jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"The sites assemble these bits of data into brilliant databases and reuse the information to provide value-added service—but only within their sites. Once you enter your data into one of these services, you cannot easily use them on another site. Each site is a silo, walled off from the others"

This has been pretty much every ecommerce site since the 90s. I didn't hear anyone clamoring that pets.com, drugstore.com or 1800flowers.com was going to threaten the future of the web. There's more to it than just that "data is siloed" issue. Most ecommerce sites don't have a network effect built-in - they deliver value to me regardless of how many other people use them.

There's the threat of inertia - people won't re-enter their information in to new systems as those systems are introduced. That's certainly a concern, but I really don't see it as a threat. AOL was king for years, and people were scared of them. Then MySpace. Now Facebook. I suspect as people grow up, the focus may move to something that's not yet developed. Certainly the game is Facebook's to lose right now, but I don't think they'll hold on forever.

Granted, I think Tim's point is not specifically facebook but the walled/siloed data sites in general. I also don't think those will ever go away.
Just decided to calculate it...

Right now, you're up 116 points from this page alone, with an average of 6.4. It also helps when you're active (which debates/battles tend to encourage).
Of course, the competitors of those companies that didn't get financing went under, or had far higher financing costs (that is, the rate they had to pay on the loan was far higher). Something to keep in mind.
Yeah I know, I worked with webapp2 on app engine and working with flask was just plain simple and comfortable.
inside job happened with Sony.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with the premise that ubiquitous surveillance is unavoidable and unstoppable. To me, that attitude seems half like a cynical cop-out and half cyberpunk wish-fulfillment. No infrastructure which requires as much complexity and cost and effort as that does, is immune to political, economic or societal forces.

Already, you can begin to see pushback from other (many themselves) government and some companies like Apple, who both may be genuinely bothered by government intrusion and see "privacy" as a near-long-term necessity for selling products domestically but more importantly globally. It's true that Facebook is creepy, but it's also true that people have known that Facebook is creepy for years now and young people are leaving in droves.

Of course, nearly ubiquitous surveillance would be much more likely. Probably not all of our worst nightmares, but more than enough.

I personally believe (I even wrote a terrible paper about it that will never see the light of day) that the biggest and most pervasive threat to freedom in regards to privacy will lie in the intersection of (not strong but good enough) AI, social media, and the internet of things. Essentially, we're coming to a point at which our devices will be designed to interact with us emotionally, as well as socially, and as a result people will be trained to form deep emotional relationships with products as well as people. Imagine having a deep intellectual conversation with someone online, only that someone is a refrigerator, or a car. Imagine most of the friends you've grown up with are products, because most of your interaction is online.

Maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't, but almost certainly it won't happen the way we currently predict. The future right after the moon landings isn't the one anyone would have predicted. We were supposed to be drinking Coca-Colas on Mars by now.

Although if it did happen, then i'm still not entirely certain the 'humane-but-totalistic' model necessarily works. In theory, yes, but in practice, if everyone knew everything about everyone else, this wouldn't necessarily balance power between the weak and the strong (and imbalance which exists in the real work, but not Star Trek) but would enable the strong to more easily dominate the weak. Because such systems can't be perfect, there must always be ways to exploit information asymmetry. Governments, corporations and criminals will always be more able to rig the system than will the common person.

I like Star Trek, but because it presents a Utopian ideal, i'm skeptical of using it as a springboard for describing actual potential future societies, because humans just don't work that way. Every other species on in the franchise was more human than the humans (purposely, because they were there to be mirrors on the 'unevolved' aspects of human nature.)
When my financial situation was not as good I had internet for $50 a month with no cable. I would have gladly paid $20 for ESPN. Now that I have Tivo I would rather pay the $110 a month for all the cable channels instead of $70 with fewer channels and no DVR. If this had been available I may have stuck with just internet.
Thanks for an interesting post. Ted Cruz of Texas is one of the few prominent Republicans who opposes NSA surveillance; Marco Rubio of Florida supports it. The Democrats of the Senate recently voted for Obama's reforms of the NSA surveillance, and the Republicans mostly opposed it and blocked passage.

I believe, however, that some of the more libertarian minded Republicans like Rand Paul voted against the bill not because they support the NSA, but because they felt the bill didn't go far enough to rein it in and would have created a false calm.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/18/key-gop-senators-...

It's perplexing and frustrating to me, as a fiscal conservative who normally prefers the Republicans (albeit opposed to many of their social policies). I stopped subscribing to the conservative publications Commentary and WSJ because of their pro-NSA stance.
It's a conflict of interest and therefore ought to be viewed with suspicion. The motives are to be distrusted and there is good reason for this.

