skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I shared my observations with coworkers, they would nod and say they had experienced the same thing. Same with peers I knew outside of work. Either we were in a very large bubble, or that was happening everywhere. And I think the rise of Mozilla aligns with those observations. It 'just worked' because everyone quietly made sure it did, even when people told them not to.
This is a good question. I bet some people can control their degree of engagement of with FB without deactivating. And I think I, too, could achieve this with some effort.

But my experience has been that peak FB enjoyment is simply not having FB. Everything about FB feels toxic to me, not just the service itself but its pervasive tendrils throughout the web. Complete, total exclusion of FB and related services—including social sign on, etc—has really improved my QOL.
"Liable"? Are you an attorney? Has anyone been sued because they used Livefyre rather than FB?
lol the statement makes itself true.
How people received Mary Meeker's latest Internet Trends report
as an early reddit user, i saw it as "slashdot, but with a better comment engine". digg had more of the feel of a generic news aggregator, not really focused on the slashdot crowd at all; i checked it out briefly but was never really engaged by it.
Why probability of exit of series B company lower than series A? That sounds, at least, counterintuitive.
I'm guessing you're asking if Rust has a REPL? Currently there is no REPL included in the standard language, but you can download the rusti project [1] using cargo.

[1] https://github.com/murarth/rusti
The linked report makes the distinction a little clearer:

> For the most part, we focus on the labor supply of poorer workers, who are more likely to
reduce their labor supply as a result of a modest increase in unearned income. Our results do
not indicate a negative labor supply effect for either hours worked or the probability of
participation in market work, either for all workers or those in the bottom 40% of the income
distribution. We do find a negative labor supply effect for workers 20-29 years old for their
hours worked.
It's not clear that you understand the majority of the ~36K MCD restaurants are franchised, so the employees do not work for MCD, they work for small local franchisees businesses. MCD only owns ~7k locations (i.e. ~16%).
Even though I am sympathetic to the idea of Universal income, the fact the Iran's economy experienced inflation as high as 45% the rapid rise of which correlates closely with the start of this program[1], should make this a worrisome rather than promising case study.

[1] https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/iran-inflation-...
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Remove the like, and let the feed be the actual feed and not an algorithmically-filtered list, would be a great start IMHO.
Can you please clarify what is "obviously-suspicious" about the Seth Rich story?
Tangentially related: I don't mind the bells and whistles (such as bloated commenting systems) on desktop where my machine has resources to waste, but I wish more news sites made available a bare-bones, text-only version of their web site for browsing on mobile (e.g., http://thin.npr.org/).
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Nice app! I have to admit this made me chuckle:

> Instead of trying to get the right answer, we set out to build a tool that could get an answer.

I'm curious though, from where did you get the numbers about the likelihood of an exit? I thought it was pretty interesting that a Series C is statistically less likely to make you money than a Series A, according to this.
Probably not a good idea. If you include vaguely-worded restrictions like that in your license you're 1) using a non-standard license, and 2) breaking Freedom 0 of GNU's Free Software Definition.

Personally I feel that it'd be better to put that sort of statement in the README; especially if you're not concerned with whether its legally-enforceable or not.
This is exactly what technology platforms bring out, the public decides what is of importance. But the issue isn't the platform itself. It just shows us on a large scale what drives the mentality of 80% of the population. Group mentality always lowers the IQ of individuals who are part of it. Ever heard of herd mentality?

A friend in one of my whatsapp groups shared an image with the meaning of covfefe yesterday, and I had no clue what it was about. I am on twitter but do not follow public personalities with the exception of 1 or 2 of them from my country. The beauty of twitter is in following people who aren't public personalities but are doing some cool/unique work in their walk of life.

Now this decision making is up-to the individual, to elevate one's own thoughts, ideas by focusing on good posts or to drown in mediocrity. The point as an individual for me is that exactly, strive to stay away from the noise-makers and focus on what is truly important. I would not be surprised if my comment gets a troll or a pissed off response that says 'I love stupidity, revel in it, keep your elitism to yourself' The best would be no comment or probably a comment which builds the conversation. But this isn't my choice, is it? Controlling what types of comments are allowed.

- The idea of freedom is that even stupidity can be practiced (my own quote)
Yes I did and that was clear in my post. Much more interesting is "a third of the income rise went to the top 1 percent alone". Don't you think that is relevant? These folks received vastly more earned income raise than the rate of inflation. Should we consider unearned income as well?
How common is this, and how can we expect it to evolve ?

This is the first time I hear of a laptop ban on internationnal flights. Any informative links would be appreciated.
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He doesn't have to run his own studies. When patient after patient starts suffering from withdrawal symptoms, and he reads common journals and talks to his peer doctors and other medical professionals about it (let alone the mainstream media reporting), given his training and intelligence, he'd have to be a fool, lazy, or outright unethical not to question the prescribing practices recommended by the manufacturer. There's an ethical responsibility here.
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Reboot is a good way to put it. I feel like Rust goes back to C and says "with what we've learned how should C do OOP".

