skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>, Facebook gets to monetise them, but they see none of that money.

But "Facebook gets to monetise them" because that's what FunnyOrDie signed up for. Let's emphasize that again:
FunnyOrDie already knew that was the bargain when they submitted their content to Facebook. They knew that Facebook does not have direct web links back to their own url: www.funnyordie.com.

Apparently, they were ok with those disadvantages because they hoped to build enough "brand awareness" or "content loyalty" from viewers that FunnyOrDie could transcend the Facebook platform and attract viewers on their own. But that didn't happen.

If the CEO knew the new rules of Facebook's walled garden around publishers and wasn't tricked at the time he put his content on Facebook, it seems intellectually dishonest to complain when the exposure on Facebook "also known as marketing" didn't lead to the results he wanted.

If indeed Facebook did trick the CEO, then he should write about that as a public service warning to all of us. That's newsworthy. On the other hand, if he tried to use Facebook as a strategic marketing tool and it didn't lead to increased views+revenue on his own website, that's really on him and not Facebook. I'd guess most of HN readers without having an MBA degree already know that submitting original content to Facebook is a lopsided business bargain with very little chance of upside.
What I really want is CEF in a C API. I know it exists, but the way Chromium dictates its usage on macOS makes it really limiting for FFI purposes.

UIs in OpenGL are a pita, and the best I've ever seen done that didn't involve HTML-like or HTML-based design was in VGUI. Attempting to build a modern UI kit for a basic game engine today easily results in producing a lump sum on the order of 10k SLOC just to add some critical functionality to your app/game.
Nothing new there, journalists thought for a century people paid for their content, but then they realized people just want to be entertained by whatever means, and the money they paid was for distribution (as the internet made distribution inexpensive, people no longer paid) [1]

Creating is easy, selling is hard. Facebook does the selling, FoD does the creating.

There are many basic insights people don't get and then get mad.

[1] Obvious exceptions good original content like Economist
1. In my research, raft followers would still be thinking for themselves. Each node could potentially become master, which would be fine in most cases, but I just want a dum stupid slave database to pull a read only copy. My concern is latency and load. I want to be able to predict hotspots. I don't want api-node-3 to become the leader for that site, I want db-1 and db-2 to be where everything happens.
I don't think so, this is basically a fluff piece about identity politics.

There isn't any mentioning of basic things like:

* salary/equity rationing policies

* work-life balance and when/where crunch time is necessary

* growth/expansion planning (ie: from whom are the ideas coming from, from where are quantitative traction measurements coming from) and investment expectations (eg: business connections, networking, etc)

* how management is handling product hiccups (eg: pivoting), turn-over (eg: burn-out/mental health), public image blunders (eg: Uber-level PR nightmares with massive loss of face)

* communication channels between executive/non-executive decision making groups (ie: company direction transparency)

* mentoring and on-boarding new team members

* company's relationship with the tech community (eg: open-source contributions, meet-up hosting)
Debian. It's probably because I've gotten used to it so much over the years, it feels like a familiar friend every time I boot a new server on it. Rarely an error or issue I haven't encountered before, it just feels good being able to manage a system without much worry.
Amazon Polly Plugin for WordPress
First, in practice, don't ever minimize the risks of an employee spilling secrets. Employees are a massive source of leaks. Some good research suggests that 60% of data breaches are caused by employees.

Maybe they're just being helpful, maybe they're outright malicious, or maybe they have no idea what they're doing, but insiders are always a massive source of breaches. Don't minimize that; accept it.

And second, I said "risk management". Risk management not only looks at probability of breach but at the probability of a judicial or (worse) a legislative response to the breach. If you rely upon security by obscurity, you have to assume that someday, you'll be deposed by an attorney who will want to find out how you protect those secrets.

That gets tough because protecting secrets is notoriously difficult, even for government organizations with massive budgets for employee screening and training. It's not impossible, but it's so difficult that you should assume that the probability of a secret remaining secret is close to zero.

And, this is where obscurity by obscurity get complicated. It's very hard to tell if a secret has leaked. So, when do you revoke a secret? There is always an organizational cost to changing a secret, yet there is potentially a massive organizational cost to holding onto a secret for too long. That looks too much like a coin toss to me and I don't like playing odds like that.

Instead, I like playing the odds by using trusted algorithms and protocols to protect secrets and backing those trusted algorithms and protocols up with some hardcore monitoring, solid policy and well drilled process.
Mars has sufficient atmosphere to burn that car into a crisp considering the speed it’s going at, it’s not like it will slow down and park it self in Martian orbit neither do most probes which is why they come with a heatshield so they won’t burn up during aerobraking.
> Now what does "data-licensing sales" means in this context?
User data?

