skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with apps is that they're active when you're not using them, they slow everything down, and they drain battery; not to mention how many of them want to violate your personal information just short of knowing the size of your last dump.

Essentially most apps are malware with a bright coat of "legitimate" colored paint.
I'd do the bitcoin donation as such: unlock my phone, launch Bitcoin Wallet, capture on-screen QR code, type $10, hit send. Done.
Brad Templeton, who's been working on self-driving cars for a few years now, analyzed this in http://ideas.4brad.com/critique-nhtsas-newly-released-recomm.... He says, "Broadly, this is very much the wrong direction... the progress of robocar development in the USA may be seriously negatively affected."

This is a big deal.
While there are some issues, it's also often not what you say but how you say it.

I do dislike the fact that there is no way to "vouch" for flagged comments, and that -10 auto flag kills it.

While I can't comment much on the bias there is some sort of a group mentality to downvote comments that already have been downvoted once or twice, maybe people think they are helping to "clean up" the discussion.

I often wondered how things would work if HN would implement an "score hidden" policy for new comments (say first 6 hours) with the score not affecting the position or the font of the comment if that would reduce the amount of flagged comments on the board or not.
Yes, I agree that Amazon is behaving perfectly rationally given the legal environment. My point is that the legal environment has been designed in an un-optimal way from a technical perspective. Identifying such a situation was rayiner's request.
I used to do this until I learned CMD-SHIFT-V which pastes without formatting so the text appears in whatever format the destination document uses
There are three stories here. Each is serious and should be evaluated separately as not to bias the conclusions of any.

#1 There is a big problem with mobile sites. I'm using a recent iPhone and many popular news sites, without ad blockers, are as close to unusable as the worst websites I've ever been to, dating back to using Internet Explorer in 1999. Auto playing inline video ads that slide in to view, just insane. These things clearly kill time on site and reader retention. I have theories about why publishers are ignoring this, but who knows.

#2 Google is using AMP to co-opt publisher's traffic. This means users are scrolling to another story from another publisher or easily bouncing back to the Google results when they land on your content. (See the X in the story link on the animated gif example.)

There goes your time on site and long term user retention. If #1 was a problem for you already, you probably don't notice.

#3 AMP & Instant articles are going to put a stranglehold on third party ad networks and represent a very real anti-trust issue.

There are a bunch of other privacy implications too, which have been discussed in length. Publishers should be thinking really hard about their future.
Corollary: how many developers of public transportation apps use public transportation, and how many of them use low-end public transportation where the environment and process may be totally different?

I see from the screenshots many examples of the app giving transit instructions for what is perceived to be optimal usage, but if I were say in a bad area of Chicago would that be advice I should follow?

Furthermore if children or minors were making use of this app would they be receiving the right information?

I'm not trying to bash the app, it's cool, but it has me thinking..
I was wondering that myself. I'm sure this is wrong, but I want to believe it's what food sometimes becomes after being eaten. In which case this is a patent filing for a barf bag.
I think he's implying the use of an emoji in the html tag is kind of ridiculous. Personally, I'm split being it being ridiculous and being pretty cool.
Very nice. I like the algorithm choice and the result. I spent a bit of time exploring a similar process, and used it to generate multiple frames and animate them with a nearest neighbor algo. Examples and writeup is here: http://max.io/articles/harissa/ and the code: https://github.com/binarymax/harissa
Thanks, it's great to see Tramiel in the flesh, he is as I imagined him from the book.

I haven't watch all this yet but will do so. It never occurred to me to look this up on youtube as they seem from another age, but of course it's very recent history. Amazing.
Would be fascinating to see the different "Stonehenges" around the world.
Synopsis : read my article about viral marketing using this 1 weird trick !
If you know enough to be offered ~$140 000 by a Swiss company, I'd say forget schooling or degrees.

Mighty waste of time and money. Just find another job. I'm sure there's at least one startup in the US or Canada that would consider you.
You're both right: lots of things were bad in Venezuela before 2014, but oil prices tanking in 2014 are a big factor in how bad they are now.
This was interesting when I was in. I was making $25k a year as a corporal, but I was saving almost all of it because I wasn't paying for rent, utilities, health insurance, food, or the gym. My expenses were Internet, cell phone, and car insurance / gas. That was it.

I make three times as much in the civilian world, but I'm saving less.
Show HN: A-Painter: Paint in VR in Your Browser
Lol, did they have "growth hackers" back in the eighties? That would be a funny card to pull.
You're right, it's not all. Still, I don't get why it's even brought up. Seems like authoritarian government, nationalization of industries, and general screwing about with market forces would be far more important.

