skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no reason a craigslist style nonprofit version of a service similar to Twitter couldn't launch. The open Facebook alternatives never took off though - very hard to get traction against deep pocketed and connected rivals.

Doesn't look as though anyone is going to buy Twitter which is embarrassing for them
People that hold OPs opinion tend to be on twitter, and this blind to the size of the outgroup
>As a data source for academic study it's unparalleled.

Does that actually mean it's valuable? Just because something's one of a kind doesn't mean it's worth that much.
I've a passionate relationship with wires, and often thinks of grabbing bluetooth earphones, do you think BT is also risky ? At least there are some BT modules that one can clip on a shirt and wire the headphone jack as usual, you're still wireless from the source.
Right. Probably the only way newer generations who've grown up in this context will come to embrace an alternative is if it at least looks like the centralized apps (on the centralized platforms) they're used to.

So you have to create a system that's decentralized and yet has the interface of a centralized application and which is distributed on centralized, mostly monopolized platforms.

So that's certainly an undertaking... but not necessarily impossible.
For now, yeah. Devs from various servers are experimenting with alternate s2s protocols aiming to solve this though.
It would be very interesting if they could also exchange teaching/workshops (Scrum/TDD/Cloud etc) for benefits.. ( a night out, dinner, surfing lessons etc.. )

In my experience local (Here in Peru) shops are very interested on learning from foreign developers.
> but unless they make the choice to listen and understand it's all for nothing

And when do we usually listen? When we feel the pain. Which is why we'll probably have to feel the pain of authoritarian governments in the near future, to gain enough understanding, before we can make that transition to a better humanity. I just hope this painful transition won't take too long.
Residential segregation is the large scale observable effect of small biases. http://ncase.me/polygons. To end residential segregation is to either end the biases themselves or the freedom to express them. Either approach is rather distopian, with strong reverberations in the worst abuses of the Soviet regime.
While the note other commenter left is correct (wikidata is not your regular mediawiki) you can also look at DBpedia which is doing pretty much what you have suggested. The TLDR answer would be: "possible, but harder than it seems".
I've not seen weak candidates that got hired get much better even after extensive coaching and pairing.

It may be that coaching, pairing and code reviews are simply ineffective in teaching people. They are also very expensive, since they sap the productivity of the rest of the team, and make planning and sequencing less predictable.

Overall, in my experience it's a lot less costly to turn down a candidate that might be good than to take one on.

(FWIW, the main metric in our company's hiring after meeting a minimum bar of an online coding test (~15 minutes to solution) is pairing with them on a problem that can be solved in several different ways. Getting a key insight into how to solve the problem isn't the metric; it's communicating different approaches and seeing how much explanation is needed to get the implementation idea across and how fluent they are at turning the idea into code. It's 2 hours of working together; it is not 8 hours of trivia.)
The whole 10x great developer seems to be an attempt to build an elaborate mythology to con immature and young workers to work themselves to death trying to prove something that is vague, extremely subjective, illdefined and thus unattainble.

Let's spice it up with 10x HR people, 10X CXO's and 10X VPs and hell while we are at it why not throw in the 10x Barista to get Starbucks HR fired up.

Here is a better idea, forget the 10x developer. Show us the 10x code.
I believe you're right. I hold out some hope someone will come up with a magic atmospheric CCS, but realistically what we're doing is lying to ourselves that global-scale negative emissions will become feasible, because it's the only way we haven't already wrecked the planet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529Og_YR0IU
Are you assuming that nodes have parent pointers?
I've had the same problem with a small minority of women, who while not always physically aggressive are equally persistent. I don't have the luxary or privilege of a male-only events alternative though.
Do you think they should unban people who threaten to rape and kill people because they disagree about video games? If so, why?
> There's no reason a craigslist style nonprofit version of a service similar to Twitter couldn't launch.

Launch, sure. Scale? That's a much harder problem in terms of user acquisition (and if you can do that, you can deal with the technical side of things even as a nonprofit, maybe). I think there's only room for one Twitter. If you don't have 99% of the people interested in that sort of service, you might as well have nobody.

And I don't think the arguments towards federation and distribution help--you can have a thousand federated hosts, and if you have no users, you will get no users. It's a really hard problem.
Something that amuses me is at least two of the UK bottled water brands are selling untouched tap water. Not treated, filtered, or with additives as mentioned in the article. Just tap water put in plastic bottles. One of them was selling Manchester tap water, I think, and doing quite well with it.

I can understand wanting bottled water in London where tap tastes terrible, being 80% limestone, but for the rest of the UK bottled is a pointless waste of money.
Explaining Japan's feature phone fetish (2015)
I used IRC for over 10 years, but after using Slack for 1 it just felt outdated to me.

