skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a man of Indian origin living in Western Canada, and I have had to deal with issues like this in personal life outside of tech. For eg., once I was accused by a female neighbor as stalking them (peeking at their window), which is a really crazy accusation. Incidents like that make me generally be wary of, if not downright withdraw from, the female of the population, especially as some of them seem quite good at switching emotions at whim (making it harder to assess what they are up to).
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You'll be competing with a million web developers from Pakistan and the Philippines. Good luck.
Similar to dairy farmers and milk, when will incumbent diamond companies lay claim to the word "diamond" and sue to have them use a different name?
The outflow in other countries is much bigger and you very infrequently end up with a clog. I knew a guy a ways back who moved from the UK and complained about the pipe sizes. Now I live in NZ and I can tell you, they are too small in the US!
What's the best way to delete everything from your fb wall these days? I know they keep crippling the tools.
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While I agree with you, I also think this line of reasoning is a distraction. If we could prevent people from punching you on the bus by technological means with very little drawback, we would.

It's hard for me to see what is the difference between people who question formalizing best practices in computing and people who disagree with modern car engines and seatbelt laws.

We do these things not because it always makes a difference for one single person all the time but because it the system move in the right direction leading to possibilities we couldn't foresee from the beginning.

Someone who works in "real world" security and always have to weight in the downsides, e.g. the implications of privacy when installing a security camera on a bus, must think we are crazy questioning such low hanging fruit.
Creepy. I'm glad I've removed the facebook app everywhere I've had it installed, in favor of using the mobile site under safari. The mobile site can chat too, so that limitation is also gone.
They've been working on the thing for six years. It has a small but passionate userbase that loves it. Those people routinely lose access to it every iOS update. That's drama.

Yesterday they released a new version. Today they pulled it. People in the comments here are saying "God Damn It, I missed it!" That's drama.

Wanting to buy a BMW SUV, having the cash (literal cash!) to do so, and winding up on the TV news instead? That's also drama.

The fingerprint segue was an attempt to link these observations without making it seem like an attack. Because it sure seems they're less interested in incubating the product, and more interested in incubating attention and drama.

And if they honestly believe that this is a "world health issue" that affects "billions of people" then they should make an Android version. As of two hours ago, Mike tweeted that he is. Now all we need to do is get Lorna to stop tweeting things that are on the verge of turning this lump of glitchy code into an FDA-regulated medical device and perhaps we'll see a little progress toward helping those billion people. (Either way, I predict drama.)
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Thank you for all of your hard work! I have used flux for years now and it's only when I don't have it that I realize how damn well it works.
Interesting, that's ~$120 to feed a family of four for the winter. I apparently need to re-think my budget.
Wow that is just incredible flying! Those formations are just unbelievably tight. @ 6:00 -- just hanging out, flying upside down, and hundreds of MPH, 6" from my buddies...

Is the guy in back just along for the ride? He does at least put his cell phone away a couple minutes in!
Not revenue. Gross profit.
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This isn't a zero sum game. Removing the ability for people to passively spy on you doesn't mean you can't add MITM protection later.

Having everything be encrypted by default is strictly more secure. There's no reason to avoid taking the first step in fear of the second one.
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Full disclosure: The best way to compete with them is to know something very specific about not-technology. Laypeople do not understanding the difference between basic and advanced technical skills, even if they did it wouldn't be particularly relevant to them, even if it was foreign skilled workers often learn technology just as deeply as Americans, but more importantly than all of that: If you can help people use technology to solve a non-technology related problem, this is where your native use of English and understanding of American culture really starts paying dividends. It's exceptionally hard to replicate that understanding from another country -- perhaps impossible.
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Here's a video of it in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZEOEkrJqCQ&feature=youtu.be...
My favorite efficiency gimmick is the low flow faucet. The flows are cut in half, yes, so you have to run the faucet four times longer to clean the same amount of stuff, and because the flows are not strong enough to move debris out of the sink, you also have to run the faucet to clean the sink after you finish cleaning other stuff.
I don't get it. Is Apple against programmers publishing their own source code? If the authors are giving away the code anyway why not just put it on GitHub and let anyone clone it and use it?
As someone creating a similar platform (Kicklet.com), I'm curious. Historically, are failures like this reliable indicators that competitors should reconsider their business as well?
Kayak explore tool is great. There have been numerous startups trying to build the same, but to make it useful one needs to have a lot of data. Kayak has arguably more data than any other metasearch engine.

