skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. Good question, I didn't think anyone thought about profits any more.

Seriously, I'm assuming the same ad driven model that has made Facebook profitable would work for a professional network to.

I know I have personally clicked on ads that are related to my profession. I'm far, far more tolerant (even accepting) of B2B advertising than I am of B2C.

It's tricky though. They would have to be careful not to turn it into a pure marketing play. There would have to be safeguards against that.

The key is they would have to keep their eye on the main value proposition:

Becoming the number one way professionals connect with the idea, events, and people who can help them do their jobs better.
> Sorry, but how can you not have a name? Good luck getting an ID document without a name. That doesn't make sense.

That's what 32-36 are referring to, cases where children aren't given a name for an extended period of time. Even without extreme cases. what about a Hospital system meant to be used to track newborn children? It's necessarily not going to be able to rely on a name, because it's not uncommon for children not to be named for a few days. A system such as that might want to track the children by the mother, date of birth, and birth ordering (in case of twins, triplets, etc).

> This just sounds dumb: Unicode has thousands upon thousands of characters. Only with Chinese can I see this possibly being a problem, but even here I thought Unicode did account for that. Unicode was designed to have every conceivable glyph that every language on Earth uses.

Just because it was designed to accommodate every conceivable symbol, doesn't mean it currently has every conceivable symbol. What about the symbol Prince used for his name[1]? What about a language that's not in Unicode yet?

> There really isn't that much to it: you need to have two strings (and one can be null as I said above)

If someone has a single name, does it go in the first name, or second name spot? Is this enforced, and where?

It's not that you won't generally be served well by your suggestions, it's just that the problem space is complex enough that it's worth thinking about a little before falling back on that. It might be that you don't even need a name, or only need it for billing, and your requirements may change depending on what payment processors expect (is it okay to just save a single string for whatever full name they submit?) These are all worth giving a little thought to up front, because changing the schema after it's in use is always harder, and that goes both ways, Splitting a string into multiple name parts is hard for many of the same reasons listed here.

1: http://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writing-the-prince-symbol-i...
.NET is a closed platform that is controlled by Microsoft. When MS upgrades the API, developers working there rejoice because now they can charge a lot of money to upgrade the same systems. This is completely different from the mindset of people using C++. There is no company controlling the language, and code is written in C++ because of it is well known to be a language that maintains backward compatibility.
Like an airport in a town of 2,000 that nobody uses, but ensure the Congressman will get reelected?

I could only imagine the abuse with a gov't directed jobs program!
As you can see, their current strategy is on a trend for not making any money at all. Personally I abhor LinkedIn, use it sparingly when I'm looking for work and wish it were deactivated the rest of the time.
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Sprinkles. But they're wrong.
You're a single parent ? I hope you can find a way to avoid burning you out. As other said, when you can, take time off regularly. Good luck.
The thing I don't quite get about Wozniak is this. By all accounts, he was a technical genius/prodigy. Early Apple would never have flourished without his Herculean efforts, regardless of Steve Jobs' business savvy. But while people may debate whether Steve Jobs was really a genius in any sense of the word, there is no doubt that 70s/80s Apple was only the first act in an astonishing career. The later successes were no less impressive. Whatever Jobs had going for him in the beginning, he still had it at the end.

After early Apple, what did Wozniak do with his talents?

I don't want to sound uncharitable. I know Wozniak suffered head injuries in a plane crash, which maybe made it impossible for him to function at his previous levels of technical wizardry. I know not all accomplishments garner headlines. And regardless of what happened after, starting Apple is still an incredible achievement. But I'm curious if anyone has answers to this question. I feel like it could tell us something interesting about the world.
I thought that demographic went to Reddit.
Lost its vision? LinkedIn has felt useless for years. It's that "social network" that clogs up my inbox no matter how many times I changed the notification settings and nothing more to me.

The worst part is, those e-mails are useless. I keep getting ones informing me that there are five jobs changes in my network. I'm actually curious about who has gone where and click the link and it takes me to...well, I don't even know what I'm looking at.

Afters years of working as a freelance writer and not doing too well lately, I took a stab at getting one of those "real" jobs which required references. I decided to look at my LinkedIn profile for the first time in ages to see who might be able to help.

I click "My Network" and get this pop-over that takes up the whole screen asking me to "grow my network" and effectively hiding the information I came for in the first place. How is this supposed to be useful?
A huge part of the anti-inequality argument is that poverty prevents the consumption that would otherwise occur. The burnt/other-planet'd IOUs represent a lost opportunity to get that consumption going again.
> Tbh, LinkedIn only has value if you are looking for a job.

And a farm only has value when there are potatoes to harvest. But you gotta plant and tend the potatoes.

