skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you guys model regulation through world simulation (e.g. the twitter feeds) and is there a Federal Reserve/Mint with related data?
> "A mass migration"?

Maybe for Danish architecture enthusiasts.
I think birds might just be better adapted to making highspeed course corrections than deer, squirrels, etc. Plus, they have the advantage of another dimension (and gravity) to use for getting out of the way.

Consider also that if a deer is spooked and freezes on the highway, you hit it. If a bird is spooked and freezes in mid-air, it falls to the ground.
Think PG has documented this well, but in summary

- cofounder disputes
- market timing
- not continuing to find growth

are top 3
>>Is there anyone else who hates Twitter because of its 140 character limit and overall focus on broadcasting rather than sharing?

I actually love twitter for those reasons.
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Actually, the theory that lead pipes were a measure instigator of the fall of Rome is generally considered discredited by most historians. The Romans were even aware of lead poisoning (cf., Vitruvius who specifically mentioned lead pipes as "unwholesome").
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/605/
Twitter isn't some fly-by-night company that has to hard-sell what it is. It's a well-known product that has independent mentions in media left, right, and centre. News shows, current affairs shows, morning TV, newspaper websites... all of these mention twitter constantly, as they use it as a lazy source of react quotes. Even talking-head panel shows have runners at the bottom of the screen showing what's happening with twitter. Twitter doesn't have a problem with people understanding what it's about.
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Having dæmon instead of daemon in the article makes my blood boil a little, but I managed to push through. The ligature has no place in writing about computer daemons. It might apply if we were having a talk about medieval literature regarding demons.
Even when that was the original sole purpose of the TLD?
This claiming "clickbait" trend is getting out of control. It's like teenagers using the word "random" as a catchall term for who-knows-what.

By definition, the title of a talk given at a conference can't be clickbait.

Furthermore, how can you claim the title's content wasn't represented until 20 mins in? The title has two parts, one of which you seem to completely ignore.
> Such measures would be easily defeated

But may protect against casual negligence.
What are potential ways of building a community of users
Probably a number of strategies to get an app or a web service out usable by a number of users. What are some of the ways to get people to start using it. Its a little open ended I know. But wanted to try to understand what ways people are doing it now a days?
It's an investment for the future since the mining boom is declining. Also research universities down under do have their niches on global scale (eg. medical research).
> What is really need is for the legal system to streamline. As long as it takes 20 hours to do your divorce, it'll never be cheap.

Also lawyers have no incentive to streamline the process. They are all billing by the hour, so the lack of efficiency is passed onto their clients.
I can know exactly what twitter is and still not want an account. I can get what I want out of twitter, and twitter can get access to my eyeballs by just showing me things when I want to see them.
There may not be any lawsuits, other than in small claims courts.

From their [terms and conditions](https://www.ashleymadison.com/app/public/tandc.p?c=1) that you have to agree to:

19. ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER
....
D. Class and Consolidated Claims Waiver

It is agreed that neither party shall have the right
to participate as a class representative or class
member with respect to any Disputes subject to
arbitration under this Agreement or any Dispute
between the parties. The parties also waive any
right to assert consolidated claims with respect to
any Disputes subject to arbitration under this
Agreement or any Dispute between the parties.

Such clauses are generally enforceable in the United States, as far as I can tell from a bit of Googling. It looks like in Canada, enforceability depends on whether the alleged misdeeds of the defendant arise from a violation of common law or a violation of specific consumer protection acts.

The "Disputes subject to arbitration under this Agreement" seem to be set out in 19.A, which is titled "Scope", and the TL;DR of that section would be "everything, except Ashley Madison can use the courts instead of arbitration if they wish to sue you over intellectual properties, confidential information, or illegal activity".

They do have one exception, given in 19.C, titled "Small Claims", which says:

Both parties retain the right to file any claim that
is not aggregated with the claim of any other
persons and whose amount in controversy is properly
within the jurisdiction of a court which is limited
to adjudicated small claims.
> Someone posts a link, I find something on a website, etc. that go to Twitter? BAM! SIGN-UP NOW OR LEAVE!

If they force you to sign up, they get more user data for the pool. I don't think that the slice of their market they're losing out on by this is very big.

> Lowering the barrier to entry for that is critical.

The barrier to entry for content creation on twitter is absurdly low. It's not the login process. It's the content itself, which is only a couple of sentences. It's not editing a video, or writing a short article, or creating an image, or managing a forum. It's just 'spurt out what I'm thinking right now in one sentence'. Login processes are not the barrier to content creation, effort required is.
These are probably the same students who asked to be excused from exams because they were too shaken by the verdicts of certain cases vigorously reported by the media.
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As opposed to the previous management? 3 heads of product since 2013: Sippey, Graf, Weil. How's that supposed to work?
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> I can absolutely avoid being affected in any way by Spotify's privacy policy. I can not use Spotify, and in fact I don't.