Or are people just equating nationalizing the oil industry and making it illegal to get money out of the country with "social programs"?
Everything Dies (in Tech)
> Am I part of a dying demographic, who doesn't use/need/want any of this fancy Star Trek futuristic life

Yes, it's called "older people". Just kidding… :-)

TBH, I've never understood this kind of post. Nobody cares if you (or I for that matter) are "excited" about an OS upgrade. It's an OS upgrade!!!

And actually, I think you're expressing something very mainstream, not a "dying demographic" at all. Tech fatigue is a thing.
e-cigs. We don't know their exact relative harmfulness/safety, but there is fairly broad consensus that 'vaping' is better for your health than cigarettes.

Clearly more work needs to be done to rigorously investigate and evolve the space, but recent Federal regulations have essentially put small innovators out of business.

In sum: a harm-reducing item is being regulated into the ground.
Much forensic work has no scientific foundation
> It's knowing what the heck you are actually doing and doing it well is what's hard.

That sort of goes without saying. If doing something well is hard, then doing that thing is hard. No one is interesting in writing code that doesn't work -- we're always talking about "doing it well".

We don't all going around claiming that quantum mechanics is easy and then backing it up by demonstrating our ability to pull grossly wrong answers out of our asses.
Here's the big one for me.
Define short deadlines!
This is super important, it will force you to do the other ones automatically (Removing less important tasks, focusing, etc)
I just edited it to say one of the two most popular to avoid going there. I don't think it changes my point.
New stripe.com website
Because some of those would be fine as occasional use websites. Yet they just have to force a stupid popup telling you to install their app.
I had gotten so used to reading puff pieces on TC that I had written them off in the same light as Wired and Ars Technica
The worker makes $30, the contractor and body shops take the rest.
WoSign completed equity investment to StartCom CA
Once you click "I'm ready to make this official" in the signing flow, you'll see the full legal document pre-filled with your information before you sign anything. The consideration is access to our post-deployment resources, recognition on our website and invitations to our events.
Chrome crash investigation
I followed the link, having misread it as "File Types of Virality" and thinking it was something about file formats, relating to hosting viruses.
> If users continue to click AMP results more often than non-AMP I'm pretty sure the google algorithm will start favoring AMP.

Perhaps, but, by the same token then, if users find AMP UX to be a bad tradeoff, and tend to click AMP results less often than non-AMP, the algorithm will start to penalize AMP.
"It's a bit of a straw man to present failed socialist-in-name-only states when critiquing socialism. If someone were to bring up the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as an attempt to critique democracy you'd rightly scoff."

It's a bit of a straw man to present failed attempts at cold fusion when critiquing cold fusion itself.

Communist revolutionaries genuinely did attempt to implement socialism. The fact that so many failed should make one question the wisdom of attempting their approach.
Perhaps the fatal flaw in socialism is only in it's revolutionary nature and a more conservative approach in it's implementation is warranted? Interesting hypothesis, but I'd like to see more data.

"Imagine you tried to have a capitalist revolution in feudal Europe. Can you imagine that would go very well? "

I dunno, I believe that's usually called the Industrial Revolution.
That's right - every founder involved has signed a legally binding contract. Ben, FP.
"Standards today represent the successful non-standard stuff of yesterday."

Nice way of describing almost every, current standard I can think of. I might quote you on that.
> Hanging out with friends? Yeah...don't schedule that in your calendar. Just go hang out with them.

this is easy to do when you're younger but after 30 becomes difficult.
> How did you debug code running on the hardware without an IDE? Is there an easy-ish way to do that?

gdb :)

Most in-system-debuggers expose a gdb-server interface, that a client gdb can then connect to. GDB is very scriptable.
Have you tried using it as a lossy compression algorithm for images?

The position, shape, orientation and color of the primitives should provide a rather synthetic representation of the starting image.
related to this you may want to check out my cheatsheet PDF on software performance & scalability:

http://synisma.neocities.org/perf_scale_cheatsheet.pdf

welcome feedback and ideas for things to add or change
> I do dislike the fact that there is no way to "vouch" for flagged comments,

huh? There is a link on the page of a flagged comment, called "vouch".
You don't trust The Economist to be unbiased. Fine. But I know of no sources that assert either that the event in question (the firing of the oil workers) didn't happen, or that it didn't destroy Venezuela's oil production. So in the absence of any contrary evidence, I think The Economist's account of that specific event is to be trusted.

