skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as someone who tracks rank on a daily basis and in great detail. i can tell you that rank [and traffic] changes can very clearly be attributed to specific events or actions such as new inbound organic links or new on-page changes. for web properties that have few changes which occur daily, it is very easy to see the direct impact from deploying something specific within the following week or two. there is no ambiguity as to where these things come from. our rank is very steady across thousands of keywords over time and any statistically significant changes are never a mystery.

to say that the boosted position/visibility of AMP can somehow get lost in the "noise" of rank fluctuations from other factors is demonstrably false. i dunno what kool-aid you guys are selling over there, but i'm certainly not buying it.

the mission of AMP is fully Google-centric, not user centric. it is possible and easy to build pages faster than AMP without any of AMP's additional artificial limitations. AMP's carrot is that you get much greater visibility and faster loading as a result of pages being hosted on google's servers and loading via a pre-established TLS/TCP session.

you can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/78fevc/amplify_...

real-world AMP pages are not what they're billed to be:

https://imgur.com/a/OPVdN

https://imgur.com/a/mt6s6
Email me at stestodrud@hvzoi.com (throwaway email address to avoid spam), and I'll throw a couple concepts at you that our group wants to support, but doesn't fully have time for because of an overabundance of opportunities.
Thanks! We try to keep it fair. I love that our marketing team is on board with listing our missing features very publicly https://about.gitlab.com/features/#missing
You really can't come up with a single workable idea? I find that hard to comprehend. Maybe just invest in others for now, see where that takes you.

If you're really desperate to do it yourselves though, you need to get out of whatever bubble you're in and start finding opportunity in more frequently-overlooked spaces.

Here's an easy one. Seattle just started piloting dockless bike shares. The competitors are kinda unimpressive, and nobody has offered an electric-powered fleet yet. The minimum electric fleet size is only 10 IIRC. Seattle is super hilly, and electric bikes would be great, but they are harder to make and repair, and may be more likely to get stolen (at greater cost to replace as well). However, traffic is so freaking terrible here that that bikes can easily be the fastest means of transportation at certain times. There are lots of amazonians with disposable incomes who would prefer to avoid the bus to get home, but can't justify the inconvenience taking care of a bike and riding uphill.

Figure out something cool to do with that. You'll have GPS data for all movements that you can apply ML to estimate demand and determine the most valuable places to leave them around town. Incentivize riders to drop them off in valuable spots with ride credit. Maybe partner with Postmates or DoorDash to make it a low-expense delivery vehicle for couriers who don't own cars.

Seattle is just one of the first to allow this model. Other cities and college campuses (especially ones less dense than Seatle, that may not get much out of traditional bike shares) will follow soon. There is a ton of room to grow. And the sooner you start collecting that data and interpreting it, the bigger advantage you'll have due to being able to make ML-driven optimizations.
You mention CLOS in your article; to dive deeper into implementation issues, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Prot....
The problem is it's almost impossible to put together a functional team from people who don't know each other for years. I have a solid idea and need 3 guys with exactly the background you described, especially the SaaS+ML interest, but it doesn't matter because of this. The trust issues are usually covered by a patchwork of NDAs, equity splits that turn out to be arbitrary, vesting schedules that turn out to be unfair, and at the end of the day, someone gets screwed anyway. So I'd love to see that problem solved first - not sure that's also a business "idea" though :-) Good luck anyway.
Make art, not money.
Serious question: How could you possibly not have seen that coming?

I mean, obviously, noone could really have known the exact time frame in which it would happen, but I really cannot fathom how people are surprised by this. When a power structure incentivises a certain behaviour, that behaviour will be what happens, and large concentrations of power always are extremely prone to corruption of any ideals they might have had at some point in their history.

The only way to avoid this is to avoid concentration of power.
So, how does Amazon know you're not lying? If they lower the threshold enough to pull products, people would just game the system (not that it isn't happening now) to pull their competitors products off of Amazon.

The good news is that the solution can come from the community. Aren't we all startup people here? But the bad news is that very few people are willing to put their money where their mouth is. People rail on about Big Corp screwing over the little guy. But supporting the 'little guy' companies means buying products that are made by smaller non-established companies. Sometimes doing things "right" means paying employees more benefits, having higher product safety standards, sourcing raw materials ethically, etc all of which adds to the cost of doing business. That money has to come from all of us buying those products.
Because QA, design, and dev effort. You have to make a web app anyways, so it makes sense to align desktop and web.
What's the modern state of web development come to that people need something like AMP to guide then into creating fast loading web pages?
#iPhone Apps you granted camera access can secretly take photos and record video
Your media matters link doesn't provide an academic work showing that the cited statistic is incorrect. The closest it comes to doing so is by linking a paper by the Brennan Center which says in a footnote that the PILF report uses an unreliable methodology. That's about what you can expect from a left-wing advocacy group.

