skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 50KB isn't anywhere near 1.2MB. Did you mean 500KB?

It was a random number less than 1.2MB. So no I did not mean 500KB. In fact without media 50KB is a little site for a site IMO.

> The blog post specifically mentioned an experience on a 2g connection, and the bloat associated with webfonts.

Correct but media is always large. That's like YouTube having a blinking font issue so they fix it but people complain that the videos are still large.
Ironically, GoPro is trying to clone drones from a Chinese company called DJI which dominates commercial drone market.
The current state of Garage11
I highly recommend Vapejoose, they have 120ml bottles for $23.99, sometimes $20, and they offer free shipping over $50.

Three 120ml bottles last me close to an entire month. Local stores around here are also a rip-off (near Austin, Texas).
This might not be a popular opinion on this site, but I'd actually rather see things go the opposite way entirely. The reason I install such few apps isn't because Google Play is inconvenient, it's because the vast majority of apps are simply designed to data mine or pump advertisements. Most of the time, they don't provide enough value to be worth using in the first place, while websites at least supposedly are sandboxed so they can't be so obnoxious.

This is getting worse and worse though as browsers expose more and more of their host operating system's functionality. The benefits of using a website instead of a native app are quickly disappearing, while the drawbacks have only been somewhat mitigated. We're getting to the point where browsers are worthy of the decades old criticism Emacs has received. They have eventually become an OS with many fine features - simply lacking a good web browser. For the privacy conscious user, modern web technologies will undermine you every step of the way, or simply break if you choose to stand your ground.

I personally would rather have a dozen well crafted battery sipping native C apps than a million awful contraptions built in a script interpreter on to of a VM by the lowest bidder on ODesk. Sure it's harder to do it right, but that's the cost of quality. Maybe I'm stuck in the 80's, but to me, it seems like a lot of wisdom has been shrugged off in the pursuit of expedience.
We have cars and roads because they massively increase the land area within n minutes of a destination relative to demand, which is the only way most of us are able to live in a decent home and not spend our whole lives commuting.

You'll notice that affordability is emphatically not a feature of high-rise, parking-starved, conveniently located urban neighborhoods.

The economic value of parking is in the thousands of dollars per person per month not spent on rent to be within walking distance, and the free time not sacrificed to low-speed transportation.

The people who drive to those stores from ~20 miles around would not necessarily have any money left to spend once they are forced to find homes within 2 or 3, or no will to visit them once transit times from affordable neighborhoods increase from ~15 minutes by freeway to ~90 by bicycle.

Despite the environmental benefits, living within walking distance of downtown offices and amenities is the most ostentatious and fiscally wasteful choice modern humans seem to be proud of making.

What we need to STOP doing is humoring the notion that spending big on urban rent is somehow more virtuous than an equivalently priced vacation or designer handbag, and especially that public policy ought to increase the pressure to spend ever-increasing proportions of income on land value.

You want to kill cars, find a suitable replacement. Paying more for less housing, living with roommates, or multiplying commute times are not acceptable approaches. Bedroom communities around actually good (fast, frequent, reliable, comfortable) commuter rail systems are a lot more compelling. Getting the rent differential between city center and suburb down below the threshold of TCO on a basic car would help too.
They're just as unreadable stacked up into a monument as they are hidden away. Books aren't useful if they're nobody reads them. This seems like it's missing the point.
Do you have a way to backtest the algorithm? Would be interesting to be able to verify accuracy without needing to wait 1-2 years (or whatever the time period meant by "about to go into hyper growth").

The reason I ask is I tend to be pretty cautious about these types of predictors of "business success" given that VCs nor research teams ("Good to Great" by Jim Collins) don't exactly have a strong track record.

An interesting test would be to make it time bound and run it on something like Clinkle circa late 2013.
>Would it be feasible to have an "enhancement pack" website where less talented people (ie me) could get fixes like this.

