skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I live in a bubble, but I just assumed that Facebook would be on a decline trajectory by now.

Their website is almost meaningless to my day-to-day life at this point. I login once every couple of weeks, upload some pics of my kids for Grandma to look at, and then log off. I don't personally know anyone who still uses it regularly as we did back in 2007. I don't know a tactful way to put this... but it seems like mostly older people and Walmart shoppers, posting angry bumper sticker nonsense about Obama or Trump.

Am I just COMPLETELY out of touch? Or it is an Eternal September situation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September), where the unwashed masses are still coming on board faster than people like me are leaving?

Even if it's the latter, aren't they near a saturation point by now? Once everybody's signed up, where's the growth come from? How do you squeeze out additional monetization from a platform once there are no new members coming in, and old ones trickle away because the content is so poor?
I figured it as the p-value rate goes with the PI, the funded investigator.
Instagram is huge by engagement and advertising spend. They have absolutely cannibalized what Snapchat might have been.
This is not a accurate comparison as other commenters have pointed out...
Here you go have your license to be happy. Now let others have their "garbage" standalone flash player.
You are correct, it does not, my mistake - the article implies that he gave his companion who OD'ed GHB and/or meth (neither of which is a prescription opiate), as well as the inhalers you mentioned.
Oh yeah, those are a nightmare for people with bad memory (me). I don't even know the payment amount of my loans, I create my own payment schedule, thank you very much! I couldn't even tell you my mortgage payment.

I got a tip from a friend when he had to produce past addresses and dates lived there. (Did I live on 123 Main St or 321 Main St?) Keep your credit reports and keep them handy. Refer to them for things you can't remember.

Once I got asked how old my mom was. Um... yeah, I'm honestly not sure of that. It was an age range and I guessed probably around (my age) + 25 and I got it right.
> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year

Some sports metaphors really don't work.
I see no problem here.
Right. And they'd also say the league is incredible uncompetitive.
At the time of the IPO there were lots of "finally I can short this disaster". Then the stock went down a bit and "I'm making so much money shorting this anchor! Short now before it hits zero!" You don't see as many of those comments these days.
Holy hell, I was just lamenting Google Maps' lack of such a feature, and the range of commute time estimates being way too conservative. Lo and behold, they had the feature, it was just in Waze.
It complains that women apply "different standards" to men's behaviour based on if they find them attractive or not.

Viewing social interaction as a series of rules/steps to follow in order to "succeed" or "win" is how you view being attractive as a form of "cheating" or unfairness. This doesn't account for the other party having agency, since the only perspective taken is that of one side of a two sided issue.

Even in your post you say "women often apply different standards to men's behaviour based on whether they find them attractive or not".

Let's be damn clear: there are no different standards at play, there are two completely different behaviours at play - welcome romantic advances and unwelcome romantic advances.
Breaking the law is an indicator of criminal behavior, whether you like the law or not.
Yeah, "not relevant to many people" is a wildly false claim. If it were anywhere near true, we wouldn't see the level of Python 3 support that we have in the major packages (95.8%).

http://py3readiness.org/
$3.9B is only their profit for the quarter. Over the last year, they've reported a little over $13.1B in profit (>$600k per headcount).
Even if this would be the dream of a lot of theoretical physicists to replace experiments with simulations, this must not happen! Ever! Even if every complex system in the world could be simulated in reasonable time it would still require experiments to verify or falsify the simulation results. A simulation is essentially just a calculation from a model someone came up with to describe a system. In order to check how good the model is one has to check it against experimental data. Just expanding the models without experimental verification will not necessarily result in a good theoretical description. It would be like writing software without testing the components and expecting it to work correctly when you're done. There was recently an article on HN where economists were described as the astrologers of our time [1] since they do not verify their mathematical models to an extent where they can predict economical systems.
This is another example where more experimental data should be considered in order to falsify certain theories.

Those are the reasons why string-theorist will not (and should not) get any Nobel price in the next decades. Since its predictions are hard to measure on those small scales there's no way of telling if the model is any good until it is compared against suitable experimental data.

[1] https://aeon.co/essays/how-economists-rode-maths-to-become-o...
https://www.irs.gov/uac/overview-money-laundering
Just because it's not bloated doesn't make it any less of an OS then any other minimal Linux installation, it is itself built on the Linux kernel - it is just highly optimised for a very select set of software and hardware requirements.
To transcode all Flash content you need a similar amount of work as reimplementing Flash since you need to transcode all the functions, it is similar as Wine project is doing and it is always behind and there are bugs, having the source will help implementingt the translation.
It's more complex than that. The law says they can't "unreasonably restrict competition", and then courts have to decide what that actually means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
No, it is reality. Having worked in mobile ads, this saying is quite common: "You can buy ads from Google or Facebook, everything else is worthless."

