jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The content farm issue has different incentives from the authors and content produces. In the content farm the user is usually landing onto substandard content and the click is basically a user search that has "failed" because it has not produced a high quality response. For the ebooks its likely that the user is looking for precisely the book, and not providing the book would in fact be the "failed" search.
Would you also reject an applicant who had "President of African-American Student Union" on their resume because it belies their race?

Well, likely he wouldn't, but we can be sure that he would reject someone outright for having "President of the European-American Student Union", can't we? Charitably, this is because there is essentially no chance anyone would ever file a lawsuit for rejection of the second candidate. I'm sure you can draw the uncharitable version yourself. :)
These are the people you text and call all of the time. You already share with them.
I disagree, they have some great stuff and it's getting better all the time as they sign new contracts.

In terms of discovering content, this is a great site for anyone who uses Netflix streaming regularly: http://instantwatcher.com/
They are only economical sovereign within strict limits. Greece might be able to tell you a bit about recently having to implement unpopular economic policies demanded by EU.
It's still there for physical disks, although a bit harder to find - https://www.netflix.com/ViewProfiles?lnkctr=yas_profiles

They went back on that decision after the predictable outrage exceeded their threshold.
I use side projects to figure out the next place to put my 100% full time effort. This way the side project does not need the unnecessary pressure of making money, having customers, a worthwhile use of time, etc.
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How do they collect purchase history? Do they link your Whatsapp account with purchases you make on shopping apps/sites through the Facebook SDK?
As someone who doesn't currently use an iPhone... isn't Messages the only approved SMS app for iOS? What happens if you attempt to message a non-iMessage user with that setting disabled?
Ye god - that is impressively layout and web design. I mean damn, it makes amateur 90s "try to avoid black on white or white on black as boring" look good in comparison.

Not to mention the "point" is just the regurgitated jumble of hyperbolic talking points.

Whenever anybody has called something "digital drugs" they are a complete idiot or goddamn liar trying to create a moral panic. There is no getting around that point with any politeness.

Digital drugs would imply direct biochemical physiological effects. Not even CT qualifies as a drug! For a digital drug to be remotely a thing we would need some tremendously high tech and dangerous equipment like an IV device which assembles molecules on demand based upon a digital file format. Or maybe if we already had "engrams" modeling a brain and an emulation of feedbacks from its body you could legitimately call it a digital drug without any biochemistry.
Given our lack of said godly complex levels of technology calling anything real "digital drugs" cannot be true.
There's no point in American history where a mainstream pub or club or meeting hall would willingly host a conspiracy to overturn the results of a democratic election.

This is fully in keeping with the Founders' vision for our country.
What an interesting conclusion to draw. I wonder where you get your news from.

The UK/EU deal isn't perfect but Norway and Switzerland already pricked their ears up and senior politicians in both countries are now publicly questioning why they can't have the same sort of deal. The EU backed down on many things they'd previously claimed were requirements, like the ECJ. And the UK has signed over 60 trade deals in preparation for leaving.

There's a sort of assumption here that might makes right. But the richest countries in the world are all small ones: Switzerland, Singapore, etc. Meanwhile empires spent most of the 20th century collapsing, often due to internal corruption and decay.
Thank you!

We're launching in the US initially -- but I get the issue. Still, any newsrooms outside of the US who might be interested should still get in touch. https://www.nillium.com/schedule-demo/
> Which, it probably goes without saying, should scare the shit out of anyone who cares about the principles of the free Internet.

I worry more about Google et. al. killing the free and open internet by creating centralized walled gardens. I worry more about legislative attacks on encryption, about the overzealous use of copyright law and the sorry state of intellectual property generally.

If service providers want to deplatform centers of radicalization, I think that's ok.
When I worked at an ISP years back, if we had a DDOS attack against a customer the way we handled that was to drop all traffic incoming towards that customer's IP at our external peer level (meaning the bigger ISP we were getting most of the external Internet from). That was necessary so all of that DDOS traffic wasn't eating from the bandwidth available to all other customers that weren't being DDOS-ed. But it also meant that the DDOS-ed customer was losing all Internet access (which wasn't really much of a change considering that they were receiving a DDOS that filled all their allocated bandwidth).

