skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, they didn't win the court case. But their company wasn't ruined like Nissan Computer was by the lawsuit. For fighting this case that they knew they were in the wrong of, a case they knew they'd lose, if Uzi fought them, they deserve every last bit of negative advertising and lost profits. Uzi didn't want to sell. If they had been better at their business, they should have grabbed the domain name first, but Nissan Motors was late to the market and lost out. If they hadn't been a giant corporation, no doubt the case would have been thrown out or settled, but they used the money to bully Uzi. They deserve what they got. And the rest of us deserve to have a court system that works for non millionaires ... But that's just wishful thinking.
Sorry, first it's a linear algebra, it's by Gareth Williams, linear algebra with applications, I picked the 5th edition iirc, 5$ hardcover.
Decentralization is a red herring, there is nothing wrong with centralized services, it may actually just add to the problems to overcome. What is wrong is that users are not paying for those services. Well, they are paying for them, but only indirectly via the share of the ad budget included in the price of all the things they buy.

That is the core problem, if users would simply pay for the services they use there would be no point to track and analyze the shit out of their behavior. Users could be customers again. So the real question is how do you convince potential users that they are better off paying for services directly?

It is of course not that simple, it never is, think for example about people seeing ads for Gucci bags and actually buying them and how they subsidize people which may see those ads but never actually buy the products because they can not afford them and which may also not have the money to pay for services directly.

But I do not think any of the peripheral issues fundamentally changes the core challenges, getting people off of ad supported services.
This isn't a comment about snap chat, moreso about how shitty the camera API is for Android. Yes, it is faster and more reliable to take a screenshot of the camera app.
When you say "shared" do you mean the Excel file is kept on some network drive and that multiple people can access it there?
These come up all the time.
I'm always afraid that those free services start to change their policies and suddenly your site doesn't work without you knowing. The 60 cents for hosting it somewhere I have a business relationship with, rather than a simple ToS, are easily worth it.
I liked the sound of this, so i tried to install it. I'm not sure if im just a complete idiot but i can't get it to install. Their liveCD image only lets me connect to WEP/WPA networks, so i can't connect to the WPA2-Enterprise network my school is on. They also don't let you connect to an unsecured endpoint so i cant connect to the alternative network provided.

I also couldn't get it to boot in UEFI, had to switch back to legacy bios. The partition manager is also a little confusing, i can't figure out which sizes to use or how to create them, i like debians ui here alot for this.

I stopped after seeing all that.
I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data.

We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.

Good night sweet prince.
> The paid plan is a little pricy

It's literally the only problem with Ghost. Wonderful product but boy... how many people are going to pay $29/month or $228/year to host their personal blog? Yeah, there's some serious added value: managed upgrades, managed backups, DDoS protection, CDN setup, etc., and that's wonderful, but still... if you're basically just writing as a hobby, it's too much. I really hope they look into offering some kind of $5-10 hobbyist plan for low-traffic blogs.
Two alternatives are:

https://github.com/posativ/isso

and Discourse on a subdomain ($5/month for a Digital Ocean server).
A few things. WRT suicides; are you for restricting access to anything used to cause suicide or just firearms?

I’m just now reading this, take it with a grain of salt, but it’s safe to say that firearms are used to keep people safe https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewconten...

I usually try not to enter in to arguments where I know I won’t change my mind. I’m wasting the time of someone who disagrees with me but is willing to exchange ideas. “frankly, fucking stupid” reads like you’re not interested in hearing contrary evidence. It saddens me.
I was homeless in California at the time the bag ban became law. I did buy a $3 backpack for shopping. In fact, I bought a series of them because I have a serious medical condition and cleanliness is a big issue in my life.

If you are in a car, tossing a bag in the trunk or back seat is no big deal. In fact, you can just leave one there by default. But if you are walking, biking or taking transit, you need to remember to take it, you have to carry it and keep track of it. It requires more organization, more mental energy, and more physical energy. You don't have to plan ahead, keep track of things, etc if there will be free bags provided at the time if purchase. This also means that spontaneous purchases are problematic for those without a car in a way they are not for those with a car.

Even if you aren't homeless and don't have the cleanliness concerns I have, it is sort of a death by a thousand paper cuts for people who are typically already poor, overburdened and struggling to cope.
The most extreme example of this I've seen is someone who constructed an entire town map in Excel. It was literally incredible.

And I'm not talking about a modern American city that's on a grid system, I'm talking about a 700 year old Cornish seaside town, with windy roads and odd shaped ancient buildings.

The amount of joined cells alone would have put off weaker men. I hate to think how many hours it took.
Living with fire: Surviving the forest wildfires of California
I think you're not capable of understanding religious thinking of medieval people.

