skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There has to be prioritization and people have a natural limit to how much time and attention

I agree that this is probably the root cause. The top of the FB newsfeed is a zero sum game because each person has a finite amount of time.

Since the pixels of a newsfeed is always filled with <something> instead of being empty, it means there should be a corresponding "something" that increased in frequency which in turn, diluted the frequency of the Chicago Tribute. E.g., a person "likes" Marvel films and NFL/NBA/MLB sports so they get more of those posts which crowds out the newspapers' posts. It can either a rash of "new likes" or a FB algorithm change that re-prioritized them.

Kurt Gessler is only able to see the audience stats from the vantage point of Chicago Tribune instead of total stats from the audience perspective. Therefore, it's like the proverbial blind men feeling around the elephant.
How to build a rostering solution through OptaPlanner?
Facebook is likely trying to maximize the time people spend on browsing their feed. Surface too many "boring" news articles in a row and user might go away. Put a nice mixture of news, goofy stuff, updates from friends, some fake news to provoke action and user remains.

Hundreds of millions of people stare the news feed on weekly basis and interact with it. This creates a spectacular opportunity for employing machine learning to optimize things. Facebook has huge amount of data and it is easy to run various tests automatically to see what works in practice.

If this is the case, then it may be difficult for the others to compete. Facebook might be doing exactly what customers want - even if they don't know it themselves.

My thoughts were influenced by this article posted on HN some weeks ago:
http://www.truthhawk.com/is-facebook-a-structural-threat-to-...
Hello Worlding with Angular2
If you are working a day job as a programmer (while setting yourself up to go down the startup route), go with contracting as soon as you can, the rates are what you set them at and you should always set them high.

The other advice that has been invaluable to me is NEVER EVER reveal your salary to recruiters. Always state what you want to be paid and go from there. When you reveal what you are earning, you are immediately weakening your negotiating position. This may seem obvious but it would surprise you how many people just go along with their very invasive questioning.
Legal systems for example just get more complex over time, there is very little simplification going on.
i didn't like it in emacs but in iTerm it is really great. thank you :)
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This reminds me of a story I remember hearing a few times as a child:

During WW2, British, and later, American forces set up base in Iceland. On some of the maps they had created, items of note had been added with symbols. This included lighthouses and there were little lighthouse symbols littered around the coast. However for some reason there also was a lighthouse symbol in the middle of the Icelandic highlands, far from any seashore.

The explanation was that this supposed lighthouse was by the volcano Askja, who's largest crater is called "Víti" (Hell), while the Icelandic word for lighthouse is "viti". Since English doesn't have the accented letter "í", they would have been spelled the same in English.

I could have sworn this was a true story up until now when I tried to find sources for it, but came up empty. In any case it makes for a good story.
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I would ask, may Litho be used by react-native?
7 brings back painful memories. Good advice.
FB has always prioritized content which doesn't lead them to see ads elsewhere (like photos instead of links), but maybe it's something else.

I live in Chicago and subscribe to the Sunday edition. I also read the digital edition, and have found it lacking, particularly since inauguration. In recent months Michael Ferro became the majority shareholder in the Tribune, a person obsessed with celebrities and not so much in local or even national news coverage. He's the guy that fired all the Sun Times photojournalists and mandated reporters use their iPhones instead.

The paper has struggled to find its place in trying to be like the NY Times or Washington Post, covering important national issues, but without the same resources. Meanwhile, hyperlocal sites like DNAinfo have filled the niche, which has strong FB engagement because it provides content people are interested in, but the Tribune isn't providing.

Instead of blaming a third party which bears no obligation to send traffic, the Tribune would be better served in providing better local news coverage and less in areas which aren't compelling (celebrity gossip) or where it can't compete (national coverage like NYT).
Thanks for the list, I'll refer back to it
Unless you're a wealthy shareholder or a masochist, then yes you should be angry about that because you're next.
I did read a lot to understand business and the billions of funding that one day must be paid back.

But the best article I read some time ago: he said that a man does not need to earn more than 3000 euros per month to be happy.
Small clients > one big client

Especially at the beginning, you read here how often big clients can put you under at the beginning because you're not ready to deal with them.
Sports mobile app development: things to consider
>it also almost always seems to be pushed by middle class people rather than the working class, who are generally somewhere between social democrat and nationalist.

Why does that make it a bad idea? I'm of the belief that stigma surrounding Socialism has meant that only interested academics will talk about it, but this certainly wasn't the case in the 19th century. It is not only the working poor who are of concern, it is the workers as a whole. Class consciousness must be raised.

>The idea that inequality can be solved by handing all property to the government

That's not what I'm proposing; rather, I propose that private property (i.e property used for social commodity reproduction) be taken over by workers, and the powers of the state be transferred to people so that the state withers away, leaving behind it a government. Decentralised government is also possible.