Why would Chavez do such a thing? I suspect (OK, guess) that when you have a theory that you are so committed to that anything that doesn't conform is regarded as enemy propaganda, it becomes amazingly easy to do really stupid things. (Note that this does not depend on what the theory is; any theory, disconnected from any counter-evidence, is prone to this.)
If anything this is a great example of what being agile is about. Start with the bare essentials and slowly add features, without breaking the characteristics that make the website nice to use such as speed and reliability.
had to reinstall xcode command line tools (which I should have seen coming) and then run an update on home-brew itself but all appears well now. brew doctor passes, and it updated my outdated packages just fine
Of course these things are meant to be used (1) to train the system, (2) as a player in the prototype. Exactly like in the old school ML-based systems: you train in Matlab or CudaConvNet, and then you load the trained classifier into the custom-made player highly tuned to your hardware and problem domain.
Simple URL Routing for Redux and React
actually, I submitted this post and have nothing to do with Greylock.
I am an entrepreneur myself trying to grow my product. Hence, I think about virality all the time. The audience here is also interested in growth as is clear by the upvotes.
What you wrote is technically true. We could build crazy fast pages without any AMP-ing. However high profiles sites don't do that and there's a reason for it. I think when revenue is considered, there's a lot more department at at news companies involved:
There's the Ad people ( add 2-3 external services ) there's the online marketing team ( add 10 more tracking tools ) then the UX guys have 2-3 tools to play with... The list is probably a lot longer. That's why sites like Mashable used to load 30+ external services (now 13). It all adds extra markup (static and generated), DOM manipulation, network traffic and all sorts of crap that slows pages down.

AMP-ing means saying no to all this by design. I'm not saying this is 'the' perfect solution, but this is a solution to an existing problem. And the problem is not that we somehow forgot how to build fast and light pages.
Great point. IMHO Regardless if you use GA or not, AMP will be a non-starter for any respectable developer who advocates for the open web for this reason.
You could expect them to not call it autopilot, and instead call it lane keeping, like it really is. The name does a really good job at setting a terrible expectation, almost to the point of undoing any attention grabbing mechanism to keep users engaged.
If you get the chance it's interesting to compare Stonehenge (well known, much loved, very impressive structure, mostly preserved but that means you don't get close to it) with Avebury (bigger circles, stones were removed to build house, you can walk around it and touch stones).
> By the way, my personal dream is a workstation which is completely based on open hardware and software. RISC-V would be a good foundation.

The Free Software Foundation has a hardware certification program for this: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-f...
> Why do we have to update the entire OS just to get a new version of the photos and messages app?

The new apps drive adoption of the rest of the OS. This reduces the support cost of the old OS and spreads security updates.
I really hope this is the end for Skype for Business. Everything about it is terrible
Css regions was included in Canary and ousted because it was too much code too (and because basically the Chrome Team didn't like the spec.) And I'm not talking about the half baked html5 widgets like datepicker ...
Thanks for your response.

I really like Europe, especially Switzerland. That company is also very interesting, I could learn a lot there.

And as I understand, I still need a degree for the US H1-B visa.
It's a nonprofit looking for next years funding. An engineer defintatly ought to be paid as if it's a short term gig.
"Is there anyway to effectively "AMP" a page without maintaining a separate set of HTML/CSS/JS?"

Yes, certainly - it is well documented here:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

and here:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

FWIW, we followed these principles when we created Oh By.[1]

[1] https://0x.co
"Seems like authoritarian government, nationalization of industries, and general screwing about with market forces would be far more important."

I'd agree, though I think you could describe land redistribution as a 'social program.'
I suppose the difference is that it's pledged: everybody including the founder knows that they're reducing their share by X amount up-front. A house isn't publicly earmarked in that kind of way, and of course, it's money spent for the founder's direct benefit rather than given away.

So there's a temptation for people to say, "well clearly you're OK with reducing your compensation for [purpose X], why not for [arguably superior purpose Y]?"

I'm not sure it really makes sense to think of it that way but there is a distinction.
OP is from Scotland, same as my wife, and I can confirm 'short-sighted' is the correct usage in Britain for what most Americans call 'near sighted'. The term does not have the negative connotation in Europe that it does in America.
Why do you think Google Sites or Wikis fail where Confluence succeeds? I've never used Confluence (and don't really like Atlassian products in general), but am willing to try it.

Have been playing with Google Sites and the main thing I'm worried about is portability if I should choose to go with something else. It seems hard to export.
Doesn't it? I think it straight up answers your question.
Kevin Hart Emoji App Leaps to No. 1 on Apple App Store Paid Chart
I'll just say it starts with a "P" and ends in "interest"
Why was that article maligned? Seemed pretty solid to me.
On the flipside, Patreon takes a 5% cut on top of whatever fees there are for the payment method you use, so there's less of your dollar reaching the intended recipient.
Fun with SQL: Computing run rate and month over month growth in Postgres
The web had much more organic growth than apps. Apps have pretty much been rammed down our throats by personal-information-seeking marketroids. Initially, the web didn't promise to be a solution to anything, just a large bazaar of occasionally useful and/or interesting information.
I like it and did something similar a few years ago with a villa rental site.