It's likely their firehose feeds and things like that https://developer.twitter.com/en/enterprise
>I have often wondered why human colour vision is not evenly distributed across the spectrum of visible light.

Instances of color-blindness is different between men and women. One reason hypothesized why women have lower incidence, is spotting infection and discoloration in infants.
I always liked the story about the breaking of the 4 minute mile. It shows how easily our brains can box us in to particular views of reality, and how they act to further perpetuate this "reality". I bet that if a minute was, say, 65 seconds instead of 60, we still would have hit a "wall" trying to break the 4 minute mile.
Facebook moderator: I had to be prepared to see anything
For Windows dev, Visual Studio as the IDE, VSCode as the text editor, Powershell running within Cmder, and any required git extensions for running on the command line like Posh Git.

For Linux dev, I have Debian installed on a VM in VirtualBox, and this workflow works pretty nicely for me. It can be a pain in the ass to get the Guest Additions set up, but once you've got the hang of it for your system it's not so bad.

For Node, I tend to side more with Linux than Windows, purely because I use a Mac at work. Node and Python work great with Windows, but I can't say I've ever tried nvm in Windows, so it'll be down to your personal workflow and whether you can translate that over. For me, Python works just as well on Windows as it does on Linux.
And then there is the mantis shrimp with 12 different photoreceptors[0]

As for genetically engineering an extra cone, they did that with mice, mainly to address the chicken-and-egg question: if you get an extra cone, does the brain learn to see extra colours? It seems like it would[1].

What you propose would be almost impossible to test though. Sure, you can test for distinction quite easily, but measuring the cost/benefit of it in evolutionary terms is a lot harder. There is a trade-off to make here in what perception the eyes and brain are optimised for, perhaps other forms of perception will suffer to the point of it not being worth it.

Also, bad news regarding UV: our cones can perceive it, but our lens filters it out, suggesting it has too many disadvantages. The main reason is likely because UV light creates too much chromatic abberration in a single-lens system, making it hard for us to focus properly[2]. This is not a problem for the kind of vision required by a honey bee, but it would be for humans.

[0] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/411

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC208822/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
I get the impression my old subculture has more or less died. Goth doesn't seem to be much of a thing in the UK any more.
The annual festival at Whitby still happens, but I've rarely heard of any new music in the genre.

What's left of the music scene seems to have been subsumed into metal (which is fine, the metal crowd are decent people, if a little uncouth ;)

And those that really enjoyed the dress-up aspects of it have meandered into steampunk.
Assume data-licensing refers to selling access to the tweet firehose and things like their premium search API [1].

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2018/a...
I will still stay away from it
Expect it is access to tweet data via the API, e.g. social media listening tools that monitor for trends across Twitter and other platforms.
> and everything else (games, system programming, embedded programming with an OS, etc) has mature and better options available such as Rust, Go, Nim, and (particularly for gamedev) C#.

None of the options you mention, other than possibly Rust,is actually appropriate for game engines, systems programming, or embedded, due to the garbage collector. There are still plenty of good reasons to use C++, not just Qt.
I wonder if the premium tier of the API has contributed towards this?
Well, after giving it some thought, it seemed the author was trying to encourage awareness of emotional decision making.

Being too attached to a product that has no business model, for example, and deluding yourself into thinking "I just have to explain it the right way and people will love it!"
what if he is just switching because there is more in the other bowl?
Ask HN: I'm a CTO for a startup and want to protect my projects
I apologize for the throw away account created for this post, but anonymity is important to me.

I am a CTO for an emerging technology startup Company based in Brooklyn. We are growing and maturing as a Team. Our Product is stable and we continue to serve the Consumer and enterprise spaces. Our Company is starting to widen its scope on technologies used within our organization. The Company has started to use, invent, and work on technology that I care about outside of work. I am worried that my existing and new projects, open or closed, could be threatened if I don't protect myself. I have engaged our Company counsel to begin the process of amending my employment agreement to address this. However, I'm unsure what to explicitly call out to protect past projects as well as potential new ones.

How does one effectively and intelligently detail previous projects while specifying potential new ones as it relates to certain technologies in an employment agreement? For instance, if I were working on a database system off hours, research or applied, how do I protect myself if the Company decides to build database systems? In theory, my employment agreement with the Company says that work is now owned by the Company.

Basically, I am probing for advisement on how to proceed without wasting any individuals time involved in this process. I am looking for other technology leaders who have been in similar positions to give me guidance navigating this messy and sensitive situation.