What expertise does Chertoff have with regard to airport scanners? I'd be willing to be he's never even dealt with one. His value comes from contacts. His value could be that he made a secret deal to award the contract to this company in exchange for a high paying job. That doesn't make it true that this is what happened but it makes the whole thing suspicious.

The Representative that wrote the Medicare prescription plan quit Congress after its passage. He's now paid $2 million per year to be a lobbyist for the drug industry. I think it's fair to say that he was bought and paid for. Particularly in light of what a horrible piece of legislation it was.

Chertoff should not be able to directly profit from decisions he made while being Secretary of Homeland Security. I'm cynical and so I tend not to give the benefit of the doubt in these cases.
Yes, a plist is defined as containing things of very specific types. See my SO answer [1] for an overview and an attempt at a Swift implementation.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/24051062/20371
Back when I rode a bike to work, I parked it next to my desk.
No readable content here - just selling a paid service.
There are A LOT of curated lists on github for JS and everything else, for example:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

https://github.com/sorrycc/awesome-javascript
Would be great if I can see some of GitHub contributions or languages user use to write code. There are too small info about a person to make decision to accept or decline.
But the idea is great. I see this website is a place where I can meet teammate for some hackathon or meet him offline on the conference or some meetup or whatever to collaborate or help with contributing into his project...
This one million times over.

I did very well at English at school, but failed hard at maths whilst freelancing from home after teaching myself PHP.

I really wish I'd engaged (and was taught) maths in the same way as I did with code - I remember feeling quite annoyed at the way I was being taught maths which was basically "when you see a question asked in this way, you answer it by following these steps". I think if I'd been taught maths through experimentation and having "projects" to solve in the same way I learned to code, I would've been quite a good maths student.
They sell irradiated ground beef at Wegmans and it's wonderful to be able to cook it medium rare.
really solid point
Doing what you need to do, and not what you want to do, is the heart of professionalism.
Google does not show copyright notice or a year in their footer anymore.

I assume Google knows better and starting this year we are doing the same with our web site.
Assuming that NK was not responsible, although the FBI and Obama explicitly claimed to know they did. Is the US government going to apologize to a dictatorship, double down, or ...?
>Why giving basic income to even the richest makes sense and a blog post explaining it very poorly. OCULUS RIFT.

It think that basic income is something we should strive for. It will be incredibly difficult to implement but I think we should make baby steps toward it. Oculus Rift. It needs to be researched more. However, this analogy does a really shitty job at explaining it. So bad it's almost satire.

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Or without the analogy.

No benefit traps - you get a job, you will be getting more money.

Very little admin whereas most benefits systems cost around as much or more to run as they pay out.

Would cost about the same.
Pretty sure that's the plan.
It's very nice to see funding for this LibreOffice initiative. From personal experience, developing WebODF (http://webodf.org/), a 100% JavaScript client-side office, I know that finding investors for applications that compete in a market that is dominated by big entrenched players, is a special skill. Competing with a potentially very disruptive (for the competitors, not the customers) product in this arena is an amazing challenge.

LibreOffice is a very important code base and taking it to mobile devices or making it available in a business setting via web sockets as is being done here, can provide some real value and makes it easy to deploy office software.
I prefer Google Voice, from one place you can dial out to many countries. Also rates change accordingly. And the rates are very competitive against other service.
HN automatically shortens URLs. Some people don't like blindly clicking on a redirector.

The links are https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2r43q0/kronos_hask... and
https://www.haskell.org/documentation
I'm curious about your experience, so please elaborate more if there's anything interesting you can share.
I think CISOs are a bit more worried than they were before, but CFOs still refuse to pay for individuals. It's the old Capex vs Opex and random jealously that flies around the market, combined with a lack of skills that leads to outsourcing to consultancies that sell snake oil. It'll remain crap I imagine.
Funny, because aside from some cheap tools and coffee, time is pretty much the only thing a developer needs to do anything.

What I've experienced is that in open source projects, patches get rejected and rejected until everyone agrees they're good enough, and sometimes that takes months or years of iteration. Not good enough? Spend more time on it. That's how things improve.

Wanna write a test suite? Need time.

Wanna run a battery of static analysis tools and inspect their output? Need time.

Wanna run a fuzzer? Need time.

Wanna document things? Need time.

Wanna rework the buggy guts of your application? Need time.

Want to figure out the heisenbug that rears its head every once in a while? Need time.

Realize the API the guy before you wrote is crap and needs to be rewritten, and all components that depend on it need to be updated to match the new API? Need time.

Want to formally verify that the core mechanisms of your critical application are correct? Need time.

Need to figure out and rewrite the part of the program that slows everything down to a miserable crawl? Need time.

On the projects I'm on right now, I could think of months of stuff to do to get them to a state where I'm somewhat happy with them.