I'm excited about Rust. As a 15+ year C++ developer.
Uber drivers are filming their riders and sharing the tapes online
Having done scala for a few years and only dabbled in rust, I also get the impression that the rust community is trying to have good default answers to questions like how to do json, or which web framework to use. As opposed to scala-land where if you ask three scala devs those questions you'll get five answers.
I said it's a false equivalence to present trumps detractors as detractors, and trumps supporters as a neutral party.
This seems like the biggest win, to me. When your employer represents your important but nonessential income, while your basic survival is guaranteed, it becomes far easier to tell an asshole boss to stuff it while you go looking for new work. It becomes easier to move to a new location without getting a job in advance. It becomes easier to start your own enterprise. It even makes more sense to work part time while developing more in-demand skills or just taking a partial vacation. It opens up so many freedoms of choice that are currently only afforded to people who can make lots of excess money and stash it away as savings.
At my job I work in Firefox, a coworker works in Chrome, and a third person works in Safari (to be honest we don't bother checking the site in any Microsoft browser). That way we are able to do cross browser testing fairly easily.
The planet gets shorter, then longer, then shorter again... All that in a single direction, while the size on the other two directions stays the same.
Yes, I don't understand why the web needs to be "open" per the original post for it to be deemed good. If FB wasn't a nasty platform and simply didn't let Google index (mooch and profit from) its content, that would be fair in my opinion. Why should I start a company and then give that content away for free to Google to profit from? It's not like Google is performing some altruistic public service. Neither is DuckDuckGo, or any other company.

FB is horrible because it nurtures psychological pathology, not because it's not open. Everything you need to know about FB can be summarized from Zuck's generous offer to let employees freeze their eggs so that instead of having kids and leading normal lives they can work for him. Dude is gross, and so is his platform.
Had the same thought. Maybe money masks problems?
It is an interesting data point. If it is consistent then increasing tax compliance on the 1% would be sufficent to boost overall tax revenues by close to 4%. (caveat they just decide to become Canadians :-)
The demo is top-notch, impressed.
Your mom fucked said fucked
What is a group charter flight? It sounds like a euphemism for passenger plane.
Yes, and it is itself a crypto coin:

https://www.iconomi.net/
Indeed. You can have a Facebook account and just... Not use it unless you need it for something. All the benefits of the 'I deleted Facebook' crowd without the downsides.
Hackers Breach Kmart’s Store Payment Card Systems
Found a litte more background info.[1]

If I'm reading that right, Iran basically tried to swap fuel subsidies with "universal grants" (aka "basic income"). The grants were a lower amount than the fuel subsidies so it was a strategy for the government to reduce overall spending.

What's not clear is if people kept working to help pay for the shortfall in fuel subsidy or compensate for spending on other goods that the higher fuel subsidies allowed. Maybe this clarification is in the researchers 31 page pdf but I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=MPahDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT162&lpg=...
"Hey all, look at this amazing new thing I just got (for free from the company that sponsors me that I don't disclose)!" Maybe it's the same on the rest, but it seems there's a larger portion of it on Instagram.
You think uBlock Origin helps with that? I genuinely do not know.
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You are quite correct. Data caps do make users concerned with the amount of data transferred, but only post hoc, or as a proxy for latency.

Thinking about it, there's got to be a plugin for firefox/chrome that show the data size of each page. For mobile, you can install firefox which allows you to install plugins (pretty much essential for blocking ads in mobile browsing).
> Not sure of anything that uses traits without generics.

Traits do a lot of things in Rust that have nothing to do with generics. :) Implementing a trait is how one gives a type a destructor. Implementing various traits (the ones in std::ops) allows one to do operator overloading for user-defined types. Defining a trait allows one to give methods to types that are defined in other compilation units, including the standard library, e.g.:

trait Foo {
fn foo(self);
}

impl Foo for i32 {
fn foo(self) {
println!("Hello, traits!");
}
}

fn main() {
42.foo(); // Hello, traits!
}
> If I'm a business consulting company, airlines are no longer reliable enough to ship my employees.

Is that really true? What percentage of flights do you think actually reach this level of outage? I'm not saying it can't reach that level and I don't know the tolerance of your business, but it seems like we're still talking in very small percentages here.
assumption is the mother of all fuckups...

that aside, i deleted my facebook account over seven years ago and even though my real life friends give me some grief over that every now and again, i haven't missed it a single day.

apart from the couple of live streamed murders and abuse cases, there's no actual news on there which isn't accessible through another site with public access. and if i long for cat pictures or funny videos there's always imgur and youtube.

facebook, like many other "social media" sites, is more a habit than a necessity and, as far as i'm concerned, highly overrated in it's purpose
Why would you want everyone to just move from one walled garden to another?
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Facebook comments and real name policy are really bad IMO:

it discourages thoughtful users who happens to have dissenting views and exposes groupthink, people who care to create fake accounts as well as people who don't care.
I guess I should have clarified that deleting the cookie and staying signed out is about the same as not having a Facebook account.

