skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you lay the baby on its front or back when you put it to bed?
The 1283 day GitHub streak of Yuji Yaginuma
FB have taken out huge newspaper and billboard ads in Belgium, pretending to care about your privacy. They're trying to divert attention from their real privacy issues, by saying "you can choose who can see your stuff".
Built on the dat project https://datproject.org/ - my little finger tells me dat will take bittorrent's P2P place in the not too distant future.
But ipfs is charging forward. Very often the technology that gets adopted is not perfect, but succeeded because it attracted more support than any other one.

And web decentralization is not going to have any real impact unless there is a standard set of technologies that can be the basis for all the main use-cases, and that the average, computer-illiterate user can adopt by clicking a link or two, or better yet comes built into their browser. IPFS is much further along here than anyone else, so it seems like the Solid people should be looking at integrating with it, if that is technologically possible.
Kinda suprised when I see title like that on HN that not so many people are talking about Crystal https://crystal-lang.org. Basically Ruby with C performances.

So far I’ve been more convinced by Crystal than Elixir as the next language for a Ruby developer.
I'd guess that 500-700 million people in the world from $50k+ GDP/capita countries are actually a lot more valuable for advertisers than the billions from $5k GDP/capita countries. Africa/India/Asia may indeed be driving growth but not all users are equally valuable to Facebook
I do not think usenet and newsgroups are a good indicator, by the 90s - especially mid to late 90s - when the floodgates to commercial internet fully opened together with the fast rise of the web, people spent more time in forums, chatrooms, etc than usenet which had more of a 80s "small community" background (where people felt more comfortable using their real names - most likely they already knew each other IRL considering they were usually from the same or nearby University or organization). When it came to forums, chatrooms, etc everyone used nicknames and even people who used both forums and usenet often used nicknames on the usenet than the other way around. Personally i remember reading back in 2000 or so that it is considered a good practice to use your real name in newsgroups (showing the real name bias it had) so that people "take you seriously" and thinking that it was a bad idea (and not commenting anywhere because i felt very uncomfortable with using my real name online - sadly this eroded over time, although the last few years i am sometimes concerned about it, but i think it is too late now and anyone can find who i am with a single google search).

But regardless, even if people in the 90s weren't more privacy minded (which really REALLY goes against my experience with any community i either was aware of - and i use the net since 1993), this doesn't really change my opinion that people should not use their real names online and instead they should limit themselves to latin, letters and a few symbols that cannot be forged.
If you assume that hybrids and plug-ins can succeed on their own merits, how is this legislating yourself back to the past?
I learned about guacamole about a year ago from HN and it is amazingly useful software. I use it as a way to have a cloud desktop on a linode instance. I've heard some great use cases, such as people using it to serve up legacy software as a simple web app. Awesome stuff!
Because "ài" means "love" in Mandarin — ài drives our work. Also, .com and most other recognizable TLDs were taken.
Why do you think it’s recent? There have been plenty of cases of SV companies being fined in EU courts.

30 seconds of googling got me this WSJ article from 2015

https://outline.com/dvU9St
OP here. So it’s okay to keep the license in source only right? Do I need to attribute on the site too?
In the US, Acela is more competitive with air travel between its major stops. But it's definitely priced for business travel. It's about 2x the price of the regular regional train but is usually less than an hour faster and, while the cars are nicer, they aren't that much nicer. When I'm traveling on my own dime, I usually find it hard to justify spending $100 to save an hour or less.
The typical advice for the beginning of a market downturn is to buy bonds, which usually act as a safe haven from those fleeing stocks (perhaps untrue currently though). Alternatively, some propose purchasing blue chip dividend yielding stocks, as money moves from risky stocks to tried and true ones.

During a recession/large market correction, you're looking to hold all cash and just buy stocks cheap after they drop all the way to their lowest point (think Ford or AIG in 2008).