Here is the footnote in full:

>See, e.g., Public Interest Legal Foundation, Alien Invasion in Virginia, 2016, https://publicinterestlegal.org/
files/Report_Alien-Invasion-in-Virginia.pdf; Public Interest Legal Foundation, Aliens & Felons, 2016, https://publicinterestlegal.org/files/Philadelphia-Litigatio.... Despite using unreliable methodology, these reports, authored by an organization that promotes the myth of widespread voter fraud, identified few noncitizens on the rolls.
This is the most obvious issue. They don't have a great team. At best, they have potential great team members. A great team implies applying talent and a vision to solving problems. They can't come up with a problem to try to tackle. Most people here on HN have 7 problems they'd love to work on but don't have the time or resources. I also think it is a big challenge to pick a problem you don't understand or have no background knowledge about.

I'd suggest picking an industry with known inefficiencies (health care, education, etc.) and have all three go work at three different companies in that space for a year. Then come back and I'm sure lack of ideas won't be the issue.

Remember, ideas are almost worthless and at best merely a head start. Execution is EVERYTHING.
Or use Apple Pay (etc.) with the new contactless reader, then only your credit card network and bank can identify you based on the transaction.
Harder to work with than CSS. Harder to align look of web and desktop.
Quantifying Decentralization: Bitcoin vs. Ethereum
> West Virginia is the 10th most affordable state in the U.S. and ranks third for equal opportunity, scoring especially high in education equality, by race.

Unfortunately, that might just reflect the poor quality overall – or the general homogeneity of the population – than some type of progressive success.

Maybe that's still considered a "good thing"; c.f. the infamous Thatcher video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw

"You'd rather the poor be poorer provided the rich were less rich!"
This doesn't actually address my question. Kneeling, right or wrong, is a small expression of speech. CTEs endanger all players. The priorities here should be apparent.
One benefit of the electoral college is that it compartmentalizes voter fraud to the state in which it happens. If I'm a corrupt election official in a state that is going to give a presidential candidate a large margin of victory, I have no incentive to risk being caught manipulating vote tallies (for president). If we ever switch to using the national popular vote instead, think we'd see lots of cases of local officials trying to 'save the country' by offsetting votes from other states that vote primarily for another candidate.
I loved Vindigo! People forget how useful and powerful the Palm devices were. All they really needed was an always-on network connection.
We have a lot of caching in Redis, but that connects with the Rails app, not in front of PG. This way it can store the result (for example a page fragment) instead of just the db query that is part of it.
As someone who was in their late 40s when the dotcom bust started biting in 2001/2002 I have been down this road. I initially gave in to mid life crisis mode trying to switch to running my own business instead of working as a programmer. It was fun for a while but almost always ran just a few steps above the brink of disaster. Eventually I picked a new technology to learn and become expert in (ExtJS in my case) that got me first contract then full time employment around 2007. I'm never going to work for Google either, but there are still plenty of lower rungs on the programming ladder.
How APIs Work – An Analogy for Dummies
Add to that many shopping sites (Best Buy for instance), deal sites, ticket buying sites, hotel/airline sites, heck, even my state's offender tracking system blocks the handful of VPS services I've tried.
Wi-Fi beacons work only if you can connect to them on modern phone OSes, but yep, exactly my thinking. The price of free Wi-Fi: your privacy.
We're talking about Slack, for context. Non-trivial QA effort to build cross platform apps, even with Qt.
Perhaps. I'm not very familiar with Unity and the development kit itself, but I would imagine it contains the necessary testing harness and other infrastructure.
> 4. You can optionally assign a static private IP to each device so that when you're connected, all devices use known IP addresses that you can name using a local DNS server.

This is where I’ve always got hung up. I’ve for a long time wanted a static URI for a machine at home (e.g. SSH, IRC bouncer, music files, etc.)

I assumed I’d have to use some kind of local host tunneling solution (like pagekite.io), which are either expensive or difficult to trust/rely-on, or register as a business to get a static IP.

Any tips?
> That's freedom of thought.

Don't be absurd, thought can't be policed absent being made public via speech so it must necessarily involve speech to even be an issue. You're stammering to find a position because your own isn't logically coherent; that's what's happening here.

> Reducing freedom of speech to the kind that doesn't have any influence (that would be "speaking to the crowd") is utterly ridiculous.

No, it's what's always been intended; no speech is guaranteed to have influence, what an absurd notion to even ponder. Such a thing cannot ever be guaranteed.

> I don't care about the legal definition of the term "freedom of speech"

Well I don't care about this nonsense freedom you're making up because it imposes on other people's rights and can't be called a right. You do not have a right to other people's services, period. This broader freedom you're proclaiming is actually toxic abuse of private property, it's not freedom.

