skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you seriously referencing twin studies and saying social scientists haven't controlled for heritability of cognitive ability?

Like centuries of social science research haven't thought of that?

Like you had a suddenly original idea that tens of thousands of people who have dedicated their lives to this field, gotten M.Ds and PhD's, hadn't thought of?

And if twin studies were conclusive wouldn't it have answered the debate of nature vs nurture that we're having, once and for all?

You're trying to summarize human consciousness, which is extremely unpredictable, and no one understand fully... into one test...It's extremely dumb and pretty much everyone but you agrees...and for good reasons...

Maybe your educational environment is lacking..
(3) That doesn't make the blog post "shortsighted", just missing a new trick, that's not much used yet anyway.

(4) The websites that wanted to have a sticky header would have done it already with one of the several available current methods. The appearance of an easier way to do it with a single CSS rule is not gonna increase their number drastically.
Being fired is usually the result of poor performance from the employee or violating company policies.

Being laid off happens when the company is performing poorly and isn't necessarily any fault of the individual employees.
Combine this with the recent surge of sticky footers as well, especially on small/mobile devices. Vice is a particularly bad offender: http://i.imgur.com/ltqYRX9.png

That's a 60px sticky header + a 50px sticky footer on a 480px-tall screen. 23% of my screen space is lost to sticky elements. The footer is only two buttons, "Share" and "Tweet".

Every time you scroll down, the header slides up, and then back down again. It's an incredibly distracting experience.

The icing on the cake is the ad in the middle of the article, it's in an iframe that hijacks your scrolling, until you swipe through all 5 slides you cannot continue scrolling through the article.

Why would I ever subject myself to consuming content this way?!
I know: add more money!
Do we want the message to be that everyone is welcome to try their hand at entrepreneurship, or that the only ones that should get to try are the young, rich, and healthy?
I think it's more like 2 billion monthly active users, based on this projection from earlier this year:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14474534/facebook-earnings...

Still impressive, regardless.
It's true that you can't really "buy" specific electrons from a micro-producer.* But providing a platform for the exchange can be beneficial, because it allows the producer to monetize their activity in a way that might not otherwise be possible, creating the financial incentives for them and others to (further) invest in creating more production capacity. Of course, for this to be useful the revenue obtained through the platform has to be higher than what you could get without it.

This is the same idea as Google and Facebook signing power purchase agreements with wind or solar farms. Goog/FB of course get their power from the grid and not a direct link to the wind/solar farm, but by creating the financial instrument of the PPA (typically at a higher than market price) they allow the producer to finance their project which can make the difference between it being built or not. It's a lot easier to finance a project when someone has committed to buy all your power at a fixed price for 20 years vs the uncertainty involved in the spot power market.

* this is true even at a conceptual level without getting into the physics of how electrons don't actually get transmitted from a power plant all the way to your house
Active is really stretching the term there.
Consensus is monthly active users: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/

Remains to be seen how many are real humans though.
1) No.

2) No. I can't imagine people using an app that has auctions that can't be enforced. The element of trust/enforcement is crucial.

Questions for you:

1) Are you talking about a native app? If so, why native?

2) How does this solve a problem that eBay doesn't solve?
This was long before $3k. The price tanked immediately on May 12th and remained depressed until the 17th which was shortly after the initial outbreak was halted by the domain registration.
But… I like them. It makes navigating easier. I’m talking about just the nav bar though—like the one here on HN.
You know the old joke where the mentor says "pay me 100 dollars and I'll show you how to make a million dollars"?

I laughed a little because reading the post about facebook's user growth immediately nags me to sign up for facebook. Nothing against facebook; the irony just got a chuckle out of me.
> Or you should be happy, that the EU actually uses their regulatory power to benefit the consumer no matter how big the company they're going against is.

So is the EU going to fine Apple for not allowing iPhone users to access third-party browsers?

At least Google doesn't force any lock-in with their platform here (the browser or search engine) - you're free to use any search engine you want.
Thats actually a really interesting way of interviewing, and probably matches the way most people have to work.
Javascript the Good Parts by Crockford is a great book for people who already know a bit of JS but want to learn it proper and deeper.
The Case Against Liberal Compassion
It's true that churn will be slightly lower in comparison to Groupon et al (due to the subscription aspect)... but the barrier-to-entry is very low and it's likely the subscription part will dissolve to being effortless as competition heats up.
By MAU according to https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/ (first point)
I always say that these are for people with more money than time.

That generally fits my assumption that the target audience is two career couples, generally speaking.

They just want to buy a pre-configured lego set, and build a spaceship they can eat.

That's an awesome description. Thank you for that.
also, i doubt google would want to do that considering the EU as a economic block is the largest economy in the world with nearly 510 million people.

