skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so much not caring, but getting stuck in a vortext.

Free-to-use, privacy-voiding services kill any paid-for, privacy-respecting service. There's a race to the bottom -- Gresham's Law -- and the "good" services can neither gather sufficient users nor revenues to be sustaining.

The leaders, at the same time, have to stay ahead of all three fronts in the game:

1. They need low per-user costs to sustain themselves.

2. They need to exploit user data (or whatever other advertising-based edge) they have to retain advertisers.

3. They've got to retain sufficient network size and quality to keep smaller services from taking off, or from boiling-off the high-quality users who are no longer satisfied by the service.

Google launched G+ to kill Facebook. It failed in that, with a large number of arguments as to why.

But Facebook's initial attraction was that it was literally Harvard. That is: it began as one of the most selective, aspirational, and attractive (to both other participants, and advertisers) cohorts on the planet.

Metcalfe's Law is only so powerful, and it's a strong overstatement. There's both a falling value with additional nodes (Tilly-Odlyzko), and a per-user cost constant (myself). The size of a network is ultimately governed by that per-user cost.

(There is also, if you will a perverse T-O factor -- a subpopulation who are actively detracting from overall site value. This can be addressed by specifically addressing and neutralising those participants. The cost-constant isn't subject to this.)

Which is why a new social network could form, and relatively easily, among some sufficiently large appealing cohort. Throwing some funding money and support to individuals within such contexts might well take down Facebook, eventually.

(Though the replacement would almost certainly eventually present the same problem.)
I quit Facebook but was forced to return when it was the only way to communicate with certain Social groups.

So now I use one of my old phones with nothing on it, including no contacts, just for Facebook on a guest wifi channel on home router so it cannot link into main home network.

I look at once a week at most.

Otherwise it sits there marooned ha ha
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Why has the stock been unaffected?[1] Am I looking at the wrong ticker, is the stock propped up by Denmark, etc. or is this a bit alarmist?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/MAERSKB:DC
There's also a long history of tall poppy syndrome and cutting down innovative ideas to keep the status quo.

Things that were first done/discovered in SA:
- military tank
- sunscreen
- hills hoist
- early version of wifi (controversially)

References:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/07/23/4051703.htm
http://insidesouthaustralia.com.au/5-amazing-south-australia...
Clarification: yes it is a Polish project, and I'm aware it's thus of no practical use to most of you.

I'm linking to it as a showcase of a "job board done right" rather than for actual job searching - that's how I understood OP's question.
Unless the primary goal is propaganda by violence it's not terrorism. It seems pedantic but "terrorism" has somewhat of a definition, devaluation of lives isn't the key component, it's the purpose of the action.

It sucks and is morally wrong, but it isn't terrorism unless you want to argue that the main purpose of these strikes it to terrorize the civilian population. That may be the case but it seems they really just want to kill certain people and collateral damage is accepted.
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I'm all for capitalism but that last paragraph was cringey. I think it's a mistake to consider capitalism as this perfect, ideal way of life. A lot of people, too many people, get screwed under capitalism.

You're not free when you're working 2 jobs 6 days a week. Not by my definition of freedom. And this is the reality for a lot of people out there.

I believe there is a better system that we haven't found yet and we should be looking at how we can eventually transcend capitalism when we don't need it anymore. Automation/AI is a step in the right direction.
As someone from Holland I read the comment from malnourish in the opposite way.

Why limit the amount of days your allowed to be sick? What happens if you are sick for more days than what your contract allows?

