skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, sorry. In every econ textbook exists the academic definition of money: store of value, unit of measure, medium of exchange.

What is it an exchange of? What is it storing? What is it measuring?

In other words, we use it to help us with exchanging, storing, and measuring real value. This way you don't have to exchange some lines of code for a cow, or store all your wealth in cheese.

Maybe you are thinking that I am saying something about money not being a fiat currency, which wasn't the point here.
As a developer or startup the last thing you want to do is tie yourself into absurdly proprietary platforms like this. Giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google are buying up all established competition, but now they want control of your stuff before you even make it.

Also, user "nslog" only posts Amazon stuff and never comments.
This may be the view of some economists, but certainly not all of them. Many notable economists promote the view that economics is overly mathematical and ought to do more to reflect real world behaviour.

Ostrom's Law captures this beautifully:
"A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory"
Well, I do have an idea how to write Lisp but I still never got the hang of Emacs Lisp in particular. (But that may have something to do with the lack of actual effort on my part, admittedly.)
Fuckerberg is no hacker; he's a fraud and hypocrite.
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I can't wait for GDPR.

Then facebook/google/whatever can't process data from me without consent (which they do not have without an account)..

"Under GDPR organizations in breach of GDPR can be fined up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 Million (whichever is greater). This is the maximum fine that can be imposed for the most serious infringements e.g._not having sufficient customer consent to process data_ or violating the core of Privacy by Design concepts."

http://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html
So what are you saying exactly? That the internet needs a government that taxes its users in order to build websites that do not need ads for profiting? All this circle-jerk against ads is fine if there was some viable alternative; but unfortunately not everyone can live of selling over-priced smartphones like Apple does so internet ads came to exist after internet was created just like TV ads came to exist after the TV was created.
The thing here is that they're not using any of AWS's proper server offerings. There's no EC2 or Lightsail or even RDS. There is no thing or concrete group of things that you can point to and say, "There, those are my servers." It's based off API Gateway, S3 and Lambda, none of which is recognizable as a server in the traditional sense (though of course there are servers behind the scenes implementing the abstraction).
https://github.com/hhvm/hack-router/ and https://github.com/hhvm/hack-router-codegen/ power docs.hhvm.com and some of our other users; they do have problems such as extremely lacking documentation, which I'm going to be addressing soon.

This is definitely an area we're planning on working on - and this post is meant to be announcing the start of this work, not that it's ready :)
Yes, you're right, BUT finding stuff wasn't always the primary use case in the internet before google.

Many people traversed around from Links section to Links section, or around web rings as their primary use case.

Web sites were connected as trees and rings as opposed to a few central hubs.

This is why the term "surfing the web" used to be much more germane. Today, we don't surf much: we simply target information and acquire it. Or we check daily aggregators/social networks.
Phooey & patooh! Obv the internet population doesn't know what's good for them. Politicians are WAAAAAY smarter than normal people. Everyone knows this.

One must simply route their VPN traffic through Eritrea => Thailand => Russia => Cyprus => China => back to some AWS server in SF & rejoice.

Just make it more expensive to trace you than the value of what you took/broke/F'd-with! Lawyers' fees not necessary!
This effort is good in the sense that we're using the game theoretic slowly moving away from a God-ful society to one that is about network node density at scale.
Yeah, way off in the Bay area. It seems like the entire distribution is skewed substantially low.
Netflix announces which content will be added/removed months ahead of time. The decision to remove content is driven primarily by the principal right holders - Netflix is largely just "leasing" the shows that it presents (hence the company's shift to producing its own content).

To present it as a decision solely made by Netflix grossly underestimates the contractual complexity and involved parties responsible for turning a screenplay into something you can stream in 4K, all of whom have ownership stakes to lesser or greater degrees.
You looking for CoreOS?
> ENSEIRB-MATMECA

Are you sure that's actual French?
What does this add to something like the git integration in intellij idea? (Linux user here, I cannot test it)
Addiction isn't that simple either. Some people become addicted rapidly, others not so much. I've known people that quickly fell down the rabbit hole, others that just quit one day and never looked back, and others who have replaced one addiction for another, sometimes for the better, other times for the worst.
I don't understand how mp3.com declined. It seemed to be going very strong and then withered. Does anyone know?
I would be interested in seeing the research about the negative effects of corporal punishment if you have a link.
FWIW, during the coding sections of Triplebyte's technical interview, you're allowed and encouraged to look up documentation, search Stack Overflow, play around in a REPL, run and test as often as you'd like, etc. It's what you'd do normally in a non-interview situation. (Not a whiteboard situation.)
When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot.