Map is definitely useful and for an opportunistic traveller is a great tool. Flystein is not trying to compete with it. Where it is good though is a constrained trip, with fixed dates and requirements, or a complex trip. Map like this would not show a multi city trip.
I am not so sure that was the most useful, I sure liked the main site chat to work on mobile even if I didn't want another app (messenger to be installed). Yeah i'm one of those few who prefer simple single app experience. I prefer if companies could try keep things a little more backward compatible. /rant
A bit of contrary anecdata:

I'm throwing a party on Sunday. I don't throw parties very often. The last time I did was a little over a year ago. I created a Facebook event for parties as I usually do, and about half the people I invited didn't even see the invite (Facebook helpfully tells you who has and hasn't seen such things). So I had to chase down these people through other means (texting, hangouts, and yes, FB messenger). Last year when I did this, pretty much everyone saw the invite.

I'm not sure what changed. Perhaps it's notification fatigue, perhaps some quit or curtailed their use of Facebook. But it kind of sucks from my perspective, as there is no clear better alternative. I do not know the email addresses of all my friends, and people aren't necessarily responsive to email either.

Demographic here is late 20s-late 30s, in the Bay Area.
Anyone want to help write a Powershell version?

Edit: https://github.com/natemrice/letsencrypt-powershell could use a hand.

I can't afford to spin up too many Windows servers on AWS but I'd like to have a look at this.
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His reply to this comment is totally out of line and I see he's been rightfully banned. However the comment you're replying to was just a poor attempt at humor, not a personal attack:

> Explain Lisp to people not by treating them as idiots who won't understand that not everything is a list.

>> I'm pretty sure people understand that "everything is a list" doesn't mean there are no primitive literal types in the language.

>>> I'm pretty sure you're an idiot.

Please consider context before calling out people like this.
It's providing an interface/binding to that underlying functionality that fits into the React model of specifying a UI declaratively. Like almost any framework or library, React tends to be easiest to work with if you can follow its conventions. There is more friction if you want to do something outside its comfort zone, so this kind of bridge is potentially quite useful for anyone who does have a need for 3D visuals in their React-based app.
> Are many people you know actually going exclusively to facebook as their sole communication method

Yes. Absolutely. People communicate via Facebook Messenger instead of SMS or the likes of WhatsApp. They organise social events using Facebook. Announce weddings and divorces, births of children, new jobs. Everything via Facebook. You're clearly not a Facebook user (or not a regular user) otherwise you would know the extent to which people are using it.

And most people really don't care about Facebook privacy issues to any significant degree. It's more convenient to use Facebook and have compromised privacy than not to use Facebook for many.
How do you handle license verification/enforcement for self-hosted instances?
The Hudson is going to take a few more decades.

http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/29661/2015...
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By making Facebook a scapegoat humans have once again conveniently avoided talking about an uncomfortable truth about themselves. People give off inauthentic expressions all the time -- take women putting on makeup for example -- and this tells us more about human nature than Facebook or corporations.
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I highly recommend ordering one. The checkout process, packaging, and invoice are almost as good as the bottle itself.
Yes, the code is MIT licensed. Check it on github: https://github.com/microsoft/referencesource

In fact, for the past couple releases mono has replaced a lot of its library code with MS's quite successfully.

Full disclosure - I run the mono team at Xamarin.
Have you got any hints on learning Ansible? I've tried but I find YAML quite tedious to write - I'm more likely to reach for shell scripts.

I'd also like to integrate it with https://github.com/voltagex/junkcode/blob/master/Python/spot... so I can do "least cost provisioning"
I've been a sole proprietor in architecture/design for over twenty years. [1]

1. Have separate savings and checking accounts for the business and run all the money through them. It is typically easier to set these up as a sole proprietor because the personal liability works in your favor with regard to the bank.

2. Use separate credit cards for purchases, but to a first approximation don't purchase anything for which you cannot invoice a client...i.e. you don't need a new Macbook Pro and you definitely don't need to spend time pretending that shopping for one is work.

3. Generally, if you "incorporate" an LLC is the way to go because you don't necessarily have to pay yourself a salary (check with an accountant) and can just disperse money to yourself much like with a sole proprietorship.

4. Also check worker's compensation laws in regard to sole-proprietorships, LLC's, and S-corps. This is a place where I've seen people run into trouble.

