skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran into a situation the other day where the instructions for "Fuck this noise, I give up" didn't even work! Glad to hear others have found themselves in similar boats.
The wealthiest part of Austin, Westlake, barely 5 minutes from downtown, isn't even officially part of Austin.
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The lack of erasure is a huge usability win (types don’t disappear at run time), as well as a performance win (I’ve been able to do great things with C# generics + value types). I also like the way it naturally deals with static fields (useful for factory routines).
I believe MS has most of windows in a git mono-repo now, enabled by a custom git-supporting filesystem they've developed:

https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS

Pretty cool stuff. Doesn't seem to address the large-files case so much as the many-files case, though. I would love better git support for large files.
But they were relying on the algorithm to do those things.

You quit Facebook so you know what people say "I can't quit because my family is on there" or "I use it to keep in touch", I can relate to this because I quit it much longer ago.

People THINK Facebook is keeping them in touch with people. People THINK Facebook is a more efficient way of knowing what other people are doing. People THINK Facebook ensures they will occasionally reach out to people they thought they cared about.

This is a mistaken belief, and this person's PSA is making that more clear for people that need to know it.

Offer solutions to people instead of badgering them.
The Ruby job market outside of Rails is tiny, unfortunately. Most folks never bothered to look. DevOps and InfoSec folks tend to know better -- Chef, Puppet, Capistrano, Vagrant, Logstash, Metasploit, Homebrew, Sass... all written in Ruby)

All of my ETL pipelines are built in Ruby and I wouldn't have it another way. From a development, support and deployment persective, Jekyll is hands-down the best "web framework" I've ever worked with. If you need to build websites that don't need sessions/accounts, there isn't a better tool. NGINX's SSI module fills in some (tiny) gaps.

Ruby's a great language with a healthy set of tools. It's just not popular among people making CRUD apps right now.

To most folks though, unless they're already Ruby developers (AND not a Rails shop), Ruby and Rails might as well be the same thing.
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Before social media how long would it have taken to find out this loose of a connection had passed away? My guess is months to years if ever.
It's not that they use different frequencies (in a lot of places, they've actually recycled GSM frequencies for increased LTE bandwidth) but that they use a different form of modulation (than TDMA) that doesn't cause the same interference
I don't see how you figure. State and local governments can and do fail to provide services to neighborhoods or towns, and often the places they fail to serve tend to be poor and majority-minority. Or they could just systemically fail to pursue rapists if the victim fit certain criteria and easily achieve these numbers (the latter is what's suggested in the interview):

> Q: All the things you were talking about, the better tracking system, the new guidelines for when rape kits get tested ... in the National Institute of Justice report on the backlog (by Michigan State University Professor Rebecca Campbell), the big takeaway there was that too often, officers didn't believe victims, and had used disbelief as a way to triage their workload.

> A: They just closed cases, even cases where I think they believed the victim ... They closed cases because the women had worked as prostitutes or had mental illness issues or had substance abuse. Didn't believe them, didn't care, and this was one issue that led to the backlog of these kits.

> Q: That's something we look for in certain victims — when the victim is a teenage boy of color, or a woman who has been raped, we want them to be perfect. They can't have had a drink or have worked as a prostitute, and if they have, there's a mindset that makes them almost ineligible to be a victim.

> A: One of the reasons we have these untested rape kits ... and I can use Detroit as an example, 86% of our victims in these untested kits are people of color. You're not going to find too many blond-haired, blue eyed white women ... Because their kits are treated differently, their cases are solved. That's just the way it is in this country. If you're a person of color, if you're a different economic class, then your case across the board, across the board, not just sexual assault — they're treated differently. And that's just the truth. People may not want to admit it, but I've seen it throughout my career and I know it's true ... It's just true. ... Race is at the center of this in many ways as well, unfortunately, we know that across the criminal justice system. ...

> The training aspect is a huge aspect that can turn around this issue. If we cannot treat our sexual assault victims right, especially if justice has been denied to them for so many years, we certainly want to be able to treat our current survivors properly. As you well know, culture change is the hardest kind of change to make.
So does anyone have recommendations on how to improve brainwave coordination and reverse the symptoms indicated in the article? Any tips, techniques, practices, other than avoiding alcohol/caffeine?
This was my thought too. I use these nightly and sleep like a baby. I'd argue that it's also past the point of being a placebo, as I have done this for over a year and have only found a couple of tones that are actually effective. This is the current favorite:

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/isochronicBrainwaveGenerat...
But they were relying on the algorithm to do those things.

Which has to be the textbook definition of “not friendship.”
It might be useful, but I am finding it pretty hard to understand what it is from the landing page. I would suggest putting the message there clearer.
I think there is room for reasonable people to disagree reasonably about most issues. Flip that around?