Oh and well done!

A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.
This is not that unusual - in fact in the first edition of the famous textbook by Samuelson and Nordhaus, the Supply and Demand chapter is at page 447 of 622 [1]. For quite a long time it was thought that it was better to begin with macro issues and then discuss micro.

[1]: https://books.google.bg/books?id=ITXUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP1&redir_e...
1) Sure, but taken as a literal interpretation of the constitution they should, as they are a collection of people[1]

2) From a purely theoretical standpoint I agree, it does occupy an interesting place. If the monarchy ever did try to exercise any of its powers it possesses outside of delegation it would trigger a consisting crisis that would mean they would be immediately stripped of such powers.

I mean, the Queen technically has all the powers of state and those are granted "at will" (air quotes) to the prime minister and other officials. If she ever woke up and decided to declare war, strip parliament of its authority or execute a few commoners what would happen?

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
The book touches lightly upon advertising and how it can affect demand:

http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/07.html#711-p...

This strikes me as a very important subject, one that I heard little about in my (limited) economics courses. Anyone know of good references to how economics treats the ability of firms to affect demand?

Nearly every company has a marketing department. Some of the largest companies on the planet make all their money from other firms' desire to influence demand.

Is there any work at the intersection of evolutionary psychology, economics, and advertising?
Agreed. Sadly, this is stuff I didn't know 5 years ago.
I like how they want to change the way economics is taught.

However, I'd like to see more assumptions to be made explicit. For example, why is money the way it is? Why is it simply a scalar, that is transferred from one person to the next? What other constructs can we come up with for money?
It's especially odd that the numbers support a strong Vim/PyCharm dominance with emacs a distant third, but Vim/emacs are the headline and area of focus. I suppose I can understand from the viewpoint that Vim/emacs are the "old/weird" editors and PyCharm is seen as a modern 'modern IDE', but I didn't expect to look at the charts and see such results from PyCharm. I happen to think PyCharm is pretty good, and use it for almost all my Python work, but didn't really think it was terribly popular overall.
> Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes.

Where do you get the social shares? I don't see any share buttons on the webpage?
Does every web user really want to visit the same website, all day, every day?

Actually in the 90's the theory was that people did want this, they were called portals and various companies competed to build the ultimate portal that would have your news and stock quotes and weather and whatever else all on your browser's start page.

we have come a long way from the web of the 1990's

In some ways yes, but in others we've come full circle. Facebook is AOL.
What about correctness? Numerical linear algebra is very difficult and bugs are hard to test for and weed out.
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> No, that's you (and everyone on this thread) projecting.

"The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability."

I don't know mate, that seems pretty clear to me.

> ensure the long-term growth of the Web

Without DRM the web will die? It seems to have been fine so far, would you not agree?
Saw a lot of speculation about what ISIS does or does not do without actual links. Here are a few good ones I've seen in the past:

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/isis-opsec-encryption-manuals-...

This podcast was pretty good. ISIS were using a Turkish Dropbox like service to move files ... except the service was actually based in France, something a whois on the domain could have easily detected. Fighters have also geotagged tweets/instagram/Facebook posts, which led to a drone strike:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/62-decoders/

So ... they're both more sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec. And less sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec.
or just use messenger.com. I haven't checked my Facebook wall in forever, but I use messenger almost daily to communicate with friends and family.
that's a pretty interesting idea, many thanks!

My hope is/was that providing an API in the early stages maybe convinces some people to jump on the train and create applications which make use of the dataset and feed some results back to improve the dataset further.
> heavy and feels like a website rather than an app

the electron app is noticeably faster than the old client for me (on windows)

electron probably also means it'll be easier for them to add features in the future
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>At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or sometimes a fortune teller. Mr. Xi declined, according to a person briefed on the matter.

Laughed out loud at this. I can understand wanting access to the market but this is just embarrassingly desperate.
iOS is not a monopoly product.

As a user, I welcome Apple's new feature, and I'm fine with it being the default.
The ships that could change the seas forever
Not all shows support that, though.
CVE-2017-8759
Zuck: People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks
What have you learned after working at Facebook for almost two years?
I agree with a lot of what you said (and thanks for laying that out in depth, it was an interesting read), but that still doesn't change the fact that the method the US uses to target drones strikes is completely different than the method terrorists use to target their strikes. It is possible to recognize the ethical problems of the drone program while also saying it is on a higher moral ground than the random killing that terrorists employ.
That’s not news. Content that’s popular on Reddit is not news that’s important, it’s just the modern equivalent of pop culture (which may or may not encompass actual news).
No. You have the 128Gb version. If I recall correctly when buying the iPhone the options where 32Gb/128Gb.