Your average medieval peasant was much more afraid of his local nobility than of god. Good part of nobility was much more afraid of mortal repercussions rather than the underworld. And clergy... Let's say today's clergy with their scandals is not that different from medieval times.

Do you think protestantism could have happened if people were so deeply religious both towards god and church? Even though god was much more real to many more people, church (and to extent - pilgrimages and church mythology) was seen as separate from god in many cases. There was plenty of questioning going on throughout history.

This view may or may not be affected by the fact that christianity came to my country only in late medieval ages. And took couple hundred years to be established. With remains of the old worldview still surviving in popular culture. People were more than aware that church teaching is not the single one available.
Whoa - that is a pretty big item. Thanks for mentioning that. One of my todos this year is to check out encrypted ZFS on Linux. I will try that on Void.
The sudden push from journalists to detach their readership from facebook is remarkable. They media has been pushing the social media website very aggressively from 2007-2008 up until very recently.

Just a few days ago I used a chrome extension to delete all my likes/reactions, posts, and comments (I cringed multiple times while it was scrolling and deleting them). I left 3 or 4 of my photos, and decided against deleting the whole account only because it's an invaluable address book. Realistically, the inertia of people to leave it will keep me as a user for a long time.
Don't forget(!) Google's horrible forgetfulness, and its way of banning you if you try hard enough to extract anything useful from it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153840

For me, the niche is repair information and in particular, identifying IC part numbers and finding datasheets. Searching "service manual" now invariably brings up useless user's manuals, and searching too many times for IC part numbers gets you CAPTCHA-banned.

(Somewhat understandbly, part numbers tend to look like semirandom bot-queries, but it's still a horrible experience to be called a bot just because you're actually after more information than the average user.)

Keyword-based would be a great step forward(!), but something like "grep for the Web" would be ideal. I remember many decades ago learning how to use boolean operators and such, since nearly all search engines of the time provided such functionality. Now the mainstream ones which have a big enough index to be effective also have removed much of that functionality and try very hard to limit you from using it. For another example, try using "site:" searches multiple times with Google --- another way to get rapidly banned.
> As a civ player I would love to the the mechanics mentions where you could overfish, overfarm

This is kind of represented as harvesting a bonus resource. Your workers can be spent chopping down forests, scooping up all the fish, deer or bannanas for a short term gain. Some of the AI are randomly assigned an environmentalist outlook that will sour relationships if you do harvest a tile.

> etc and mines and other production improvements had negative impacts on through pollution & other risks (eg offshore oil platform spills, etc).

Oil spills feel a little too random. In Civ 6, this mechanic would likely be implemented as water and appeal (tourism) reduction. Mines and quarries already have this implemented, each one reduces the appeal of its six adjacent by 2. I don't think oil rigs have any penalties.

> There could be techs & policies to mitigate these issues, but investing/adopting in them would be a trade-off on production & wealth.

Generally speaking, techs aren't optional. There are very few terminal techs, and that seems pretty intentional. As a policy card tied to the Conservation civic it might work. But there's already a tradeoff being made by having the improvements in the first place.
I use GatsbyJS, a static site generator, to create my blog and use Netlify for continuous deployment + hosting. Netlify also provides free CDN and SSL.
I went through a bunch (including Ghost). Good product, but I eventually ended up using a static site with Netlify.

For the static site I used Middleman. It is one of the older generators, but if you're familiar with a Rails environment you can do everything you'll ever need.

Not for everyone, but super simple, extremely fast, and completely customizable. Netlify has also taken away all the pain. Simple build and deploy. Superfast DNS and CDN. LetsEncrypt out of the box. Worth a look.

That said, the missing piece from Medium isn't the editor/hosting -- it's is the syndication.
If more speech was the remedy to hate speech, then we would expect platforms with the most speech and least censorship would have the least hate. But compare well moderated social discussion sites like MetaFilter, HN, Fark to "anything goes" places like Twitter, 4chan, Reddit, etc. and the opposite is true.
> You can't achieve that scale, feature-set and UX quality without a lot of engineering manpower.

I'm not sure thats true. At the time of their acquisitions Instagram had 13 employees and WhatsApp had 55. Both of those are extremely small when compared to the size of Facebook. And given the size of the acquisition price tags i'd wager facebook felt like both were existential threats.
You really don't see any difference from political speech "Gays are going to hell and "go out and kill all gays"?