Linux is a long way from being the buggiest OS kernel I've ever used, how about you? Perhaps they've found and fixed some bugs? Perhaps they've prevented some from being written? Perhaps their approach is something that can be disagreed with, even strongly so, on the grounds of being less than optimal without suggesting that it has zero merit and by extension its proponents are somehow to be considered with derision? The inference that anyone hacking any OS kernel is too stupid to understand a differing idea is probably not necessary and unlikely to be justified in my humble opinion. You may of course reasonably disagree and maybe one of us did understand something the other did not on the point? Anyway this is now dull.

But don't be less opinionated, that would be the wrong response!
While you're technically right :), it's pretty common for people to discover this the hard way.

It sounds like jacquesm's hit that point, unfortunately at a time critical spot. Probably won't happen twice though. :)

Thinking about this a bit more, it almost sounds like the Ubuntu supplied Firefox (in the base system) was updated to v57, and likely overwrote the /usr/bin/firefox link.

If that's the case, then the manually downloaded v52 ESR is probably still in /myhome/ff/firefox/firefox.

jacquesm, when you have time to check... see if you can launch the version in /myhome/ff/firefox/firefox directly (instead of using the /usr/bin/firefox link). It'd be interesting to see which version is in there. :)
I can’t imagine a group of people and less trust and want to manage my relationships at that level than the people who run Facebook. If I’m being honest I can’t think of a third-party I’d like to relegate that responsibility to, not that I think it should be relegated, it is after all central to the process of maintaining friendships. Maybe the “friendship“ people think they have online is something other than what is traditionally been thought of as friendship.
The author, Tim Wu, offers a fresh take on cryptocurrency. Valuations may look insanely bubbly, but there's a lot more to justify it than just blind mania or Ponzi fraud.

Tim coined the term "net neutrality" and helped educate the world about the hazards of centralized control.

Today we see increased centralization deployed against our interests. Governments and corporations have become unresponsive and are increasingly adversaries.

But the more they press their advantage, the greater the pushback by re-decentralizing the internet and institutions.

Don't let names like bitcoin and cryptocurrency hide the true nature of the decentralization revolution. It's about much more than coins and currency.

Maybe valuations have overshot, I don't know. The internet looked like a bubble in 1997, and we could be at a similar stage with decentralization today.
Correct, this is just an old urban legend

https://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/cleaner.asp
You can't set up a custom domain on Medium anymore. Before it was a manual process and a $75 fee for their trouble.
Governments and the mass media are so naive about crypto, it's actually cute. The game for money is up, read this:

"Fedcoin, by contrast, would be decentralized to various Federal Reserve banks. There would be central control over the money supply, just as we have today, but meanwhile, the technology would offer vast improvements in transaction efficiency."

lol, immediately the first thing they can think of is centralising it, not knowing, decentralisation is THE reason bitcoin will never be defeated.

It's the reason bunch of Vietnamese farmers won the war against a world superpower.

It's the reason termites can bring down large buildings.

It's the reason a cure for cancer has so far been illusive.
It's a really sweet piece of software, and I'm surprised it's not more popular. I'd be curious to hear how it ends up going for ya'll -- you can message me on twitter at @hazememry if you'd like.
I may seem naïve but I'm kind of constantly surprised that people take this attitude with open source. Nothing is stopping one of these people from building FF from source and having exact total control over how it behaves. Instead they farm that part out and then get upset when this group of people who have alleviated you of that work make a mistake? It's just extreme entitlement.
I agree but it's the market that's the issue, the government has little to do with it
One way to do this would be by applying electrical or magnetic pulses through the scalp.

:-)
https://www.investing.com/analysis/the-great-oil-swindle-200... for the non-paging article.
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Do you really need to ask? They did that, because that is what they sold for money to a client. The money made them stupid, short-sighted, and ultimately led to a bad judgement call.
True, but we're also comparing it against all BTC transactions.
But the `Set` was completely new. And things like union and intersection are basic features and without it the `Set` thing is almost useless, so it wouldn't make any sense to remove they in the future as much as it didn't make sense to not include them now.
I couldn't not read your post without hearing your every word dripping with seething anger and disappointment. While your post contains information that has lots of merit, I can't help but see the person that typed this reply as a Big Money VP or someone that's either lost a bunch of money "investing" in crypto, or really fucking pissed they didn't hold onto their Bitcoin. But just to preemptively defuse a reply, here's a funny story: I started mining Bitcoin really early, back when CPU mining was the only thing to do. I ended up selling them (a couple thousand) in January of 2012 to put the down payment on my car.
Victim-blaming is ugly, and doubly so when it involves such profound loss.