Repeat customers that would get DDOS too many times (cybercafes would fall into that category often) would have to either pay more to cover for the cost of the network engineers dealing with the DDOS or get the boot.

From what I remember it's quite similar with many service providers, including hosting providers. Their TOS will allow them discretion to stop providing services to anyone that may negatively impact their business, it's not like there's any law that forces them to provide service to a customer.
I do think sometimes the intent of a person matters when they've committed crime. This is codified in U.S. law. Killing someone in self defense, killing someone because you're angry with them, and killing someone because they're gay and you don't like gay people: each the same crime, but treated differently in U.S. law. I don't know about arson, but I do think that for example occupying a government building because you want the elected officials there to take action on supporting human rights should be treated differently than occupying a government building because you want your favorite candidate to be president despite losing the election.
Major premise: Startups won't be killed by competitors but only by themselves (ref to pg?).
Minor premise: Facebook is still a "startup" (well... in some sense).
Conclusion: Facebook won't be killed by anyone but themselves.
Note that this is who was named by the editors, not who won the "Reader's Choice": http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...

"though TIME's editors who choose the actual Person of the Year reserve the right to disagree"
Ah yes, I remember seeing this movie, didn't remember it came from there. Thanks.
Obviously Assange should be the person of the year. Although I personally dislike him for being such a popularity whore, it's obvious Time magazine has been pressured to choose someone less controversial.

But what happened to original principles of this award? Hitler was the person of the year for 1938. This award went always to the person with the highest impact on news. What the heck happened this year? Time magazine is becoming irrelevant.
Zuckerberg was born in 1984....coincidence?
And no one would dump all the contacts and email they have in their Hotmail.

In technology, the word never is a fool's word.
This is an interesting article with a catchy phrase. But it must also have been an easy article to write, as it comes entirely from the "Us versus Them" viewpoint. The author assumes that his or her employer is always right. Worse, the author assumes that the reader assumes that as well.

But that assumption is false. It's false enough that we have a phrase, a whole vocabulary around it. "Whistleblower" comes to mind. "Impeachment" comes to mind. "White collar crime" comes to mind.

IT organizations have gone rogue: the UK's "phantom withdrawals" problem demonstrates that (http://www.phantomwithdrawals.com/index.php/Phantom_Withdraw... and). Whole governments have gone bad, a cliche that means I don't have to list them. Employers can go bad too. We, the rest of us, the victims, may have to "3DoS" some network entity.

Study this article for both ends of the problem, but don't be taken in by its assumptions and viewpoint.
Good call. I was aware of that but should call it out in the post. Thanks!
yup they have been hacked. Rip Puush.
https://twitter.com/puushme/status/582323259363864576
Pinging https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bebrown2 for you
Agreed. There are only a few players with a large web index now. Google, Bing, Yandex, Gigablast, Baidu, Naver.

Others that I can think of are IXQuick (not sure if they use their own index or not) and Yioop (smallish index). There really is a lack of large players indexing the web.

Its also possible that we will see the rise of niche search engines, such as iconfinder.
Despite all of the negatives, many of which I agree with, the legacy taxi industry really sucked for riders. Riding in a taxi feels dirty to me, to be honest. Old, ugly cars that never seem well maintained, having to actually call someone on a phone and tell them where to pick you up, often not accepting Apple Pay, Android Pay, credit cards. Rude drivers with no rating system to disincentivize it…

It’s sad that Uber seemingly made such bad business decisions and ultimately has not been successful as a business. However, the “disruption” was widely successful. Hell, they even became a verb.

Personally, even as a customer, I strongly prefer Lyft (but I’d never take a Taxi unless I was somehow forced to).
Wow that's great insight, we are evaluating mechanisms to hint the UI and provide customizatoons without excluding non technical users. As I stated elsewhere 2nd phase is improving output quality. Thanks for the excellent feedback.
The argument against banning smoking in public is that it forces others to inhale the smoke against their will simply by sharing space, not that the person doing the smoking has no right to put it into themselves. In a sense, it is an anti-pollution law.
I did by buying EXAS when the new CEO came in at about $2. The previous management didn't have what it took to get it off the ground. The availability to buy the test came out this quarter so sales numbers are not in yet (but it is fully reimbursed at ~$500, where management said they would make a killing at $300). So after doing your due diligence, it may be worth waiting for the sales numbers to come out and buy on any weakness.

