skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expanding the area of land occupied by buildings and machines is not all economic development encompasses.
All I know is that Facebook was started as a way of enforcing the picking-order of the local school. Ofcourse it grew, from the same reason kids still to this day gets bullied in school. It's just got legalized by the grownup community. And then we wonder why kids are getting burned out before they even start working?

As a bullied kid I already saw what facebook was from the start so I never created an account and cringe every time I see it mentioned on the news.
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I have to call what they're doing "the open garden" model. They simply want to be as much of the online context of peoples' lives as possible. It's really no different than the closed garden, except that people do more online now and what would have previously gone to LiveJournal and Flickr and any number of separate sites now all goes into FB, raising the switching costs to the level of closed gardens. It can't take more than a year or two of MBA to be able to fall back on this strategy. Beats working for a living.
And here I thought it was Bitcoin that had scaling issues. Someone should make a futures market for Bitcoin on the Ethereum block chain settled in ETH just for irony.
The great thing about CaptainDuckDuck is that it expressly aims to address your argument. I haven't used it myself, but from reading his blog post (linked below), his goal is to build something 75% cheaper, but just as easy-to-use.

> My goal was to enable a typical web app developer create a Heroku-like server instance in less than 10 minutes. I am happy to say, I did it!
One SQL interface to describe KStreams apps and browse Kafka topics.
Home Depot announces $15B share buyback just in time for Christmas
This is on a tangent but lately i have begun to consider the possibility that short term climate change will cause a rapid and complete global collapse.

This is from talking to actual climate scientists and seeing them making very real short term practical investments and decisions regarding geographical location, frugality and not having kids.

Examples of that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIy0t5P0CUQ

And this is not fringe science anymore. The latest predictions from the largest meta reviews are all, -even though still conservative-, blasting through the ceilings of the worst scenarios. Latest a 4 degree celcius average shift in 80 years.

https://www.eceee.org/all-news/news/news-2017/worst-case-glo...

While 4 degrees sounds manageable, it would actually cause a severe die-off off most off the human population because of a complete break down of the stable regional weather systems which the whole global ecology has adapted to over thousands of years of evolution. There is simply no time for an agricultural adaptation, and not enough time for migration or biological transformation.

The previous changes in global climate has taken orders of magnitudes longer than the current one, this is one of the many misconceptions floating in around in the collective consciousness, in part pushed by the army of lawyers, PR-employees and astroturfers employed by the energy sector. The internet and the media landscape in general is rife with them as far as i have observed.

Also 4 degrees is extremely optimistic.

Look at this article about an increase in degrees ( Not very old and already its focusing on 2 degrees, half of the new consensus ): http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/2degrees/

The goalposts keep getting pushed and the modeling from the Paris Agreement is based of scenarios where deus ex machina like geo-engineering will suddenly become available and save us all. Pure magical thinking at least from a scientific perspective - even though i really believe in human ingenuity.

https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/documents/Geo...

But things are probably going to get much, much worse..

If we go just a bit out of the hyper optimistic consensus of the "policy making parts" of the academic climate community we soon discover the frightening prospects of the feedback loops that we are not even accounting for; methane release, blue ocean event (reflection), ocean acidity threshold, reversal of ocean currents etc.

The first phase begins in about four to five years where we will reach the "blue ocean event". The first year of the arctic being virtually ice free. This will kick in to gear a series of events we are unable to model.

http://iwantsomeproof.com/extimg/siv_annual_max_loss_and_ice...

The ice sheet is already having trouble re-emerging this year in the north, and this could lead to an increase more in the vicinity of 7-8 degrees at the turn of the century. Which also means complete global collapse in 10-20 years.
And a heavy die off accelerating thereafter, until who knows what..
Agreed. I have effectively quit Facebook: I log on once a year to reconnect with people I never talk to anymore, and subsequently remember exactly why it is that I never talk to them anymore!
The SegWit2X non-debate is never really about keeping the blockchain size (i.e. transactional history) in check as that could be reconstructed relatively easily on demand. However the UTXO set (list of all unspent transaction outputs) has to be kept small because every incoming transaction has to be validated against this ~3GB data set that has been growing by several hundred megabytes per year. Ideally this database should be kept in memory for maximum efficiency but RAM is expensive, so a elaborate cache scheme had to be developed to make sure that nodes remain functional on low power hardware with limited memory and I/O which in turn limits the number of SPV clients each node could serve. Thus on-chain transactions has to be kept to the minimum to slow the growth of UTXOs and SegWit provides some incentive for people to consolidate dust outputs despite fee pressure. So far this strategy has not been working.

Ethereum does not have this limitation because balances are kept in individual accounts, thus the requirement for global consistency is a lot lower.
>> Did the Byzantine church leaders really burn Sappho's poetry?

