see the evolution of the actual startups themselves, check out a project I've been working on for about a year ... it now has over 500 startups listed on the site:
http://www.startuptimelines.org/
I would make a counter-case that scientists don't get much credit from the scientific community for communicating with the public, which funds their research, engages potential students, etc.

An extreme case is Issac Asimov who dropped out of the rat race of academia and writing Sci Fi with L. Ron Hubbard for a penny a word and wrote decades of monthly essays about science for the public that were a big reason why I went for a PhD. He didn't contribute hugely in terms of research or traditional teaching, but his impact was immense.

Also, Carl Sagan's involvement in Cosmos and the books he wrote overshadows a completely solid career in space and planetary science.
Yep, this was just a false alarm. Guy should update his blog to say he was mistaken.
While we're at it, let's please stop referring to people as mere resources. We are fellow human beings, people with feelings and needs and desires. Degrading people as "resources" goes hand-in-hand with referring to them as being "poached".

I hear this from managers and project coordinator types, not from fellow hackers, so I'm probably preaching to the choir. It might help to prudently point out dehumanizing language when we hear it.
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Hi! Creator of HackerWeb here, just wondering what kind of additional functionality that you're expecting?
You can't downvote submissions.
The algorithms differ considerably across language and the PHP one is particularly inefficient. The algorithms must be held constant in order for this "benchmark" to be valid.

As of right now this is just a programming competition across a variety of languages.
I think the real problem is that new updates to iphone software are not capable of being run on old iPhones. Thus, the older, yet still physically capable, phones are softly obsoleted.

There is no reason there shouldnt be a 3G, 4, 4S capable of owrking and in the hands of "the poor"

Why not a turn-in system where older yet still functioning phones are given to anyone who wants them.

I personally am guilty of not properly handling my old phones. I've had every single generation of the iPhone since the initial launch. I've broken 17 of them to date. I have no clue where the other 16 are now, aside from one.

I'd happily have contributed my old phones to some program where either poor or kids can have them freely.
Not with Facebook or Google...
You're right, but I was not trying to make a 1:1 comparison, but saying that properties servers seem to have in spades I'd really appreciate seeing in other markets, but that segment seems rarely catered to. (Let me gesture as well to my 2.5 year old phone whose irreplaceable battery is currently ballooning)

My statement addressed the "whole computer" as well, although the FS example was very much a special niche tool, I'd go so far as to say 90% of novel software features that have necessitated hardware refreshes in the last... decade? I could probably live without. This may be mildly hyperbole, but I hope the spirit of my statement comes across. I want to spend less time replacing/fixing my platforms and more time with them "just working".
IMHO that's still a very large database today. Most people don't appreciate that restoring that is likely going to be 4-8 hours given SAN and network speeds unless you're in a super modern SSD-driven environment.

When it goes higher, 5TB, 10TB, 15TB, that's out of my league, and I just say days of downtime. Also remembering those are often spread across two servers like in an Availability Group, which means two restores...

I know people will pipe in and talk about partitioning and read-only file groups and partial restores. Except that in the real world I've seen zero of it, and it's not general DBA knowledge, it's likely the top 1% or even 0.1%.

And even then you'll still have massive downtime (depending on how the application is architected to support this), and you'd better have bullet-proof testing (and 20TB spare disk space to repeatedly test it with), to make sure a complex restore like that is easy to carry out while under the pump of an outage.
How can a test detect a hijacked dependency that acts exactly like the original, but with a backdoor?
The references to the Facebook offices are all a little bit off. For example building 20 is engineering, it wouldn't make sense for the author to go there for a walk without a good reason.

Also, if you've ever analysed any traffic the graphs are clearly fake. Trends don't decay that quickly. And the normal levels would have waves due to seasonal changes, weekends and so on. Type "VW" into Google trends to see what I mean.
The "Miller's Law" entry seems wrong in more than one way...

Does anybody know to which Miller it refers to?
I suppose you could use it whilst you charge your phone at night?
Interesting, I see the same thing, though it hadn't occurred to me. Seems easily fixable, though I agree that we're not there yet.

