skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook is already more profitable non-inflation adjusted than what Microsoft was at the height of its power

As a nit, what's the point of using a non-inflation adjusted comparison? You wouldn't say have compared Facebook to Standard Oil :).

It turns out that 1998 to today is only a 50% change according to CPI [1] and MSFT had $4.5B in net income for FY 1998 [2]. So your point still stands given Facebook's massive ~$10B FY2016 net income [3].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar98/fins.htm
[3] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
As in "if you can import your cheaply sourced products I can export my labour"

or as in "if you manufacture abroad, let me compete with that with moving my talent somewhere else"

or as in "freedom to sell my labour anywhere in the EU"

or as in "you can bring factories to my poorer country, but I can move to your richer country and also benefit"

or as in "part of the 4 freedoms that actually balance each other - they're not a set of 4 freedoms because of identitarian reasons, they exist because they're practical and work well together"

I am a migrant working in the UK and it's quite offensive that you would suggest FoM only lowers wages (HINT: It doesn't, look up the LSE's study about it), suggesting I'm here because I'm cheaper.
Ask HN: How do you deal with passive-aggressive people at work?
How do you handle passive-aggressive co-workers? A passive-aggressive person being someone who gets off on being rude to other people, but does so indirectly and without leaving any trails. Someone like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bafQY0_Bxs
I'm inclined to agree. There's a wordpress plugin for almost any generic use case one can think of. Social media site? Ultimate member and a bunch of others have that covered. Need it more customized? Jump in the source and fiddle until it does what you want.

I just did that yesterday. I needed to control access to certain pages to only include users that have paid for credits using stripe (provided by WP simple pay). I modified the Wordpress Access Control plug in and in about an hour I had a solution for a very specific use case.
Scientists amazed by marine life at Bikini Atoll where 23 atomic bombs dropped
21% target Windows mobile OS? That seems especially high since most Windows developers would start visual studio by default.
Server not found, here. Comcast.
I don't know the Newstatesman but it sounds like a very biased magazine.

"This same economics is being inflicted on Britain – cuts and austerity. Living standards have fallen, wages reduced as a proportion of total economic output (GDP) and in real terms, and inequality and poverty increasing. "
This actually may be true. And indeed. It could be partly be caused by the EU.
Have a look at the UK's debt:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/19/article-0-1AE4486F...

The UK had serious problems. Then, under Thatcher, the UK rose again and had comparably low debt. Some say this is due to Thatcher. I would have said this at one point, now I say that it was because of oil found in the Northern Sea.
The UK's debt exploded after 2007, also, because the UK had a huge, potential unhealthy financial sector.

So if you say that the EU is causing the problems in the UK this may be in fact true, since it allowed "The City" to live unreasonably from grains from the Financial Industry while some parts of the UK did very badly. I can not exclude the possibility that loosing a huge chunk of the financial industry and do a re-balancing may actually a good thing for the average Joe who does not live in "The City". London voted "stay" by the way.
I feel 100% like you. Most developers won't think about clear interfaces between components unless they are forced to do so by an RPC layer. I think at some point we are going to realise this and step back on our footprints , ending up with a monolithic architecture with clearly defined boundaries between components enforced by expressive type systems.
I agree; success was not inevitable. After FB failed to buy Snapchat, they attempted to copy it with their Pokes App, back in 2012: https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/faceb...

I don't believe copying was inevitable either. Snap's main appeal at that time -- disappearing content -- was seen as completely anathema to FB's practice data hoarding. And adding features of any sort risks alienating the current user base. I confess that as a casual Instagram user, and a non-Snapchat user, I'm completely lost with all the new features and end points to what was a straightforward photo app.
> whilst it is simultaneously threatening to institute trade barriers against the UK

The one leaving the EU is Uk. And you cannot have the cake and eat it.

Uk position until now is ditching all the obligations and keep the the benefits.

UE is not threateting to institute economic barriers, they are saying that if UK is not an EU member they should be treated like so
The site doesn't work. So naturally that means I don't have ipv6 support. What can do to change that or is it entirely upto my isp?

Also how do I get a ipv6 based instance in a host like amazon or linode etc?
Nail salon opens with same services as the million nail salons before it.

Big deal.
They gave a massive buyout offer before copying. There was only one thing left to do after that.
I was there, and that was exactly how most of the audience did react after 15 min. into his talk.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776864
I second this; I find many websites that are that dependent on JS are BS.

To web developers, this article is priceless (I hope you already know about it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
Sure, but if it's not acceptable to have significant latency then they're probably the same logical service, yeah?
I've got just the thing: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cheese+ly%5E3
It would, but only once.
Then just say what you're trying to say.