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I was able to get the Scala version down to within ~100ms of the Java version while still using case classes.
Whether it's a good concept, I don't much care. It is simply and obviously wrong to say it's the same as a slip car, just as it's simply and obviously wrong to say a motorcycle is the same as a draisienne. Whether it's "dramatic" enough a new concept for someone is not my concern.
Your first paragraph makes an underemphasized point. I remember at the time of the antitrust litigation against MS reading interviews with former IBMers about IBM's comparable experience years earlier. They all said that what MS had to fear was not losing the case but rather a slow strangulation due to the climate change (so to speak) that protracted antitrust action would evoke within MS internally. It seems that this is exactly what happened. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but given that this was widely predicted at the time, I wonder if it was a failure on Gates' part not to settle quickly. MS were at the height of their power then. But as the I Ching says, it's precisely at the height of one's power that one should worry about the coming decline.
Everyone? I use Shift-Insert to paste in Windows. I forget that C-v is "paste" in Windows, and get upset when it pastes instead of scrolls.
So, given that 98% (assumption) of blogs are stupid, do you conclude that any given blogpost is 98% dumb? Or do you go looking for the 2%?

Did the failing projects fail because of outsourcing? Or was it bound to fail anyway because of unrealistic expectations?

Outsourcing done right can bring a lot of benefits, not just in cost, but also in flexibility if you're small. If, on the other hand, you think you can flick your wrist in the general direction of the shore, and have high quality software materialize it self, you're bound to fail - but that strategy was going to fail with local developers, too.

An essential reality is that you can't outsource your vision, in exactly the same way you can't get local employees to buy into your vision by sticking it in a PPT on the intranet and never talk about it again.
Scrabble is a game that's ruined for casual players as soon as someone in the group memorizes all the permissible two-letter words and a bunch of the obscure three-letter words.

It's like the kid who owns the only copy of Street Fighter II in his class and, after a few weeks, can't find anyone who will play it with him.
Exactly. I have a friend who while high school in the '60s worked in one of those highway restaurants, if you travel in the right parts of the US you'd remember their name.

Of all their cashiers she had the highest "volatility", you might say, from day to day. That conceptually annoyed her superiors, but they loved her because she never made a big mistake, and her daily errors averaged out very nicely.
Is that like 'Freedom Fries'?
But isn't a win to Modi precisely what is needed to get the Congress Party to behave better?
It will be widespread like https has made encrypted web browsing wide spread: when it requires zero effort and zero knowledge.
And then you finish up your work day only to find yourself stuck in Nebraska, with nothing but cornfields for hundreds of miles in every direction... so that'd better be one hell of an awesome ranch house.
> For systems running supported versions of Windows 10 a successful attack could only result in code execution within an AppContainer sandbox context with limited privileges and capabilities.

Which is still not good but not as bad as it could be.
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It's (used to be?) a prophylactic for malaria. Literally billions of people took it. I did it myself when I was living in malarial areas. It does have secondary effect but they're very well-known and for most people the only ill effect is that it tastes incredibly foul.
They do on phones though. I don't like it there either, but people buy them.
> The efforts to slow the spread are about giving the healthcare system time to cope. So, yes, people are being antisocial if they don't follow the rules but it's not sane to treat it like you're personally being assaulted. This isn't ebola or HIV.

No. It should be treated as attempted mass murder. Because this is what it boils down to: one idiot causing a bunch of deaths downstream, plus some more by contributing to overloading healthcare.
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> That's 100% the point. If you know who they are you can isolate them.

