skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, these are very good points. Below are our thoughts:

* We will be maintaining warehouses in every single area. We currently have 2 but plan to have 9 to cover the entire city. That is the only way to ensure 1 hr delivery. We are also offering this service for products which are fast moving (around 1500 SKUS). Slower moving products are sent from the main warehouse.

* We will need a bit of capital, but not as much as most people think, it costs us around $230k to start a warehouse and run it for six months. It is a lot cheaper than starting a departmental store in Dhaka, and you get far more efficiency per sq. ft as you are not optimizing for a "browse experience" for shoppers. Our shoppers are our employees and we can control their movement for maximum output/sq. ft. Theory is departmental stores can survive, so can 7000 sq. ft. warehouses.

* I don't see why accountability and management challenges should be any different in BD than it is in the US. Enough startups have thrived in India and China.

* Bangladesh also has a decent history of foreign investments with companies like Telenor and Microsoft managing local offices. So corporate accountability does exist in the country.
Unless you do the "refresh firefox" thing that shows up every time you have 5 addons installed.

The above experience is on the developer edition of firefox, as I haven't tried it on the normal stable release.
I disagree. The same way a VC expects a few investments to cover the rest...they only need one rrapidly growing company to cover a downturn.

Any VC fund that doesnt diversify their investments to cover market movements wont survive very long.

Plus, even with a bubble bursting, commercial real estate in prime locations will retain much of its value. It will definitely outperform the startup market.
Adding more filter/sorting options would be great if you want it to become a interface to the producthunt archive.
So the default position of running out of material for jokes is racism?
I agree that's "a" position, but there is much more. By itself, it doesn't explain why they try to defund research, deny the facts, etc.

The only pattern I can find to explain it is that they might see the issue as part of the 'culture war' with liberalism, and so they reject it outright as part of their effort to reject liberalism. (But that's a huge generalization about the thoughts of tens of millions of people.)
>>Is that so ridiculous a concept? People routinely trade privacy for convenience. Sending my location to Google through their maps is ridiculously convenient.

If you cannot tell the difference between you sending your location to Google when you need to and half the people in the world sending ALL their information to Microsoft ALL the time BY DEFAULT, I don't know what to tell you.
I think they’re reading too much into the data.

The inferences they’re drawing assume that the populations of “millenial men without kids” and “millenial men with kids” are part of an otherwise uniform group of millenial men, with attitudes changing as men go from one population into the other showing that pre-kid egalitarian attitudes couldn’t stand up to reality.

But this seems like an oversimplified model. There is a big selection bias when passing to the “men with children” group. It’s likely that men who get married and have children at a younger age probably tend to be from more religious backgrounds, for example.

To reliably make the kind of inferences the paper is making, you would need to survey men without children, wait a few years, then survey the same men after they had had children, and ignore the original interviews of men who still haven’t had children by the time of the second set of surveys.

Edit: I’m trying to track down the sources for this story, and it’s even more confusing, as from what I can tell they’re comparing numbers from different studies with different samples and methodologies. I really wish they would more concretely quote exactly which numbers were coming from which source.
A lot of really great stories in there.

From Tikhon Jelvis' answer:

"I personally rank languages on three largely orthogonal axes: productivity, maintainability and performance. That is: how quickly, comfortably and efficiently I can write code; how easy it is to ensure the code is correct, refactor it and add features; and how fast the resulting code can run. For different projects, the different axes will have different weights.

If the weights are about equal, Haskell is the best choice. Moreover, I do not know any language that can beat Haskell along any two axes: sure, there are (in fact, many) languages that perform better, and there are languages that lead to more correct, more maintainable code, and there are even languages that are more productive. But never more than one at a time."

I totally agree with the above and it's why I think Haskell is the best general programming language out there. I see it as the same niche as python, ruby, lisp, C#, Java, Go, etc.
Yes, I understand. I was wondering why tptacek wasn't a fan though, and the only reason I could think of was that it might encourage this usage?? even though it looks like they explicitly discourage this[0]. It's the first time I hear of crypton.io - so just trying to learn more.

