skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I didn't get why all the shade.

From an account that is 1 day old and has all of -18 karma. Not suspicious at all!
You might prefer:
http://fsprojects.github.io/SQLProvider/
Why does everything have to be increased in income? That is just a plan for disaster for something like this in the long term. Sustainable and paying for employees is not acceptable?
Ugh. I've become the product.

Necessary or not squeezing more profit out of the site is going to drive many people away I saw it we all saw it with digg and slashdot.

I can even hear "Let's try for 5% growth next year!"

Then if there is no growth the cuts begin from the bottom up to protect the executives. Be warned! First they will come for the lunchroom coffee creamers...
Also, China is 1/3 of their sales. It's not only profits but probably long term survival.
>A corporation is a moral agent

I otherwise agree, but I don't know if Apple is a moral agent - that discussion will into quite complex philosophical issues. But certainly each individual person making decisions at Apple is a moral agent.
I'm a Girl Scout leader in the Midwest. Most of the leadership in this area (adult & youth) is at best skeptical about this initiative, and at worst openly hostile. Girls do not come to Scouting to learn about financial literacy and cybersecurity. They come to spend time with their friends, to be outdoors, to have parties, to do craft-y things. The cost of some of the new badges is also a great concern.

The company http://playhorrorgames.com is doing everything they can to bring this story to life, and make sure that if you're playing the game, you become part of the game.
They would if the Chinese government ordered them to as a retaliatory measure. I'm sure that wasn't off the table when they were discussing it.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless. --Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof

If you allow yourself to act as badly as others act, you don't have much of a moral compass.

The world can only improve when we hold ourselves to a higher standard than we see, as it's too easy to rationalize our own behavior, and harshly judge others' actions.
Nice graphics! I really like from-the-bits-up explanations of things like this.

I found the newsletter upsell in the sidebar very distracting. I know you're considered a fool if you fail to bash people over the head with newsletter sign-up requests these days, but maybe just keep the ones interspersed in the text and get rid of the one I have to see all the time? Or I guess AB test it or whatever the cool kids are doing for this stuff. I dunno, but it really detracted from what I otherwise thought was great content.

Best of luck to you!
A lot has changed since they started, I imagine it's a nice "if you had to start all over again how would you do it differently" moment. A lot of companies don't really get that chance, hence: cool.

Now, maybe it's completely wrong for them and they shouldn't be — that's a totally fair assessment. I honestly don't know.
> A global company needs to be sensitive to these political/cultural differences and accommodate them.

Global companies are instrumental in transmitting western values to the rest of the world. You can't antagonize host countries but at the same time you can't ignore the arc of the moral universe.

Domestically, a great example is the economic repercussion for southern states that tried to pass trans bathroom laws. Companies didn't worry about "respecting political/cultural differences." They did what was right.
Was a paying Spotify user for about two years and recently jumped ship to Google Play Music to give it a shot and I'm pretty happy about it thus far. Haven't been any songs that I had on my Spotify playlist that I couldn't find. There is a few things it is missing that's not ideal (no podcasts in Australia) but the bundling of YouTube Red with the subscription + the ability to upload my bandcamp-downloaded tracks that I can stream back that aren't on either Spotify or Google Play Music is fantastic.

Podcasts is just the main thing I am wanting at the moment, but I can still access them via the Spotify free account.
Thanks for the note. Definitely a great point. Not sure yet how we tier out our product, but tiered pricing is definitely the state of the art.

We've been working on some /tech/ to enable tiered pricing in the meantime. The Site's all custom, and so far there's no notion of a "product" yet...just "paid" and "unpaid."

Share your question re: where's Kaplan on this stuff!
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Use events & async functions instead of frameworks

Funny, the runtime required to support that async abstraction sure sounds like a thing that's responsible for running the system while you plug pieces of code into it at defined extension points. But that's unpossible, since we just learned that doing that is EVIL.

Snark aside, we've seen (more than once) in the Javascript space that "libraries not frameworks" can breed something even worse; ad-hoc copy-pasted cargo-cult setup files, pseudo-frameworks that use StackOverflow as source control.
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I don't disagree, but I won't walk into the home of an acquaintance and tell him why he's wrong either.

There's obviously a line there. But a computer company isn't going to win against a police state.
> [...] so they can show me advertisements relevant to my interests.

That's the benefit to you. The other is that the business model supports the Google services you use.

The perfunctory question is: what are the costs to you and everyone else?

The question that piques my interest: why do you assume there aren't costs, or that the costs are negligible? Why does your belief that an institution isn't evil or annoying mean you only do the first half of a cost/benefit analysis?
It’s false that cortisol can be easily tested? Or it’s false that many doctors tell patients that their unexplained symptoms are probably just psychosomatic and they should try to reduce stress, as a way of getting them to go away and stop asking for diagnostic efforts beyond the doctor’s current level of expertise?