Offline messages and simulatnous logins from multiple places are just two features I was missing in IRC and didn't even know till I had them, haha.

But yeah, IRC networks just worked as message broker and not as databases, so I never thought about it.
> We pay almost 50% in taxes which I think is close to what you guys pay in Europe.

Total tax burden in the US is about 30%, slightly higher for the top half of the income scale. http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2015/04/who_pays_taxes_in_america_...

> The lions share goes to Washington where as far as I can tell it either evaporates or gets spent on very expensive jobs programs like the F-35.

About 2/3 of taxes go to the federal government. Half of federal spending is on Social Security and medical spending (Medicare, Medicaid, etc.). About 16% is defense and international security assistance.

http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-wh...

> At the same time we also have large numbers of people who pay no taxes, 51%.

About 45% of households pay no federal income tax, but most of them still pay federal payroll taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and so on. The estimated tax burden for the lowest income 20% of the population is 19.2%, less that the overall 30%, but still significant.
I would be very interested to know how much Feynman actually knew about the philosophy of science. My guess would be not very much at all.

Feynman, like some other famous scientists, gave in to the temptation of pontificating on subjects he knew very little about. Philosophy in general was something he seemed to have contempt for, without knowing much about it. I'd take his pronouncements on it with a huge grain of salt.
It's my understanding that the Caltrain charges $18,000/yr to give an unlimited number of employees a GoPass (unlimited travel). Pretty good deal if you are running a mid size or larger company in the bay area.
John Baez has a nice write-up aswell: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/kosterlitz-t...
I believe Pocket faced exactly this issue once upon a time.
Wasn't there some "Twitter alternative" launched by someone who used HN? Its entire business model was to bill users. I can't remember the name of it, or the founder, but I think the service failed to gain traction.

edit: The service was/is App.net, and it was founded by Dalton Caldwell. It used to make the rounds on HN all the time.
Being proactive and affirmative in how you go about building your event is very important if a diverse range of perspectives and a safe space for all is truly important to you. It's easy to stand at the end and say, welp... no women applied to hang out in this room full of men all night, so if you know any that might wanna, hit me up! I don't quite understand your perspective of, it's fine to care about trying to create a more healthy environment but not at the expense of effort or time? It's akin to becoming a teacher because you wanted to educate and inspire the next generation of humans and then deciding you don't want to mark homework in the evenings because you're too busy, well don't do something you can't fully commit to, it's disingenuous and it's lazy.
We're not remotely resource-constrained IMO. And the universe doesn't become a zero-sum game for a very very long time, if ever. We are, however, severely imagination constrained IMO and that's more than enough to suck all the fun out of existence at times.
Here's a decentralised caching proxy I made earlier this year: https://github.com/psybernetics/synchrony

Future plans include a C port (already in the works) and dialing down on the contacts API to bootstrap a three.js CAD tool.
The phrase "x is unparalleled" implies uniqueness by virtue of the value it provides.

GP is basically saying twitter has accumulated a vast wealth of social data that is immensely valuable to the research community.
I'd also point you to Eliot Peper, William Hertling, and Nick Thacker
Yes on incremental migration, e.g. the IndieWeb community targets content creators, allowing them to syndicate from decentralized to centralized, so that the content system of record and ownership is under the creator's control.
I saw that HN post, it is a very impressive piece of work btw.

It also seems like a good fit for the HN / entrepreneur space. Was this intentional? IE did you plan it this way before starting the guide, or was it a marketing plan you figured out after it was already done?
No. I get paid to do a job on a computer screen. The location of that screen is irrelevant as long as the job gets done.

The 'perk' is for the company. They don't have to pay electricity for my computer, provide desk space, commuter benefits or have me drinking their coffee, or using their bathrooms. They also don't have me on premises, so that's one less employee to insure. One less 'head' to add to their on-premises liability insurance. Less heating and cooling expenses and less expense for real estate. You have productivity gains because rarely is someone late for work when they're already at work. You also have fewer sick days because if I'm contagious but still functional, that means I can keep working whereas otherwise, I'd have to stay home.

It's a win-win for both parties, despite many employers trying to frame the conversation as an employee 'benefit.'

Obviously some jobs won't work (for example hardware or physical goods,) but for a job where you're on a phone or in front of a computer screen -- what's the difference?
This also explained it well, predicting contracts would be full of problems http://vessenes.com/ethereum-contracts-are-going-to-be-candy...
Not quite. Have we already forgotten how Twitter closed-off most third-party clients a few years ago, that were innovating on top of Twitter?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/9/3135406/twitter-api-open-cl...
At which point you're in the minority because the set of people who affirmatively want to give up their privacy is not larger than the set who either don't want to or don't care.