I would think that a finite amount of sick days will have the opposite effect of what you are describing. People will come to work even when they're sick, just in case they get even more sick later in the year. Except for the end of December of course, can let those unused sick days go to waste!
Making money through deception and lies is nothing to be proud of son.
Does anyone know why the wheels are inclined this way? I guess it has much more grip on the soil this way but is there something else?
What? You Are Still Doing High-Fidelity Prototype Slowly?
yeah I'm aware of all the problems with publishing. Frankly I think it's all outdated, it was great back when there was only radio, film and TV, but imo the rules need updating to work with web. However, that's not our battle. We don't want to become a streaming service, we are OK leaving that to spotify/apple music etc.
I guess we would like to be closer to bandcamp by still selling downloads, however, there are a lot of other ways to add value to a service like that (speaking as someone who has run an independent digital record label).
For example, an electronic label will either directly or via a promotions company, send out a bunch of exclusive pre-release "promos" to well known DJ's and taste makers. They use this to gather feedback on how well the release will do. This was important when printing vinyl as it could tell you if you have a potential hit, or a flop before choosing how many copies of the vinyl to get printed, or gave you the chance to cancel it if the feedback was all bad. That feedback loop is still in affect, however, it's lost it's value, it gathers mostly useless feedback like "downloaded for R.Hawtin" and it goes no further than the label, or the labels facebook page. What if I wanted to follow my favourite DJ and actually be able to see what he is rating pre-release, so I could pre-order and or pay the label directly, via our service, a premium so that I could also get early "exclusive" access.
The DJ audience is a big one, and DJ's still have to download the file to actually DJ out at a club or whatever. I don't think that will change for a long time if ever. Just the security of being able to carry on performing if the internet goes down.
I also think a lot of DJ's would like to have their virtual record box, backed up at least, online. Imagine taking a flight half way across the world to DJ and having your laptop/USB keys stolen. you want to be able to buy a new USB and reset it from any internet terminal ideally and carry on the show.
So yeah, without carrying on and writing a novel, I think there are lots of areas to add value without becoming a Streaming service. I also think Soundcloud went wrong when they decided to become a streaming service.
No good discussion/update flow, groups aren't really dynamic enough, and getting a google account isn't going to appeal to the kind of people who dislike facebook.

(FWIW Meetup does completely replicate this use case, but they charge money)
You have no proof of that… For all we know this might be the writer only source of income
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Why would you buy an iphone if any cheap $100 android phone will do good enough?
Kudos! More examples would be welcome to prove how useful this can be (especially in contrast to Oyente), I guess you'll add some with the full release.
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What of the three laws of robotics?
I deactivated my facebook almost 7 years ago, and never looked back. Now I am considering to move away from google services, as google is getting aggressive these days. I use nexus 6p phone and I am seeing youtube recommendations these days based on my phone conversations!
Violence is sometimes the solution. It should always be an option, it must never be the first option.
Having read the comments here about Go not being suited for the low level stuff, I really wonder why did the designers of Go think it would be THE replacement for C/C++?
Whilst I am certainly supportive of open access science in general, and in the case of my own writing am glad to see it reach a wider audience, I'm surprised by the brazenness of linking to a pirated article whilst in discussion with its author. I don't know whether to be offended or impressed
The trash bill for the poor is that for weekly pickup. Luckily, many poor folks live in cities, where the cost is included in taxes. Get outside city limits in somewhere like Indiana, and you have to pay.
Got rid of it about 6-7 years ago, mainly due to all the annoying people posting photos of their food and pointless updates and check-ins. Who needs that.. I don't miss it one bit nor do I plan on using it ever again.
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They seem to also populate it based on IP address. Created a dummy amount to sync a mobile game across devices that requires a Facebook login to do so. It was created in a brand new private window, with no overlapping details with my actual account and it still suggested all the friends on my regular account.
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For those looking for a replacement "hit", why not divert your procrastination into something useful, like StackOverflow or Codewars?
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The problem with redux is actually the dev-tools (and the ecosystem that spawned from the middleware). the newbies get wowed by "time travel debugging" and want to copy/paste there way to the $$$profit.

Redux takes a simple concept, and turned it into something thats really hard to apply to the projects these people are writing; by reinventing words into a propriety language.... No one talks about about there state as a function of "reducers". And when they think they have their head around "actions" they realise that no, its not a 1-to-1 relationship with what the user is doing.

If redux didnt try and re-invent event-sourcing with its own "idomatic TAO way", it could of leveraged off the plethora of well written documentation on the subject.

Instead, Dan, thought he could improve event sourcing and make it palatable for the masses by
-replacing "events" with "actions" [1]
-making the state an anemic domain model[0]
-persisting snapshots instead of an event log then adding on congnitive load by implementing a diffing algorithm for UI updates which requires specialised knowledge. [1]

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html

[1] https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
Thank you I hadn't read the description of that before.
I think the point is that its not actually deleted at all. Its Facebook thats in control of your data not you.
I don't know. I tried the PSVR, found it very cool (significantly better and more immersible than I thought), yet I wouldn't buy one. A good demo doesn't make for a good product.
I felt the same way about my livejournal account from college. I was just really worried at the time, it could be an issue, when just entering the workforce.
I use facebook now, much the same way I used livejournal, keeping track of links, photos, and things I'm working on. At the time I started, search was pretty terrible. But I figured it would improve, which it has. Still, every once and a while, I'll be working on something and go, "Ah man, I had that written down in the livejournal!" Oops.
Thoughts on Facebook:

1. Privacy-wise: It doesn't matter if you're on Facebook or not. They have a profile about you and you can't do anything about it. There was this article in January [1] that showed how only a few data points Facebook or Google or Twitter actually needs to paint a fairly accurate picture of your personality.

