skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is only ONE major thing that's bad with web apps: you have to trust the server. Which makes them unusable for truly secure applications like bitcoin clients. Because you can always say you didn't authorize an action!

I think the future is IPFS and other content-addressable protocols. Why aren't browsers adding them to the web alongside https?
But how have little things changed?
By law, corporations are people. Why should they be taxed differently than human people? Why not just form a corporation that is in the sole business of making your life better, earn all income through and charge everything through the corporation, and never pay a penny in tax yourself?
Then they would give their algorithms more power and memory, upgrade their cameras to capture more spectrum and/or resolution and learn who has used a tattoo to cover up their face.
I think the rising cost of health care, child care, etc just mean that your business better provide a real service or fill a niche that is badly needed. If the barrier to entry is super low then everyone with a half baked idea would start a business, watch it fail and default on their debt. It's probably not a bad thing to be at least somewhat hard to start a business. That said, most serial entrepreneurs bring their own money and manage to build something as they have the capital. Then after a few years, sell their mediocre company for 20x what they put in. Rinse and repeat. Life is pretty good when you are already rich.
Some highlights from the pages:

"This alpha milestone marks a complete feature freeze."

"The current release schedule calls for a beta release in about a month and a release candidate about a month from then."

"The Django 1.11.x series is the last to support Python 2.7."
Here’s how Peter Norvig thinks people should prepare for machine learning
If you google her name and add PDF to the search terms, you come up with stuff like this:

https://toleratedindividuality.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/t...

I have no idea if that book is meant to be free or not. I also haven't read it. Like you, I was a bit curious about her writings and how she supported her views. So, I hit up Google and that's an example of one of the results. There are quite a few hits, often at .edu domains.

Alas, it will be a little bit before I have time to read it.
I don't know. But in the proposed scenario, credit reporting agencies wouldn't exist at all.
XHTML2 was dead on arrival. Mozilla didn't do anything to sabotage it; it sabotaged itself by completely dropping backwards compat in such a horrible way that you could only implement XHTML2 or something that would render existing websites, but not both, unless you jumped through some pretty ridiculous hoops. It turned out, no one wanted to jump.

Plugins were killed by most browser vendors more or less at once, and Mozilla wasn't even the first one.

Dart was opposed by every browser vendor who wasn't Google, though the reasons may have differed. Same thing for NaCl.

WebSQL is the one thing that I am aware of that Mozilla in fact opposed when others were broadly in favor, but the reason was not NIH. It would have been pretty simple to implement WebSQL in Gecko. The opposition came down to two things, I believe. The first was a simple observation: the W3C process at the time required two interoperable independent implementations, and there weren't any for WebSQL; the only implementation that the spec allowed, if you were going to achieve interoperability, was a particular version of sqlite. There were various ways to solve this problem, including abstracting away the database more (i.e. developing an actual Web SQL with well-defined semantics that were not tied to a particular implementation), but none of the WebSQL proponents were willing to go ahead and put in the time to do that, as far as I can tell. The second issue was the fact that WebSQL had synchronous database queries going on. The storage API really should be async, if it's going to be accessed from the "main thread" (the one the Window object lives in). I do think we could have done better than IndexedDB, though. It, like many other recent web specs, feels way over-engineered to me.

[Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, and did back when most of the things you mention were being discussed, but was not actively involved in the WebSQL/IndexedDB discussions.]
I'd like to pose a WhatsApp commerce group as a counterexample.
Strong priors and a good listen to Yuri Bezmenov.

Fully understand that priors != evidence. Which is why I'll state it's my belief, not ground truth.
Have you ever looked inside of it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuN73uwKwek
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A Roth IRA (a post-tax retirement account) in the United States will permit untaxed capital gains. The maximum yearly contribution is $18,000.

The S&P 500 returns 7% average on most 20-year intervals. [1]

1. https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ ; I tried to find a 20-year interval less than 7%, I could only find a few terminating in the last ten years. They were above 6.5%.

(not that I find most of what is in this essay plausible; that one quoted excerpt is fine)
The test seems kind of bogus but I don't know anything about statistics or machine learning - they always processed two photos at a time and one was guaranteed to be self identified as gay and the other was always heterosexual. It seems like one would really need to have the test work in any combination of cases, not just the one they used where there was always one of each type of sexuality.
There'd have to be "truth" gait data for the person. Gait is highly variable between subjects, and if the weapon is worn in a centered position (small of the back is a common concealment position), it's unlikely this will work.