And this time, don't use subjects like "IQ Score" unless you actually know what the hell it means. IQ Score means something particular. An IQ Score of 100 is literally average (Mean, Median, AND Mode), because the IQ Test assumes a Gaussian distribution. 115 is +1 Sigma, and 130 is +2 Sigma.

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If you're trying to make a statement on intelligence that doesn't have to do with the Gaussian Distribution, then maybe you should stop using "IQ" as your metric. Are you trying to say that you think that general intelligence is bimodal or otherwise a non-normal distribution?
Well, I think it was the Greeks who ruined Greece (with the help of Goldman Sachs). Greece should never have joined the Euro (thanks Goldman Sachs). It is also a very corrupt country for EU standards. The good thing is: It is a small country. I think things will improve in the long run.

But since you mentioned Greece. What about Puerto Rico? Illinois?
"Banking city" does not mean there's plenty of bank branches around :-)

Companies in the same industry tend to gravitate around each other so they can cluster talent, lobby governments and "build synergies" (sorry for the buzzword), among other reasons. The City of London is that kind of cluster.
I voted you up for making good points, but I think Facebook's 3b buyout offer(which many thought was on the high side at the time) negates any accusations of abuse of power.
> tech people get weird about well-dressed people and think they're "fakes" or whatever.

There's some historical precedence there. Up until ~10-15 years ago the fakers and know-nothings used to always wear suits. They were the guys who pulled the purse strings, but had no clue.

Unfortunately, since then they've learnt to mimic the dress of their prey. So now instead of the "empty suit" you have an "empty hoodie".
I find some measure of joy in how remarkable that is.

Ignoring the disagreeable parts of reality may be pleasant as long as reality's ignoring you back, but when it presents real dangers, ignorance is a recipe for getting into real trouble more effectively.

Of course, being dead is an incredibly effective way of avoiding one's personal inconveniences too, but for some reason we don't seem to lionize that to anywhere near the same extent...
> that is not in question, but full membership is now politically unacceptable to the UK electorate

> the UK Government wants to keep barriers to trade as low as possible, it is seeking a free trade agreement

UK electorate cannot have both
You know what - I think there are a great deal of legal and technical factors in play.

But forgive me in also indulging in the idea that a physical location can also bring a sense of atmosphere or prestige - belonging - that is important in any human activity, and can add a relevance which is not immediately obvious.

Which is not to say that such an atmosphere can't dissolve quite quickly.
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If your ISP provides IPv6, then it's up to your router to support it and hand out an address to your computer. You might be able to get a firmware update for it, or use a good third-party one. Your OS almost certainly supports IPv6 already, it just needs access.

If your ISP doesn't provide IPv6 at all, then aside from switching ISPs, you can try getting a tunnel from a service like https://tunnelbroker.net/ (Hurricane Electric), although I've never used that service, only SixXS when it was around.

Who's your ISP?
Yes; I find this one of the frustrations of git. Sometimes I want to know the larger context around a specific commit, and the commit message does not provide that. Commit messages are, in my experience, good at describing what, and maybe a low-level why, but not a high-level why. Knowing branch names is a good way to find out a high-level why.
Mindful eating: Losing weight by being aware of your hunger
so what's this?

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/ceta-explaine...
This is amazing. I don't know if a lot of people here realize this, but it is really hard to pull off this level of integration of different computer vision components (believe me, I've tried). Microsoft has really outdone themselves this time.
Ah, Cardinal Richelieu. Thanks for stopping by.
Why Type Systems Matter – Comparing Rust and Python
I suspect the reluctance to offer more than a brief recommendation isn't a lack of confidence in the argument, but rather a sensible level of restraint for someone who is in the security industry.
>And the language is the actual language I'm working with, not something that needs its own parser to give me less functionality in the spirit of mollyguarding on behalf of people who make mistakes of classes I categorically refuse to allow in my systems.

Ok. But to be fair, Twig's parser is extensible, whereas PHP's isn't. And it lets you use array shorthand in PHP versions that don't support it (which is not as much of a problem as it used to be, but to me, more than worth never having to type "Array()" again.)

Have you tried the XHP functionality in Hack? It treats XML as objects and understands it in context (which is something PHP should do natively, but can't.) It seems to solve many of the footgun problems that PHP template languages do, within native code.
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I believe Temperate is the usual term. Appears to be synonymous person googling
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_climate
Interesting. Any reference for this?
Vulkan is great except it doesn't work on anything Apple. Dealbreaker if you want users.
There is an opportunity cost associated with becoming informed about local government. If that is greater than the value of your vote, which it almost certainly is, then it's not rational to keep up with local news.

Government is also often as convoluted as possible, artificially increasing the cost. I just don't see how this argument makes sense.
Well, for one thing, Einstein never wore socks.
Before that, in 1930, the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (two surnames) published "The Revolt of the Masses" book [1], going even further.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolt_of_the_Masses
There will be the usual walk through the park of unusable vectors to solve this.

