skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about nationality: Ashkenazi Jews in general -- Israeli or not -- tend to be smarter. ~20% of Nobel prize winners are Jews compared to less than 1% of the global population. So either there's a Jewish conspiracy (which some people believe...) or Jews tend to be smarter.

Some people would say that this is cultural. I doubt it -- I think it's genetic. Intelligence is a physical attribute determined by genes, just like every other physical attribute. It's really no different from the observation that Kenyans and Ethiopians win most marathons.

In general, we should expect different traits to be exhibited at different frequencies by different populations that were reproductively isolated in the past. This doesn't mean prejudice is okay. Not all Jews are smart, and not all Kenyans are going to win marathons. We can acknowledge these correlations without behaving in a prejudiced way toward individuals.

Most people would rather not talk about this. And that's certainly my rule of thumb for in-person conversations. But, hey, we're on the internet.
Well I haven't ever seen a laptop with 4:3 (1024x768?) although I loved my ancient 20" 1280x1024 5:4 monitor and there are lots of smaller 3:2 surface-like laptops. The 13.3" (and the tiny 12) still accounts for only 20% of the 2017 market, with 14.1-15.6 (and even larger) accounting for the remaining 30+50=80%.

This was about the market for Monitors though... not just displays in general so this e-ink display just doesn't cover a significant portion of the market outside of tablets or very small laptops. Typical monitor sizes are 19-34", with the smaller "totable" 15.6-17" sizes accounting for <20% of the market. 13-14" aren't even listed as monitor sizes by the marketing groups like IHS or Display Search.
I mean why they use it at the stage when they create their own virtual DOM copy from the template string, not during the time they do changes when the app is running.
Independent Report on E-voting in Estonia
https://estoniaevoting.org/press-release/
This is from 2014.
The Late Capitalism of K-Pop [video]
Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space
http://estoniaevoting.org
No need to be sorry. I don't think many here will be envious of your point of view.

As for why work life balance is seen as something to be strived for, there might be several reasons.

Most workers here are thought workers, which means productivity is incredibly hard to measure. Along with this, the general consensus seems to be that we have limited number of hours of true productivity per day with this sort of work. (Idk if the science is there to back it up, but it is the consensus). So by this logic working 70 hour weeks has a cost.

Another reason is that an hour at work takes an hour from society as a whole. Another hour at work is an hour not being a husband, not raising kids, not spending money at bars with friends, not shopping (to the benfit of the economy) not cooking or other hobbies which develop well rounded citizens.

Also maybe to the larger point, why? Why give your life (50hpw+ consistently) to an employer if it's not needed and you don't love it? There is a whole world out there and you already give an majority size chunk of you life to work and sleep, what are you going to do with the rest?
> parallel reconstruction

No re- prefix needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
In this case the GDP of the US would have been either constant or linear. In both cases making it different from the rest of the countries which experience booms and bust whilst having inflation.
I like this response the best. Silicon Valley is an extremely expensive place to start a business. But, if you have the right idea and people, the Valley will give you everything you need to scale. If you don’t, your business will fail quickly because you won’t be able to pay the enormously expensive rent and engineers. And even if you can, they’ll leave if they don’t believe in your idea, because there are so many other places to go change the world at.

Starting a business somewhere else is fine. It won’t be so fast though.
GDI+ is a completely different replacement API, not just an extension/update of GDI.
Robot cars aim to kick up dust (2005)
It might be more palatable if the benefits accrued to the people assuming the risks.

Reliably the people absorbing the risks capture almost none of the added value.
Title should include that he settled For (4) $20 million. Haha.
I actually love mine on my Razer Blade. Admittedly, I don't use it too much, but I find myself on occasion wanting to touch my MBP.
The same is basically true with Seattle. Well, not so dark (the sun is out til 4:30), winters are quite mild, but wet enough to keep everyone focused.
I think this article gives Elon too little credit. I assume it was partly to impress the tech bros that idolize him too.
Wow, that's some impressive work. I found that keeping stuff in storage doesn't work for me. I much to seldom refer to what I've written previously for it to be worthwhile to keep it organized.
This is knowledge that could come in handy one day, so thanks.

But fine-grained permissions are a fairly regularly cited reason for using Atlassian’s stuff over other (simpler...) offerings. This sounds a lot like “don’t try the fancy stuff because it’s unusably slow”.
Why Meat Is the Best Worst Thing in the World[video][8:48]
If that much capital is available without all of the regulatory burden... does this mean the end of traditional IPO's and using something like profit sharing in order to return the capital investment?
Nice performance improvements:

> The constant baseline size for the new runtime is <10kb gzipped.