The text makes it quite clear she did her best to keep up: "Now, I'm a meticulous FB feed peruser. I always set it to Most Recent and browse until I see the stuff I saw last time. I keep up."

Facebook's whole value proposition is to make it easy to keep in touch with people. Here they clearly failed to live up to their promises. I'm glad you're happy with your choice not to use it, but that doesn't mean those who chose differently are assholes.
It seems like "a good friend is in serious health trouble" warrants top billing on any feed.

I have had a lot of online friends, though not through Facebook, which I mostly don't use. But I can agree with this logic. I would also be horrified to learn that an internet friend had died or had been hospitalized without me getting the memo, even though they posted about it.

I think this is a reasonable assertion, regardless of what people here think about whether or not this was a "real" friendship.
It doesn't collapse. Mining might become unprofitable for some miners. They will drop out and the difficulty will decrease. Other miners are still profitable. Once decreased they or other miners might become profitable and start mining thus increasing the difficulty.

It's an equilibrium.
But when you train a generation to delegate maintaining their relationships through the Facebook news feed, it stops being their fault.

When it becomes normal then everyone will trust the news feed, which I'm sure is what the dying man must have done. Had facebook not been there creating a false sense of connectedness, people would have known to reach out.
The number 42, any number of monty python jokes in unix utils, references to songs like that Abba joke that showed up in...what was that again?
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> Probably, but with primary goals of ad clicks, prolonged FB time on site, etc.

> Facebook's goals just don't align with visitor goals.

Well, obviously
I saw the Toblerone there and something clicked in my head. A friend brought back a large Toblerone from the UK (I live in Canada) and I noticed that there were rather large gaps between the peaks. The gaps between the peaks on a Toblerone sold here in Toronto are too small to fit a child's finger.
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lol I was almost 100% sure this wasn't true. Thanks for confirming.
Tweet # 6 in her 'Tweet Storm'

> So I flipped to his feed, and sure enough, there'd been a post in November about him being in the hospital. I was never shown this post.

How does she know that she was NEVER shown this post?

Isn't it possible that she didn't scroll all the way past a few 100 status updates, and the friend's hospitalization post was #101 in that scroll list, and she just didn't make it that far with her limited attention span?
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> due to the previous outrage with Pocket.

Which they still haven't fixed. That's still forced on everyone regardless. :(
Having interviewed people who worked at Facebook, I'm convinced that nobody there really understands how it works. (Or, at best, a very few people do.) There are just too many people running around trying relentlessly to improve micro-metrics by fractions of a percent for the system to have much in the way of intellectual coherence.
When you die, how effective are you going to be at telling everyone you consider your friends that you've passed on?

Do you have an email list right now that someone could use to share that news and hit 100% of your friends?

The nature of "Facebook friendship" as it pertains to real friendship is orthogonal and irrelevant to this question: in a world where genuine friendship spans continents and social circles, how do you notify everyone who cares that someone has died?
> curated communication system

yes. curated is the keyword.

fb used to be a legitimate communication system - you could write on walls, you could poke, you could do a lot of stuff with fb apps that solicits an immediate response.

fb today is not the fb of 2007. I know a lot of users grew up with fb but fb did not grow up with us.
Whose's account of their ussage history do you trust more? Facebook which performs record keeping in automated fashion, or this woman's?

I know too many people who think they are my friends because of a one-off message concerning travel on facebook.
>Is there a good reason why online discourse is still fragmented

Good reason? I don't know, probably only because no single platform has become ubiquitous. Of course, as soon as that happens we'll be seeing a lot of comments here about how it's terrible that online discourse is centralized and that people should abstain from using <platform>.

In thinking some more, I prefer to spend my time here as opposed to reddit because the level of discourse is just much higher. Can you imagine sifting through potentially _millions_ of comments, many of which are of youtube level quality? Maybe fragmentation is ok here.
> You create a centralized bureaucracy by hiring bureaucrats and giving them the final say.

Americans don't like doing that, especially conservative Americans for whom "centralized bureaucracy" is literally synonymous with Communism. In many states even judges and sheriffs are elected. My point is, if you want to shield the regulation from politics your best bet (although by no means guaranteed) is a framework that creates a private right of action.

> Similarly with zoning boards and the YIMBY suits

If zoning boards mechanically applied zoning ordinances like they're supposed to, things wouldn't be nearly as problematic as they are now. Ask any developer; they'd be thrilled if they only had to contend with the letter of the zoning ordinances.

FWIW, in the business world private rights of action are usually preferred over a centralized regulator, at least if they have to choose their poison. Centralized regulators usually _prohibit_ certain business practices prophylactically long before any substantial harm arises. Whereas with private rights of action you get to do whatever you want, whenever you want, until you _actually_ harm someone.