[0] https://crypton.io/docs/
36 cents will get you a gigabyte stored for a year with 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability at S3, accessible at multiple gigabits per second.

When gigabit class connections are pervasive, the idea of paying people to store data in an open web browser is maybe feasible, but certainly not profitable for any involved party.

Before then? I dont even see the point.
Thank you for the heads up
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To your first point (management) - could you tell me more about how or point me to people who've made the transition themselves?

To your second point (research lab)- I began my career in research and have worked at two world-class industry labs, including Microsoft Research. You are right that these jobs are less about code - explains why I did well. :)
After five or ten years at those firms, you'd be surprised at how many people in those places are truly satisfied with their jobs.

At my last job, an industry research lab that I quit to do product development with my current valley company, I couldn't meet a single soul in a building of a 1000 who seemed happy and excited enough to jump in the morning and get to work. Microsoft Research was a different story - but every happy, thriving individual I met there was in love with their field. I was similar for a couple of years, but couldn't sustain that. Wanting to be part of the corporate rat race as someone else pointed out, may have been a factor.
I dont agree and landlord is hardly the word I would use for NNN lease tenant Management.

In a market downturn in a worst case scenario...this real estate has underlying value besides its immediate income producing potential. It will likely retain more value than their actual startup investments.

Source: Im a former commercial real estate leasing broker and former commercial real estate underwriter.
Well, it's a little unclear what course of action people are proposing. Political rants aren't that helpful. If people knew they could save a few bucks installing solar they would. Consumers vote with their wallets.

Do we need to make solar cheaper or more efficient, for example? More battery research?
Some of it is that parenting isn't always as much fun as you dream it will be. It's easy to idealize before you have kids. I love mine and am as dedicated a dad as I can be, but I'm also glad I get to go to work every day.

For a nuanced look at the complex emotions of parenting, I highly recommend Jennifer Senior's book "All Joy and No Fun" (http://www.amazon.com/All-Joy-No-Fun-Parenthood/dp/006207224...). There's a condensed version here: http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/
I can't use Firefox on my Chromebook unless i switch to dev mode and use crouton. That said, i enjoy Firefox and the Windows 7 PC at work
> their typically long and painful setup process

Mint can be installed in about 10 minutes with a handful of mouse clicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKI024wUTUw
I actually found the contrary. 25 coins hold surprisingly well in a pocket, much easier than a thick set of 25-bills IMO.

25-Bills get wet with sweat and insulate your legs. I kinda prefer 25-coins over that.
Reminds me of the Cavales cable car disaster. (http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/04/world/20-die-in-italy-as-u...)
Thanks. It might work in the US context someday it is way to early to even start thinking in that direction. Our only data point is that Walmart started in Arkansas, one of the poorest states in the US. So things that we find in Bangladesh may become applicable at a global scale.
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That makes sense. I was using enterprise edition in the insider program, but clean installed the professional edition RTM.

This is still a really bad default for the majority of users though...

Metered connections are a per-network setting that you have to set manually, not something they detect automatically. I highly doubt most users will be able to discover this feature since it's buried rather deeply in network settings.
You make good points and I agree with your reluctance to assume that employers will do much that doesn't suit them, but I think you'd obviously see a change in pay for any reduced work.

Of course, whether a breadwinning parent can resist $x for 5 days over $0.8x for 4 days equivalent to spend more time with their family is another issue. The rat race means people constantly want more, usually at any cost. If you work fewer 9-5 hours, I imagine you have to endure more time resisting out of office work, rogue calls, etc.

Perhaps once AR/VR offices are more common and companies are more comfortable with teleworkers, we could see people do full-time equivalent but with a couple of hours from 8-10pm to make up for being home from 3-5pm for after-school family time.