> But then imagine for a second being stripped of all your accounts, including your blog if you have one. We'll see how you don't care.

You don't have a right to have accounts on other people's systems. If every business you have an account with bans you, you're the problem, not them.
Two Submerged Pyramids Discovered Off the Coast of Florida Using Google Earth
Sure, the reason why is women are older, fatter, and have more chronic problems like diabetes when they're choosing to give birth.

In some countries there aren't as many women dying because their doctors apparently aren't as sexist as American doctors, but equally importantly in the US it's more difficult to spread the costs of your health decisions to others. Also, the US is kinda shit with mental health problems, which are among the most common problems experienced during pregnancy.
BlackBerry CEO Promises to Try to Break Encryption If the US Gov't Asks Him To
I could when I was 20, did a proper hearing test when I joined my company. 15.625khz was very noticeable - I scoffed at the old timers who couldn't hear it.

I can no longer hear it. Still I can hear 1khz, so that's what's important.
Don't these guys have the resources to write native apps at this point?
It's not a "the engineering isn't sufficiently sophisticated and cutting edge" problem.
Author here; I wrote this because my course mates didn't understand the concept of APIs despite being taught how to use SOAP. I hope this write-up is useful for people new to programming.

Criticism/suggestions welcome.
The real problem is that people get used to how their operating system renders fonts, and different operating systems render fonts very differently. The difference between how macOS and Windows render fonts is almost philosophical. macOS does not hint fonts at all in an attempt to preserve a font's character at small sizes, but Windows applies aggressive hinting (and no anti-aliasing) in the Y-direction to make fonts sharper and more readable, even if it totally changes the shape of the letters.

On Windows, at least, fonts can also differ between monitors (even on the same computer.) The built-in ClearType tuner tool lets the user adjust the font rendering gamma for each monitor individually. It would be a shame if this didn't have an effect in the browser, where users probably do most of their reading these days.

If you made your own simple from-scratch font rendering library that rasterized glyphs to the same array of pixels on every operating system, regardless of user settings, I guarantee your users would be upset. When you render a lowercase 'e' to a 6x6 pixel grid, any slight difference in rendering makes a huge difference to the character of the letter, and it's the sort of thing that contributes to the "uncanny-valley" feeling that non-native apps have. This is why Pango and Firefox go through so much effort to use the native renderers on each platform and why they may seem complicated to an outsider.
It would take a lot of talent and time to use. It's why I usually push Design-by-Contract and/or runtime checks/tests. Far as new languages, you might find Noether interesting in how it is built in layers that let one trade verification difficulty vs expressiveness as desired.

https://github.com/noether-lang/noether/tree/master/doc/pres...

Among other interesting features. I recommend reading old one then new one.
the editor is really nice, it's ability to sense what I am about to type is borderline magic. It'd be cool if that were open sourced, but I understand if few to none of this is going to be since they're trying to bootstrap a business.
I've been a subscriber of opps daily for a while. I've started to realize one of the problems isn't that the technology to solve these niche problems doesn't exist... but rather most people either aren't searching for solutions or they don't understand how to apply existing technology to solve them.

I think there's a huge business opportunity in marketing/modifying existing software for new applications.
This is meant to be a public page. It loads async. After 3 seconds I see the following https://www.dropbox.com/s/5mt5f77e60yogk1/Screenshot%202017-...
I don't read Wired either, so not sure if my story is similar, but I think I'm out of clean socks so I might need to do laundry tonight.
Just discovered - you can get a 63% off a 2-year subscription in (presumably) the next 24 hours https://stacksocial.com/sales/private-internet-access-vpn-2-...
They optionally sign contracts which contain geo-fencing clauses. There’s no law that says content must be geo fenced, and that suspicion of proxy use, for any purpose must result in denial of service.
> How much of energy is actually produced at the moment in solar plants? How much area do they need? How much is achievable? That's why I'm comparing your (wrong) estimate with the attitude like "I see the golden ring on my finger, I can get it easy, just go in the shop and buy it, now it's 'just' an Olympic pool of gold with which I can 'solve' the problem, see, it's easy." No.

I think you completely misinterpreted my statement and now you're just being needless angry. Read it again. The original poster seemed to imply that it would take millions of years worth of solar energy to "put back" all the CO2 into hydrocarbons. That's not even close, which is why I pointed out in my latest comment that there is at least 8 orders of magnitude difference there.

> It really took 13.8 billion years for the Earth to come to the point we're now. 3 billion years life on Earth uses the energy of Sun, only a small part remained stored in the Earth's crust. Two billion years of cyanobacteria work (using the energy of the Sun!) was needed only to produce enough oxygen in the atmosphere to enable more complex life. The next billion of years the complex life bound the carbon from the CO2 (chemically not small achievement at all) and the complex environment interaction stored it in the earth crust.