As you did calculate, 32Gb is not enough for the usual person. 128Gb on the other hand, is very plenty.
> resulted in less hate on the platform as a whole

The study is interesting, but this is decidedly not what it says, and you should be wary of overinterpreting its arguments. If you look at the definition of hate speech they used, it was defined as "the vocabulary of the subreddits in question". This isn't a general complaint about hate speech being slippery and hard to pin down, it's a criticism of the fact that defining it as the specific vocabulary of the subreddits in question is a huge confounder. What the study's conclusion boils down to is:

"If you ban a subreddit, the exact vocabulary (in-jokes, etc) of that subreddit declines."

Well, duh. This is an especially tautological result for communities that have such a rich vocabulary of in-jokes (and slurs) :(

There's not much in the paper to suggest that the emigrants from coontown and FPH aren't expressing the exact same ideas elsewhere, without using the exact same lexicon that they developed in their original communities. I would be surprised if this result didn't replicate for pretty miuch any community that has its own internal vocabulary and in-jokes, such as nominally pro-social-justice subreddits or even narrow political subreddits like /r/anarchism or something.
Once you reach a certain size I think it makes sense to explore rolling your own infrastructure but for an MVP or early stage startup not having to worry about infrastructure has got to be a god send. I recall hearing Kevin Systrom (Instagram) talk about how the app kept crashing on launch while it was being hosted on his single laptop. Imagine if he had EC2 :) (not that they needed it to grow)
What it's intended for is irrelevant. What's at issue is they can just leave a lock on there permanently, as a means of leaving you completely without power when the grid goes down.
Yes, I can increase prices by a certain factor by optimization. But then what? What if I want to increase prices further?
this seems a little over-complicated, why not just use a catch-all?

If website example.com requires my email, I provide them with the email example.com_xxxx@jszym.com where xxxx is a randomly-generated 4 (or more) character code. I save the email and password in my password manager.

This way, I can blackhole compromised emails, and also prevent spear-phishing by checking the 4+ letter code.

I don't wish to be overly negative, and this is a problem-space ripe for a solution, but this service can vanish tomorrow and take with it all the sites I've subscribed to.

I was thinking just today that it'd be cool for the next generation of email to require a sort of OAuth login to get permissions to send you automated emails. You can then just revoke the API access for a rogue/compromised service.
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How do they know the account was from an actual terrorist or from a Viagra salesbot if it never made a post?
But (Gnu) Emacs is not a plain text editor. It can edit formatted texts, embed pictures and widgets etc. While XCode's editor, even if I haven't seen it in practice, most probably actually is. So it can't be the "plain text editor" aspect that is the differentiator in favor of XCode here.
Math's Syntax and 'universal' language is a great barrier that unlocks the world's knowledge. Applied scientific fields take almost 10-20 years until they sieve/diffuse the knowledge, due to this barrier. (In my perception at least)

I wish math used a pythonesque and popular alternative language, so that very low- or high-level 'assumptions' weren't blocking a greater audience from participating in the field. Although I'm familiar with it, I find it sometimes a little too elitist, because almost every symbol requires an explanation, before it can be used. Javascript and Python have this great balance, I feel is urgently needed in Maths.
If it keeps my device free of malware, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
The authors state that HashCat uses Markov models and that they outperform it.
Dealing with technical debt
I have location history turned off on Google and I have my home address set in Google Maps...
WeChat is kind of a protocol for life there. I'd argue it has a stronger influence in China than Facebook does in the US.
Social media app with Top 8
Is like pirat s asyi g copy’s are destroying their incomes because they are getting shut down
Censoring terrorist groups isn't controversial.

The vague, shifting notion of what constitutes "terrorism" and how that definition may be abused in the future, is.

Consider, if you will, what a modern-day Sedition Act of 1918 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918 ) would look like.
I don't think that's what's going on. Perturbator and Dance with the Dead are basically interchangeable since synthwave music is basically just a bunch of contemporary John Carpenter knock-offs.
There are some turds that even Gruber will refuse to polish.
A house on stilts makes it difficult to rob, but not for the man who walks on stilts. Security practices need to be implemented holistically or they are easily defeated. By themselves they aren't worth much and end up being unnecessarily cumbersome.

Removing outlying code that could be used as part of an attack can be useful for complex attacks. But they are essentially outliers - the actual code that you are actually running and is the actual target is still there, waiting to be pwnd. The time you spend trimming fat can often be better used to actually harden a system's access control or policies/procedures, perform auditing, etc.
>Don't have a direct source link to back this up, sorry.