Every goddamn thing just takes time and not much else. And IME the commercial world presents the same problem over and over again, far too often: you don't have time, you can't bill your customer for all the work that should be done (if good software were a concern), and you can't block the thing they want just because you first want to fix three other things that'd take a while to do. Crap just accumulates, because people build in a hurry, on a bad foundation.

Even open source projects where deadlines and "we sold this as an item that takes three days of work" aren't a thing, time is always a problem because there's only so many people putting hours in.
Highlights from the article:

* we can just stop using computers to avoid security problems.

* Most criminals are dumb, so it doesn't matter that one smart one can control 80K people's computers around the world to mine Bitcoin.

* Data deletion attacks that cripples hospitals and governments is not a problem because they should have backups.

* Persecuting dissidents isn't a big deal?
I am sorry but this does not explains map reduce in the way it is currently used, wikipedia does a much better job http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce

Amazing how 44 people upvoted an incorrect example.
> biggest opponents of strict typing in PHP

Umm, well I saw Zeev has voted in favor of scalar type hints on the RFC?
So, basically, ignoring a court order can lead to actions being taken against you? Huh. Weird that.
This looks great! Does it allow access to the native APIs?
I just had a look at your "about"[1] page - In all seriousness, why do you have to name your "about" page as "wtf"? If it's for humour quotient, it doesn't look good.

[1]: https://ifttt.com/wtf
Private sector is not immune to your woes. You’ve got grass is greener syndrome. Experiences vary between public and private so wildly that it’s not worth comparing them each as a monolith.

Personally - I gave up on the non-profit/do-something-holy mission after I got out of college and I realized no government or university was going to hire me for some mundane reason. (I had been employed at a university before) So I went with private options - doing startups, enterprise, seeing a company to IPO, joining large public tech companies, etc.

I don’t regret it. It certainly pays much better. I know the troubles with government/public positions and I handsomely prefer the quality of life improvements I’ve been afforded that come with working in the private sector.

Truth is - government often uses a lot of the private sector anyway. I worked at a company that had government contracts. So, in some ways, I was a public worker as much as anyone else. I just got paid better than if I was in the government. The government pays like it’s 1950 and you live in a LCOL area.
Philosophically speaking, no one will be saved. We are all basically dying. Of course it would be nice to reduce traffic deaths, but we should carefully consider in what way our actions will affect society.

We should not assume this will only affect how people behave in traffic, as well. Other offences will likely also be included.
Like a famous vice Top Gear presenter once said "We have a self driving car already, it's called a BUS".

In the article they say "There will come a time, within a few decades, when people simply will not drive anymore". I completely disagree with that opinion. For me and for most of my friends driving is a joy, its not just going from point A to point B. I don't think we will ever stop driving altogether.
I find it quite annoying that the original papers are not mentioned anywhere in the article. How difficult can it be to include a link/reference/doi to the source? I understand that for many people these scientific articles are too much, and unfortunately most of the times the scientific sources are still behind pay walls, but it is very important if one wants to verify the claims made in the news article.

I believe the following articles are the ones on which this story is based:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2014.06.016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2014.10.018
(behind a pay-wall unfortunately)
The Wikipeda article is quite good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2B1_road#Sweden

all the 2+1 roads in Sweden have barriers.
> Where in the UK are you thinking of building it?

Cornwall
Have you ever used a cryptocurrency exchange? I admit, there have been some bad actors in the space as there is in any nascent technology, but at this point there are a number of legitimate and even regulated exchanges in multiple jurisdictions.

You can easily look up the volume traded on these exchanges. There are still some shady exchanges out there so I’d mainly look at the more trusted/regulated ones like Coinbase Pro, Bitstamp, Gemini, Kraken etc.

Strike has already released a working app for US customers that I’ve been using without issue for payments to friends and family as an alternative to Venmo/PayPal.
And my point is that for your specific examples, you don't have to make decisions. Django and FastAPI both have 3/4 of the features you listed included.

FastAPI is a tool made for making APIs. Django is not. So in that specific case, Django actually requires more decisions overall.
This reminds me of one of my favorite HN entries: https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

>> Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary.
Oracle is extra slimey with their "always-free" stuff though. It's free in the sense that you'll have salesmen after you and always as in maybe two months.