Many Thanks,
While absolutely true, I think (from experience) that people underestimate both, how often you end up not being hired (even if you make it to the final round), and how being stuck back with the old company with this out in the open, is not a pleasant thing.

Not every company will blatantly call your former/current employer for a reference, there's procedures for that, and you can certainly control this a bit, as an applicant.

My suggestion would be to openly make this a topic of discussion with your potential new employer. Tell them that you'll have to manage the time as you're still employed and can't just run off during the day easily. They'll understand, even the big ones. I've been able to arrange all interviews at a time I found convenient, and that includes the big US tech giants.
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Don't Touch.
Don't Look.
Don't Think.
Don't Breathe.

That will keep you safe.
The traffic lights communicating with vehicles automated or not is sinister. That would get attacked ASAP, DoS or otherwise, and crashes would happen. A vending machine provides a keyboard interface for making selections. You can integrate NFC to it and require the payment in between the selection and dispensing. Allowing automated connections to public devices is not a useful idea.
The source code for Windows is available if you meet certain requirements: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
More like 0.01% decide to lock up 100% of their political opponents supporters.

The War on Drugs was started by Nixon to target hippies and blacks, those who supported his opponents. I can imagine a War on X being brewed up by either side to do the same if they have the means to automatically enforce it.
Twitter acquired a company called Gnip back in 2014[1]. This company built a SaaS business off licensing Twitter's firehose of tweets, in various forms, to various industries. For example, my company, which provides real-time web/content analytics to high-traffic websites, licenses Gnip's real-time API of tweets so that we can do analytics on those tweets and embed them inside our customer-facing products. That revenue ends up counted in Twitter's data licensing sales. Other popular use cases include PR media monitoring systems (e.g. Brandwatch), news alerting (e.g. Dataminr), and even finance (e.g. Bloomberg licenses Twitter data for its terminal[2]).

I wrote about that data licensing business here:

https://muckhacker.com/the-twitter-growth-conundrum-8339eda1...

Even though Twitter isn't growing DAUs quickly (and possibly will never do so), it is actually a pretty diversified business. It has a multi-hundred-million ARR SaaS business embedded inside a multi-hundred-million user consumer destination site, which primarily monetizes through a billion-dollar self-service advertising business.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/15/twitter-acquires-longtime-...

[2]: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2015/bloomberg-twi...
From a toxicity standpoint they are safer. Bismuth can be consumed in medicine (Pepto Bismol). I work in toxicology and we are worried about the "big four": lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic. These are from the Q3D guidelines on toxicity. Tungsten and Bismuth aren't on the list at all. Nickel is a unique concern, since it's so dang useful in metal alloys, and a high percentage of people have an allergic reaction to nickel particles.

Edit for a plug: Don't throw away NiCd batteries folks! Recycle them properly!

https://www.call2recycle.org/locator/
Simexa launches their online store for outdoor solar lights
Not even close. For instance check out password-store. It's a cli that uses gpg to store passwords. You can install an open source browser extension, but it only allows you to login easily and is manually triggered. It only connects to your local password-store.
That was wonderful, thank you. In my (very basic) mathematical travels, VI Arnold, like Conway and Thurston, is a name that keeps popping up everywhere.
> If you don't like facebook, don't use it. Not sure this is the answer. If enough people on fb created a group asking for a way to pay creative types, I imagine someone inside the place would notice it. That being said, my solution to the fb problem is to use it as little as possible.
i would imagine its possible to get a feel of what 30 seconds is without having to count a certain series of numbers. being shocked would probably force you to figure it out a lot quicker
Winter Games, on a 486, when I somehow managed to edit the high-scores with a hex editor and put my name on top. I started programming the next day and haven't stopped since.
No revenue was made from this blog.

That may be true, but the site owner certainly tried to make money from it - https://web.archive.org/web/20171225065956/http://afflante.c... - Note the Donate button and sidebar advert. This is from 6 weeks ago.

Do you resent Pinterest and Tumblr then as well?

Yes, although less so. Those sites at least have a valid use case as personal curation tools.
> that's what FunnyOrDie signed up for

The choice they had was "monetize your content on Facebook or watch other people monetize your content on Facebook".
SCO OSes are also backwards compatible to hell and back.
Why You Should Defer Side Effects Until the Last Possible Step
When I read the source and started on the comments, I thought: won't be long until someone drops in TCC. But yes, TCC does limit you in this regard a bit.
It also was a traditional flooring for workshops, because it tolerated heavy abuse.