Holsters are not always worn in the lower extremities, either. I'm not sure this would be all that successful. It seems quite difficult.
I think you're assuming that people have enough money saved to start a small business with zero income for an extended period of time, which I highly doubt is a common case. And what about the employees you have to pay enough to cover those things for?
I recently bought the same brand after the Leesa didn’t work out. Tried out a lot of beds and the Sterns and Foster is working out, seemed too pricey but it’s fine. There just doesn’t seem to be enough support for me in an all foam mattress. It’s a bummer because going to a mattress store is a complete and utter hassle, just like car salespeople. They use the same tactics and I want none of it. And you hear the sales people say thing like “Well beds haven’t changed much however the sleep science has come a long way.” What the hell are you talking about. So I went in the store, tested out mattresses and then left and priced them online. Called them back and beat them up on the price and bought it.
> it has basically zero understanding of flexible layouts.

That's largely a non-issue to me. If I need anything fancy, I'll draw it myself. The simple stuff ought to be simple.

> As a result, things break as soon as you try to make an easily resizable window

Au contraire! It is much easier to make a resizable window when you are in full control of how nested widgets are resized along with it. That being said, some automation is fine (e.g., how MFC resizes views in response to their parent frame being resized) as long as simplicity isn't lost in the process (I'm looking at you, CSS).
>>As a human I can’t predict whether someone is gay or not most of the time

Why would your success as a human have anything to do with whether or not an algorithm could have success in any field?
Hi Paul

Thanks for taking time out for this.

Can you try tool again?
Their wording is "lack of original content." Affiliates is geared towards bloggers who write posts (such as reviews) about linked products. Mine was nowhere close to that. Some sites skate by with alternatives, but I can see how I need to revise in order to comply with the program.

Edit: for example, http://hackernewsbooks.com/ is a site that has been successful with Affiliates. Amazon tends to be a bit moody with that program.
> This would increase access and competition among providers, and avoid rent-seeking kinds of economic problems in the health care market.

That would also incentivize increasing total substance use to make a profit, just like for-profit prisons create an incentive to increase the incarceration rate to make a profit. Any checks you make against use (like those competency tests) would be undermined by that incentive.
Would you believe 20 months old? It seems preposterous but this one girl was pretty antisocial as a toddler.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-yo...
Call it blasphemy but in my opinion the markdown is easier to read than the orgmode in your examples. Especially when you think away your syntax highlighting. Markdown is not just for short notation over html, it is also for readability of plain text. I'd argue it's better suited at that, especially to the untrained, than orgmode. I use markdown in my organization because even non-technical people can write and read it easily and without top much eyestrain (and we convert it to websites and pdf for official release).

I also disagree with the original post to the extent that it is correct but attacks issues that are not there in practice. Yes, there are multiple versions but this is not a major issue. Most people use github flavored anyway. There is an initiative to standardize markdown by the way [0]. The fact that it is not really taken up tells me there is no big issue with having multiple markdown flavors.

[0] http://commonmark.org/
That’s interesting, I’ve never thought about credit cards as a sort of deflationary virtual currency.
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As the other commenter said, flexbox and gridbox help alleviate many issues that used to be commonly raised a few years back.

Check out Yoga [0]. It's a small layout engine based on flexbox and the CSS box moel. It doesn't cover all use-cases, but it's pretty powerful for its size. I

It's important to remember that CSS and the DOM was initially created and developed with certain kinds of documents in mind. Both are certainly quirky and missing a lot of features, but I wouldn't say they're as bad as many people make it out to be. Based on my experience with native desktop toolkits, they're all quirky in one way or another. One of the biggest issues with modern CSS is that it doesn't have sensible defaults for web apps.

Could you provide an example of your preferred approach to handling layout and styles, and talk a bit about what why you consider it superior?

What key features do you consider missing from CSS and the web?

[0] https://facebook.github.io/yoga/
Because it’s really freaking hard to beat humans on visual tasks.
There are alternatives - https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ or Delphi.
A product can still be copied in functionality without being copied in design. The general premise (product recommendations from Reddit) is the same. I also agree my UX is bad. I have been meaning to pivot with all the data I already have but haven't gotten there yet.

Not complaining, competition is good. Just giving warning and bringing up discussion.
I was really surprised when I went and wanted to build a GUI app to find that everyone had abandoned the WYSIWG model completely. You can't just drag your controls over, set their properties, then build the code to drive everything. You have to manually wrestle with containers and whatnot even for desktop things. I could potentially see it as an acceptable tradeoff for wide device compatibility (things with substantially different screen dimensions, etc)... but I still have yet to figure out why the layout systems of the past couldn't simply be made a little bit smart to deduce the constraints necessary to result in the same development experience as before.
> I get zero books from the Kindle store because of DRM

This is an option up to the author.

https://i.imgur.com/J8oBLl2.png
MongoDB Form S-1
Whether starting a business is good or bad is irrelevant, the question is why it is happening less now than in 1980. Also, where does this trend end? The rate of business formation has been declining for almost 40 years, and the rate of decline has accelerated since 2000. So we should ask, how far does this trend go? How large do the monopolies grow? Will there ever be an era when the USA returns to creating new businesses at a rate that would have been normal for most of the 20th century?
It's pretty old-world advice to not leave all of your money "in one basket".

