skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been the better part of a decade since they began this shift, but I think it was really during the election that they became prominent because they broke a handful of big stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed

> Originally known for online quizzes, "listicles", and pop culture articles, the company has grown into a global media and technology company providing coverage on a variety of topics including politics, DIY, animals and business.[7][8] In late 2011, Ben Smith of Politico was hired as editor-in-chief to expand the site into serious journalism, long-form journalism, and reportage.

[...]

> BuzzFeed News received a 2016 National Magazine Award in the category of Public Interest.[35] Other awards won by BuzzFeed journalists include a 2014 National Press Foundation award,[78] 2015 Sidney Award,[79] and 2017 British Journalism Award.[80] In 2017, BuzzFeed also won Webby Awards for Best News App and Best Interview/Talk Show (for Another Round),[81] president Greg Coleman was named Publishing Executive of the Year by Digiday,[82] and journalist Chris Hamby was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.[83] BuzzFeed is a member of the White House press corps.[84]

At a certain point you're just sticking your head in the sand.
Regulatory capture is a dominant force in western capitalism. To the extent that is “planning” the economy, the article could be talking about the US. We certainly have a more extensive surveillance apparatus.

From what I can tell China keeps most of its oppression inside its borders, at least compared to the US.

Look up forced labor in immigrant prisons, or the 1,000,000 current cholera cases in Yemen / estimated 7,000,000 victims of famine coming soon — the US is actively working to expand that humanitarian disaster as you read this.

Also there are 100,000’s of legal immigrants we’re planning to send back to failed economies and war zones. All of that is happening today. If you go back a decade for more context, you can add torturing civilians to death, establishing narco states, etc, etc.

I was going to add “funding terrorism” to my list of past events, but I just remembered we’re actually in the middle of active military strikes that are meant to help Al Qaeda ground forces.

All of these violations of basic human rights were very profitable to campaign donors.

To make it worse, from what I can tell, some members of our congress think it is appropriate to let the president replace the head of the FBI with a yes-man specifically to block an investigation into the president’s ties with organized crime and foreign powers. That will give him some degree of legal impunity, and also control of a massive domestic surveillance apparatus (much of which consists of commercial entities).

How did this happen? Trump hired a foreign-owned company (Cambridge Analytica) to use the tools of surveillance capitalism to squeak through the electoral college with a record-low percentage of the popular vote.

Sorry for the long-winded answer, but that roughly summarizes the state of survelliance capitalism in 2018, and what it has to do with the article.
I was given a report written in T-SQL that had multiple nested loops and a select statement inside the inner loop.

Rewriting it as one SQL query made it 4 orders of magnitude faster.
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Gerrymandering is arguably the principal corrosive agent in the gears of American democracy. It's in complete opposition to 'one person, one vote' as a foundational principle of electoral efficacy.

See [1] and [2]: in [2], about half-way through when the interview topic turns to gerrymandering.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-lea...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/02/08/584243140/with-closed-circuit...
Counterpoint, I wish there were more resources for new languages that assume you already know how to program.

Professional Javascript for Web Developers[1] is a favorite of mine, because it doesn't waste time teaching you to program and teaching you the language. Instead it points out things that will surprise you if you come from C-like languages, and things you need to watch out for.

Now, since I effectively learned to program in C and later C#/Java, ___ for node developers isn't what I'm after, especially if it spends a bunch of time talking about static typing or fixed size arrays and such. But if you're going the opposite way as I did, learning the high level and transitioning to the low level, something like that could be very useful indeed.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Ni...
Yes, I do live in a high density city, San Francisco, and before that I lived in NYC for 2 years.

Manhattan is absolutely not dense enough for me. It has like a couple small areas, with 40 story buildings.

The skyscrapers are not high enough for me.

Here is how things should work. We should pick a single 1 mile square area, and in this area there are zero building height limits. Every single building in this area should be 50 stories tall or higher.

And then we should leave the surrounding area, hundreds of square miles, for the low density people to live in.

Yes, high density buildings are more expensive. But the actual cost of building the building is a small percentage of the total cost of living in an area. The REAL cost is caused by artifical land supply constraints.

You want lower density? Don't want to live in the very small, designated 50 story building area? Great! You can live in the 99% of the US landmass that is low density.

Us people who disagree, and and prefer higher density living should get at least freaking 1% of the land to do what we want with!
Yet the factories it's operating have significantly higher rates of injury than even those workplaces.
It’s more of a multi-party Prisoner’s Dilemma - there is no way to enforce an embargo, significant penalties to an “old school” news organization not sharing all the information that the hungry can’t-afford-to-be-ethical outfits will likely publish, and vice versa.

