skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling Snapchat is set to go through a sort of "chicken and egg" problem.

Is most of its content geared towards Snapchat's very specific demographic or is their app engineered towards those users' engagement?

Whichever is the case different types of content can't find a target audience, different types of users can't find relevant content because they are not the target audience, so what gives?
None of the points you list are at all unique to the Bay Area.

The person you are replying to is highlighting the high cost of living and tax burden in the Bay Area (relative to other parts of the US). It is disingenuous to respond by claiming that a pro of living in the Bay Area is "Being rich AF".
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Which country is it that it's so bad?

At least here in .de, there's plenty of other online retailers which are just as fast, or at least almost, and while the checkout sometimes has a step or two more than amazon, it's rarely that bad.
Hopefully we will see all llvm projects ported to windows. And hopefully we can have a full toolchain, compatible/replacing Ms tools.
I agree and disagree, they are perfect around young kids. We got ours 2 years ago when my kids were 5, 3 and 3. She did want to nip at their heels and herd them, for about a week, she trained out of this so easily it was ridiculous. And she had a herding instinct, her parents were working sheepdogs and she was the last of her littermates to be collected, most were gone at 8 weeks, we collected her at 12 weeks, so there were times she was out with her parents. She still wants to run after a diesel engine (the tractors on the farm were diesel) as a result of this. She is amazing with children, she listens to and obeys commands, protective without being aggressive, loves attention, playing and cuddles. You are right that they need stimulation and exercise but so does every dog. We used to have a husky and they didnt need the same level of stimulation but they needed twice (or more) the exercise a collie does.
We take our el cheapo Moto Gs camping. With everything except calls/texts turned off, and using them only a couple of minutes each day, they last about 4 days before we have to break out the solar power bank.
"Need" is a strong word. It would be a luxury, in my case. I'd really like a phone that could take two days of heavy use, for the times that I forget to charge it the night before, and spend the next day constantly on the move. Or even my usual "Damn it, I have to get out of bed to plug the phone in..."

Then again, everything that it does beyond talk+text is already a luxury. Why not wish for one more?
> In order to understand the usage across the Plex ecosystem and how we
> need to improve, Plex will continue to collect usage statistics, such
> as device type, duration, bit rate, media format, resolution, and
> media type (music, photos, videos, etc.).
> **We will no longer allow the option to opt out of this statistics collection.**

Ugh. Not especially happy about this one.

EDIT: First it was opt-out, which is bad enough (opt-in is much less underhanded). I am calling this new thing the "sucks to be you" option. :(
Reminds me the "NO PLATE" license plate story: http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp
Why are you posting this garbage?
It does continuous backup like WAL-E.

Both back up PG's WAL files (Write Ahead Log) and allow restoring your database state as it was at a specific time or after a specific transaction committed. This is known as point-in-time recovery (PITR) [0]

Users and admins make mistakes, and accidentally delete or overwrite data. With PITR you can restore in a new environment, just before the mistake occurred and recover the data from there.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/continuous-archiv...
5 minutes reading YouTube comments is enough to make me ill. I don't know what a couple hours a day after school would do to a person after ten years. We'll all find out, I guess, once this generation of kids reaches adulthood.
That's a fair question. My reading is that their only differentiating factor was battery, but that wasn't accepted.

OTOH, you can never prove that a thicker phone with higher battery life succeeded was because of extended life :)
computers solve puzzles because we program them to do so. animals solve puzzles because it provides a reward to them, the same way it does for us.
Police has arrest fake journalist building mansion in kao state
Cuz they still have to be registered as a security in the US as a security.
I didn't forget Vimeo. YouTube is so dominant that, since everyone else is on YouTube, uploading videos elsewhere is career suicide. No one will switch websites or apps to watch just one creator's content.

One of the keys to YouTube's success is its sub feed. All the videos from all my favorite channels, all in one place. It's extremely convenient. People tend to take the path of least resistance.
> Everything and anything must be done to protect and ensure the survival of the species.

That's your value judgement. Others may have a different judgement. How do you decide who's right?

(Just for clarification: I think poachers are the scum of the earth, but there's a long way from that to what you're proposing, AFAIUI.)
Do you think any rich established British company supported the American revolution? Why do you expect Google to help anything new or different regardless of how "correct" it is? Big established players can't afford revolutions, too risky for them.
Just because everyone is doing it does not mean it is ethical and ok. There is nothing anonymized about sending info about my browsing behaviour to one of the world's biggest corporations that monitors vast amounts of the internet. Mozilla should be doing the good thing, not feed a data kraken.
I disagree with you. This should apply to their flagship browser too. Have you read the marketing crap they push about desktop firefox ?

The 100% fresh, free-range, ethical browser

More privacy

Firefox doesn’t sell access to your personal information like other companies. From privacy tools to tracking protection, you’re in charge of who sees what.