> Faster: on preliminary benchmarks, we are seeing up to 100% performance improvement across the board, including raw Virtual DOM mounting & patching (we learned quite a few tricks from Inferno, the fastest Virtual DOM implementation out there), component instance initialization and data observation. 3.0 will shave off half the time spent in JavaScript when your app boots up.
What’s your take on the increased cost component due to US hospitals mostly having private rooms? If the US were to build all new hospitals with multi patient rooms, how long before the cost curve bends down to rest-of-OECD levels?
I would bet $10 the scaling problem with Github would properly have more to deal with Git than Rails itself. Switching to Elixir wouldn't really help.
Regarding the BART delay, does anyone know if there is a way to help them out? Taking a year (or six months, or even three months) to get some switches is mind-boggling to me. I've seen a similar situation before at a tech company that was resolved over a weekend with a couple phone calls.
This example doesn't include people who never took cabs but started using Uber because it was easier. Need isn't the only thing that drives disruption or innovation.
Yeah, but I think the difference is DIY is not selling the radios. I had a DJ-580T 25 years ago that I modded for out of band transmission. That is legal for personal use, but I can’t sell those.

Same with scanners that access the old AMPS band. You can modify it, but you can’t buy a modded radio.

Ah, the good old days of getting radio mods via BBS.

Now if it’s “test equipment” it’s the Wild West. All my SDRs can transmit to 6 GHz, but it’s not something for consumer use. Hope it stays that way.
Oh and just a footnote but IMHO Canada produces excellent technology and engineers, but its tech companies are far too coddled by the SRED tax credit, which should be scrapped to enable faster failure.

A startup can get up 65% or so if it’s engineering salaries back every year as a refundable tax credit on qualifying R&D...
"consensual" probably has different meanings among Starfleet officers of Klingon heritage. . .
good question, comparison beyween projects is a good investigation method. they are really similar projects. flexx has more modularity and depends from powerful libraries like Tornado. Remi has its own webserver and has zero dependencies, not necessarily a good choice but however a notable difference.
Do you believe we should make the national speed limit 25? If not, you're accepting that people will die needlessly, and that the value of a human life is not, in fact, infinite.
This doesn't seem to be true because things do get built with high safety today.
Chegg.com hacked
I just received this email:
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Our understanding is that the data that may have been obtained could include your name, email address, shipping address, Chegg username, and hashed Chegg password. Our current understanding is that no financial information such as credit card numbers, bank account information, or social security numbers was obtained. As a result, we will prompt you to change your Chegg.com or Chegg affiliate password upon login. If your password has been changed on or after September 26th, 2018, you will not be prompted to change it again.
As a reminder, it is always good practice to use different passwords for different online accounts. To the extent that you used the same password on any websites or apps that you used on your Chegg account, we recommend changing those passwords as well.
I am very much looking forward to Rails 6.0 and see what Github / Shopify will upstream. Actually Instacart has lot of great gems too which I wish would have been the default solution in Rails.
The End of Snap and Tesla
Can the title of "Questions" be changed to something a bit more useful?
Yeah this is great. Last time I tried, Vue itself wasn't too bad to get going with TS. The real issue for us was Vuex. The official examples and the Typescript examples we found looked completely different. It wasn't easy to get started.

We actually moved to React + Redux since it was early enough in the project to make that decision. Typescript support is much better there. If typescript support was better in Vue/Vuex, I doubt we'd have made that decision.
High-frequency trading in a developed market demands response times on the order of nanoseconds, whereas anything in software is unlikely to get under a microsecond. If you're too slow, all the obvious efficiencies in the market have already been corrected by faster firms, so you miss out on a bunch of easy trades.
If amount/size of labor laws are inversely proportional to startup quality/quantity, how come a state with the most has more success than states with less? Because it's not the reason anymore than any other difference.
I watched the Ken Burns documentary about the dust bowl, it covers the science and farming practices that led to it - VERY interesting and well done, if a bit dry.

My main takeaway was that they "solved" the dust bowl by pumping water up from the aquifers, which are now like 70% depleted - scary.
I never had a time to take a look at type script.

What is the benefit of adding static typing to an inherently dynamically typed language?

As I understand, they don't get any performance improvement from that, as the browser still runs it in JS vm?
Lots of things depend on latency, which an FPGA can tune by creating custom data pipelines. Microseconds is really a long time in FPGA land.

But more importantly, FPGAs are parallel in a way conventional processors aren't.
I had a few moments:

First fight where we both knew that we fought about something but it was no longer on a level of staying together or not.

And when I realized that my wife is the person for whom some standpoints on my side are worth changing.

Also doing something only for her or for us.

I think that my relationship with my wife thought me to care way more and to understand other people better.

