skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hope is that over time a large enough percentage of people will become annoyed to the point of giving a fighting chance to alternative approaches and platforms.

Or a stigma develops around being overly addicted to these platforms and their use balances out some.

Right now it seems like people are pulling the "social reward lever" over and over and the nature of the situation ensures that these platforms will try to maximize that behavior. But I suspect that in the long run some form of moderate usage and an appreciation for privacy and personal space will be obvious.
Paradise Papers: Open Letter to Tim Cook from Editor-In-chief
When Gmail Goes Away
Why? On what basis?
The best explanation I ever heard for psychadelics was that they turn up the gain, the attenuation..on both thoughts and senses. So you get weird stuff which would normally be supressed.
Taking big bets that turn profitable is a sign of a great company. Taking big bets that lose money is a sign of an soon-to-be-bankrupt company.
The long goodbye to C
It's what TV advertising is all about. Why aren't we complaining about that?
And You guys named your system Skinner. (which is very on the nose, and also very funny now)

I think I truly get what you are doing, but I definitely think you are going to have to very seriously explain to people here WHAT the problem is and how you are going to help.

So some straight up advice -

1) People here need to understand with examples from your research, on just how Bad the effect of un-noticed conditioning can be.

2) Highlight your mission statement, and very strongly defend the part where your tools do good. Preferably with illustrations.

If you want to take on anti-hero, branding, remember that it only works if people are intimately familiar with the inner workings of his mind and thus his motivations.

As such you may want to put this very prominently out there -

>We watched and read too much scifi growing up. And for every 1 dystopia movie, there's 3 better utopia novels. So now we can't get 2 determinately optimistic ideas out of our head: (1) the future is going to be awesome (and awesome for everyone: not just white bearded educated heteronormative californian male technocrats: that would suck). (2) The relationship between humans and our machines must be one of mutual thriving and improvement. The little magical slabs of glass that live in our pockets and proliferate across the globe are tools for human thriving.
So we built Dopamine to help that future became manifest.

>Technology is becoming more (addictive / persuasive / coercive) every day and there isn't much we can do to reverse it. And it sucks that the technologies that are becoming persuasive the fastest aren't necessarily ones that are great for human thriving. You deserve a better world than one in which the most persuasive technologies demand from you your eyeball hours and brand loyalty in exchange for cat videos. That's dystopic.

people will also want to know that its not marketing speak. SO you will need to show that you take pains to actually move us to the world we need to go to.
Small company, we don't have such policies, root account on my PC at work belongs to me. It's Ubuntu.

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Can Blockchain restore trust in online advertising?
Reading through the responses just screams: not worth the effort. I know it’s an open source volunteer product and even with a commercial arm the lack of window functions (aren’t they part of the SQL standard?) is laughable.
I always thought Kava would be a good name for a Kotlin/JVM framework.

Java was named from the coffee from Java, Indonesia. Kava is a beverage consumed throughout the Pacific Ocean cultures. Similar enough :)
Wholeheartedly concur on this recommendation. A great book that I came to these comments to recommend.
In the end, I'll just always be impressed by how Twitter got billionaire aristocrats and elder statesmen to use the number 2 to me the words to, too and two.

Other than that, all the character limit did was make reading and writing more difficult. That's the opposite goal of all language education and should be considered a borderline crime against humanity.
What if Twitter made character limits a level game - just like HN voting Karma?

Level 1 users get 140 chars. Level 2 - 160 chars, 3...
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I love HN's design. It's the "Craig's List school of design" -- simple presentation of information with no distractions.

The WWW has been heading in a terrible direction (animation, over-saturated colors) over the past few years. People use too much JS and CSS3 because it's possible, not because it's a good idea.

Have you tried turning of JS on Discourse forums? It should render a minimal HTML page via the <noscript> elements. Maybe they should do feature detection -- if a browser isn't capable of running the application, turn off JS and serve the minimal HTML. If it works, you could open an issue in their Github repo or post on meta.discourse.org.
> The more comfortable it is to be inside a car and the less people mind long car rides

There are places with comfortable public transport today but it seems most prefer would prefer a 40 minute drive than a 1 hour train ride even though it frees up their time.
> Is this intended to just be for people who can read them, or am I supposed to just keep reading and pretend that I understand what's being said?

You may also keep reading and not pretend that you understand what it says, like I did.

The Péchés de Vieillesse really are quite delightful (first recording I found) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4xqLvT-Esk
Healthcare is a much larger percent of GDP than casinos for what it's worth. But your comment does remind me of http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
> Seems like at that point it might be cheaper to run your own datacenters?