More freedom

Following the pack isn’t our style. As part of the non-profit Mozilla, Firefox leads the fight to protect your online rights and champion an Internet that benefits everyone — not just a few.

Then you click the privacy policy and you're welcomed with:

Things you should know

Firefox automatically connects to us and our service providers to provide updates, security, Snippets, Firefox Health Report, and other features.

They also have a very loose definition of personal information: 'For us, "personal information" means information which identifies you, like your name or email address.' In times when we know a handful of cross-referenced metadata is enough to identify someone with a high level of success this is unacceptable from some entity who claims to champion privacy, online rights and user freedom. It only shows that either there are highly incompetent people in charge at mozilla or that they treat their users as too dumb to notice.

IMHO there should no tracking by default on firefox desktop and opt-in for those who want to. Actually I'd even go further and say that no browser should include tracking and should block all trackers, analytics, commercial advertising and other PR words for surveillance, spying and profiling.

With relatively few efforts this was something one could almost achieve, at least get closer to, through extensions in firefox. Mozilla put an end to it by dropping their extension engine.
Basically every YouTuber I follow has complained about having videos demonetized this week. Subjects ranging from video game reviews to body dysmorphic disorder.

It really seems they've bitten off more than their machine learning algorithms can chew here.
All the companies in California are actually Delaware companies, and the income inequality and quality-of-life disparity is a direct result of this kind of corruption.

From my understanding, being a Delaware company saves you $0 in taxes. All of those corporations are registered as foreign corps in CA and paying taxes just as if they were CA-based corporations. Taxes aren't why you do DE.
The push to get rid of the tellers is fairly recent.

Driven not by the normal ATM, but the recent full service ones.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bank-tellers...

http://nypost.com/2015/05/28/chase-to-lay-off-nearly-5k-tell...
Speaking of banning, can you please tell me why are my submissions shadowbanned? Thank you.
Technically speaking, yes. But the emotional resonance is very different. If you don't believe me, try telling a libertarian that there is no real difference between giving someone a tax break and a subsidy and see how willing they are to even entertain your argument.
Well, about the very same moment you see "Browse like no one's watching / Automatically block online tracking while you browse" app starts to silently send some data to app.adjust.com and incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org.

If that's not controversial, that's at least ironic.

(Just to clarify: this particular behavior was observed on a version from a Play Store, not FDroid. And this was about 1.5 months ago or so. But I doubt things had fundamentally changed since then.)
I wonder where Marc Fleury [0] is these days. He sold JBoss to RedHat for a cool $350m back in the day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Fleury
Is it possible to run a continuous restore in parallel with normal operation so that there's a warm standby (almost) ready to go? Especially in another data center?
Feel free to browse doctors' opioid counts here. I was able to match them to their actual profiles. Take into account their field, but, even with that the numbers are ridiculous. If you are in "Family Practice" and prescribe opioids 9167 times per year you probably have a very sore hand.

https://www.opendoctor.io/opioid/highest/
Sure, but then you're depending on Google search. And hoping that the information they bring to the top is actually correct. When you actually have to peruse the search list and click on a site, that's when the trouble begins.

When I'm asked to look something up on my LG G2 budget phone, I usually just say "Can't, sorry" or "Sure, give me a few minutes".
How do you approach a publisher with the free PDF model? Is it something they're generally open to? (e.g. you have a corpus of work on a website that you want to turn into a book)
> Having a third party paying them or even just offering dinner to them so they can do their jobs is a huge conflict of interest.

Not directly related, but my sister studied to become an audiologist some 15 years ago (in Norway). I was absolutely stunned at the corporate sponsorship - full on weekend trips with a nice hotel room and paid drinks and fun activities (plus a conference). Not once, but many times during the studies, for all students, sponsored by different companies (I'm not sure if they were competing companies, but you'd think so..)

There must be a lot of money in hearing aid for that to make financial sense.. Is/was this type of sponsorship common for students in other areas, medical or elsewhere?
Operating Systems: Crash Course Computer Science #18
This is one case where one side 'choice' affects the other side. Thanks to herd immunity the anti vaxxers imperil not only themeselves, but also those that are vaccinated.
> The proprietary module (now long removed) is among the reasons the iceweasel project was born (not the debian one but the GNU one that has been renamed icecat when debian took over the iceweasel name).

Do you have a reference for this? The Wiki page, and the project application, seem just to refer to a desire to avoid non-free plug-ins:

> ALL GNUzilla Programs will basically BE Mozilla Source Builds, with the major exception being the implementation of NO proprietary softwares, including plug-ins, according and adhereing to the GPL.

(http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?4529). That's certainly not inconsistent with what you said, but it seems a stretch to deduce what you said without some other reference.
YouTube (google) has become the EXACT opposite of what they said they were not going to do.

