skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I took a look at his new project(https://www.matterapp.io/) and wonder what people think about the method of social proof he is using by showing logos of companies that are not customers but that are transparent about their diversity. Seems like a great shortcut but feels slightly misleading to me.
> The DOD's budget is much more of a sacred cow than the Dept of Education's

Well, the Department of Defense is an actual constitutional branch of the executive, whereas there is nothing whatsoever in the Constitution which grants the United States authority over the education policies of the several states.
Except for the super annoying blue bar popping in and out of this horrible website I'll never visit again, great article!

I have found myself inadvertently taking advantage of my procrastination in this way before, and it's useful to codify it in the language this article uses.

EDIT: The horrible website is one I have respect for, archive.org, which didn't use to have this eye-gouging UX. I'll send them a friendly feedback email about it.
This is awesome. I seem to have run into an issue where if I keep the window open for a long time, the bar indicating "now" stops moving.

My use case might not be common, but I would absolutely love it if I could zoom in and use OneView as a Pomodoro tracker, have it in the corner of my screen so I can see what I'm supposed to be working on and how far through the Pomodoro I am.

Unfortunately the aforementioned bug makes that a non-starter for now. But I'm excited about the future!
HFTs do this all day long. Every flash crash is due to HFTs pulling out of the market when and liquidity vanishing. Nav's problem is that he didn't buy any politicians
If you shoot for 1M+, you may gather enough good advice and land up around 500-600K. Not a bad outcome I'd say.
> For a project without major corporate support not having to manage a complex service is a big selling point.

This was the best part of your post, which finally convinced me this was a good idea.
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> Twitter created expectations that it cannot meet.

Yes but in reality they can massively scale down, layoff hundreds and be a very profitable company. How many employees do you believe it really takes to run Twitter? Maybe 100?

After they do this, someone can buy it and take it private and print money for 10 years.
> If a pharma business is viable only if it pays $100k to its researchers and if it is being hamstrung by lack of researchers in America it doesn't matter that a software engineer can charge $200k for his services.

True, but in another sense, more people will train to be software engineers than pharma researchers? educated people are the common resource? Why should anyone train to go into pharma, when they could earn more as sw devs?

> their industry isn't solely driven by salaries alone

what does this mean?

> if there are only 100 researchers and there are 1000 jobs

Are jobs are not equal. Ultimately, there are only 100 jobs willing to pay a higher salary. Consider an auction, there are not really millions of buyers willing to buy an iphone (at $1), there is just one, the rest lost interest once the price point had been hit.

I understand, an industry can still be hamstrung by lack of employees, but

a) Would this be different in the US compared to other countries? If not, all similar industries will be equally slow to progress; No problem for the rare employees living in good times.

b) If the industry is desirable, people will begin to train for it, or be encouraged to train; high salaries will be just one incentive. In the meanwhile, the growth of the fledgling industry can be helped via investment: this investment could help provide aforementioned training, and also help pay for foreign labour at higher cost than than native, so as not to undercut native labour - hence the nonviable industry is subsidised until labour supply catches up.

> it is advantageous to have more researchers since more jobs filled leads to more successful companies which leads to growth

"job creation" theories are dangerous, much like trickle-down economics. It's easy for the wealthy to act in their own interest by promoting flawed justifications of this nature. I agree, certain high-skilled jobs actually fuel certain struggling industries than actually bootstraps industry in a way that makes existing workers more valuable, especially locally (vs nationally); but I can see how this line or argument, which applies to rare cases, can be abused to argue similar effect where it is not the case; Is is also the case that there would be an point where the visas must stop (when the benefit ends), which again it would be easy to manipulate - you'd need strict criteria to make it fair.
One reason for the opinion of this union organisation is, of course, that they're intertwined with the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and to some extent the Leftist League, who both are currently in opposition. So it is rather natural that it is against something that the governing parties (a coalition of centre-right parties with different support bases) has initiated.
The portion you take issue with is a quote from the same article that you're referring to, and clearly marked as such. I'm sorry that your "comprehension failure" insult backfired.

By the way, the map on the bottom right is for left turns on red, which isn't the topic here.
Don't for get that some people who think they are smart really are.
When Paul Graham wants to say something, he takes to Twitter to do it.

Wow. I didn't even know he tweeted.
I wholeheartedly agree! And you put it way better than me.

Maybe we're missing something here, but I got the impression that this is an incredible time for talented people.
I've learned all about hacking online - kernel hacking, remote exploits, DEP/ASLR bypass techniques, Kali Linux for penetration testing, exploit-db.com and Metasploit for inspiration, the great tutorials of corelan.be and other great minds and so much more - it's all there, readily available for free.