Historically this is one reason why some economists argue the United States and other Common Law jurisdictions that relied on civil actions were more innovative. Similarly, such jurisdictions were long considered more business friendly as regulatory policies were more predictable. A central regulator can decide to block your business on a whim, whereas with a civil action there has to be _actual_ harm as well as refusal to settle damages outside of court. Both can involve a lot of red tape and a long paper trail. The important distinctions are 1) whether the government steps in before or after substantial harm has occurred, and 2) how closely penalties reflect actual harm.

Moreover, the basic issue is how reliably you can price risk into your business plan. A business can reasonably plan expenses for civil suits. A regulator can shut you down, and all the money in the world won't stop it.

But other Common Law jurisdictions have slowly shifted enforcement to Continental-style centralized regulators. The U.S. has too, but it's been more chaotic, inconsistent, and (predictably) much more corrupted by politics. There are many reasons for this, but in any event there's no reason to think that Americans can do centralized bureaucracy any better than we do now. It's important to recognize and accept built-in political and societal constraints when engineering regulatory frameworks if you want to maximum benefit and minimize harm.
> Facebook's goals just don't align with visitor goals.

Or rather, Facebook's goals are (or should be) to balance optimally between visitors' goals, and advertisers' goals such that profit is sustainable. They need people to stay on and return to the site in order to bring in advertisers. They also need advertisers' ads to get clicked to remain attractive and profitable.
Before social media people religiously read the local obituaries column in the local newspaper and called their friends if someone they both knew had died.

Families would call all the close contacts and relatives to make sure that they knew.

For several years after my father died in 1985 people called our house to speak to him. Most were not close acquaintances but some were still pretty shocked to hear of his death.
Imagine you download an update for a video game. In the settings is a new oddly-labeled toggle that, when enabled, changes a few sprites as an homage to a popular celebrity.

This button was meant to be hidden by default, but was accidentally shown to 5% of their userbase. The developers later apologised that the wording spooked their customers, some of whom were aware that certain malicious game mods also gave opaque additions to the settings page, and removed the change thereafter.

Q: Do you boycott this company?
Why not just create a new branch instead of copying your project over to a new dir?
Sure, you can do that, but that’s not how the modern world works. And it can’t create enough debt.

For instance, if you borrow in USD,you generally have to put it somewhere (like a bank) who can loan it out again. How do you let two different people use a single bitcoin? You need to do that for Fractional-reserve banking.

I’d reference this as a longer example of what I’m talking about: http://thismatter.com/money/banking/money-supply-money-multi...
You can certainly use the tools for anything you like! We have been focused on working with newsrooms, where we feel we'll make the most impact. You can use the Ask tool to build a form, or Talk to power your comment space.

Once we reach better adoption, and we have seen quite the adoption (just today The Intercept launched[0]), we'll be able to focus on improving the landscape further.

[0]: https://theintercept.com/2017/12/18/comments-coral-project/
It isn't. It's much more graduated than that.

If we don't vary the amount of support people get, then we won't be able to take advantage of situations where more support (or less) would result in greater success.

And given that everything is constantly changing, there is no way to find a perfect level of opportunity to give to people.

So, a system that provides a varying level of support spread out against the population will do better nearly all of the time than one that provides an equal amount to everyone.
But he's not implying that about Pomodoro, he's saying working like that for 11 hours a day is a recipe for burnout. That can happen with or without Pomodoro, but if you're using it to reach that 11 hour goal you're probably going to induce burnout.
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The suggestion was not to shoot an email to a friend. It was for continuously maintaining "an address list in email".
I actually like hacknews' comment style the most, neat and simple, good enough for talks, no images and no videos etc too.

wish there are some light-weight forum code that is nodejs based, nodebb is a little heavy, and I don't really enjoy discourse's UI.
I'd believe that if they had competition. They just really don't. I think they've figured out they can gut visitor concerns.

Might change as their current demographic ages and dies off. Teens and college kids don't seem to care much about FB.
I agree with you to a point, but what I would say to you is this: even before we take outright racism into account, poverty is highly racialized (that is to say, you can guess a person's socioeconomic status with much better accuracy than chance with no other information than the person's race), and a stranger might take a black person for someone of lower socio-economic status even if he actually isn't such a person. Stories like Henry Louis Gates' arrest may get disproportionate attention (some of the uproar seemed to make an unseemly argument -- not that, in general, the police shouldn't arrest a man trying to enter his own home, but rather that a Harvard professor shouldn't be subject to that treatment), but they do illustrate this latter point.
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That's a pretty narrow world view you have then.
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