DuckDuckGo is not decentralized, it's just a worse Google with a better privacy policy. Actual decentralized search is hard. But this is not a one-time global binary decision. We can have decentralized YouTube and Facebook even if nobody has yet figured out how to have decentralized Google.
Have a look at Textual (macOS):

https://www.codeux.com/textual/
I'm realizing an emoticon might have helped clarity here... ;)
Another thumbs up for Nearly Free Speech. Excellent value for money and more than capable of dealing with traffic spikes.
Good point. Apple is a non-profit: it does not give dividends.
And this is why the web should be decentralized. To be clear, not so we can access centralized services (Dropbox, Google Drive, and MS OneDrive), but so an entire country can't have it's access to the Internet so easily censored / blocked. This has happened like, a thousand times already, but I guess, like Ebola until it hits the U.S.A. hard enough we're gonna just keep on reading about it in the news with some fascination but otherwise not caring to act.
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As a non-profit it could also become a decentralized platform, and it could more easily fight-off censorship requests.
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If the nodes have parent pointers, which does tend to be somewhat common, then depth-first can be done in constant space. I haven't implemented it before, but I believe breadth-first should also take constant space in this case.
I use ZNC, so logging in from multiple places works well.
Nuclear winter solves global warming.
I don't really know, but they do.
That sentence is such a pleasure to read.
Their newest snapshots looks like they're getting back on track, I wasn't into 1.9. Wishing them the best though.
Ask HN: Any good examples for dashboard for performance analysis
I am building a performance dashboard for my team. We have a Software as a service offering. The users access our product/service via a web based UI, We want to achieve following from the dashboard.
1) Break-up of TTI (Time to be interactive) at 50th, 80th, 90th and 95th percentile (configurable), e.g. Network time, Server time, Resource loading time at client, Client rendering time etc
2) From the client we make several async calls during the page load that are part of TTI. We want to show all the calls made from client and time taken for each.
3) We have very detailed data available for all server and client activities, including stack traces and how much time was spent in each function.

The objective of the dashboard is to quickly identify if TTI is regressed for a page and possible causes of regression (which async call, or which method call at server, or we started loading additional scripts at client side which are causing the issue).
I am looking for some good examples of such dashboards if exists and what you like and don't like about them. My objective is to get ideas about the best way to represent this data for quick analysis.
Has DigitalOcean gotten better for reliability? I took my company off of them about 2 years ago specifically because of their frequent downtime.
Obama recently bemoaned the 8 trillion or so in wealth that is not circulating with much, if any, frequency in the US economy. As he and others have observed, it's sequestered overseas and at home, waiting for a time when confidence is higher and taxes lower. Unless a mechanism exists to prevent smart money from finding safe havens from taxes, instability and currency flux (Even China is currently failing at this task) redistribution and populist ideals are always due to fail. This is the message the "trickle down" and free market cheerleaders try to communicate, poorly.
I completely agree, its definitely not impossible. I think just awareness would build some momentum.
I would not want to work home even if i got a 8% raise.

Working at home is boring, and unmotivational.
I would suggest that having Facebook's userbase is a core part of having Facebook. If you don't have Facebook's userbase on your "decentralized Facebook", you have a strictly inferior replacement to Facebook. The set of people who care enough about the benefits (which do exist!) of decentralization is not and never going to be enough to overcome the downside of having nobody there.

That's the problem you have to solve if this is something you really care about. Haranguing people because they're not using it isn't the way. The way to do it is to figure out how to make it attractive by the users' metrics rather than your own.
Linode has a $10 / month plan as well.
I only heard the jab on air, I didn't realize they were actually being serious

"In the second quarter it lost more than $100 million — so perhaps it already is a nonprofit."
And here i always had relativley decent views of GNU/FSF but their douchey white boy shit has outgrown it’s place. Perhaps GNU/FSF needs new administration!
Apple is not a non-profit, and it has been issuing dividends since 2012 (http://investor.apple.com/dividends.cfm)
Are you sure that the pay cut was necessary? As a freelancer, it's possible to make much more than a Bay Area salary if you are a good developer.
"Where possible avoid simply using id as the primary identifier for the table."

Has anyone had trouble by using surrogate primary keys? I've found the opposite of what the author said could be more true: composite keys should be avoided instead.
...or the launchers that ask you to give them your Minecraft account name and password.
If the nodes have parent pointers, everything is paying extra O(n) space.
Are you on my team? Indy?

This is exactly what we do, down to the exact days.

(Fun note: gitstats says that Tuesday is the most productive day and Friday the least)
I sure do. My commute is about 5 minutes. Most other jobs I've considered add at a minimum an hour of commute, and some are close to two hours. If I took public transportation it would be even worse.