So why you're spreading FUD, if you have nothing to prove your point?
>charging authors for the service they are buying

This description feels weird and vaguely misleading, if only because when I buy, say, auto repair or hair styling service, the service provider doesn't consult a panel of other customers to decide whether my service request is worthy of being fulfilled. "Charging authors for the service they are buying" seems a more apt description of straight-up vanity publishing.
Introverts who are very active on social media perplex me. As an introvert, they just seem like extroverts to me. I don't have the energy nor interest to have Internet conversations with strangers.
I've found the formula for "news" slideshows is N+int(N/5) as ads seem to be inserted in after every 5 X that are X.
Patreon raises $60m
I'm going on a scientific definition: The capacity to grow, metabolize, respond (etc) + Human DNA = human life.
I suppose that makes Zuckerberg god in your analogy.

Zuckerberg with the strip of tape over his own laptop's camera is like the Pope, living in a palace wearing a gold hat while claiming to be all about the poor.
>"just 16 of the largest vessels produce the same emissions as all the planet’s cars put together"

That's... Unbelievable. Emissions of what? Must be some specific compound cars produce in very small amounts.
Have you tried CopperheadOS ? It doesn't include any google services, and signal/noise still works on it from what I've read. So the dependence on google might be a superficial misconfiguration.
I like how key concepts interact with each other : liquid democracy with blockchain tokens, proof of identity with attention mining and UBI. Will be really interesting to see how those hypothesis work out once implemented on live network !
That is shocking. It's amazing how much the culture has changed. When I went to school, you'd be made fun of using MacOS. Every CS student I knew had dual boots. Windows to play video games and linux or BSD for programming. Our entire CS department was pretty much all linux/BSD and windows.
You speak from experience, the paper speaks from 95% confidence level statistical significance from a seemingly well-designed and very conservative study. Who should I trust...?
Net neutrality is about ISPs. Apple is giving the end user control over how their own device behaves here. This is not a violation of net neutrality any more than me throwing away junk mail is a violation of the neutrality of the postal service.
> This was written so disrespectfully and dismissively of programmers, hackers and engineers that I have a hard time reading

I did not read anything there that was openly hostile to us. Critic of unintended consequences, yes; but that reflects more on our collective disregard for such than on then author's biases.

If you had a hard time reading through it, that reflects positivelly on your character: It means you are not a self-serving cynic yet. The question is how to channel that emotional energy into making our profession one that serves the public as it claims to be, instead of preying on the public as more often than not we end up being.
Replacing Facebook with a Google product isn't the bargain you think it is.
I guess when it comes to testing, Intel has more resources to do that than most other folks. That's one of the reasons why I use MKL despite it not being open source (but it is free as in free beer).
Swedish FM: 'More women means more peace'
Atom and VSCode are different beasts! The team at Microsoft has done some serious performance work on Code IIRC and it runs like native on my machine, compared to Atom which is still slow.
Really, he didn't have internet? I remember his final video and it was so laden with modern political jargon I'm really surprised - I kind of figured he'd spent the decade in hiding surfing political forums.
As a short male, I'm kind of hoping that rampant SJWism will eventually get basketball banned at schools. Note I'm not being serious but who knows what will happen in the future.
Please could we get over this anthropomorphizing of companies at least here on HN? If you believe in a good/evil dichotomy in a religious sense, then be aware that, in theological notions of good and evil, only human beings are equipped with such qualities; hence attributing good/evil to a thing or a juristical person is nonsensical. If, OTOH, you don't have a religious understanding of good/evil, then rationality dictates that companies must do whatever necessary to survive, else they simply wouldn't exist. In any case, there is no such thing as an "evil company".

That said, I fully support Apple in their pro-privacy stance. Now if only they'd produce professional notebooks/equipment, I'd be re-considering them for my next purchase (having owned a PowerBook from 2003 onwards, and still using a Mac mini for graphic work).
Ask HN: How do you scale MySQL (or Postgres) writes?
I have been reading about scaling relational databses, and so far most of what I have seen caters to key value style reads(caching by the primary key). I am still curious to understand how do people scale their MySQL writes. I would love it if some of you could share what you did.
I'm curious, what do those apps do? Surely they need a database behind the severless layer? If so, is the database also on some kind of free tier? I'm mostly interested in TCO kind of calculators for cloud computing, not calculators on a per service-type basis.
You'd get something quite similar to Chez Scheme, presumably. (Without the battle-proven heritage, of course.)
I don't know man sounds like you know a thing or two about it.