skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am planning on adding this book to my wishlist, but I agree with the reviewer's note at the end:

> My only criticism of the book is the naming of the styles...In many cases, there are already establish names for the styles, but instead of using them, the author came up with her own. For example: Trinity instead of MVC, Things instead of Objects, Hollywood instead of Callbacks, Bulletin Board instead of Pub/Sub and Kick Forward instead of Continuation-passing. Those names are OK, but it is much better to stick to the industry standard ones.

I'd definitely include this change in a 2018 edition, too.
Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free
3. Using high heals as a symbol for woman. Really?

Refresh, it has changed.

And read the comments before :)
I can't wait for my plumbing engineer to come fix my toilet.
I take a daily multivitamin that supplements those.
Ask HN: Is 2018 the end of Facebook?
Facebook is now getting so much negative press, is 2018 the year it will go the way of MySpace... a rapid fall off, a decline in minority?

Can Zukerberg turn things around?
SoFi Money
USDA shifting away from allowing employees to telecommute
Just an observation: On project piglet, the red price slashing gives me a perception of "desperation". My opinion is get rid of it and just make them nice simple numbers (whatever those prices end up being) without the drastic price slash.
> Where do those number come from?

Literally all of the data in this graph has a source.

> Using high heals as a symbol for woman

I don't see this, only the traditional male / female symbols. Maybe I missed it?
I must be part of an A/B test where I only see baby pictures from friends and family, updates from local businesses, and videos of cool construction equipment from TechInsider.

Facebook, Twitter, and other social channels could improve on the margin, but realistically, the problem with social is us. Ask friends and family to go back to sharing their unhinged political views in the form of badly punctuated emails, as God intended. If they continue to share, unfollow.

Social media can be as polarizing or as pleasant as you make it. Foisting blame on Facebook might feel good, but it won't solve the problem.
You're confused. There's no reason to debate with you. Goodbye.
Actually, that's intended behavior.

https://security.stackexchange.com/a/68014/47800
The assocation list is a poor data structure for representing a map, if the most important requirement is to have fast access to any key of a large map.

However, the association list is an excellent data structure if an important requirement is to be able to cheaply extend a map with new keys functionally: without altering the original. It also provides the requirement that duplicate keys added to the front shadow existing ones. It is also very simple; it is easy to verify that operations are correct.

With the above properties, association lists, directly provide an easy and correct implementation model for lexical environments.

The empty top-level lexical environment is an empty list. Adding a frame with new variables, including ones that shadow existing variables, is just consing pairs onto the list. The assoc operation correctly implements lexical variable lookup. The environment for making a lexical closure is just a copy of the assoc list pointer that you have now. Because the bindings are independent pair objects in the association list, individual bindings can be located and selected, and combined into another association list. A newly created association list environment can trivially capture an arbitrary subset of bindings from another one without mutating it.

Even if we don't use this representation in production use, it provides an important reference model. Anything more complicated has to produce the same results; we can start with assoc based environments, build a lot of code, and then use that as regression test cases for going to a different environment representation.

It's good enough for pattern matching and logic languages where the number of variables isn't great, but the search has to do things that are complicated enough without a heavy-weight environment structure.
Nice to hear about this. The last time I tried to switch, two or three years ago, the results (a lot of dev related stuff) were really not very good. I'll try it again.
Thank heaven these days we have the KeePassXC browser plugin, finally obviating even the temptation to rely on flimsy internal browser storage.

UI- and convenience-wise, this is as good as LastPass used to be - and perhaps still is; I dropped them the day they were sold to some nefarious LockMeIn-entity.
No. The numbers are way too low at least for the big tech hubs (nyc, sf).

The numbers the article is quoting for nyc are jr. dev / intern numbers for anything but the top 20% scale, me thinks.

It's been about two decades since I've seen numbers like that offered for open positions in NYC.
Ones I see now have patterns in the material. But I guess if you scratched it off and replaced it without most customers won't notice.
How would you tell people on Facebook without sharing on Facebook? :)
We're not going to create our own monitoring; we'll use Prometheus and other open source tools.
The Next Housing Crisis: A Historic Shortage of New Homes
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Why the PDF Is Secretly the World's Most Important File Format
No. Even in perfectly factored CSS, one bad selector still can mess up the whole page, no? That's why all those nifty tools (mentioned in a sibling comment) exist.
> None of that will happen

Why not? My grandparents love looking through old photo albums. I don't see why I couldn't do the same with Facebook.

> It’s an advertiser’s dream and it is wildly expensive in terms of privacy lost and cash spent to steal that privacy.

A few problems with this. Op dates users freely gave away their data, but now advertisers are stealing it?