It is larger then the US by a fair margin.
https://www.facebook.com/logout Good thing that you can't leave
This is kind of depressing and does not bode well for future information dispersal.
I have letters like r and b aliased in my bash profile to check for and run a bash script, if it exists, in each project directory (r = ./run.sh, b = ./build.sh).

In each of those scripts, I typically have a one liner depending on what the project requires. A simple build one is:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

make build

And run:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

docker run foo/bar

Or maybe:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

python manage.py runserver

I might also add (source) environment variable settings, etc. Sort of like my own personal decentralized makefile.

Then I add each script to my .git/info/exclude for each project. It saves so much time switching between projects to not have to remember any particular one's build or run commands.
Fascinating, if not depressing analysis of clickbait. I guess one of the sad takeaways is that people want to be told how to react when they read something (make you cry, give you goosebumps, shocked to see).
That's mind-blowing to me. Is that correct that roughly 26% of the world population is on Facebook? Or are these numbers representative of total users since the beginning of the site?

If it's the latter, then I'd be curious as to how many users actively use the site today.
That's fairly accurate, as far as I can tell.

Your "code" looks VERY similar to the code you would write for a chrome web extension. The delivery mechanism for the code is the MITM capability...looks very much like edge-side-includes.

They have a sample app here: https://github.com/CloudflareApps/CornerRibbon
I agree... I always move the current line to the top of the page for some reason. that's actually why I don't like most ebook readers because they are paginated.
I'm not sure that we need the craft the "message" about entrepreneurship through healthcare policy. In any direction.
I don't think drone delivery is the bottleneck for incredibly cheap, yet personalized food that's delivered to you on the order of ~15 minutes. Ingredients, chef's time, kitchen space, etc. are going to eat that five bucks right up.

A six-inch sub from Subway is already nine bucks, and that includes the Sandwich Rembrandt personalizing it for me with an extra slice of provolone for a dollar extra.

The market isn't waiting for it, people are waiting for it - who doesn't want super cheap, super good food, super fast? But there's a saying about picking two.
Because the middle of the country has zero tolerance for homeless once they start to become a burden, and bus them to the west coast. Nevada finally settled a SF lawsuit a year or two ago because they shut down a metal health facility and gave them all bus tickets to California.

Combine that with the moderate climates (read: you aren't sleeping in 4 foot of snow) and we just end up with an uneven distribution.
It's both - it is meant to be humorous, but it is a real statement
Monthly, active according to this source:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15880494/facebook-2-billi...

And if you look at these stats from March 2017:

https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/

It could be either one. Daily active were 1.28 B and monthly active were 1.9 B so either way it is likely they have both crossed, or are about to cross the 2B mark.
I don't know when you lived in NYC, but it has certainly gotten worse in the last few years. I'm tempted to date it from the start of the de Blasio administration but I couldn't swear to it.
Drives me nuts. That's why there's a back button built in to the browser
A huge, unmentioned part of the problem is that SF has settled on housing policies that makes low-end housing unavailable or unaffordable. The people who can only afford to live in a single-room occupancy aren't going to magically disappear when you restrict the number of SROs available. They're going to go onto the street.

Yes, it's bad that someone can only afford a 60 square foot room to live in. The solution isn't to make it illegal to let out a 60 square foot room to them, or to force market-rate housing to subsidize a few lucky winners.
What do you think NIMBY means?

The term originated to describe opposition to the placement of unpleasant developments that wouldn't be objected to if placed elsewhere (think landfill or meat-packing plant).

It now roughly refers to anyone opposing greater density in urban environments. (This is different enough, already, that we should probably coin a new word for it.)

You're using it to mean -- what? -- opposition to any development on aesthetic grounds?

We're pretty far afield, now.
And they say this as something so wild and wacky it's worth an exclamation point :-/ "The Tovala doesn't just cook Tovala meals - you can program it to cook your own food too!"

So it's some sort of programmable combi oven. They're apparently (sorry) hot in modernist etc. cooking circles. I've read that keeping them free from mold etc. can be a problem but I haven't looked into them in any great detail.