The problem with these strategies is that market events usually occur over sufficiently long time frames to obscure their size and direction. Looking back at 2007/2008, Lehman was the obvious "moment" but the market and economy didn't nose-dive instantly to their nadir on the collapse of Lehman Bros. It feels like there was a "moment", but it was only obvious in hindsight.
So essentially string interning for Ruby?
> Few people have activated a skill or ordered something.

As far as I know, I cannot enable a skill on my echo dot itself. I have to do it through the app. This is friction that I don't need to tell you is bad for engagement. I wager Amazon's first mover advantage is very much over stated.
To be fair I'm not sure whether the quoted sentence is saying fathers, or the books targeted at them, should be given no attention. I read it as referring to the books; otherwise it's a really weird circumlocution.
I can't believe they started out the article with someone who had only been doing it since 1969! That was laughable. Programming wasn't popular back then, but it was common enough that many from that era can still be assumed to be alive. And if you were interested enough to get involved that early, there's a good chance you're still practicing.
Last time I tried `perf trace` I realized how many things strace does that I take for granted. Things like file handle to filename resolution and pretty printing read() and write() buffers.

Do newer versions of `perf trace` expose these?
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author here. You’ve hit the nail on the head.

We actually have soft delete in Kwoosh. We’re using Django on the backend. The way we went about implementing it was with a flag on our core data-type (Apps, Screens, Discussions, Tasks etc... all share a common parent class). Then we used an custom Manager class (Django’s name for the bit that lets you set default filters for models) that sets the default filter to only show active items.

If we want to query all objects including archived items (like for viewing them as read-only) we just change our code from Task.objects.filter() to Task.all_objects.filter().

We also have another flag for controlling visibility directly. This makes it manageable to remove a parent task, hide the children tasks, and restore into the expected states.

I should write a more in depth post on this for workshop. Maybe someone would find it helpful.
He said if the user didn't use factories for test data, it would be a huge red flag.

According to him, if I didn't setup a factory, when doing a take home assignment, then I'm not competent to write unit tests. I disagree.

So many people interview poorly. It's gotten worse every time I read about it. They're pushing away talent that way. I know people are stuck in their ways, but it's a bad idea unless you are are just looking for juniors and people desperate enough to go through that. I'm neither.

I mean don't people realize it's a seller's market?
The societal contribution is also present "in the air" for everyone, but only one artist ever makes a particular work. That would suggest that the key contribution comes from the artist, not from society.
This isn't a new phenomenon. Europe levied enormous fines on Intel, Microsoft, and Facebook before Trump even became president.
Train-nerd response: "Can This European High-Speed Train..." with a picture of the old-model Eurostars that weren't suitable for running to Amsterdam. There's a gallery of what the new one looks like on https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/eurostar-e320-the-new... .
> 1., If you store data of EU residents, you are under EU jurisdiction (GDPR) and can be targeted by fines.

Anyone can claim jurisdiction. Enforcement is another matter entirely. If there is no presence in Europe, I can't imagine how the they would collect.
Infants get it through formula and breast milk, the mother gets the folic acid via grains.

Outside of some edge cases vitamin supplements aren't really needed just talk to your doctor.
It's only a issue when there aren't laws preventing ISP's from handing over your information without a court order along with sane limits on how much a copyright holder can go after you for.
The last line from his CV is a gem:

"Two years experience in swing dancing (east coast swing and lindy hop)."
10,000 (mostly SPAM) delivery attempts per day, since I used to run an early UK ISP and was on the very first SPAMmer lists...

~100/d make it to my mail client, of which most are SPAM still.

Maybe between 10 and 30 real emails per day, ie 'ham'.

Rgds

Damon
Agreed. We don’t wait for a bomb to go off before arresting a terrorist. We arrest them for having the bomb.

Equifax, TransUnion and the others are clearly bombs waiting to explode.