Sort of? At least if I'm understanding you properly. :)

It used to be that userscripts.org was a thing. Now I think you need to use a mirror [0]. There is also a subreddit for them [1]. Stylish should have a similar site for themes - although not all userscripts will work properly with Stylish (styles may break functionality that relies on styles being a certain way).

For a few sites, I think people have made "generators" for stylesheets to make it user-friendly to generate your own userstyle. I'm not aware of any offhand though.

It would be nice to have a more "curated" or organized Userscripts site, since not all of them are site-specific.

The two most popular "enhancement suites" are the Youtube Enhancement Suite and the Reddit Enhancement Suite, both of which do countless things and are extremely "heavyweight" in functionality/features. My personal "enhancement suites" are a lot smaller in scale and public usability. :)

[0] https://userscripts-mirror.org/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/userscripts/
I don't know what you call that, "dropping a steaming binary turd on your friends"? I dunno, but "editing" it is not.

I've got literal hours of video of some dirt road in the Alaska tundra. No one wants to watch that, I've got to whittle it down to the highlight and parts that folks might enjoy, like the mountain goats in the middle of a blind corner or the moose running across the road. And that is time-intensive; literal hours for fifteen minutes of something I'd share with people. Not just finding the interesting parts, but captions and titles, and some kind of soundtrack, it all adds up to non-trivial amounts of time. One could just hit the "share" button, but no one's going to watch more than 30 seconds of it.

One also quickly learns that from the camera's POV a lot of stuff looks alike. Our recent trip down the Icefields Highway in British Columbia looks like any of a hundred mountain roads when viewed through the lens of a camera. Makes me kind of wonder why I bother.
So could you. Would have made others like you happier.
Me too. I would like to see the talk. Thanks for recording it.
Ironically, GoPro is trying to clone DJI drones by entering the drone market.
No, just someone with a different opinion than you.
Any way to look at other areas? The Bay Area is a decent place to find startups, but it's not a strong quality indicator. Or maybe it is! I'd still like to see the data on it, and I'd still like to see you consider anywhere else on earth in addition to the Bay Area regardless of the data.

Maybe a business query service would be a better fit, on further thought.
That's the criminal banker city the French and Germans are so keen to forcibly relocate? Jeesh, you guys.
q starts out larger than len, but is decremented inside the inner for loop.
> AirBnB is the perfect company to use to talk about it. In general, racial discrimination in rentals is a historic problem. If AirBnB wants to be the platform for "rentals of the future" they are going to have to be responsible for the degree to which they enable discrimination.

You realize the "it" in your sentence is "arbitration", while the rest of what you wrote is about "discrimination"?

Your sentence is a perfect example of why Airbnb is exactly the wrong company to use to talk about arbitration.

(This article is about arbitration. I'm not implying people shouldn't talk about discrimination, just that the headline is quite misleading.)
My experience is the exact opposite of yours and Apple Maps still seems weak. I've only used Apple Maps a couple of times but every time it came up with some rather brain-dead routes for simple local navigation, and this is in the US.

By brain-dead I mean things like instead of simply turning left onto the street the destination was off of it went a few blocks past before turning left, which resulted in backtracking. It was bizarre. Google maps had no issues with the same route.

My GF uses Apple Maps regularly because Car Play forces her to and she complains it doesn't work that well. She will always use Google Maps instead when she's not using Car Play. Apple Maps seems to be in the "good enough" category still, rather than being actually good.
I jump on the app when it first comes out, before they add all the extra permission requirements. I've got half a dozen ancient apps on my phone that I stopped updating when I felt like they were overreaching the permissions I think they should have. When the app stops working, it gets uninstalled. At that point, I'll just wait to get back to a PC.
If you're going to do a writeup, you might as well just add your research to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-issue_politics
Water resistance seems like only one of many advantages a GoPro has. I would never consider doing with what my phone what I've seen many people do when they are tossing around a GoPro.
What kind of job are they guaranteeing? My current position is like 25% data science and 75% business analyst (with a business analyst level salary). If they would guarantee me a job that was 100% data scientist with a $100k salary I would sign up in a heart beat, but I figure they will say I already have a job doing that function and not give me my money back.
Who said Microsoft has $500B in cash? They have ~$100B in cash
It's very well established that the U.S. federal electoral system is game-theoretically "rigged", to use Trump's words.

