skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to write a reply to everyone, why does this have to be a tree and not a graph.

Facebook makes money off businesses using Facebook to connect to customers. They barely make money directly off customers.

It should be expected that FB will disrupt any digital service. Be that payment (peer-to-peer, customer-to-business), access to digital media (video, image, news, music). What they won't do is replace music studios. They won't replace movie studios. REPLACE is key. They may make entries into content production, by partnership or a standalone venture, but they will not cut out other content providers. FB's network is predicated on access. Cutting off customer access to things they want is a surefire way to lose those customers. Yes, FB can make the terms more onerous for businesses, particularly competitors. But they will suffer if they push it too far and end up backing off or flailing about wildly until they fail. Most likely, they'll back off.

Amazon with Amazon Prime Video has not cut out access to different movie and television studio content just because they make their own. Same with Netflix and Hulu. If they were to do so, the value they provide to consumers would go to near-zero. There'd be no reason to subscribe to their services if you only got their (limited) content. Who wants to spend $8/month for one channel's worth of content anymore when that gets you dozens of channels with a competitor?

Same thing with news, video games, and just about anything else.

If your product is really just acting as a middle man, expect a Google or FB or Amazon to step in and screw you. Yes.

So exist on the outside. Make the games, not the game room. Make the movie, not the theater. Make the music, not the stage. Make something that the middle-man's customers want, let the middle-man do his job of connecting you to those customers (well, contract with them).
A good bit of my job consists of hopping onto a customer's server via SSH. Vim is about the only thing I can be reasonably confident will be installed on a standard Redhat/Centos server that I can use for looking at logs, manipulating scripts, etc.
Again, the world where our main priority is assuring 'compensation' and 'rights' for our 'content' is the same one where rent-seeking assholes exploit artists.

Steve Miller's rant was only yesterday. The harder we let corporations ossify the notion that all knowledge should be owned and paid for every time it is used, the more we will suffer.

Finally, you can't steal what is given away free. It's time for a paradigm shift, humanity. Slay this dragon.
I have a somewhat similar stance as the author, though not remotely as strong. Its a combination of not wanting to add to the military machine but also not wanting my work to be _tainted_.
The important issue is that some WebRTC capable browsers can leak your internal address to a random page you are visiting even if you are not using WebRTC. If you are actually using WebRTC then you probably don't care if they know what your internal IP address is. ... that is of course if you ever care...
You can't pass on 100% of worker wage increase to customers without losing net revenue. So, a lot of this money comes from management and stock owners.

PS: It's a question of price / demand curves. Raising prices costs customers which reduces profits.
> granted freedom

Feel that? It's Thomas Jefferson spinning in his grave.
You are confusing bash with other packages (apt is not bash - if I installed bash and it "came with" a package manager, I'd be suspicious... or in this case, know that I'm using Ubuntu's bash). Your expressing dismay at lack of anything further than coreutils seems odd.
That sounds really presumptuous, since chances are high @amelius knows about the alternatives, and since it's still a great point even with the alternatives; if I want to use Linux, great, good for me, but I'm not going to walk around trying to convince all my friends & family that are happily using FaceTime to switch to something that requires an installation, is harder to use, and is not integrated with the calling features of their devices.
If it were up to me I would certainly re-allocate where my money went.

On a professional level, I don't feel that I'm necessarily making the world better (at least for now, and with the caveat that I do believe that I am contributing to an increased mean utility), but at least I'm not making it worse (one of the consequences with my last employer is that if we succeeded it would put some people out of work; I left for many reasons but one was that I decided I was no longer comfortable with that).
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This is silly, it's like saying I'm leaving the internet because the internet or I'm allergic to cats so I can't use Facebook. I certainly don't judge someone who posts on medium just because they are on Medium.
So what I get from that is that, like cygwin, and unlike msys, the target is full linux userspace compatibility. So is it essentially like MS is bundling cygwin as a windows system library?
In Min, it's still javascript[1].

Also, by the look of it, the current implementation in Min is very inefficient: for every network request, all the filters will be evaluated to check for a match.

Statistically, on average the majority of network requests are no match, and in the current implementation, no match means having iterated through all the filters, thus a significant overhead added to every single network request.

Furthermore, the evaluation of wildcard-based filters is itself quite inefficient: every time a wildcard-based filter is evaluated, an array of substrings is created and discarded.