We also currently waste a significant amount of time commuting...
Mozilla CEO slams Microsoft over Windows 10 browser defaults
CVS partners with IBM supercomputer to do something with all your health data
NextSeed is hiring a full stack engineer
We include shot charts on Basketball-Reference.com and allow for side-by-side comparisons as well.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hardeja01/shoo...

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/plus/shooting...
Google Glass Isn’t Dead – But It’s All About the Enterprise for Now
Facebook Fuels Ad Tracking by Nagging App Users to Instantly Log in on Safari
Great, I see that you already fixed it, thank you - I can add "provider solving problems quickly" to my personal list of reasons to use the app.
> I was never aware of the right wing propaganda machine - till I subscribed to Wall Street Journal. I was shocked that it's considered to be a "good" newspaper by some

This puzzles me too, to a degree. Most educated people can recognize the propaganda on their editorial page, and most know, based on Fox News Channel, that the owners have very low journalistic standards and are willing to publish deceit. WSJ reporters even appear as Fox correspondents now (at least, when I watched briefly a few months ago). Why would smart people still trust the WSJ?

To address one counter-argument, the NY Times is not the same; it's editorial page has much higher standards. I don't agree with everything, but rarely to I read blatent lies and propaganda.

I suspect it's simple branding. The "Wall Street Journal" brand carries integrity, and people don't think skeptically about it.
Requiem for the App Revolution
Nearly every piece of malware I see rates 0/51 on virustotal. I would recommend picking one of those that has a high detection ratio, but you see...
This is great, I'll get to it when it will be in a solid state. I'm also waiting for some good high level chapters on Rust's approach to OOP and so on.
My understanding is that you pay taxes not on the current value, but on the difference between the value of the stock and the price you paid for it. It's essentially treated as income.
Didn't Microsoft run ads on Google collection personal information. Now they are doing the same!
As another example, I wrote some scripts (well, hacked together other people's work) to map MIDI CC values to a virtual joystick's Y axis, so I could use my MIDI expression pedal as an accelerator pedal in Euro Truck Simulator 2.
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Why don't everyone use Firefox sync, it is also zero-knowledge? I am not provoking, just curious.
A Facebook Project to Beam Data from Drones Is a Step Closer to Flight
MAURITIUS IS NOT MAURITANIA
First you say you are interested if he makes fun of white people, and when it is pointed out that he makes fun of white people, it is not interesting because then he is just making fun of "privileged" groups.

Clarkson makes fun of everyone, himself more than anyone else (call that privilege). That is why he is funny.
I believe that as facebook gains the territory, so does Instagram, messenger, WhatsApp, and every other acquired product. So the plan isn't really to just deliver internet service but to buy up the social world in the area without competitors. Since about 1.49 billion of the 1/3 of the internet enabled regions use one of Facebook products even with the competitions, it's evident that this project would triple their impact.
Acetone (systematically named propanone) is the organic compound with the formula (CH₃)₂CO. It is a colorless, volatile, flammable liquid, and is the simplest ketone. Wikipedia

What were the "complex organic molecules" that were observed.
I'm 32 and technically right on the oldest edge of the "millenial" generation, and have 3 kids (7, 4, and 1); it doesn't necessarily mean "people born in the mid-90s".
That sounds like the perfect soldier, after the T-800.
I pointed it out since the Op mentioned high society-economic classes buy iPhones. When in reality most are not willing to pay full price. If you see a user using iPhone in India then there is a good chance that he belongs to high income class(iPhone is a status symbol here since most are willing to buy older models for less price).
Kim Dotcom Answers Questions
OSX has always worked as Windows 8.1 and below did with browsers - the browser pops up and asks if it can be the default and you say either "yes" or "leave me alone."