So to the extent that LinkedIn can (or can't) support it, you should look at LinkedIn or wherever as something to maintain, for the day when you are looking for a job.
Or somebody else's mailbox (that he at any time in the past happened to send or receive mail from at an address that is either the one LinkedIn has as his main email, or one it has correlated as the same person), which is the real problem.

I can keep LinkedIn out of my mailbox, I can't keep them out of the mailbox of everybody that I have ever sent or received mail from.

LinkedIn is very creepy when it comes to just about everything, IMO.
I made two distinct statements. I did not try to support the second with the first one, I just recited the claims from the Oxfam report.

I agree, however, that "62 richest people own as much as poorest 50%" is really not that interesting. It might give a more astounding number to get the point across in the media coverage, but i. e. "x richest people own 50% of total wealth" would be much more interesting.

What is interesting though is that the number changed from 388 to 62 in just a few years. And the trend that the super rich become much richer even compared to very rich people. Take a look at this graph for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Census_income_discrepa...

(income discrepancies within the top 1.5% of households)

The problem is that since a few decades only a handful of people raked in all productivity gains.
You have astatement A and conclusion C but no B step.

Do people spend money without advertising?

I would say, yes they do. People have intrinsic wants and needs. Why would I so fulfilling them, because of a lack of extrinsic wants and needs?

Edit: also aren't you just trying to optimise to what is measured. GDP goes up, and that's beneficial because? Greenspan says so?
I like the editor. There's obviously interest in this after XKCD.

It'd be really cool if people had a look at "Easy Read", and how to make it easier to translate stuff into easy read. Easy Read is a system aimed at people with a learning disability (UK definition), but it's used by more people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-26836091

http://www.ohb.scot.nhs.uk/article.asp?page=252

https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2008...

http://www.effortmark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/4008_...
I've got a wimpy first gen moto g and don't have any issues with firefox
Because advertising is hall mark of quality?
I really like this comment. Now that you mention it, I feel the same way about B2B ads. I wonder if there are studies about that.
The structure of the job makes it very unlikely firefighters will want to live on the peninsula. They spend the night at the station with multi-day shifts on and long stretches off so long commutes don't grind them down the way they do daily commuters. It just makes sense to live out where you can afford a much more comfortable life.
Yes, the same is definitely true of wheelchair use - you get the problems without the hard-won tactics for coping. I'm going to navigate a space better than you in a chair, mostly. Simulation is not perfect, but lack of simulation- just thinking hard - obviously doesn't work, to anyone who's rolled around shaking their heads at 'best practice'.

Still, having a worse-case experience is not necessarily a bad thing. There are people who are newly blind, people who are newly disabled, people who are newly incapacitated.
And how is that different from Facebook? I'm not being a troll. Just exploring your thoughts.
This is a good point. Technology replaces labor with capital. I remember reading controversy over the stimulus program, that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent for every job created. Those people would have been much better off if the money went directly to them, instead of indirectly through jobs programs. But that's not politically popular (with the right.)

Alternatively the government could subsidize wages. Agree to pay x% of the wages for certain industries. Which is basically what we already do extensively with tax breaks for companies that create jobs. But that's also not politically popular (with the left.)

As automation replaces more and more of the unskilled workforce, we should just accept it and adopt a basic income.
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"The site went down, but it's not my fault. Even though I'm the guy coding it".
ok, 10x.
Work and lifestyle inside a Chinese factory making 50,000 electric grills/day
Completely agreed. Shady practises (eg: email spam), plus dark patterns (eg presenting people who might be a connection as having actually sent a "Connection Request") have made it fundamentally a not-to-be-trusted website.

My LinkedIn profile now literally tells recruiters to Fuck Off. And still they come.

The only value it has for me, is presenting (generally) valid contact details (eg: email address) for the people I already know and whom I may have fallen out of contact with. That's not huge value though, and several times I've been seriously tempted to just remove my profile forever.
Should the inventor not get rewarded for his work?

The patent isn't a reward for his work, though. The patent is a reward for having an idea and filing for it. The inventor could just as easily spend years in the garage and come up with nothing patent-able, thereby obtaining no reward.
Computational thinking, 10 years later
I'm from outside (1hr) of philly and didn't immediately recognize "jawn" as written in this article. I moved away about 8 years ago and I think the word has evolved quite a bit. We used to say "juant" which seems close to "joint" as the author notes. "Pass me that juant, where did you get that juant." Haven't heard it with the hard n.
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I'm often surprised by non-doctors giving medical advice to someone who has a potentially fatal illness.

It feels really irresponsible to me. As irresponsible as telling a cancer patient to try carrots.