[1] https://github.com/PalmerAL/min/blob/master/ext/abp-filter-p...
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The 'a' and 'i' in this context operate on text objects. They're much more powerful than motions. For example, beyond the 'w' for word, there is 'p' for paragraph, '"' for double quotes. All of these allow you to edit the object while the cursor is inside them.
But there are times when you have to take military action. Someone who is a total pacifist may disagree; that is their right. But the majority does still support the idea. Do you not agree that if we have to take out some baddies, at least we should strive for minimum collateral damage?
Yes but on the other hand: twenty billion united states fiat dollars worth of profit.
You can't have privacy without control. It is impossible. You cannot hide from your sysadmin - that is axiom.
Great memory?
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/#infouse
Ripped content - It's what made YouTube grow and what made FB Video grow. FB is taking steps to crack down on copyright theft now that the video platform is large enough (just like what YouTube did).
90% of content on the default subreddits has been ripped from its original source and rehosted on imgur or gfycat. The remaining 10% are links to YouTube.

The people doing it aren't profiting from ads like they would by doing it on Facebook, but they're still taking away the pageviews from the original creator.
The RFC is still a draft [0]; I wouldn't call this late, I'd call it waiting for a standard to settle. As a developer, I hate chasing ever-updating requirements, and as a user, I prefer stability and speed over shiny new features.

[0] https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/
Not a native speaker so i might not get the point, but most if this content is free anyway but the creators are getting robbed from views an increasing their own reach while others directly benefit from that. So many dubious facebook "celebrities" that use this to extend their audience which they can then sell ads to, it is really sickening.
What's a fiat dollar?
The word that sticks out is "breeds". Heinlein was of his time.

I think that Paul Verhoven's satire on the very work to which you refer says it all. In it, the military is made to appear to be an elaborate human sacrifice ... cult run on survivor bias, in the service of creating a self-sustaining elite. The justification for slaughtering "bugs" is never supported. The master stroke is that the bugs are inherently disgusting.

Violence has its uses. But institutional violence uses those parts of human behavior that make us ... crazy.

CSPAN 3 has the Fuulbright Vietnam hearings available. They're worth watching.
Nice. Have you thought about adding a simple point and click element to the browser plugin so that you could pre build some of the scripts by simply browsing? It would be a nice time saver and add more depth to the product for the price.
Unfortunately, the proper response to that argument requires the counterparty to pull out a weapon and glock the character making it. Which is not possible because, IIRC, a teacher is making that attack on a student. (The power imbalance there leaves that statement slathered in irony, if you like that sort of thing.)

Heinlein is not always spectacular about following through on the consequences of his ideas.

I'll further note that he does not and cannot argue that the issues are settled satisfactorily.
That's why site-based VPNing is considered the gold standard. Instead of using a VPN client on a PC, you use a network appliance, that way the PC never has a concept of what your "true" IP is. Thus cannot leak it.

Some people have been toying with doing the same but using Virtual Machines. The VM wouldn't have a concept of what the true IP is and since everything goes through the virtual router it acts like a site-to-site VPN connection hiding your true address.
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It's just pointing out that there's a certain sobriety that's needed when thinking about these things that is often absent these discussions.

Fewer than 250 people are killed each year by semiautomatic rifles, but proportionally, we hear many thousands of times more about them. This political vitriol makes it harder to actual address problems for which the commensurate amount of effort will likely actually make a difference.
Author here, if you have any questions.
If the browsers incorporate complex editors, they're likely to be subtly or even wildly different from each other in behavior. What's the "correct" behavior after hinting enter in an unordered item list, create a new bullet or start a new line for the current one? Is there a popup to create links when you highlight text? Can a heading be split over multiple lines? Some of the answers depend on the constraints of your underlying storage format like Markdown vs HTML. On the other hand, if I pick ProseMirror or Draft.js, I can be reasonably secure in that the behavior is consistent for my users.

If a capability can be implemented outside of the core browser, I think it's a good idea to do so. It's sort of like putting something into the Linux kernel vs doing it in a userspace module. The kernel/browser should provide the low-level hooks for userspace to innovate, not try to incorporate userspace components. An external project can iterate more rapidly, and there's also a lower barrier for people to contribute code and fixes. Duplicate projects "waste" resources, but they're also competing with each other and that improves quality in the long run.
That's compared to the bike -- I meant compared to the road.

Compared to the bike yes, the stand is on a specific side (e.g. left) -- but how/why would that affect whether you draw the bike facing to the right or left?
Would you expect Facebook to contact third parties on your behalf?
Sad but true. Sending probes to another star system is about 3 orders of magnitude easier than fixing basic injustices on earth. The laws of physics don't adapt and fight back when you try to apply delta v to a system. Systems of power tend to do that.
The reason neovim was started was to add these exact features. Now that vim has them, I think neovim's work is done. Mission accomplished.
> A much better system is a defined contribution, in which the employer makes a contribution to a retirement fund for the employee.