Windows 10 has made that a multi-step process, where the browser now bounces you to the control panel where you have to find the default browser section and make your choice.
HackerBoxes Opens International Shipping and Reaches 25%
Few reasons:

1. Inventory management is very poor in the retail stores around Dhaka. Most (95%) of them are very small (carrying ~500 SKUs), and even the larger ones have difficulty in ensuring supply of all products. We found that people would get annoyed if we couldn't send them all the products they asked for (98% fulfillment rate was not good enough).

2. The prices don't work if you are a layer on top of the existing infrastructure. People are a lot more price sensitive -- in fact, irrationally so. They care about getting a "bargain" rather than the mathematical value of the bargain. SO we couldn't survive by taking a mark up on products like instacart.

3. Part-time work is non existent and we couldn't trust the quality of the workforce in an on demand model. We have to train people to understand the difference between mayonnaise and mustard.

4. Some Indian startups have gotten around the idea of on-demand workforce by just hiring all their deliverymen full-time. Their unit economics should be pretty tough.

5. The warehouses are optimized for picking and dispatch. Real Estate prices are expensive. We should be seeing much better revenue per square feet than regular grocery stores.
>On this tangent about Dart, I'm happy that Chrome people prevailed

I'm not. We are sentenced for another 20+ yrs for lang with broken 'this' pointer
.ly seems to be really popular as well for startups although I'm kinda curious as to the civil war in Libya is going to affect it in the future.
This kinda seems like a recipe for boringly perfect, flaw-free characters.
Ji Dhonnyobad. Apni Bhalo aachen?
That's the one! Thank you!

(And shame on you, silly ESA, for allowing your publicly-funded science to be locked away by a third party).

There's some fascinating, very suggestive CNOH compounds in that list. Here's what the last paragraph says about them:

CH2OHCHO [glycolaldehyde] is an efficient initiator in the prebiotic formation
of sugars (21). HCN [hydrogen cyanide] is a key molecule in the prebiotic
synthesis of amino acids (21, 22) and nucleobases (21) and even offers an
elegant pathway to sugars (23). HCONH2 [formamide] provides a prebiotic route to
nucleobases (24). HCONH2 (24) and CH3CONH2 [acetamide] (21) catalyze
phosphorylation of nucleosides to nucleotides, in which amines also play a role
(21). Isocyanates play a major role in the prebiotic synthesis of peptides,
through the so-called isocyanate route (22). The complexity of cometary nucleus
chemistry and the importance of N-containing organics imply that early solar
system chemistry fosters the formation of prebiotic material in noticeable
concentrations.
multiple months on station - dream come true for data acquisition in a lot of civilian and not very civilian applications. Like a platform for that gigapixel/Argus continuously recording everything happening in the city. Almost not existent noise and IR signature, and with carbon fiber construction i'd suppose very low radar cross-section. It can toil for months near China/Russia/etc. airspace listening/watching/etc. Or electronic CAP/AWACS kind of mission during peace time over aircraft carrier group. Sky isn't even the limit :)
> So, the question is are you an idiot or a troll?

Please don't.
I'd suggest anyone here seriously interested in the effects of Affirmative Action and similar policies read 'Affirmative Action Around the World' by Thomas Sowell. It's only 200pages, but incredibly sourced and well written. Highly recommend it for those wanting a further understanding.
Warning: long answer ahead. Short version: there will be very soon. I use it daily on my own iPhone.

The issue is that because Crypton does crypto with JavaScript in the web view of a Cordova app, it needs to not be stupendously slow. The default iOS web view available for Cordova apps, up until iOS 8, was the UIWebView which is well known for not having access to a JIT (like Nitro in mobile Safari). This means that JavaScript crypto (particularly done the way SJCL does it) is VERY slow. We're talking almost two minutes just to log in. :/

However, even though iOS 8 now provides a web view with a JIT (WKWebView), it has been slightly crippled by Apple. The WKWebView disallows loading local files except from the app's tmp folder. This has meant some work for the Cordova iOS team to get the WKWebView working. It is finally at a stage where it can be used, but some of the changes Cordova had to make to get it working, plus some differences in WKWebView's API, mean some changes had to be made to both Crypton and Encryptr to get it all to work.

