skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting information, thank you. The knives do seem to be out for FB right now, but equally it is the douchiest of douchebag business models, essentially: we'll give you a means to engage with the world, but we're going to watch how you do it, in order to manipulate your preferences. It's like the Stasi but in corporate form. Essentially, it will die because it's the Harvey Weinstein of corporate America - and because all the #metoo victims find their voice, with a little help from the other studio heads which would like to see the monster disappear.
$2,000 a month livable? I have a small ~$230k mortgage and just the cost of owning the house (power, water, sewer, city taxes, insurance, mortgage payment) comes to over $2,000 a month.

We have a hard time making $4k a month cover expenses when you factor in a home repairs, car, gas, food, health care, internet, cell phone. Shit adds up so fast. Saving for retirement or a vacation is not easy.
I think the watershed moment was the election of Donald Trump. While it may not have been the determining factor, the deluge of fake news claiming Trump is the only one who could save us from Obama the secret Kenyan Muslim certainly couldn't have hurt his chances of winning.

Nobody ever questioned the value of giving the uneducated this much power and amplification.
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Have you looked at Mesosphere DC/OS?
No. In fact now is a good time to pick up some more FB stock as it will almost certainly rebound to the 190s when their latest “fiasco” is out of the public spotlight.

FB can easily open new lines of business beyond social networking.
Hopefully to a parallel universe. :)
We have seen 1Gb/s streaming ingest into MemSQL. Also feel free to join https://memsql-public.slack.com where people help with developer edition.
Sequelize just exposes additional APIs on top of node-sqlite3.
There are plenty of "soft factors" at work in being successful or not. Confidence adds a lot of perceived value to an individual; their ability to work smart instead of just hard; their ability to prove they can do well in the specific context of their job rather than just be generally intelligent but not practical; their ability to make others look good or feel confident in their ability will make them get promotions sooner.

There are obviously lots of practical conditions outside of our control such as local conditions, state of the job market, being willing to relocate etc. There is also the understanding that you need to look better than the other applicants rather than just look good in isolation.

Another major issue that is rarely covered is personality types and the fact that insecurity, paranoia or other physical conditions that are obvious to the interviewer will cause you to look bad, regardless of whether they actually measure your ability to do a job.

And then there's luck!
Actually, it does mean a synchronous API will block the event loop. Look at the signatures of the worker pool examples.

What that article is saying is that libuv exposes a thread pool that you can opt in to with a native extension instead of bringing your own.

It doesn't mean a synchronous API won't block.
Everyone in this thread directly supports inequality through their buying decisions and I'm callin' them out.

Anytime you use Netflix, Google, HackerNews is supporting inequality. Every time you bought a Harry Potter book as a kid you supported inequality. You're giving more money to the winners.

If you want to reduce inequality, then buy books from unpopular authors. Use unpopular OSes like TempleOS instead of giving even more market share to Google/Apple/Microsoft. Drive cars made by less popular manufacturers. Don't read the New York Times, Fox News, or Washington Post - only blogs or magazines with a small subscribership. And don't watch anything Disney.
I'm in the very early stages of building what will be a pretty large web app with Phoenix and so far I really like it.

I have a lot of prior Rails / Flask experience and minimal Elixir experience but you can still figure things out for the most part.

It's kind of funny but, even at this Elixir newbie stage I feel more confident reading and tracing most Elixir code vs Ruby.
Oh NO, that is both hilarious and ugly.

and interesting
Are rewrites supposed to destroy the soul of the original idea? That's what mine do. Do you have any tips for that?

Edit: Why's poignant guide to ruby would be hard to rewrite imho, I'm guessing it would be hard for him to rewrite too.
They harvested personal info of people. Something against FB policy and against the law. That is why it is news.

I understand that Hacker News has been accused of turning into reddit since reddit became a thing, but when the top most comment is from a guy who didn't even bother to read the article linked, there is a very little in the way distinction between the two sites.
They care; they just have a different perspective than you on acceptable behaviour - one more driven by power dynamics and authoritarianism.
Seems like browser-based PUT is at once "too" generic and simultaneously not self-describing enough for a lot of input. (Should I be allowed to change my wife's facebook details?)

The protocol supports rejecting those edits, but what if I want the form itself to change in response to edits I'm proposing? (Greying out the "change password" button, or telling me "You can't change the relationship status of others!")