The same sentence can be said about the internet as a whole - but most people believe the benefits are worth it and op hasn't proved we don't get benefits from Facebook.

Lastly.. the article assumes allowing advertisers to use your data is inherently evil. I'm not arguing either way, but it's never explained. Lots of people believe that to be true, but I don't think you can just call advertisers "the devil" without an explanation. Why is op harmed by data collection (outside of nonsensical hypthotheticals, like getting his house robbed when he posts that he's on vacation?)
You're hostile and not discussing in good faith. Please leave HN.
It is with https://concourse-ci.org
This assumes each failure is independent. Often a single failure will cause many bad pixels on the same screen. So you might have 98 good screens 1 with one bad pixel and one with 5,000 bad pixels when the per pixel odds say you are going to end up with 1 good screen if you are lucky and 99 bad ones.
Random internet advice: If immigration is important, hire a competent immigration attorney. Case law is complex and not logical. The little details often matter a lot.
It’s a surprisingly grey area - until the US was dragged into the war by the Japanese, they took a largely neutral stance, in no small part due to US business interests in the third reich. The most they extended to the allies prior to that point was lend-lease - because the profits were considerable. Arming both sides was one hell of a hedge. There were, even while Europe duked it out with the Nazis, widely attended and supported Nazi rallies in venues such as Madison Square Garden. Truth is stranger than fiction, and is a nuanced beast.
That's one diddle that can't be undone. Does the author really think deleting his old posts is going to somehow cover all the cached copies of his data? Not to mention all the little picadillos in the metadata Axiom has on him that they gleaned from said data? Articles like this make me fear for tech journalism.
> Since the talent follows a normal distribution, technically it can be negative or larger than 1, but for convenience we assume T~[0, 1]

Part of the answer to the original question is in this line. Normal distribution implies outliers - i.e. some are radically competent. In meritocratic conditions, you expect some to be radically successful, therefore creating a huge wealth asymmetry.

I’m not saying we do live in a pure meritocracy, far from it. Only that normal distribution of talent doesn’t imply wealth should naturally become normally distributed.
No, and I’ve never heard anyone else make that mistake. Maybe you are not from California?
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Is talent not just a form of luck? It doesn't matter how hard you work at your low post game, you'll never learn to be seven feet tall. Those who are of that height are extremely lucky, giving them a huge advantage over other contenders for that NBA center position.

Other forms of athletic talent are less visible than height but I see no reason not to attribute them to luck (genetics, access to nutrition, coaching etc.)

We can apply this reasoning to anything where success can be measured. A great deal of business success comes down to connections which provide access to capital and access to markets. All of these things accrue to the well-connected.
Chris Dillow is my favorite economics blogger. http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com

One of his quotes from memory is "Meritocracy is the myth that justifies inequality", which explains a lot of the current world.
Comparing Urban Footprints (2014)
Only by using your own stock of illegal data.
The top comment on that story about google points out the main problem:

> 2. On multiple recent occasions, police in North Carolina have quietly been successful in obtaining search warrants that force Google to turn over these records. Rather than "standard" search warrants asking for the location of a particular suspect in a crime, these "reverse" or "area based" warrants ask for time and location data for all users who have entered a geographical area during a time of interest. The records returned are initially anonymous account numbers, and the police then make followup requests for identifying information of the subset of accounts that they think are of interest to the case.

Sure you can delete your account on reddit. They'll still track you as if you have one just like the facebook buttons or all those creative new tracking shit we regularly read about here.

In the end, you don't have to be an extremist. Just don't post everything and keep in mind that you are being tracked. This is the internet for you today.
Yeah, I know people who still use it. The last time I used it (~1 year ago) was on a vacation in order to knock off a few dollars from the local attractions. I'd do it again.

The only thing I hate is how they are worse than spammers when it comes to sending emails.
Ask HN: Is it still worth manufacturing anything in your country after Alibaba?
Background

After starting to earn a good amount of money as a dentist, I want to stop my own hamster wheel. Although I love my job, I'm just not into that routine work but creative works, like business, art, marketing etc. something that just makes sense to me, make me able to passively earn enough amount of money to be able to buy time to make those things happen what I find interesting my life.

Manufacturing goods as a business

In my opinion, the best way to do that is having a profession where you will always earn money and after that either starting a business or actively investing on stock markets (which is a little bit harder than business).

What I find interesting was "manufacturing things in cheap countries with high quality and export goods and sell in expensive countries". I was thinking about this for 10 years when I was a student at dentistry. I always thought about producing things in European Countries like Ukraine, Georgia (minimal monthly wage monthly only 7$ !) or Azerbaijan, and bringing to Germany to sell them here, where I live. Where most things 100 times more expensive than in Georgia.