Although I accept that you're showing compassion, and that's important. And that you're not being judgemental. And that you have some evidence that exercise works to treat depression - you're not talking obvious nonsense. (Although that evidence isn't as strong as you think it is, especially for major depression.)
There seems to be an inordinate amount of Jobs worship in the business press.

I wonder what qualifies someone as a genius? A lot of the ideas Jobs is given credit for were swirling around the Silicon Valley/Homebrew Computing Club milieu at the time. Maybe it just took someone with the energy and ego to put himself in charge of commercializing all those ideas. If that's the case, I'm a lot less impressed by Jobs and a lot more impressed by the real technical geniuses who actualized his visions.

Don't meant to be overly critical here, I'm just naturally skeptical of "larger than life" personalities. Upon investigating their biographies they frequently turn out to be credit-hogging egomaniacs. Not all the time, but frequently enough that I'm skeptical.
Wow, well done dude. That very much nails it (really). :D

LinkedIn is kind of like... troll food.
Im guessing the PhD candidate they're referring to is kaparthy.
The one chess move you can't do on a computer is advance your bishop to your opponent's face at high velocity[0].

[0] There was a cartoon in the newspaper during the Fisher-Spassky world championship which showed the above, captioned with him saying, "My move? Bishop to SPASSKY'S HEAD!" I can't find it online but found another reference to it[1].

[1] http://overlawyered.com/2013/05/card-counting-casinos#commen...
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I'm going to post here under my real nick and hope you read my comments:

I was in a depressive state for close to twenty years. The loss of my mother at 10 put me there and instead of getting better I settled into my depression for the next twenty.

Twenty years.

I was irritable and emotional. I had few friends and I made the friends I did have pay for their mistake of being my friend. I made bad decisions and burned bridges. I drank too much. I had zero good romantic relationships and was getting worse. My career, the one good thing in my life, had stagnated. Nobody wants to work with an asshole.

SO one day, after breaking up with a girl, I finally decided to get help. I cried like a baby in the office of a therapist. She got me on medication and in four weeks I was a different person. I combined that drug therapy with talk therapy and completely turned my life around. It wouldn't be a stretch to suggest it's similar to hearing music for the first time or seeing color. I was able to smile and find joy in the world again. By almost every measure, my life improved. Things have only gotten better since then.

I want you to seek help. Make use of the opportunity to completely change the trajectory of your life by getting out of the mindset you're currently in. If you need medication, take it. If you don't, invest time in talk therapy. Find a therapist you trust and who is competent. If you don't like the one you get, find another. DO THE WORK.

Depression is like cancer of the mind. If you ignore it, it'll consume you until there is nothing left. Don't ignore it.

My current happiness is only tempered by the knowledge that I lost so much along the way by ignoring my symptoms. Don't be that guy. We have a small amount of time on this rock. Make it worth your while.
So negative... yet so accurate. :D
Amazing that there was so much choice between systems that were completely independent from each other. You could choose between PC, Mac, Amiga, Atari...

Pity this was lost in the years of Windows' dominance. Now it seems unlikely anyone will come up with a new system like the Amiga.
New iOS app allows you to see and understand all of your online data
Thanks for the reply, and interesting followup with ALICE.

If you're using "software QA failure" in the very general sense of "a defect got introduced and then propagated to production", then yes that's what happened here. But then you're essentially saying "the root cause of this defect is that a defect got introduced and then propagated". This isn't useful for process improvement (it's true for every defect, so doesn't give any insight into what happened).

If you're right about them reusing ALICE, then a more useful way of looking at the root cause of the repeat-after-me bug is "component reuse without considering the attack model". That highlights other situations where there are risks of similar defects, and points to ways to prevent or detect similar defects.

Since there were other bugs as well, the requirement and/or design issues might still be a better candidate for root cause for the whole Tay-fail. One of the things you discover doing root cause analysis is that there are almost always multiple contributors, and you typically want to make process changes at multiple levels.
Or the end result doesn't have to be software used by victims (which I suspect most were).
So create a second profile... (I get that you might naturally expect/want that you could use your main profile with some special bit set, but given that the workaround is so trivial, the pragmatist in me has trouble working up a lot of anger over it.)
Has rampant capitalism hijacked the promise of the digital age?
No, they don't. Not for federal contracts, which is governed by a whole different set of rules from the rest of commerce (the FAR vs. UCC).
I think patents should be transferable, I just think patents should be a lot harder to acquire to the point where they are rare, which was absolutely the original intent (at least as it pertains to US patents).

See, for example, Jefferon's letter to Isaac McPherson:

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letter...

If Jefferson were reanimated now he would, pretty clearly, be livid about the current state of the patent system and the way patents are essentially rubber-stamp granted as long as you pay the fee and use all the right legalese to make your incredibly obvious "this, but on a computer" invention seem like it is anything new.
Advertisers have no incentive to promote better products than what the competition offers, they only have incentive to get people to buy their inferior products that provide them better margins than the competition.