The only thing that could stop this is direct action - meaning, editing organisms to resist humanity. Making trees fireproof, equipping animals with diseases. The only wulf to hold back man, is another man.
Japan is sort of the Germany of Asia. Both are very detail-oriented people, well known for craftsmanship, significant amount of global exports, their trains are always on time, etc.
Goldman Sachs might get more traction with tech talent if they drop their proprietary in-house language and database; Slang and SecDB. See 'Confessions of a Slang coder at Goldman Sachs' [1], and 'The hidden weakness inside Goldman Sachs?' [2]. Of course, it is considered by some to be the secure sauce behind their secret source but I expect its a factor, especially if they are trying to hire from the Silicon Valley crowd.

[1] http://news.efinancialcareers.com/au-en/282097/slang-goldman...

[2] http://news.efinancialcareers.com/au-en/274853/secdb-goldman...
Purple: 22,000 Sign-Up to Clean Loos [toilets] in Return for Free WiFi
Suppression of emotions, following rules to the letter, indifference/coldness to each other, "Weltschmerz" visible on faces, protestant work ethic (=stick at work doing nothing to show bosses you are working) etc. Other parts of Germany feel slightly different though (Bavarians seem much happier), it might be just Frankfurt.
But I'll ignore the tone and rhetorical nature of your question and try to explain.

The UK decided to leave the EU which means leaving the single market. I'm guessing you do not appreciate the vast difference between being part of a single market and having a trade deal.

Regardless of the existence of NAFTA for example, a company based in Mexico city will not have all the same rights and access to the US market as one based in the US.

However being a member of the EU means, for example a Danish company can load up a van with its produce, drive to London and deliver them to a customer without any paperwork or customs checks along the way. It has all the rights of a company based in another UK city.

This can only work if there are shared standards across the EU and if there is an authority (ultimately the European Court of Justice) to ensure these rights are available to all. It also requires common standards for goods and services.

The UK simply cannot expect to maintain this level of access to the EU market unless it is willing to accept the ECJ and all the EU laws and regulations.

Btw, only someone with no historical perspective whatsoever would question the progressive credentials of the EU (given the recent history of some of its members: communist rule, military and fascist dictatorship, sectarian division) or accuse it of being protectionist (given that 17 of the 20 most globalised countries in the world in terms of trade are members).
It may be a bit simplistic for HN, but you may enjoy I talk I've given, "Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes", and especially the visual metaphor from slide 26 on of chipping awsy at a block of ice to create an ice sculpture.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/105ZgwafitwXH6_sWevFH...
What a tragic loss for the mathematics community and her husband and young daughter. Deepest condolences to her family, friends, colleagues, and students.
If you're arguing that Facebook behaved rationally, then we aren't in disagreement. If you're arguing that Facebook acted in the public interest, then you're going to need a different argument.
Yeah feared as much. Don't think my isp is going to roll out ipv6 anytime soon (government owned, stuck in ie6 age isp, BSNL).
> "I like the idea of a united Europe"

I like the idea of greater cooperation across Europe, but I'm not willing to unite under the EU, at least not in its current form. Unity is not universally good, it's important to know what you're uniting under.

With that in mind, what do you want to gain from a united Europe?
sell code - you betcha!

list for (potential) sale - no thanka...
> Military Headquarter in the EU, beginning of an EU army

Why on Earth is this a good thing?
I love the low vision pitch as there are a dearth of low vision resources particularly those hit with age related macular degeneration. I wonder if they are any censored items in the backend that may limit functionality -- Seeing AI won't be seeing any sex toys...
> but I do think that men need to be led to achieve the greatest that each is individually capable of. And to be a great leader requires one to be extraordinary. There is not a Napolean or Alexander sleeping inside each of us. And that's just fine. We are nonetheless equal before God, or for secular ears: equal in dignity and moral worth.

I fully agree but this doesn't make what I wrote less true.

> We should want to be led by people more intelligent than most. And not just more intelligent, but more honest, honorable, and courageous than most. That shouldn't be controversial.

I don't deny that. But we (most of western civilization) live in democracy, Sarah Palin is democratically elected official and by many she is not seen as the brightest person. Donald Trump is the most powerful man in the world, is he "not just more intelligent, but more honest, honorable, and courageous than most." ? In my opinion he is not, but I didn't vote for him, I am not even an us citizen, but this was people choice.

Writing that we should not allow someone to be part of government because we perceive them as dumb ourselves is dangerous, let the people decide, say your opinion in that matter, show candidate faults, but let the people decide.
So, in other words, it doesn't quite have more to do with what affects you as you claim in your earlier comment, but it has to do with what is accessible and available? Or some linear combination of the two?
I agree that environmental factors shape a generation. People react to the world they were raised in. I just think it is silly to ascribe personal traits like "selfishness" to those reactions.