I agree, but the government has so many rules around this I wonder if pensions at one point were a better value and a way to work around these arcane rules. For example, the max an employer can add to a 401k is 35k. Another is if a family clears 200k, then you're not allowed to put money into an Roth IRA without huge penalties. Never mind that $5500 is already not very much to save for retirement, but we definitely cannot let everyone do the right thing and save money.
There's a linguist inside me all giddy, having seen the birth of a word and seeing it getting adopted into the mainstream.

(For those who don't know, the word, in the context of copyright, was invented on the excellent Hello Internet podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-tCHzjam4)
These are great points. I never really thought of it that way before.
Right, so on Android if you need code to be fast, write it in C++.

If you have a ridiculously bloated and buggy Java app, writing an optimizing compiler doesn't sound like the most effective solution.
When the majority of my country's citizens are sick (aka "unable to work"), virtually all of their financial benefits disappear (even in my great country, the USA) because they have no universal health-care and non-wealthy parents.
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99.999% reflective mirror - done (iphone gorilla glass ;)
I am blown away by the "Calculus in One Minute" explanation. And I came in with a high bar because I already knew about the good material on betterexplained.com
But by the same logic, you can't pass on 100% of profit to the workers without losing spending flexibility and the ability to reinvest in the company's infrastructure and future prosperity.

No one complains that Google Fiber doesn't serve every neighborhood in the cities where it is established. Google negotiated that deal with the cities, and if a city refuses to let them target only specific, profitable neighborhoods, they simply take that city off the list.

In my opinion, this whole situation is emblematic of why American digital infrastructure is slow and behind the times, because of antiquated and senseless rules.

I don't think Verizon is some kind of nice company; they're reprehensible at times and frankly I feel sorry for the people working there and I kind of understand their anger. But, business is business.
well built by works in another country yes.. that part is the same..
I found uzbl after I told a friend about xombrero:

http://www.uzbl.org/
You aren't! This is just a hard design problem -- mesh topologies degrade rapidly beyond two-party communications, mixer topologies introduce lag and quality issues during the compositing phase, and router topologies are still being proved out (but are probably the best option for not-huge multiparty communications). There's no silver bullet, but several options that force reasonable tradeoffs in design.
Agreed. OP should only start stressing out at 4-5 months.
Not very related as it is not a software implementation, but I also find it fascinating how FORTRAN, the first notable programming language is still used today by many after 59 years of its inception.
Do you know if cross promotion networks are blocked as well with ad-blockers?
As with any reported data item, you should always diversify your sources. I have found that I get bias from NPR one direction and bias from my local AM talk-radio station the other way, it helps balance out my perspective.
Looks like it's meant to be held with your right hand. I wonder if you can make it flip the screen so left handed people can use it too.
> It's our policy to disable the accounts and Pages of people who repeatedly infringe others’ intellectual property rights when appropriate.
Better still would be to divorce healthcare and retirement planning from employers altogether, and make it easier to move your retirement money between competitors.

From an actuarial standpoint, a defined benefit plan isn't any more complicated than just buying perpetuities from any companies or governments stable enough to offer them, until your benefit obligations are met.

The problems arise when current managers use the pensions as a means to game the accounting numbers or as a means to embezzle funds.
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Right. If I make a business connecting small business inventory lists to FB messenger so people can find out what's there to buy/steal (hey, you know someone will eventually think of this), FB will eventually offer this. Or Square (being in a better position right now to do so, FB isn't in the point-of-sale system yet). This pretty much means that if you build any middle-man business, you should expect it to fail in the long-run (at best, get acquired), unless you can develop a sufficiently large network to stand on your own (very hard at this stage, but not impossible).

Make the video games, ideally not casual or not simply implementations of existing, public domain, games like chess or something. Make the music. Make the movies. Make the articles. FB and others will connect you to customers because that's their value proposition to customers: connecting you to the things you want. They have no need to connect you to a middle man when they can be the middle man (why would they connect you to Steam or GoG, when they can replace those platforms in short order?).
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A disease is a problem, so if burnout is a disease it's also a problem just by modus ponens.
> You have no constitutional right to drive.

This is a corruption of terminology. "Driving" in these discussions means traveling via the public road, which you do have a right to do. Using the public roads for private commerce (the original definition to "driving") is different, but nobody here is talking about that.
>I guess we could be saying the same in 10 years about firefox and chrome

That's pretty optimistic considering Firefox's current marketshare. Based on its momentum I'd say in 10 years, at best, I expect it to be where Opera was before it became a Chromium fork.

