skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate how this works? I imagine you're comparing your followers and then scanning for each, prev followers list and new one, so notifying when a diff detected.

How do you think a good digest could be made so a twitter user with a long list of followers can receive notifications not bothering too much?
I think part of the problem is that they actually try to push innovation (e.g. new UI paradigms with Metro), but then run into several vocal minorities, backtrack a bit and try to find a middle ground. From the outside, it then looks like a random zig-zag course, but it's much more an iterative minimization of "mean square pain" among their fairly large user base.

Communication could often be better though.
With UBI there wouldn’t need to be a minimum wage. Probably gen the 40 hr work week could be disrupted.
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Well people can think of something like TNG but the (alt-)right will instantly crapstorm you for being a communist. Just look at how they're opposing healthcare for all, a society like TNG would be the ultimate enemy for them.
That implies a rather high mental illness rate. High enough that I start wondering about what the baseline is.
> It tried to copy the iPhone when it should have tried to copy its own strategy on PC, which is creating a OS and letting other companies build Windows Phones.

We tried this. Manufacturers weren’t very interested because the users weren’t. Samsung and HTC and others made windows phones and they stopped investing because they didn’t sell well enough.

The Nokia purchase was a reaction to the reality that no one else was going to build Windows phones in the future.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee (not involved in phone or OS)
I am still using it but it becomes obsolete fast as more traffic becomes HTTPS.
I don't think we need to limit execs in companies...but we should limit pay to a multiplier of average company wages... ---this should be for all upper management...

There could be variations based on job growth...new jobs added over previous years...could raise their take or give them a bonus...

The end goal: Increase jobs + Increase wage lower the gap between highest/lowest wage earners in America.

Also capitalism results in Oligarchy usually which isn't much better than Dictatorship... 1% own everything and control every aspect of society from the shadows... it's one big game of monopoly for them.
Ahhhhhh I never noticed the swirl on Buzz' chin before!
I was talking to Silicon Valley when I said "your".
Just watch, Thag creates an obsidian package manager that anyone can upload their arrowheads to - this will truly disrupt the neolithic hunter ecosystem and break the walled gardens of the gatherers.
I don't understand why Microsoft has keep IE/Edge around. It's just embarrassing. Event my technology illiterate friends and family rag on IE and everyone installs chrome these days. If they spend less time building IE and focused on other platforms they'd waste a lot less time for everyone including themselves.
Back in 2011, I bought an HTC HD7 from a friend who switched back to Android. I was very impressed by how fast Windows Phone 7 was especially the ultra-smooth scrolling. But, like you said, the animations were enough to drive you nuts. Way too much, I don't know what to call it, "swoopy" maybe. It was enough to make you dizzy. I ended up trading the phone for a Galaxy S and that was the end of Windows Phone for me.
This is what Lenscrafters (US) uses: http://www.uiwoptometryblog.org/2013/09/accufit/
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In addition to f-strings, Python supports this (slight) improvement on your version.

"lhs=({l.x}, {l.y}); rhs=({r.x}, {r.y})".format(l=lhs, r=rhs)
The core problem is that we are hard-wired for scarcity. Our brains think we are on the African savannah 100,000 years ago. When things get a little tough we clutch and build fortresses. This can make sense as an individual, but collectively it hasn't made sense since the industrial revolution (and maybe even a bit earlier).

Today the proper collective response to depression is to double down. Economy failing? Double spending. Things look stagnant and bleak? Increase our ambition by at least an order of magnitude.

The problem is that we are thinking too small. A civilization of our scale should be thinking beyond the planet, beyond history, and beyond the current biological definition of human. Anything less is a waste of our effort.
> Apples are more discovered than bred.

Here is a nice 2013 article about a man who hunts old and abandoned orchards for old heirloom apple varieties. It also explains about the genetics of apples.

If you like the apples made by a particular tree, and you want to make more trees just like it, you have to clone it: Snip off a shoot from the original tree, graft it onto a living rootstock, and let it grow. This is how apple varieties come into existence. Every McIntosh is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/heritage-appl...
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Fixed! Thanks for pointing that out.
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I was with you until you mentioned Seinfeld.
1st time coming across snappydata, looks like it's more of a sql execution engine built into/on top of apache spark with a focus on statistical accurate but much faster queries using a margin of error. Pretty neat in itself.
Did you miss the part where I said it can move files internally perfectly fine? There is nothing wrong with the wifi, and it's bizarre to see someone on HN make such unjustified assumptions.

Does it make sense to "exclude it as a variable before making a more thorough investigation"? Yes. But if Comcast sends out techs who do not have ethernet-equipped hardware (as I pointed out in my original post), then it's silly of them to expect customers to all have ethernet-equipped hardware.