I also think you are attributing these actions to the wrong generations. FDR was born in the 1880s, he wasn't part of the depression/WWII generation. However both Reagan and George HW Bush were. We didn't get the first baby boomer president until Clinton in 1993. Countries are usually controlled by people in their 40s-60s. You can't blame the baby boomers for things that starting happening when they were in their 20s and 30s.
If that needs to be scaled out to many services, then you also want to scale out the data model. Meaning, events in a commit log, and services that subscribe to that commit log to create their own schemas that are tuned for their own needs. The more I think about commit logs, the more I think giant monolithic database schemas are just kind of weird - a strange compromise between history and state.
Such new, much upvote - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074401
They don't explain exactly how, but yes the attacker did find a database backup. Apparently the production systems were not accessed.
Microsoft tried to buy Netscape. It doesn't negate it on the part of Facebook, just as that did absolutely nothing for Microsoft back then and for exactly the same reason.

In fact it enhances the negative view of the monopoly company in question as a predator looking to dominate. That's how it'll be played in the press, it's how it'll be spun by competitors and by the government entities. If you go back and read about Microsoft's interactions with Netscape (Marc Andreessen provided a key piece of evidence of Microsoft's predatory behavior by taking notes in said meeting/s), you'll find that their efforts to 'buy or bury' Netscape was entirely relevant as the case went on as evidence of a sort of character portrayal the government was spinning of Microsoft as a company hell-bent on dominance (ie seeking to limit consumer choice to enhance their market power; which is perhaps how it'll be spun against Facebook - by wiping out Snapchat, Facebook can plausibly raise its ad prices, as consumers will supposedly have fewer social destinations, and advertisers will have fewer platforms competing for their marketing dollars, etc etc and so on; it doesn't matter if one agrees with this premise, it's exactly the sort of slightly subjective argument (that happens to be kinda hard to prove and kinda hard to disprove) that will be used by the government).

The fact that the offer was perhaps high at the time, will also be spun as proof that very clearly Facebook has too much power, that they are deriving such immense profit from their social monopoly that they can afford to overpay to sustain that monopoly. You see, anti-trust is an intentionally subjective field of law. It was designed to be vague, it enables them to go after you for nearly any perceived abuse of market power (with a more recent high-tilt toward consumer well-being, but back in reality the Microsoft case was overwhelmingly about powerful, rich competitors crying foul).
Similar. I've kinda learned that some people just have a lot of trouble with direct communication - especially from peers or people they don't report to or don't consider authoritative for whatever reason. They'll come up with all sorts of complaints about diction, tone, format, vocabulary, or medium but the reality is they just don't like to communicate that way.

The strategy I use is to qualify and de-personalize everything. This is less persuasive writing, verbose, and slightly annoying but is "safer" if you don't know your audience. "It may be better", "X seems like it could be asked better", "help me understand your thoughts for X over Y", "what if we tried asking X like this? It might have this effect".

This is categorically less efficient communication but is arguably more 'effective' if it means people don't get offended. As it's hard to be effective when people are complaining to their managers.
Facebook relicenses RocksDB under Apache 2 license
Different trade barriers. The EU already has very few tariffs, most of them strategic. The weighted mean applied tariff rate for EU member states is 1.57% [1].

The tricky aspect of free trade agreements is the non-tariff barriers [2]; those relate mostly to regulations, including labor protection, health, the environment, money laundering, and such.

They are very difficult to negotiate, because a lot of them are not about economics, but about things that people genuinely care about. For example, one of the major sticking points with TTIP was food quality (the chlorinated chicken debate). As a result, trade agreements that want to reduce regulatory barriers take years to negotiate.

Within the EU, this problem is addressed by having an actual, full-blown bicameral legislature and a court of justice to protect the interests of the member states and their citizens. But the UK doesn't even like the ECJ, so this is not going to be easy.

As far as the negotiations go, the British government has nobody but itself to blame. It doesn't even seem to be prepared for negotiations (and one has to wonder what it wasted the past year on); it has consistently and aggressively talked trash about the EU (in order to appeal to UKIP voters?), has issued threats (such as turning the UK into a European Singapore), and so forth. It should not be surprising that the reaction hasn't exactly been amicable.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TM.TAX.MRCH.WM.AR.ZS?vie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-tariff_barriers_to_trade
Typical FUD from an obvious shill account for Saran Wrap.
Give me a fucking break mate.

If tomorrow the UK says: "Fuck, we screwed up, let's stay in the EU" then the EU will put all their resources behind making that happen. No barriers at all: 4 freedoms and hopefully Schengen, too.

Where do you get the idea that is the EU the one leaving the UK for racist reasons, thus wanting to erect barriers against workers from other countries?