They are evil.
Not everyone watches John Oliver. Lots of things you and I know would be news to a lot people and many things they know would be news to us.
This comes up as an example a lot. The solution is not to eliminate patents, but just to get rid of a one-size-fits-all patent. Medical patents shouldn't be on the same footing as a software patent. For example, you could maybe ask for a FDA-Approved-Drug-Patent which would be different than new-roller-skates patent.
I think reasonable people can disagree on how well the SPLC does this considering their including of Maajid Nawaz among their list of anti-Muslim extremists.

Edit: To clarify, I understand that you were referencing their hate crimes database and that I brought up their list of people they label as extremists, and while the two things aren't the same, my point was to highlight that not everyone sees the SPLC as infallible.
My rent in Boston was $600 a month with roommates in an amazing renovated 2,600 sq ft apartment. A cheap vegetarian lunch was $5 instead of $10. My groceries were cheaper, there weren't homeless folks everywhere and salaries are about the same. In Boston I was rich; here, I watch what I spend and clean my own house. Too bad the jobs there were brutally boring.

The inability of this area to build sufficient housing has a significant, material impact on our quality of life.
How do you do one-symbol-lookahead with things like function hoisting?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Social "justice" at work folks. Being a near oxymoron, it would be laughable if it weren't so sad.
Have an upvote for being perfectly reasonable and attempting to provide examples and reason, even if I disagree with them.

Rather than deflect away from C#, I will take the unpopular stance of defending verbosity.

Does typing that really represent a large waste of time? Do you spend more time physically typing than doing anything else while coding?

I spend most my time thinking or reading old code. I might type that once and read it 100 times and pass the debugger over it 6 or 7 times and adjust the line a similar amount in the lifespan of that of the code.

For reading it is entirely clear and leaves little ambiguity about what kinds of operations are allowed on GameObject (presuming I know something about the GameObject class and the Entity Component System in place). I know its location and its rotation and I know that those are unlikely to be the source of bugs.

I might need to reference `MyGameObject` to get the specifics of the behavior, but if I am troubleshooting location or rotation errors, I know what code I am not looking at. If I am troubleshooting any other behavior I again know about whole regions of code I don't need to look at.

It can be hard to internalize all that a type system buys for you because none of it is immediate, it is more about all the time you don't spend doing unproductive things. I find that in more dynamically typed languages I spend two the three times as much time debugging than in static languages.
Is any of the news content on snapchat worth watching? Scrolling through their entire offering seems to offer less information than a casual glance at the front page of a newspaper.
Docker has at least one product (Docker data center) that is aimed at enterprises. I know because I was almost going to go work there on that product. It's not just a container company.
Yup true, unspoken assumption there is bay area / nyc / seattle / etc, where the big 4 hire a lot (the majority?) of their workers.
It's specific to Go. Shell globbing has "⁎⁎", though.
I have never been a fan of the => syntax. Although that really isn't the point. What about the syntax slows parsing?
I don't know if you really understand Make. Even the original article misses point about what Make is really about in recommending `.PHONY` targets.

Make is about "making files." Or to be a little more semantically specific, Make is about "processes that transform files to make new files based upon their dependencies". It really doesn't matter that your file is a C source file, or some unpreprocessed CSS, or a template, or an AMI. To your AMI example, if you specify a dependency (or dependency chain, DAG) as a time-stamped (or set of) file, you can get make to rebuild the AME for you along with any other supporting or intermediate files.

IMO, the suckless guys are masters at writing deceptively complex but highly readable & concise Makefiles. Here's plan9 workalike utility library [0], a util-linux/busybox package of binaries [1], a window manager [2], a terminal emulator [3], and webkit2 based web browser [4]. I highly recommend you study them if you're looking to up your Make game.

[0] http://git.suckless.org/9base/tree/Makefile

[1] http://git.suckless.org/sbase/tree/Makefile

[2] http://git.suckless.org/dwm/tree/Makefile

[3] http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/Makefile

[4] http://git.suckless.org/surf/tree/Makefile
It's hard finding a video without slanted commentary, but this should give you an impression of what I mean.

https://streamable.com/svxcr
Mozilla have used various telemetry tools over time to assist with product development. It's possible they're trying to covertly track users but unlikely. It should certainly be known and public but does not necessarily equate to spying.
I just recently moved from Dallas to New York, and it was only after years of frustration and being ignored by almost everyone outside of Texas not named Amazon (and most companies in Texas that weren't in Dallas). I didn't have recruiters breaking down my inbox. My submissions on job sites seemed to be going in to black holes. If I got multiple interviews in a month I considered myself lucky. I didn't have any former co-workers outside of DFW to call on, and very few inside it.