>socialism and communism die out the closer we'll be to an actual approach to raising up the working poor.

Have you read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell?[0] He himself was a working class man making the case for Socialism, and why capitalism, a system which is designed to keep one class below the other, is not favourable.

Capitalism has nothing to do with government, the idea that only 'corporatism' is bad is equivocation. The class structure still exists without a government, surplus labour is still extracted without a government, private property is still defended without a government.

The workers are raised up by ideals looking out for their interests rather than those ideals looking out for the interests of the bourgeoisie. The class system prevents realisation of a meritocracy in which each person is rewarded exactly according to his labour rather than paid by the hour.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3608/3608-h/3608-h.htm
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There is no need to break SSL. Top Internet companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, WhatsApp) are under US jurisdiction and they have to do whatever US government tells them.

That seems unfair. I am sure there are many governments that would like to get their share of data too.
How to Secure WordPress from Hackers
> [surveillance vans] are a rare sight

I see them often. But equally often I ask myself what the point is. What are the odds of catching a crime? Or do they work in tandem with dispatchers from the police, moving around in areas near reported crimes to try to capture footage?
This is another area CNTK's 'BrainScript' excels. You can pretty much express it as normal maths:

https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/BrainScript-Activatio...

List of functions:

https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/BrainScript-Full-Func...
Possibly they're trying to game the algorithm. I follow a few photo sources on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and RSS feeds from their sites (when offered). The consequence is that I see the same posts multiple times, not just across the various feeds but from a single feed. It's not them deleting and reposting, it's more posting slight variations of the same article (again, possibly trying to game the algorithm).

But the screaming match drives me nuts. What good is 100,000 views anyway if only 100 people actually click through and engage? Better to have 1,000 views and 200 click through/engage. Target better, stop throwing shit at walls.

Just as an example - I recently had a little project featured on one of the top 10 photo channels on YouTube - 300k+ subscribers. The video currently has had 13,000 views in three weeks, and in it I get a full minute long feature + a link to my site. How many sales have I made through the feature? Zero. When I first posted the project on a niche site, a couple of years ago, I had ten sales within the space of a couple of days.
"noun:
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."

Firebombing department stores to stop them selling fur is terrorism by most definitions of the word.

Don't forget that arson is a particular type of criminal damage and carries much heavier sentences because it's so dangerous.
Push Notifications or In-App Messages: Which is right for your business?
That is the annoying thing about all those "Save the planets" pitch of the green and sustainable measure. Short of nuking everything, nature will be fine a few thousands years after humanity is forgotten. That should really be "Save humanity".

Disappearing ecosystem threaten directly humanity: food, water, even climate.

That's just the tip of the iceberg though. A lot of innovation are still coming from nature. We rely on solution already found by millions of years of evolution to solve our problem. Short of AI singularity, there is no substitute.
Royalty tends to be a lot more stable than democracy's. However, while critically important it's also just one type of success. Interestingly, in less stable countries having a strong leader becomes preferred because of just how damaging chaos is.
Off the top of my head:

- when venting/bitching/complaining, make that clear by saying, "Hey friend, I'm just venting here. <venting> ... </vent>"

- don't run out of money

- don't take money from anyone who can't afford to lose it

- search for ways to delegate & outsource non-essential tasks, but plan on doing them yourself, as you'll find there are somethings you can't offload no matter how much you try

- try to avoid putting yourself in a situation where your business dies if any single person dies/walks/disappears

- assume anything you say to anyone was not correctly heard, and ask them to repeat it back to you

- commit to working in 100% in person, or 100% remotely

- be prepared to have to trust others, and adjust your expectations accordingly
If you choose to run a software development agency:

- Shoot for between 3 and 10 clients. Any less and you'll be very stressed about losing a client. Any more and you'll be overwhelmed with juggling too many balls.

- Fire bad clients. They aren't worth the stress, frustration, and opportunity cost.

- Work on your process. Doing an hour of client works earns you one hour of revenue. Improving your agency processes can earn you a large multiple of that.

- Don't be a <insert software technology> shop. Be a solver of a specific business problem for a specific type of business. Example: "We streamline backend processes for multi-million dollar trucking companies." The most valuable contracts are for solving expensive problems.
OP is talking about a jump to entrepreneurship. Why would an entrepreneur talk to a recruiter about their salary?

