skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VERY relevant article: https://govinsider.asia/smart-gov/why-britain-banned-mobile-...

Ben Terrett was former head of design at the UK Government Digital Service and he wholehearted disagrees.
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Didn't the NSA do the same when it literally split fiber optic cables into their own servers?
A lot of people in the real world don't want to install apps.

Also I disbelieve on how hard it is to find a mobile web application on a phone. Find it once, save a shortcut to a web page on your home screen, and now it is as easy to launch as an app. I actually find this easier to do than it is to install an app.
Most egregiously, as mentioned in the article, they also add their own advertisements.
Apologies - wasn't meant to be passive aggressive. Thanks for suggestion. Here're some more resources:

- Commuting linked to stress, bad health, no friends
- Urban low income live longer: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/when-youre-poor-where...
- Commute linked to divorce: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/divorce-study_n_375...
- Commute linked to poor health: https://www.google.com/search?q=commute+linked+to+poor+healt...
good summary :)
But presumably you don't write in every "um", <cough>, stutter and mis-speak so why keep in the swear words rather than cutting them and increasing your readability and information density? You may have trouble speaking without cursing but you clearly manage to write without including the curse words.
Not just you. This site crashed Firefox for me.
We have released version 1.0.8 that fixes a few connection issues.
Nothing wrong with that -- I find Schrödinger very hard to follow!
Thats exactly why I love podcasts. I can listen to them on my freetime no matter how old it is. What are your top podcasts? if you dont mind me asking, I've been meaning to listen to new ones. I currently listen to No Agenda with Adam Curry & John C Dvorak . BBC Newshour. The History Hour ((BBC) to name a few
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11868288
The flipside of this is that mineral precipitation (though not necessarily carbonate) is also a problem for CO2 injection into aquifers, which are more readily available and for which we have better understanding, better technology and better infrastructure.

(No disrespect for the CarbFix people implied, they do great work.)
Heh, yeaah boss. OBVIOUSLY I do TONS of things. Where would I even begin to talk about all the things I do? There's just so many! No time to open source something with all the things I definitely do...

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This is not really specific to Bitcoin, but to any player/system that is going to become popular and thus used/supported by companies and/or integrated with the rest of global infrastructure.

The laws in almost everywhere (except niche jurisdictions that treat holding offshore accounts as their main industry) pretty much require you to know your customer and not be an enabler of any anonymous transfers of money - or alternatively, be treated as responsible for any "bad" money passing through you.

Any institution that would enable you to trade a scalable amount of USD for Monero or some new cryptopayment solution would also have to require the same information to know your real world identity.

Any institution that would enable you to trade a significant amount of such new cryptocurrency for USD would be required (perhaps not immediately, but definitely if/when it becomes sufficiently popular) to report that to IRS, who would then request documentation about the transactions and originators where you obtained that amount (which you surely reported when filing your taxes, didn't you?), and it doesn't really matter that much that the blockchain is anonymous since essentially you'll give them the transaction details anyway or go to jail.

If no institutions enable that, then the cryptocurrency cannot be liquid enough for everyday use, as it's not easy to trade it with other liquid currencies.
> compete with taxis in a fair way to bring people good services

I'd argue that taxi companies being so deeply entrenched into the government is unfair for any startup in the space. The boundaries of the law are rigged in the taxi company's favor.
I completely agree (and I'm a user) but this just seems more like a cheap stunt to me. Publishing the messages to show the kind of abuse women receive on the app - good idea. People need to see that stuff. Publishing the persons name and promoting a couple of hashtags around it just gives me this image of the marketing department rubbing their hands with glee when this came across their desk. It's difficult to put into words, it just makes me feel less good about the company.
"Everyone" is a giant stretch, there. Are you American? I promise that midtown-bound subway is not full of people going to work at McDonalds. The vast majority of people have white-collar, good benefit jobs. Probably more than the French when you count in the unemployed and the unwelcome in the banlieues.
> Make something people want. This is YC’s motto, and after 11 years and more than 1000 startups, I know we picked the right one.

I find this sad. It tells you something about humanity. Don't build something people need. Build what they want. Make it addictive. We either don't know what we need or if we know it, we still want something different.
These are my favorite type of podcasts as well. Do you have any recommendations, I'm always looking for new stuff?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by each of these, but at least in Android apps can register to open URLs. So you can search for and share, say, a Facebook link. Tap it, and it opens in the Facebook app (or the browser, or any other app registered to handle the URL, your choice!).
I'll quote The Who -

"Ya caaaan't have it!"
I work for a company that utilizes texting to customers, we do this now via email, ie 1233451234@vtext.com for Verizon and there are others for the different carriers. These carriers are beginning to put a halt to this and are starting to require you to sign up and pay them to send SMS messages. Soon my company will not be able to send any SMS without paying the carriers. Perhaps this is the problem?
I don't think battery technology could overcome the specific energy constraints in 5 years... Seems highly unlikely.