'Understanding/getting' it and living it are two different things.
Yeah but have your heard, growth urbanism modern agriculture electric cars facebook users blah blah, that now its considered elitist to believe in "overpopulation"

Or as Snow Crash put it, "the industry runs on biomass"
> Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how?

People just want things to work. Extreme customization can be valuable, but it often devolves into subtle bugs and inconsistent behavior. People forget about their custom modifications. Developers end up debugging people's custom modifications for every bug report. Having 100% consistent reproducible behavior is usually more valuable.
I did mention the Mongol Post as an exception, so I think you do not really disagree with me. Also, I think human-readable addresses are really transitional (that is, there may exist needs for written geocodes as a near-replacement of addresses but not indefinitely).

For drone deliveries, users will simply let their smartphones determine GPS coordinates instead of typing geocodes anyway. This does not work indoors but flying drones won't get there :-)
It did that for me too. I found out afterwards that plus codes have two forms, a short and long. If you enter just the short form, it won't be accurate without the ", city" part (e.g. 2A6A+1Q is short form, must be entered like "2A6A+1Q, Beijing", long form of that would have another 4-5 letters in front e.g. 7XQW2A6A+1Q)
We already have person-to-person payment apps that work instantly and feeless though, at least in my country we do. They were made by banks.
Umm the entire spectrum is regulated. This is only about one small slice of it.
Google made in Europe is possible, facts so far say otherwise, though. If you can mention one or two companies like that, it'd be great.

Also, some of the biggest companies in the world are European, that's true. However, they are all but software companies (except for SAP, a b2b company). In Europe we are among the best in pharmaceuticals, cars, chemicals, etc. Sadly enough, software is nothing Europe is ahead with. The reason? In my opinion the fact that software is not tangible and innovation with software is a high risk business - often not scientific or rational. You need to try it out. Go and propose something like Snapchat to a European investor. The application for me is nonsense, I myself can't still see how it works, but it's valued billions. Did it have a business plan? Maybe. However I really doubt that it was 200 pages long.

That's not something that the no-debt-at-all European mindset can deal with. I think it's partially cultural and partially historical. A sort of perfectionism that doesn't leave space to failure mixed with a world where corporations and lobbies are super protected and no matter what, they are always the winners and the way to do business.

WhatsApp took 2-3 years before it became a standard messaging app. You can't always foresee it. It just happens. Others failed. Now everyone uses WhatsApp.

Ps. I am European.
The chart is less smooth if expressed in real terms instead of nominal terms (i.e. in "constant dollars", to account for inflation): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=lpcg

And part of the trend is simply population growth. Per capita trends are slightly less nice: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=lpcR

(Note that different scales are used for the real and nominal figures in the charts above.)

Over a slightly longer period: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=lpdg

The rate of growth is clearly decelerating.
Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money
TL;DR: We find that installing ad blocking extensions substantially increases both active time spent in the browser and the number of pages viewed.

(also known as "water is wet")
In the case of SOLID, I'd probably cut the guy who started the web some more slack than a cursory glance at the work and determine if I can't immediately understand it - there can't be any understanding or value in it.

Some things that take years to design and put together, might take a while for all of us to catch up to.

I hope examples continue to come out, but more importantly, those who develop can spend some time to hack with it. Maybe some brains are seeing this that are primarily wired to work and understand through a lens of front end, or back-end development, where but Tim Berner-Lees like lots of other devs here is used to end-to-end.

It seemed pretty simple to me, and pretty simple to follow along with. If we're looking for something shiny, the web wasn't shiny on day 1.
> Vue itself wasn't too bad to get going with TS

Last time I tried, there wasn't any support for type check across component boundaries (props, events). Did something change?

A deal-breaker for me. I mostly know types from within the component; if you keep them small enough it's not much of an issue to just look up/down to check for a name, for example. But cross-component communication is where I need TS the most. Hopefully 3.0 addresses that (didn't read the whole article thoroughly, maybe it's mentioned).
Show HN: Fixture Generation Tool for Go
I'd been out of the loop of frontend Web stuff for several years but I tried Vue.js because I read here and elsewhere that Angular was a mess. I just couldn't stand the weird hybrid html/css/js editing. At no point did I feel I had the slightest clue what was going on and it felt like I wasn't supposed to ask. React felt much more natural to me. Is there any way to do stuff differently with Vue or should I just stick with React?
I heard some folks complaining about the time spent writing fixtures for their Go tests. I had a plan to play with the "ast" library so I built this tool hoping that it can save some precious development time. Any feedback is appreciated and I will try to address any issues as soon as possible.
Schemes for international geocoding really shouldn't shrug off this altitude problem. When you say third floor, are you using 0-indexing, or 1-indexed floors as in the US?
The Rise of Dataism: A Threat to Freedom or a Scientific Revolution?
Yes it's a bit sad to see a project that otherwise would be interesting.
IMO, with Vue if your template needs to be parsed in-browser, you're doing something wrong (Vue has "full" and "runtime-only" builds; I don't think that you should use the full build in production). The template should be parsed+compiled to a render() function during the build process, and the browser should only ever see the render() function, not the template (except through a source-map).
Is this the argument you want to plant your stake in the ground on as absurd? Because the modern debate in the tech community is "should people be allowed to operate motor vehicles at all?"
>At no point did I feel I had the slightest clue what was going on and it felt like I wasn't supposed to ask

