skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has done this before e.g. they adopted a brilliant strategy, and drove up the auction prices in a spectrum option forcing FCC to adopt open rules. By threatening to build out a Fiber optic network, it forced the competition to respond.

https://www.cnet.com/news/spectrum-auction-google-wins-by-lo...
The "integration" doesn't need to be incredibly sophisticated. Look at Periscope.
Well, for awhile. Software updates come along and re-enable these features all too frequently.

Not to mention, this feels a bit like how we used to have to manage Linux on the desktop: don't like X? Here's a configuration file you can edit. At least until another update comes along and breaks it.

It's been years since I've enjoyed chasing down new settings and finding what was reset every few days.
> We don't have high quality, (mostly) neutral fact checkers in this country.

I disagree. The leading news sources, including the NY Times, Washington Post, and others, do a very good job. In case you think the Times is biased, remember that they broke the Clinton email server story.
Established discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806324
Are there any numbers behind that curve? Its interesting, but has anyone tried to measure "expectations"?
What is the intuition behind the Beta distribution?
See my other replies below. I can't edit my above post now, but I'd like to make clear that I wasn't disagreeing that git(1) has a horrible, obtuse interface.

When I say to "meet Git where it lives", I mean "ignore git(1) and focus on the merkle-tree datastore it creates." That datastore (to really stretch the analogy) is a toothbrush-head with rather excellent bristles. Used correctly, it can get your teeth very clean. git(1), on the other hand, is a horrible, obtuse handle attached to it. Ignore the handle; focus on the bristles.

(What this statement really means, to me personally, is that I'd love nothing more than spending a few months factoring that merkle-tree datastore out of git(1) into its own library—and then writing a new, much lower-level frontend to expose it. That would be "meeting Git where it lives" in a real sense.)

But, presuming that none of us have time to do that but need to get Real Work done (and that work, for whatever reason, requires using git(1) instead of Mercurial et al), the best thing you can do to "understand Git" is to not try to understand git(1), but rather to understand that merkle-tree library that exists in a nascent form inside git(1)—and then understand git(1) itself as a bad and leaky wrapper around it. As long as you understand what each command you give is doing to the object pool, you can "see through" git(1) and it will no longer be a mysterious dental-cleaning machine, but rather just a simple toothbrush with a really weird handle you have to finagle to get it into your mouth.

Or, to put it another way: as long as you understand the hygienic goal you're attempting to head toward, then you can understand Git in terms of that goal, rather than in terms of its interface.

In this case, the "goal" is building up a content-addressible object pool that you can dump a bunch of people's individual commits into as entirely independent trees (which share objects), that can then be compared and worked with.

git(1) doesn't make very clear that this is the goal. git(1) explains itself only in terms of how to operate the handle of the merkle-tree toothbrush, and where you point it; not in terms of what the brush is doing (cleaning your teeth.) git(1), learned in a cargo-cult manner or taught by someone only familiar with centralized or patch-based SCM, will not result in clean teeth. You'll just be waving the toothbrush around in your mouth. That's git(1)'s fault, of course. But that doesn't mean there isn't a powerful toothbrush-head there, if you look past the handle.
Hey HN. My team and I built this ecommerce app both as a demo and to fulfill some needs (One of my co-workers felt it was often hard to find some of his favorite snacks that he grew up with–especially when he was away at university).

Right now, all the products are sourced from a couple stores in San Francisco.

Would love feedback on both (a) the overall design and usability of the app and (b) the inventory options. If you have any favorite snacks/foods you'd like to see here, please let me know.

TIA
frankly; dont care. not my problem, i am a consumer.
its been sustainable for the last 20 years.
the same 'sustainability' arguments were made 10 years ago, yet here we are.
From the perspective of the 10% that remain, why would they bother to stay if 90% were cut? Sounds like taking on ten times the day to day workload. In SF, it's not like they couldn't go elsewhere for work.
problem is that the society that creates these oligopolies that can coordinate with each other to limit worker movement.
Would you spend money buying a Mac just for this software?
tldr: Now you can use a "TV" app with your appleTV to watch TV on your TV. Users have confirmed it's 100% awesome. It will also bring the family-friendly world of twitter into your living room.
The original argument was about business success, and that's what my original comment was mostly about. But the reply to my original comment that I was replying to here, seemed to be taking the argument toward the general success of our species, and that's what I was responding to (although I did note even within that context how it related to business success).
This piece of software is amazing. Great job on this, Facebook! And thanks a lot for open sourcing it. I'd easily have paid a lot of money for this. I was actually looking into Flinto before seeing this. Thanks!
Munich's six sisters are really twins – an anecdotal taste test of beers
Ask HN: What SQL tools have you used for agile development?
I am looking for applications around Microsoft's SQL Server. I am trying to gather data on which tools would make a DB team agile by automating a lot of their current manual tasks. Some of those tasks include automatic/promoted deployments, database versioning, source control, and being able to reliably test their scripts without having to muck with the database.