You don't even need a big budget to build a controlled environment - Raspberry Pi's, maybe some cheap routers and computers and you're ready to go.
"automated systems that serve human needs will eventually incur human intervention" this is just wrong.

The world is moving towards more automated systems, the fact that there was one mistake at a given point in time doesn't mean anything.

By mistake I mean putting so much money on an unproved experiment.
Care to share which of pg's tweets you found powerful? I would say that when pg has something to say, he takes to his blog. I dont think his tweets are within an order of magnitude as valuable as his blog. And for that reason I don't agree with your assessment of Twitter.

I don't think you're giving the distribution mechanisms enough credit. The only reason that the POTUS's tweets hold so much weight is because every 24 hour news company reports on them endlessly. It gets power from magnification.
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I hate when talent does not get distinguished. Nonetheless the time spent chasing the busy-work to get an A in US CS courses seems more detrimental to personal projects and interests... I wish I could just get a cutoff at 80% and just not worry anymore.
Actually no, you're deeply confused. Not surprising, because Warren phrased her numbers to be deliberately misleading.

Health care costs increased by 74% - this means that in 2005 were 174% of what they were in 1975.

Car costs increased by 52% - this means that in 2005 people spent 152% of what they spent in 1975.

Taxes increased by 21% - this means that if the family spent X% of income in 1975 on taxes, they spent X+21% of income in 2005.

However, if you want to make an apples to apples comparison, taxes increased by 140% from 1975 to 2005.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118705537958296783

http://volokh.com/2011/07/28/christopher-caldwell-falls-for-...
>yet Twitter is unable to profit from it.

Twitter could front run wall street on Donald Trump tweets.
I follow musicians' pages on Facebook - they announce all kinds of things there.
The ads on social networks are native content though (in the feeds). Much more difficult to block.

Not to mention most use in in native mobile apps, a further hinderance to ad blocking.
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I think twitter needs to be saved. It obviously needs a lot of work especially with language and spam tweet filtering and fake accounts. But it is totally doable.

Why can't twitter charge a certain fee to official verified accounts of famous people who do use the platform to engage with their followers. And to justify their fee they can provide them with more tools at hand. I am not a very heavy twitter user but it is one social network product that has the power to do good and bad in real world.
Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2017? Azure, AWS or GCE?
Google cloud has grabbed a number of huge customer in 2016. However it doesn't seem to dent AWS's growth figures. I personally don't know much about Azure, but would love to find out.

Some criteria on which the clouds can be judged: Performance, Cost, Features and Ease of use

What do you guys think based on personal experiences?

Please refer relevant articles and benchmarks.
Thanks, I added your comment to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26834 where we're considering changing the default.
I'm not sure I'd compare Snap with Twitter. Twitter has essentially flat-lined. Snap has only been monetized for a little over a year now and has at least demonstrated that they're capable of bringing in revenue, based on their ~$350M in 2016 and $1B 2017 projection. They're just beginning and I think they'll find more ways to capitalize on their large user base in the future.
Screenster like a lot of other tools gives the user an ability to send a mouse over explicitly during the recorder.

In the modern web pages that have to work well with touchscreens mouse over in general is de-emphasized anyway.
The correct answer to this is that the structure of the interface changes over time, and is influenced by the code. If you were to try to implement, say, the interface to HN, then you would create a top bar with some links, a body section, and then a bottom bar with some links. But the interesting part, all the posts, couldn't be drawn in the gui editor, because, well, they are programically generated. You could create some sort of post template, that would then be able to be injected into the "body section" but really, all the interesting parts of the interface end up being dynamic, and the static parts are trivial to design in code too.
I don't understand what you mean by:

> Imperative programming is programming with time. Functional programming projects time on to space.

and:

> Constraint satisfaction treats each constraint variable as its own timeline
That was so easy with tables.
> The same goes for many of the most influential people in the world.

The President of the United States, for instance.
Please note the central words on this project's website:

Unstoppable companies: Create value without borders or intermediaries.

In other words, your concerns are not this project's concerns—not even in the slightest; this project probably considers your world view to be not only obsolete, but in need of distruption that is so extreme as to be radically revolutionary.

Your "Spain" (and, especially, your "Spanish Social Security Institute") are utterly meaningless in this project's vision of the future.
Twitter's operating expenses are on par with Tesla's. Not to diminish how hard it is to manage Twitter's load but their spending is way out of proportion. And their revenue is on the order of 2 bn/year; there's no fundamental reason they can't be profitable.
I use a third party client (because the official one does not, for example, support multiple accounts) and I never saw ads.