what exactly do you mean? you didn't understand the templating language? you didn't understand the data model? you didn't understand webpack? what does "i didn't have the slightest clue what was going on" even mean? do you know what gcc does when it compiles your C code to assembly? is that the resolution at which you'd like to know "what's happening" ???
Secret apple sauce?
Junior at big-co has a say in prioritisation and business need?
Also a hypothesized reason for why canadians are unreasonably well represented in esports.
I live in India, my code once entered gives a location in Marathon, Greece!
What about Amazon? And eBay? And Yahoo?

Lots of US people in Europe, true. Doing software? I really really doubt it. Or they left for personal motivations.

Leaving US for a developer is like leaving Ferrari for an automobile engineer. You can't top that. Anything else is a step backwards in terms of technology, unless you go to work for some institution - I see the university of Zürich is really advanced, for example.

Also, the topic was about innovation, capital, etc. I would prefer not to go too much off topic.
Interestingly the author cites Hong Kong in another question as a city that should be replicated. It's a city where at least 10 (and likely a great deal more#) workers died and 234-600 were injured in the last few years building a bridge of questionable utility to other local cities.

# 10 are confirmed dead on the HK portion, the death toll on the Chinese portion is unknown.

There's little question that lax worker safety and weak labor laws can contribute to faster economic growth, but I'm not sure that's something we should be trying to replicate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong%E2%80%93Zhuhai%E2%80...

http://www.ejinsight.com/20170413-how-many-more-people-have-...
While they no doubt increase direct construction costs, my understanding is that planning for hospitals in the UK is leaning towards private rooms because they have a bunch of not-immediately-obvious benefits that can reduce cost in the long term – better infection control, less bed-blocking, improved recuperation times, things like that. This information is third-hand though, and I don't have enough knowledge to say for sure. But it certainly doesn't seem unreasonable that this could be the case!
Visual studio has a lot of power, especially if we consider Intellitrace, but damn is it hard to use that power. I really think the main problem here is UX and not technology.
That's a statement that applies to everything, including classic paper voting. It's never a question of whether there's absolute security, because nothing has it. It's about comparing the security and other benefits of different systems.
Where does this nanosecond number come from for HFT? 1 ns is the time light takes to travel 30 cm in a vacuum. Are these firms only trading with firms that are a few meters away? How about round trip times? I believe only 10s of microseconds are significant, not nanoseconds.
The headline is misleading. Microsoft is suspending development of the UWP Office applications, which happen to be touch-friendly. However, the headline implies that the remaining Win32 versions do not have a touch-friendly mode, which is false.

The Win32 versions can be switched between "mouse" and "touch" modes. In touch mode, the pointing targets are all much larger. But as with most user interfaces on modern Windows, even in mouse mode, the Office user interface can be used by touch. Running in mouse mode doesn't remove the helpful pop-up action bar when you've selected text, for example, it just makes the UI elements render more tightly.

For the several years I've used a Surface device with a touch screen, I've never used the UWP versions of the Office applications because they never reached feature parity with the Win32 versions. The UWP versions had a subset of functionality; not the same subset but similar in limitations to the web versions. But that doesn't mean I don't use a touch-friendly application suite—I simply use the Win32 versions in both mouse and touch modes.
> Honestly I would expect more services like this to come out, given how successful Facebook and Google managed to become.

indeed. Yet these private information have to be collected in quantities before becoming relevant, both economically and analytically.
Hey guys,

My name is Mike. I'm co-founder and product at Everhour.

I'd be happy to answer your questions if any. Feel free to ask here or on Medium.
> “Better safe than sorry” is rising belief.

I think this is a cowardly and inaccurate belief and agree it is what it driving changes across all areas.

It is the institutional flaw of democracies and free markets. People (demand) are capable of acting irrationally and emotionally leading to a reduction of individual and public good.
Ask HN: Has anything replaced the ease of flash games?
A bit of nostaglia hit me, and I was wondering what replaced flash games. I haven't seen anything similar come about with html/js. I know it's much harder to write performant games with just js.