Stepping up from my examples a bit, it seems like you'd need a pretty sophisticated model for ACLs and almost arbitrary client side validations, which we didn't have until javascript.
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Nothing about the conclusions relies on talent being measurable. It's basically going, "say talent was distributed like X, and it had effects Y on the world, what would things look like?" This doesn't imply or suggest or require that talent is measurable or knowable by anyone.
Privacy Shield as a Shortcut to GDPR for US-Based Companies
Yeah, can you imagine how stupid it would be to have the leader of the free world post ridiculous status updates for everyone to see, and it would get dissected for hours on end by CNN? Man, I sure am glad I didn't wake up in that world this morning.
>The sheer quantity of LED's that must be placed properly on a glass substrate would be quite high.

They will be simply grown on the substrate in-situ. A very different epitaxial pricess from bulk leds, but nevertheless very doable.

Apple is known to have bought a Taiwanese company that was making monochrome microled screens for night vision goggles.
I do agree to equality of opportunity and not equality of outcome; those people with low IQ won't end up in the high tiers of e.g. the scientific world, simply because they can't.

Equality of opportunity does not rule out a proper socialist system. You give everyone the same opportunities at life and work by e.g. affordable health care and insurances for everyone, but also scholarships for everyone so they can follow what they want to do instead of be restricted by e.g. what their parents earn. And if you can't work because of whatever reason, you don't have to end up on the streets.

Equality of opportunity gives everyone the chance to graduate university; equality of outcome gives everyone a university degree regardless. I'm probably misinterpreting it.

But give everyone the opportunity, and there will be enough social mobility so that people now born in poverty can grow up to become e.g. software developers, and pay that little equal opportunity was paid for them during their education back tenfold within just a couple years of working in that industry.

That's my experience anyway, my dad was a not-greatly-paid metalworker with a high interest mortgage (as was the times back then) and three kids, I'm a college graduate and my first job paid almost as much as his.
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Did you say Reddit? I'm really curious how to tolerate it, since the comments seem oriented more around feelings and me too or kneejerk anger than anything substantive. Also the comments are one-liners. Are there particular subreddits with intelligent people you'd recommend?
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Andrew Yang is running for president in 2020
This is the sort of experience I’m looking for. Specifically, there’s a number of writers/journalists who I’d like to follow and Twitter seems ideal for following them.

So what do you think the causal difference is between your experience and others? Are you just more diligent about curating the list of people you follow?
Great screencast, Alex!

The best tools are the ones you don’t even notice, and Elixir is an absolute pleasure. You get to focus on the problem with little ceremony. Chat is a really interesting application of Channels, too.

It’s especially interesting to me as my team and I are working on a hosted API called Chatkit that makes it equally easy to add real-time chat to your applications, no matter what technology you’re using: https://pusher.com/chatkit

In addition to basic chat data, we also manage, “Who’s online”, typing indicators, rich media... And more

I highlight those features in particular because I am especially curious what that would look like with Elixir and Pheonix? Managing chat data, especially at scale is quite a hairy problem.

By the way, it simple/clean to subscribe to Elixir Channels on other platforms like Android and iOS, for example? One place we think we can add a lot of value is X-platform client SDKs (JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, etc.)
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Brilliant, you can make a proof of concept VR game for example and make it look good.
Facebook suspends account of Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower
Ask HN: Does paying for Google mitigate the privacy issues of the free accounts?
We all know that if we are not paying for a product, we are the product. But I was wondering about Google's G-Suite product. If I pay for that, is Google now double-dipping? Or does it offer (at least some) protection against 3rd-party's buying my data?
> Contrast this with a poor society that is growing rapidly where you see islands of wealths with certain individuals, at least people over there do not harbor illusions of meritocracy.

Actually(speaking from experience) these islands of wealth only reinforce such illusions in poor countries.

The logic is as following: apparently that person is exceptional and the fact that they've managed to get wealthy within one generation is proof.
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Needs a [2016] tag
Honestly I just use Reddit for entertainment. I know there are substantive subreddits out there, somewhere, but most of the subjects I care about understanding and discussing come through HN anyway.
Since when does HN support Unicode / emojis?
I was skeptical for years, nervous that I was now broadcasting even more info about myself than I already gave to the likes of Facebook and Google before it was too late. I was worried about now giving my employment history. Well, I finally did and got a ton of interviews out of it, much more quality recruiters than Dice which has become a spam nightmare.

I guess everything has a price.
There is truth to this, however there has also been major changes to how we live and the expectations.