The long tale companies are not worth it. The amount of hassle it takes to reach out to "Glam Media" and start working out your own ad deal is a stupid waste of time. You are smarter investing in monitoring your cpi on google/fb.

Edit: Glam media shutdown.
https://www.recode.net/2016/9/15/12936470/mode-media-glam-sh...
SCTP would be the logical choice for supporting both streams and messages.

No one really wants to support a network with the evil of arbitrary UDP from the browser. In SCTP, the handshake combined with crypto tricks can allows a server to make sure the initiator stores a larger cookie than it needs to hold for verification, throttling the DDOS riffraff.
How would you write such legislation that doesn't also outlaw Reddit?
The second is not a value of the language, it is a measure of the cost to realize the communication value.
The Changes at the New York Times
5 puzzles about statistics that should be accessible without being trivial
To corroborate your statement, i worked at Booking ~4 years ago, and the internal rumours were that Booking represented ~85% of the PCLN value.

I'm sure it fluctuated since, and from friends still working there, i would guess upwards.
So what about FB replicating all of SNAP and overtaking them rapidly, taking the advertising growth market share they would of had otherwise? Time to breakup FB?
Depending on your exact use case, Forth might be one
Just looking at the complexity of "minimal" implementation only highlights the need for different solution.
Interestingly, I'm someone who does not click on ads, but the last 3 ads I've clicked on were on Facebook, and two resulted in purchases.

I can't help it when the ads are for cool things like a $20 USB endoscope.
What's the point of moving on from jQuery? Does plain javascript now offers the same functionalities?
I'm running a digital signage service based on the Raspberry Pi: https://info-beamer.com/

It started as a for-fun project and I'm now working full time on it. So I guess it qualifies :-)

If you want to display any kind of information on your Pi, you might take a look. The code that "runs" the display is written in Lua and the system is pretty programmer friendly. You can even 'git push' and deploy directly on any number of screens. Questions welcome!
Sorry, I must have misread it. Looking at some charts, you have a point there.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/World_po... (1994)
> why would it affect you?

Security affects everyone. Even if I can keep my own machine uninfected, I can't do the same for my bank's machines. Nor can I do the same for random strangers whose machines get 0wned and then used to launch new attacks against me, my bank, and everyone else. Insecure software needs to be replaced by more secure software, not put on indefinite life support.
No, because hiring affects future income and expenses, not just present.
Much respect to Microsoft and their new found love of bounty programs, but pioneer is a bit of a stretch - they launched their first bounty program in 2013, well after third party bug bug buyers like ZDI, and even after BugCrowd and other bug bounty as a service companies launched.
Notice: The idea is not to save Flash Player, but to open source Flash!

What exactly is being referred to here? The Flash authoring tool I assume? As in, the application that you install on your desktop and use to create Flash animations with?

I think a better description of the purpose of this petition might be a good idea. A lot of people conflate Flash and Flash Player.
Haven't had time to read the source yet, how are the lambda headless chrome reliability issues dealt with? Is it a different chrome build than serverless-chrome?
In Canada there is the "Smith Maneuver" which involves a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) where you borrow against your equity and invest it, and write off the interest payment on the HELOC.

So technically you're using low-cost mortgage lending (2.15% rates are possible) to invest and get 5-7% returns on average, plus writing off the interest payments.
Flash will not be further developed by 2020, but it does not mean the Flash Player suddenly will stop running the SWF files. You will still be able to play them using Flash Projector.
You could also argue in the opposite direction: Without a plugin architecture, you are at the mercy of the browser developers to implement a certain functionality.

If you need some native feature, browser vendors can force you to use a native app and thus go through their app store (think Safari on iOS). There is a large category of apps that you cannot make in HTML, for example anything truly P2P (not WebRTC, but based on real sockets). You can't make an IMAP client. You can't make a friend-to-friend file sharing tool, without a central server, that uses your Facebook and Google contacts to find peers (I've tried). You can't make the browser window partially-transparent or use native looking widgets. You can't burn a DVD. And if someone invents free-floating holograms, you can't add them to your page.

Granted, these examples are silly. The web is now a very capable platform. But vendors have always been steering what you can and cannot do based on business and other interests. It would be great to be able to break out of that, by having a kind of "C foreign function" interface for the web.
> Office 365 provides great value also.