GCP on the other hand...have been running on their always-free tier for years no. (One of those 1/4 cpu wordpress VMs)
As a middle ground, you can also simply use Hetzner's hosted Nextcloud offering, which is likely (a) more reliable and (b) cheaper than a self-hosted setup on a VPS.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
In general I've given up on recipe aggregate sites. I have to be half-familiar with the dish just to fix all the things wrong with the recipes I find. In my opinion, divorcing the recipe from the curator is a huge mistake and no amount of user reviews overcomes this. What I really want to see are the recipes that some specific person actually makes in their daily life. Not icons who publish more recipes under their name than a single person could make in a lifetime, or test kitchens obsessed with creating the scientifically proven ideal form of a chocolate chip cookie, and definitely not bloggers churning out stories to grow an audience. I want John, who likes to cook, to let me leaf around in his recipe box (the one he actually uses), and if I make a dish and like it I want to be able to go back and dig around for more. I know this authenticity exists online, but I don't know how to find it. I imagine it as a big list of personal recipe box websites.
The political cost is largely from losing lobbying $ from car companies (and possibly construction companies).
As someone who has worked in fields that use lattice calculations (on the experimental side), the new calculation is interesting, but I would not say it’s particularly convincing yet. Lattice calculations are VERY difficult, and are not always stable. I am not questioning whether they did their work well or not, just pointing out that in high energy physics and high energy nuclear physics, many times our experimental results are significantly better constrained and also undergo significantly more testing via reproduction of results by other experiments than our theory counterparts’ work.
Is it possible that all of our previous experiments have had some sort of correlated systematic error in them? Unlikely, but yes. Is it more likely that this lattice calculation may be underestimating its errors? Much more likely. Another interesting option is that one of the theoretical calculations was actually done slightly wrong. My first guess would be the lattice result, since it’s newer, but both procedures are complicated, so it could be either.
Basically rocket fuel for our body on a Friday night.
Haha I mean the people disappear after firing off their "Source" calls. They're not really interested in sources. It's a technique to get you to waste your time.

The sources remain. Editing for clarity.
> When I don't notice it, it's not there.

It's there, you're just not noticing it. It may be more correct to say "When I don't notice it, it's not a problem". A bad analogy might be the noise of cars at night if you live in a city. Eventually, you get to the point where you don't notice it most of the time; it's not a problem. That doesn't mean the noise isn't there, just that it's not a problem for you.

Tinnitus is the damage and noise it causes. This can be annoying, but the fact that it's not annoying sometimes doesn't mean it's not there; you're just ignoring it.

Caveat: It is possible to damped/stop the noise caused by tinnitus for periods of time. Generally, this is done by "distracting" your brain in some way.
Tinnitus is a symptom whose cause may or may not be permanent. It comes and goes for me.
KDE is my favorite DE and the development effort going in it is insane.

Good job team!
Steaks are just basically burnt meat.
Maybe indeed. Maybe not. It‘s probably more nuanced and random than that.
> Big Auto and seat belts, they fought mandatory seat belts for decades

The linked article doesn't mention any lie. It was mostly some people saying that it should be up to the person to decide whether or not he wants to wear a belt.
You could infer depth of the entire article from the very first paragraph where author whines about verbosity of a blog. These people are not smart
Bezos wealth isn’t cash he paid himself that he could have been distributing to the workers.

It’s a number based on the value of his ownership stake of the business itself.
It can be a very harsh outcome when you take a founder who had to restructure his equity grant (as a condition of the company's taking VC funding) by making the vast bulk of it subject to vesting and terminate him so as to cause the forfeiture of most of that equity. I believe Mr. Wilson's heart is in the right place in how he proposes that such situations be handled (accelerate some of the vesting, etc.), but this falls pretty heavily on any founder who has made valuable early-stage contributions at a time when the risks were at their highest and presumably for no pay or other reward besides that equity of which he will now be largely deprived.

While such situations can potentially be handled fairly for all concerned, I have seen all too many instances where the motives of the persons handling the termination were less than pure, leading to harsh outcomes for founders who deserved better.
I could modify comments during that time as well
How much data and what are you guys doing? if you dont mind me asking
"UPDATE: I'm in the middle of studying for the Bar Exam "

Main stream media didn't cover the Iraq war protests? Wouldn't cover labor victories? Guess I'm glad that it's the bar he's studying for, not medical boards.
Not sure how useful this is but I'm one of those guys who hates adding anything to Facebook, including games. When I clicked on your link, however, it didn't ask me to connect to Facebook - rather it asked me what weapon I wanted to use to kill an enemy. In terms of engagement, that's a heck of a lot more likely to convince someone like me to connect your app/game to my Facebook account, so nice work on the splash screen!
A lot of nice summaries and points, but one caught my eye - the mention about building Nuclide on top of Atom. My experience with Atom is that it gets painfully slow quickly, with me experiencing a crash every few days.

I would like to hear more thoughts from FB folks on their experiences.
I find both bad tbh.
mk originated on Unix, and so did almost everything else in Plan 9.
I know someone who got interview invitations after completing a Triplebyte quiz. Just make sure you practice a lot before taking it, because IIRC you can’t retake it.