However, I have uninstalled the Facebook app from my phone, and now receive push notifications from the mobile website, which I have on my home screen. It's a fantastic experience.
Yep! I'd recommend reading the short story, skipping the novel:

https://www.robinsloan.com/books/penumbra/short-story/

I felt like the book was mostly filler added after the popularity of the short story.
Thanks, glad to hear that you're thinking about it. Hopefully you won't encounter that sort of manipulation.
Trying to help with damage control: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346633
The article price points are always so bizarre. The whole paper is $1.50 or $2 and they want 40c for 1 article?

This is an extremely difficult nut to crack but Blendle's is the best approach I have seen so far.

I think success will rely upon brand name content, a good preview so buyers know what they're getting, the auto-refund thing and 10-50c pricing per article.
I was thinking about selling Windows to a non-profit foundation for a while now.
I can't find a single iOS app I use that needs either of these.
Do you mean like npm's shrinkwrap [1]?

[1] https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/shrinkwrap
> Maybe in areas where 99% of the kids would qualify anyway?

Yes. Which there are a lot of, because poverty is so extremely concentrated.
Some "frameworks" put a ton of work into accessibility.

The Polymer team's entire element catalog is accessible with ARIA integration done with assistance from Chrome's dedicated accessibility engineers. We even provide reusable abstractions that make writing your own accessible elements easier, like iron-a11y-announcer and iron-a11y-keys.

Accessibility was a big topic at our last Polymer Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yLWihykVA
> implementing agreed upon standards

Yeah, except most of your users' devices are still running 2+ year old software versions.
Good job Nik!
Keep the functional semantics and functions, but with the basic Go syntax. If, as others have said, they don't see the parenthesis after using LISP for a while, then why bother adding them into Go in the first place?
I didn't read any "anger" in the article... I thought the points were well founded. I also like the comments to the article regarding the recycle-ability of the materials Apple uses and their program - however, as I mentioned in another comment, I have had 17 different iPhones and I have no clue what happened to ~15 of them.

So I think, in general, we REALLY need to start (I need to start) becoming more conscientious of how we consume personal electronics.

EDIT: I just want to point out that your comment is fantastic, and you make great points! I just wanted to state that I didnt perceive "anger" in the OP article.
Looks like a layman's version of Spread[1] Great and simple solution!

[1] https://github.com/redspread/spread
I challenge someone to tell me the difference between npm and an RCE.

"npm" is two things in this picture: the server and centralized service, and the software tool on everyone's build/dev machines.

Folks have historically been happy trusting the centralized npm server to behave consistently and pleasantly, and some opinions have recently shifted on that. But frankly, the server doesn't matter, in the big picture. The npm tool on your computer does. It's the one executing code on your computer with all of your local user's privileges.

This tool starts executing new code from a new author on my host as my user without any authentication except "trust the server". This is exactly the same words we would use to describe behavior of $script_kiddie_virus_of_the_week:

> "download code from C&C server; run it, thanks:D"

What's the difference here? "good intentions"?

I'd rather have something more than "good intentions" controlling what code ends up running on my computer. Wouldn't you?
You learn to evaluate technologies working in a relevant sector or studying some information systems stuff. No citation needed IMHO.

Would you demand citation if I tell you that 'mov ax, data' in assembler moves data to ax or look it up if you don't trust your own judgement at the moment?
What is this... World Generalization Day? :)
You can install goodreader on it and use it for PDFs. The pandora app works ok (crashes once every couple days).
Clandestine, very often, certainly. Admittedly this use principally reflects the employers' perspective, and maybe a better (more accurate, more neutral) term could be used, but this is a separate issue from any association with hunting.
Sounds like someone trying to force web apps to do native apps' jobs. When something like React Native bridges web languages and full native benefits/performance.
"I know no one likes to hear this but rewards are generally about risk"

No, they're not. They're about value. If you're the one actually doing the work to make the company money, why shouldn't you be getting the bulk of the reward?

The idea that people should be rewarded more just for simply having money is stupid.
But also remember that risk isn't just about actual money, it's also about opportunity costs.