I want proportional representation, not this phoney pluralism. I'm talking about something beyond "ranked choice". I want serious mathematical, scientific rigor to be applied in developing a new voting system that is humane and practically secure from gaming in the 21st century.

To be perfectly frank, my internal reaction to your comment was infuriation. Don't take it personally, just know that I'm "triggered" by this kind of patronizing political attitude that has marginalized me out of the conversation since before I even became eligible to vote. I know I'm not alone in that.

There are thousands of representatives local and federal levels. It's not unreasonable for people like me to be asking for a less "compromising" process.

I'm from Minnesota, and I remember when I was 17 and Paul Wellstone was killed, very possibly assassinated, before the Iraq war vote. Meanwhile, many of my classmates, children of politically established Minnesotans, told me that a vote for Ralph Nader was just short of treason. I'm writing this comment right now to say that I reject these kinds of attitudes entirely.

On the contrary, people falling in behind these busted-ass mainstream parties should be grateful that, given the state of U.S. politics, we even have political participation from marginalized positions at all. This election is an indictment on this split populism of the establishment 2-party.

The U.S. political process needs to evolve in a serious way or it's going to result in social/political/spiritual upheaval... for better or worse.

I know it might sound irrational to you, but I'm getting ready to vote for Jill Stein right now. I am not "a liberal". I see no good reason, at this point, to vote for either of the "two choices". Seeing as how I'm not in a swing state, it strikes almost me as duty to vote against the two parties. Maybe if I lived in Florida, I'd vote for Clinton.

But right now my "strategic vote" is to send a strong warning to the DFL establishment that they need to take voting reform very seriously.
There is no assumption on the part of the British that a good deal for the UK is in any way worse for the rest of the EU than what they have now. Why would it be? I'm sure the UK would be quite happy with a reciprocal arrangement - UK imposes immigration quotas on Europeans and the same is true in reverse, but trade continues and other forms of cooperation continue as well. That would be best for all sides.

It's the EU that sees the world as a zero sum game: that for the EU to "win" out of this the UK must "lose". As Hollande has so memorably summed up.
Agreed. I actually don't even understand what ground a discriminated guest would have. A host is not a business, as far as I know everybody can decide who enters their house. That being said I'm not a lawyer.
It's always been popular. Every time Apple makes an announcement there's a flood of "Steve Jobs never would have let this happen".
Show HN: Word Juggler – an Alexa word guessing game
A clone of "Guess my word"[0], Word Juggler is an Alexa skill where you try to guess a secret word using clues about its alphabetical ordering.

You can try it out in your browser by using Echosim[1] and saying "Enable Word Juggler" or enable it in the Alexa website[3] first.

This isn't my first skill released but it is the first one I've open sourced[2] :)

Please give it a try and let me know what you think!

(Reviews are also appreciated)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10174355
[1] https://echosim.io/
[2] https://github.com/deegles/wordJuggler
[3] http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#skills/dp/B01M0FIT4C/
There are no "anti-EU" negotiators in the UK, so no.
>> I wonder if Verilog is even appropriate for what you're talking about, except for legacy reasons.

Doing some work with HDL in a university research setting is different than shipping a working product with the associated constraints.
Fdroid allows you to run your own repo and up your own builds. MicroG does this, so these are built by them. More devs should do this. Fdroid building everything isn't scalable nor is it a good trust paradigm. I agree with them that they should only build from source, but others should maintain their own. Email is federated, why not app stores?

Edit: [0] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Setup_an_FDroid_App_Repo
Abortion and other black and white issues would definitely be a weakness for a moderate party.