2. Addiction-wise: Uninstall the app, disable all notifications. I rarely use Facebook for the feed, because it's actually extremely boring. Most friends don't post personal stuff anymore anyways. There's a handful of people who post a lot, but mostly links to other websites. I also unfriend people I haven't talked to in a while. Try to reduce your friends (and cognitive load) to <200 or <150. Not all at once. Unfriend 10 or so today, another 20 tomorror etc.

3. I also see tremendous benefits of Facebook and that's why I use it: We have a local startup community. Basically, a page with 100 likes or so. We posted a video about our events and it reached 1,200 people organically. It's an extremely useful tool to discover and promote local events. And new people constantly find our events because of Facebook. You can't do this with your private website. You need to go where the attention is. The only other option to promote local events is the newspaper or distributing flyers, but this takes a lot more time for less awareness, because of broader targeting. I also found new events because of Facebook.

[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-li...

Edit: clarification
When you delete your account, Facebook implies that they will (eventually) purge your data from their systems.

Given the current costs of storage, many are skeptical of this.
The article is probably taking artistic license with the term "half life" to refer to the unusual longevity of interest in trinitite.
Does anyone have links to Mckinsey/KPMG* type studies (in pdf format) which forecast VR adoption and segment usage by type?

*Or anyone "authoritative".
Just want to put down my flag in the sand and say I love Redux. It is my tool of choice whenever dealing with anything that contains state and (with it's partner in crime, Redux Saga) anything that has to do with the real world (dreaded side-effects).

Thumbs up on Redux, your boilerplates are my sanctuaries.
I use RescueTime (primarily because it integrates with a bunch of other services I use for life-logging) in Firefox - can monitor all sites or just a whitelist. Also supports Chrome, I believe.

https://www.rescuetime.com/
I'd point out that currently, access to port 80 for a domain is access to a certificate for that domain.

This means that, stupid or not, HTTPS essentially is as secure as privileged ports are.
Quitting dopamine-seeking is called death. Dopamine is how the brain's reward system works, and eating or parenting is dopamine-seeking just as much as any other behaviour.

It sounds like technology isn't the problem - if you're doing these things with technology you'd be doing the same things without it. Perhaps you'd be spending a lot of time chatting around the water cooler instead of online, but that's not actually any healthier or better. Facebook has brought me a lot of fun in my life - on Tuesday I went to a gig that I only found out about because a casual acquaintance posted it there, and tonight I'm meeting up with another acquaintance because I saw on Facebook we're going to the same gig. I see it as like the gold medal in Cool Runnings - if you're not enough without it, you're not going to be enough with it.
> The complete devaluation

You misspelled "valuation".

Edit: Flagged?

Putting a price on people's lives and deciding what threshold is acceptable is extremely different from deciding lives have zero value.

It's just a pun. Note that "valuation" and "devaluation" are not opposites.
> Why would you buy a song you like if you can listen to it for free?

Because you want to support the indie artist/label so they keep making music you like?

> Also, 10 bucks to remove ads is ridiculous, their catalogue is tiny and with overwhelmingly obscure/indie music (at least for me), AND I have no idea if the artists will actually get any of it! Cut it in half, have some sort of revenue share and I'm in.

100% this. I'm not going to pay that much just to remove ads and especially if that money is going toward big record labels instead of the indie artists/labels I actually listen to.
It's explained in the video. It scrubs the ground to prevent weed saplings from growing.
Terrorism isn't about propaganda, IMHO. I agree somewhat with Wikipedia:

Terrorism is a term used in its broadest sense to describe the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror or fear, in order to achieve a political, religious or ideological aim.

But I'd say it's not just indiscriminate violence, targeting e.g. members of political or judiciary organizations is often used too.
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If you swap Everquest or Ultima Online for Warcraft in your question, then you have your hits that the were genre creators, and the alternatives that arrived a few years later (Warcraft, Eve Online, Club Penguin, Guild Wars, D&D Online, etc...)