An industry organization or regulatory body that could enforce adding language encouraging sensitive viewers to seek counseling may be the only sustainable band-aid here.
Am a researcher, and I love sci-hub. My institution doesn't have access to Elsevier journals (bless them!), so I happily sci-hub all of their articles.
Not tech related, but I had a history teacher in high school with a stammer. He lectured/led discussions even though he had a stammer and was probably the favorite teacher of students in the entire school. I think he may now be a head of a different school. I don't think his path was easy and I know he was discouraged from teaching early on, but a speech impediment shouldn't stop you from anything you want to do.

On a practical note, it's offen best to do the most painful things often. You may want to consider joining a local toastmasters club and doing talks once a month. One you're used to doing that, running meetings won't be so scary
The biggest difference I see: the author immediately reached for a framework instead of checking out the standard library.

In Node, the standard library is effectively non-existent, so Node devs get trained and acclimatised to dependencies.

In Golang, dependencies are minimised. Everyone tries to stick to the standard library as much as possible. Because the standard library is so good, for most projects this is perfectly reasonable.

I'd say the first thing every Node dev should know when learning Go is that they don't need a dependency manager. If you can't do it with the standard library then you're probably doing it wrong (at least until you've got some experience with the library).
Pitching ideas in freezing water: Finland's eccentric answer to Dragon's Den
Austin is also the home of Whole Foods HQ. The HQ store downtown has often been their pilot site.
But Tumbling isn't an inherent characteristic of Bitcoin and requires trusting a third party.
The ones I have interacted with were nothing like you say here. There was this one that came from another city one time that was probably like that, but he did not last long in this city. I suppose the environment they have to work in has various factors they may make more of them do certain things in certain ways? Or perhaps you just trying to infer some kind of thing from pop movie culture or something?

I hate to see others read something absolutist like that and assume it's true, or mostly true more often then not, which I don't believe is true, even if it is some times.

Unless of course you are talking about the reps from the big pharma companies - then I might side with it's more true then less true.

Isn't the gamification of feeds in fbook and instagram basically this - does that make the ux designers pimps and the machine learning systems that hook people on the drip content the dealers?

People would work their fingers to carpal tunnel for some wow gold not long ago and kids have died in bathtubs as hooked parents were glued to facebook.

It would appear the synthetic digital heroin is worse than the natural stuff and affects people in their homes more so than hotels.
Nature almost certainly took their top-line costs and divided by number of articles to get those values, which is obviously a ridiculous way to look at article costs.
I was completely unaware that he suffered from DLB. That is (oddly) kind of comforting.

Background:
His death occurred in the middle of an emotionally tumultuous time in my life wherein three close friends of mine also committed suicide, one in an alcohol-fueled depression, and the other two the result of chronic, long-term untreated depression. After that, I began to believe that there could be some subtle, insidious cause for the sudden rash of suicides (e.g. perhaps my generation’s excessive computer/tv/mobile use is having a suicidal-depression-inducing effect). So when I say “comforting”, I mean that it’s nice to see some evidence against that hypothesis
So I am trying to move away from NodeJs for my next project and I can't decide between Elixir and Go. Can't decide what to choose, any idea if there is any advantage for a noob to learn one or the other?
> I wonder if people who came to use computers in the last decade will experience the sort of enjoyment I got out of customizing the look and feel of applications

https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
Canada's immigration system works with points and education is worth a lot.

While statcan doesn't provide information on tuition, the immigration data shows that 66 000 or the 104 000 male immigrants were in the "economic" category in 2015.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/opendata-donneesouvertes/data/IRCC_FFPR...
> They are both equally money.

I think its actually "MB" you're talking about, not M1. M0 for coins + physical bills. "MB" would include Federal Reserve deposits. For whatever reason, its different than M1...

They are considered "equally money" because its "Equally trusted". Banks can turn Federal Reserve deposits into Cash, and vice versa. Your savings account, checking account, and so forth is similarly "equally money" because you trust the bank to give you the cash when you need it.

And once again: the Fed can't create M0. So that right there is a major disconnect between M0 and MB / Federal Reserve Deposits.

But Federal Reserve Deposits are not money. Like a savings account, it generates an interest rate. In effect, Federal Reserve Deposits are "like money" because everyone trusts them very much.

If the Federal Reserve plays too many games with its Federal Reserve Deposits, there may become a mismatch in the trust of MB and M0. A dangerous game for sure, so its a good thing that QE has stopped.

> The reason the Fed doesn't buy unlimited amounts of whatever it likes and grow its balance sheet forever is that this isn't consistent with its mission to fight inflation.

Bingo.

Because the Fed as an entity believes inflation should be at a certain level. Not too high, and not too low (aka: negative or deflation).

> The Fed never has to pay anything back because people are very happy when you pay them for stuff using U.S. dollars.

