skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is highly unreasonable. If I'm hosting large files, you bet I'm going to require the public to create an account so I can protect my quality of service for others. They're not restricting who can create accounts... they're not requiring a payment...
i have yet to actually see an instance of when it is false. do you have an example?
I read these kind of comments all the time, yet I'm still to see one actual court case showing that this is true. Are you really sure that this is true?
HyperCard is why I'm a developer today, and it's precisely because it was such an egalitarian tool. I was a (human) language geek as a child, but I loved using computers. I downloaded a bunch of neat stacks other people had made, and I was able to open them up and see how they ticked — eventually I realised that I could make my own stacks, and make the computer do things for me, too!

I do worry that HyperTalk ruined me in the same way the Dijkstra asserted BASIC ruined programmers of his era, but I have a good job and seem to write good software so I don't worry about it too hard.

I really worry for kids these days: JavaScript + HTML is nowhere near as friendly an environment as HyperCard was. What's a clever kid going to use as a programming environment now?
Bad apples are everywhere. It will be poor judgement to prejudice with these limited facts. Business war is everywhere, some entrepreneurs are taking it just too far in pressure to pursue the baseless goals.
This line of reasoning seems to forget that the ultimate control belongs to the customer. Thus we see Facebook taking a big hit for collecting personal information people assumed was private.
Sure there are always going to be a ton of exceptions but we are light years past where we were just 5 years ago.
Summary of limited GitLab credentials exposed in an internal logging system
I'm not sure if all the slides in this are supposed to be examples of what to do but some issues:

1. Tiny text. If your audience can't read it - don't include it. This seems to be everywhere. My most hated phrase in a talk is "you can't see this but". See here: https://imgur.com/a/1B8j6 I can barely read this close up on a high quality screen. Are your audience really going to be able to read https://imgur.com/a/2YtMF on a projector?

I always feel if I'm at a talk and someone shows me something I'm not supposed to be able to see that they don't care enough about the talk.

2. Colourblindness.

There's a colouring on clustering: https://imgur.com/a/d0P6T

And here it is if you're red/green colourblind: https://imgur.com/a/1g8vc

An easy way to work with this is see if your slides work when black and white.

3. Tables https://imgur.com/a/KLNtQ

Are you really trying to get across 40 pieces of information? If not, why have so much stuff here? Even if so, please don't centre all your columns!
> Most likely the latter. Facebook is for "old people" according to younger family members. However, they're all over Facebook's other properties.

However, all those were acquisitions. I think Facebook's doomed if it's ever prevented from buying rival social networks. I think trend cycles can throw a wrench in network effects, and Facebook's too established to really innovate in this category.
Facebook Heading Toward Worst Month Since August 2012
When you install a package, nuget will install old dependencies of that package.
Digg and IE "died" because there was a real practical incentive to move towards alternatives. This Facebook thing is mostly ideological at the core, in terms of day-to-day user experience it's no better or worse than it was a month ago. Digg also never was more than a small speck of dust compared to Facebook, even at the apex of its popularity. Facebook's huge network effect is hard to overcome.

If you want Facebook to die you have to come up with an alternative with improved usability to convince people to switch over. Now you have do that with the added handicap of "do no evil" (so less money from targeted advertising etc...) while fighting to gain market share against some of the biggest companies in the world. My guess is that if you manage to do all of that you'll just end up bought by Facebook anyway.
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"who cares about the national debt"

This can easily be fixed with some more tax cuts if you believe the GOP.
While separate repos do make sense for individual projects normally, as we well know, most Windows components are incredibly tightly bound together (how many different things can crash Explorer?) so a mono-repo seems to make sense for it.
They also need to take more effective steps to allow them to claw back coins which were mined by bad actors. IIRC, they currently rake funds every few hours, allowing those bad actors to get away with most of the coins they mine before they get caught.
> However, soon thereafter rogue actors started using Coinhive for malicious things and I'm now at a point where I don't feel like continuing on the game.

Can you expand on this? How are they using it maliciously in your game?

Also, did you get a sense for whether it's a viable alternative to ads?
Oh but that regulation is on the chopping block right now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/10-years-aft...
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What questions should I ask the engineering team I'm going to manage?
Tomorrow I have an on-site interview with the members of a software development team I might become the manager of.

