skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait what? Which steps are impossible for 90% of the population?
Doing emails like this:

http://www.klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-h...

(disclaimer: i am the author of this post)
No. There never were any low level API's. You're always using the webkit component; albeit one that's slightly slower than native safari.
At work? I struggle there too.

At home doing my own coding? Light beer(as light as i can get, i want to take the edge off, not get drunk), a movie/music on the tv that i have seen/heaed a lot before.

Honestly the drink is a crutch, but i cant program more than once a week, so it seems to work for me. (Time constraints due to work/wife), but in my current project helps me relax enough, forget about my dayjob and focus for 3-4 hours.
I still use Swarm. It's pretty fun and me and my friends are always checking into interesting places and posting interesting places.

I found Foursquare kind of useless and uninstalled it long ago. If I want to research where to go I use Yelp.
Firebird 3.0 Beta 2 release is available for testing
Building a product and saying no to features
Has Chrome not yet switched to using WKWebView? I know there was some talk about missing features.
Been lucky enough to be following pretty much exactly this list recently. I confirm that it can work, in the sense of making you very productive, but it is also just a very enjoyable and fulfilling way to live. Yes, you have to earn money, and yes this can be an issue, but I think that a lot of companies lose out a lot by making it impossible for people to take this kind of approach in a more standard employment situation.
It's disappointing to me that it's 2015 and we have yet to have a good solution for browser games. Flash is still your best choice by a huge margin.

4 years ago I was very bullish on HTML5. Flash was dying, HTML5 was the future! It was right around the corner! I think a lot of people agreed with me.

4 years later - what has changed? Decent webGL support but still driven by a terribly slow javascript runtime. ASM.js gets us halfway there but it's brittle and does't even run in Chrome so it's basically worthless for anything that isn't a tech demo. The audio API is also still very limited.

We've been trying to port our Unity mobile app to webGL for 6 months now and it's been nothing but pain. In hindsight, it was a mistake. I was bullish on HTML5 back in 2011 and I was bullish on webGL in 2014. I was wrong, again.

So, I'd like to have faith in these efforts, but as they say, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
That would mean two stages of password query, which I think might be a con. Also, the file names would either not be encrypted in the git repo or not be compatible with e.g. Android app I guess.

Thanks for the autofs hint, will try it and see how that works out re unlocking.
If a business cannot afford 2000$ every 3 years pr machine they have running, they either have too many useless machines running, or they should not not exist. It's akin to rely on a car, but complain that it require maintenance.
Without being jailbroken it is nearly impossible to properly utilize alternative browsers. I particularly enjoy being able to choose my default browser (and mapping choice) for links. If when I click a link it always opens In safari, I end up using that browser a lot more than I would given a choice. Apple also hamstrings alternative browsers by not allowing them the ability to utilize the nitro JavaScript engine. The tweak nitrous allows chrome and other apps with in-app browsers the ability to do so, but it shouldn't have to be this way!
I would assume that once you establish direction you can just put some 3 beacons and have a local navigation system based on that.
A few decades back when I still smoked cigarettes, I really enjoyed simply getting out of the office on a periodic basis to gain perspective. No more cigarettes, but I still stand up and walk around the block. Still works great.
I agree with the comment about Tesla - it's madness that most cars are still using the internal combustion engine! One mundane but important factor for people driving long distances are drinks holders! My wife's Audi has really crap drinks holders that don't work unless the drink is half empty (or full).
- Good ergonomy of workstation (not staying crouched on a laptop computer for example)

- Find your most productive times of the day and manage your day around it

- Take notes and have yourself be notified (for important stuff) instead of polling (unless the frequency is too big, then poll for a large time
This isn't quite accurate – the limitation isn't on API access, which AFAIK would be sufficient to implement a browser. Rather it's an app store policy decision to reject apps that download and run executable code.