If I were gay, I would care less if people judged me based on their religion. I would care if a bunch of yokels started targeting me with violence.
Starting from the name.
Compare OS X Lion's mission control[1] with gnome 3's dash[2]. By the time I switched to Linux, I never used the dock, instead launching applications with Alfred/spotlight (and switching with some combination of cmd+tab, mission control, and spaces track pad gestures). Gnome 3 maps super+tab to alt+tab which was great for my muscle memory since my super key was where my command key used to be.

What I found annoying about gnome 3 was the persistent useless panel at the top of the screen (I still use gnome at work and I use the dash-to-panel extension[3] to make it slightly less useless).

[1] http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mission-Co...

[2] https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/en.linux/images/9/97/GNO...

[3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
When I was younger, and living in an unconditioned house in central Florida, I used to sleep with a big box fan at the foot of the bed pointing directly at my feet. It kept me cool and kept the mosquitos at bay as well
Cody drank cyanide for fun -- twice. Definitely not a safety oriented channel
Why Coding Multi-Agent Systems Is Hard
> Back in the day, apps that did this were called spyware

Right?! Remember when ad/spyware that tracked every site you visited were considered devilish and flagged by virus scanners? Now it's the norm. Crazy.
I worked on a very similar application (likely the same platform) and grew increasingly concerned while reading your post that I was the one who built this.

Phew -- this was not me.
I've been running encrypted ZFS on Void for about a year. [Only caveat: I wasn't able to get an encrypted ZFS root working on Void (there is some issue with grub+luks+zfs), but I have system with an unencrypted ZFS root with an encrypted /home on ZFS.]
simpler is not directly needed, as Facebook already reaches the minimum viable simplicity for many functionalities. More compelling certainly would help.

The killer in getting adoption of any social network is the network effect. You want to be on the social media application because your friends & family is on it.
Those kids these days with their new fangled gadgets and social media. In my day we walked two miles uphill each way to share pictures of cats with our friends.
I have provided both a link to an article that communicates my understanding of the topic as well as cited the original source where I got the info, plus stated as clearly as I can that googling it may lead to additional confusion because articles on the topic are contradictory. Some agree with my understanding. Some say the opposite.

I have no idea whatsoever why that would be reason for you to turn this into a personal attack and justification for apparently your personal frustration with me. My understanding is you are British. You could more charitably chalk up any communication difficulties between us to cultural differences and to being "separated by the same language."
>... cut corners because things "seemed right" has a horrendous body count.

I don't disagree, but I would emphasize your phrase "cut corners". I think there's an diametrically opposite approach to health between "guessing for a cure" and "guessing for a cause".

People who used leeches to suck their blood out were "guessing it helped", where people who sought out clean air and clean water for say tuberculosis for example, weren't "guessing a cure", they knew clean air and water were good for you, even if it didn't cure the disease, it should at least help.

I think this same logic applies in the issue of obesity/[cancer|any health issue]. Maybe it's not a cure, but it can't hurt until we know more.
The blockchain can just be used to do PKI. People having cryptocurrency wallets installed means they have a private key, and when people have private keys you can do a whole lot of cool stuff.

My blockchain/IoT startup[0] primarily uses the blockchain as just that, a backend for PKI.

[0]: https://ethyl.io/
That's a complete bastardization of the concept of "trust" as applies to distributed systems.

You're not 'trusting' a single entity in that case because you're making literally all the information public for anyone to see, use, resell, etc.

That's like saying we shouldn't have to trust Equifax, let's just make everyone's name, address, SSN, and credit history public on the internet to begin with.
What extension is that?
I get why you would want some protections built in. If I registered Google.co.uk, and I don't have any legal basis on why I should own said domain, that domain should be transferrable to a valid trademark owner.

But if I'm called James Nissan, and I manage to register Nissan.com, then I shouldn't be forced to hand it over to Nissan the company. But they can buy it, sure.
That is an incredible catch. It does look like it pushes an update consistently a few times per hour it seems?
What works for me is to just put on a documentary and something about the monotone narration voice just shuts my brain down. I don't even pay attention to the words. I'm generally asleep within minutes. I assume audio books might have the same effect.

I guess it might be related to my young childhood as I had parents who would almost always read to my brother and me at bedtime. So possibly there's a part of my brain that has associated falling asleep to the sound of a voice speaking.
Yeah! Any technology that affects the lives of millions of people in potential harmful ways should die because it gets to the front page of my favourite news aggregator TWO days in a row!
Why download OpenJDK manually when you can install it from the repos on every Linux?
Okay, then just wait and see what will kill Facebook, since you already described what killed previous networks.

I personally think what will kill Facebook is simply maturing internet and hence maturing people that use it. Most people (family) I had on Facebook deleted all their likes, and pages their follow, and artists they listening to; my brother told me "I have no idea why I added this dude guess I was young". Eventually I bet 30% of Facebook will wake up to privacy abuse FB made its business, and will move on.