Arrest the bastards and shut them down before they go off!
This is my startup, it is focused on stock trading robots....
social media website today I'd probably not set up any presence in the EU

Social media is a psychological weapon that can disrupt a society to the point at which it can no longer function. Look at Libya or Syria. Look at how fractured the US is. If you want to point it at someone else, that would be nice.
Amazon might have been the first to launch a dedicated device that can do voice search but Google was doing it(on Android) before such a device was launched by amazon.
Well, not really :) But it is definitely inspired by crontab.guru
Yes, the only age requirement is being at least 18.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq
That's pretty terrible because their retail site still needs a lot of work. Sort by stars has always been broken and the problems with counterfeit products and fake reviews needs to be dealt with.
Yeah, I don't think Trump had anything to do with Microsoft's IE and WMP judgements, or the Google right to be forgotten thing in France. The EU has always taken a strong stance of corporate overreach.
"Your ignorance within the space shows with some of your suggested 'solutions.'"

When I was growing up in a poor, semi-rural community in Colorado, my father drove a four hour round-trip every day to his job in Denver. I know of other people in my peer generation (late generation x) whose parents made similar decisions and sacrifices (second jobs, starter homes, relocation) that are now considered unthinkable and evidence of a crisis.

I reject that line of thought.
Apple overtakes ASUS and becomes the fourth laptop vendor in the world
Probably meaningless at this point. The market is moving toward electrics/hybrids and I don't think cutting back on the regs will change that at this point, particularly given that California will maintain its own standards (along with other progressive states, most likely).
Whoops! Forgot you're sharing the load with dang now. Thanks!
Well, better just not try then, staying competitive is just too damn hard, where is the easy option? Oh, I see, bribe politicians.

Gotta keep giving those fat shareholder bonuses though.
If you know the exact skill, you can just say “Enable Jeopardy skill”.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
I have a relative who organizes WWE-style wrestling events. He started doing it while working on a Ph.D. in philosophy. Now that he's finished the degree, I'm pretty sure he's doing wrestling promotion full time. I asked him once if wrestling was connected to his dissertation. I didn't really understand his answer, but it has something to do with how we construct our identities. Who decides if you're a face or a heel?
What $349 speaker will beat the HomePod and provide the same features? Omnidirectionality and built-in AirPlay have to be considered. The HomePod is a single speaker that can fill a room with no additional amp, receiver or subwoofer.

Comparing the HomePod to a class A amplifier is nonsensical. Nobody is pretending it's competing with that segment.
I think the argument is about whether someone has the freedom not to have their info on the site. It’s well known that FB has shadow profiles with no active accounts. You’re on there whether you like it or not.
No, I wouldn’t perform that calculation exactly and explicitly - but I absolutely think about my purchasing decisions in that way. I can give you ballpark estimates of how valuable my time is, how much time it takes and how much it costs to physically go to the grocery store, etc., and give you a ballpark breakeven point. I’d probably pay $20 for a grocery delivery, but I probably wouldn’t pay $50. But I have no idea where the all-in cost of the service actually falls, so I can’t compare. And I do hold other products and services to that same standard - for example, I regularly compare prices between retailers, except for trivial purchases for which comparison shopping isn’t likely to be worth my time.

As for the source of the markups, that really doesn’t matter to me. I care about the total difference in cost between using Instacart and going to the grocery store myself, irrespective of who that additional money goes to.
The fewer of these surveillance economy businesses we have here, the better. So as a EU citizen, I see these laws working in my favour.
It looks as if the system is working as intended.
Let's Ban Porn
For a day or weekend trip to Amsterdam without hold luggage, 60 or even 45 minutes in advance is plenty (whereas, contra the article, 30 minutes before a Eurostar departure is not enough in standard class), and Schiphol airport is very organized and only a 20 minute train ride from central Amsterdam.
Yes, unfortunately, in the case of FB there is.
"1) Amazon and Whole Foods: Are they not a concern?"