Since any web browser would have to do this in order to run Javascript, it's explicitly rejected. I'm not condoning that (or otherwise), but I don't think it's down to API limitations.
I've been in line for 24 hours and still have tens of thousands of people in front of me...
That is good news indeed! Thank you for letting me know. This is my first publicly funded work and I am not familiar with many of the policies. I will sleep better knowing that our work will not be holed up exclusively in the Elsevier-beast.

Also of interest: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/agree...
I would point out that WKWebView in iOS 8 provides full Nitro support, so that's no longer an issue. I'm not sure if browsers are using this yet, though – there was some talk about difficulties with certain features.
> Ideally, 1/3 of the year should be spent on vacation time

Show me one office job, where you have 4 months vacation.
The problem is all in this fragment: "as a vendor of dominant mobile operating system". We all know Apple makes more money than any other mobile manufacturer, and we all know they are culturally dominant, but in terms of actual market penetration, they own 20% of the global market. Samsung gets 27%, just to mention one competitor.

This makes it extremely hard to get any sort of antitrust leverage against Apple. We can keep screaming at them until we're blue in the face and nothing will change.
The list is mostly mine (I didn't get it from anywhere), although I have, of course, been influenced by people who are more successful than me.

The most relevant influence is perhaps Dan Sullivan from Strategic Coach. The bit where you pick the top 2 tasks and drop everything else I picked up from a Warren Buffet book a few years ago.

I fully agree with you - a lot of this is not practical for the vast majority of the population. I'm obviously no Warren Buffet, so I also don't have the luxury of doing this all the time. All I'm saying is that when I DO stick to this plan as much as possible, the results are amazing.

It takes a lot of courage to NOT do things that you think you MUST do but HATE doing. Once you blast through this fear, though, you will literally see miracles happen.
Yes, you are right, i was mislead by the final animation (it is indeed an animation and not a scrollable part).
> having humans evolve into surviving in microgravity would require letting the least adapted people die of it for tens of generations.

Not necessarily. The least adapted people just need to have fewer children.
Can't do this with an office job (even if you did get 4 months vacation).
calling isn't cool anymore , we want to be cool.
Subscriptions don't work well for the long tail, artists that aren't extremely popular get pennies and people in SF and LA live in some sort of bubble, as subscriptions aren't that popular compared to personal music collections. IMHO, it's a passing trend, just like CDs and iPods. And don't get me wrong, as subscriptions are somewhat convenient, problem is they are convenient for personal usage and listening to music is often a group activity, with sharing without barriers and taking things offline being the norm.

Do you know why YouTube is so popular for listening to music? It's because of things like http://www.youtube-mp3.org/
The user interface in Safari is indeed very modern and rivals most if not flat out beat them.

But this is a backend problem. Safari is literally holding the web back by not properly supporting modern web technologies. And not allowing users to switch away from safari on one of the widest used platform is a huge problem
Still, chrome forces us devs to do a lot of stuff that we don’t want to — I personally found about a dozen layout bugs in Chrome that don’t exist in either IE11, Firefox, Opera 12 or Konqueror (which uses KHTML, the predecessor of WebKit).

Chrome just disables a bunch of JavaScript APIs on mobile, unless your site is .google.com or .youtube.com, etc.

If you develop only in chrome, you never notice, but if you develop in Firefox first, and your whole site doesn’t work in Chrome... well, shit.