I have to say that the example meal shown on their site is really not something most people would find at all challenging or time-consuming to prepare using supermarket ingredients.
Everyone who can is everyone who can pony up $10k per person for a week-long vacation. It will stay in good condition for a while yet.
Let's say Spotify began including a music recognition feature similar to Shazam. That would be really useful! Would this decision force Spotify to not include the feature because they have a monopoly on music streaming and it would force Shazam out of business? That just seems plain wrong.
Can they hit back? Or at least protect themselves from being hit? It's domestic violence, people!
Oil based paint gets brittle and chips and it also yellows.
A downside I have noticed in water based paint is the manufacturers have started adding extra water, thinning the paint. Presumably selling more water is more profitable.
Cyberattack hits entire Heritage Valley Health System, shuts down computers
No winter die-offs / pressure to leave because of the cold.
weird that this gets downvoted, its a good response and i think a worthy point.
This article was written in 2013, almost 3 years before any browser supported "position: sticky". I disagree that the blog is shortsighted, but as you mentioned, the bookmarklet should be updated.
can you please take your stupid political shit somewhere else.
Serious question, is a social network like Facebook a public good, in the economic sense? Should it be a publicly regulated utility?
I just leave those sites immediately. It's too infuriating.
Maybe CF is a little tired of being the workaround for AWS egress charges too.
It's monthly active. Also, this isn't surprising given the trend: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
I'm grateful people are sounding this alarm. A healthy society produces a more stable, faster-growing economy, and entrepreneurship shouldn't be limited to those scions of wealthy families.
You can live outside year round. It gets kinda tough in the winter, but at least you won't freeze to death.

Also super homeless friendly rules and laws. For example, in the city of Berkeley, you are required to have the front door of your commercial establishment set back from the street and covered, and the police won't remove homeless people while your business is closed. In other words, you must provide covered shelter each night to the homeless if you own a business there.
The stories in 2015 about Facebook fake profiles estimated it to be ~11%. As comparison, estimates for Twitter was ~15% fake users.

89% of 2 billion is still a mind-boggling ~1.7 billion.
Yeah, because the status quo is to 'do the work you are hired to do', and they disrupted it.
I think this makes sense.

The EU has to defend its producers as much as it defends its consumers.

I wouldn't say that the EU is doing this at the expense of its consumers because I don't think that consumers actually get a better deal because this feature of Google.

Google's initiative only serves to narrow down the options for consumers and funnel them to where Google wants them to go.

Google's business is to steal people's free will and sell it to corporations.

To be fair, I don't think it's much different from what all the other corporations are doing. All advertising ought to be taxed.
Amazing! For perspective, there are ~2.5B smartphone users in the world.
Preference and experience.

My time with Perl was wrestling with code that people wrote to show how good they were at Perl, and where maintainability was a secondary concern. This is a bit harder to do in Awk (but not impossible). I moved from Perl to Python in the 1.5 days in part because of this.

I believe this occurs with Java now too. Neither Perl nor Java are bad languages, they are both powerful and performant. However there are some architecture astronauts who seem to enjoy making life harder for the rest of us.
Yea, but in the context of reading an article it rarely matters.
That is mind-blowing. 2 billion total users an immense volume in and of itself but 2 billion even semi active users is incredible
Fair enough! I haven't read the details of that decision.
The article even mentions that the utility provider ConEd in Brookyln offers green energy, so there's almost no point in LO3's services.

Not that I'm an expert in electrical grids, but I'd rather the actual grid coordinate a changeover to renewable sources, because these actors just sound like they're selling a scam that'll end with a class-action lawsuit someday.
Hmmm... what other activities would "couples with disposable income" like to have "at home a few nights a week", but which could improved with "some structure"?
Wow your suggestion really helped: Debug toolbar itself was causing this for some reason. How embarrassing. Thanks!
I don't think what you wrote will ever be feasible. I am a big fan of the Chipotle model where you get to pick what you want as you order it and it is prepared fresh, but, unlike a buffet, only the staff handle the food, not a jillion grubby customers pawing through it. And that tends to be a bit pricier than fast food.

I can get something to eat at Chipotle for $5 or less. You don't actually have to order an $8 burrito. But, generally speaking, fresh, made to order, etc. is simply not going to happen for $5. Though I do kind of like your idea of drone delivery.
True, I was just thinking about JavaScript, which is dynamically typed :D
Having not really looked into the Java 9 features much yet can you expand on that last point? It sounds like that's more or less what I'm looking for though. Is it possible to declare a package to be open to multiple modules? I.E. could I do something like:

open com.foo.mylib to com.fasterxml.jackson.core
open com.foo.mylib to org.springframework.core
Could be a browser plugin

ps: nice project btw (thanks in advance)
How do the homeless survive the winter?
What about IPFS for storing cached pages?
Thanks.

So to go back to these two points:

> They don't need to deploy 0days if the vendor (willingly or unwillingly) cooperates.

> I don't understand how that would be possible. Such a change would be detected and very loudly discussed, making it pretty useless.

It would seem to me that these things are happening. 0days are being added (often to look like simple bugs) and security companies are detecting them and we're talking about them...eventually. So you're both right, but there's a period of sometimes years following the addition of a backdoor to it being discovered. And the NSA doesn't care too much if it's found as you can be sure it's not the only one as the ShadowBrokers showed.