I'm guessing this raised happened because of Amazon/Whole Foods [1]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2017/11/08/instacart-...
Orbit will publish original Culture drawings from the Estate of Iain Banks
The people I want to talk to will probably follow, or can text me.
Addressing your point #1, the EU has no enforcement mechanism for fines or otherwise unless you have physical presence (servers, offices etc...) in an EU member nation or are processing money on EU run systems.

So if a social media platform strictly based outside of the EU "exports PII" from an EU resident there isn't anything the EU can do about it, other than asking google or apple to take their app off the app store or somehow blocking the domain across the EU.
This project is based on guac too. I LOVED guacamole. One thing I didn’t like was the client dependency on Java and Tomcat. So I wrote a client myself and made some improvements in websocket protocol. It’s still a wip.
My problem is that I share certain things with friends from college, certain things with my parents, certain things with coworkers. When my friends list contained all of the above and there was no intuitive way to separate what I share to them, I stopped posting.
> I do tech DD for a living and from my own experience it is very hard to fudge the record for someone who deals with this kind of thing regularly.

I assume it would be hard to pre-redact documents to hide your omissions. Outright omission of documents from a dump would be harder to detect in my view. But I must admit I'm ignorant of the techniques available.

> I though I had covered any fears about source exposure and being believable with my two suggestions for who could do this.

Partly. In my view it's up to the sources to decide who gets to see the original dump. They chose Wikileaks. Maybe they did so for reasons we'd judge nefarious but we are not free to assume they'd agree with sharing the originals more widely.

> Openleaks and the Intercept come to mind.

Did they get dumps Wikileaks had published before? Where the version published by Wikileaks turned out to have been selectively redacted for political reasons?
You can stop using Facebook if you want to
My tv can do this. And I think my Apple TV can also.
It does and it will be an interesting time ahead. I don't think 2018 will see any enforcement, maybe a couple of warnings but nothing major. But I fully expect some large company to be thrown the book at in 2019 and it would be lovely to see FB as the one they will make an example out of.
Here is a list of countries with the most Facebook users: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...

The first EU country is #10, and it won't even be an EU country in a few years.

I think Facebook would survive leaving the EU market just fine. I'm sure they really, really don't want to, but they could.

Edit: updated link
We have the answer - no, nothing's flawed, there's a huge demand.
If you're large enough to be noticed and fined, you've probably got a corporate presence in EU; if only for the tax benefits.

I've worked with companies as small as 200 people who have a presence in the EU.
Another way to look at it is that some US tech companies think they can treat laws as an inconvenience to brush aside. In the USA corporate capture of regulators and political lobbying have reached the levels whereby they are unable to tackle these behemoths, however the EU is still operating as an efficient law enforcer? And maybe the EU does lack an illegal data collecting advertiser disguised as address book, but that is not the only kind of technical innovation possible.
Also, a lot of the people who were willing to relocate to Seattle are reluctant to stay after years of worsening ostracization and seething resentment.
My parents are dead, you insensitive clod.
https://medium.com/topic/digital-design

https://medium.muz.li/
Facebook's algorithm almost seems like a quintessential example of why you need to choose good metrics in optimization problems.

IMHO Facebook gave the golden goose (algo) enough feed to gorge itself on and now it is unhealthy and only lays rusty iron eggs.

Yes, they optimized for engagement, and it destroyed the platform. This is like a parable or something. Truly.

In business school 10 years from now I fully expect people to write case studies on the business effects of algo optimization and local minima, etc, etc...
It's true, the reasoning (e.g. no EU firms to fine / corruption / market protection) is unclear.
You can hide from your your boss, your wife, or even your mother, but you can’t hide from Facebook.
Facebook is used differently outside the US.