Some of the tools I have started to investigate are:

- Redgate's technologies

- ApexSQL's technologies

- SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools)

- Navicat for SQL Server

Are there others out there that I might be missing out on? What have you used to solve these kinds of problems?
Live edit already-running Node.js code with hotswapping in Chrome DevTools
>and he seemed unhappy for a few days.

This. There's a real dark side to this 'feel good' culture. I've been into meditation for quite some time and it really does make you much more entitled. You get complacent with low stress and it becomes your new norm. When that new norm gets broken its very jarring and you realize you have less control of your emotions than you assumed. Apparantly, this stuff is like a muscle. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Meanwhile the guys who deal with shit all day don't get fazed as much. Of course the car company screwed up, they almost always do, and the people who work there are barely above working at McDonalds. Having lowered expectations and a low regard for others seem to be the real way toward contentment in the modern world. Sure, that sounds cruel, but its probably true.

We just hired a new guy straight out of school to help out in IT and he's just easily stressed, surprised, and sometimes borderline livid at how bad some of our staff are and how terrible some of our vendors are. Life's different in college as college is something of a meritocracy. The office world and 'real life' are a non-stop shitshow of dishonesty, laziness, entitlement, rip-offs, and incompetence most of the time. You learn to live with it and things like meditation and positive thinking don't really help, especially if your tradition empathizes the 'goodness' in others. Thats simply is a disservice to you. People tend to follow a simple game theory-like strategy in life. They aren't going to be your pals and have your best interests in mind. They will have their own best interests in mind and a lot of times that means being shitty or lazy at their job. No 'happiness guru' is going to change that.

I used to think I could live without cynicism (or perhaps Stoicism) and with always thinking the best of the other person, but it just made me like your friend. A bit drugged up via my own practice and being unable to handle real life, real stress, and real everyday people.
The main problem with science is the lack of agile methodologies -- the scientific process is ripe for disruption.
I agree with the sentiment in the article because of an important point you mentioned:

> Think about where we'd be today if Microsoft actually succeeded in what it set out to do

As DHH points out; and to a similar vein if we swap Google for Microsoft in your quote above, fragmenting the industry is the safest and best way to serve users. Google seems to have succeeded in it's goal to control the worlds information-- and whether you believe this or no; having 3 powerful entities competing with each other is much better than many small ones trying to dethrone a hostile winner.

Small startups will always try and innovate where they can, but there are now different inroads as a single leader can not always banish them.

I agree with you. I agree on the macro-scale. I do not want one company to have the ability to do the things you mentioned. I am sure Microsoft is doing much of this new initiative out of self-interest, but it is good for the community. I like vscode, they have an extremely easy to use && intuitive Azure interface and a massive amount of open courses and docs on how to use it, and tons of other code, docs, resources ect.

I don't want Amazon to be the only cloud provider.

I don't want google to be the only search engine.

I don't want os x/win to be the only 2 operating systems.

I don't want Apple to be the only vertically integrated handset maker.

I don't want a single option for payment/wallet

I don't want a single app store.

All these things are better addressed when there is competition, and the competition between several large players leaves room for smaller companies to enter and innovate.
When I "discovered" systemd-nspawn, I kept thinking "why aren't people using this? This is easier to understand in every way."
If you're a top performer, you can also see that the company is not paying you at the top of people they're paying.
There are ads for Microsoft products in the app store and ads for Office on the start menu in "stock" Windows (installed from MSDN ISO - not from a hardware vendor). The lock screen has an (optional?) theme which displays high-res photos from Microsoft. Some of those photos have been game ads.

I personally think it's unobtrusive, but the ads are there.
Maybe it's a clue that Mozillians are secretly building a handlink:

http://quantumleap.wikia.com/wiki/Handlink
How does WebKit's JITing style system compare? (As far as I'm aware, nobody else has anything like it, though it is still single-threaded as far as I'm aware.)
Given how much time they are taking for iOS, I get the feeling that the Macintoshes are going to get a serious short shift. I guess the one machine rumor is starting to look true.
That's not an elaboration...