Wow, you got a very long, complicated chain of reasoning, but just let me stop you right there.

You've got a totally wrong model. Nature didn't "store up enough energy" gradually in some grand plan. Nature recycles everything; coal deposits are actually from plants and are total accidents.

Evidence: according to https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2503/how-mu...

A large amount of the fossil deposits were due to a couple of relatively short periods of geologic history, the most important one that was the carboniferous period where so many plants grew they actually depleted the CO2 from the atmosphere (and as a side effect produced nearly 40% atmospheric oxygen concentration). That wasn't the outcome of a long, slow, one-directional process that kept adding oil and coal to the crust. It happened because there was a gap in the biosphere; nothing in that period existed that could digest plant cellulose. When microbes did eventually evolve to do so, then they were able to recycle the dead plant material on the surface (not buried under hundreds of meters of sedimentation) and lead to a homeostasis closer to what we see today.

Nature recycles everything.

(and yes, in an ironic way, we are finally recyling all those dead plants)
People seem to prefer to take the risk online, than shop at their local electronics stores, which have been in a constant decline. I guess I do too.
Maybe you don't trust the police to keep it safe. Maybe you don't trust the police to trust you and take this seriously. Maybe you'd rather have such mishaps be known than kept silent, hoping for things to get better. Then again I don't know squat about what kind of editorial line or journalistic quality the Sunday Mirror entertains.
From the wiki itself:

Note that due to differences in reporting, these numbers may not be comparable across countries; while the WHO recommendation is that all children who show signs of life should be recorded as live births, in many countries this standard is not followed, artificially lowering their infant mortality rates relative to countries which follow those standards.

-So, how does the US record live births? Does the US count a 22 week old premature birth as a live birth? Does the EU? If it is different, I wonder if it would account for a lot of the difference.
so harsh yet so true. off the top of my head i can think of a few PE problems that warrant a product. For instance, Facebook just released a Locations API for over a million locations. Which means you can find the number of checkins for stores like BestBuy and Target everyday. This can be a goldmine for financial analysts. Your team needs to stop screwing around.
RAM is harmless. Even the most inept developers would struggle to waste as much of it as Slack Desktop.

No, the real casualty in this cycle have been spinning rust, good old hard disks. Their performance was never great but a sure fire way to kill it and make sure it never recovers is to trigger a full fucking unthrottled index scan at every boot that inevitably finds nothing changed. Looking at you Dropbox.
Nooooo, ban em!!
:V
What you analysis fails to factor in is the number of crimes committed by each. In that regard blacks commit far more crimes then whites.
Yah, I realized this too a while back when I was doing the "what problem do I have?" exercise... "well, clearly I have a problem finding an idea." :)

I had some ideas on how to go about this but I think the major blocker to scale is the "functional fixedness" bias. At least that is where I got stuck.
Hawaii, too.
This is quite rare compared to cash only establishments, I've yet to run into any bar like that in Seattle.
Death Row Nutrition: Curious Conclusions of Last Meals
Whoa, relax
I'm intrigued by this line in the Mirror article: "There were photos of X-ray machines used by the Queen"

So I guess even the Queen has to go through the security procedures.
A lot of interesting engineering research into floating offshore wind is being done at University of Maine.
They have some prototypes producing power.
Understanding the characteristics of the carbon composites has, AFAIK, been the major limiting factor in their more widespread production.

https://composites.umaine.edu/offshorewind/
This same post was up a few months ago, suspicious.
Find an un-sexy domain that you have more access to than the average person. Start to build domain expertise in that area as quickly as you can (people are surprisingly willing to talk when you don't want to sell them something, but just learn about how they do things).

Build something (anything!) that uses some cool ML technology (or even just some simple statistics) in that domain. Think of this as an ultra-MVP - something you build part-time in the order of weeks, rather than full time over months. This keeps your "investment" low and makes you mentally ready to accept changes.

Loop back with the people in the un-sexy industry to get feedback. Remember, not all industries are bombarded with technology - you'll need to strike a balance between showing them something sufficiently "fancy" to pique interest, and abstracting away your technology so they focus on a problem it solves.

When my cofounder and I started ~4 years ago, we chose an un-sexy industry that my cofounder knew from years of consulting. This was awesome, but even with his amazing experience, our initial idea for a product didn't take off (which was fine - it doesn't take too many wins to make the weeks of development/sales profitable).

Over the next 4 years, we built another couple of offerings, which sold better than the first. They took hold in various ways, but the insights behind each product were usually driven (or at least influenced) by the people we talked to about our initial product. Which brings me back to the key - build things in a low-cost way and use that to identify tangentially related problems until you think you've found a big enough pain point.