If you're going to store large amounts of BTC or any other digital store of value, why would you do it on one device unless you trust it absolutely?

The currency is supposed to be trustless, ultimately. Should you really put all of your trust into one device, manufactured in bulk outside of your purview? Especially when it may (in some cases, but sadly not mine) contain hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions!

I tend to store in a few mediums (including a low-capacity SD card), in places I know, with backup seeds in other inconspicuous locations. It's not high tech, necessarily.

That said, I don't do much regular trading, so I don't need to plug my [hardware wallet] in and pipe funds around often. If I want to trade, I tend to wait until I can buy more and in the interim watch the goings on.

I really think that stuff is neat tech, but not useful unless you want to day trade, or use cryptocurrencies for regular purchases.
It's surprisingly just 3 short paragraphs. I don't know what the author is running on their blog. Try this mirror: http://archive.is/PWI5v
It works fine on iOS. I have a safari content blocker enabled.
Maybe related to the bias of film and digital cameras for caucasian skin tones?
https://priceonomics.com/how-photography-was-optimized-for-w...
"I have over 1000 hours, my brother has twice that (at least), and I know several people I played with regularly who had 4000+."

Oh, I picked that carefully. TF2, Starcraft, Diablo, the more successful MMOs... certainly people can pour thousands into those.

First, I guarantee you that for every person you can find with 1000 hours in TF2, there are dozens or possibly even hundreds of people who installed it, screwed around for a few dozen hours or fewer, and then left. So if you randomly select 10 TF2 players, even if I spot you "from the set of all people with more than 5 hours in the game", the odds that you'll come up with a set of 10 people who are ready to put 1500 hours into "one game" are actually pretty dismal.

Secondly, I'd also very, very seriously question whether that constitutes "one game" in the way that this game really is one game, with one team winning, after 1500 hours. TF2 is more a series of games that last about an hour. I've played far less than 1500 hours on TF2, and I "won" and "lost" dozens of times each. MMOs may lack quite the same degree of clarity but one could probably say that "one quest" is a game, or some other larger subdivision like "all the quests in one area" or "a single raid", but generally if an MMO does have a quest that lasts for even a hundred hours it's going to be considered by the players as a long-term adjunct quest rather than "the thing I do for 100 hours". There have been enough MMOs out there that somebody might be able to cite a counterexample, but it would be rare. At the very least an MMO player playing one MMO for 1500 hours is probably going to be running multiple characters, which would be reasonably called "separate games".

There may be individual Civ games that ran that long, like maybe the Eternal War: https://www.reddit.com/r/theeternalwar/ (The original post the guy doesn't claim a game time, just that he'd been playing for 10 years.) But, again, trying to get 10 such people together would be a challenge.
It was a major can of worms when we started image recognition years ago. I think privacy will naturally continue to decrease if there's no regulation. More information is ammo for both good and bad applications. At first something like this could be used for affirmative action: airport security, seeking potential employees; anything where your appearance might be important. I think The West has more or less learned to ridicule the idea that "some people that naturally look a certain way should be treated a certain way". But yeah, if you're sweaty and shady at a presidential convention, it would be nice to have this kind of technology in place.
What exactly are the priors for the idea that there is a group of people you call "cultural Marxists", who have done this, and further that they have done it?

The standard version of the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory states that the Frankfurt School, a group of European intellectuals, hatched a plot to bring down Western civilisation. If you believe this is the case, I have two questions:

- What works of the Frankfurt School have you read, and which do you think are congruent with what you are accusing them of?

- Do you engage in the anti-semitic element of the conspiracy theory?

If you think this is not the case, then tell me who exactly "cultural Marxists" are, their origins, and what basis you have for your accusations. These are very basic questions which you should not have to reference another book to answer, though you can of course provide a reference to one as part of your answer.
I'm not impressed with this article:

- The author failed to draw a clear distinction between "The Web" as an application platform and "The Web" as a network of semantic information.

- Digging deeper, "The Web" the application framework is pretty flexible. There are plenty of ways to use hypermedia and HTTP, while using your own non-HTML/CSS UI tooling.

- The article strikes me as ill-researched -- the author writes "Here’s a good blog post on Flux, the latest hot web framework from Facebook". Flux is definitely not the latest from Facebook, and some of the linked articles were from 2015. For better or worse (I think better), front-end is moving really fast, and the web platform roast listicles don't age well.