Disclaimer: my view can be distorted, since I'm building a new social network.
Yes, but much of the Wayback Machine’s reddit content was specifically targeted and scraped by ArchiveTeam, who are volunteers that seek out at-risk content from the web and make sure that it gets into the Wayback. In the past few years we’ve specifically tried to go after sub-reddits that we thought were newsworthy and/or at high risk for deletion. But there’s no way we can get all of it.

But you can help! If you have extra server space/bandwidth or you can spare $40/month, we can add more pipelines:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot

Source: am ArchiveTeam member, run various pipelines, have scraped sub-reddits ranging from The_Donald to the cryptocurrency worlds to darknet markets.
I haven't found the musl flavour of Void particularly buggy; using the musl variant will limit your range of installable packages though since some applications have hard glibc requirements (and many require some sort of patching to work with musl, which can range from trivial to very difficult).
Scuttlebutt seems like an interesting implementation of a decentralised social network:

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
Facebook's killer feature is the people, not anything else. Everything else is worthless without people and nobody is going to unseat Facebook with some technological solution unless they can convince people to use it and make it dead simple to use.
Which I guess means you had to be super silent when doing physical hardware maintenance?
While I loved Ghost when it was launched, I've replaced my site with Hugo instead. Hugo + Netlify is free as in beer, and is a much better deal IMO. [1]

[1]: https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-netlify/
Ok so that would be a year and three quarters from where we are right now. This time frame is a veritable blink of an eye in the planning horizon of a large automaker. It implies that they have everything pretty much designed and ready to go right now and are just waiting for battery prices to drop.
Even before encryption, just what is plain public is scary. I'm really worried of AI scraping all my social media profiles and linking them together.

As soon as AI understands more of the content, it will be easy to tie accounts together by obscure data points like "active on HN and has been in a small village in southern brasil in late 2012."

Anything that is public by default is a problem, especially if combined with the private messages of whatever you use most (FB/whatsapp/telegram).
Alpine is musl only; Void has both glibc and musl variants. Void seems more desktop-focussed than Alpine, and (at least as of a year ago) I didn't have a lot of luck with ZFS on Alpine.
I don't think granular is the right word here. Android defines something like 150 permissions, so granularity is there.

The issue is (in old versions of Android) you cannot be selective about which ones you grant.

The relevance is that when it comes to transparency, the big dialog of all permissions can disclose a fair amount of detail to the user about exactly what they're being asked to allow.
Manipulated or not, that is how people feel. The sentiment is real and that has real world implications.
hmm interesting! I find it terrible, and their constant removal of features... i mean you need a damn tweak tool to make it semi usable!
My first startup needed that, specifically querying for exact hits for names, companies, etc. The inference that Google did at the time was too inaccurate for this use case (not to mention my use case being against their ToS). I ended up building a custom engine with Lucene/Solr and creating a custom Tokenizer to be more strict
Fair, but GP's argument transfers perfectly to non-interactive media. They may have good points, but you still have to be careful trying to apply their ideas to the real world.
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As many others indicated, static sites are much better unless you need dynamic features. Static sites make deployments much easier, doesn't depend on any OS/runtime, doesn't lock you in to a particular database. You just write markdown and with little to no modification, the same thing could just work on Hugo, or Jekyll.
Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn't exist'
Gibson's cyberspace is a terrifying place where corporations, who execute total control over financial reality, operate centralized computer systems powerful enough to fry a human mind. It's not about a decentralized execution model.
An SAP consultant once told me that his preferred technique of averting long-winded and pointless discussions about irrelevant details was to insert random delays into his code. That way, instead of discussing irrelevant details, people would get upset about the performance. He would then sigh, dramatically, and say he would see what he could do, remove a few lines, spend the rest of the day reading the news, and - importantly - billing the customer.
Thanks. 10 years from now it will surface Google through their arm 23andme was building your health profile and share it with health providers you shopped with. Since they don't have same data on me as on product50, the cost of my insurance will be mediocre and his will be thru the roof.

And if you don't believe me, Edward Snowden would like to have a word with you.
Hows duck duck go in this realm?
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Or you can just put all your stuff in a single Sieve filter.
YC does not need to sell anything. HN is a service offered by YC: a news and discussion platform service.
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Blockchain doesn't store data themselves. We would end up with petabytes of new blockchain data every day otherwise.
Have we seen proof for this to be the case?

I see people make that argument all the time...it’s a good sounding hypothesis...but does it actually work? Is there data that shows that this was done and that it was impactful?