How long will this be reasonable? If your friend uses it, and you're connected to that friend via Facebook or similar (LinkedIn for you careerist types, I suppose), is there any mechanism which prevents Spotify from using that connection to get information about you? Will there be a mechanism a week from now?

How about reading your name off a contacts list and doing a search?
Sure, unless you put that audio CD in your computer and Sony installed a rootkit.
I think the end game here is better regulation for companies like Uber. Not to defend taxi companies, (i.e. not protectionism) but we need at least some of those rules to apply, such as background checks for drivers. There is also the question of whether drivers are employees or not. (and thus due greater benefits)

To my mind, Uber is unquestionably a good disruption; I'm glad its happening. I hope that the "end state" won't be the status quo of today, however.
But often it encourages abusing the limitation by splitting long(er)-form content into multiple tweets.

I agree that it's so fundamental to the brand and Twitter's identity that it might cause a lot of problems if it were reverted, but frankly it's completely arbitrary. If you want to produce 140 (or less) content, you can do that without a hard limit.

People hack around it because it's such a ubiquitous platform, but people would also like to address that audience in long(er)-form. It culminates in inconvenience for both producer and consumer.
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Or they want people to think FreeBSD is more secure?
> You are, I submit, forcing a distinction because you wish it rather than because it makes sense.

I'm forcing a distinction, because in one case they work with the companies that they index, and in the other case they work against those companies, by stealing their information and displaying it with their own ads.
Thanks for reaching out to both of you guys. I emailed Kipp. I'll forward the email to you.

The issue is not with your support folks. They are responsive. But much like me they can't figure out your product ;-)

To bring it back to the article - the main benefit of engineers doing support is not better support. That is just a welcome side effect. The main benefit is a better product that does not require much support.

Unlike dedicated support folk engineers do not enjoy doing support and have the ability to change the product to reduce the need for it. It's a magical combination.
It's also arguable that Internet businesses tend toward a few winners take-all scenario and that drastically increases the tech start-up failure rate. Whereas there are 150,000 convenience stores and 72,000 pizza restaurants in the US.

The number of businesses that can be supported in the physical world is dramatically higher than for Internet services. Why? Geographic restriction and franchising.

There are going to be two dozen major cloud hosting companies, and maybe 50-100 smaller players. There are 7,000 frozen yogurt shops.
What can they do to regain the lost trust though, even if they do open the gates to the city again?
It's like "virii" or "octopi" or other hypercorrect mistakes.

EDIT: "viruses" and "octopuses", please. Maybe possibly potentially "octopodes."
> The obvious thing to do is for the bus controller dæmon to hand off the task of starting and managing these dæmons to a dæmon management subsystem. Unfortunately, ... the writers of D-Bus didn't make it capable of talking to any of them.

but, not two sentences later,

> the bus controller dæmon talks ... to systemd and tells it to start the relevant dæmon(s)

Did I miss something? Or is this just exaggerated systemd butthurt?
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I agree that filling out the canvas is valuable. I just feel kinda of clueless and was wondering what are some of the things that people put in the different sections.

Thanks for the link. I asked for examples since I didn't find many when I did searches.
This is a chance to bring up my favourite Westworld scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_jW-C_G6Pk . As a depiction of computer worms causing industrial chaos this is pretty prescient, because it's from 1973, two years before The Shockwave Rider and predating all but the very first signs of self-replicating mischief in the real world or CS research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus#Historical_deve... . (It's clear that Crichton the doctor had an analogy to human disease and medicine in mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Dq7vqpGCM .) But it's also a great example of how real life is stranger than science fiction (as William Gibson likes to discuss). In the 1973 future the Chief Supervisor of Delos suggests that the resort is being attacked by a software worm and his fellow engineers find the very concept hard to take seriously; in the present day they'd just groan and ask "do you think it's the Chinese [government]?"

Also, the Gunslinger vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jCDQvNh85Y mentioned in the article isn't just the first use of CGI in a feature film, it's surely also a very early, for all I know maybe the first, attempt to show the "first-person view" Umwelt of an artificially intelligent robot.
Yeah, it's an attempt at being overly correct where it is, in fact, not correct.

It's a little bit comparable to taking a german name like "Oehler" and writing it "Öhler", because you realize that "Oe" is a digraph for "Ö" (and the name's pronunciation matches that), when in fact the name "Oehler" is written as "Oehler".