I think the cheapest version is $70 a year. I'm still using office 2007 which cost about the same but has lasted 10 years. I dont think this software rental trend is anything about great value.
You'd write "Facebook".
This is valuable input, you are welcome to contribute in form of PR!
Split it into Facebook back-end, Facebook Red, FB Green, and FB Blue. FB back-end is the current back-end. The Red, Green, and Blue are separate front end that all have equal access to the back-end so a user of FB Red can friend a user of FB Blue. FB Red, Blue, and Green compete with each other on prices they charge to advertisers and can change their user interface to compete for users. Any user can use any one of FB R, G, or B and to get full access, but with their preferred UI
Just because a piece of culture isn't exactly to your particular taste doesn't mean it shouldn't be preserved and it should be impossible for anyone to experience it in the future. And besides, that's a really selective and disingenuous generalization of Flash. There are a huge number of important, interesting Flash games that are worth preserving for history's sake.
Why is this downvoted? This is what a few sites do (ie, Craiglist) and it works well and I prefer it. It's not much different than a password with email recovery option. I've also seen shopping sites do this to manage past orders.
Ford has $40b cash and its market cap is $43b ?? I should buy some.

Edit: I guess I missed "Ignoring Debt" they have too much debt.
NAT66 is possible, in the sense that the protocol won't stop you from implementing or using it. But in practice it's relatively rare, because once you have a nearly-unlimited supply of addresses, NAT typically has more drawbacks than benefits.
If you use the VM solution you probably need some open VM format, in case in a few years the current formats are dropped.
Finite differences, you estimate the gradient.
I will have to compare to Parcel. I hate when it's unable to track certain packages!
http://www.embeddedadventures.com/as3935_lightning_sensor_mo...
that's the breakout, this is the python library you can use with it:
https://github.com/pcfens/RaspberryPi-AS3935/
I encourage everyone to buy a DeskCycle or equivalent with an ergonomic chair and appropriately positioned table. Once you get into the groove you should be able to average 10mph for approximately 4 hours. I feel healthier doing that than standing or sitting all day.
I've had the misfortune to work with Flex - I really didn't enjoy it. It was also incredibly difficult to make Flex apps accessible in a meaningful way.

AIR did hold promise, but ultimately suffered from being terribly cumbersome to extend when you wanted to access native features or platform standard libraries (I've created several AIR native extensions over the years).

However, one of the big problems with using Flex or AIR after Adobe have end-of-lifed Flash is that you're going to lose access to the content creation tools. There are some alternatives (FlashDevelop and FDT for coding, I forget the name of the attempt at an open source Flash timeline editor), but nothing is close to being as good as Adobes own tools when you want to.

If you want to leverage knowledge of ActionScript, people may be better off looking at something like Haxe for cross platform gui app dev.
I don't. I remember when the press made a big deal about some LastPass things that they didn't understand and actually didn't matter.

Was there an actual debacle at some point?
Rich successful older man secretly does a lot of drugs and hangs around with younger women.

No, it wasn't simply a matter of his doing drugs and "hanging around" with younger women. You might want to give the article a closer read.
There's a real engineering cost to federation. Your email example is a good one, I think. But digging a little deeper, what's the last major feature that got added to email? For example, we've been trying to get encryption in email for longer than WhatsApp has ever existed. WhatsApp rolled out encryption for everyone on its network last year. That's a billion people! I'd be surprised if 100 thousand people regularly used encrypted email, and even fewer used effectively encrypted email.

Social networks have been adding lots of features over the years to compete with each other. Realistically I think that fractured platforms would struggle to catch on because each provider would prioritize different features. Since social networking grows in utility superlinearly with the connectivity with your friends, features get less useful and the whole thing stagnates.

Basically: Microsoft Outlook is a social network of the kind you envision. Even Outlook for Mac versus Outlook for Windows is a sharp divide in terms of features! Do you think that people would use social networks if they looked like Outlook?
Senator Doesn't Buy FCC Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Protections
SCTP have been mentioned in the repo: https://github.com/Maksims/web-udp-public/issues/1#issuecomm...
Companies don't try to maximize total profit, but rather return on invested capital.
Hating KYC/AML law may not be a strong indicator of legal wrongdoing; breaking it, OTOH, is not merely an indicator of legal wrongdoing, but is itself such wrongdoing.
I completely agree with you, but since we have all these materials used in a myriad ways, and it's not practical to just stop using all of them cold turkey, it would really be useful to figure out exactly which stuff is doing what harm and how.
>The language LISP I in 1960 had numbers, side-effects and sequential execution.

Yes, true. But in this context Paul Graham was talking about the language defined in the 1960 paper below and not LISP I.

"Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I"

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html
So the guy uses drugs? Who gives a shit as long as he wasn’t operating on patients under the influence.

But it’s fucked up if he didn’t try to help that woman to save himself or protect his reputation.
Fair point Yumraj! We will definitely do so in future updates of our website. We have been in ultra stealth mode before coming to YC. Till date we have acquired all our customers organically. The quality of our service has primarily brought that trust in our users who have invested millions of $ via the app.
No, you don't need your silly flash player to play free games in your web browser or offer to users at a payment plan and method of your choosing. We've got this great app store for you to use that only costs $100 a year to submit apps to and we keep 30% of all the money you make on your game.
Men are generally physically stronger than women.
Yeah, 6^N dimensions are fun! ;)
That's pretty cool! I started trying to learn perl6 and write my first interesting program. I have a copy of 'ray tracing in a weekend' and am trying to translate the basic ray tracer from c++ to perl6.