Jet-A is 46 MJ/kg -
Lithium Air ~40MJ/kg -
Lithium Ion is 0.85MJ/kg

Lithium Air is the only thing remotely feasible that 'functions' in a laboratory and it has not left the lab since 1970.

"Another recent review on Li-O2 batteries, authored by materials scientists from Technion- Israel Institute of Technology (Balaish, Kraytsberg et al. 2014), concludes with : 'The possibility of buying off the shelf Li–air batteries within 10–20 years does not seem realistic at the moment.'"
this sort of thing also hints at why FB abandoned xmpp. FB wants to do what they please with your conversational data, which obviously runs counter to the culture of encryption that xmpp is embracing.
>> you can't walk into Best Buy or Frys and buy a Linux laptop or desktop.

Nobody has a reason to. Not at least to buy one over a Windows 10 PC (or a Mac, or a Chromebook). The people who want/need to will just buy one, stick a USB stick with Ubuntu on it and go about there business 15 minutes later.
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Not to mention the effect of time. The Web is not a stable application environment, and you may get caught in limbo, where the old way to do something is technically deprecated, but only one browser implements the new scheme, and only in nightly builds and even then only if you launch with --please-segfault-hourly. But using the deprecated API means at some arbitrary point in the future your working code will stop working.
if you don't want to develop a program, there's a frontend for business owners

https://rush.uber.com/how-it-works
I write extensively about careers for technical professionals on my blog (jobtipsforgeeks.com) and various other sites that publish my material. I don't know too many others who write as much specifically geared towards technologists, but I'm sure they exist.
tl;dr: It would have gone a lot better if he had worn pants. And also not brought a pistol and a bag of meth to the exam.
When you define selfishness as you do, it becomes tautological and therefore meaningless. If individuals are atomic and autonomous agents making decisions that maximize whatever it is they value (survival, comfort, pride, ego) and minimizing whatever it is they dislike (pain, guilt, loneliness, cognitive dissonance), then everyone, including the "guy who lays down in front of the tank" that jessriedel mentions, is selfish by definition. [1]

An alternate definition of selfishness: Consider the world as a set of concentric circles centered on an individual. The narrowest encompassing the individual, the next encompassing the people they love most (usually children), the next their greater circle of family or friends, and so on to the largest circle the includes the world. (What appears in any circle and how far from center it appears can vary greatly from person to person. Some include animals, the environment or god(s).) The more one's interests and decisions are concentrated on the inner circles, especially the most inner one, the more selfish one is. An altruistic person would be one where the gradient of interest doesn't peak at the center. This definition is in line with the meaning of "selfishness" as commonly used, its "common sense" definition.

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[1] The only way your definition would not be tautological is if individual humans weren't atomic or autonomous agents. It's something to consider. It's certainly possible that we have genes that predispose us to care about or subconsciously act for the benefit of things beyond our individual self, in the same way individual cells in a multicellular organism are preprogrammed to act for the good of the organism. If multicellular organisms evolved from single-celled organisms and cells lost their "selfishness" in the process, it is entirely possible that it can happen to the "cells" that make up larger "organisms" such as a species or an ecosystem.
Well if you know what your target audience is, you can easily go by that at first.
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There's no data to indicate that that way is superior to any other way.
I just check a couple times a day... honestly, I'm usually too busy when I'm not checking HN to deal with a reply right at any given moment anyway. It's a forum.
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I really can't. That's not to say that they don't exist, but I'm not familiar with any single book that I know I could say, "look here," and feel good about it. My own knowledge has accumulated across many different sources over many years. I am also a bit distrustful of more modern sources that want to project the nation's founding one way or another for contemporary purposes. Any such book must look at British/Colonial relations, the philosophical movements afoot in Europe and elsewhere which we call the Enlightenment, U.S. history in the 18th and 19th centuries (internal expansion and gradually working for greater international presence) and then good world histories for the 20th century. Tall order for one book :-).

