skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the incumbents lock down that user data to build nigh-impenetrable moats around their walled gardens through powerful network effects.

You say "network effect" like it's a bad thing. The internet is valuable because it lets anyone talk to anyone. The distributed web is not valuable (today) because it lets nobody talk to nobody.

"Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n^2)."

Networks are valuable because they're winner takes all. One winner-takes-all dweb is superlinearly more valuable than 50 competing dwebs. That's why messaging networks end up federated.
We had an app on the appstore for a while, but it was a prototype and a different use case. The idea was to let the user create loops — you can see an example here https://www.dropbox.com/s/03q02cdllsry2az/musiqueness.mov?dl....

However, we thought we would need much more work to make a real product, and we stopped working on it.

I'm really considering making a webapp for a simpler use case as you suggest.
Of course I went to the article thinking of snake-slaying mice made ferocious by some psychoactive drug. Disappointed.
The fact that the employee was present during the filming of this makes me suspect it was done intentionally.
> because they are currently cheap compared to the market cap they have

This sentence doesn't even begin to make sense...

The absolute value of any of these tokens is completely irrelevant. Same as it is for a US$ or CAD. You can define your own "decadollar", worth $10, get everyone to switch, and it would make absolutely no difference to the economy.
Sure, whatever helps you sleep with your phone at night.
So if I upload my videos to YouTube (because I expect to make an income from their monetization), I have to offer licenses to my videos to everyone else for free as well?
I suppose I should mention the title of the Michael Kinsley article in Vanity Fair: "The Obscure Economist Silicon Valley Billionaires Should Dump Ayn Rand For"

And if you're curious about the range of people who have taken notice of George's ideas, search on "quotable Nobels" and from that page, see "quotable notables."
You might ask about $tv_show2 next, and then $tv_show3, which makes for boring conversation.
in a way apt and yum are package manager for c++
Yes, I am an American, and the teacher from a public school in the US. The examples are easily transferred to private industry - I can be a volunteer Little League coach while working for a private company, and my department head wants to be on the good side of the CEO whose wants his grandson to be on the team.

"In a private institution the person paying you money to do stuff for him deserves the power to stop paying you money because it's his money"

Yes, I believe one of the "other mechanisms in place" in Sweden compared to the US is that Swedish workplaces are more structured around consensus and democracy, while US workplaces are more hierarchical and control-based - a sort of mini-monarchy.

"I happen to find it convenient to be able to agree that if somebody doesn't like my output they can stop paying me."

I believe Swedish companies can fire people who are unable to do their job. The question is, do you find it convenient that you can be fired for reasons which have nothing to do with your job? The Little League example is one. How do you feel about not being paid because your boss wants to hire a poorly qualified relative instead? Or not being paid because you refuse to work on weekends?

"You would take this freedom to make contracts away from me. Presumably because you think you know better, and by taking away my freedom, you enhance my negotiating position."

I did not understand this argument. What essential freedoms are taken away from private Swedish companies or from employees in Swedish companies? How has this had detrimental effects on the Swedish economy or lifestyle?
How can this be used for full-text search, e.g. with Lucene? The first step in indexing a document for full-text search is reducing each word to its base form, and similarly for a search string. While it's not a difficult problem in English, in some languages (e.g. Herew) it's notoriously hard to figure out the base form of a word and further disambiguate its meaning, as the only way to do so is based on context. So how can you easily build a stemmer/lemmatizer on top of these instruments to perform such task?
When I was younger, we always talked about being able to pick what we watched - what we wanted, when we wanted. The Simpsons being our favorite show, it was pretty natural that we just wanted to watch that all day.

Anyhow, years later adult me sought to realize that dream, via Plex and Simpsons DVDs on Ebay. I have Seasons 1-14, but Season 12 is really the end of it. The great stuff was probably Seasons 3-9, with Season 6 being my absolute favorite.

Yeah I know the article is about actual analysis on this, but screw it, I wanted to talk about The Simpsons!
Not if you're trying to disrupt FB, surely?
What does he stand to gain, surely this is a breach of contract.
The rules listed are a bit more eclectic than those found in most published books & articles, perhaps because it's a crowd-sourced list.

I particularly like "Give yourself permission to suck."

It's the spiritual twin to Hemingway's "the first draft of anything is shit" but articulated from the writer's perspective. Which, for writers, is the more important perspective.
They're not exactly cross platform though
SML# is a new programming language extending Standard ML
Isn't the initial learning curve the biggest time suck? I don't know either besides some basic vim commands. But seems like learning vim to the point of it being second nature would take up the majority of time.
“””Forget about your phone for a minute, look around and talk with people next to you.”””