Note this is not the client filtering them out (they'd be banned in an instant) it's just that the API only returns what's actually in my timeline.

Now that I think of it, it's the same with tweetdeck.. so, if you're a power user (the kind who'd be more likely to pay for the service) you already don't see them.
Sorry for that:)

I didn't really intend to pick on Selenium. Actually, that's the exact wording from the title of the article I used as my reference, so I though it would be fair to leave it the way it is.

But I agree, Selenium is one of the many cases illustrating the huge impact of open-source projects on the technology, and we must give it credit for that.
They're potentially able to profit from it, but they feel the need to have thousands of employees.
They should charge you for each 'like' you get for a post. First 100 would be free.
I'm sorry for hear we're making your advocacy for remote work harder :(
This kind of comment, though surely well-intended, unfortunately doesn't push us in the right direction. The best move is to just post civilly and substantively on the topic at hand.

Edit: do flag unwarranted injections of politics, because you're right that we're not here for that either.
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| Om Malik is the most recent of many people to ask why Twitter is such a big deal.

| The reason is that it's a new messaging protocol, where you don't specify the recipients. New protocols are rare. Or more precisely, new protocols that take off are. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. So any new protocol is a big deal. But Twitter is a protocol owned by a private company. That's even rarer.

| Curiously, the fact that the founders of Twitter have been slow to monetize it may in the long run prove to be an advantage. Because they haven't tried to control it too much, Twitter feels to everyone like previous protocols. One forgets it's owned by a private company. That must have made it easier for Twitter to spread.

- paul graham 09'
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WhatsApp is 'just SMS' but it was bought for 20+ billion.

Twitter has a multitude of opportunities to monetize their user base. Their management has just done a poor job.
I think the blue bar is from http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/, archive has it's own bar with capture date selection, that can be closed.
I was hoping some DNA analysis would show up in the article to show a provable family tree.
Not actors. I should have been more explicit, as I was referring to green threads.
It is a responsibility of the individual to follow the laws of her jurisdiction. It is a global project, so we won't be working with every local regulatory body.

Aragon is creating a framework (as an open source project) for running Blockchain companies. We don't provide legal advice nor services, we don't take any responsibility for a hypothetic bad usage of our software.
I'll think about it, thanks
Absolutely, I have run data ingestion pipelines before for event data processing, perfectly suitable for the use cases you mentioned too. I just dont see mongodb as a good fit here.
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Sounds cool :)
While I would like to see this as the future of social relations, I doubt it in just about every aspect.

The reason services like twitter and snapchat are so dominate is because they're so easy to use and uniform across everything. It's why everyone now prefers slack/discuss to IRC and other legacy channels (among features aswell). Typical users don't have time to research and setup software, they simply just want to use it.

I understand that there's federated signup and all that, but the second you have to explain what any of that means to a user, you've basically lost them.

On the first listed GNU site:

This is the place for you who are tired of private companies controlling your conversations and contacts and selling them for profit.

While I care deeply about what this statement has to say, I don't think my ideals fall in line with the average twitter user. They simply don't care about who's profiting off of it, as long as they get to announce their next vlog.
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About 4 cups. But I can admit that my sleep schedule is pretty awful too.
yep which is why their junk ones yield ~5.5

just change the weights closer to lower B's and some C

or sprinkle a little leverage on Vanguard's non-junk fund for the same yield
(I know this is just for fun, but...) I believe this won't work because of high-frequency trading. By the few seconds this latent python script will take to get the tweet, analyze the tweet, and execute a trade, high-speed bots will have already done something similar to a price level they decided was appropriate using sophisticated algorithms.

So basically, instead of this bot betting that Trump's tweets will change stock prices, you're actually betting on the HFT bots being wrong about how much Trump's tweets change stock prices.
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WhatsApp may have a healthy revenue stream, but I'll just point out that being acquired for huge $$$$ does not in itself make it a good business.
It's at -1. I really should not need to explain why a luxury service is not at all analogous to a service that deals with life-threatening, chronic conditions with a population that may not always have the means to pay especially when that payment amount is built off of a shadow market place and several entities which are notorious for not giving a flying shit about people.

Don't be silly.
I based my post off of this part of the parent comment: " And yet, as I write this, every single comment in this damn thread mentions him."