Depends on whether they acquire new users in the future. Their hosting costs are fixed, so doubling their user count would halve their per-user costs.
It would be perfect to make a snapshot whenever a blockchain to last state is taking over 20% of state size. I.e. with 10 GB state do it every 2Gb (monthly). And IMO it's safe to discard any chain older than 3-6 months because only people who were offline for that long would ever need them (unrealistic)
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I decided to quit Facebook for a month. That was September. October came round, and I didn't go back.

I feel better. Facebook lets you communicate about the things you feel passionate about. In a world gone crazy, this often means things that are deeply disturbing, extremely wrong. Writing about these just re-tears the wounds over and over.

Another thing: there are so many new dogmas and taboos that rational discussion is hardly possible about fundamental things.

I do miss the distant contact with faraway friends, but think I am more sane now.
Do people with eating disorders sue McDonalds? Or even the companies that do their ads?
A lot of people say that buying cars will be a thing of the past but I doubt that. People don't just own a car because they have to, they like having a car. I currently don't own one and use a lot of ride sharing and rental cars. And I'm seriously considering buying a car soon. Even with a dense network of cars it's still a hassle to always look for an available car and you don't know what model you'll end up with. The same goes for cleanliness or any issues with the car.

I really doubt that car sales will fall a lot.
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>videos were basically non-existent to download as real-player was in its infancy serving up what amounted to flip-book quality clips which still took 15 minutes to download a 15 second clip.

And then even after video was available, it was incredibly unreliable.

Am I crazy, or does anyone else think YouTube became popular because the videos almost always worked when you hit Play?

People seem to think the community features were responsible for YouTube's success, but I specifically remember finding videos, then looking them up on YouTube instead, because the original source was some garbage video player that you'd click and nothing would happen.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars in Ethereum frozen in accidental coding mistake
Donald Kagan is amazing. The lectures to his Introduction to Greek History course at Yale are also on Youtube [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL023BCE5134243987
Also not the person you were replying to, but in most blocklists are ranges of what are known as dynamic IPs. i.e. those handed out to residential customers. Because most email spam comes from botnets running on peoples personal machines, these ranges are quite sensibly blocked.

If you want to improve your chances of not being blocked when sending email, get a static IP address for your home connection (if your ISP supports that) or host your mailserver on a server instance at a proper hoster.
Maybe those snaps aren't actually getting deleted but are kept for ever...
> The gmail account is a google acount.

Yea, this is an irritating trend, not confined to Google. It's getting harder and harder to have separate accounts and separate identities (or, god forbid, no identity) across services anymore. BIG BUTTON: "LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK!!!" Small, gray 6pt text: "Create an account with us."

How about no? How about neither?

I just want to browse the web. I don't want a relationship with you, company. And I really, REALLY don't want such a close relationship where you to have this unique identifier of me that allows you to correlate my activity on your site with my unrelated or related activity on some other site. It's none of your business. I don't need you aggregating everything I do, and I don't care that you're only doing it to "improve my experience" in some vague way. My web experience was fine and dandy before you tried scanning my rectum daily.

There are a scant few sites with whom I deliberately choose to share my identity, such as HN. This should be the exception.
Amazon is spreading its wings and it won't stop at anything. The idea of using Alexa seems far-fetched, but who knows?!
Looking forward to having my adderall delivered by drone.
Headline is exaggerated and does not reflect the tweet's update. Google says that it was a code mistake that identified it as "abusive" and has reverted the change. Still interesting, but the headline here is misinformation if taken at face-value.
I found that no longer posting or interacting, accomplished enough to not need to quit. I enjoy being able to get updates, entirely at my leisure, regarding friends & family. Basically turns Facebook into an RSS feed of life updates. I've also never allowed Facebook on any phone, keeping it isolated in a specific use box.

I joined Facebook when it initially became open to the public. For a few years it was nice, relatively calm, mostly fun. Then enough people joined that the quality of everything plunged, the public arguing and political fights escalated among friends, people increasingly brought the crap from real life to the platform. Frequent oversharing, having it be persistent (carried everywhere with you), and an always-present town square aspect (and how that warps behavior), then amplifies the negativity among the whole network. A few years ago I gave up posting & discussing anything, stopped sharing any media, deleted all my public posts and comments.

The swamp that is Facebook nearly brought me to disliking a couple dozen people I've known my entire adult life. Facebook creates a pressurized social atmosphere, almost like cohabitation with the people you're connected to on there. It becomes like the saying about guests and fish both smelling after three days.
Symantec uncovered a new #APT, the cyber espionage #Sowbug group
Why would the self-driving car vendor charge $20 if you ride by yourself or $5 if you share with one other person? They'd be getting less revenue for a longer, more time consuming trip due to the need to pick up and drop off the 2nd passenger.