Dropshipping

After Alibaba came to the market the rules of the game changed. Chinese manufacturers produce literally everything and so cheap that no one has even a chance to compete with them. Business owners even don't buy and sell things physically, more and more people just build businesses like playing a bridge role between Chinese sellers to the European buyers buy marketing the goods here, which is called nowadays dropshipping.

Question

Is there still any niche or something that worth producing in Europe/US and sell in Europe/US like in old days? Or should I just let Chinese manufacturers produce the goods cheaply in a given quality and sell it here?

I would like to hear opinions if here someone did business similar to this.
There is no strong evidence for God except a bunch of belief from people.
How do you typically find your clients?
I know I'm not the first one in this thread to notice that (I upvoted the other post that said something) but I opted to include all my thoughts in one message even though there is another thread for #3. I mean... technically I'm not the first one to make point #1 either in this thread. I think some duplication of thoughts is OK.
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You're glossing over the additional nuance, I think, of the proposed solution giving everybody equal access to a limited meat ration.
> Facebook simply replaced the tools we once used to tell the world of our joys and sorrows and it replaced them with cheap knock-offs that make us less connected, not more.

This resonnates with what I've been observing. Instead of birthday card, a call or even a text message, we now simply write a note on someone's wall, between two out-of-context thoughts. It's the path of least resistance. Like fast food, it takes a bit of effort to fight, until the brain hijack starts to fade and new purposeful habits are formed (or reinstated).

Working on it but not there yet... :(
10k IU is available OTC, so its not a prescription, but I do take it on my doctor's recommendation. I don't get a lot of sun, especially in the winter, and I've had chronic deficiency of D3, so I supplement at higher levels than what I'd get in your average multivitamin. 50k IU is what I was prescribed for two months to get me above the minimum recommended blood levels, and it barely did that.

I do also get my D3 levels checked annually as well, as should anyone with a diagnosed deficiency.
I wrote that, too: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/13/will-the-last-person-to-le...
KPIs and Metrics
That's fascinating. Couldn't they just detect the caps lock being on and warn the user instead?
Yeah, I'm seeing averages for studios hover around 3200, so my 2500 figure assumes a skilled dealhunter or a tin shoebox.
I had a very similar experience to this guy. Worked on my first game for about 4 years before quitting my job and working on it full time for the last year leading up to the launch on steam. My game had a similar lukewarm response and was also a financial disappointment.

It's very hard to make a living in game development, even big game studios have constant layoffs and bankruptcies. Especially now since the indie game market is extremely saturated.
Getting a database off the ground as a sustainable business is incredibly hard work. As someone who works on similar problems I have massive amounts of respect for people who try to build a database related business knowing the huge odds they are against.
Digital Ocean: Automating Ruby on Rails Deployment
IPFS is not an automatically distributed file store. Just like torrents if someone wants to host a petabyte they can. That does not mean anyone else will be mirroring it.
Thanks for pointing this out, I'm from the Daily Sabah team and asked the editor of the article to make sure the numbers aren't off.
The legit price of it is $4m/g, but apparently the guys were going to sell it for $70m on the black market.
The article will be clarified.
MVC = Model View Presenter? Objects = Structs or Workers? Callbacks = Continuations? Pub/Sub = Observer pattern?

Depending on what programming language background you come from, you may not use the "established" names either.
it's not analysis, but it's sure counterspying: http://cryptocomb.org/
The same is true of `npm install`. Custom lifecycle scripts can be run during the install process.
A ‘Dead’ Home-Equity Tax Deduction Sees New Life Thanks to the IRS
While I agree, there is a huge difference in impact. Facebook has more users, reach a way bigger demographic and has access to a much, much, much broader range of data. Not to mention is has instagram and whatsapp too.

It's two order of magnitude bigger than twitter, reddit, pinterest, etc.

The only ones that compares is Google.

But while I have no problem living without a Facebook account, living without Google is way harder.
E.g:

- no hangout is the easiest. I hated it.

- dropping calendar was easy. It was not that good anyway. I missed the integration with a lot of 3rd party though.

- I leaved gmail. It tooks years and many problems with accounts came with it. The competitors UI are worse.

- I tried to leave gmap. But competitors don't have street view, shop open shedules or nearly as accurate traveling times. And waze eventually got bough by google. Maps.me is alright for when I don't have internet, but it's nowhere close to gmap for big cities if you have internet.

- I tried, very hard, to quit google search. Bing. DuckDuckGo.Qwant. They are ok. But I do hundreds of queries a day. Ok doesn't cut it. And if you are looking for result in another language than english, forget about it.