And not only was that poster right, at the time it was written, it is a frigging epidemic everywhere right now. On HN, on Reddit, on every platform; if the topic at hand is not tightly focused and apolitical, somebody eventually will make a derogative Trump comment.

Some of it is purely for humor. Some of it is pure snark. Some of it is virtue signalling. But almost all of it is noise, not signal.
As a theoretical fairness argument, sure. (Assuming you're not delivering a local service.) In practice though you either pay at least somewhat higher salaries in higher cost areas--which probably don't actually fully cover cost of living differential--or you accept that you're going to have trouble hiring good talent in those areas.

Location is also not really a lifestyle choice in the vein of driving an older car. People have partners, family obligations, etc. in area. It's often not as simple as packing up and moving.
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Anyone have any thoughts on turning Twitter into a publicly funded utility? It's fraught with difficulties, and maybe unconstitutional, but as you say Twitter is an extremely powerful tool and it would be a tragedy to lose it just because it can't find a way to extract money from its users.
Twitter simplifies re-broadcasting and discovery..

Only people who know Paul Graham will know about his blog, but his tweets can be re-broadcast to a much wider audience through re-tweeting, who can be exposed to him without having sought him out or known about him in the first place.

I've discovered, and subsequently followed, probably half of my twitter feed through re-tweets from my existing feed.

I have to imagine that's the same for a lot of others.
They could at least charge by completed likes. That is, hold likes as prospective, and complete only after payment.
Yes, if I had to mythologize someone from US history, it would absolutely be Lincoln. The re-integration of the South after the war probably would have gone dramatically differently had he not been assassinated, and who knows what long-term impact that might've had.

Heck, we might still be a liberal democracy.
I don't really know the answer to this, but most of the areas he's talking about seem like they would suffer from inelastic demand?
Thanks. This was a fun discussion.
It's reminiscent of the way that broadcast news was transformed as profit became a motive (basically the themes that are explored in the movie 'Network').

News orgs were never in themselves meant to be profitable, yet they were at the heart of the big three network's identities (and had enormous reach).
Maybe I'm old and cynical but this blog article really seems to be overthinking a basic company change.
I've spent the last 2 months on a from-scratch dev project with parts in C, C++, rust, go and python.

Comparing C to C++ gave me the most insight on what & where golang is. Writing C code forces you to spend your time rewriting parts of C++ every time you try to do anything. The C++ typesystem has features that have penetrated the C++ compiler ecosystem (clang/msvc/g++ et al) because they matter to devs.

Go feels like C in this respect. The 'empty interface approach' to polymorphism is the worst. Compare this to the 1970s approach to polymorphism in C, struct sockaddr_in. Go feels the same except there's a greater carpal tunnel risk from typing braces and parens everywhere.

Operating generically on typed collections in go often means using the reflect package. go:generate is 1000x worse than the C preprocessor. Yikes.

the most impressive go project I've seen is grumpy, google's in-house port of python to the golang runtime. It makes a serious case for the go garbage collection being best in class. The rest of the language isn't there yet.
Disagree. The very best digital/social marketers don't use these tools at all. Each channel has its own platform strengths, weaknesses, peculiarities, not to mention audience differences, trends, breaking news etc.

If you're scheduling social posts without doing your due diligence on each and every platform within 2-4 hours of a post going live (preferably within 30 minutes before), you're doing it wrong.

If you're using the same post across multiple channels, you're doing it wrong.

If you're re-using the same post multiple times within a few weeks, you're doing it wrong.

The only people I give a free pass too are solo marketers who really just don't have time to do things right and have to keep up a minimum level of noise on social.
And also whether it was from a single plant, or many?
shoot... try this? http://media.bemyapp.com/silicon-valley-goes-political/
Unless your needs are extreme in which case you will have networking experts making choices the linux networking subsystem is actually quite good both in terms of tooling and performance.

I experimented with Vyatta which was based on Debian - open source fork now used by Ubiquity networks in their devices, and pfsense a couple of years ago and I found plain linux on its own delivers better performance. The recent series of Ars articles on building your own router confirm this with some benchmarks [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/numbers-dont-lie-its...
Xorg with a compositor does the exact same thing with full backing buffers for every window. The only way X is using less RAM is if you run without compositing.

If you're not using a compositor, you must be either living in the 90s or using a device without a supported GPU. Compositing is not new, people were excited about Compiz desktop cubes and wobbly windows back in the mid-2000s!

A Wayland compositor running directly on EGL should always be faster than Xorg with a compositor. Xorg acts as an awkward middleman between your app and the compositor, wasting time on buffer copies.