If OP is considering a move to contract software development work, your advice could be relevant to OP not offering his/her hourly contract rate to third party recruiters who ask for it, but most independent contractors have an hourly rate because they know the market for their skills.
Redux Logging in Production
Machine Learning: Back to the Future
Oligarchy is the word you are looking for.
Developers as a Service
Go check the numbers on how many over seas medical students come back state side and actually end up as medical doctors. Passing the board exam and getting into residency programs is a lot harder these days, since most programs are aware that this is happening.
>but it's close enough that we can tweak the existing system through optimised taxes and regulations

Optimised taxes and regulations do not stop exploitation[0].

>"oh shit our web app is running a bit slow, best throw it all out and rebuild the whole thing in <insert hip framework here>"

This is such a false analogy; there are problems inherent with capitalism, which is what the Socialists oppose - namely, the structure of unjustified authority of the State, the exploitation of labour, the class system, the internal contradictions and crises of capitalism, and being forced by threat of starvation to sell labour-power to the class of property owners. A better analogy would be if your web app is only serving 5% or less of customers, and the rest get an extremely slow connection, which they complain about to the web app owner, and you respond "We just need to make the website a few kB/s slower for the 5% and give that speed to you!"

[0] https://www.marxists.org/subject/japan/sakisaka/exploitation...
It will always be a race between recording technology and image generation technology. Low-rez, low-dimensional images (small black-and-white photos, say) will be easy to fake rapidly. High-res higher-dimensional images (full 3D movies of an area at sub-millimeter precision, say) will be much harder to fake within a reasonable time frame. You'll never be certain, but the higher the quality of the recording, the more confident you can be that it's legitimate.

(Ian M. Banks touches on this in his book, Player of Games, where a drone blackmails a character by making a recording of that character misbehaving that is high-enough resolution that it couldn't be faked in the time available.)
Perhaps keeping the big guns locked away in the nucleus means that they're active when an entire cell has been destroyed? That wouldn't help the destroyed cell, but it might help nearby cells?
Liftoff (quadcopter flying sim) would be interesting.
I can only speculate as to what is going to happen but my hunch is that in the long term the gap between returns from index fonds and savings books is going to become a great deal smaller as more people are willing to shoulder risk for companies and thus risk premiums go down

Doesn't that suggest people on average have had a misplaced fear of stock (indices) in the past, and that capital is now more efficiently allocated? Sounds like it would make the world better off.
Unfortunately, hiring for aircraft programs these days is very Bang-Bang. A350 program starts, Airbus hires thousands of contract mech engineers. A350 program winds down, those people are let go. I think that Boeing is similar.

Lay-offs do not necessarily imply 'increased competition', I think that hasn't changed a whole lot recently. The model is just moving towards highly contractual work with limited managerial permanent roles for the cream of the crop.
Digg "pivoted" and I like their emails now, pretty nice content usually.
Baidu Will Release a Free Operating System for Self-Driving Cars
Agreed. They want to sell ads on Facebook.com, and they can't do that if you aren't glued to Facebook.com all day.
Is it similar to getting heavily drunk and then keeping asking the same question because you can't remember having asked it?
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Is StackOverflow Documentation a failed experiment?
Yes, Indian people tend to value higher education and cheating.

Just look at all these articles on cheating in India.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/03/20/pkg-walker-india-...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36431885
http://www.latimes.com/world/great-reads/la-fg-c1-india-test...

Let's be honest. Americans cheat too, but not to this level.
Also, wow:

However, Facebook’s formal guidance is 24 to 48 posts per day.

Facebook recommends 24-48 posts PER DAY? Surely this is an error. Where is this recommended? That's insane.
> Kurt Gessler is only able to see the audience stats from the vantage point of Chicago Tribune instead of total stats from the audience perspective.

Getting a wider perspective seems to be exactly why this post was written. The main call to action at the end of the blog post is to other content creators, to see if they're experiencing the same thing. Get enough data points, and you can start to form testable hypotheses about what's being prioritized now.
Simplification seems very difficult because entrenched interests benefit from the complexity. Look at health care: it's not hard to imagine a vastly better and cheaper system than the US has (indeed many other countries have it), but even minor changes to health care will involve battling politically powerful groups, and the political risk is extremely high. Same thing can be said about the complexity of the tax code. There have even been HN articles recently about how it's not hard to simplify the tax filing process, but Intuit and other tax preparers lobbied against it and killed it.
Protesting only works to persuade those who have a conscience, it does little against a faceless government or the class of property owners. A look at how protesting has worked in the past decades, with a few notable exceptions, will show you that protesting does little to alter the status quo.
Or, because it is a popular multiplayer game (and thus prone to cheating), maybe some addresses are randomized & obfuscated.
Putting Together an Online Investors Origination Workflow
Show HN: Coding Monkey
Hey HN!

Coding Monkey is a site to practise coding in C#. It isn't anything new (Coding Bat, Hacker Rank all do the same and better) and still rough around the edges but it is the first side project I have actually finished and shipped so any feedback would be great.
I agree.

