skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up on FB in 2005 and linkedin in 2003. This was when social started to get some serious momentum. I was on myspace before FB. 10-13 years later I do not use any of them. Why? FB seems more appropriate for teenagers or young adults. I grew up since then and have other hobbies. Linkedin is like a Resume, totally worthless (in my case) besides searching for a new job every 3 to 5 years.

Twitter? I opened an account a while back and didn't see any differences between FB status update and 140 character.
A TLDR won't help, until you overhaul all of the tech you use.

FB is a no-go!

Using so much tracking on your website that it's broken with ad-blocker and FF tracking protection on is a no-go!

In the current state the only sane thing to do is to warn people to not use your service.
There is a range of studies on various birds showing correlation between higher intensity/contrast of male feather colors and higher testosterone levels. For example:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602121302.h...

or

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187837/

or http://elitetrack.com/blogs-details-2765/

"Researchers may have discovered how the bright plumage of male birds evolved as a sign of health and vigor to potential mates. Testosterone, which weakens the immune system, increases the circulation of immunity-enhancing pigments called carotenoids, they find. Healthy birds let the pigment collect in the skin to flaunt their vitality.

[/] The bright coloration of some birds is a classic example of an animal advertising its high quality to potential mates. Carotenoids are the pigment in red, orange and yellow skin (and carrots), but they are also powerful antioxidants that boost the immune system. Only healthy male birds can afford to maintain a costly display of color by diverting resources away from the immune system, the theory goes. The male must therefore have good genes, and that's why a flashy male attracts mates.

In the mating game testosterone plays a similar role to carotenoids. The hormone makes male birds strut and croon but weakens their immune systems, and researchers knew that variations in testosterone levels between birds and seasons tend to match up with variations in the brightness of colors. "
That's amazing, amazing. I love it and can't discover how to use it.
Facebook’s Emotion Tech: Patent Filings Show New Ways to Monitor Your Feelings
It's funny because I think exactly the opposite. One of the main reasons I don't read my Facebook feed is because it's bombarded by content I find infuriating for a variety of reasons (lots of low-value entertainment-related stuff, political content I don't agree with, etc.). I wish Facebook were a filter bubble that only served me content I like, then I wouldn't have to curate my RSS feeds myself.
We don't have prices. We have a few huge companies trying to justify higher and higher cost. Consumers have no way to predict what hospitals are cheaper than others.
Most cap tables are wrong
s/substandard/atypical/ Just because it isn't the norm, doesn't mean it's substandard.
I'd guess that a specified poster image would still work as expected.
Science is that Mathematization of Magick.
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Facebook is worse than Fascism and Communism? Seriously?
Consider going to something like Toastmasters and practicing. Getting useful feedback and improving might get your brain out of the idea that you're not good at it.
Sure, you might look different, but you won't be more (or less) than one person. Anyone with a counter can solve that riddle, and if we're talking about state-level tracking infrastructure, CCTVs and other parts of the Panopticon are on the table.
Algolia is an amazing service and an absolute joy to use. They deserve all the praise they're getting and then some.

However, it's easy to exceed their record limits, especially since you need to duplicate your index every time you want to 'sort by' something.

For instance, if I wanted an option to sort my results by date, and to then search these, I'd need to create 2 new slave indexes for date ascending and descending respectively. Sorting by anything else, like price, means creating yet more indexes and suddenly it's easy to turn 30K records into 150K. This happened to me and I ended up having to roll something custom instead (Vuejs frontend and Sphinx Search backend), since my client balked at the extra cost.

But, if you have a small dataset, or are fine with the costs, then Algolia is spectacular.
> Is the threat really facebook or an uninformed therefore easily misled electorate?

They are two mutually reinforcing threats, not mutually exclusive alternative threats.
The complaint appears to be that it is difficult to engage in traditional "assertion-rebuttal" debate via facebook advertising. My understanding is that all campaigns are free to target any demographic, so a "best foot forward" competition is still possible. It seems to me that the shift in debate model is more a threat to a particular political marketing specialty than to democracy as a whole.
Yes, I agree. There is what I would call a little more hubris than necessary in this side of the argument.

After all, it was once totally conceivable that a multi-million dollar company would be founded on the basis of, basically, a device driver.

We're still doing that sort of thing, its not a new phenomenon that some crack in the design/methods/ethics of a technology vendor is exploited by some un-controllable third-party. Gone are the days when Microsoft, by way of example, would have waged war and just built-in local- and remote- peer discovery, rsync++, etc. in response to this daring challenger to the hegemony.