"my grand parent could buy their own house while only one was working, and a job that didn't require any diploma"

Yes, but they probably couldn't buy a house anywhere in the world they wanted. The house size was probably much smaller than the sizes of today's suburban houses. I would argue that one could by a small, economical home in the midwest.

"If they want to eat for the same price as their grand parents they need to eat junk food."

Again, look at the diet lifestyle choices of Gen Y versus their grandparents. My grandparent (I'm a Gen Xer) told me stories of eating onions for a month because his parents were migrant workers and they worked picking onions when they were in season.

Even today, it is possible to eat simply (rice, beans, in-season vegetables and fruits) for a low-price. You won't be eating much meat, and you won't be eating "luxury" items. But that is very similar to how people ate in the 30's, 40's and early 50's.
Its maybe a turning point around transparency and accountability, but surely not the end. Facebook is so dominant in many areas (remember they own Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus) that we will have them around for the foreseeable future. Even when talking about a potential replacement, nothing comes to mind - in some sense it the perfect opportunity for a startup. Just gotta have that great idea on how you make the user the user, and not the product.
Thanks, and I absolutely do feel valued here. I was a bit surprised by this reply as it was a bit out of left field given what I wrote and the question asked. Identifying as a recruiter (now former recruiter) here was always interesting based on the reputation of the industry, but I haven't had any real issues with the audience.

Thanks, I appreciate your comment.
The lead author has long been acknowledged to have excellent sources within Apple.

https://www.recode.net/2016/6/1/11835514/bloomberg-mark-gurm...

Then there is Ming-Chi Kuo who has excellent sources inside Apple's supply chain.

The difference being that Gurman hears about things that Apple is working on, while Ming-Chi would be more likely to know about which of those things are going to be built at scale.
I don't know the motivation of the poster authors, but the H-1B program is BS as stated in law. I've seen it abused with my own eyes. Corporations just want cheap and/or complacent labor, and use the "shortage" lie to get it. IT may be in an up cycle now, but it's had hard times also, such after the dot-com bust on the west coast, and citizens were being replaced or skipped during the hard times.
Clinton was first called Slick Willy by journalists who thought he misrepresented his politics on the campaign trail:

As best as I can determine, thanks to the help of the Pine Bluff public library, it had it's origin on September 27, 1980, shortly after Bill Clinton gave a speech before the state Democratic convention in which he depicted himself as in the tradition of progressive governors in this state, an assertion that offended us at the Pine Bluff Commercial because we thought of him as more of a trimmer who had broken this succession of reform governors, from Winthrop Rockefeller, to Dale Bumpers, to David Prior. And so we used the sobriquet, Slick Willy on that occasion and it caught on.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice/bill/g...

I'm sure others had their own reasons for using it.
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For a journalist the answer is simple: Finding sources. Many of us have accounts solely to find an expert in a field or a person within a company to talk to.

Why anyone else uses it I have no idea.
Police asks Google for location data of all near crime scene
Whoever organized this coordinated hatchet job, thank you guys for the opportunity to buy FB at a discount. Keep up the good job.
With hard work you can be successful in the sense of being able to afford a basic living or being moderately middle class - which is enough for many people. The deception which looks like a lie to some is in implicating that one percenters got their wealth from hard work - most of them didn't.

AFAIK, statistics show that in industrialized Western countries the wealthy people who are seemingly successful (because of their wealth) have inherited most of their wealth or at least benefited extremely from improved conditions provided by already rich parents. In contrast to this, vertical social mobility remains fairly low and the overall gap between poor & middle class and the richest has been increasing in almost all capitalist Western countries since WW2.

So it's not literally a lie, it's just sometimes kind of dishonest and misleading. In most professions it's practically impossible to get rich from hard work.
Did your relatives make a choice to get divorced?
I agree with the RSS point. There were complaints about content being hard to monetize with RSS but the way that social media spreads links seems possible (just put a summary and make the feed entry a link to the main content where you can have ads).

Some kind of feed specification like that and a diversity of publishing and aggregation platforms would be healthier than this walled-garden approach.
Tesla (TSLA) stock slides on Goldman Sachs predicting Model 3 delivery miss
oh no, bootstrap.
I recently read Stealing the Corner Office which gives great insight into this. The premise is that incompetent high-level executives exist, so the answer isn't simply hard work.

The author doesn't specifically state it but the problem, at least in my case, is one's definition of work; I don't think I'm alone when I used to think my code spoke for itself and that's that. There are a few problems with that but essentially the issue is many of us myopically ignore other seemingly unimportant work-related tasks such as building relationships, personal marketing (I know that sounds like a buzzword phrase but it's true), among other examples.