I would think their strengths for better economic policies, better military policies, better domestic policies and on and on would outweigh the black-and-white single issues but I am afraid you might be right.

People would rather have simple dogma on single issues. It's just easier to understand a single point of view on a binary issue.

Personally, on a related tangent: I find that the weakest part of most discussions is the tendency to try to make every discussion into 2 opposing viewpoints, rather than seeing the billions of permutations possible on nearly any issue. But it happens all the time.

It's so common that I believe it must be something somewhat hardwired into the way our brains work.
"I wonder what would have happened if Microsoft hadn't invested $150 million in Apple in 1997?"

But this was't completely luck. It was negotiated by Jobs.
What happens when a user makes their system font esoteric-new-age-web-sans-font-#523626263278 and your page and the system itself are using the same font?
As an EX democrat, I'd say the Democrat party is broken too, the amount of election fraud, and corruption in the party makes it look like the Mafia. The whole system is broken and we need to pass the anti-corruption bill asap, if we're to have a chance to take back our country from wall street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhe286ky-9A

EDIT: I say ex loosely.. I voted mostly dem. down the line, but wrote in Bernie Sanders, I'm not fond of Jill Stein something about her doesn't seem right. But I couldn't in good conscience do a protest vote for Trump, and I can never support Clinton, the most corrupt politician of the past 40 years.
Full disclosure, I paid for the first semester of the SDC course.

I am hoping that udacity is able to keep this sort of pricing. I am also hoping that the udacity doesn't get subsidized through student loans like ITT was. I think it skews things so student and education company goals are no longer aligned. They have an interest in churning out as many students as possible with little quality control then.

By making the student cough up a good but not insurmountable chunk of cash upfront udacity has to ultimately answer to the student market.
I find it really interesting that the bulk of the comments here are about folks using them as a smoking cessation aid.

In my case, every friend I know who's started using e-cigarettes took them up without having an existing tobacco habit. Some of them add nicotine to the vape juice, some don't.

I don't know how common this is, but it's certainly given vaping a negative impression for me. At the very least, it seems like an unnecessary risk given how little public health data there is.
Because artificially making the 'other side' look evil is an effective way to win elections. If you can find some way to make the other side look bad (no matter how artificial, see Hillary on the Cubs/Yankees issue), then you win.

Huge incentive to find any division.
the word stack itself is quite boring.
That doesn't actually answer the question.
Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128 [pdf]
I think it is true that the less experienced engineers start in verification however the verification role is actually quite difficult. It is much more than feeding tools and math. You only do that during the execution phase. That can be assigned to newbies.

However the creation of the verification testbench and tests is as extensive as the design. The verification team has to work in parallel with the design team so they have enough time to get things done. If they make a mistake in verification it can still also cost a fortune.

If the testbench and tests are not well designed then you are screwed in a roundabout way because the ability to quickly find the bugs isn't there. The testbench has to work on both the rtl and the back annotated netlist.

Approximately 75% of the person-months and compute resources for most projects is verification work. I have been verification lead on multiple projects and design lead on multiple projects. In either role I always looked to assign verification resources as top priority because the project is screwed without it.

On the original topic: The problem is that most commenters are not in the verification field. They don't know the amount or type of work done in verification or the commercial tools involved. This is done in SystemVerilog to do UVM - Universal Verification Methodology. It is not just Verilog. People here are concerned with ease of design. The bottleneck in the industry is in ease of verification.
Shred Video (http://shredvideo.com/) is trying to solve the editing problem.
> There's no guarantee about Java either. This class compiles with Java 7, but not with Java 8:

Ok, but you can compile it with the newer compiler by passing -source 1.7, right? And you can call into it from 1.8 code?
I think especially in the context of a "boring" web stack, MySQL is the clear winner.