For exactly the same reason you might be tempted to write daemon as "dämon" because, again, digraph and pronunciation match, and the german word Dämon is actually correct, yet it still wouldn't be right to do that for what is known as a "daemon" in operating systems.
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I can't count the number of times I clicked a link to read a news story (even on news outlets like Al Jazeera) and the "article" was basically "Here's what twitter users had to say" followed by a dozen or so tweet cards
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I think the point is that it is a problem in non-systemd setups.
It requires you fit into one of their accepted categories and about 8-10 months normally. If you expedite it, it may take as little as 2-4 months.

I was able to get mine done in about 3ish months.
As another comment mentioned, Google the title. Also, some parts of their site and some articles are not paywalled. I probably also burn the article limit per month without paying attention. Add it all up, and I can't remember the last time I was blocked out of reading an article on their site.
I don't think it is dirty and underhanded, and I would even go so far as to say it's awesome.

It isn't like Chrichton defiled some serious work of journalism or science by slipping in this personal vendetta; as Crowley aptly points out, Chrichton's works are mass-market novels about 'killer dinosaurs and talking monkeys'.

So what's the harm? Books like that need despicable minor characters to set the tone, and I think this is perfectly fine way to say, "Fuck you, Michael Crowley!" It's his novel, after all.

Also, after reading Crowley's article[1] that so incensed Crichton, I think he probably does have a small penis^W^W^W^W^W^W^W it is not very good. (Neither are Crichton's books, although I probably read most of them in the pre-kindle days when you had to buy a paperback at the airport before a long flight.)

[1]: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/michael-crichtons-scaries...
>Raise your hand if you knew the switch to AMD would greatly benefit hacking vs custom, PPC chips

Eh, I'd argue the opposite. The consoles being boring PC hardware has basically made hacking them pretty unrewarding.
On Facebook you're generally connected to people you know in real life. So if a new person joins Facebook and connects with you, the FB recommendations are likely people the new person also knows. You frequently follow people on Twitter you only know from Twitter. Even if they follow you back, your friend just signing up may not know who the hell they are. So recommendations are more difficult.
HTTP/2 is consistently slower for me...
This seems like a principle that we've probably all experienced before with songs.

Just think of the last song you didn't know the words to and had to look up the lyrics. Next time you heard it, you heard the words clearer because you knew what you were looking for!

I experience this all the time and for years have just mumbled along to some parts to my favorite songs until I actually cared enough to see what they were saying.
There seem to be many flaws, but rather than go through them now, I'll assume that only 20% of incarceration is drug-war based.

Great, that means if we end the drug war, we'd get 20% reduction in our world-record incarcerated population. A half-million more people (roughly) will be freed to get treatment and attempt to contribute to the economy and society.

That sounds like a great start to me.
That's my point. Why can't all of the IT recruiters that exist today simply just do the same thing? I'm failing to see how this is any different than the current funneling/filtering system?
Neat, specializing for Japanese prints must have improved the outcome.
TL;DR (if I understood correctly): don't use prefixes, use non-deterministic ways to raise the entry barrier.

Like:

1. Developer registration & usage keys.
2. Global usage caps.
3. Feature auto-self-destruct.

To me it seems just a way to use early adopters as A/B testers, and yet make it impossible to them to rely on a experimental feature. I doubt this can work at a scale without extreme sufferance or effectively wiping out the usefulness of experimental features.
It is on HN before it is viral. The technology they put together for this is great!
From the proposed flat design, adding pipelining would probably add 10-20% more area, and double or triple the speed. Definitely worth exploring (and would indeed make for a great follow-up post).
Maybe it was different for your social circle(s)..?

Many of my friends were active on Ello for a few weeks. It catered mostly to original content producers and artists, so most normal people who simply want to repost news articles and music videos were deterred from being tossed into the "noise" category.
Each codegen is run multiple times. Imagine you want to generate 100 similar classes with similar code except for a small difference.
It quite clearly says that there's only two modes of operation: the incorrect D-Bus activator, and the communication with systemd's internal D-Bus protocol. Nothing else.

That's not "exaggerated systemd butthurt", it's your deliberately obtuse misreading.
I believe the comment is generated by the codegen, so it won't have a typo.
Absolutely - Twitter has a harder problem to solve. Facebook also capitalized on the benefits of rich media earlier (biggest photo site in the world, now borging YouTube).
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Maybe cause IT recruiters don't have the karma? I'm sure there's some good ones, but most stories I've heard are pretty bad. They aren't actually developers and can't vet people. Patrick et al can. And recruiters that can do this? Well I imagine they're supply constrained.

Random devs don't have karma either.