It's working now. However, since I will still have to dance through a few more hoops of fire (Apple submission and other pain), I am planning on pushing out a new version for the existing platforms first. Then I should be able to do what needs to be done to get the iOS version out.
I agree it's a total pain. Each time I have to wait for my PayPal account to get charged with USDs through ACH transfer, I ask myself why it's so slow.
I am shocked - a published social science study with poor methodology and dubious analysis that fits the authors political biases. It is a good thing that this almost never happens.
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I think also because there is some negative sentiment to projects like these from people like bill gates, companies like FB try to keep it on the down low until they have something worth showing.
Searching through source code in github is horrible. It only searches through the content and completly ignores filenames which makes it absolutely useless to me.
I don't think this is even slightly true of the protagonists of the two most popular examples of the genre (Worm and HPMoR).
Facebook is a business, yes. Does that mean they do not positively impact the world? Absolutely not. IIRC they are providing FB and Wikipedia (among other resources), those two resources alone will allow people the access to the entirety of human knowledge, and the ability to connect to anyone in the world. Via there phone. That is _huge_. Yes, it isn't perfect, and yes FB is investing for advertising in ~5-10+ years to come. But, that doesn't mean that hundreds of millions of people's lives will be dramatically better as a result. I apologise of this was slightly incoherent, I'm on mobile and do not have time to re-read.
Vanar.io – Realtime multiplayer browser game: Agar.io meets Asteroids
You're right, some people can pull it off and successfully. It's great for those who want to and can. I think my implicit point is not everyone _should_ want to. Career is not an end goal. Career affords us a path to a life we desire. Some people actually enjoy and want a real livable work-life balance --not just the HR PR diluted version.

However, yes, it's great that some people are single minded and discover new drugs and treatments for disease and contribute to accelerated human progress.
I haven’t read the cited studies in detail, and I wouldn’t say the studies themselves have poor methodology or dubious analysis until I’ve looked at them.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the original studies made limited, well-qualified claims which were then exaggerated or taken out of context by the journalist.

The main linked sources seem to be:
http://asr.sagepub.com/content/80/1/116.abstract (paywalled)
and
http://www.familiesandwork.org/times-are-changing-gender-and...

The second of those seems to mostly just report the data they found, without much editorializing. I’m slightly skeptical about the multiple regression at the end, but the rest of the findings are straight-forward to interpret.

Other studies central to the article’s title argument are cited but not directly linked by the NYT as far as I can tell. I can’t find the mentioned surveys by the Center for Talent Innovation online anywhere; perhaps it’s pre-published data they discussed with the NYT journalist.
You're at the oldest edge, and you were 25 when you had your first child.

If the oldest of the group had to have children under the median, then only those who had children young have them already.

Looking at millenials with children is a huge selection bias:

> Mothers of newborns are older now than their counterparts were two decades ago. In 1990, teens had a higher share of all births (13%) than did women ages 35 and older (9%). In 2008, the reverse was true — 10% of births were to teens, compared with 14% to women ages 35 and older. Each race and ethnic group had a higher share of mothers of newborns in 2008 who are ages 35 and older, and a lower share who are teens, than in 1990.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/05/06/the-new-demography...
'Dubbed HD 219134b, this exoplanet, which orbits too close to its star to sustain life, is a mere 21 light-years away.'

There are closer planets, but their composition is unknown:

'For reference, the closest known planet is GJ674b at 14.8
light-years away; its composition is unknown.'

So the main reason why this is exiting:

'Only a small fraction of exoplanets can be detected transiting their stars due to their relative orientation to Earth. When the orientation is just right, the planet’s orbit places it between its star and Earth, dimming the detectable light of its star. It’s this dimming of the star that is actually captured by observatories such as Spitzer, and can reveal not only the size of the planet but also clues about its composition.'