I’ve experienced the latter first hand, and know many other people who have also, none of whom were chronically stressed in any kind of unusual way, as far as I could tell.

Maybe “gaslighting” is a slightly unfair name. I would describe it more along the lines of “patronizing indifference”.
And many many users will leave, as they did with Digg. It's too large and lowest common denominator already, and a major redesign will be the impetus for a brain drain as all users will have a shared gripe. HN is a very likely spillover target, and already is for a lot of the programmer focused discussion that used to be Reddits core user base. I've watched so many communities die from monetization, the cycle really writes itself.

Eventually even HN will get too bloated and need to fracture.
Really helpful to hear. We were worried about it but thought "once you get into reading the piece you'll probably just forget it's there, right?"

We're really focused on trying to "twist the knobs" only up to the point right /before/ it starts getting annoying.
I've got the feeling this thread is full of people that drank the BS koolaid of herbalife.

They either sell snake oil products, or protein shakes that are 10x cheaper at Costco.

I've known people desperate enough to start selling that crap (as well as others-their friends-that have to buy it just due to friendship), so please stop spreading MLM scams.
MonoUE brings C# and F# support to Unreal Engine 4 – released for 4.16
What do you define as a planet though?
If you consider our sun a frame of reference, you might find that technically some far away objects bigger than the sun have complex periodical movements around the sun.
"The harder you work, the luckier you get." One of my favorite quotes.
Anything that liberates me from the current state of matters is welcome. The current state of matters is:

use CSS preprocessor to generate CSS
use framework (i.e. React) to transformate pseudo-HTML component model to HTML5 at runtime
use a tool like Babel to transform your-favorite-pseudo-JS (i.e. Typescript) to the JS-supported-by-the-users-browser-at-that-session

... all of this only for making alive a GUI.

Seriously, it is like a sick joke. HTML was never designed for declatatively describing an UI and we have had to kludge it for the last 15 or 20 years. First, with forms and input tags and postbacks, then with AJAX, now with S.P.A. tools. It's still a heap of kludges.

The sooner we can have a good,state of the art, portable, declatative UI language, the better.
> I'd argue that at the API level, these things should be required to think about. Any level of "help" so that I don't have to worry about cache headers should be from a framework that tells me what they think about them.

Agreed completely. The lowest-level API should expose them and every other bit of the standard, and higher-level APIs should handle them automatically in sensible ways.
Perhaps that's what I was thinking of.
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I wouldn't be surprised if an "http-parser" crate pops up on top of this. But unlike the http crate, an http-parser crate would have to make at least one potentially controversial choice, namely "which parsing library".
can't agree more, I understand why they feel the need to update but I think the direction is just a reaction to current trends, they're not tapping into what really makes reddit tick.

-un-needed design - Reddit gets money and hires a designer, designers want to make something fresh and elegant and beautiful! Just let it be text, all the sites that people really use on the open internet are just text. Wikipedia, Craigslist, Google Search, Reddit, text!

-un-needed new stack - Reddit gets money and hires a developer, developers want to use React and Node.js because it's fresh and elegant and beautiful! The only place I see any potential benefit from react-ification is in super-high pace threads like sports games or big AMA's, but reddit's long tail is essentially static content please dont make me initialize 300kb of javascript OS every time I hit a reddit thread from Google.
The part of I don't like is that unions are given monopoly status within the company.

Most of the unions I've seen aren't voluntary. When I was in grad school, I was forced to pay dues into the union. I don't like that. I think there should be as many unions as employees like. I don't understand how the union can be understood to be negotiating on my behalf if I can't choose not to have them negotiate on my behalf.

Once the union has negotiated a budget for itself, it has an independent mandatee to sustain itself, which is sort of detached from any selective pressures. If I'm a bad employee, I get fired. If the company is bad, it goes bankrupt. If a union behaves badly, the consequences are indirect. A bad union only gets its comeuppance if the company goes under.

Because the selective pressure on it is indirect, evolution can't happen within regimes, it can only happen when union workers transfer (or don't) organizational knowledge into a new host company. Basically, like a virus. It's just weird to have an entity that doesn't face any consequences.

To the extent that employees have collective bargaining power, they can just use it. Get a group together, write a letter to Elon, and threaten to quit. See what he says. If you have any leverage, you can use it. If you don't have any leverage why would the union fare any better?
In the last week or two, the idea of hosting mock interviews has taken the Twitch.TV "Programming" Community by storm. A number of willing victims have volunteered to go through the process of solving a problem within a set time limit. In general the interviewers have been able to stay positive even when people are so inexperienced they are clearly overwhelmed by the adventure.