What kind of questions should I ask each of them to learn as much as I can about the role and indicate that I'm an effective tech leader?
They use VSTS, that is certainly dogfooding if not anything else. As for the VCS, they probably want something distributed, and Microsoft has no distributed version control system. I'm sure there are other reasons too.
Is there an alternate universe where our tax dollars aren't being flushed down the toilet on things like this?
50 big companies that were started with little or no money
My friends from Germany, Switzerland, and France all primarily use WhatsApp I've no idea why.
I find it pretty common for people to tell me I'm not on the spectrum when I reveal it, as if in 5 minutes they have a better handle on me than I do. It's helped me understand just how annoying "mansplaining" can be (even when it's done by a woman.)
It definitely shows that his "deal making" abilities are not as great as he thinks.
Random Search vs. Model-Free RL
> Both were equally attractive, smart, fun, and pleasant.

They are not. Being "millionaire serial founder" will induce specific personality traits, and now it is up to you which type of women you prefer.
But... don't you remember how cool Obama was? He loved his blackberry!
Expecting reliable 7% returns seems extremely optimistic to me (I'm fairly certain our 100-year growth rate cannot and will not be sustained). Certainly the market hasn't returned that much during my lifetime.

If the stock market returns 4% instead of 7%, you'd need $10M in the bank to keep up with 3% inflation and return $100K/yr. $5M for $50K/yr. And one typically moves one's assets into lower-risk/lower-return investments as one approaches retirement.

Given my family's longevity, I need to plan for survival till about 100 y/o. With increasing costs over time due to aging-related costs (even if I spend $50K/yr now, paying for assisted living or home aides plus of course medical care could easily bring that up past $100K). And an assumption that social security will not exist in any meaningful form by the time I reach retirement age.

Yes, 60 vs. 65 was an enormous exaggeration, but right now I intend to save nearly $100K for every year of planned retirement. $2.5M would cover 25 years of retirement. At $50k/yr in savings, that leaves me with 2 years of work for every year before 75 I want to retire. So: I still need to work another (2/3 * (75 - $current_age)) years (minus savings too date, of course). Without the $2.5M, the equation would be (2/3 * (100 - $current_age)). So it allows for retirement ~17 years earlier than originally planned.

And yes, saving that much is unrealistic for the vast majority of Americans. I suspect we're headed for an enormous retirement-related social/economic crisis in the next few decades.
Apart from communicating with very close friends and relatives, social interaction can be quite difficult and exhausting, to the point where I self-analyse what I have previously said, and how weirdly people may have received it. Only alcohol makes me more "social" to strangers. Strong sense for justice, yes.
That's a good example, +1. But I have bigger issue with their cookie abuse.

Initially cookie was designed to help website track you around THEIR website; it wasn't design to track you around the WHOLE internet. While it may be in Facebook spirit of "hacking things" and "breaking things", I'm surprised EU and US have not come up with strict rules and regulations on how cookies can be utilized.

I remember in EU Facebook tried to argue that they track you around web for your safety and security but I'm unsure how much water it hold.
> I'm very obviously saying why does his legal process continue to be news, not whether he deserves to have legal proceedings.

It's news because he has the money to bring the blatant abuses made in attempting to prosecute him to light. Instead of vague accusations of prosecutorial caprice, he's got the resources to document and prove how egregiously broken the system has been in handling his case.

When the process can be used as a substitute for the punishment, the system is broken.

> It's not like he's some principled crusader fighting for a precedent that affects all of us.

He very much is fighting for a precedent that affects all of us. And it really seems like you don't think people should stand up for or publicize those principles if the accused is an unsavory individual. Why don't we stand up for more principled people instead? I think we would, if one of them had the resources to bring the injustices into the light. The fact is, it is so incredibly rare that a person both has the resources and is willing to spend them in a fight to reveal these kinds of unscrupulous prosecutions. He would probably be better off right now if he had just rolled over and copped a plea, but we would all be worse off because the authorities wouldn't be held accountable.
I would have thought so, too--it just sort of happened :)
I think this comment highlights exactly why legislation like the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was made. Anti-gun people generally don't know much about firearms, and can be appeased by the banning of cosmetic features, like folding stocks or rifles with a pistol grip, without notably affecting constitutional rights, as the potency of the weapon is not affected.
Any company that places the wants of the shareholders above the customers risks losing their customer base (see Facebook).
> It's not standard to medicate for autism, FYI

Autistic people are routinely over-medicated, and that over medication one reason for the difference in life-span for autistic people.
dude that windows key always messed me up, esp because my computer was a load of crap, and it took hella days to minimize/maximize the window again, usually I had to reboot the machine.
I imagine Google is much worse.