I'm willing to accept that I'm unusual, but people in this thread are making it sound like I'm a unicorn. I think this industry has serious geographic myopia, and that it is one of the reasons the "talent shortage" is more severe than it needs to be.
The problem in my mind, that the parent is intimating at, is that we confer far too much control to and assume far too much competence and beneficence on the part of physicians.

I am not saying they are a corrupt class, nor would I mean to imply that. But I do think we need to think of physicians as a part of health care, rather than at the top of it.

The entire drug regulation system is predicated on the idea that you have certain providers, namely physicians, who are competent to make decisions, and shifting that decision-making power to those providers protects us from harm.

The opioid crisis has demonstrated that whole paradigm is faulty.

The problem is that no one profession should be entrusted with that level of power or command over decisions.

Imagine, instead, a system where there was no drug regulation. Rather than assuming that physicians were making the best decisions about opioid use and sweeping the problem under the rug, such use would be constantly scrutinized.

We need more competition, and fewer gatekeepers. Gatekeeping means there's only one thing that needs to be breached.
I don’t think that was a “pr disaster” - vocal minority is loud but not that loud.
Productivity is certainly very high in go compared to rust; however, I've found that confidence about how the code executes is much easier to acquire in rust if it compiles.

Regarding the type system, it's definitely a sharp learning curve; there are certain patterns that are trivial in C++ that I still don't quite understand how to best translate. I suspect non-lexically-bound lifetimes will help a lot here iff they are viable.

However, debugging is a complete breeze compared to C++ because of a) the borrow tracker and b) the errors are much more readable because of a general lack of template soup.
Emulating the Amiga on an Amiga
ZEIT Dashboard
Are you planning on building any Natural Language Generation API's? Would love to be able to submit a set of data points and receive a sentence.
Ideally the presence of the `WALE_GPG_KEY_ID` env var should enable encrypted backups https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e#encryption.

Put differently to be a "successor" it needs to be a drop in replacement ;)
I really envy people with jobs where they can move around a lot. Staring at a screen the whole day in one place can't be good for you no matter standing or sitting.
> Every time Google shows me some sort of "magic" that I know involves their massive compendium of personal data, I'm reminded of how much I been detest that they've stolen that information from me.

So just use something else! Oh, wait, you want to check your official university e-mail? That's provided by Google now. Oh, wait, you wanted to check city transit information? That's provided by Google now.

(I'd probably use Google for the latter anyway, but it'd be nice to be able to pretend that I had a choice.)
If you look at that chart, the growth rate in tellers dropped precipitously as the ATMs came online, and the stabilized at a very low rate (and that's absolute number of tellers, not proportion of population.)
Iceweasel was born out of trademark issues not telemetry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat#history
Js-xlsx: An in-browser spreadsheet parser and writer
> I agree there is something unique about being able to have everyone around you in the same line of business (tech) and it is great for making contacts, etc. However the cost are really starting to outweigh the benefits.

There is also a cost to having everyone around you in the same line of business, both in terms of correlated economic risk, and also in terms of loss of perspective.
Share extension eh ... :-)
I guess it is time to get on the treadmill desk hype train.
Me too, as far as remembering, as the years advance. It was version 5 or one of the major release points, where things really started to "go backwards". Among other things, they changed the way the UI worked, in ways I found not just different but significantly less effective and more cumbersome. IIRC, some of this might have related to changes in the underlying libraries or versions of libraries they were using.

Around the turn of the century, I was using Textpad as part of processing some relatively massive text inputs. It remained solid and much more performant than the alternatives I tried. This including its regex support, which was great for examining, munging/transmogrifying, and cleaning up text data. Particularly text data containing significant variability and some one-off scenarios; having ongoing visual oversight and the ability to rapidly, manually select areas to affect in various ways, was vastly superior to trying to come up with command line / whole file invocations that would create the equivalent impact.

Additionally, other editors choked on the volume/size of data files I was dealing with.

What's that "open" alternative that's so popular? Notepad++, I think. Years later, I needed to "beat up" some text and tried it. Despite this being years later -- more time for development and refinement -- it was nowhere close to Textpad. And while it had a bazillion features and functions built in, I found those I tried to use very "shallow"; get beyond the simplest use case, and they started to bog down and "glitch" with unexpected and/or inconsistent behavior.

I remember trying to use it for some regex manipulations, and having to give up on that feature.

Finally, now that I recall, Textpad was "nagware". You could actually use it substantially and really get a feel for it. I paid for my license gladly.
I think stand up desk is still good if you can change between sit and stand 2, 3 times a day.
> In fact, i wish they launch Focus for Desktops operating systems too.

Yes, I was just thinking the same thing. I can almost imagine a world where software believes me about what kind of experience I want, "full site" on mobile or "mobile site" on the desktop, rather than browser sniffing followed by awkward clicking around to correct its misapprehensions.