Given that the outlook of the Greek Orthodox church has not changed much since Byzantine times and from my experience of its members, having been brought up Greek Orthodox myself, I would like to venture a guess that yeah, probably.
I think I've sent an envelope. Digital envelop. They're the mail service. And they secretly mingle with it. That's illegal in my book.

I guess the EFF has tried this defense of our freedoms...
Freebsd? AFAIK they have much better drivers there.
Life-size velociraptors were apparently about turkey-sized. There were others in the same family that were larger, and a bit more similar to the animals depicted in the book/movie.
I get a lot out of Facebook. I keep up with relatives, new babies, local events, and friends' movements (travel, moving, etc.)

The problem is that many of these things just aren't posted anywhere else.

There is a real impact on my life if I stop using it. I stop learning about the 3-4 events I attend every week, including pop-up restaurants, nonprofit gatherings, and concerts. I stop knowing about major life events for the 100+ people I care about, but can't text every week saying, "What's new?"

It may not have much value to you, but you're one person arguing against 1B+ other people. There's a high chance you just don't use it like most people or don't care about the same things.
'twas an annular shape!

Ok..the backplane was annular
If I compile Caddy to use in my SaaS, do I need to add "Powered by Caddy" or something like that to my website?
"skip lunch and urinate in plastic bottles, and some return to homes after their 9pm deadline"

"the allocation and number of stops, and the volume to be distributed for any given day, lies entirely with Amazon."

Argh. If true, hopefully someone can verify the claims and raise some visibility.
That last chart is really interesting, and maybe quite alarming. Most of the conversations around global warming focus on limiting the global temperature increase to a few degrees c over the next few decades. However it looks like the average temperature at this station has already increased from 6°-12° F to what looks like 14°-20° F.

This is already an increase of 2° C! So while the global average may only have changed slightly, temperatures in specific regions have already gone slightly off the rails.
Analysis isn’t a black and white issue, it’s the collection of factual data to help make the best decisions.

Key rule from Pragmatic Marketing. “Your opinion, while interesting, is irrelevant”.
Break the Internet to Save Net Neutrality
I can see both of these statements being misinterpreted, and in opposite directions, so I will offer my commentary.

(1) Metrics. Metrics tend to destroy the sort of motivation that allows a "task to be done for its own sake", where you are capable of immersing yourself fully in the details of a situation without excluding any "secondary" information (with respect to the metric or super-goal). Mastery of a task comes in part from being familiar with the fullest extent of phenomena within a domain. Pleasure proxies mastery by creating immersion, and is common for a hobby.

A master physicist knows all of physics. A civil engineer knows enough to build bridges. Only one of these people I would trust to make be able to create a new method of building bridges that wasn't incremental, or was based on a novel theoretical insight.

[building bridges might not be the best example because it's an older domain with a lot of time to be refined]

(2) I don't see technicality as being the culprit so much as an overfocus on technology. The "art" comes from either the amount of /craft/ that is put into the use of the technology or the amount of /humanity/, that is, consideration and care for how the users will perceive and receive the technology in an interpersonal manner. You mention three domains where aesthetics count but I don't think a focus on the study of aesthetics is necessary for us to apply the concept of art. These things can be done on engineering's terms.
Every big fat corporation yearning for even more growth wants your child's mind.
Can someone explain how the bid/ask and data for futures can be interpreted? Sorry futures noob here.
Identify who would need your service, learn and do sales. Make sure you believe you have a great service. If not identify your greatest skill and improve it. Books are generally great. Here is a great sales book: https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Neil-Rackham/dp/00705111...

If doing sales sounds tough, it will start tough and then get easier. If people ignore you just keep going.

Build something for someone for free (assuming you are in a programming or similar field).

When selling the most important part is the immediate benefit you are providing - will you reduce your customer's cost, improve their sales, solve some problem they spend too much time?

RE: how do you find clients? What field are you in? Who would need your service? Identify 1000 potential buyers and contact them. Contact them by email, phone, use forums, go to conferences, talk to people one on one. Introduce your benefit to them.. Make sure you contact people who seem to have budget and good things going on. Build a website on wordpress that describes your service. Hang out in places where your audience might be.

There is a lot to talk about but most importantly you "do" something consistently, improve it and keep going if you get Nos. If you stop doing you will never get there, and if you keep doing you will definitely get somewhere good, then great.
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> Facebook makes fantastic communications tool and gives them away for a whopping $0.

In exchange for your personal data (at levels not known by most people)

> love staying aware of what's going on with my grandparents, old classmates, friends, and family, AND not having to directly pay money for this.