More pics: https://www.google.de/search?q=stirnholzparkett&source=lnms&...
Ehm, that is simply a consequence of the Y chromosome missing the genes for color vision, no? Or are you saying that this might be why those genes "fell off the cart" in the evolution of the Y chromosome?
Well if you really want to split hairs, diamonds can have impurities that can cause different colors (like the blue Hope Diamond)
My Relationship Status Expressed Through My Twitter
Why emotion driven debate on social media is almost always pointless
They're both (arguably) existential threats. It's just that only one of them can be (and is--constantly) publicly acknowledged, while the other, apparently, can't be.

Quoting John Derbyshire on the graph from the first link:

> That graph—the world’s most important graph—looms over the 21st century like a monstrous great crow. Yet we can’t talk about it. Or rather, I can, and Mark can; but no-one with much more of a profile than us, can.

> Why not? Do you need to ask? That line shooting up on the graph represents Africa—black people (mostly), and a high proportion of them Muslims. The other line, the one plodding along horizontally, represents Europe—white people (mostly), and a very high proportion not Muslims.

> In the state ideologies of the Western world, black people are sacred objects to whom whites must defer, Muslims only slightly less so. Nothing negative may be said about these peoples, nor even hinted.
Defense Contractors Targeted with Phishing Attacks
Ah, thank you. You guessed correctly that I misunderstood to which the percentages applied (although I blame the phrasing of the article)
Oh no, they slightly miscalculated their initial estimate of the result of their depletion burn!
ive been in for some time, wish i bought more during the 50% off sale
When mentioning C# "for gamedev", OP was probably talking about games business logic. The Unity core engine may be C++ (and assembly and shaders), but many Unity users / developers seem to do well with C# game logic / scripting.

EDIT question to Unity devs more experienced than I am: how frequent is it to "escape hatch" from C# to C++ game logic, in your experience? In what kind of game?
Show HN: Schedule pickup games, meet and play with new people
Generally speaking, no. She learned very quickly how it works and knows that when the collar is on, she shouldn't bark (more than once). She only wears the collars in situations where barking is not helpful. She is free to bark at intruders and when she's playing with other dogs.
Hey, some of us are still fuming about brushes. The couple of days after a bonspiel used to hurt.
Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16318677 (yesterday)
If you're up for an experiment, it may make sense to use books "as an experimental object" to learn. Head to a library, or book store. Pick an isle. Imagine someone hands you $30 and says "PICK A BOOK NOW! 5...4...3.." and you grab the first book you notice. Inspect it, why did it grab your attention? Color design? How does it compare to other books? Was it good placement? Font?

Then pick a few books on the same topic. Say, a travel guide for Tokyo. Compare five or so, you'll quickly have one or two favorites. Why? Font? Layout? Clarity? Make notes.

Similar things work for dairy products, or looking up dentist websites.

Sorry for this being a bit out of the box, but having written a book and going through this very exercise did remind me a lot of UI/UX.

I think there's a lot of value in books, and also UI/UX topics covered in books — but eventually you'll have to find your own interpretation and understanding of things, and it may be a better learning experience to compare and investigate on your own and then line up anything you've learned with the great book recommendations this thread will very likely bring up, hopefully.
Of course it exists, I am conscious right now and I presume you are, too. But where are our experiences located? Clearly nowhere in the physical universe. It's a really simple thing to grasp if you're not a dogmatic Materialist.
> may be applied to Democrats, or the young (who disproportionally vote against Republicans).

That doesn't make any sense! To affect elections, you'd need a really huge number of prisoners. Moreover, you'd need to deny prisoners the right to vote. Wait ...
Probably the First Open-Source T-Shirts in the World
https://teonite.com/blog/probably-worlds-first-open-source-t-shirts/

I would like to show you our open-source t-shirts.
Constellations motif is based on popular programming languages like Python, ReactJS, AngularJS, Docker or HTML etc.
Nothing stops you from totally reworking it. Any person and any company can create their own “universe” with the use of our or their own constellations
Ask HN: What could go wrong with a Marketplace built on DAT
See https://datproject.org/ if you're unfamiliar :]
https://teonite.com/blog/probably-worlds-first-open-source-t...
"Man of Crushed Wood" doesn't have the same ring though.
Elasticsearch will include SQL
As a herding breed, she feels the need to control situations, often circling other dogs or children or taking away toys she deems dangerous (e.g. sticks, squirt guns). When the collar is on she immediately relaxes because she has effectively been relieved of duty.
Hijacking your post to add link to the repo that's not DMCAd https://0xacab.org/sizeofcat/iBoot/
I agree with you. But I also think you're sacrificing clarity over brevity yourself by not expanding "pre-optimization" into "premature optimization" ;)