I guess, I really do sort of miss that. Dropbox really sucks. I only use it because my friends do.
I'd be interested!
When I am on my phone, having a monthly download limit of 2,5 GB after which my internet is cut off, I don't really want do download a 2 MB video at all.
> Since you seek social approval from your friends it makes you want to argue less with others.

Since gaining entry into the US middle/professional class I have been informed numerous times that disagreeing with one's friends is impolite.

I miss the times when I could say things like "No, what you're saying is dumb" without drawing shocked stares. It was a simpler often better time.

I'm told it is particularly inappropriate to disagree with your girlfriend's mum and tell her she's spouting rubbish. Especially at a cordial thanksgiving dinner.

But if you can't argue with people and test each other's ideas, then what's the point of keeping them around?
They can do that, but it's a delicate choice: if google.com gets flagged as a "tracker domain", the google.com cookies will be deleted after 30 days of no interaction with google.com.

Probably not an issue for most of the users, but for those who don't use it very often, they'd get logged out. Not sure Google wants that.
Yes, as i commented elsewhere in this thread that would be fine.
[x] Posts that add nothing to the conversation but get a lot of attention and credit

[x] Comments that Hacker News is caught in the morass that befell Reddit
Fair point :)

I can't argue much, I use Ghostery and also this host list which means I usually don't see those things: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Ah, so the real problem is that pesky free speech is too free.

The proper response to social ills is almost never to add rules about what people may or may not say to each other.
Bar the tobacco beetle, I presume.
I think the point is that the "discussion" around the above points specifically is nearly identical every time it happens, and usually involves the same people. Almost everyone benefits when we just ignore the above points.
Also because the iterator could do something completely different from an iteration by sequential index no?
The problem isn't that it's a mechanism for sharing. It's that all previous mechanisms for sharing did not have central control mechanisms that discriminated based on content.

The postal service cannot prioritize letters that encourage banning abortion. Telephone companies cannot subsidize conversations about organizing unions. Facebook, on the other hand, can exert control over how visible a post is based on whether or not it, say, supports Donald Trump.
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The tool that does the minification isn't necessarily the same tool that does the concatenation.

Here's a very lengthy discussion on how the very popular minifier UglifyJS (version 1) originally removed trailing semicolons, causing this exact problem:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130319222210/https://github.co...

In the real world, it's irrelevant what tools could be reasonably expected to do. What matters is what they actually do. Expecting your tools to insert semicolons for you is the path that leads to peril.
Prepare to be downvoted to death, but I think some people just want attention and feel important by crying doom.
>f you're talking about some sort of decentralized peer-2-peer, the average non-sysadmin non-techie user isn't going to want to leave their laptop up 24/7 as a node to share files.

The trouble is, precisely this argument can be made about every single layer, upon layer, upon layer, of cruft which requires a lot of things to be in place, just to make Dropbox work.

So, I'm sorry, but I don't think you've entirely thought this argument through. Dropbox should be a built-in.

Why isn't it?
Wait, so that's not cool anymore?
That is what I said in the first sentence of the post you are replying to. If it is not clear from that, I am referring to the non-fragment part of the URL.
Better link: https://acucciniello.github.io/alexa-open-doc/

That's great, but not very useful. Maybe it would work better with smaller documents and simpler tasks, like Trello, for example (create a card, update a card description, set a due date on a card and so on), or other task management platforms.

I don't have Alexa and talking to a computer is still too bizarre for me, but sometimes I wish I could take notes while driving.
These are totally operating system functions. They should not be vendor'ed by what, I think personally, is a "Pepsi"-Co.
Anonymous, transparent data-gathering perhaps? If Apple stripped data of any kind of personally-identifying information and allowed users to view all of the data that was being sent, it could be a good middle ground. However, the problem with that solution is that it's already possible (not easy) to identify users with very little information. Stripping out identifying information doesn't necessarily mean that the information wouldn't be useful at all in the right hands (say, the government) to identify someone.
A possible counter argument is unlike television advertising buys, the targeting is incredibly specific. The chances of you being able to match your opponents targeting are much smaller, which leaves slices of populations hearing only one side.

And like the article points out, the inefficiencies (from the campaign's point of view) of the current targeting may be doing an overall service to democracy by giving populations a message they wouldn't otherwise hear.

There is a lot of hand waving in this argument but I'm convinced we should attempt to solidify what effects are there and whether we find them valuable before dismissing it.
If HappyTypist isn't comfortable emailing my @apple.com email address they can file a bug at https://bugreport.apple.com and email me the bug # instead.