As one becomes more dependant on it for communicating, they can do worse and worse things and it'll be harder and harder to say no.
Starbucks injects Coinhive JavaScript to connect to wifi
One can use notetaking as extended working memory by visually cross-referencing facts back and forth from the same page. More like a logbook.
You're implying that Facebook is addictive and, yeah, that seems to be the case. Good point.
Alabama Has the Worst Poverty in the Developed World, U.N. Official Says
Except people with worse mindsets are not following your footsteps. People conscious of this problem should have many kids, raise them well to improve civilization, if you want to minimise suffering.

Of course if a physical solution to ending existence without introducing a lot of suffering can be found, even better.
I think having someone who does their coding at work works better for people later in their career, or who have at least done a good solid couple of years of development professionally. For those early into their profession, I usually recommend people dump as much time as they can while they can to get to that point faster, that way when life changes such as they decide to have kids, or focus energy in other passions instead, they are better prepared to make the transition.

In addition, there is a real danger early in a developer's career that their resume becomes a signal of being a weak developer if they don't put in the effort to progress - I have seen this happen to multiple developers who did not take seriously the need to reach a certain level.

Now to tackle the analogy directly, there is a lot of competition for positions in the music world - musicians have to work pretty hard to get stable jobs, or carve out positions of prestige. The most successful musicians I know do it very often, whether it be arranging songs, practicing their musicianship, and immersing themselves in as many musical communities as possible.
Anyone have a link to a public API endpoint? Status Page? or has trading ceased entirely?

Unanticipated demand? ddos? what's going on here?
The sole purpose of existence of a corporation is to make money, and it would be strange to expect them to be nice and not use every opportunity for profit. Thus, enforcing ethics is a consumer responsibility: if you believe that something is bad, don't use it.
It's both a great way to keep in touch and also a great way to waste time. It's a useful communication/relationship tool buried in layers of addictive signaling and ads.
Where is that temperature data from? The linked NOAA website only has data up to October 2017: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/iadv/graph.php?code=BRW&pro...

It also sounds like you are downplaying the effects of climate change, in contradiction with the data displayed in the article, which is bound to get downvotes.
Milton's Astronomy: The Astronomy of “Paradise Lost” (1913, free full text)
Thanks for the ELI5.
Perhaps it can be viewed in the same vein as Michael Jordan's "for the love of the game" contract clause. The clause stipulated that MJ would be able to run off whenever he wanted to join a pickup game, let him remember why he plays. Now, it'd be probably unreasonable for engineers to say to their manager, "hey, I'm going to take a few days off because I want to contribute to an open source project". But my point is whether they ever have a "for the love of my craft" perspective at anytime in their life. How that actually manifests in reality, good question.
I get the impression we are talking past each other. I certainly don't want every task outlined. Indeed, I don't necessarily want to know new data structures. I would expect an idea of what has to be modified. And if that isn't known, then I'd expect any estimate to be bad.

That said, my main point is that time estimates lead to bad negotiations. If someone says it will take six months and you need it in five, what is on the negotiation table? Just a month? This is how our industry often finds itself in crunch time, making up for time estimates gone awry.

Whereas if there is a list of things that can be negotiated, you can order the construction such that things are natural cuts.
Sounds like an opportunity for Google cloud
Damn. Sorry to hear. FB wasn't around when I was in grade school. I hope they make tools to clamp down on bullying. And that people act better, regardless.
To be clear, I'm suggesting first sale applies to to the companies that buy CPUs from Intel and put them in the computers they build, and the sales companies that buy those computers and resell them to consumers.

I'm not suggesting it applies to Intel.

Intel is making copies, so they need copyright owner permission.

The company that buys a CPU from Intel and solders it into a computer they build, and the sales company that later sells that computer to a consumer, are not making copies. They are just passing on copies they received. Hence, they should not need copyright owner permission because of first sale.

There is one possible hitch that comes to mind. In the US version of first sale, it applies to the owner of a copy that was "lawfully made". If Intel is violating the license, and if that means the copies Intel makes are not "lawfully made", then first sale does not apply to those copies.
I have written a lot of FreePascal in Emacs, because for the things I want to do in Pascal, Lazarus isn't much help. Lately, I've been revisiting Nim, and the experience is similar in a very good way.
I agree. in my opinion, i believe it may also enable unhealthy relationship patterns, or stunt emotional growth; things that may not have originated had the user never engaged. sadly, not engaging is stigmatized too, complicating matters especially for young ones concerned about their impression.

for example, when i used fb for a time it bothered me that there was stigma against "unfriending". I would frequently make new accounts and remember feeling guilt for doing so.