My impression is that going through a mock interview in this way has pulled back the curtain on a process that a select few have been able to shake their network (school alumni, etc.) to do something similar privately.
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Wouldn't that be exponential and not logarithmic?
They did what was right.

They did what was popular. That it was right was a coincidence.
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This needs a solar powered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization plant to eat the whole thing.
> basic web site

... basic web site with a hundred thousand communities, gigabytes of images uploaded daily, millions of votes a day, 1.5 billion pageviews a month...

Also, reddit is a business, not just a website. They don't only hire engineers.
Try right clicking a playlist you like, and select "Make Similar Playlist" for a shortcut. Loved this feature when I found it.
That is an interesting analogy. It reminds me of my experience visiting the Alamo in San Antonio. Once inside you cannot take photos. I cannot say for sure but I think there are armed guards that made sure cameras were not used.

Personally I think anything I can see I should be able to take a photo of for sentimental purposes.
I really wish I could start a rebellious movement in HTTP libraries to call the constant UNAUTHENTICATED and for it to return

401 Unauthenticated

…and then once rough consensus switches, get an update in the RFC.

(I'd likely be horrified to learn that something out there critically depends on the Reason Phrase…)
Seriously. Though that means the Reddit killer is lurking in the waiting.

I vote for some type of legit upvotw downvote system backed by a legitimate crypto currency. It would stop lots of the spam, though leave it more open for financial manipulation.

Would be interesting though to see people actually making a living by being active members of the community.
Long story short "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
Yes, server-side .NET GraphQL does seem to be a missing piece right now!
In haskell it is called http-types
“I Write on Human Skin”: Catherine the Great and the Rule of Law
Youtube has undergone multiple redesigns, each better than the last, in my opinion.
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So, I was with you right up until you got back on your hobby horse of insisting that other people on HN are merely stupid idiots with unfounded opinions and this is the only reason they might disagree with you:

The questions get brushed off because most of the public is still afraid of the technology (see this thread. I doubt many of HN users has worked anywhere related to this field, but look at how many have strong opinions).

This is not a good basis from which to make an argument and it actively undermines the process of effective public discourse.

I am trying to be helpful here. I am sure you won't see it that way because it is public and it is critical of your remarks and that won't feel very good. But, maybe you could be the one in a million people who decides to use that fact as evidence of the truth in my statements that attacking other people doesn't strengthen your argument instead of being one of the other 999,999 people who just insist what I say is irrelevant because it hurt your feelings, while failing to see the irony there.

Best.
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#13 Online learning is an interesting one for YC. It looks like they couldn't find anyone doing it well enough, so they started their own startup school - https://www.startupschool.org/

#22 A web-based Excel/database hybrid - Should have invested in Google.

#25 A Craigslist competitor seem obvious, but no one can take the crown from them. Not even Facebook! I'm not sure it can be done, but I'm interested to see if it can be.
I would hardly consider this "setting a precedent", given the fact that this is standard practice for the Chinese government and any company who works there.
Interesting that you mention C, but not Unix. Unix, an operating system invented in the 1970s, is still one of the most used server operating systems today (in its Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. variations).

In the corporate IT world, there are IBM operating systems, such as Z/OS, that are direct descendants of 1960s operating systems.

Also, instruction sets for IBM mainframes and Intel x86 machines have been around for a very long time, and are not likely to go away any time soon.

Not to mention standards like 120v/60Hz AC and the shapes of electrical connectors, which have been around even longer and will thus probably survive for a very, very long time.

And going back to software, editors like Emacs and vi have been around so long (both come from the 1970s, and were invented for CRT terminals) that they're likely to keep on being used for a long time to come.
As other repliers have said, this sort of thing is very rare. Trans-Neptunian Objects are so far away that their visible size is absolutely tiny, so occulations are rare and last for maybe a second or so.

But! They do happen and are a great way to learn more about those objects as very briefly you can see something of them. The problem is that first you need to know the exact orbit, then you can predict occulations.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69 for an example. It recently had some occulations that have helped better understand it.
The new profile pages and the reddit mobile site also load/behave very slowly. It's really annoying when I land on a reddit link through mobile and have to watch their splash animation while their crap pile loads.
There seems to be a desire evident in the commentary on this topic to categorise CFS as either completely psychological, or completely physiological.

My own experience, having had the condition for much of the past 10 years, and having (after many years of frustration) found treatment methods that have enabled me to achieve almost full recovery, is that it is very much both physiological and psychological, and that only by treating the mind and the body together can full recovery be achieved.