Really, could you go into some more detail on how you structure, build, and deploy your microservices? Monitor them? Scale? Do migrations?
Sadly, this appears to be half of it. People are more interested in looking in other people's bowl to make sure they're being paid more, rather than seeing that others are making enough.
But I am not sure you need transparency for this? Can usually get close to ranges if you ask a few coworker friends and/or interview around.
How? Open sourcing most things don't lead to "gaming" systems in a malicious manner.
>The fine is structured such that only people that can pay for health insurance are hit with it.The various income tests and whatever might not be perfect though.

That is to say the least. It is all based on the poverty line and that is extremely flawed.

"The current federal poverty level is $23,550 a year for a family of four and $19,530 for a family of three. But this measure is based on a methodology developed in the 1960s and now widely recognized as outdated. One major criticism is that the official poverty level is too low. Current research suggests that, on average, families need an income of about twice the federal poverty level just to afford basic expenses. Moreover, although the cost of living varies significantly within and across states, the federal poverty level is the same across the continental U.S."

http://www.nccp.org/topics/measuringpoverty.html
3-4k per month. I own a rental property doing nightly rentals. I've automated all of the notifications, door code programming, arranging cleaning, etc.
Why not just tape over the sides of a normal monitor?
One might argue that the market fails to price (and compensate) information goods efficiently or accurately.

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.h...
>but we decided to go for open salaries anyway

What happened to the people who didn't want to reveal their compensation. Was is it revealed anyways?
For anyone who's used both, how does this compare to Sketch for design and prototyping work?
"The other is that their abuse problem was a big factor in them not getting offers from a couple of suitors during their attempt to sell themselves. I think it's safe to say their abuse problem cost investors literally billions of dollars."

For me that's a huge red flashing neon sign that your efforts will be directed to what top management considers the problem to be and not necessarily what you consider the problem to be.

The reality of that situation they're looking to change the perceptions of potential buyers. That may or may not involve much that you care about. Of course they'll say the two overlap, but when push comes to shove...
Didn't catch all of that, but it may be a move into the direction to slim down iTunes by moving parts of it into separate apps.
this is one of the stupidest thing I've read today
Really interesting toolbox. Really weird the sort of information you can infer/recreate from mobile phone communications metadata including demographic information and hundreds of behavioral indicators. Seeing the toolbox in use really crystallizes the imperative behind privacy, mobile security, and a curtailment of the Surveillance State. Regardless, looks immensely useful.

1. Luc Rocher - bandicoot: a toolbox to analyze mobile phone metadata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fb7ttS43GE)

2. D4D-Senegal: the second mobile phone data for development challenge (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.4885.pdf)

3. Using Deep Learning to Predict Demographics from Mobile Phone Metadata (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2225/04e1217e79304e725fcc5a...)
By being transparent, you force yourself to be less irrational.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
I was where you were at a few years ago, and I really don't think these type of large SPAs are appropriate for the vast majority of business / crud sites (i.e. not Google Maps, Facebook, etc.)

I work in Java / Scala world, but have been pulled into more front-end / UI work the last few years. It seems a lot of (younger) developers use the backend only as a Restful bridge to the DB.

After seeing what is Node, Angular npm, bower, grunt, etc. and now React and friends, I'm pushing my team back to the server for all business logic and using the front-end only for dynamic forms, animations, etc.

The JS tooling is just not as good as static backend frameworks, nor are the libraries. Trying to debug dozens of async calls using Chrome Dev Tools takes 10x as long as doing it on the backend, even with multiple threads.
Yet polls work most of the time. I lost money when Bernie won Michigan in a surprise upset, but it told me to respect polling error. But I won money on the vast majority of my bets based on polling aggregate.
I'm in Norway, and this is very misleading. Tax data is no longer available anonymously, but even when it was:

- you only seen tax return figures, and depending on your family situation, property ownership, tax class, benefits the spread in paid taxes can be easily 2x on same amount. Hardly usable for finding out if someone makes 20% over you.

- the data was available with 3 year delay.
That isn't an absolute and you know it. Why even perpetuate the narrative, without pinpointing specific actions?

Someone pointed out M&A consolidation and regulatory capture. Specific actions with specific discussions, and a very small portion of the functions of these institutions.
Here's the one I referenced: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-so...

Telos, incidentally, I consider to be a very fascinating and important concept, though only tangentially relevant to this thread.
Sounds more like hubris to me.

Same thing I heared of a bunch of Linux users that switched to Macs, because the OS was now a Unix.

"I'm getting old, I don't have time anymore to build all this stuff and configure my system. I just want something that works." And now most of them are switching back.