And, on the other hand, we now have a bunch of sites with "works best in Google® Chrome™". Welcome to the 90s, Chrome is the IE6 of today.
Reddit management is somewhat between a rock and a hard place. They have a very free-for-all culture now, with the norms of the site driven largely by the community. As expected, these norms do not drive a lot of monetization -- the community is not constantly pushing for ways to make Reddit profitable. So management is trying to wrest control over the huge community in order to take it towards some more profitable territory, but at least to date they don't seem to be able to do so in a way that doesn't trigger a strong immune response.
IMO the killer use case is for 4sq is for travel. When I'm on the road (most of the past few years) I care a lot more both in recording where I've been and getting recommendations. There are a few things that 4sq could do better in that regard - better romanization/local-English display and better segmentation of the data (locals vs tourists). Also it's hard to create/surface trip logs/lists and todo lists become useless when you have geographically disperse items (it always zooms globally and doesn't track your state).
Not a lot of people can spend 1/3 of a year on vacation. I'm in Sweden and I consider my vacation time pretty generous (6 weeks per year), but still, I'm still nowhere near 1/3 of a year.
This was great for getting a free month of AOL every month for years back when that was how many people connected to the internet. You just came up with a fake number that worked with this algorithm and you were good. There were even lots of automated applications to do that for you near the end such as AOHell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOHell
1- Hit the gym most mornings
2- Stand at your desk an hour in the morning and an hour after lunch
3- Always be sure you are working on the #1 priority task
4- Don't each like crap
5- Get enough sleep

People underrate standing. I can literally feel my brain being more productive.
It depends on where you live and what factors you include. Where I live, I'd you just look at money, you'd probably be best of going into construction. You may make less than me, but due to how our taxes work, it'd take me decades to make in salary what the construction guy saves by (a) entering the labor force years earlier and (b) using his skills, network and resources to build his house for a fraction of what it'd cost me.
I'm sorry it was auto-corrected, it should read quant:

https://pngquant.org/
You are right that it is parallax [0], but you are wrong that it is parallax scrolling.

Parallax is a necessary property to create the illusion of depth, regardless of the technique used to achieve that parallax.

"Parallax scrolling" is a 2D technique where layer translation is dependent on both progress and layer index.

This technique is computing a layer scale that is dependent on both progress and layer index.

Translation vs. scale. This isn't parallax scrolling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
The only thing they forgot is consulting Flash developers. Most of them despise HTML5 as inferior. Developer experience is as important as user experience.
> ...the album she has restricted her fans from listening to legally.

Well, she is still making her music available online against a fair price. If you mean restriction in the sense of any restriction, then, yes, it's restricted. But so is Spotify, because for every service there is another one you don't publish on.

Miss Swift was not happy with Spotify's negotiating terms. Her not playing ball with Spotify should not automatically be considered "restricting her fans from listening to her music legally," even though that's a side-effect.

I'm not privy to the details of the negotiation, I don't know who's being unreasonable, if anyone. But just saying that she restricts her fans from listening to it, that implies it's her own fault and that people are in the right for just pirating it then.

Not really.
With billions (and billions) of dollars being poured into this year's election cycle, it makes sense for the string-pullers to dismantle any vestige of true grassroots organizing. It seems like the "real" money would be invested in disrupting organic organization and favoring controlled and curated organization that favors their whim. I just can't get this damn tinfoil cap off my head.
I completely agree with you. But I would like to add that Apple holds most of the important users - those who are the most willing to spend time and money online.
It's nothing as technical as that. They just invoke the core-functionality duplication clause -- there's a webview class, if you reimplement it you're falling foul of the clause. Of course they control what functionality is considered "core", so they can decide at any point what is acceptable and what is not, which is exactly what they want.
Ironically, it is with iOS 8 that other browsers got access to Nitro JS engine that Safari used so that they could potentially be on par with Safari.
It's got alpha transparency, you can only use PNG or GIF for that, the issue is that most sofware only saves proper transparency for 24-bit PNG while for 8-bit it becomes jagged.

PNG quant does this properly, see here:

https://pngquant.org/
Out of curiosity, what was the problem with the old ones and what improvements brings this special design ? I might have to visit London later this month and these "new design" buses really scare me lately because I nearly had a panic attack in one last year due to same reason: very high temperatures (I suspect it was more than 50 C in the back), no windows and the driver intended to drive for ~3 hours to destination without AC !! After 40 minutes in a closed box under sun the people with kids were going crazy and the driver had to stop and troubleshoot the AC.
The other thing that really sucks right now for game developers is that Chrome has disabled its NPAPI plugin support so you can't rely on the Unity webplayer anymore either.