I think with the rise of looking at smartphones, it’s become the norm to zone out into it. If I randomly start talking to other people in the line I feel they’ll be like , “what the heck! What does this person want? He’s probably crazy/unstable or trying to scam me.”

Maybe the icebreaker now adays is “hey what’s up, I cant believe we’re not distracted into our phones , longer line than usual blah blah” to specifically trigger in their mind — “oh right strangers used to talk to one another before these devices entered our society”
5 Strategies for Making Winning Business Connections
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It might be a good episode, but it's bad in the context of the whole story arch
A phone app that listens to your car and could warn of impending trouble
> But discussing whether this is shaming has no more to do with P=NP than the phrases you quote.

Yes, and? I'm writing comments about the article, not about P=NP. Since the article contains ridicule, comments about that seem well justified.

I'm not a expert on complexity theory, nor have I claimed to be. The context of discussion in a comment section on an article is the article, not it's purported title.

I haven't criticized the article, and yet people seem to be acting as-if I have. I've only described what it contains. I have made no judgement about it.

> As there is clearly no possibility of inducing shame, then it seems unlikely that this was intended to do so, and so is not shaming

I think you know how bad that argument is. The article contains what it contains.
Good question. A sense of accomplishment is a small pleasure, but it scales better than activities that provide high highs but inevitable low lows. Most people have an emotional equilibrium state; stresses and rewards can temporarily move the needle, but it tends to return to center regardless of the circumstance. Given that a lifetime of low-effort activity tends to limit opportunities for broadening your horizons and doesn't have a lasting contribution to happiness, a simple cost-benefit analysis indicates that dedication to personal growth is the best value for time spent. Ultimately, life only has the meaning you assign to it, so if you're optimizing for pleasure, learning and creative pursuits hold the most potential.
They are wearable, I had lenses cut for mine by a lenscrafter in Westchester NY. It was easy, and cheaper than most pairs of glasses I've had in my life. I still wear my spectacles everyday with corrective lenses. As a wearable they work great!
Who's Afraid of the Ragwretch?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I feel around season 12 is when it started getting really annoying with the celebrity cameos. The NSYNC episode was so horrendous that it actually made me stop watching with regularity, and it felt like after that too many episodes were just means in which to showcase some celebrity (e.g The Rolling Stones, Tony Hawk, Weird Al).
> * If my colleagues don't have to understand how do deploy applications properly, their work is simplified greatly. If I can just take their work, put it in a container, no matter the language or style, my work is greatly simplified. I don't have to worry about how to handle crashes, infinite loops, or other bad code they write.

Of course you do, you just moved the logic into the "orchestration" and "management" layer. You still need to write the code to correctly handle it. Throwing K8S at it is putting lipstick on a pig. It is still a pig.

> * We have a whole lot of HTTP services in a range of languages. Managing them all with fat binaries would be a chore - the author would have to give me a way to set port and listen address, and I have to keep track of every way to set a port. With a net namespace and clever iptables routing, docker can do that for me.

Nope, you wrote a set of rules and as long as everyone adheres to those rules things kind of work ( in a clever way ). Of course if you had the same kind of rules written and followed in any other method, you would arrive at the exactly the same place. In fact, you probably would arrive at a better place because you would stop thinking that your application works because of some clever namespace and iptables thing.

> * sometimes, I have to deploy and insecure app. Usually, it's a badly configured memcache or similar. With net namespaces, I can make sure only a certain server has access to that service, and that the service cannot ruin my host server.

You may be able to guarantee this with a VM but you certainly cannot guarantee it with a container.

> load balancing. Luckily, I don't have to deal with extreme network loads which would require hand-made solutions, but just pushing up that number a little to do ad-hoc load balance makes things a lot easier

The time to build a template and instrumentation for your haproxy/nginx/varnish layer is when you don't have enough traffic and enough complexities.
As Bart once said: "Quality, shmuality! If I had a TV show I'd run that sucker down to the ground!"
I also don't think they "failed". I think it was all about positioning the company as "not just a teen social app" to help with the IPO. The pitch is Snap is really a camera/picture/video company that happens to have a popular social media app.
There are no axioms of writing, just rules-of-thumb, proverbs, and advice. The piece of advice that I would most like to see applied more frequently is: put yourself in the mindset of your intended audience, who are seeing this for the first time.
but the problem is, if you suck, no one will tell you you suck or how and why you suck, so you will keep repeating the same bad habits. In math, at least, if you suck you know it because you are unable to get the correct answer.
A Story About Dueling, a Lethal Engagement
I scream them into the endless void.
Mindful Code Exercises
I'm surprised the author forgot to consider platform architectures, because he has the most important aspects of a package manager down.