Postgres has lots of shiny features on the SQL side, but MySQL's storage and especially replication has always been more reliable for me. I've seen a couple failed MySQL -> Postgres migrations because it's the shiny thing people chase, but the operational reality is that MySQL is still better.
I'm not sure I understand how the time spent communicating is a valuable metric of how that made your company better.

Somebody here can hopefully help me with the quote, something along the lines of ~ it takes twice as long to write a brief letter as a long one.

The quality, not quantity of your communication is what's valuable. Does YC help with training you to better communicate? How is that shown?

Where is the time working on product accounted for? Or are you only working on communication (I understand People.ai only measures communication - but I doubt all you are doing at YC is communications).
You sound like a fun person to have drinks with and discuss ideas :)
Journalists Under Attack by Browser Add-Ons and Data Trading
For anyone unaware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
> * Never said AES ECB was an alternative to DES.

> AES CBC instead of ECB or (gasp) Triple DES

What? This entire vein of conversation is nothing but miscommunication.

These are two choices a developer should use:

* crypto_secretbox() and crypto_secretbox_open()
from NaCl or libsodium
* rm -rf code/ && shutdown

Yes, a privileged few are actually capable of cobbling together a secure cryptosystem out of AES, HMAC, SHA2-family hash functions, and maybe Ed25519 and X25519 if they have a sane implementation available. The general public should just use whatever AEAD mode they're provided and not build their own disaster.

> * I would never use 3DES.

Good.

> * I am aware of that, just TLDRing. SHA-256 is my cup of tea.

SHA-384 is mine.

https://blog.skullsecurity.org/2012/everything-you-need-to-k...

Except for passwords. You don't use simple hash functions for passwords.

> * Did I say they were a MAC? I would use CBC HMAC + SHA-256 for that.

I'm assuming you meant AES-CBC + HMAC-SHA-256 here, in an encrypt-then-authenticate mode.

By "assuming" I of course meant "hoping".

> * No idea, since I'm not an expert at AES.

AES expertise isn't the issue here. Composing a secure cryptography protocol out of standard implementations is a rare skill set among software engineers.
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Have you compared the two? Let's say there are "shills" on HN - it doesn't change the fact that many people see obvious differences in performance between the two editors. It's objectively verifiable. Maybe you're an anti-MS shill
It seems like the two topics are correctly being linked. Airbnb is trying to use arbitration clauses to avoid having to answer any questions about large-scale discrimination. Why should it be talked about in a vacuum?
I think I've seen play buttons on gifs ...
Fin: A Vibrator for Fingers
No. The media can stop dissing them at the behest of their corporate masters. That's all that's going on.
With the security sandbox of the browser functionality is inherently limited (by design) compared to native apps which have less-limiting restrictions.

Security and usability are inversely proportional and the browser needs that security more than anything else.

That being said, it's great to see the innovation in the web space. But it will always be limited to specific application domains and the standards move slowly
Because they want a support contract and someone to sue if things go badly wrong.
Democrats prefer expanding the social safety net

Which party had a healthcare plan in 2008? Was the 'individual mandate' a Republican or Democratic idea?
the GoPro camera is the best camera I own. I don't need a DSLR, I'm not a serious photographer, I'll use my phone for regular pictures. but I really enjoy having a high quality camera for surfing, snowboarding, scuba diving, and slow mo

but it's so well made, and it's always in the case (so I can put it on a mount) that ot still Looks feels brand new. I bet it will last me 5 more years
I would encourage the author to file an ITP for soundpackage and then package it for Debian. Once that's in the Debian archive, this package using it is free to enter Debian as well.
Pretty amazing. If the outcome is determined by 100 million independent coin flips, the probability of a margin greater than one tenth of a percent is 1.5e-23. In R

n <- 100000000
diff <- 0.1/100
a_wins <- n*(1-diff)/2
b_wins <- n*(1+diff)/2
p1 <- pbinom(a_wins, size = n, prob = 0.5)
p2 <- pbinom(b_wins, size = n, prob = 0.5, lower.tail = F)
p1 + p2 # = 1.523959e-23