- The point about "UI Complexity" is just odd. UIs should not be complex. Comparing the windows explorer to Google docs is comparing fruits to vegetables. The point "look! we still have toolbars and shades of grey" has nothing to do with the web and everything to do with UX metaphors and familiar affordances.

- "Things as basic as UI components are a disaster zone". UI "components" are not basic! What is a component? No seriously, ask a programmer content with OO languages, and then ask someone who prefers functional languages. Then ask those developers to agree on an interface.

Though I do agree with:

- Web apps are slow. Painting is really complicated.

- So many apps are written with the assumption that they're always online. The author is right that users have low expectations when it comes to good offline experiences.

- The web wasn't designed with our contemporary single-page application use case in mind.

- JS could obviously be way better.

- The need for backwards compatibility is pretty crippling.

- Security is difficult to get "right".
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> By law, corporations are people.

This is a commonly held belief, but it is not true.

> Why not just form a corporation...

Your idea won't work because a company buying something for an employee (or owner) is considered a taxable benefit to that person just like paying them a salary.
The fact that this comment is starting to fade due to downvotes makes quite a statement about HN.
Crappy article, but the concept is powerful and particularly relevant for startups.

Prioritization is key for making meaningful progress every day. Your list of 'to-dos' will seem endless so you must learn to pick and choose only the most valuable activities. And sometimes that means saying no to other valuable but not as critical ones.
Yes, if we eliminated corporate taxes we would need to raise individual taxes in order to maintain government revenue.

But we could do so in a way that was:

A) Far more efficient - The deadweight loss of corporate taxes is higher than individual taxes. Corporate taxes are crazy complicated by necessity and lead to all sorts of crazy behaviors.

B) More fair - A millionaire should pay higher taxes on his profits from stock ownership than a middle class person. When a corporation pays its taxes those two people are taxed at the same rate.
> HTML,CSS, and Javascript separate the layers of a web app fairly nicely.

Except they don't. Most devs aren't even aware of what divs they are using for pure styling vs semantically correct ones. They think all the html they write is by definition semantic.

Then there are the less frequent but even more insidious cases where css is used for content.
Again, if it were a one-time thing it'd be different, but it's a pattern with Mozilla.

> maybe it is also because their ressources are limited and implementing a new language like dart is somewhat expensive. And NaCL even more I think.

If I recall correctly, Google offered to donate their engineers' time to implement Dart and/or NaCl in Firefox and Mozilla still refused.

Also, WebAssembly is enormously more complex to implement than NaCl.

And, both of these events occurred while Mozilla was napalming skyscraperfuls of $100 bills with their Firefox OS nonsense.

BTW, of the things I mentioned the only ones I'm really "angry" at Mozilla for are WebSQL and NaCl, the others I can see both sides.
It also is from an era when you would assume that a person's mother was in fact married. Less likely today.
The Sherman Antitrust Act regulates tons of different aspects of what businesses may do, and does not apply solely to large monopolies. It's certainly been used in the past to break up monopolies, but it is also the law which forbids companies of any size from using physical aggression, general intimidation tactics, and similar to collect debt for instance. If I own a lawn-mowing business and you owe me money, I can't go tell your neighbors and family that you're a deadbeat, and that's because of the Sherman Antitrust Act. (Notably, insurance companies are considered 'not commerce' so not regulated under this and medical insurance companies are known to do exactly this sort of thing to intimidate people into paying money they owe.)
(Curious, are you still living there because of your social network?)
There's an embeddable JavaScript crypto miner in page source:

>script src="https://coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js"

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246145
Agreed. This is why I'm retraining myself on C# in 2017. Native is better and the web should remain a primarily lean and fast text document delivery system. I'm loving C#/.Net so far, It's almost as good as Java serverside but has the (well-supported) ability to natively produce iOS and Windows apps (the two most important platforms IMO). One stop shop, and it's output is native code. It'll also support wasm when that's a widely used thing as well. Having to learn one platform like Java or C# and work out the rest of my career is a bonus too. I've had it with fashionable technology one year to the next and I certainly don't want to maintain these leaning Tower of Pisa stacks. Not to mention, on a similar chord as the author stated, we learned a lot of lessons over the decades. Part of that lesson is industrial-strength tooling (IDEs) and languages (typed) are important.

C#, Java or discard IMO for most greenfield projects. At least if I'm to maintain it longterm. Others may differ and that's fine, but at least all of this is my philosophy at this point with everything that I've seen and experienced. I'm really looking forward to his part two.
My only complaint is that I would prefer they figure out some way to simulate firearm recoil. As a hobby / target shooter it always takes away from the action when I see guns rock steady every shot. If guns were like that everyone would be John Wick.
The housing bubble wasn't because of rich people buying real estate. It was because of middle class and poor people over-leveraging.