I used to add the number of available properties after the place name in the list view e.g. Tenerife (12).
400K per employee at a 32.7 billion dollar company is a vastly different ratio compared to spending ~250K per employee at a start-up with limited funds.
I don't think Venezuela's current leadership can do anything useful without altering the country's political identity. But no, I see no indication that they're going to change now.
Yes I think it was something about forcing that to users through a de-facto monopoly of 95% of computers in the world.

Not sure why people try to apply monopoly restrictions to Apple. They don't have monopoly position (not even close) in any market they operate.
They're probably busy working on the ARM architecture switch.. that would explain the long delay
I like the way you broke down things. People at a16Z have some sort of a network effect playbook for different types of Network Effects. I was listening about this in one of their podcasts.
> Yes, I agree that Amazon is behaving perfectly rationally given the legal environment.

I'm not commenting on Amazon's rationality (I haven't actually evaluated the security concerns that would determine that.)

> My point is that the legal environment has been designed in an un-optimal way from a technical perspective.

And you haven't pointed to anything in the legal environment that is suboptimal from a technical perspective. You haven't even pointed to anything in the legal environment at all.

Amazon (as a BAA) has certain administrative responsibilities for putting administrative and technical safeguards in place to prevent breaches, and certain obligations and liabilities in the case of breaches. HIPAA and related laws and regulations do not specify the specific administrative or technical safeguards, though they do specify areas that must be addressed.

Amazon has decided that the particular technical arrangement you prefer is too high of a risk, but you haven't pointed out anything that indicates that this is the result of an outdated regulation that results in poor technical choices rather than technology-neutral regulation and a reasonable evaluation of the security concerns of the particular technical arrangement you would prefer.
Now, a deal is a deal, and if they are not entitled to equity then so be it, and if you happen to be a little too late to the party then too bad, but employees work hard to create that value.

I'd probably feel bummed, envious and left out if a founder with their double digit (or multi million dollar) equities flat out proclaimed to give a portion of that to charity, essentially burning that cash from my point of view, when they could've just as well rewarded the employees. And in the startup world they are probably not even paid proper market value.
Yeah, but it's also the only african country that was listed in the relevant wikipedia article. /shrug
Well, it does some. They're still dependent on a single extracted resource, and the price is still low, but they could actually produce more of it. It wouldn't be a magic fix, but it would be better than the current situation.
This happens to me fairly frequently in a desktop web browser after typing a search query in chrome.

Obviously not optimised for poor internet
Actually, it's a result of startupifying every problem we see out there. Oh, AB testing is hard, let's make it easy just by inserting a line of JS to the page. It'll cost $99/month and the clients won't have to develop it themselves.

This is a side effect of the abundance of cheap and easy to use tools.

Probably somebody is already working on how to extract more data from AMP pages :D
> if you want D&D, go with devs.

I'll go with a mage, thief, and warrior instead ;)
> CA/SSL specification does not change weekly...

The draft ACME specification does though.
Maybe it upset you but apparently keep using Snow Leopard would not let me use any of the recent third party apps and it is totally useless to do so now.

- Notifications : Had Growl, nothing new.

- Air drop : Perhaps but personally in no need.

- Native fullscreen : This is crazy. I turn iTunes fullscreen on secondary display and somehow it blacks out the primary screen for no good reason. Never using this feature.

- Multi touch gesture : Customizability is a joke. BetterTouchTools is what is keeping my sanity by applying custom trackpad gestures.

- Mac app store : Apparently this is big.

- Recovery partition : One of the great invention was network recovery but not like I use it often at all.

- Terminal : It was ok back then. Perhaps better if you say so. I do use SSH all the time. Never needed third party terminal.

- Air play mirroring : Don't have experience.

- Notes : Calendars, notes, reminders, stickies... What's coming next for note taking app? It's just cluttering my app folder.

- Compressed memory : Sorry I don't know what this is. Does this help you daily?

- Full disk encryption : Important feature.

- Multi monitor support : It was fine back then. As said above, part of it is a joke now.

- Spotlight : Maybe. I keep my files and mails all tidy, so I don't need a search helper.

I mean, Leopard brought Time Machine, grid view folder display from dock, quick look just to remember from top of my head which are all vastly useful and Snow leopard perfected it by making it lighter than previous OS. And today they boast they added like 100 new stuff which almost doesn't matter and I doubt things ever get lighter than previous OS these days.

Ever since they thought merging iOS feature into OSX was a good idea, it keeps adding useless pieces and they call it the best release ever.

Back then I thought Windows had tons of crapware on newly bought machine but funnily lately OSX is almost a victim of that from the vendor itself...

I love using OSX because of high quality third party apps. And in my opinion frankly Windows is still far worse.

And for OSX naming... I thought Apple is an international company. Tiger, Leopard etc was easy to read and understand as a word for us foreigners and now what? El capitan? I must think their vision is just getting narrower naming a OS to some local name they thought was cool.