When I worked at a telco in Afghanistan in 2014, Facebook was basically its own utility - SMBs and individuals used Facebook (and their precious cellular data) almost exclusively to message each other and conduct business. So much so that the most popular consumer/retail plans for Afghans were "Facebook usage plans" giving you X amount of data per month to be spent exclusively on Facebook. Amazon/google have little to no power over there, facebook has a ton. Ditto whatsapp.

I think you'll find this is true for almost any country where social ties are stronger than the US, and biz is newer, or built around mobile/face-to-face transactions - fbook is much more important than it is here as a photo feed and news consumption hangout.

That said I agree for the US case and deleted my facebook ~2 years ago :)
Shout out to Kirk McKusick[0], of BSD at Berkeley. Still writing code for the FreeBSD project to this day. He's "only" in his 60s, though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_McKusick
Ah, I didn't see that when I read it. That's good!
Even Apple can't be bothered to make quality Mac apps for all their software. There is no News app for the Mac, nor a homekit app. And the Mac App Store doesn't feel like a native app to me.

However, it doesn't really bother me. I'm extremely happy using macOS. Hardware is excellent as well. Companies hawking their wares without decent client apps, like Slack, don't get my sympathy. I'll use it when I must, and the minute that need drops away, then it's gone from my system.
Argument is that you're creating an artificial market in the US that does not select against fuel inefficient vehicles. This creates a market in the US where car companies who do not push fuel innovation can compete in, but these companies would not be able to sell their cars elsewhere. I believe the argument of the GP is that, this is simply regulatory capture.
To some extent you'd be penalizing people for success.

"Your project blew up, pay us thousands of dollars" is a non-starter for a lot of places, and optimizing around small consumers isn't generally to a business's interest here.
Intercept Bitcoin by hijacking gravatar.com sessions (2017)
I think it shows that the EU actually cares about their citizens.
I'd like to posit an alternative argument. That the increase in business was more due to demographic shifts than to the "lipstick effect". Around 2007 the entire generation of millennials was finally of age to go out and spend money eating. This is the largest demographic group of Americans. Even if people 16-30 were spending less money per person eating out, the volume of individuals spending money on eating out was sufficiently high to increase business.
You can stop Facebook from using you as well in the EU.
is this single threaded? single client?
I am learning Japanese. Ever since d-addict took down their torrent section. It was almost to impossible to find quality content with Japanese subtitles. I now rely on Netflix Japan, but the content is still very limited.
Right, but were their efforts successful? That's the main difference here, bringing a new product to market successfully.

Long before voice assistants/search became a thing with smart phones there was Google 411 ... which no one remembers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
If you volunteer your data to Facebook I have a hard time considering you to have been “exploited.”
Google did not buy Danger. They bought Android which was started by ex Danger founder Andy Rubin.
Microsoft bought Danger and released an awful device after doing so. I had to add that last bit.
I've done the London–Brussels–Amsterdam a few times already (last time this month, next time in 2 months). It is definitely more expensive than flying, but I can't take short haul flights, and I do like the convenience of the train: 2 stops on the tube in London, 15 min tram ride in Amsterdam, and I'm home.

The connection in Brussels is a bit annoying: you only have to change platforms but you have to wait at least 30 min. Removing that connection is I believe critical, as it will gradually save time over the next few years.

The Paris and London Eurostar terminals are nice. The Brussels one is a bit dark and only for 2 platforms. The Lille is alright actually, and only for 1 platform. I'm not sure where they would put it in Amsterdam though (and that might be the cause of the delay). The current Thalys to Brussels always uses the same half platform, but it might be tricky to reserve it for a Eurostar that only travels twice a day. Also, the Amsterdam station has expanded its shopping centre, which leaves little space for a decently-sized Eurostar terminal. I'm intrigued at where they're gonna put it! Maybe build an extension on the water?

For the most part, the train is for me a better experience: less busy than a plane, decent internet, better seats, which all means I can actually work on my laptop. You simply pay a premium for this convenience.

I think both the plane and train markets serve different purposes: cheap but cumbersome or expensive but comfortable.