For the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, it might just be easier (to start) by just reading them directly. I have a small (12.5cm x 9cm) book that contains both documents and is only 58 pages long at that size. Read them in that order as the Declaration lays out the moral statement for why a break from the British Empire was seen as necessary by the (then) British colonists and the Constitution was the legal reflection of those ideas... reading the Federalist Papers is great for getting in the mind of the Constitution's authors and supporters.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Just a few weeks ago I watch a lecture that talked about Magna Carta and include discussion on its influence on the U.S. revolutionaries that founded the country. Just that one aspect was something that I didn't really see in many of the histories I've seen.
Obligatory mention for the No Agenda podcast [1], by the "father of podcasting" Adam Curry and tech broadcaster John C. Dvorak. They have an interesting model in being 100% listener supported, with no advertisers or sponsors, and yet still managing to make a living off their show, putting out 2 shows every week (today show #832):

"Their funding model is strictly listener supported, and it's working. The premise being that keeping outside influences away from content development gives listeners untainted news, opinion and entertainment... they refer to it as a "value-for-value" proposition -- listen to the show, if you get something worthwhile from it make a donation. This model should change the face of podcasting.

More and more independent podcasters will probably take note of this new model, and they should. Open, unsullied content creation and delivery should be the goal of everyone in the media -- a free exchange of ideas, opinions and content is the cornerstone of a free internet and a free society.

Podcasting has always been a medium searching for a successful funding model. Curry was a pioneer in getting podcasters to band together to try and attract funding from advertisers and sponsors. Curry started a couple of companies to support this model -- he would probably be the first to admit that the main-stream media model is not the best one for podcasting... but his constant tinkering and experimentation with the medium he created is starting to pay off. Curry and Dvorak may be the first "professional" podcasters to make a living doing a show that is truly independent, insightful and listener supported."

[1] http://www.noagendashow.com/

[2] http://www.examiner.com/article/no-agenda-makes-podcasting-r...
"native app developers seems to think $50K is the smaller amount you should bill for a native app these day"

Ummm, yeah, I would say $50k would cover a small native app using Parse or similar or an extremely light backend. Even a medium size native app is going to run $100-150k. That's the price of software development if it's happening in the US.
> Another problem with ZCash is the fact that it’s brand new cryptography.

It's using libsodium. This is an alarmist and false statement.

> Nobody can really guarantee that there aren’t some bugs in the system that will make it possible to deanonymize transactions or create coins out of thin air.

Sure, that's technically true of all crypto-currencies.
For a totally new project, especially with React and React Native, it's not trivial to get things right, but it's not that hard either. Technically it's not "one app", but if you build them in parallel and you know what you're doing, 90% of the codebase can be shared.

The author is putting forth a false dichotomy between "write one web app that works on everything" and "write a new app from scratch for every platform." The right answer in 2016 is a hybrid approach.
We have a lightweight extensible markup language. It's called XML.

When HTML web components are fully supported in all browsers, it'll be possible to create custom markup elements to extend HTML to include custom DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).

I already have a library (ng2-markdown) that provides a template tag that can parse markdown (incl syntax highlighting) in the same manner that the script tag can parse javascript.

If a parser is already available in javascript, it's not exceedingly difficult to create new HTML elements.
True but there's additional friction on the web app side as well. At this exact moment without looking at my browser, I'm not sure how to add an app to the homescreen. How many users actually know how to do that implicitly?
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I don't think any further examples of the association fallacy are necessary. Isn't it obvious that such analogies are debate tools, not useful in actual conversation? Do you expect someone to further the conversation about FreeBSD preference by defending sports fans?
It's also a little... racist.
If you feed it with emojis it spits out other emojis
(I was testing if it could spit out text from emoji input)
But what happens if you change the skintone of the emojis?

White arm:
http://i.imgur.com/KTNky0O.png
Obvious connection to sports, sunglasses(like saying "cool" in this context)

Black arm:
http://i.imgur.com/uXtSRfc.png
Policeman searching something, a location marker(search location?)
With a little practice, you can do it with newer tech too... I've banged out several small apps using react+redux on webpack+babel, and it's gone really smooth and came out really light and decently structured.
I might be wrong but it seems like the api is creating one shipment for each package with in an order. I assume that mean you will get a tracking number for each package (Unless tracking number is associated with order, not the shipment in the api). The Scenario I have seen this is not something desirable. UPS[0] and Fedex[1] I believe let you ship up to 20 boxes in one shipment.

[0]https://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/sri/glo_mlt_pc.h...
[1]http://images.fedex.com/ca_english/businesstools/shipsoftwar...
Ah fair enough, that makes more sense. It's definitely an unethical experiment, glad my name isn't on it either.
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> A lot of people in the real world don't want to install apps.

A lot of just a specific subset of highly technical people? I don't think I've met anyone with an aversion to apps who also used a ton of mobile web apps.

> save a shortcut to a web page on your home screen

How many people did you lose at this point?
The navigation header effect is infuriating.
It is actually a feature, called "font inflation"[1], that tries to find the main content text on a site not designed for mobile and make it a readable size. It just wasn't doing a good job figuring out which parts were the content.