As the CTO of a mobile/web game startup (using Unity), I'm really struggling on what to do here. We have been trying to launch on Facebook Canvas since late 2014 and so far the finish line isn't even in sight.
There's a little bit of misinformation there!

First off, HTML5 has come a long way – there are still areas that need work, but generally I've seen lots of great HTML5 games and the field has improved remarkably in the past 4 years.

WebGL support is now cross-browser. The JavaScript runtime is not terribly slow, and I don't know if you're a bit confused about ASM.js – it does run in Chrome, and pretty well too. However, it's likely to be displaced by WebAssembly going forward, if I understand correctly, and that will be cross-platform and cross-browser.

It'll take a little while, but we're on the way there! Unity's HTML5 examples are pretty good – http://beta.unity3d.com/jonas/AngryBots/ for example looks great and runs well.
Nice to know someone else is waking up really early. I started setting my alarm 5 minutes back each day toward my goal of waking up at 4am. I started at 7am now I am at 4:40am and I'm really liking it so far; I get stuff done this way.
Is that really the limiting policy? Shouldn't that rule out any app using a web view (including Chrome on iOS) since they download and run Javascript?

I thought the policy was literally "no other browser engines are allowed".
The reaction to UberPop in France has been shameful. Taxi drivers have been attacking UberPop drivers for weeks, following and harassing them. They even posted videos of themselves attacking UberPop drivers and their cars on youtube on facebook.

The latest outburst of violence saw taxi drivers blocking access to airports in Paris forcing passengers to walk the remainder of the way. Overturning and torching cars that looked like they might be Ubers. There was even a video of taxi drivers on a bridge on the "periphérique", the motorway that goes around Paris, dropping bricks on cars underneath.

The government instead of punishing them bowed down almost immediately ...

Part of the problem is that striking is sacrosanct in France. If you're striking you can get away with almost anything like kidnapping your employer and holding him hostage or blocking a major port for days on end (MyFerryLink strikes) ...
The "Apple is not dominant" retort is very correct but also very frustrating.

Apple is dominant in the sense that they command an outsize portion of developer/consumer mindshare. So issues like this just get drowned out in all the fawning.
Yeah I thought it would be something like "Numbers must strictly increase unless the first number is 15326". Then the point of the article would be that some government rules are not well defined.
Number 6 is probably the most useful advice on the list (for me at least). I have noticed that I can only ever really work on about 2 things at once, but I never seem to learn to stop trying to do more.

I'm curious if you would count your day job as an "accomplishment".
Why would you want browser games when there is mobile with native apps that give first-class experience to both users and developers?
Reddit is not meaningfully organized, at least not any more than your average stampede.
This scares me. I'm thirty-two and therefore not very far from peaking, including salary unless you get a management function.
>we all know they are culturally dominant

And the reason they are is because they put user experience before developers or dogma.
The “future supermarket” at Expo2015… (…with many photos)
Is this a problem with Android's Gingerbread-era browser too? There must be a long tail of users still using that and I don't remember it being particularly good.
You mean "Bring back Usenet".

Because that is what Reddit is serving, as well as the previous board sites the people came from.

Usenet was decentralized, no logins, and some were moderated. But this is what the people want, yet they do not know the name.