> Fashion is not an excuse

Oversimplification is not an excuse either.
BigQuery is one of the few products that truly feels magical. It lives up to the "no-ops" model of just working without thinking about details and handles any scale of data you have.

Only downsides would be cost-per-run pricing and low-latency queries.
I don't see how GitHub will ever be dethroned due to the mind share and market share of Open Source projects. It is a simple process to move to GitLab BUT all the developer tools for many projects relies on GitHub.

When I get a package in Racket or R they normally come from github automatically.
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> I just don't particularly like that little old ladies on fixed incomes are essentially forced to participate in that.

Pension funds are only allowed to invest a tiny percentage of their funds into alternative asset classes like venture. And even then LPs spread their investments out over several funds.
I think they have noticed, but running windows desktops apps on arm doesn't give you mobile apps. So yeah, you can plug your phone into a docking station and use all your desktop apps but as soon as you remove the docking station your phone is useless....because there are no apps. And by mobile apps i mean apps which are customized for a phone screen.

Also i think Intel is still holding a handle on the x86 patent thing when it comes to emulating x86 on arm.

Its really sad that the whole UWP app development stuff didn't went so well. Technically Xaml and C# are awesome, there was (is?) also a react native uwp implementation.
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Middle America generally lives in the suburbs and does not interact with homeless people everyday who are dying on the streets in front of them like those who live in SF, LA, and NYC do. Basic Income is meant as a "floor" that those people will not be able to fall below.
Its so much easier to swing your remaining power at the competitor, then to truely innovate and fight.
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Totally. I'm a big fan of spending far less to buy "ugly" produce from the grocery store's "ugly product" section. It tastes exactly the same, and all turns into poop regardless of how it looks on the shelf.
Wow. This is sad. Not surprising though.

I'm disappointed that we're now stick with a mediocre duopoly of OSs now.
I have a process to always follow my followers (and unfollow unfollowers) so I can DM them.

Regarding the checks, the initial free plan (just following my bot) comes with weekly checks. That means I'll fetch your followers once a week and compare with last week's, find out who is missing and sending you a DM with the list of all unfollowers. So you'll basically a weekly DM with unfollowers.

Daily, hourly and realtime plans work in the same way but with a higher frequency, but without any kind of digest, just one DM with the list of unfollowers in the time window.
From the second ticket

> It's only a matter of time before some enterprising journalist looking for a scoop picks up on this. The headlines here are not good: "Microsoft caught with sneaky program to spy on companies"

Let me take care of that...

Edit: Wrote several of germanys biggest tech sites with focus on dataprotection aswell as the german ministry for cyber security with a link to that ticket. Let's see what happens
This is the same reason why bees create a hexagonal honeycomb and also I think the reasoning for the structure in a fly's eye.
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I was mostly talking about the placeholders (hence style), but

> ("lhs=({}, {}); rhs=({}, {})", lhs.x, lhs.y, rhs.x, rhs.y)

Python 3.6 added "natively interpolated" f-strings, just replace C#'s `$` prefix by `f`, and even without f-strings you could write e.g.

"lhs=({lhs.x}, {lhs.y}); rhs=({rhs.x}, {rhx.y})".format(lhs=lhs, rhs=rhs)

Rust supports named parameters but IIRC not attribute access or method calls.
I've helped people who lost access to their Windows 7 home directory. It didn't mean they ended up in commandline mode, but it meant their home folder was recreated from scratch. Many things didn't work anymore.

I bet 99% of Windows users can't solve that by themselves. I don't see any difference with your problem.

The problem you describe is bad as you can't use the computer at all, while my problem created a false illusion that the home folder was OK as it was still there. That the old one was renamed, made invisible, and then the new one got the old name - didn't help at all.
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The alt-right is the logical endpoint. It kind of combines all the worst ideas from liberalism over the past 50 years (postmodernism, identity politics) with all the worst ideas from conservatism (nationalism, racism, biological determinism) in the previous century.

I remember years ago having a discussion with a friend about "what's the worst ideology you can possibly imagine" and it kind of resembles what I came up with but (mostly) minus the theocracy (I pictured a pomo professor, a Christian Reconstructionist, and a fascist hashing out a synthesis). In some respects it's worse-- its obnoxious meme aesthetic is far trashier than anything I would have ever imagined. No dystopian writer could have come up with a fever dream as hideous as the collision of 4chan and Stormfront.

Maybe you have to hit bottom before things can bounce back. I have a tough time imagining anything worse than this, but I'm sure people will try.
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If you stop selling products they want, you don't get to keep them.
I don't like the term "first mover", because in practice, I think it's rare for the actual first to win. Friendster was the first friend-oriented online social network. They were the first mover, but the site performed terribly. MySpace and Facebook beat Friendster because they were better at doing what people wanted.