Even if you block them 100% online, as soon as you use a credit card or loyalty card, you are letting them track you again.
> Personally I feel that it'd be better to put that sort of statement in the README; especially if you're not concerned with whether its legally-enforceable or not.

You're probably right. And the README would be better, because the message would be visible on the main page in Github :)

Another option could be to have the text "The following is not part of the license, but expresses the wishes of the author regarding use of this software ..." in the LICENSE file.

I'm hoping we could have a standard phrasing for this kind of thing (just like we have standard licenses). Perhaps the EFF could develop one.
> But Facebook pulling a Vader and altering the deal, blocking public access in the future to a post that today is publicly visible?

Or, maybe worse, altering visibility for something that is private today such that it is public tomorrow.
> would people value them less

Yes. Also there's a road running right next one of the pyramids, a pizza hut overlooking it, and tons of trash in the sand.
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Perhaps a dumb question, but it's not completely obvious from the demo - is there an API for this?
Your "hard" seems to mean "difficult", while the author's is more synonymous with "arduous".
"Widely castigated" is a huge hyperbole. Suppression of the email stories is absolutely critical for maintaining political control by the Democrat party.

Is there any other reason the NYT would suppress this story?
What does Trump care about the environment? He'll be dead long before this decision has any actual consequences on the environment. Meanwhile there's a ton of money to be made in the short term.

This is probably the most depressing news of the year.
Continuum, I guess. Or Ubuntu Phone... wait.
Livefyre and Disqus both have tools for moderation and spam control, probably better than Facebook since comments are the primary business of Livefyre and Disqus. Regarding contents of comments, I would think the Safe Harbor act and/or First Amendment protections would be sufficient for a news organization.

So I'm going to be generous and agree with your statement at face value, it probably did have nothing to do with any of the things you mentioned.
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Couching the discussion as a la carte channels instead of a la carte shows is some kind of jedi mind trick by studio execs.

Apple Season Pass should be like $3/season, not $5/episode.

Edit: Netflix didn't negotiate certain seasons or episodes of Breaking Bad, nor did it negotiate all of AMC's content. Netflix negotiated rights to specific shows.
It's really very simple.

Facebook was able to become a huge success because it could compete freely on the open web.

Now that Facebook has become so powerful, it is trying to destroy the open web so no one can compete with it.

Speaking of which, what wonder what its position is on net neutrality.
> Remember, Plex Live TV and DVR is a Plex Pass only feature

Apologies, but it didn't seem like you were talking about that single feature when you said "you need to pay for the service".

> all I need to do is point Kodi in that direction

Which is great, but again, with Plex you don't even need to point. It just finds the server on the network.

> Never had any success in Plex detecting all my content properly

That's definitely annoying. But I built a Plex Channel for my downloads, and it names files according to what Plex expects.

> You all must have a small media library

~4TB of networked storage, but yeah, maybe that's small?
PB says the math doesnt support the early exit strategy. What math? Not trolling just would love to see more details.
Or they may declare their gains to IRS. Bitcoin is not just a tax evasion thing :) (and it's actually quite dumb to use it for tax evasion, given how the ledger is public and will always be there)
This is fantastically useful both as a side-of-the-barn estimator, and a teaching tool. Thanks!

Two things a lot of startup employees are unaware of that are worth highlighting: they actually have to buy their options, which eats into returns, and that if they leave the company they have a limited window (30 days, typically) in which to do so. In would behoove them to save/plan for this fact.
It's just awesome to see these notebooks released. I'm not going to play with them, but I love that people are able to. It makes me much more confident in the results that are announced, and I hope this approach to doing science becomes the norm.
The difference is that there are fairly objective measures of value that you can apply to equities. We are probably a little overpriced right now based on P/E ratios. But unless something world shattering happens, we can be pretty confident the S&P wont be at 50% of what it is today. If for no other reason than because you actually have an ownership stake in the companies.

But is there any coherent explanation for why bitcoin should be priced at 2500 dollars rather than 2.5 dollars? or 2.5 cents?

The US dollar is a bad example because it's not supposed to be used as long term store of value at all. The inflation is purposeful and much more importantly fairly predictable. A bank can lend me 1,000,000 dollars to buy a house because they can be fairly confident that inflation is going to be ~2%.
Did you have to partner for 200$ a month to get the /hacker_news service ?
I've always been really confused how IFTT works.
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No they reported it happened and never the content.
How will staying in it help? Seems like none of the countries who have signed implemented anything. More like a feel good measure more than anything.
I use Chroma Android variant and it has the option to show inbound/outbound traffic on the status bar updated a few times per second (and finally battery state as an actual percentage) that stupid little battery picture is bloody useless (hmm, it's just below halfway, so around 45% I guess..checks 27%..bad UX).

For me that is enough, if I load a page and see it sit at 200kb/s for more than a second or two I'll often nuke the page. I have 1Gb of data on my phone package (simply don't use mobile data much, I have unlimited fiber at home and the office).