- now for the phone. Well, I won't go apple. Mozilla and MS are no longer here. I tried SailOS for a year. I don't recommend it. So android is what's left if you want a smartphone. I tried rooting, but it's dangerous, and takes time. So now I just avoid using a google account on the phone, which is, well, something at least. And make it extra hard to install apps.

That's a lot of trouble for so-so results.

Who else than a privacy savvy nerd is going to do a 10th of it ?

So to me, no facebook + ublock + no google account is like when I stopped watching TV 20 years ago. It's 80/20, but for privacy instead of sanity.

However, let's all remember HN is a niche, and that most people still watch tv, don't use add blockers and would not even have a though about personal data.
Very close to my story! Only that it was the student project that worked out. We started out with 5 students living off student loans. After a year we were finished with school, and went unpaid for another year. Started with a micro salary by then, and 2 of the original founders had left.

Now, 5 years after we started we are 7 full time emps, though not yet profitable.
They don't once mention total comp, it's all about salary, outside of large corporations this isn't far off, but for FANG this makes a big difference. Even if they are including RSUs, there's no way they can reasonably value ISOs which are huge for the middle-tier startups.

The other thing is the average/median is almost certainly being brought down by the loads of juniors, and tiny ramen-style startups that aren't paying shit. On the flip side, they may be excluding some engineering management roles on the top end.

Also, remember that outside your bubble there are a lot of companies of all sizes that need software engineers and don't have access to the same talent pool. There are an awful lot of people hanging out pulling a salary that have absolutely no business being software developers, and are happy to make $50-80k by just knowing enough to fly under the radar in a big shop.
30 years from now, candidates for president of the United States will have their old social media posts under a microscope. Whatever dumb thing they posted in their teens will be brought to light.

It's probably going to raise a lot of discussions about what constitutes normal human behavior. We might finally stop pretending they are perfect humans.

After realizing that everyone, even future politicians post stupid things, We probably will stop caring about online privacy.

It might also be a bad thing because society would expect oversharing as the norm and would consider anyone who doesn't put their private lives on display, to be hiding something.

Either way social media is here to stay. But it will change, this is version 1.
IPFS isn't a blockchain, and you only receive data you request - it's pull instead of push oriented. So I don't believe it has any problem with this.
They can accomplish that feature using 3 separate hashes for various common mistakes, and it will still accept the normal case, but what GP is describing is that only a lowercase version of the password will work for account deletion.
> Oh, and don't forget to share our article using the little facebook widget at the bottom...

These kind of comments add no value and rest on incorrect belief that either:

1) authors control the marketing tech stack on the major sites they write for or

2) they can afford to sacrifice audience for their messages, etc. in order to be hyper-picky in order to forestall internet heckles.

The truth is that neither of those things are true. Writers will write, activists will get their messages out, and that's their job. Sometimes they will criticize something so ubiquitous that even they can't avoid it totally, but that doesn't make them hypocrites. In fact, criticizing bad things that literally everyone does is the first step towards fixing those things. If stupid insinuations of hypocrisy like yours had any value, it would be impossible to make progress on many fronts.
Wow, that's a cool story!

You perhaps should be on Mixergy.com giving your story to a wider audience?

I've introduced quite a few people to the founder of the show over the years, and I'd be happy to do the same for you.
I am guessing it's like "drug bust" numbers where they take the highest market price for a small amount, then multiply it by what they seized, ignoring the fact that larger size lots can have a much lower unit cost.
The system that you describe in no way resembles the lottery system as it exists today: it's so far from reality that I'm not quite sure why you're even bringing up this fantasy representation of a lottery.

The real lottery abuse - particularly scratch-offs, which are what is being abused here - is not a match-up between "high probability of not winning" and "unable to cheat". It is between "high probability of not winning" and "multiple fairly obvious avenues for cheating". Among them are the two mentioned prominently in the article: Micro-scratching and taking winning tickets and telling customers that they were losers, then claiming it for yourself. Both of which are avenues easily available to the clerks who have suddenly found themselves to be in this "miraculous" state of repeated wins at very low participation rates.

Why are you bringing up some fantasy straw man version of the lottery to defend it?
That didn't work for me :( Google have already indexed your comment though!
Well this is what you get for pulling ChromeCast from Amazon (and other bad behaviour). If Google was as a brazen as that and started using its search results to start an Amazon competitor it would find itself in front of the beady eyed antitrust folks in short order. This is probably the best they could come up with and stay within the law.
I ran across BATFANG[1] recently in a conversation and while finding the term(s) equally confusing, at least it's slightly more inclusive.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/bats-vs-fangs-why-chinas-tech-h...