There are other examples. The iPhone was not the first smart phone, but it was better than all of the others when it came out. It dominated for a while, and even though it's no longer the dominant smart phone (I believe there are more Android phones), all smart phones are derivatives of that first iPhone. Google beat Yahoo and AltaVista. Historically, I think it's usually second-movers that win, because they tend to benefit from the first-movers defining the problem, and one of the second-movers solves it better.
I think it'd be an interesting startup idea to decentralized all the monolithic services. Create an Uber for City X(ie Uber for London, Uber for Chicago, etc.). Allow the municipalities to run those services. And do the same for Airbnb, Yelp, Google, Facebook etc.
Merely creating something better than Facebook is barely even the ante. Much more than that is required to convince somebody to use Facebook (Google, etc.). Marketing, some appreciable fraction of their userbase also using the would-be competitor, etc. is the absolute minimum requirement to play their game.
We will rely on folklore and word of mouth again.

> tell us again grandma about this "key-board" you had to smash your fingers into to speak to someone
Stretch marks are the areas where fibroblasts just lay down a thin patch of fibers because there's insufficient ability to grow skin to keep up with the required surface area.
alright will have a closer look, I use zsh so it can be harder to spot such problems.
It's not a C# thing, it's a floating-point thing. Two numbers which mathematically "should" be equal, might not be due to rounding errors. (In python, 0.15 + 0.15 != 0.1 + 0.2.) So it's risky to compare them with ==, sometimes you'll get the result you expect (and sometimes you can be confident of that) but sometimes you won't. If you can't be sure, you should compare that they're the same within some threshold, but that has pitfalls as well.

(I feel a little silly saying "it's not a language thing" and then "in python", but there may (or may not) be various implementation details which other languages might use to get a different result.)
Perhaps because the first group doesn't have as much time/effort sunk into learning to use the current social safety patchwork, so changes to it are less scary.

Also, they don't need to keep up any self-denial that well-paying jobs will magically return for coal-mining or buggy-whip manufacture.
Wikipedia doesn’t have an exclusive license for evidence-based discussion. If you can’t back a big claim up, ask what value you’re really contributing.
He’s probably gained much in COL. most of the SW is cheaper than SV by a large percentage.
> Of the 70 to 80 people in the lodge

I don't think that's quite a quorum of white males. Maybe it clashed with "Up with the Patriarchy" bowling night?
The judge has zero say in the CEO keeping his job though, and firing is a foregone conclusion when you make a decision that kills shareholder value. Decisions that don't increase shareholder value are "dubious" at best, and decisions that obviously decrease shareholder value are "insane" at best to the board.
Unfortunately.. I think you're absolutely right... We definitely need to change course...

Especially when AI/Automation begin taking more jobs and the proletariat don't even have the ability to get a job or enter the labor force... There will be mass protests and upheavals everywhere if something doesn't happen.
I don't know that the Macromedia deal was all that bad.

While there are few, if any, surviving remnants of Macromedia software within Adobe, the acquisition of Macromedia both eliminated its most serious competitor and provided an influx of engineering talent.

Using stock price as a surrogate for overall performance, they went from ~$35 at the time of the acquisition to ~$155 today, with annual net income rising from $600M to $1.6B today.
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> This is a the browser-side problem...

No, it sounds like a protocol problem to me. How do I state in an HTTP request: "I speak English and German; if you can serve both and the article was written in one and translated to the other, then give me the original please".

That was a long sentence, but it wouldn't have been particularly hard to define well and put into the protocol when it was originally drafted. It's a bit late now, obviously.

For example, one could define provenance of a translation much like NTP defines strata. Accept-Language could then have taken this into account.
> GitHub is the Goliath here

For open source projects, but it appears to me that the enterprise projects are more BitBucket. This is just my experience, but I can't see how GitHub even competes with Enterprise Support that comes from BitBucket.
".NET apps on Android/iOS" are actually a very popular thing - the framework is just named Xamarin instead of .NET.
Check out this Econtalk podcast with Richard Thaler [2006]
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Funny how one of your examples is New York, probably one of the world's strongest city brands, especially after the whole "Big Apple", and "I heart NY" campaigns targeted at promoting tourism.
Excess fat tissue also isn't vascularized to the same degree normal quantities of tissue are, resulting in an inflammatory cascade via Hypoxia- Induced Factor.
yep, a fully designed dummy just gets manipulated without any code being added to it at all.

then there's no chance to get in each other's way, as long as the designer names the classes correctly.
How would you know?

Do you know most nihilists personally?