Now that Starfighter's portrayed as a recruiting system, it makes total sense.
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>Until the early twentieth century, the œ and æ ligatures had been commonly used to indicate an etymological connection with Latin or Greek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_that_may_be_spel...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daemon

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A6mon

Can you provide a solid source so I can fix all of this apparently-wrong information?
> Noto struck a critical tone, saying user growth won’t improve until the service boosts its appeal to a bigger market and that product improvements and marketing so far have met with minimal success.

This is going to sound anecdotal, but still feel is telling: until my parents and my co-workers (enterprise IT professionals) see the benefit in adopting Twitter, then Twitter will forever be in limbo. I fear the same for reddit. Neither service has a product that supports a wide enough appeal to be considered for that demographic, and they are effectively the last mile in this equation.
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In most of European countries, people has an ID card and SS number, and there is a centralized database controlled by the state. A single person cannot have 2 different IDs. At least, it is not something trivial to do.
Twitter owns unique and compelling content. Lots. Yes, there is lots of junk, but there is also lots of junk on the web. The challenge is surfacing and distributing great content, and this is where Twitter should focus: maximizing reach and curating content.

Instead of forcing users to come to Twitter, Twitter should go wherever users are. Bring Twitter’s amazing content to them, wherever users are, through partners and syndication. Get people hooked as consumers before worrying about conversions. The upside is much cheaper user acquisition by piggybacking on media habits rather than breaking them. The downside is less revenue and possibly less loyalty, at least in the near term.

Media distributors like HuffPo and Yahoo boast massive audiences but need interesting content. Twitter can supply the content while Yahoo and others provide the users and sell ads. Both sides share revenue.

Outsourcing user acquisition to Yahoo and distributors doesn’t endanger Twitter. Twitter and only Twitter can produce this content, and since the content is unique, there is no risk of Yahoo swapping out Twitter for another company.

Put another way, syndication only strengthens Twitter as a product. Syndication expands the audience for tweets and deepens the incentive to publish via Twitter, which in turn generates more content and attracts more users, which in turn attracts more publishers. Syndication feeds a virtuous cycle.

The second piece, curating content, requires doing more to help individuals find and consume interesting tweets, and helping partners find and present interesting tweets. There is lots more Twitter could do, both with man and machine, in this area.

Maybe Twitter's greatest sin is not being Facebook, but it shouldn't be. There is enormous potential in helping people connect with others and enjoy content based on interests (Hi Reddit), not friendships. Many people, especially those on Wall Street and in the media, need a foil for Facebook, but hopefully the next CEO is not among them.

Twitter is a special company with special potential.
Sorry, but I am cynical about the article and its motivations.

A venture capitalist isn't generally going to be satisfied with one of their investments discovering they prefer running as a lifestyle business instead of a potential multi-billion dollar company.

The VC has an interest in the aggregate success of their portfolio more than particular startups within it. Advice is going to be oriented towards that goal - they'd rather have 99 failures and 1 Facebook over 100 $1M sustainable lifestyle businesses.

"Work as hard as you did in YC" is great and all, but I really don't think it's possible for most folks long-term.
It's a historical spelling, not misapplying a grammatical rule outside of its scope. I don't see the resemblance.
... into the vault for 25 years.
I fully agree.

If I remember correctly they recently announced a public homepage, and said they will be slowly rolling it out in the US.

My honest guess is they are freaking scared to change their website.

Another problem with a public homepage is scrapers. It is something they seem to be very careful about.
It's a mistake from hypercorrection. It's not a historical spelling, it's a misspelling.
>Prosecutors don't dole out "harsh" sentences, they dole out longer or more restrictive sentences.

Prosecutors "don't dole" out sentences at all. Sentencing is one of the Judge's duties. The input prosecutors have in sentencing is less direct; aside from their actual performance in the trial, they also decide which and how many charges to file for indictment.
Isn't systemd a daemon manager that solves all the pain of managing daemons though? If you want D-Bus activation and good daemon control then just use systemd as it was designed.
I'm an anecdata point for the "my drones are getting smaller" side here: My first couple of quadcopters were 10 and 12 inch prop sized, weighing in around 2 or 3 pounds - all me recent ones are _much_ smaller - 6 and 5 inch props with my "light" one being just under 200g (under half a pound) and the other three in the 1 to 1.5 pound range (depending on battery size and how much gear it's got on board - gps/video adds extra weight)

Tiny drones are much more common now as well - I've got a drawer full of Cheerson CX10s which weigh all of 30g or so (about an ounce). I strongly suspect the bulk of the "700,000 drones sold" are made up of devices closer to my CX10s than they are to "washing machine sized" ones capable of getting to 10,000 feet.
It's not really the same... Facebook had a botched IPO where the price tanked immediately, but then recovered after a few quarters and their earnings started rolling in.

Twitter has had consistently bad quarters, whether through poor earnings or over promising on their projections. But in one way or another they are not meeting expectations.