5. General advice, contracts matter, but client relations matter more. You probably don't want to lawyer up to enforce some term of your contract. You're better off stopping work when you don't get paid quickly and that means having prompt payment terms in your contracts. It's even better to require a retainer payable against final invoice.

Good luck.

[1]: Architects have personal liability for errors and omissions in projects under their seal and because that is the vast majority of my liability and because an LLC/S-corp only protects against contractual liability and that is rarely an issue due to common clauses in industry standard contracts, I've never bothered with a corporate entity. YMMV.
> Lighting would generally increase in a larger home fairly close to 1:1 per square foot.

Unless you are really bad at turning off the light I would disagree. You light where you are, and that doesn't change.

When a home gets larger they add rooms - unless you are in them you don't light them, so energy usage from lighting does not go up with home size.
They aren't, but I've seen you call out users in the past basically for making a joke that you either didn't catch or that you didn't think was funny enough to justify the impropriety that went along with it. I wouldn't say it's a big problem or anything, but it does happen.
He really invented a lot of good mainframe technology. Worked at IBM and then left to make his own company to compete with IBM making IBM Mainframe clones that ran faster and cost less than an IBM Mainframe.

I grew up in the era that used IBM 360/370 mainframes and I learned them in college for FORTRAN and COBOL and JCL with DOS/VSE. I don't think colleges teach mainframe technology anymore now that PCs have taken over.

Things moved from PCs to mobile devices so quick as well.

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I would suggest that speaks more about your social group than anything.

And by which I'm not saying that negatively. You perhaps have a group of friends who are not big social media users or that use Facebook and the like to organise almost every aspect of their social lives.

For me, I would say if I wasn't using Facebook I would be missing out. The biggest thing I would be missing out on would be keeping up to date and in contact with a multitude of friends and family back in the UK where I'm originally from (I live in Australia now).

Sure, there is always email but many friends and family don't use email very much any more and it would be me expecting them to change their habits to suit my preferences.
Google does the same with its Nexus devices[1] in that you can build a completely open-source version of Android except for certain hardware-specific binary blobs.

[1] https://source.android.com/source/running.html
Andrew Wiles said much the same on solving FLT: "Perhaps I can best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of a journey through a dark unexplored mansion. You enter the first room of the mansion and it's completely dark. You stumble around bumping into the furniture, but gradually you learn where each piece of furniture is. Finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly it's all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were. Then you move into the next room and spend another six months in the dark. So each of these breakthroughs, while sometimes they're momentary, sometimes over a period of a day or two, they are the culmination of—and couldn't exist without—the many months of stumbling around in the dark that proceed them."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/andrew-wiles-fermat.htm...
> [...] their anti-socialness means [...]

To be fair he said "lack of desire for lots of social interaction" -- with emphasis on the word "lots" -- and not "lack of desire for social interaction".

cortesoft may very well be needing social interaction (inasmuch as Maslow's hierarchy of needs is fulfilled), just not lots.
Thanks - and thank to you and the team for all your hard work. I just ran Hello World on Mono via dnx/dnu and my mind was blown. Who would have predicted Microsoft would be doing this in 2015?
Can you give some details on what you do? I think it's pretty interesting (and rare) that you can make consulting money by taking a paper and turning it into an implementation. What field are you in, who do you work with, etc.? Are you independent?

I'm doing the same sort of thing at Google. I've been a software engineer for 13 years or so and I switched over to a research group in 2014. There is definitely a culture difference, even though Google is one of the places which has the least "pure" research. All research teams have software engineers pretty much, and they mostly work with the same codebase that engineers do.
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I think that's well mitigated by using docker, a VM, or any similar solution.
Shouldn't interviewers be asking about things that wouldn't be answerable in a book?
>> The demand for f.lux is certainly incredible.

I'll say! Is it really hundreds of thousands of people? That's fantastic.
I have toilets that use a pint (or less) per flush[1], and do not suffer from clogs or other issues. Part of the problem is the design of the toilet, where you need the water in the holding tank to "flush" everything past the elbow.