> not many people would know about—let alone buy—video games

So you are saying in the absence of manipulative ads, kids would be consuming drugs rather than games. I highly doubt that. And from personal experience, my brother is a Minecraft addicted nutter because of peers pushing him towards it, not advertising. I've never seen ads for Minecraft, yet it is one of the most successful video game properties ever.
Agreed. I was surprised that the article didn't mention the Hawaiian Pidgin expression "da kine"[1], which functions similarly to "jawn". Funnily enough, the da kine Wikipedia page makes the same claim regarding uniqueness of expression.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_kine
The "Safari is the new IE" article was about them being slow to adopt APIs and the yearly release cycle attached to OS updates.

This is about visuals and UI based APIs that can be polyfilled.
They matter but not as much as stuff like WebRTC and Service Workers IMO.

Google can fix these problems with updates and polyfills.
Apple can't do that. Some iOS and Mac OS users will at some point be left out.

Nothing in this article matter that much "position:sticky, no backdrop-filter, no scroll-snap-type, gradients" they're useful, but not critical.

Doubt we'll see apps that aren't possible without these.
They just make the experience nicer, they don't make products happen though.

Meanwhile on the Chrome end we've got web apps like Emojoy (https://jakearchibald-gcm.appspot.com/), Offline Wikipedia (https://wiki-offline.jakearchibald.com/), Instant.io (https://instant.io/), PeerCloud (https://peercloud.io/) and even Facebook (http://Facebook.com/) all providing features and services in Chrome (WebRTC, Service Workers, Background Sync) that can't be polyfilled or will have to provide a far lesser experience in Safari because it lacks even a way to polyfill these features (only things I can think of are AppCache and WebSockets which don't get the job done for these services).
Note that this data set counts only known, legal immigrants; it does not even estimate undocumented entries.
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FreeNAS has a commercial company behind it, with a real product and money to back the project with (just as RedHat with their projects) while nas4free is a open source project. I've chosen FreeNAS and its doing its job well to this day (backups, few seervices like SMB/CIFS, plex server and what's most important, software containers).
No. The veteran is worthy because in his suffering, he provided value to the community.
People spend more money with advertising. The velocity of money increases. If you believe it doesn't, then you should probably tell that to the trillion dollar industry.

I get that it's not what you want to hear, but that's your problem to deal with, not mine.

"Wishing and hoping" that advertising doesn't work, doesn't actually make it so. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it doesn't work.
HillRat, you made my day---"ablative shielding"---thank you for that phrase.
>I think finding a good person is more important than modalities.

Yes it is. I've met many people before finding someone that I can trust a bit.

Carl Rogers was an interesting guy and he had a scientific approach (as I like understand how things work). It's a model that fit well to my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMi7uY83z-U

I guess all models have nearly the same success rate.
takes way too long to load. if i wasn't visiting to give you feedback i would have clicked away before seeing anything about you, left only with the memory of an albeit pretty loading animation. Also the text of the list in the about section overflows the edge of the page, making it unreadable. Am using Chrome on a Mac.
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Well, that alone should convince anyone with a technical/IT bent to absolutely avoid GoDaddy. Most already know this, but that's further re-enforcement.
He founded the EFF, and spends a fair amount of time on charitable efforts. He does have a day job (http://primarydata.com/), but it doesn't appear to define him.

Basically, he just seems like someone who doesn't define success in the same way that Jobs would.
There is no limit to consumption or available resources.
It's disgusting to be comparing a veteran's suffering to a beggar's.
Morning seems to be the best time to post on Reddit
If I might summarize your on-point comment with what came to mind when I went to go accept an invite from an ex-colleague who I like: LinkedIn has gotten to the point that I'm afraid to click anything on their site.

I normally avoid LinkedIn, and I was reminded why: before I click on anything, I wonder "what are the potential consequences of this? If I click "Accept", what other unspoken contracts am I agreeing to, such as all of my connections being notified that I'm now connected to Chellsea?"

It then occurred to me that maybe I should not use web sites that make me feel that way. Yeah, I'm a little behind the curve sometimes. But whether I'm the customer or recruiters are, I don't see how that's a sustainable business long-term.
The same demogroup did this around a year later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338944

http://8088mph.blogspot.com/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-m...
LinkedIn never had a vision. They never thought big.

They should have aligned themselves with the worker bees, instead they are now synonymous with recruiters. They should have bought stackoverflow and github. I don't k is why the fuck they did not do that. Look at Facebook, it bought Instagram and whatsapp and kept itself relevant. LinkedIn failed in that aspect.