I could see them charging something like $10 for one person and $7 each for 2 (which is close to actual Lyft pricing). That way they give a price break to the user, while they themselves also make more money, so they have an incentive to offer that pricing even if the trip takes longer, or they can't find a 2nd rider.
I've never seen a company put out so many announcements for a feature that if you think about it, from the point of view of what it offers, it's really a minimal change.
It's possible to cull all of your 'Facebook friends' and only keep those faraway friends, and use Facebook as a sort of IRC server with pictures. I have a few friends who've done that.
The EFF has been going off the rails lately...
Beware of the New Kind of Procrastination
I think the lesson here is to stay away from frameworks as much as possible.
That's a good observation. But when I see that image I definitely think of a school bus. The color pattern is very distinctive (in the US anyway where all school buses are painted the same color and style.) So I can't say the NN is wrong.

It doesn't necessarily mean that color is the only feature it uses to classify school buses. Just that that feature alone is enough.
I had your same kind of problem, or more like just not having any kind of robust interest in art, and I was living in Amsterdam for a while which of course has great art museums...

I also didn't have an internet connection at home nor a smartphone, so it was really easy to build new interests, not being dopaminergically tethered to the world wide web...

So I decided to get a "museumkaart" which is a cheap way for residents to get endless museum access for a whole year, and to write a little journal about a museum every weekend.

Because I'm a kind of obsessive personality and I didn't have anything else to do I ended up reading quite a bit of whatever relevant stuff I could find to flesh out the journal entries, and that's why I read the Van Gogh letters!

So yeah, I also recommend finding a way to be more disconnected from the internet on evenings and weekends. :)
It’s official: Twitter goes live with 280-character tweets for all
Why 'Bushman banter' was crucial to hunter-gatherers' evolutionary success
DevOps reality score
Why would Disney need to answer for that? If you could lease a billion dollar property for $1 / year, wouldn't you? Anaheim should answer for that.
Yo I have the best hands-free, no-attention transit system. Already. It’s called the fucking train.
Do you really believe twitters product managers did not considered people might be cramming to tweet?
One example is the Blue Card for Germany. The required amounts are ridiculous. It is not used a lot though, I guess people don't want to learn German :)
Germany has something similar called Blue Card.
The Guardian's Inferno
Dear Tanenbaum, in case you are reading this, thank you for creating Minix. I have the first edition of your Design and Implementation of OS. That enjoyable read makes me a programmer now. Your insights is ever-lasting. Your humbleness marks you as the best computer scientist. Thank you.
Also local human overrides. I as a passenger want to determine the route to take. Maybe I just don't like the recommended route, maybe I know that it won't work. There's no reason why the passenger shouldn't be able to determine the route.
So many accusations about 'evil' here, without any significant evidence. As I see it, this middle-ware is a tool that you can choose to use for evil or good - the tool doesn't get a moral value because of it's use.

There is, of course, an argument that any manipulation of human behaviour is inherently evil, but it's a very weak one - if you manipulate a person to eat well, exercise, donate to charity, call their parents and vote for a [insert a political cause that you believe to be inherently moral], is it still an evil thing to do?
Because we’ve missed the Rust evangelism strike force so very much.

I honestly hope against hope that you’re being sarcastic.
Because this is not a code problem.

It is inherently a people problem.

The issue is simply that any fix (by code or by competition), will only move the conflict point from its current location to a new place on the board.

Without being able to approach the bad actors and their motivations/incentives directly, you will not be able to effect change.

And there is always going to be an incentive to manipulate minds, easily and at scale.
Sure, but whether or not 3.x changed significantly from 2.x isn't really what I'm asking about, I was more wondering if you imagined upon the release of 3 (or 2 for that matter) that it was more or less the final stable overall design, or were significant future redesigns/rewrites still in the plan at that point?
> it seems most prefer would prefer a 40 minute drive than a 1 hour train ride even though it frees up their time.

A train ride frees your time up less than an autonomous car ride because on a train you have no personal space. You always have to be aware of people around you and where your own belongings are, watch for your stop, etc. In a car you can focus on whatever you're doing.
Shameless plug, my browser is: https://cretz.github.io/doogie/. I do no telemetry, surprise feature testing, etc. There are of course others, the best of which is Ungoogled Chromium, but they are a bit behind on their updates.
> Instagram

> I paid them for the app.

What? IG is a paid app?
No pictures of the handwritten notes in the article?

Seems like that should be included
>(CockroachDB is a key-value store.)

Correction: CockroachDB is based on a KV store, it's a full SQL RDBMS on top of this KV store.
Nautilus is not exactly a power tool. Personally I rather enjoy spacefm.

Its super trivial to bind hotkeys to shell functions that operate on the current directory or files or whatever. I know that some of this can be done with custom actions but its nice to be able to a) bind keys not just provide a context menu item and b) create a custom command with a few clicks.

Example something like autojump or what have you is a common tool for shell users. Its nice to bind a key to pop up a prompt key in a string and have this jump to a directory in your file manager using the same source of info as autojump.