[1]http://www.sun-mar.com/prod_flush_seal.html
> I've been a lifelong lacto-vegetarian (like most indian people)

Nitpick: Most Indians are NOT vegetarians, less than a third are. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/the-food-habits-of-a-na...
> Most people in financial jobs also harm no one

This is a complicated issue. Are you harming others by investing other people's money into oil companies or weapons manufacturers? Are you harming others if they expect you to make a certain return, and you fail to meet that? (More on that below)

> and though they accept higher wages, they also create far more value

This is actually very, very debatable. While the finance industry is helpful and lubricates all other parts of the economy, it's also rife with abuse. I worked at a financial software company for a while, and you would be blown away by the corruption, greed, and irresponsibility of that industry (among ratings agencies, bulge-bracket banks, and hedge funds). If the general public in the US knew about it, there would probably be mass panic.

Furthermore, a lot of finance involves wealth management, and there's no evidence that wealth managers actually generate any value unless they're actively, illegally gaming prices. I don't have time to get sources right now, but it's pretty easy to Google. Jon Stewart's interview with Jim Cramer is very enlightening in that regard, since he admits to illegally gaming prices because all of the top-tier wealth managers have to do it.
Sorry if I wasn't very specific. I was referring to https://sites.google.com/site/appsscripthackathonnyc/. Yeah, I am in my mid twenties and I can say I am not very attracted to Hackathon anymore. I usually went alone and that was probably a mistake, although the spirit of most Hackathons is to form team with strangers...
> At some point, people are going to have to use vastly less resources

That's some claim. Care to back it up?
Currently #1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10557793
I had the same reaction to the South photo.

I often wonder how much of what I see today as "normal" will be perceived as horrible / offensive / wrong in 50 years time.

Gay marriage is an obvious one, (Australian) treatment of refugees, anything else?
My Dad always said the turn on the road here was because of that.
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Well I certainly wouldn't call anything a panacea, but I'm not sure I'd fully agree with either of those criticisms. Having other people in the project use cabal install -- well, you can't blame a tool for other people not using it. It's true that nixpkgs doesn't track multiple versions of packages, but using the existing tooling (cabal2nix) it should be possible to fix down the versions you need.

Towards the second point, nix isn't meant to figure out what C libraries you need; it's meant to let you specify exactly what those are and be confident that those will be respected.
No I completely agree with you that this is an aggressive move on FB's part. The feature is great as a product idea, but from an actual usability standpoint the implementation is really bad because there are so many photos I don't think my friends would want to see and would probably embarrass them if those photos appear on public timeline. I think the idea was to reduce the chore of asking "hey who has the picture of me from yesterday's trip."

Only thing is, I still find some values of using Facebook, so to suck it up I am submitting myself to the product, and decides to work around.
Sure, and I'm not here to argue the fine details of how coops are organized. My point is only that there are elements of a market economy that differ from the traditional "profits first, maximize shareholder value, evil corporation". Cooperatives are just one example of a somewhat different model. Actual "non profit" corporations, and "public benefit corporations" are also examples of that.
Interesting. Thanks for the reply!
I wonder, how many people shared it on Facebook?
I'm ~100ms away from most cloud services on a good day, and I've seen ~4000ms in country areas via 3G. Far too many companies are assuming large bandwidth/low latency connections. I'd like my SD card back, Google.

If I've paid the full retail price for a device (often more, I'm in Australia), I expect to own, not rent a device.
This is a really fantastic show, if you're just finding it. Started out as a five-minute slot on NPR, but now often runs 30-40 minutes as a podcast. I just finished listening to the back catalog yesterday, and I heartily recommend it.

(It's crazy how interesting it is to listen to a radio show about design, oftentimes visual design... and not feel like you're missing out on something. A real testament to the sound design, I think.)
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If you know any docker, that line is pretty basic, so you shouldn't copy-paste it, just write it from scratch:

docker run -it --rm -v `pwd`:/mnt ubuntu bash

Also, this one works, the other one doesn't ;)
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>without any realistic customer feedback loop

This is so so true (I spent some time working as a post-doc in England). There are tables filled up this very moment with dignified scientists arguing about bikesheds in CRUD applications that wouldn't get three upvotes here on Hacker News. And remember: if you can't open it in MS Excel, that makes it "Big Data"!

All joking aside though, what universities are doing with their postdocs is abusive and immoral and they're going to regret killing the golden goose when they've squandered all the prestige in these positions.
That's not a fair comparison. I can't believe I'm going to defend Apple here, but Apple's "walled garden" is an environment that they designed, that people can choose to use or not. We can tell people that there's a long-term price associated with this, but people that choose to support Apple's model are not in the same boat with people that choose not to believe in carbon dating.