Take the example in this thread - EternalBlue. That particular flaw was introduced in XP wasn't it? And it survived all this time despite the uncountable security researches pouring over the code for a decade and more. It took a hack to reveal these tools.

Maybe the EternalBlue exploit really did just exploit a bug. Maybe it was a backdoor. It doesn't matter though. If it was a bug, it lay undiscovered for years which means there's plenty of opportunity for an actual backdoor to remain undiscovered too. So we have to deal with the possibility that 'exploitable code' (however it originated) may be around for decades and can be in every system as a result.

Following that logic, a new piece of 'exploitable code' could be added in the next Windows update and it could lay undetected for a decade. It's happened before and we didn't find it until the ShadowBrokers did their work, so it can happen again just as easily.

What about Heartbleed. This was another piece of 'exploitable code' that was around for years undetected. The example of this are no doubt many.

It would seem to me then that there are plenty of cases where a 'backdoor' has been placed and plenty where a genuine mistake was made, but we can't ever really know which is which.

I guess that is the problem for us who talk about it as it encourages taking sides, where the reality is paranoid people are sometimes right in certain cases and cynics who think it's just a bug are right in others.
the problem with fining financial structures is that the eurozone at the moment has no common fiscal policy and no framework to do these kind of financial crimes efficiently.

Although there is far more support to integrate more fiscal policy across the eurozone (as expressed by both macron, merkel and some minor other EU nations), the legislation simply isn't their yet.
In your original post, you said:

> If you take the stance that the government is looking out for your interests better than Google is...

making a clear implicit counterclaim that Google is looking out for my interests better than the government. But then you say this:

> The entire Lean method and deploy-measure-iterate-deploy cycle, is predicated on a feedback loop between users and products.

As someone who has done a lot of A/B testing over the course of their career, I can say with authority that this argument is completely bogus, to the point that I'm having trouble believing you're making it in good faith. A/B testing rarely has anything to do with matching the product to customer's stated preferences or looking out for their best interests. It's almost always about exploiting various quirks of psychology to increase engagement or spending, in the manner of casinos.

In fact, I'm willing to wager that A/B testing, as it's done today, probably anti-optimizes the product from the perspective of the user's (or society's) best interests (best example: Facebook and the social bubble effect, and how outrage-inducting fake news gets more clicks and engagement than nuanced real stuff)

Contrast this with the history of how well companies respond to consumer's stated preferences. A clear majority of people, when polled, say they want less corporate welfare, companies that treat the environment better, reasonable labor protections, etc.. None of these have happened to any significant degree, unless their hand was forced by (bitterly opposed) regulation.

Now, this is mostly people's own fault, because their spending habits do not match their stated preferences, and businesses follow revealed preference. But that's been my point all along: businesses cannot be trusted satisfy stated preferences. And I'm the rare consumer who does try to put my money where my mouth is, and my preferences still never translate into large-scale change. That's what I mean when I say there's no empirical footing for the claim that businesses can be trusted to look out for my interests.
Also factor in that 13% of Americans don't use the internet as of Sept 2016. I'd expect that average global percentage to be even higher.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/07/some-america...
Bitcoin exchange operator tied to hacks gets five-and-a-half years U.S. prison
I am currently working on a Node/React project with 120 first-order dependencies. 120! And it's just a crud app with a few canvas visualisations.
Julia 0.6 Release Announcement
At what point do things stop being "stupid political shit" and become directly applicable to the tech and startup community?
Is Typescript goal to be the Java/C# of the browser/nodejs? static type checking, tooling and heavily OOP(as in Java/C#) based?
The blog post was written in 2013.
Oh yeah, I also wrote about how GZIP handles repetition: https://medium.com/@fpresencia/understanding-gzip-size-836c7...
why would it be likely that daily active users ballooned 56% to surpass 2B? Seems like it must be monthly active in the discussion. Did FB do something recently that leads to your remark
A lot of unstated dubious assumptions. Is the headline decisive? I bet these headlines were accompanied by pictures; maybe that's the signal.
Firefox defaulted to Google search because they got paid a ton of money to do so.
And the same people that are removing it.
Ask HN: As an individual developer, how to sell your software to a big company?
I have developed a good stack of software and I have a working prototype.
There are 2-3 competitors out there but this stack is much ahead in features set.

It was fun developing this project since it's inception. My initial goal was to go startup way.

But its been a long run for me (finances) and currently I lack sufficient energies to push ahead.

How can I make most of this stack from where I stand ?

Have a list of small-medium-big companies who might be interested.

And of big five, have emails of teams/managers who are in slightly similar space.

Should I reach out to them directly ? I am trying to weigh best options.

Pls advise.

PS: I don't live in US.