On the contrary. Inflation is precisely when people aren't happy for being paid in US dollars. Things cost 10% more because people trust the dollar 10% less.

If the Fed never pays anything back, inflation will grow (aka: people trust the dollar less and less). The reason why inflationary monetary policy was fine in 2011 through 2014 was because DEFLATION was the main worry.
Cheers for that!

> At a certain point you're just sticking your head in the sand.

To be honest, I don't think this is the case. Personally, I'm not actively going out of my way to avoid Buzzfeed articles - I genuinely just haven't looked at any in about that period of time. There possibly are other people like that.

As an aside, I don't personally have anything against the organization, it's just that their content hasn't really appealed to me in the past (especially so since I'm not in the US), so I haven't consumed it.
>That means that a lot of metadata is wrong or incomplete, and some books are uploaded in a dozen different versions and you don’t know which ones are high-quality and which ones are low-quality scans or outright corrupt files.

The rule of the thumb is to ignore the metadata and just look for the highest id number.
Those are nice analogies, but what is actually confusing about building gigantic data-mining and surveillance infrastructure, like working at FB and Google? At best it's used to manipulate and sell ads, at worst it gets turned over to the secret police.
Community. The Reason team focused on building it, and neatly embraced and nurtured BuckleScript in the process. It's a symbiotic relationship and the community has a reputation for being very newbie-friendly to boot.
Probably - interest rates rise a bit, the markets start going down rather than up, the pension funds end up needing topping up / bailing out. The economist Minsky had an interesting theory that in stable prosperous times people borrow to buy office blocks and the like until the degree of leverage makes the system unstable and it all goes wrong. Unless you have govt intervention to stop that which seems kind of absent in the west at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment
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How does Cognition get investment as a law firm? My understanding was that firms can't receive investment from or share profits with non-lawyers.

Or are they doing what Atrium is doing and really running two entities, a tech company and a law firm?
The only protectionism that I can see is the copyright system itself, which is the essential element that makes scientific journal articles "capital" and subject to capitalism. Cronyism is just a normal part of business deal-making.
Yeah, don't get me wrong. It's not like I check BuzzFeed every day or anything. I am just a little annoyed that someone posted this article, which is interesting and involved some real shoe leather, and almost every single comment is just "lol BuzzFeed."
We're building it, as the society. And we, too - or at least big part of us - want to stop it. Not only stop building it, but also stop that which we, other we, are building.

That's a multipronged task.
And which is becoming easier to create P2P distributed systems that could mesh together over prepaid and falsely registered connections.

Obviously this would require serious sophistication (not just anyone could string it together), but I think that anyone capable of being the first to build a serious threat with any of this technology will likely have funding and serious skills on tap.
If you have to use an internet provider that does not provide reasonably direct access to the internet, you should tunnel your traffic through the service that does (e.g. a VPN).

The idea that all internet sites have to compensate for the low quality of the last mile of some users simply does not make sense. If a site accepts sensitive input from the users than sure, it needs an authenticated and encrypted connection; but if it serves static content, it may hold the internet infrastructure and the receivers responsible for the correct delivery.
The academic publishing model, and academic research in general, will be dramatically different in 15 years, maybe fewer

In california, venture capital already funds more research than the NIH ($5B vs $1.5-2B). Much of this is one step later stage than academic research but increasingly they overlap directly. VC funding for life science research is skyrocketing, and NIH funding is declining. In January 2018 alone there was $1B invested in seed or series a biotech deals which is more than Stanford gets from the NIH in two years

The fact is that the publication bias is ruining scientific quality. Anywhere from 40-75% of academic science isn't reproducible, either because of chance, poor quality control / documentation, cherry picking data or outright fraud. The list of researchers and universities that VCs and pharma will work with is quite small, and many VCs are just funding the basic science themselves rather than invest in stuff that just doesn't work half the time https://lifescivc.com/2011/03/academic-bias-biotech-failures...

Young scientists are treated horribly by the academic world, with brilliant PhDs and postdocs with 15 years of research experience in top labs making barely minimum wage with no hope of tenure. Many universities make it very hard for students to explore non academic jobs because they realize they have the most highly educated captive workforce the world has ever seen

If a good alternative to working in academia opens up, things will change fast
IFTT, stitch and segment are some companies that try to solve this problem.
I'm not surprised if I get things wrong. But this is primarily a programming discussion forum. I'm certainly no economist, but I enjoy the discussion.