I was hoping they would be caught, by the SEC, looking at certain peoples data, and do what privileged boys do best; trade stocks/bonds well.

But, I guess, they are making enough on advertising.
> Other packages managers use the opposite of minimal version selection. Many of them even have a don't make me thing command to update the whole dependency tree (e.g., `npm update`).

vgo does have that too: vgo get -u
> Additionally, many of the 75,000 temporary apartments are pied-à-terres, weekend or vacation crash pads for the rich, up from just 9,282 in 1987.

And 3x that number that are vacant for pretty questionable reasons.
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Absolutely. The autistic person will effectively understand social cues only at an academic level, after effort teaching him or her. Autists can also be shy or not, by the way.

They can interact freely and happily with others socially but miss cues in ways a shy person won't. For example, if a shy person has overcome their shyness and their play partner starts crying the shy person will empathize and possibly even try to get help, while the autistic person is as likely to simply walk away because their play partner is no longer providing stimulus.

It's difficult to describe in a comment on HN, but even mildly autistic behavior in this regard is very obviously different from normal behavior.
Uauu! 4+ minutes.

Try to build a C++ or Android project and then go for lunch instead.

NuGET is great.
all of the following points are perfectly clear:

Uber is guilty of killing Elaine Herzberg.
Uber's hardware and/or software failed.
Many people at Uber need to be fired.
The Arizona officials who greenlit testing need to resign.
One or more people need to be prosecuted.
The SAE Automation Classification System is vague and unsafe.
Uber is the Theranos of self-driving.
Volvo—one of the few car makers that truly cares about safety—is innocent and shouldn't be in bed with their craven opposites.

Thst sounds about right, especially the culpability, need for firings and resignations, and especially prosecutions. I really don’t see any of it happening, but it should.
Open - the status of the case is "open", meaning it is under active investigation.

Non-public - you already know this :)
I've started using audiobooks to help me sleep. Listening to the book keeps my thoughts from wandering and I'm usually able to fall asleep within 30 minutes or so this way. Podcasts and even a spoken bible work well too. Without these my thoughts wander too much and it can take an hour or more to fall asleep.
You summarized the tweet with the same amount of words.

Anyway, I don't think he cares about it as much as you think. He knows who his voters are. He also is aware that it makes people like you irritated so that you keep talking about him, which keeps him in the news.
What do you look for that only 3-4 people who applied are able to demonstrate? Interested to learn from your experience.
Step One: Eye contact (sustained)
Step Two: "Hello!"
Step Three: <customize in situ>
Yea, but as to the comic, man sometimes you really do just need to get some fucking work done. If I sent an openLibre document around to my company, well, that would be dumb.
There's a surprising amount of super-detailed material on the state of the US Armed Forces:

https://www.armed-services.senate.gov

You can do a "wikipedia dive" on that site and take away a depth of understanding that, honestly, probably exceeds 99% of political commentators'.
My answer is most likely out of context and off-topic but have you checked the Nerves Project[0]?

Apologies if this is not helpful.

[0] https://nerves-project.org
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Or you could just download a ton of movies because you're a collector of digital stuff, and simply never watch it.
More like shades of black.
There's a substantial difference between a result that is incorrect, but believed to be correct and one that is known to be incorrect, but presented as correct.

The former is an error that probably requires the manufacturer to inform the FDA and send out a Customer Letter (a low-level form of product recall). The latter is fraud.
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." --Bill Gates
> Do you think there another social media platform out there benefiting from the deletefacebook move?

Probably every other one; especially those that directly compete with Facebook/Messenger in terms of use-case, or those that target more tech-savvy people, or those worried about privacy (ei, Signal, I'd assume Nextdoor since I'd guess it competes heavily with Facebook Groups, though I wonder if Snapchat too, since it competes mainly with Instagram which surprisingly I've heard little about).

> Or is this the perfect time to start one?