For now Firefox does things better than Chrome but I don't expect them to keep up when it becomes a community project. It'll be like using Opera used to be.
>On the other hand, mice-based GUIs ARE a 100% replacement for CLIs.

Really? I can automate a pipeline of GUIs? Please show me how I can automatically query a database, take that output, run complex data aggregation over those results combined with past results, send that to a remote server for storage, and email myself the result of the upload, using only a combination of GUIs.

(Points deducted for anything that involves instructing the machine to "move mouse to position (x,y)", since screen sizes may vary and where an individual GUI chooses to pop open a dialog/modal may also vary)
I listen to a lot of NPR, but the longform shows (This American Life, Serial, Planet Money, Freakanomics, Radiolab), and always in podcast form. I don't want to listen to my news - I listen to a decent number of podcasts, and I want to be able to choose what I listen to based on momentary whims. That means that the content had better be relatively timeless, which rules out pure news shows that are made of 4 minute segments.

Maybe this doesn't bode well for the flagship NRP programs, but I don't want to listen to my daily news. I want to read it - I read the NY Times daily. The speed at which I can get an understanding of the daily news is so much faster when reading than listening. When I listen, I want a single story or concept in depth.
Vim _cannot_ run under MS-DOS. It hasn't worked for years, that's why Neovim removed DOS support 2 years ago. The cries of "losing compatibility" were uninformed fear/uncertainty/doubt.

Vim also doesn't run on OS/2 and other platforms, though the Makefiles have not yet been removed.
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It doesn't. Not sure of the official name but Appeal to Worse fallacies are some of the worst I've come across. The smoking example is pretty much one of the worst ones considering what we're talking about anyway. Smoking has gone through a ton of regulation over the years. And is already rarer and rarer.

Perhaps scientists should stop finding a vaccine for Zika since it isn't as bad as cancer and other deadly diseases.

I think the actual issue is trusting the American government with our privacy. They've shown repeatedly that they don't care about it through various initiatives.
I don't really see the point of the charging cover. I have a 2 year old paperwhite and I charge it about once every two months.

That being said, I really like the new design. Glad they're embracing physical buttons.
The design and added features look nice, but it's hard to believe they're charging $289 -- well over twice the price of the Paperwhite, which is a great e-reader itself. Makes me wonder if this is an artificially high price point meant to drive sales of the Voyage, which now looks comparatively cheap at $199.
That's pretty interesting as a model.

Is voting the right way to influence developer choices though, or is a more market based solution the right approach (like using subscription fees and thus loss of fees = feedback that the decisions are wrong).
What ton of bugs? Trix is used by thousands of people daily in Basecamp 3. I'd like to think it's pretty stable.
Smoking is more provable, controllable, and doesn't involve a highly invasive seizure and search, the results of which are questionable anyway.

We get all up in arms about relatively small numbers of needless deaths and ignore any of many elephants in the room, one of which is the fact that tobacco is a huge, profitable industry that has a vast lobby and kills nearly a half-million people per year.

All I'd like to see is a sense of scale to our outrage. Both distracted driving and smoking involve personal, silly choices, both of which can kill others. One is 141x more likely to kill; let's fight that first instead of yet further eroding privacy.
If he has an insurance and is officially ill he could sign up for pay compensation. The first year he would receive 100% of his gross and 70% after the first.
"just like in Emacs."

There are many thing you can do, but it really, really isn't just like emacs.
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$5,500 per year, presumably for many years. And heaven forbid you should be so well off that you have to save for retirement with after-tax dollars and/or in taxable accounts! :P

Tax-advantaged savings accounts are to reward savers who might not otherwise save. They don't mean that everyone deserves tax-free saving.
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Given that current Kindle e-ink readers can be read in portrait or landscape, it seems within the realm of possibility.
beijing traffic is like the worst nightmare one can imagine, and this was me visiting in 2011...

it's such a bad place to live.
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I wonder if it's actually now better to read things on the new ipad 9.7". Notably with true tone, night shift and the wide color gamut of the new display.
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I love my Kindle Voyage, but I after the new Paperwhite came out with the same resolution as the Voyage, I thought the Voyage was overpriced. At $90 more than the Voyage and 2.4x the price of the Paperwhite, I don't know who the target market for this Oasis is.
I wonder if "when appropriate" could be further clarified. Nasty email? Letter from a lawyer? Hm.
I'm actually wondering the same thing. Have you seen the hosting cost? $10,000/month avg. Clearly they can handle traffic themselves. What's the advantage here?
You can always lower a price, but you can rarely raise it. And a high original MSRP lets them advertise a steep discount when the price does get lowered.
Probably because they are still paid well enough to "bother" going out and protesting. Most Verizon employees are probably paid closer to min wage.