If you join a startup that gets acquired but before your shares vest (or with preferences that kill the value of your shares), it's true that you still got paid well above an average non-programmer salary. But it's also true that you could have spent those years working for a much bigger salary at a big company. Or worked 35 hours a week and had a lot more fun with a significant other or friends. Or started your own company that might have turned into something you totally owned.

There are certainly startups where the net dollar value that the engineering team turned down by not working at Google is as much risk as all the investors put in as cash.
I also just made the exact same switch, after years of wanting more control over my hardware without jailbreaking, I just want to install f.lux for crying out loud! As a web dev, i'm very excited to loose the chains of iOS :)
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" Before iTunes, I believe there simply wasn't any viable (non-illegal) alternative to get an individual song. Whereas Blendle competes with, as mentioned before, loads of other free alternatives online."

True, but these publishers can, at some point, start making their content accessible only through Blendle.

Curious loophole though - on platforms such as Pocket, one can go on Pocket's 'recommended' feed, save an NYT article straight to their own Pocket, and read the article on the Pocket platform, without every going to NYT.com (circumventing the paywall).

How is that legal? And if it remains legal, will this loophole be a major concern to Blendle and publishers?
I don't know. Oddly enough, picking up my phone, placing my thumbs in a particular location along the body of the phone so as to minimize the structural rigidity of the device, and applying force just isn't part of my use case for a phone. I use my 6p like every other phone I have used, and it hasn't bent. Good enough for me!

Seriously. I'm a big dude, and my everyday life is filled with objects that I could bend with a similar amount of force, including objects that I carry on my person and/or interact with a lot. I don't pick them up and try to bend them, and they don't bend.
No, my point was that lawyers are not products unless you mix in human trafficking.

What do you think the split between service and product is?
Could someone summarize what is going on here?

Also, what does "disentangling factors of variation" mean?
FWIW I really like "new C++" a lot and am quite hopeful for the ISOCPP stuff as well as C++ Concepts :)
Flag them instead.
I think its easy to point fingers, but I myself is guilty of "mocking poor people". One memory that stuck in my mind was during college during office hours. A classmate was struggling to configure her assignment on her 5 year old PC, nobody really wanted to help her because her computer was so old and so irrelevant. Casually, I joked (with classmates around us)
"You should burn your laptop and get a mac." Some laughed, but she didn't.

"Why don't you buy me one"

I was a little offended, her remark and body language felt a little hostile. We never talked again.

This memory stuck with me and I wish I could apologize to her. My seemingly harmless remark poked fun at her economic handicap for my amusement.
Oh that is pretty reasonable.
Have you ever tried melatonin?
For what it is worth, Windows has had "native" JS bindings since Windows 8/Windows Phone 8.1. The Windows 10 store added support for server-hosted JS apps, which was the last puzzle piece in the support system as a lot of web developers still love their existing/preferred server host/backend language/deployment pattern.
That's a fair point. But what would concern me, as a lone developer, is liability if you get hacked due to a known vulnerability in an npm module. If the company is looking for a head to roll and someone points out it was a known and resolved issue in later versions that could be a problem for me.

Does npm let you tag releases as security fixes? That would make automation to discover it possible.
I visit far more websites in a day than I use strange new apps. Apps also don't suffer from XSS.
How is that relevant to webapps?
I'm not sure if you're trolling or sincere here. Of course iOS apps don't need them, they are native. We are talking about the capabilities of the iOS Safari browser.
> Need to compile that toolchain myself and write my own wrappers to OS APIs.

Nah: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/multirust-0-8-with-cross-std-i...

Before this feature the cross libs existed, just that there was no UI for downloading and installing them.
There's nothing preventing decentralization with npm now; it's a matter of configuration. Tying the namespace to a host seems more like instant excessive coupling.
But it is obscenely expensive. 1TB would cost you $256/month plus $256 to to your initial backup and another $256 if you ever need to restore.
If you want to argue that I shouldn't expect my user to have the newest iPhone you shouldn't also list WebBluetooth as a pro. My user probably doesn't have a device that supports it either.