Eventually ditched it permanently about 5 years ago. Friends from my mid 20s seemed to keep it around as entertainment (waiting for others to embarrass themselves in everyday updates, trolling groups, stalking for conversation topics) and self comparison. they claimed, "we only use it ironically lol" and no longer planned events through it, shared photos or life stories, etc.

It was gross and I feared I'd become a target when I had the account. I used to check my feed just to make sure I was still "cool" with everyone. I was bullied as a child and went through emotional trauma so sadly I was a great target for an all-day everyday user.

Eventually I couldn't handle the pressure, and disagreed with fb's 'vision' (ads) and privacy policies so I refused to use it. first year after doing so i was upset that "nobody kept in touch outside of the fb platform". much later, i am grateful they didnt, as I'm in a wildly different place in my life. I would not be where I am now had I not moved on from those toxic, enabling relationships. Obviously this is not the case for everyone, but I wanted to share my perspective.

Mindblowing to me that parents allow use of the platform to children. when I was legally an adult I didn't possess the mental capacity to take a step back and question what I got out of the site, placing "importance of friendship and loyalty" above my own feelings. I cannot begin to fathom how the platform would have twisted my thinking, and relationships, and sense of self as a child or even teen. given the suspicion (or reality) that other relationships get devalued over time, won't the "relationship" with one's own ego/self image will get devalued as well with continued use?

I hope there is some way to educate children and teens about the mental/social/behavioral implications of using social media -- or even different levels of involvement. but I don't know if that should be in school syllabus or the responsibility of the parents. perhaps both?

My post got longer than intended, sorry! I am very passionate about the subject
The Lightning Network is apparently live:

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/468

The title makes you less confident, the comment:

> At any given point, we may be sending an additional satoshi to miner's fees. This is a result of the internal usage of milli-satoshis and our policy of always rounding down (to go from mSAT -> SAT)

makes you deeply skeptical.
Without emotion, of course, Sappho would never have written her poems and we modern people would not be able to appreciate them.
Additionally, there are people who prefer "real sex" clips to scripted porn featuring professional porn stars.
I think I might have asked this before here: what are investments one can make to take advantage of climate change. So many people have their heads on the sand. That's usually a great opportunity to profit. Land and real estate in colder climates is a obvious one, but it's hard to spread your risk with that unless you have a ton of money and can buy in a variety of locals. What's the big short of climate change?

EDIT: Some more thoughts:

1. Shorting companies that primarily exist or do business in locations that will be super fucked by this. What's those? Saudi companies? Companies located in flat island states? Agriculture companies located in countries where agriculture will be impossible. Where would that be?

2. Buying stock of companies likely to profit. What would those be and how do I know they have a moat protecting them from companies that used to be in now uninhabitable areas from jumping into their market? E.g: If I invest in agricultural companies in Greenland, what protects them from being pushed out by Spanish agricultural companies that buy up land in Greenland? That would especially suck if I shorted the Spanish companies...
> For porn, on the other hand, that's not the case at all.

Oh, not really, you just never saw a more niche production. Well obviously priorities are still different, but its far from all porn being roughly the same, even within their categories.
anybody have some more detailed advice along these lines?
That exhaustingly (if not exhaustively) describes a number of important distinctions that never come up when some hapless commenter gets told off they're using quotes wrong. It's a Talmudic absurdity to apply to a message board. We don't have 70 comment threads about the proper use of "it's" vs "its", with MLA citations (which, it's worth recalling, "specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing")

It's just a dumb, arbitrary rule. It serves no purpose beyond facilitating righteous rebuke. You can make a better rule dealing with the underlying behaviour while oxygen deprived from screaming at dang about HN's political bias.
Well, Dokku [1] is already a good solution to the heroku cost problem. All the power and convenience of heroku commands with the freedom and low cost of docker deployment. It has lets-encrypt ssl support too!

[1] https://github.com/dokku/dokku
Caring about performance means weighing the decision carefully when choosing vendor libraries that fill up your payload. You can consciously care about performance but still be negligent to the things that affect it.

I see competent devs reach for libraries all the time when a simple solution already exists within the language. It's easy to feel like you're doing the right thing by not reinventing the wheel.

Areas I see this happening a lot in are anything dealing with file systems, HTTP request/responses, database connections, DOM/string manipulation/parsing/validation. The common theme among all these things is usually a lack of understanding of what the library/package does well enough to implement the specific use case needed.
> As one becomes more dependant on it for communicating, they can do worse and worse things and it'll be harder and harder to say no.

Yeah, that explains why younger generations care less about data privacy. Already the convenience is hard to beat.
So true. It is about solving problems with software, adding value to the project and just generally giving a crap about the work they do. The last is one of the hardest as so many people are what I refer to as "hack 'n slash" devs, with an attitude of "I just did what I was told....".