But yes, I think MS got better since they dropped Ballmer.
There are three companion articles to this one which answer questions like this. The answer to your question from the "how" article: "Not joining would mean that others won’t know about that person’s salary and that person wouldn’t have access to the salary list."
What are the best passive money making sites?
I hated prop trading desks like this. All that leverage and no tolerance for it!
Conway's Game of Life in Scheme
I'd wager it's impossible to eliminate all sources of unhappiness in your life, at least without eliminating all the sources of happiness too.

E.g., even the best family & friends periodically cause some stress & unhappiness. But excommunicating everyone doesn't make you better off.
Haha, I might just take you up on that. I've always wanted a narrator, he wrote in the comment box.
I'm actually german and I do not agree with those laws at all. I'm not even affected by them, I just happen to think that free and unrestricted speech is most important and should apply to everyone and anyone, regardless of what is being said. Private law is a different matter though.

If the speech Facebook is forced to delete is illegal, there must be criminal investigation, by law. So it can't be illegal, which means the government is actually suppressing freedom of speech.

> Restricting hate speech and symbols is completely legal

"But it is legal" is not exactly a helpful response to criticism of a law.
The link also works with this Chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/native-hls-playbac...
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't pay anything for it. The perception of most users is, you can get a free digital subscription to anything on twitter. Just click "Follow".

The trick is to find the really good accounts to follow. To make that easier, I wrote a tool you can use to find the exactly the twitter account you're looking for: http://www.find70.com
The event's raison d'être is new Mac hardware, so I doubt that.
Am I the only one who finds it laughable that Apple thinks anybody wants to purchase or rent movies and tv shows through iTunes? The service is awful and the pricing even worse.

edit: tv shows, not tvs. lol
There are three companion posts to this one that you might want to read because they'll fill in some assumptions you're making. Primarily, for existing employees the program was opt-in, such that "[n]ot joining would mean that others won’t know about that person’s salary and that person wouldn’t have access to the salary list."
Origami eng here:

Swift wasn't ready when we started a couple years ago. We actually used some swift for internal things and it has been a bit of a pain, eg with the macOS SDK update for Xcode 8. Combining ObjC and C++ you get a lot of the benefits of swift like functional programming / static type checking etc, paying a similar price in compile time.

It would be hard to achieve the elegance of ComponentKit syntax (https://github.com/facebook/componentkit) in swift though. It lets us express the UI in a functional way :D
> That's not true. Servo is designed to be production-grade.

I never said that it wasn't. I said that it wasn't going to be shipped as a production Mozilla product.
I like it, simple, (obviously) quick to load, and easy to visually follow as well.

One piece of browser feedback: on my Firefox, when I zoom in above 100% (to even just 120%), part of the text (say, your email ID) vanishes beneath the page, and scrolling only scrolls your image on the right, not the text.

And talking about email, it might be better to move the email address up a bit, perhaps after the blog link. A lot of folks coming to your personal page are probably going to want to contact you as the next step.

(As a subjective comment, I'm not a fan of the background colour, makes the page feel a bit dull. )

By the way, are you standing on top of an electric transformer in the photo? If so, why???
Why do you think entities without consciousness are not worthy of ethical consideration? Most animals and even human babies don't have it but most people still make a big deal about their ethical treatment.
Linus Torvalds. Richard Stallman. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nikola Tesla. Dr. John Snow.
It Takes a Lot of Supercomputing to Simulate Future Computing
I wonder if deaf-mute people have them.
How an Engineer Earned 1.25M Air Miles by Buying Pudding (2013)
Very cool stuff, actual interaction prototyping is an area that's sorely missing in terms of tooling.

Is there any sort of export to a production framework(I.E. for integrating into existing iOS/Android apps) or is this purely for prototyping?
"What's the secret to getting in? I can't tell you. You have to find out for yourself."
> Starting to think that Twitter woes are mismanagement related.

That's almost certainly the case.
Learning to plan an invasion is actually not worth doing. It takes way too long (invasions are really fucking complex operations) and if you actually need it, you will know about it 3 years before.
There was a choice and these people would just not see the salaries list and participate in salary raise process. But we went all in, everyone was ok with revealing their salaries.
I don't really see Facebook waning, but it did effectively disprove that removing anonymity reduces bullying. I maintain a minimal presence there and most of the time report mobbing and harassment and I've never had anything removed. If you want your post removed, say something minimally racist. If you want impunity, post the address of somebody that shot an animal, inviting people to "get them."
s/selfish/asshole/ please.

Assholes can game any system.
MVP: Clear your head daily here – TalkProductivity
Because that idea is a fantasy, it has never come to fruition and never will. Progress is made through real incentives. Wouldnt it be nice if nobody stole from eachother? Sounds great doesnt it? Then why doesnt it happen?

The play chips are not imaginary, the rich have better lives in almost all aspects.