Or if you want to focus on Warcraft as the big hit that popularized the genre, then we can see that the secondary MMOs of today are over 10x size of the biggest MMO pre-Warcraft (Everquest peaked at around 600k subscriber, Elder Scrolls Online has over 8 million). No one game has been as big as WoW, but it did grow the overall market massively.
Back then when Zynga got big I got more and more annoyed by the "water my plants, bor!" and "milk my cows, bro!" requests. At one point I decided to unfollow anybody on the spot sending me Zynga requests. After that I unfollowed my favourite bands inviting me to concerts on a different continent. Then people posting about political topics. Than everybody posting annoying BS.

And I ended up with a nice empty timeline.
> The need to communicate with the people you love is not "manufactured"...

Again, the need is not manufactured. But the need for constantly in touch, is manufactured. No one before social network wanted that. There was normal mails, then we had telephones, emails etc etc..all of which have solved this pretty well, even across the globe.

But none of these are 24x7.

The need for 24x7 "networking" is manufactured.
I use nexus 6p phone and I am seeing youtube recommendations these days based on my phone conversations!

The implication of this is that Google listens in and recommends things based on your phone conversations. A much more likely explanation is that you talk on the phone about the same things you look at online, and you're making an incorrect assumption about Google's source of data.
Maybe for paid solutions. But I'd guess if you take the free version of Gitlab into account, it is probably the dominant self-hosted Git solution.
>I can't upgrade operating systems or even update the app without fear of losing critical features.

I don't use Windows a lot myself but you're not the first person I hear voicing this concern and postponing updates to avoid risking breaking something critical. This is a very bad precedent for Microsoft to set. At least it'll keep the ransomware and antivirus devs busy.
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I bought an Asus 1215 B with GNU/Linux pre-installed for my travels, back when were new.

If you care about GNU/Linux on laptops research properly who is selling them.
Interesting statement.

Gitlab provided a datasource. You've got a better one showing your counterpoint, I take it?
Roombas do, it would be weird if this new iteration didn't
It is not entirely true that 10 years of past data is enough for fb to draw conclusions on a person. In fact fb is trying more to make people share. You can also try 'tools that fudge info' to confuse fb. If done cleverly, this is a major tool to put fb off the scent.

Also, Quitting fb for mental sanity is a worthwhile reason if not privacy
"terrorist organization"

Please don't call names like this.

"The complete devaluation of innocent human lives in order to achieve the group's objectives."

Any war will inevitably, and predictably, lead to some number of civilian deaths. Should we disband all militaries? If so, how would we deal with groups like ISIS?
Tektites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite) are similar to trinitite, but originate from meteorite impacts instead.
Why did you decide to do it with $50,000 and Robinhood instead of just creating a bot to trade stocks on an Investopedia stock simulator account? [0]

I mean, I understand that $50k might not be a lot for you, but if the aim is to see what the majority of random people on the internet feel like buying, while measuring the return of these decisions, this could be accomplished without putting up any actual money.

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/simulator/
There is a popular conspiracy theory than nobody actually understands it and avantgarde artists are in fact con artists.

Not that I care enough to be offended, though.

And hell, if this is that "meta" meaning in their art, I must confess that I haven't got the joke until now :)
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I don't agree with your point on the 'review-app' pattern. While I agree it would be more work to create a 'review cluster' (I assume you mean app + related services + some test data), this is the kind of effort I think quickly makes you do something a smarter way once you've felt the pain.

Also, companies I've worked at in the past (when sufficiently big) have had "playground" AWS accounts that had a fixed cost for daily all-you-can-use resources. I'd like to think that if you're big enough to think you need >2/3 supporting services to come up with your app, maybe you already have enough traction for that kind of cloud playground account?

I can only speak definitively for myself, but most apps I have built are generally 1 app instance, 1 DB and _maybe_ 1 service for caching. Thinking about how to make these easier to spin up (which includes making sure it's easy for me to make a close-to-production environment as quick as possible), has benefited me, despite initial pain.

Also, if cost is the angle, there are tens of things companies could do, but don't that could bring down cost. Outside of "have more performance-minded developers", "add more computers" is often the cheapest option a company has as far as increasing performance (hence the whole rise of horizontal scalability right?).

I agree that Gitlab should focus on user experience (I'm not sure what you were referring to by "Git hosting"), but I am happy that they've decided to add this CI/CD (and issue boards, and CI), in ONE place.
I am no expert, but I think the general intuition is that more energy means more violent fluctuations due to dynamical nature of weather. Just like water that is being more heated has stronger turbulences in it.

More specifically, extreme events in the moderate latitudes are explained by slowdown and amplification of Rosby waves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave