skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the comparison is tired. It's the psychology of of not using the product that interests me.

My internal dialogue, and I imagine others:

1. Oh--you are not just a casual user of Facebook?

2. Wow--you're fishing for compliments, and posing in every picture.

3. You're listing way too much information about yourself?

4. You have way too many friends.

5. You are not the person I thought. I don't want to know you, and I don't feel sorry for you in that he's/she's probally lonely, and has no self-esteem. You're coming across as just irritating/tedious. I better delete my account again. Will this time be the last?

(I do think the next big thing will be a site kinda like FB, but people will be given a percentage of the ad revenue. They will pose. They will brag. But they will justify, with "Oh--it pays me." And they will continue being irritating, but have a monetary reason to explain their posturing.)
I think there is definitely a potential for such a competition. And people, such as diaspora and mastodon lately, have attempted so but failed. I have put some thoughts into it, and I think the reason diaspora failed is because they focused too much on federation and technology. The core issue of Facebook isn't that it is not federated. It is that it is too greedy, no one trusts it. I'd think if someone like Jimmy Wales created a non-profit social network with clear ethical guidelines, I'd be very much interested to join and donate to.

Trying to make something decentralized for the crazy cost of deployment difficulties seems like one unworthy tradeoff.
I think that is true for most German speaking universities. I know for a fact that both Unis in Munich and Heidelberg basically teach PhD level courses in Undergrad in the sense that there is no Graduate Electrodynamics and Undergraduate Electrodynsmics just one experimental and one theoretical course in which Jackson is typically one of the references, the same is true for QM etc
Never heard of lobsters before. Thanks. I'm in the IRC channel hunting for an invite :)
> which is 73% owned by the French government.

As has been remarked, the long-term effect of privatisation in the UK has been that much of the economy is still government-owned. It's just not the UK government that owns it any more.
Certainly. Internet is just a means to an end, a product is successful if it solves the problem it intends to solve, with or without net.

A tangential question. What steps can an organisation take to assuage your worries about your data being mis-used?
or stockpile it
How to Use Machine Learning to Solve Personalized Recommendations in Go
I read that article back then, I just don't agree with it ^.

With the rise of self-driving cars, maps will become a non-issue. All the companies that nail self-driving cars, and there will be several, will over time have a maps that is better than Google's today.

^ I mean, I do agree it's a moat, it just had the unusual property that the path to bring it down is pretty clear.
Is Shopify hiring for PMs overseas? Please let me know your email address for product conversations
BTW why won't some business fairness commission attack Apple for using their cellphone market domination to thwart competition and promote other products of their own like iMusic (e.g. the way they did with Microsoft when MS started shipping Internet Explorer built in Windows systems)?
I moved my account to Ireland (in a somewhat improperly researched attempt to force them to delete my data due to Ireland’s data retention laws), waited a month or so then scripted deletion of all the images and posts on the account, changed all details and disconnected it from everyone and everything, then waited a week or so ‘deleted’ the account.

That was about 5 years ago (and it was a great life decision IMO) but - people say they still see me popping up on their feeds with my (fake) birthdate, memories (which I was untagged or had privacy settings disallowing me to be tagged in) and other weird things.

I’ve been careful not to mistakenly log in once which I fear my bring the account back from the dead and I’ve also kept an eye to make sure there’s no identity theft / fake account going on.

I don’t trust that company one bit, I’m glad I left but I don’t for one second believe my data’s actually been deleted.

While I truly hope something open source and decentralised gets momentum, I still truly love twitter - I get a lot out of it and I’ve met and networked with a lot of great people through Twitter.
Short answers (opinions):

No, it isn't necessary to state any of those.

No, I wouldn't say tech is beautiful for that reason. That reason would apply to anything anyone creates, which renders it a bit empty.

No, it probably isn't easier to get rid of <bad people> by ignoring the sex (/whatever) of a group. If you don't highlight "look at what women (/whoever) can do", you commonly get stuck with some people who think women can't produce good code, or aren't as good as men on the whole.

Yes, labeling does lead to divisions. I think it's a case of trying to solve "which is the lesser evil / most expedient/fairest route to equality?"
I read it a fair bit. Can you or anyone here invite me there? Been here for 10 years, largely reading/talking dev topics for the most part, but just never known anyone personally with an account there to get me in there. Thx =)
Wow, I feel like going back in time and reading this to a younger self. Excellent writeup.
Using Google and Facebook for your user's login is easy and safe. It's when programmers create there own login process where true problems arise.

Does anybody have any data on the percentage of users that refrain from using Google/Facebook and always create email accounts?
multiprocessing and threading pools

While certainly awesome, these are in python 2.7 as well. Although I don't remember if they where in 2.7 first of back-ported to 2.7 from 3.
I highly doubt that any of your friends use a player that can't play FLAC or ALAC - any decent player does these days.

And if you really need the occassional lossy copy it's trivial to quickly create one with XLD or similar tools.

I'm sorry if I sound more upset by this than I should be, but ripping an entire record collection is a time intensive task and you're cutting corners on an issue that doesn't save you any effort, but might actually cause more someday.
I enjoyed the first SimCity and I really enjoyed SimEarth. However, at some point I really stopped enjoying SimCity... and I'm not sure if it's that the game got more obsessively micro-managing or I just grew out of that style of game play entirely.
I really like this aspect of Apple Music, and I wish Spotify would do the same. I too have a lot of music which is not available in their catalogue, that I'd love to have available in the same cloud service that I use for the rest of my listening.

However, iTunes Match's file size/length limit (200mb/2 hours) means that I can't upload many of the DJ mixes I'd like to have in the cloud. That and the fact that I love Spotify's recommendations means that I end up using Spotify most of the time, but have all my mp3s uploaded to Google Play. Works OK, but I'd rather have them all in one place!
> Phase 3: Content-agnostic CSS components

Huh. As a mostly-backend dev reading this, it seems like both this and react.js are driving toward a philosophy where you consider the existing html elements to be a box of legos with certain default behaviour and then you can also use CSS and Javascript to manufacture other components that have different behaviour. Then, after building up the components you need, you snap together your layout from those components.
I have the same issue when trying to start the challenge:

>The login id and password combination is invalid. Please verify the credentials. If you have received the link to this test by an email, please open that link again from email to login into the test
> All it really takes is for a competitor to be actually superior on the merits

Yes, cause we all know that in tech, having a superior product guarantees success :)

On top of that, let's say you're right. The product has to be radically better, people won't move for 5-10-20% better.
Yes, he's a one person company (known as self-employed status in the UK).

Yeah, DPD could raise their requirements (or the government could force them to) but they would have to raise their prices, and capitalism says they mustn't do that.

In the UK we've decided nobody should have to choose between seeing a doctor and paying their rent, hence Statutory Sick Pay. An employer can't fine you for sickness. Unfortunately DPD found a way around it with some legal fiction.
This is one research grant on Rust among tons of grants on other projects. And it funds research. When somebody has equally valid research project on C, rest assured it’ll be funded as well, as it has already happened (EDIT) with research on abstract interpretation, separation logic and so on.
might be that the average hacker simply isn't interesting only in programming.
its the future in the same way that 'smart' watches were the future
This has been changed in Python 3.6 only, due to a change in dictionary implementation to make them more efficient. "Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger" [1] is a quite interesting and technical talk about these changes, explaining also the change in iteration order IIRC, worth a watch in my opinion!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8
The idea of someone like this being deported with the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen is sickening.
While it's not cheap I recently got a 1TB external SSD ( http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/po... ) in order to be able to take my whole lossless collection with me if I need to (in addition to the NAS at home). Admittedly, music doesn't need an SSD drive but I won't buy any spinning drives these days. Plus, this thing is incredibly small, robust, bus-powered and very performant. Great product.
Don't get me wrong - as I've stated elsewhere on here, I don't like Apple Music and it annoys me greatly.

But Apple Music is only usable with an optional subscription payment and can easily be uninstalled (pseudo-uninstalled) from an iPhone. It does integrate with Siri, which other music services cannot do, and it streams music on the Apple Watch, which other music services cannot (or will not) do. But it's not essential to the function of the phone. And the iPhone has a 30-40% market share or less on unit sales (depending on where you are).

MS was punished for including Internet Explorer for free and then tying it into the innards of the OS so it could not be removed. And Windows had an 80-90% market share at the time.
Another difference is that B can be a scalar in the statement A.dot(B), but not in A @ B
DPD has always been a private company.
Zcash has two types of accounts - t-accounts which are transparent accounts and z-accounts which are hidden. Most exchanges don't allow z-accounts so, all the money has to be sent to a t-account. This creates a linkability issues which has been discussed in this blog post:

http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactio...
Rust can be criticized (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305437), but flaws will be spotted.
I’ll concede nonsense on other topics might have more leeway.
> It's like they need something to believe in subconsciously even if their logical mind knows it's bullshit.

A simpler explanation is that they just love to gamble.

Essentially, they bet on ending up in a higher position of the pyramid.
From my point of view, we are still firmly in the "software crisis" era. We can build software with limited functionality in a reasonable time, but we are not able to grow it without hitting various kinds of complexity ceilings fairly quickly. Plenty of today's software development is just a succession of painful choices on what to leave behind in just another rewrite.

Formal verification is a way to go, but given how people struggle with application of the most elementary usages of types, I am not optimistic.
You're right that minivans aren't sexy. And that the Model X has significantly better aerodynamics than a X5 or a Q7. But it doesn't match the carrying capacity of either.

I mean, with a Q7 you can carry your three kids with just two seat rows, so you can still fit two strollers and enough luggage for a three week holiday in the trunk. With a Model X, not so much. And thanks to the fancy doors, forget about compensating with a roofbox.

It's more comparable to a BMW X4 or a Mercedes GLC Coupe. And even then, the Model X is almost 90 inches wide, same as a H1 Hummer, as opposed to 77 inches for the "bigger" Q7.
Except that does not necessarily work with non-string keys (it'd depend on version and implementation IIRC).

The expanded unpacking works in all cases.
Per the article, the individual couriers are the contractors. Hence Gig economy. I believe this would also be illegal in Germany at least.

Really, this is a solved problem. It's called employment and has a bunch of rules and regulations around it to mitigate the extreme power imbalance between the two parties involved (which is vastly lessened in the case of contracting programmers/in demand experts). Technology has given companies the ability to skirt these laws, the laws need to catch up. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/10/uber-lose...
He would been contracting as himself, either under a one-man company or just a sole trader.

Either way, DPD contractor agreements sound more like employee agreement. They just know the right to substituting (getting someone else to do the work without having to inform employer) is one of HMRC key checks for the contractor/employee relationship.
Back button doesn't work on the "How to play" page and there's no obvious way to close it (there should at least be a close button in the top right corner). I thought the "Resume" button would open your resumé so I didn't think of clicking on it at first.
HN suffers the same problems that almost all voting-to-rank-submissions based social media websites suffer.

Namely, because each user gets one vote, having 100 users want to give your post 1 point is more valuable than having 10 users want to give your post 10 points.

As long as you've got enough technical depth that people will give you 1 point, it's appealing to a broad audience, not catering better to a core audience, that will get you to the front page.

Hence, there's no room on the HN front page for an article that turns a 9/10 Whatever user into a 10/10 Whatever user - only for articles turning a non-user into a 2/10 user, with little to interest a 9/10 user.
> These kinds of coordinating, organizing, and choreographing tasks are more efficiently handled by machines than by humans.

That's an assumption they didn't fact check.

According to the terminal itself ECT Delta terminal in Rotterdam was the first automated terminal, see http://www.ect.nl/en/node/205 (in Dutch). This terminal was built in 1985. This terminal was always slower than any human operated terminal. They did invest into technological upgrades.

Since ECT Delta they also built newer terminals. Also for those the automation isn't just magically quicker, cheaper or has a higher availability than a human operated terminal. Another thing to be aware of is that one bug can stop the entire terminal. With humans they work around it (more flexible). Such problems have occurred often enough. Without even a bug, the Maersk cyber attack also had quite the impact.

For US, the main problem is unions. The way that unions operate in the US vs most countries in Europe is vastly different. Union in US seems to be about being powerful, not so much about doing what is right or makes sense. They have way more of an impact on any productivity than calls for automation.
Bishops don't have private planes. The catholic church has its own set of faults, and it is very rich. But they also have smart PR people, and a pope who doesn't like luxury, and they keep their bishops on a short leash.

Edit: I thought "bishop" was a specifically catholic title. It appears that some televangelists may have misappropriated not just the faith, but also the title.
And yet the costs of all of those pale in comparison to rents paid on the school building. In my area, at least, that's the line item that dominates.

That rent then usually gets pumped straight into the bottom line of some REIT or a millionaire's property portfolio.

Back when property taxes were higher, building rents were lower (because as you pointed out, supply usually meets demand) and those taxes helped pay for things like, well, childcare.... rather than yachts.

But sure, we have regulations that keep children safe too, and it's true that they impose a cost.
In the same way that architecture is more fun to talk about than bricklaying I imagine. One is open ended big picture stuff with interesting no real right answer, the other is the finer points of a specific implementation which depends on context.

Actual programming shop talk I normally reserve for work because it's going to be different for everyone and I want to think about fun stuff when I am not coding. It could still be about coding or what we can achieve with software, but the nitty gritty details of coding is just too context specific for general chatter and really works best between people working on similar projects.
Vino – a lightweight and efficient web server
Most useful advice for Angular developers (aka Why Google, why?)
This is enlightening. So you're telling me you can do

car, *cdr = some_list

(OMG I fired up the Python REPL and you totally can!)
Hackers aren't only interested in programming.
Verification of unsafe languages such as unsafe Rust (here), or C, PHP or assembly (in other research) tries to show if some particular program is correct or not — by exhibiting bugs, proving safety, or both. Tons of approaches exist.