I would guess the recent improvement is due to the site itself being fixed – it now uses a "viewport" meta tag, which I don't think it did last year.

[1] http://www.jwir3.com/font-inflation-fennec-and-you/
> My point was that none of those was responsible for any sort of economic "uplift" (in quotes because of the broken windows fallacy).

The damage to SR-480 (the Embarcadero Freeway) might be a significant counterexample to that, since it was the earthquake damage that provide the impetus to overcome the resistance to demolishing it that had stopped that from happening two years before the earthquake, and allowed the improvements in that area that took place once the freeway was removed.
Apps don't have to be downloaded from stores, thought that certainly does make things nice.
Developing concurrent systems in Python on Unix is a questionable choice.

On Windows it's a doddle, because Windows supports true async I/O.

See: http://pyparallel.org
Those people are irrelevant. They do that even with their closest friends because they all seem to be intent on not getting screwed. I'd rather share and gift extremely liberally, to the best of my abilities, among my circle of friends and even far acquaintances. Are there freeloaders in economic terms? eh, sure, but a lot of that is income dependent as well. But mostly what goes around comes around and a lot is going around -- velocity of gifting is > than velocity of money which is great. But then again I'm a small-l libertarian socialist.
James is also on the Lerna team as well! He and I can answer questions about that too. (We also have a slack https://slack.lernajs.io/)
These claims are pretty flimsy. For one thing, Yahoo's search engine is Bing, so it's fallacious to say that two of three search engines yielded the same result, and that result is thus more valid or accurate than that of the dissenting engine. Further, if Google did scrub results, they didn't do a very complete job, as they're more than happy to suggest "hillary clinton email" and plenty of other negative terms. I also suspect that Google's search suggestions algorithm is a bit more involved than "tally the frequency of entire search queries and return the most common ones."

In a wider sense, it's a bit of a leap to think that Eric Schmidt has direct control over Google searches. There would have to be a chain of contacts leading from him to someone in the engineering department, or at least a few developers who built the "scrub sensitive terms from the suggestion list" feature. Surely they're not _all_ working for Clinton. Or surely this power would have been abused other times in the past. It's just so much more plausible that this is a complete coincidence than that there's some kind of Google-based conspiracy to install Hillary Clinton as a dictator by forcing people to type the entire phrase "hillary clinton indictment" into a search engine before they can have their crazy beliefs validated.
Humans put out 40 billion tons of CO2 every year. Offsetting all of this would require 1 trillion gallons of water which sounds like a lot but is only 1 cubic mile of water. It doesn't say how fresh the water needs to be but if salt water is possible to use, then these injection systems could be setup all over the world in places where access to ocean water and basalt bedrock is plentiful. That energy company says they plan to setup facilities to inject 10000 tons of CO2 every year. It would still take 4 million more of these facilities to offset all carbon emissions.
Just saw a news reports attributing the drop to the Model S being brought back, so they are all just guessing.

Article has zero details so just in case you actually want to know

http://dailykanban.com/2016/06/tesla-suspension-breakage-not...

There are a grand total of three reports of suspension problems they could find (and their deep reporter research consists of using google search apparently).

But of course there may be many more under NDA, who knows.
You are implying that the current ad model, with a small number of high-value crafted announcements, doesn't work. I suspect it does. Gimlet has been pretty open about how their revenue exceeds their expectations and put them under pressure to grow their offering faster than planned.
OK, I'll bite.

* http://grammarist.com/usage/learnings/

* http://www.johnsmurf.com/jargon.htm

* http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-the-heck-are-learnings/

* http://customerthink.com/16_marketing_terms_to_ban_in_2011/

* http://valleywag.gawker.com/dear-dummies-learnings-is-not-a-...

* http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/9_completely_pointless_co...

Learnings is a plural version of a singular noun that does not exist. And there's already a perfectly good word you can use to get at what it attempts to communicate, namely lessons. (You can even call them lessons learned if you absolutely must shoehorn the idea of learning in there.)
You mean, a phone call? I don't think those cost me much of anything on AT&T.
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It's only a matter of time until whitebox routers exist; Accton recently submitted one to OCP. Then it will take a few years for the software stack to be built.
What would the authorities do to prevent these things, if they existed, from being loaded with explosives and driven into buildings? Even if the idea got off the ground and anyone (who could afford one) could start flying around, how many terrorist attacks would it take before they were outlawed? Do you think, having taken out the white house, the government would stand behind civilians rights to own and fly them? They'd not only ban them, they're probably restrict private use of drones and planes too.