Ultimately, writing that one sentence with unmph is harder than it looks. Sometimes "Uber for__" is concise and conveys lots of meaning, sometimes it's vague and meaningless.

I think the biggest trap in the "A for B" formula is trying to ride on the prestige of B. That's why there are so many "Apple of X." What they're trying to convey is "awesome, stylish & successful" or somesuch. It's like calling yourself "Michael Jordan of __". You're just being obtuse in telling me that you're awesome.

"Uber for tripsitters" OTOH conveys actual meaning. Press a button, a freelance tripsitter will arrive.
>If you are working a day job as a programmer (while setting yourself up to go down the startup route)
Qt, learn Qt and you can write performant native applications for all the major desktop platforms.
No, ten years ago I wasn't so optimistic. There are a bunch of things that can and will happen to move things along incrementally but what I think, based on no real evidence, is that there will be one or more major breakthroughs at some point that will likely be computation-assisted and we will get back to something similar to Moore's Law.

Edit: typo
Really interested in hearing more about this. Do you have any examples of who is pitching this?
Working from home may hurt your career
I think your model is completely reversed. Content follows users, not the other way around.

You can't beat Facebook by getting good content into some user-less alternative.

Users don't follow content. Content follows users.
It was a bit tough to get tooling set up and it doesn't work on Windows, but on Mac (and Linux I assume) it's amazing. Better Intellisense support in VSCode than Typescript!

It is very new though, and I haven't got a complete grip of JS FFI with Reason.
Back to My Mac (Pro)
Old people who remember Freecraft: Freecraft became Stratagus, the StarCraft specific bits are Stargus:
http://stratagus.com/games.shtml

No reason why it shoudn't. And native Linux is way better than wine.
How secure is global payroll data on the cloud?
This. When small shops land their first big client they're always so excited. To me it's like having a stone tied around your neck. Big clients can often be more trouble than they're worth and become a financial risk when they send you packing and you've hired extra people just for their account.
Just google "gta 5 trainer". I'm sure there are dozens, but it's possible that none of them is open source.
Thanks! It's advice that changed the way I saw business.
Sorry, I think I wasn't clear. I meant making the activities that people blow the whistle on legal/clearly defined as expected practice, rather than whistleblowing itself. If as a country we're OK with doing X and not with people whistleblowing about the country doing X, then we should make X clearly defined as legal.

I don't think we should make these things legal, personally, but I think they should either be legal so whistleblowing doesn't make sense or illegal and whistleblowing is encouraged.
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People have a funny way to look at how violent a transition and especially leaders are or aren't depending on whether they agree with the outcome.

The ANC ... well ... in the words of the Apartheid museum [1] (ie. The South African government's own words):

"Demonstrations against the killings followed in many parts of the country and led to the banning of the main African opposition organisations, the African national Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Both went underground, and formed armed wings, Umkhonto we Sizwe (ANC) and Poqo (PAC)."

Yes, Nelson Mandela ... founded a revolutionary army. Yes, I agree with the outcome too, and the process was almost bafflingly well executed. Bombings, placing landmines on public roads, kidnapping and torture were some of the tactics used. Again, bonus points for the outcome, and for successfully keeping control of this army after it was no longer needed, but peaceful ? Please. Also, I would further argue that South Africa did not exactly become a haven of peaceful coexistence under Nelson Mandela.

India, and Gandhi is another example of this. So is Che Guevara. Looking how peaceful what happened with them at the helm of organisations is, you really, really, really wonder why these people are considered nonviolent.

Yes, Gandhi thought (and taught) that violence was beneath him, but he certainly had the option to act and prevent the people he led from using violence. What happened ... he sent out his forces and the opposing side sent out it's forces, and at least 10 million died. Granted, not during the revolution he was famous for, but he was in command during the partition wars. Doing India's independence he was not peaceful either. He commanded forces that, time and time again, attacked others.

And Che Guevara. He was not a violent man, you see, he simply saw the bourgeoisie as constantly committing violence upon everyone and he was just using the minimum amount of force to prevent them from continuing that. That minimum amount of force, of course, included things like shooting any medical doctors on sight, several massacres, and having his followers do worse than even that.

Plenty more along these lines, Kemal Ataturk, the French revolutionaries, the Communists (granted, not so much in the USA, but even in the USA the "real socialists" are peaceful), muhammad, the muslim prophet, ...

But men of peace ! Men of the people ! In reality, living with some of these men was like living as a Jew under Hitler. Ironically, Adolf Hitler is also a Nobel Peace prize laureate.

[1] https://www.apartheidmuseum.org/turn-violence
Have you tried asking on gaming forums?, e.g. this exact problem is a popular thread on Giant Bomb:

https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/the-c...