Most NG servers are shut down.
This makes my head hurt. Surely Wittgenstein had permission to use Occam's razor? I mean, if it's possible that you actually meant quus_5 then it's equally possible that you meant quus_3 or quus_114, but since you didn't mention that, I will just assume you meant whichever requires the least amount of parameter-guessing from my side. After all, you have written it down for a human receiver, not for an alien from the Quus_8th dimension.
Yeah, you could try to paint them as dominant in a specific market segment (rich people, whatever), but it would be very difficult. We're very far from the numbers Microsoft still has on the desktop, and a world apart from the 90%+ they had back in the Netscape-suit days.
Firefox 39.0 released
Unfortunately Judges wouldn't agree that 'iPhone users' are their own market and agree that Apple has a massive market share which their abusing.
Also, for anyone wondering why the parent poster didn't just use an Irish regional version of Amazon - there isn't one. amazon.ie is just a redirect to amazon.co.uk, and the UK site has been for Irish customers too for a long time (including options for euro currency, free delivery etc)
You're free to make an Apple Watch app that sends each other's heartbeats through morse code if you're that determined to be no fun at parties.
Fan death – belief that death can be caused by sleeping in a room with a fan
1. Each morning write down the 5 most important things you need to do that day.

2. Do those things.

3. That's it.
Being force to work is not the same as the need to work to fulfill personal needs and goals.

That is one key difference between slaves and early farmers.
Are you including weekends as vacation time?
Well, we in Germany got the same result (UberPOP getting banned) by using, well, calmer methods.

We fixed it by telling them if they want to provide personal transport services, they have to adhere to the laws about that – insurance, a special drivers license, etc.
I don't understand why Lenovo publicly states, that it would be really nice if Lenovo went and did this design instead of what they are currently doing.

Why go out and say "this is the design we wish we could do" instead of doing it?
It doesn't explain the extremely sudden acquisition of power by Europeans, nor the extremely sudden decline in power of Arabs (or other groups, but I chose Arabs because they had a clear technological and scientific advantage[1]).

You've solidly demonstrated that the world is different than what the straw man theory "100% of power is determined by genetics" predicts. I can now refute the straw man theory that 100% of power is determined by social factors: being in the NBA provides money and power, and being tall (predominantly a genetic trait) drastically improves your ability to get in.

Let me more carefully state my question. Suppose there were genetic factors which cause at least 15% of observed variation in power within modern society (or perhaps cause >15% of variation across societies). How would the world be different?

Near as I can tell, your only other prediction based on this claim is that "because we've 100% mapped all genetic influences on anything, and because power is so well defined even though I can't figure out if it's cardinal or not, if such a factor existed we'd almost certainly measured it precisely."

Note that you've added an additional hypothesis, namely that modern genetics is incredibly advanced. So all you've proven is that one of two hypothesis is false: either genetics don't cause >15% of variation in power or modern genetics hasn't actually understood everything.

Based on my admittedly limited knowledge of genetics, I strongly suspect you've simply proven the latter. As far as I know, modern genetics can't predict which individuals will get into the NBA either. Do you therefore believe height is not genetically determined?

...a hundred (or a thousand) times more powerful...I am not saying power is a cardinal quantity...

Wow, even your previous straw man is still standing now that you just contradicted your claim that some groups have "a hundred (or a thousand) times more power...".
A good reason why such petitions are important is that the (sluggish) EU Commission competition authority needs to see such representative citizen efforts in order to look into the lack of browser choice in iOS.
In setState() the new photos are appended to the end of a list, and this list is re-checked in its entirety at every update. So, the React solution is actually at least O(N^2).

Something to worry about!
No Secrets in Our Social Media World
Get a lot of caffeine pills.
pg nailed it yesterday on Twitter: "Uber is so obviously a good thing that you can measure how corrupt cities are by how hard they try to suppress it." https://twitter.com/paulg/status/222462460978937856

Edit: actually I meant this tweet from yesterday: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/616683543830339584 which had the other one embbeded
i think the article said that you need 500K a a year.
So you have to marry a devops person too, on a contract.
the odds shrink a lot the couple isn't a homosexual.
Where you need to find a devops woman that makes 500GBP an hour....
I'd love to see the full source of the render function(s) here, we may not be seeing the full story... Are the React children having appropriate `key` attributes set as the list increases in size? etc