Unfortunately, it is still terribly easy to write non-portable code with C++. I think this is the main factor why we still don't have a widely used package manager for C++ but your mileage may vary.
XKCD comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/927/
Yes, but on Mac OS pre-OS X you could use resource forks for that.
I think every programming language would benefit from a universal package manager.
I like Go a lot, but it doesn't always build fat binaries.

go build xyz.go

xyz: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, not stripped
> You may be able to guarantee this with a VM but you certainly cannot guarantee it with a container.

I can guarantee it pretty well on my RHEL and CentOS systems, SELinux prevents containers from accessing things they shouldn’t just like it prevents Apache from dumping /etc/passwd.
Somewhere between Armin Tamzarian, the first season of South Park, the first season of Futurama, and the first season of Family Guy.

The Silver Age ended when The Simpson's Movie came out. Almost no animated series survives the first movie intact.
You try to start a conversation, they know they cannot participate but give you a hand by opening up and give you another interesting thing to discuss.

And instead of asking why or what/if they miss something and having an interesting conversation you get annoyed?

Have I understood you correctly?
Why not? They use it today with the current coinbase. Why wouldn’t they use it tomorrow?

Some will stop using it, sure. And they probably have enough coin to affect the price short term.

But I’d argue that the majority of usage is now not for political/philosophical reasons but for economic ones.
Matrix #Ransomware being distributed through #malvertising
My favorite take on "The Decline and Fall of the Simpsons Empire":

The Fall of the Simpsons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
THT: The convenience of PHP without the pitfalls
I heard back from a friend of mine working for a Swedish company.

He told me a story about "more choosy" from another viewpoint.

His department got a new department head, who previously had been working in a US branch of the company. He wanted to increase the department head count, so they started the hiring process.

One of the candidates came through. The employees almost all thought the candidate was unqualified. The department head disagreed, and wanted to hire the employee anyway. The union intervened, and the candidate was not hired.

As you say, "A workplace where people hate each other doesn't sound like a happy place, either." Why should the boss get to choose who you are going to work with?
The need for all the support "machinery"? Lymphatic system to dispose of waste, vascular system to pipe food and oxygen, oxygenation for the blood, glucose production, hydration, temperature regulation... These are hard to implement because the scale from the macro to the micro - from inches in diameter to microns.
So these have to be kept in water when they're not being used? Isn't that messy/inconvenient?
So here's an idea to test that. Take an image and find one of these adversary generating pixels. Now take that same corresponding pixel and modify it in each of the other images in exactly the same way that generated the first adversary. I would not be surprised if it is not an adversary generator across all images. I would expect each of those images has a different gradient.
This is really good documentation which, I think, unintentionally makes git look complicated and terrifying.

I've been using git for almost a decade and there are plenty of things in its toolbox I've never bothered to touch - the rabbit hole goes deep. But for most, the average user could probably get the hang of it with a high level explanation of distributed version control and a handful of commands.
There’s precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies, doesn’t end well
Could be. But how difficult is it to just ignore him, or if there is such an urge, write in a way that subtly addresses him while other readers have no clue of what is going on, or use phrases such as "some people say ..."? Plenty of good options, if you ask me.
8 Prominent Factors to Enhance Training Efficiency
They don't last forever. Mine has unbearable coil-whine while charging.
Our visual system has all kinds of "attack vectors" of this sort. Heck, video only works as a medium because it exploits one if them.

For more a much more subtle and in some ways (imo) disturbing one, look into the blindness constantly induced by our visual perception during saccades. A malicious attack on that would be... well I don't really have a word for it. Disturbing doesn't really fit. Suggestions welcome!
I think the parent meant done intentionally by Apple? The whole thing could be a PR stunt.
> Came here to mention MyPy and optional typing, the preferable term Gradual Typing means something distinctly different.

Are you sure that gradual typing is different than what Mypy supports?

The Wikipedia page for gradual typing cites mypy as an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing

The Mypy docstrings specifically state:

> Mypy has a powerful type system with
features such as type inference, gradual typing, generics and union
types.

https://github.com/python/mypy/blob/272d0c4c50918a36b57e7c0c...

The section on gradual typing in PEP 483 seems consistent with this as well.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0483/#summary-of-gradual...
I was also convinced that iOS 11 caused my battery life to plummet. But it turned out my battery was just broken.

You‘d think that batteries should last longer than a year, but it‘s a question of statistics: Some batteries last longer, some deteriorate quickly. I was unlucky with my battery.

Tips:

1. Check your battery health. Coconut Battery lets you check your battery health. If it is under 80%, consider swapping it.

2. 3rd party repair shops are faster and a lot cheaper than Apple.
Based on everything I know from my Apple employee friends, no -- this is what happens when you break the wall of silence. I feel bad for him, it sucks to lose a job, but he should have known better.
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p5ROnG...
You can use observables to replace the first search with the following one. It’ll still run but you wont get weird UI behavior. You can also ignore repeated searches with the same params that may occur with observables. I can’t remember the exact observable odd the top of my head.