Do you know a single one for that matter?
I don't think `dialog` is shipped with macOS anymore, if it used to be. Either that or it's not in the default $PATH.
Not in the recent years. Apple Store on Mac suffered from a massive app makers exodus. App Store for mobile suffers from rampant freemium-ization. Don't forget about the heaps of legacy, no longer updated paid apps. Apple was able to sniff that smoke, so it made a lot of App Store improvements together with iPhone 8 release.
The fictional history of Star Trek did have a global nuclear war in the 21st century.
> they’re making twice as much money as everyone else

...if that's not your definition of "succeeding", then okay fine, but be aware that this is a major component of most peoples' definitions, so yours will be the unconventional one in the conversation (and therefore you should probably justify it to be persuasive).

> in exchange for creating systems of surveillance

If you're talking about data mining and advertising, that's hardly a neutral way to refer to it. Reasonable people can disagree that these are "systems of surveillance" because they do not consider surveillance inclusive to non-military/intelligence/law enforcement activity.

Furthermore, plenty of people in Silicon Valley and tech in general do not work on advertising products. Not even everyone in companies like Google or Facebook works on advertising products.
Has anyone written up how the various Octeon-based Ubiquiti routers compare to one another when running OpenBSD?
"Limited rationality" not "highly irrational".

The traditional economic view is people act in their own self-interest. I would summarize this research by saying people act in their own perceived self-interest. Lots of times the two align, but there are cases when they don't, which I do find interesting and worthy of research.
As viewers, we've seen a Morty who is able to outsmart/outmaneuver every other Rick. We've seen Morty make selfish and disastrous decisions by taking advantage of Rick's affections for him. So his status as a victim is also at least partially ambiguous.
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Were you responding to the right comment? The point you're making is not relevant to the OP.
I think it's more that they hire personalities and form personality cults. Personality cults can't be seen to fail by investors due to the CYA culture so they just burn off a cliff and explode when they hit the bottom of the ravine.
They lost millions trying to execute on a bad idea, the idea is still worth a nickel.
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> Middle America is not too keen on your "basic income" solution to all the problems you are creating. It brings to mind a future of living in a 300 square foot government apartment in some hideous Brutalist concrete block of a building, eating our daily Amazon rations, knowing that's just how life is going to be, forever, no need to have dreams anymore.

Except that all of those things are the exact opposite of what a basic income does. A basic income isn't housing projects and government cheese, it's cash money you can decide how to spend for yourself. Different people will choose to spend it on different things.

What's your alternative? Let corporations accumulate all the wealth generated by technology and subject everyone else to serfdom?

It's not as if people are going to stop inventing things.
My negativity isn’t about the the commercial pursuit itself, it’s about their prospects. The market that they’re going after simply doesn’t pay for web servers so it’s a very uphill battle. That and they’re pricing model, in particular charging for local dev, would inhibit things even more.

I’m about as capitalistic as they come. I don’t think everything should be free. I’m perfectly fine with people charging for their goods and services. And in particular I have no qualms with charging for software, hell I do it myself!

I’m simply saying the business, at least the way they’re approaching it right now, is not viable regardless of the technical advantages of the Caddy over the competition.
VS Code will type check open files only. So this only works for tiny projects. And all that typing (overly verbose) seems a lot of pain compared to setting up TypeScript properly.
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Kyle Vogt blog post on the deal: https://medium.com/kylevogt/how-were-solving-the-lidar-probl...
For the record, someone who gives an interview to a journalist almost never gets a say over what headline it gets published under. Did you read the article? I really liked the way it came out!

Also for the record, we didn't ask Assange or Snowden to start accepting donations in Zcash or anything. Or at least, I didn't. It's quite possible some other members of the Zcash community did without my knowledge.

[New account because I can't remember my password and when I ask it to the reset the password on zooko-zcash it says "sorry there is no valid email address associated with that account". Maybe it thinks "zooko@z.cash" is not a valid email address.]
They're referencing the article, I believe.
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I think people in general don't care about Silicon Valley. When they do care, they generally loath SV, but not for the reasons stated in the article.

People want the great monopolists regulated because they act like monopolists.

People want the giant companies to pay taxes, because they want them to pay a fair share and because it's unfair they get away with not paying taxes while competing with small companies that do pay taxes.

People realise that the giant companies create few jobs, often terrible ones as temps, but destroy many jobs. People are not sure the giant companies make up for the lost jobs.

People see that giant companies get away with blatantly disregarding laws like the ride sharing or apartment sharing conpanies that disregard taxi laws or employment laws or rental laws or hotelling laws, or like social networks or search engines disregarding privacy laws.

In short, people are tired for reasons that have everything to do with what these companies do as traditional capitalists and nothing to do with whether they innovate or are successfull.
I agree there should be a lower end model out. I really enjoy the Nexus line they had. The Nexus 4 was dirt cheap and still works great today. I have a 5x for Fi, but I would much rather use the Nexus 4 if it were capable of using the network.

They really should come back with a smaller form factor at a lower price.