Assuming this story is true, I would personally like to catch the person responsible.
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How to automate picture downloads from Pintrest based on likes the entire collection including boards.
You'd think MIT would be all about educating the world as its mission. But its mission is to remain elite and unattainable for the masses so that it ranks high in US News and World Report. OCW can't really be that much of a money pit considering the resources at this university's disposal.
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I bet they won't be quoting this headline at the next WWDC.
Also, it is covering the most important commands of the interface with its round logo.
Did you try the underpriced ones, and were they good? A particular wine can be complex but have some specific quality that makes it unappealing. I'd be surprised if complexity is the main variable between different vintages of the same wine that have very different prices.
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no it doesn't, but I'm picking Bloomberg every time.
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Can you remind us what the value of "insight to global trends" is for a typical FB user?
> It's that all previous mechanisms for sharing did not have central control mechanisms that discriminated based on content.

Many previous mechanisms for sharing do have such central control mechanisms, and exercise them far more enthusiastically than does FB. Dead tree print outlets are a mechanism for sharing with such features. Meatspace social clubs are a sharing mechanism with such features.

Facebook may be unique in the degree of it's reach for a sharing mechanism with the capacity for centralized editorial control, but it is not historically unique in being a sharing mechanism which features the capacity for centralized editorial control.
For their younger demographic I would agree they don't care bout privacy yet. For ~30+ year olds I think it is a big pull. Especially those that have ever had their identity stolen (even though its not really relevant). The average person isn't going to understand how or why Apple's products are better at privacy but if they get the message out there I am certain a good chunk of consumers will see it as a plus.
A reality in which the mention of Zuckerberg as president doesn't get you laughed out of the room doesn't sound very inspiring.
Feel free to have fun with Haskell and Forth all you like. Your project. :) However, you need to learn C and/or ASM then implement Forth and some system codeto get to the deeper truths. Probably. Quite a bit of people using it in embedded systems.
I would read the fuck out of a comprehensive blog post neutralizing the above posts.
There is nothing in the world wrong with me wanting to serve 4 terabytes of content off my own local machine, and know where it is going, and to whom, without the involvement of any third-party at the content layer. That is a feasible, realistic, and tangible goal in the current state of things. Dropbox has a lot of data. They're not a file-system vendor; they're a neo-google.
In the complex object example, what's the usecase for turning that nested object into a multi-column CSV? I guess the overarching question is, why turn a single object at all into a CSV? It's just as machine/human readable as the JSON version of it, and there's no particular benefit in using either structure as it's not data meant to be processed in bulk.

The complex array usecase is where an opinionated-type of conversion tool is particularly needed, but I wonder why it behaves like this:

name: 'Robert',
lastname: 'Miller',
family: null,
location: [1231,3214,4214]

lastname,name,family.type,family.name,nickname,location
Miller,Robert,,,,1231,3214,4214

Why not have `location_1, location_2, location_3`, instead of having a single location column? The latter implementation makes the data difficult to quickly use in a program (like a spreadsheet).
If your friends think you're being rude when you offer a counterpoint to their opinions it's time to find better friends.
This is true, too. But OCW really cannot cost more than several or several tens of millions of dollars per year, and MIT gets the brand recognition.
That's all one expression, and there are 5 argument to the list procedure:

1.) a list containing three numbers, a symbol, and a character,

2.) a complex number,

3.) a string,

4.) the symbol "NIL",

5.) the empty vector.
So this is basically just a way to show data from your database in custom widgets, right? It doesn't allow you to update the database in any way, correct?

"Build tools in minutes, not days." is not clear. What is a "tool"? To build a "tool" using a "widget" is a perfect nonspecific thing to do. Also, what is Launchaco?

Still, I like it a lot, seems to be a much better solution than all those KPI dashboards and also to people using https://www.blockspring.com/ to get database data into spreadsheets.
I've still not seen any AI that really gets me excited. Google Now does some neat things - but if the home automation products from Amazon and Google are representative of the state-of-the-art - we have an awful long way to go before AI is any kind of game changer.

More likely AI/ML is another trip down buzzword lane. It can hang out with IoT, VR, Big Data, and hell, even containers and microservices.

It feels like everyone is casting about for that next revolutionary technological innovation, but maybe we just need to be at a plateau for awhile.
I believe it should, and ultimately will be, a built-in. The Internet is going to route around Dropbox, eventually.
Yep, they are panicked by a single giant corporation with billions of users that earns money collecting data from everyone.