But verification can be easier for higher-level languages.
I was actually making an open source sim city clone in JS myself a while ago. Didn't get this far at all, but I was mostly in it to test if I could get async updating from the simulation portion. Essentially doing threading in JS. Which I was somewhat successful in using Web Workers and shared buffer arrays, would be interested in helping with this project. Unfortunately in my research I didn't find any concrete documentation on how the simulation algorithm actually works, so I doubt this would end up a direct clone on SC2K.
There are other companies in the Delivery space, for instance The Royal Mail, also a privately owned company now.
Could you enlighten me on something? Do you know why the grading scale has more failing grades than passing?
I agree with those statements, it shouldn't matter.

> Wouldn't said patriarchal idiots [...] stop complaining about women or minorities being given a "special", "priviledged", "snowflake" status (and the job offers/funds that come with these?)

Statements like these drive me up the wall, though. It is no secret that [women in STEM have a 2:1 chance over a man to be hired](http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360) - just because of their gender. Call me a "patriarchal idiot", but that is some true privilege. So much for "equality"

Also, I can't help but think the Mods are pushing this story. 28 upvotes and front page. Give me a break.
Get started with purescript on nixos
Where the wall once stood
Does anyone know why the fat doesn't get broken down by bacteria; why doesn't it just rot away?
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I actually got 7/9th's of the way through doing this for the FMOD dependency of http://www.bay12games.com/ww1medic.

Specifically: http://web.archive.org/web/20070806010730/http://www.fmod.or...
It's 11/21.
Yeah, and Trump's immigration policies impact the mood and even composition of your team, so that's also programming related.
No, this is not expected. Sea level rise occurs because there is physically more water in the sea (both by weight and thermal expansion). Storms and wind can alter local sea level as well, as eg el Nino does in the Pacific, but not in Mediterranean dimensions.
Not yet. I only found out about it recently (in the last month) when they held a token giveaway.

So I have $5 of credit from that which will (according to them) be paid out to creators after a month. After that I will likely pay in to it because I want to support the ecosystem.
Although the reasons people join a religion may be similar, there is a qualitative difference between the spread of religions and pyramid schemes.

In a pyramid scheme, the participants are mostly busy recruiting new members, and the tangible benefits of membership are tied to the stream of recruits. Once that stream stops growing, people start dropping out and the same pyramid structure that accelerated the growth also leads to accelerated collapse.

Religions that have endured over generations have a very different balance of promises and recruitments. Instead of large immediate rewards that can't be kept up over the long term, they rely on hopes about the indefinite future (e.g. paradise) or benefits that are proportional to the size of the community, not it's growth over time (e.g. caring for their sick). Religions do rely on missionarizing to grow, but they can remain stable even without growth, and mostly propagate themselves by parents converting their children.
Just from this excerpt I'm going to take a guess that Mr Brooks conflates his opinion with facts quite often
REPL-Driven Development (2017)
By your logic facebook shouldn't be popular since it was too difficult to start.

The thing is, you absolutely 100% don't need a competitor to spring forth fully formed with 2.2 billion active users on day 1 as Athena leaping out of the head of Zeus. You just need enough of a community to exist for it to be viable on its own (and there are already many not-facebook killers who are at that level). What's missing right now is a compelling experience that fully competes with facebook. Everything else out there is either in a smaller niche such as instagram (which is owned by facebook) or snapchat or what-have-you or doesn't cover all of facebook's core featureset or is a worse experience or is run incompetently in some way (/cough/twitter/cough/).

The way that these switchovers happen is early adopters start doing lots of cool shit somewhere else and then a subset of people start following them there. You act like it's an onerous thing to do so, but this is meat and potatoes run of the mill shit for digital natives in the 21st century. Almost no one on planet Earth has a single social media account. If you have one you likely have several. Facebook, instagram, tumblr, twitter, snapchat, slack, discord, whatsapp, groupme, hangouts, AND SO ON. You will use whatever means is most convenient for keeping up with your friends, that's just the nature of life today. If your best friend starts using "something else" a lot then you are going to be incentivized to check it out. If you're young you are even more likely to invest the time and energy in exploring new platforms, if you're older it may take more effort but it's just a matter of how much. If some other platform is truly more compelling than facebook then people are going to engage with each other more there, which will encourage more people to check it out, more people to adopt it as one of their primary modes of keeping in touch, and a preference cascade to start.

What all this means is that facebook's marketshare of the social media landscape is actually surprisingly tenuous. A truly superior competitor could unravel their entire market in a single year, perhaps. That may be unlikely (it's hard to say without specific examples) but it's the sort of thing that is well within the realm of possibility.

Remember, people thought that myspace, blogger, flickr, etc. all had nearly unassailable locks on their respective marketshares too, but those crumbled almost overnight. Given that a lot of people use facebook right now who are nevertheless very dissatisfied with the experience of using facebook I think the situation is ripe for a turnover.