Whilst many people will want to read this study as evidence that CFS is fundamentally physiological in nature, it doesn't do anything to dismiss the role of psychology as a causal or perpetuating factor. It is equivalent to using a lab test indicating (for example) imbalances of serotonin as evidence of depression, without taking into account the many years of stress and trauma that may have led up to the issue manifesting as a physiological (and debilitating psychological) condition.

Whilst I have no doubt there is scope to develop treatments that can ease CFS sufferers' physiological symptoms, and I hope research findings like this can help to bring about these kinds of breakthroughs, I have no expectation that a comprehensive remedy for CFS can be found that doesn't include profound psychological healing as a key part of the treatment.

It also occurs to me that a major reason why this condition continues to evade explanation and treatment by mainstream medicine, is that the profession is unaccustomed to looking at things as both psychological and physiological in nature, and that it will take a change in mindset on this to pave the way to discovering effective treatments for CFS and other such "mysterious" conditions.
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There was a much bigger benefit. Try writing those words on a whiteboard, repeatedly, and see what that gets you :)

You can argue till you're blue in the face, it's an established shorthand by now. And shorthand has a point - I don't see you writing "random access memory" instead of RAM either.
As someone who just recently started using an iOS device and finds the lack of sideloading mildly annoying, can anyone with some expertise in iOS security chime in with whether or not allowing sideloading of apps on iOS represents any serious security implications for iPhones? From my admittedly amateurish understanding, iOS sandboxing is significantly more robust than Android, is this just a way for Apple to maintain total control of, and profit off of, apps, or does this policy have a basis in security as well?
This could be useful to avoid comment spammers, trolls in blogs.. are you looking into this? A plugin could be a good start
As apposed to casting and cncing one yourself? People can already build guns anonymously if they want (and many do).

People can also use current 3D printers to (mostly) print unconventional guns anonymously. Do these printers also concern you?

Reaction to technology should be with reason, not fear mongering.
You can create an F# library which references the Rezoom.SQL.Provider NuGet package, defines your migrations and all your queries (`type MyQueryExample = SQL<"select whatever">`), and not really write any F# code. Because this project is a generative type provider, it makes real .NET types you can then reference from C# or VB.NET or whatever.

If your goal is just to run queries, either synchronously or as `Task<T>`s, that'll do just fine. If you want the batching/caching stuff I described above, you'll want to build `Plan`s, which currently requires an F# computation expression.

However, in C# 7 I think it's possible to write plans with `async/await` syntax. I just need to write the AsyncMethodBuilder to support it. I've done it for F# asyncs here:
https://github.com/rspeele/FSharpAsyncMethodBuilder

This would let you get the full batching/caching/transactional benefits of Rezoom even when writing a project that's 90% C#.
So what is the behaviour of this stuff? How does it come together to form "patches"? If it really agglomerates naturally into (admittedly, very big) clusters this actually sounds kind of like good news, as it seems more viable to come up with a way to clean it.

But I'm curious what the mechanism is. Static electricity? Sounds too distant and "wet" for that to be possible. But why else would it cluster?
The case for, and against, redefining “statistical significance.”
The vast majority of which have no reason to be tied to Play, they're just (ab)using Play to auto-install and auto-update it everywhere. An effective way around carrier update delays, to be sure, but far from the only option.

It could've been an app. Or more than one. And then there could've been competition. Instead it's baked into a monster install that does who-knows-what when it invisibly updates itself.
"Greedy victim" is a common trope but it's not actually that common of a fraud. Fraudsters will use any hook they have available to scam people. The other common ones are love (e.g. That poor woman you have been writing to in Russia needs $500 for a plane ticket) and the desire to help people (e.g. If you donate $1000, we could re open our church in Africa and give food out to the poor again).

I wouldn't be surprised if the reason that Americans get swindled more often (not that this is ever actually proven) is simply because they have more money and are significantly more likely to donate it to charity than most other parts of the world.
Speaking of offenders, I just noticed that the seemingly popular Venmo payments app asks for the web login credentials to any bank you try to link it to. Hell no I'm not giving some random app login credentials to any of my bank accounts.
I prefer this:

T::asdfasdf();

Although I might start using yours.
These are hardly personal attacks on you, only expressions of opinion. Strange how everyone personally attacks me with far worse language than I have used?
I don't have a real account
Hard to defend against the old 'John Oliver mentioned my website' DDoS.
> (I'd likely be horrified to learn that something out there critically depends on the Reason Phrase…)

IIRC, the 8xxx RFCs have specified that you must read the reason and that the code itself does not fully specify the result because there have been some custom codes that overlap on number.
Optimistic Nihilism
French kissing is the cause