Me too.
I wish things like this would start of as an open-source and/or stand-alone app. It looks great, and I want to play with it. But Excel is at it's core used for very sensitive data. Financials, budgets, customer lists, biz plans, etc.

How and why should I trust a brand-new startup? Doubly so when they don't even list security in their docs.

tl;dr; I love the idea, looks like a great implementation, please let me demo (and then ideally purchase) an on-prem version.
Yes, and if this is indeed true, so what?
Changes in quantity can be changes in quality. That is, yes, facebook is the same as forwarding emails, but it's orders of magnitude easier to share and view content.
Technically, it's not free, but you've already paid for it directly if you own property or indirectly through rent (as property tax factors into rental prices.) We pay $120 a year to our public library. We also pay another $100-200 a year in fines, program fees and special requests. This still comes out to well less than $5/book read.
Indeed. Less than a month before the Civil War.
Cool, I immediately wondered if you handled a lot of the tricky CSV things like quotes and internal commas, it looks like it does a good job.

Comparing against Numbers (probably a bad comparison?) I am seeing one slightly different result:

If I have a field that is "hehe"

It's encoded as ""hehe""

It looks like Numbers adds the enclosing quotes:

"""hehe"""

I only see enclosing quotes if there's a comma:

"hehe,hehe" -> """hehe,hehe"""

Anyhow, I'm not sure what the "correct" thing to do here is, if there is one, just a heads up!
Reminds me of when I replaced a read-write lock around generating a new object instance with an atomic reference instead. I personally put that one into the latter of your two cases... But the performance improvement certainly looked heroic!
I don't think the tech community gives the general public enough credit when it comes to privacy. If you asked someone whether they wanted a phone that has more privacy risks but also more features or a phone that has less features but more privacy I don't think the former would win hands down. Maybe more would pick the former but a big chunk would pick the latter and that is OK for Apple. They've never needed the majority of the market.
As of now, no, but we're probably going to release buttons that trigger API calls in the upcoming week. So you'll be able to reset passwords / clear redis caches / anything else you want, since you'll be able to hit arbitrary API endpoints.

EDIT: good feedback on the messaging -- thanks! launchaco is a static landing page generator I just used (after posting this) to generate a landing page -- working through kinks right now! (I noticed a lot of people were landing in the app, clicking around, and bouncing, so maybe a landing page would be a better way of explaining things)
I think the idea was to make an interface that lets all these products interchangeable and integrated.
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What's with this new trend of "how do we know what's fake or real?!" - am I going crazy or was this stuff was taught in high school? This is why we wrote papers, to learn critical communication skills (as writer and reader).

We determine what is fake in the same we we always did. Sanity checking the authors, validating for self-consistency, cross-checking evidence, searching for conflicting interests, and evaluating probable accuracy based on those factors.

The paradigm shift is the Internet as a whole: democratizing dissemination of information. Facebook, email, same thing.

We're now flooded with noise from random anonymous un-credentialed entities, unable to track and filter out low-signal sources. The public is the new broadcast medium... the narrative becomes whatever resonates strongest with some subpopulation, rapidly spread through the wires by people who never critically analyze agreement.

Old news institutions at least held some degree of credibility... plenty of faults, from simple mistakes to missed coverage to occasional outright propaganda (generally corporate) - but there was accountability. John Doe wrote for The City Times, you learned to ignore the bad reporters and institutions, and if we go back far enough you could actually talk to them in-person.

Every democratization comes with a social challenge of creating norms to maintain order. Political democracy is a work in progress, economic democracy currently not viable, I guess this signals it's time for us to face information democracy...
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Right, but as the parent comment states, it makes sense to run it while also asking for donations.
To make a Facebook feed palatable, embrace the "Hide All From" option. Whenever you notice a piece of junk from a source page name that you've seen before, just kill everything from that source. Most chronic oversharers are only really broadcasting content from fairly few sources (the 90% rule) and it's not all that hard to mute most of it that way. I spend 10 minutes a day reading through the feed and get most of the interesting personal news from people I actually want to seee, and little of the crap. For the worst oversharers, unfollow them.
Additionally, with iOS 11, it seems Apple has forced the "while in use" option on apps that didn't include it on their own for location permissions.
Actually I will do my best to agree with you outright on the multimedia front! I'm a huge fan of Medium (70+ pieces on there) because of the freedom to intermingle material with the text. It's quite powerful.

However, I use those elements as supplements to the written word, not vice-versa (ex: blog spam / slide shows with large image, little text, big ads)
My point is more, to the average consumer it really was "unlimited". When you can backup 4 lifetimes worth of your PC with a service, for "practical" purposes it is unlimited