What do you do with everyone else?
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Hack, ActionScript and TypeScript put the type after. Hack is most likely where this syntax came from.
If it's any comfort, the Clojurists I've been around have no problems telling jokes about the language or lisp in general. I guess they (we) enjoy openly acknowledging the perceived church / cult and gladly pick on the notion because the whole language-superiority debate is silly.
I kind of feel like as long as we have imperative programming languages, pointer concepts will be useful. I mean, that's basically what references are.
They are debunked, but they're still intimidating enough to be useful on a lot of people. I have friends who claim to have 'faked out' their poly, and friends who claim they cracked under the pressure and tried to admit everything wrong they'd ever done in their life (not that the examiner cares about throwing a frog at your sister when you were 5). On balance, it's useful for weeding out a certain percentage of people.
I was expecting someone to comment on that a little sooner, I'll admit. :)
In a way, I see her twisted logic and I empathize.

I'm not a fan of the mob mentality that drove the harassment she received. Its amazing what people will do once they're convinced they're right
I built a really simple app, that allows you to anonymously high-five with a random internet stranger.
I wanted to keep user interaction very restricted, but still meaningful - a high-five is a pretty universally positive thing, and no custom user input means it can't get ugly, as things on the internet usually tend to.

This is why this is the only feature this app has - no nicknames, no messages, no chat. Just a high-five.

I use IP geolocation and display the country of your co-high-fiver as a minimal kind of framing that it is indeed another person that is interacting with you.

I actually managed to get it to around 100k unique visitors in around 10h and a constant ~800 concurrent users, with very positive feedback on reddit.

It's implemented with websockets using Crystal + Kemal as a backend.

I will not be monetizing this in any way, and I will not be adding any new features.

I think it turned out pretty great, so I'm showing it off here - for some light-hearted fun.

Oh, and sound on for optimal experience!
The left he/she is referring were not anti-nazi, they were pro-communist, and almost uniformly pro-soviet groups that argued that the ruling social democratic government had betrayed the working class.

The Nazis weren't the nice guys, but neither were their opposition, at least not the one referred to by the parent.
i'm always sad when we are missing on such a list, eventhough I guess we tick most of the boxes you mention...

- parties/social events as focus

- 3d, but not trying to cater for corporate markets

- not a town at all

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It's a copout on an individual level, but the question of who's responsible is a lot less important than the question of what we're going to do about the problem. In the absence of a plan to make millions upon millions of partisans more individually responsible, we've gotta do something about the recommendation algorithms.
What should "News" consist of?
It's not that people are unable to understand, it's that understanding isn't part of the game. It's about group membership and a lot of that is about knowing the "phrases" that make you seem like a member.

Easy bad ideas make for catchy phrases. The kinds of thoughts that are spreading across the US today would have been stopped by editorial accountability in an earlier era. I'm not sure education is the way to reduce the impact of easy bad ideas, because group members take on the catch phrases without thinking them through.
Sure. Again, if you are lower middle income you’re better off in Canada. If not, better off in the US.
"rarely taste the same, feel the same"

That part is OK. I'd be really annoyed if my beef tasted like chicken or vice versa.

The problem is finding something quick and cheap that you can slap into a bun in seconds and sell for a couple bucks that tastes good. I don't care if it "kinda sorta tastes like beef sorta" but I want it to taste good.

The closest I can think of for vegetarian sandwich off the shelf would be some veggie subs I've eaten at fast food sandwich stores and the closest I can think of in theory would be some kind of marinated veggie kabob turned into a sandwich. The labor costs would be killer.

In an alternative direction, I like spinach tamales but I have no idea how to "sandwich-ify it"

I want to eat tofu that kinda pretends to be beef about as much as vegetarians want to eat thinly sliced pork ears that pretend to be lettuce. Make it taste good, not taste like a clone.
Someone decided to ban it despite its overwhelming popularity.
This is particularly true in math, as it is presented in many schools.
> Software engineers should write because it promotes many of the same skills required in programming.

The problem with writing is that you usually do it by serializing your thoughts in one go. Programming on the other hand is an activity where you almost randomly jump from one point to the other.

> Code and essays have a lot more in common.

What I hate about writing prose, is that you are expected to use synonyms all over the place. If you use the same word in two subsequent sentences, this is considered "bad". With programming, I have no such problem.