I generally only work an 8 hour day unless there is a major issue at work. Just working offsite can make that a 10 hour day, 2 hours of which are going to be frustrating traffic. Screw that.

The social aspect can be a downside, but it is possible to have friends outside of work.
If you're considering Linode, you should read up on their history of security incidents and make sure it's a risk you're willing to take.
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Then I'm stuck living within commuting distance of the employer -- that means a position I could be perfect for would be ignored. That limits the talent pool to those that are willing to work in a particular location. That also means companies have to locate to insanely expensive locations just to be around talent -- which is less money that goes into growing the business.

Face to face is overrated.
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One of the best 'downloads' page I've seen

http://www.minetest.net/downloads/
Oh wow, this reads like the index of a book on sexism in the 90ies...

> I keep reading that women are paid 70 cents to the dollar to men. If this were actually true, why wouldn't the venture capitalists be fighting each other to get cheap labor?

This doesn't even make sense, since founders are not employed by VCs. But regarding the talking point you're repackaging, the idea is that people actually value women less then men so they wouldn't recognize the bargain they're getting. But the topic is much broader including, for example, jobs traditionally reserved for women to have lower wages across the board, even when the requirements are the same. An example I seem to remember is nurses vs. <some technical job I forgot>: both require comparable education, but nurses are paid 30% less per hour.

> After reading the article again, I'm also a little shocked that the author is trying to make a point about being excluded while at the same time pointing to an entire list of groups that are exclusive to a specific gender or sexual preference.

That's answered elsewhere in the thread, but basically the thinking is it's ok because (a) women may need these events so as to avoid being "grabbed by the pussy" and (b) it's a false equivalence because these groups don't create injustice but try to make up for existing injustice. See also every argument about affirmative action ever.

> Since there aren't as many women there in the first place [..] getting a pitch is mostly about having a good business idea and not about race or gender.

This seems to be making the point that it's not statistically significant if of four chosen founders, none are women because the number of women in the population of founders is equally low. Let's say only a quarter of founders are women that gives about a 30% of an all-men panel of four (0.75^4). That's not significant based on the standard p-value cutoff, but I'm almost sure this isn't the author's first event and she may have gone into it with a certain `prior`.
This is one of the most interesting articles I have read in a while. Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to see the practical applications of this other than some of the "type" ideas we have had such as a space elevator. That is an awesome idea and kinda cool too (just so much science goes into that idea that I feel giddy because it is fun) But, I think it just is a grain of sand on the beach of possibilities.
I haven't dealt with them in a while, but most of the feedback I read about them is great.
Does this contact come back with the same public RSA key each time? Could they sign a small piece of data with the key? It probably [is/isn't] them, then.

In Synchrony[1] this forms your address (like an email address but for editing web pages / chat / RTC teleconferencing / multi-user JS/WebAssembly applications), which contacts can then put a name to in the UI by mousing over.

The address has the form network_name/node_id/user_id, where network_name is an opt-in namespace (so Synchrony can select routing tables based on their overall trustworthiness), node_id is 160 bits based on the SHA1 of "ip:port:pubkey" which peer nodes can then verify, preventing one another from assuming node IDs that correspond to popular URLs, so no one can computationally inexpensively monitor popular URLs for financial gain[2].

Note that the RSA keypair is per-instance of the software and not per user-identity - that when we ask a node if it can sign for some data it's the installation rather than the individual user identity being checked.

[1] https://github.com/psybernetics/synchrony
[2] http://www.tm.uka.de/doc/SKademlia_2007.pdf
In a developer lemon market developers are hired at the lowest possible cost as their value can't be assessed in advance. Turning this thinking around in a employer lemon market employers are selected by offered salary as that is the only solid proof-able property that distinguishes them. Two strong diametrical forces are here in play focusing the discussion on salary to the detriment of considering the total package for both sides.

Lemon markets exist for one-time transactions between foreign parties. Public records of companies and potential employees change this to a degree. A big name company may be able to hire at lower cost as it is on record it is not a total disaster. A public record can help to put a floor under the salary one is being offered.

From a developer perspective one can

- market skills in a way to decrease hiring risk (affecting offered min salary)

- market skills that are truly needed (affecting considered max salary)

- research the company (allowing one to reduce demanded salary e.g. huge solid growth etc.)

As always the power in negotiation is with the party that can afford to say no.
AWS has a free plan during 12 months: https://aws.amazon.com/free
One thing I didn't see mentioned. What if the team simply lacks interesting work? If the team stamps out CRUD websites and the manager has somehow become convinced that the team needs "great" developers, he or she will have trouble hiring even if the pay is competitive.
Non-profit status has nothing to do with dividend payouts. While there are for-profit companies that do not pay dividends, Apple is not one of them: http://investor.apple.com/dividends.cfm.