This took like 30 seconds to figure out and set up.

Another example a hotkey show a thumbnail gallery of every image recursively below current dir.
In that case the manufacturer (or their insurance) will pay for it. Let that be $10m if someone dies, maybe a bit less if someone gets seriously hurt. Even if it's a multiple of that, that's in no relation to the cost of the programme. As long as they demonstrate that their cars are still a magnitude safer than other cars, paying fines will be enough.
Can someone explain to me the facebook problem? I'm not talking about privacy problems, just all the people saying everything is so much better for them without it. Is it just me using it too weirdly?

I use messenger to chat with people (I'd love to use my jabber account more, but everyone is either on FB, GTalk or WhatsApp), I read a few groups and use events to keep things organized and I post sometimes, either forgetting about it soon or if it strikes a point reading interesting discussions.

The vast majority of my friendlist are people I know IRL, some exceptions are online friends I know via other channels. I also regularly delete people (usually on their birthday, thanks for the reminder facebook) I'm not in contact with anymore (well, and anyone who invites me to play a game more than once, first time I tell them never to spam me again, 2nd time they are gone).

I'm just wondering how anything would improve for me without it?
> This is why I think self driving cars will make traffic worse, not better.

Yeah, of course self driving cars are going to make traffic way worse! Who even thinks otherwise? Suddenly you are going to have millions of disabled and homebound seniors wanting the cars to take them to do grocery shopping and errands, kids being driven around to and from from school and practice, and low income residents sleeping in their cars commuting to work in higher income areas of the country. Self driving cars will make traffic exponentially worse.
Can you PM me the contact? We're looking for auditors for our code.
> I found that no longer posting or interacting, accomplished enough to not need to quit. [...] Basically turns Facebook into an RSS feed of life updates.

This!

However, I think there's a big cultural divide there. I have many Brazilian friends and many European ones and I feel that Facebook as an impact in this order:

Brazilian >> French > German

For many Brazilian friends it's to see and to be seen, for the European ones much less so. I'd also venture to guess that the post frequency is much higher (like an order of magnitude) for Brazilians than for others.

If I include other nationalities with n <30, I'd say it's mostly a problem in the Americas where I see much higher usage and feel "high pressure to be seen as having a fulfilling life".

Source: My account
Are cars comparatively cheaper than in the Model T era?
Doesn't that just mean you have two unnecessary critical points of failure?
Restaurants,food and Beverage service suppliers
Not sure how much that is worth. Tesla collects a huge amount of data but that doesn't help as much as some had hoped. You need to interpret all that data which is expensive and complicated.
> "In an age of left-liberalism / “progressivism” and relativism, it is classically liberal and aspires to universal truths."

Are you attempting to imply that engaging in your favoured brand of politics is a prerequisite in the quest for universal truth?
The benefits from client side Vs server side are really a matter of scale. If you're running a personal forum / whatever then you're not going to notice a whole lot. But when you start having several hundred thousand or more concurrent users then being able to cache your pages in a CDN and only generating JSON responses via APIs really can have a profound impact on your server side resources.
Clever Sheep Can Recognise Fiona Bruce, Emma Watson and Barack Obama
Great list!

I'd probably add Theodor Mommsen, one of the earliest literature Nobel Prize laureates, for A History Of Rome in 5 books
It's not sad, it's just different.

Culture has always changed with time.
> Participation is voluntary, and you can remove yourself by disabling the add-on after you install it.

So it sounds like a bug or another case of non-malice. Tried reporting it at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?
Bitcoin: Lessons from ISIS and Syria
I wish Apple followed Google's lead here and detached some of the basic applications from iOS releases, like the calculator, Safari and others. In Google's case, that improved the quality of the Android experience ten-fold, IMHO.
Automated Detection, Exploitation and Elimination of Double-Fetch Bugs
Twitter to introduce expanded 280-character tweets for all its users
Regarding point 2: what if Tesla pushed silent OTA updates for A/B test that accidentally disabled ABS or traction control, rendering the car unusable?

This is what I cannot grasp about modern software project management/ops. 
 The only relevant measure is time to ship. If the unit tests pass it is good to go. 
 So many times have I seen webapps so broken that core functions do not even load or by no means would pass simple "click here and there" usability test. In house QA sometimes seems to be abandoned. Automated testing is a good thing, but in my book shipping comes with implicit assertion that changes perform the task at least on a basic level.

Field A/B testing of experimental features is a good thing, which I am ok with even if I happen to get worse alternative. Shipping outright broken features if I am not on beta/testing/nightly release channel is unacceptable.
As has been mentioned OSC is not "part of OSM", it's part of the OSM ecosystem.

There is also Mapillary, which is also part of the OSM ecosystem and is very similar to OSC.
Neovim v0.2.1 released
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