Also, consider the trackBy part of ngFor. You can replace the need to remove and add entire cards.
[SF:] Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality [pdf]
I think he's saying that you have to offer them under the same terms, so that would include the new site having to provide monetization options for your content that are similar to your existing arrangement.
I randomly talk to people in lines commonly,and nobody has yet acted strange about it.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576895
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576895
They are cross-language though, something I (as a user) personally value much much more highly than a cross-platform package manager which also supports a bunch of random platforms which I don’t care about at all. For developers/software distributors, this may of course look very different.
These are great -- looking forward to seeing this list grow.

I've added it to this repository [0] where I'm tracking technical writing and publishing resources. It's still small, but please feel free to open pull requests to grow it!

[0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/
Transducers don’t really directly map to any existing CS construct. In fact, Clojure transducers occupy a strange twilight world between “fold endomorphism” and “stream transformer”. Most transducers are both. Some are just one or the other.
> This sounds crazy, and probably isn’t necessary, but to make your phone boring - make it greyscale!

On Samsung at least there is an all-in-one option: maximum power save. Disables most apps and notifications and makes the screen boring.

You can still call, open the calendar etc so the phone is very useful, just dull.

(For email addicts there's also the option of removing links to apps and I think you can remove even the shortcuts to built in apps.)
An alternative solution are some cryptocurrency loan programs such as ActiveHold
It is super easy to do static binaries with C, I was already doing it in 1992, the first time I actually used C on my life.

It only hard if one happens to mix glibc, a specific implementation of the ANSI C standard library, with any implementation of it.
Cyberpunk didn't kick off the raid -- that happened because of the BBS I ran, the Phoenix Project. The book was merely a casualty of the war.
The build system is written in nodejs -- it turned out way faster than both CMake and classic Makefiles.
Hah, I thought this was "why", so I looked into it.

His "end of the Golden Era": Wild Barts can't be Broken: Jan 17, 1999

Futurama, debut: March 28, 1999

So there's your why...
Ey mate,

1. didn't you see that this was a question?
2. not having heard of this is like not having heard as an US citizen about US independence from the UK. Not necessarily a sign of a decent education.
That's one way of seeing it. You'll have to keep in mind, though, that you don't need to learn hundreds of Vim commands to be as productive in writing text as before - that's actually rather easy to achieve. So, for me, it doesn't seem like a timesink that much because anything past that point will speed you up. Hacking around in my Emacs config (I'm an Evil user) on the other hand does eat up time. I don't know if it wouldn't be as bad if I wasn't annyed with minor things not working exactly how I want them to, though.

Edit: I'd also say that Vim bindings are something where "learning by doing" is the best way to get going, and I'd assume the same applies to Emacs hotkeys. If you want to use them effectively, you'll want to develop muscle memory for the most common actions, so they are a great thing to pick up while you're actually working on stuff.
Thanks! I was mostly happy with how it came out -- having to rewrite about a third of it because of seized backups was traumatic at the time.
I decided quite early to separate calling and job, but tried to keep a balance between both. A part-time career is difficult too :)

I'm currently grinding an a 40h-week. My plan is to do it for a year for money and reputation and than find something part time, which sadly is quite difficult as a product owner/project manager. Maaaybe some start-up that doesn't want to pay full price :).
Exactly. I ditched one of these save-the-world projects recently because they did little but talk about fundraising and how to distribute their buttload of tokens to each other.
if you haven't seen A Fathers Watch s28e17 I highly recommend t. it is as good or batter than any "classic" Simpsons.

I think a good amount of Simpsons hate is nostalgia based, but the primary component is the writers. the writing of episodes like a fathers watch follows an almost Seinfeld-like formula. the best episodes always had a similar pattern.the pattern is great but gets repetitive and works best on nostalgia where you don't remember it

i can sympathize with a show on for 30 years wanting to switch up that formula even if it is less successful all the time.
His daughter gets famous and gets into a career she wanted?
>And if you think this isn’t accurate, just think about how a rich, single, old, but ugly man would fare far better romantically than a rich, single, old, but ugly woman.

And speaking of the whole article more generally - Isn't all of this because of basic evolutionary psychology, and intuitively fairly obvious? Roughly speaking men seek beauty wrt neoteny and fertility, whereas women are more forgiving about appearances so long as men have status and can provide for a family. This isn't a new phenomenon, and even pervades many cultural mythologies.
Go, bravely exploring uncharted territories.
They probably A/B tested the content and found out that breasts sell better than news.

Hint: this was a joke