Basically, at its core I believe that hard work does lead to success but our definition of work gets in the way.
I agree its not healthy, but the author might be in a culture different from yours where such issues are hard to raise directly.
What signatures are you referring to? They all take async callbacks.
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Are Classes and Prototypes That Different?
I read the text of the ad without making any assumptions, and I was hard pressed to find any fault with it. The only problem appears when you factor in who's saying it and what you _think_ the ad is saying.

Edit: in case readers assume I'm being racist in some way: I'm a Sri Lankan national.
> Considering that the leader of the free world

nit: I think you are referring to Trump, the president of the USA. But I doubt he is the "leader of the free world", whatever that means.
If the reliability is high enough then the low rate of accidents is worth the risk. Other modes of transport are able to operate at small margins due to high reliability requirements.
I’m surprised Uber is still around after the persistent bad press. People seem to just not care outside of my social circles.
Luck = Skill + Opportunity. That is, you must have the skill set to become successful, but also be in the right place at the right time to apply these skills.
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I suspect that this was linked to people seeing Trump as different to the status quo. Yeah, he was rude, made incoherent outbursts, etc. etc. but that set him apart from the career politicians that had gone before.

I'm pretty sure that any "regular" candidates for political office in the future will still be judged harshly by what they have done in the past. I think that what Trump stood for got him a pass.
I would hope that they actually added input validation to prevent this from occurring in the future.

But it wouldn't surprise me if someone managed to consider sending a "don't do this" email with the high-priority flag set as a "best practice"...
ITT: people who did not read the link Astrotrufing and conservative martyrs bleeding all over the site.
I'm not going to respond to most of your comment, but this suggestion is pretty weird:

> Use unpopular OSes like TempleOS instead of giving even more market share to Google/Apple/Microsoft

...Why? You could also just use Linux or BSD. TempleOS seems like a very odd suggestion for people looking to cut out non-free operating systems cold turkey.

Edit: In case this isn't clear, I'm responding to the commenter's commercialism thesis. I mean free as in beer, not as in speech.
How am I losing if Google now shows me more results from a bigger variety of shops?
Sounds like a win for me though.
> After realizing that everyone, even future politicians post stupid things, We probably will stop caring about online privacy.

Online privacy is not about posting rude stuff on Twitter, come on
The concept of another universe is pretty commonplace - see 'Star Wars expanded universe' and similar. The fact that we haven't found a real one doesn't mean the concept is nonsensical.
Armeria [0] supports pretty much every possible combination of gRPC variants, including gRPC-Web - HTTP/1 and 2, TLS and cleartext, Protobuf and JSON, framed and unframed.

(Disclosure: My team and I wrote it.)

[0] https://line.github.io/armeria
Facebook is extremely valuable to an enormous number of people. The only thing that will end it is a non-profit competitor a la Wikipedia.

This isn't my idea, & I expect to see one of these emerge and take over in the next 1-3 years.
The attempts to demonize the words "social justice" are quite Orwellian.

"Justice" is literally the last word in America that I thought would be used in some RWA-type context.
Good point, though I suppose it would be a battle between corps that need productive time from their employees rather than time watching ads in a car. I guess if the time is stolen from personal time rather than work time then all good.
> High purity aluminum is not controlled

That’s a separate article, but agree completely. I know multiple people who routinely have it (all build parts for aerospace contracts).
In SF you very likely don’t have a car and your health insurance premiums are covered by work. If you’re young you’re also not not a homeowner so you don’t have maintenance costs and taxes. Also many companies in the city pay for lunch, do you may not have food.

100k/2k a month after rent is certainly doable in SF. I know many people that make it work. Also if you’re making 100k you’re likely paying closer to 1500 a month and having roommates and sharing a bathroom.
"And don't watch anything Disney."
It's difficult since Star Wars now is Disney. But you made a really good point.
Generally speaking, it's not wrong. There's historically always been friction between labour and management.

I don't know what the ideal "solution" is, though the authors of the ad seems to thinks it involves immigrants. :\
Good crypto for DNSSEC is available and is starting to gain traction: https://ed25519.nl
I can think of plenty of people who work way harder than me, and have clearly no path to ever being successful (financially).
Are you referring to when Google blocked YouTube from Amazon Fire devices? If that's what you mean, then the order of events are the opposite.
The problem is the people who really understand how it works are largely the ones that benefitted from the current system and thus have no incentive to change it.