It's remarkably slow right now.. It takes 1.5 minutes to generate an image. I tried to do the same thing in Julia and it takes 1.5 seconds. So I guess I must be doing something wrong!
....Don't both your examples work through opensource emulators?

Seems a weird thing to bring up for why we shouldn't opensource a runtime to preserve content....
And to be fair, "ignoring debt" is kind of an odd way to measure something like "who is sitting on cash"
Apple is also running up quite the debt (over $100B) in the US so the overall figure is actually lower.

http://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-plans-to-sell-lots-of-...
What, 13,000 factory workers? Foxconn isn't going to use mostly robots? Gou has said he wants to get rid of the "animals" in his plants.
When I was in vegas, the thought occurred to me that cities were structures designed to dissipate economic energy.

Money flows into vegas through the big casinos and gradually works its way out through the rest of the city, forming vortexes and whirlpools of economic activity, of lower and lower intensity as you move out from the city center, until it gradually fades out into desert.
The multiverse isn't falsifiable. It's philosophy, not science.

>And by the way, can't multiverse thinking be invoked pretty much anytime to explain anything?

That's exactly the problem I've always had when it comes up.
About $70Bn in short-term debt liabilities. [0] May create some hesitation in buying ;)

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/F/balance-sheet?p=F
Young investigators tend to get smaller grants and sample size can be an issue. Relaxed threshold for the beginning of a career helps them, career wise. Older investigators frequently start heading really large, ambitious projects with large sample sizes, but they would have to face more stringent p-values.

Interesting dynamic.
The vast majority of Facebook users don't want to install and maintain a home server. A distributed social network will never take off if it requires users to purchase another dedicated piece of hardware.
I guess the Microsoft Office anti-trust rulings should be instructive here. Their monopoly is effectively broken in the sense that you can read Office documents in other software, but that hasn't really killed their business; though it did make the transition to Google Docs easier for me.
Microsoft strategy with Windows 10 was to encourage developers to write UWP apps so they could eliminate the app gap in Windows 10 Mobile.

Good strategy in theory, but looking at the Windows Store today, it seems like developers are not that interested in UWP and frankly, who can blame them?

If you want to write a tablet app, you target the iPad because it's the best product in that category. If you want to write a phone app, you target Android and iOS because that's where the money is today.

Is there good money to be made writing UWP at the moment? In my opinion, UWP apps on desktop are inferior to "classic" Windows apps. Windows 10 Mobile is pretty much dead at this point, so what's the point of UWP, what's the true benefit?
It doesn't work as an independent startup. That's a little bit like saying "If we cut a person in half, how much productivity do the legs alone provide?" The answer is that after you cut them in half, they would be dead and neither half would provide any productivity.
No, they're talking about the player. But they don't want to save it from doom, but instead to preserve it so all the current code targeting flash can still potentially be used.

Think of it like an emulator. It would still be stripped from browsers, but you could download the SWF and play it locally, in the "flash emulator". Except it'd be based on the real thing, and as such, would achieve perfect compat right away.
It's an example. Do you also comment on new programming languages and say "jeez, all that code to say "hello world"!

Why the scare quotes around "promise-based timeout" library? I can guess just by looking at the code that it's a Promise wrapper around setTimeout. It makes the example easier to read, since the API is based around promises and not callbacks. It's probably less than 5 lines of code.
Ask HN: How Did You Think About Having Children?
I'm noticing that it seems to be a serious competitive disadvantage to have children if you're in tech. You get more locked in to your path, can't take as many risks, and may have a lot less free time to experiment and improve. That doesn't even factor in time for more personal things like exercise, reading, having hobbies, meeting/making friends, vacationing, etc. You obviously have to commit to being a lot more selfless once you have children.

If someone is in their 30s, married, but hasn't hit their really time-intensive stretch goals (be it entrepreneurship, financial independence, becoming an industry leader, achieving a senior title, and so on), how should (s)he approach the decision? What are the ways you can stay competitive and dynamic? What compromises are unavoidable? Is it unreasonable to expect to be both professionally successful as well as a great parent? Under what circumstances would it be advisable to delay? How long? Should a really ambitious person seriously consider not having children at all?

Child birth is probably the most consequential inflection point in peoples' lives and yet many seem to rush into it headlong without asking the right questions. I'm sure there's some great collective wisdom out there on the subject. It would be especially helpful to hear from people who decided to remain childless.