I do believe that the "Hacker News" ethos is to try and explain where I'm wrong in an attempt to elevate the conversation.
Yes, I also don't think that Uber/Lyft should necessarily be considered a means of primary employment.
Maybe Android Chrome could be worked on to not poop the bed quite so thoroughly when faced with a captive portal, then, if they're trying to get everybody onto https. Because the interaction between https, Android, and captive portals is just not a good scene.
I was just talking about this with a friend on the way home from work today. He mentioned an article[1] about how you could use makeup and weird hairstyles to confuse facial recognition AI and we joked about this becoming an actual near-future (cyberpunk!) style. I was wondering if there was some kind of device that could emit infrared light in all direction that would cause cameras only to see a bright reflection in place of your head but I don't know how actually feasible that is.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/makeu...
If it was just the occasional small site it would not be such a problem, but even iCloud (Apple) and Outlook (Microsoft) get it wrong with some regularity from hosts that check all the right boxes.
You have javascript disabled. I do not. I happen to use plenty of sites that require javascript, with HN being one of them. Most of the users out there do not have javascript disabled either. How do you account for their security?

> and I'm sure if your car's GPS indicated locations with high crime rates as "not safe" and prevented you from going there, there would be much outrage.

This is just a warning though, no one is preventing you from "going there", it's merely a warning that it might not be safe. Your analogy is more similar to "there's a slow down on that road, let me navigate you somewhere else, but feel free to go there if you want". You have exactly the same amount of freedom.

How exactly is using HTTPS "gain control over the masses"? Google does not control the HTTPS infrastructure.

It's not like those sites are gone either. There's always archive.org.
Not really, since the system has been set up with the journal articles designated as intellectual property, unauthorised access to that property is treated as theft, regardless who is doing it.
Tesla bad faith
you saved his life.

How were you supposed to know a tiered guy was at death’s door?

You got lucky, but in the end you did well.
I know it’s not a popular opinion with some, but all code looks like to me anymore is math with whatever symbols the language in question needs to work

For example:

(singleton)

(tu,ple)

def func1(singleton):

def func2(tu,ple):

^ python function declarations

So after 20 yrs of this, I try to keep in mind the math and just look up the bits to wrap it in.

Also, I avoid custom frameworks and all this industry react/angular, or whatever is cool like the plague, by avoiding front end for a while now

But I do consulting which affords me the luxury. Many may not have the flexibility.

I’ve a set of macros in vim to scaffold boiler plate and go from there

Boom, programming in any language
That video is very similar to the real life airdrop:

https://youtu.be/CGAk5gRD-t0
Interesting idea. What do you envision such a partnership would look like?

Here's how I think about this. OpenCollective solves the problem of accepting payments and allocating those payments to maintainers in a transparent way (Patreon does this too, to some extent).

`thanks`, on the other hand, just lets you know that a maintainer is asking for donations and directs you to their donation page which may be on OpenCollective. For example, these ones are: https://github.com/feross/thanks/blob/c203cc0248fe339e9ea4b8...

I suppose `thanks` could do more, e.g. accept payments directly from the command line, or ask how much you're willing to donate and then suggest an allocation to each maintainer/team. But I wanted the v1 of this product to be super simple. It merely raises awareness that you may have dependencies looking for donations, but doesn't prescribe how much to donate, which platform to donate on, or whether to donate at all.
Hoover could have, with some justification, claimed that the term "Hooverville" was unfair when the situation was hardly of his own making, and yet he got stuck with it. Ultimately the buck has to stop somewhere.
Captive portals have always been a hack. I'm sure there'd be some interim solution, even if it's just hardcoded captive.apple.com as an exception.
Eerily similar to Black Mirror season 3 episode 6 "Hated in the Nation"
I don't know what the status of ClojureScript Reframe is, but there is an unofficial, in-progress ReasomML binding to Expo. You can contribute to that if you want https://github.com/fxfactorial/bs-expo (note that @fxfactorial, i.e. Edgar, works at Expo but is writing the Reason binding unofficially–for now at least).

The ReasonReact binding is high-quality and provides a lot of power (state management, routing) right out of the box. You can get started with that right now if you wish.
The existence of vulnerabilities doesn’t negate the bullshit security theatre of certificate authorities.

Banning http is a great example of tossing the baby with the bathwater.

Https is better, but there are still valuable use cases for unencrypted web traffic.

I am sorry this bugs you, but please note that your straw man is not the argument I’d make. Sometimes you need a low hassle web server. Renewing let’s encrypt certs is not low hassle.
> Why would this author feel compelled to write an article about this if they're just learning?

Why wouldn't they? They specifically claim lack of expertise, and that sets the expectations for the reader.

The author is just telling their story about learning Go coming from javascript/nodejs. Whether or not you like the book doesn't mean it shouldn't have been written.
Another fun one that I'm definitely guilty of as a native Californian is "no yea" for "yes" and "yea no" for "no". I do it without thinking all the time and am always shocked that no one ever questions what I mean.
Maybe the vendor improved since then (it's still not very secure as others and Chrome pointed out), but I remembered that back last Aug I searched for "https" in the source code and that's not the case.