Maybe? Building a startup takes a while and it's unclear wether this is a temporary hit to Facebook or something more long-lasting. I personally think it's temporary-- being from outside the US I don't think this level of angst against Facebook is universal, but I might be wrong. Just like most people here, my evidence is anecdotal.

The privacy-savy people spearheading #deletefacebook are a good market to start, though keep in mind they'll scrutinize the business model a lot more. If twitter is any indication, as of yesterday there's a good 50,000 vocal people who deleted facebook as of yesterday (minus people just tweeting about the trend, plus people who delete and don't tweet, plus people who deleted it before the #deletefacebook hashtag) [1].

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/6958e119-50eb-49f8-825...
Are you the person that went through all that hunting and enjoyed the process or rather other people spent their evening by that work?

Facebook is killing communication and friendship much less then 80 hours a week work schedule combined with long commute and with people changing jobs every 2 years on average. And maybe add to it nearly complete isolation after people have children. If any moment not spend with work or personal project is considered lazy, relationships have to go away.
For all the talk of "fiscal conservatism", Reagan was the first post-war president to drastically increase the national debt - he increased the debt by 186% due to insane deficit spending.[1] After Bush Sr. added another 1.5 trillion, Clinton was the most fiscally conservative president in modern times, adding only 32% to the debt after 8 years. GWB of course again increased the debt by 101% and also fuelled a trillion dollar war which destabilised the entire middle east.

Obama, facing the biggest recession in a century(which requires government spending to stimulate the economy) only increased the debt 74% after 8 years. The amount he added to the debt over 8 years is likely to be surpassed by Trump in just 4.

If there's one relatively fiscal conservative party in the US, it's definitely not the GOP. Yet the media just takes at their word and continues to associate them with fiscal conservatism.

[1] - https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-an...
Yes. OP: please stop. It's OK to share your stuff, but please don't be spammy about it—this a community site.
I would think the negative sentiment in the tech sphere would hurt them more on inability to continue hiring the best talent... Granted, that is assuming that most people can't be bought, which is unfortunately probably not the case.
Professionals have their own colloquialisms wrt 'bankruptcy', which differs from a laypersons use of the word.

Ch 7 bankruptcy is what most laypeople call 'bankruptcy', which usually applies to individuals (but can apply to corporations). I am aware that Ch 11 is under the US bankruptcy code.

However, bankruptcy in this context (headlines), as used by distressed debt journalists, lawyers, bankers and investors, refers to CH 11 not Ch 7. They'd refer to Ch 7 as 'Ch 7 bankruptcy'. Ch 11 just goes by 'Ch 11' or simply 'bankruptcy'.
Does that come back to the federal funding in any way or do universities capture it all? Maybe there should be a stipulation that university profits above a certain threshold originating from federally funded research should help pay back the grant. That would allow more of the funding to be reused (akin to Kiva's microlending), and wean the system off of taxpayers.
> The FDA is necessary but I do think it could stand to adopt a little bit of the Silicon Valley ethos

They're moving closer to the "move-fast" thinking (although not the "break things" part fortunately) under the new administration:
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21739157-drug-regulat...
I don't think the bad things Zenefits did were essential to their success. Those exams just aren't that hard; it would have cost them thousands of dollars per person (in time/wages) to run people through them the correct way.
The simulation hypothesis is fun, but not what this article is about at all. The input to our senses is real - they originate from outside the mind. Even if we are just brains in vat or whatever, the sensory input still originate from outside the mind itself, which make them real as opposed to dreams or hallucinations which originate in the mind. The rest is just metaphysics and don't change anything (unless you are able to escape to the "outer" world like in the Matrix, but then you are just back to square one, philosophically speaking).

George Berkely examined an even simpler hypothesis - there is no "outer world" and neither is there any simulation: The sensory input is simply generated directly by God. But again, if you follow this line of thinking it doesn't actually change anything. Reality is still just as real.

In any case, the experienced reality does not "look like" the sensory input, they are simply not comparable like this. Do certain wavelengths of light "look red"? Yes, but only because this is how our mind process this input.
This is what you get with no oversight, tons of money, s lot of arrogance, and a focus on “hustle” over anything else. It definitely works for a while, but when it comes crashing down it’s going to take out a lot of innocent players with it.
would "surprisal" work?
There are a number of ways of paying for a social network. Among them:

- Ads

- Subscriptions

- Loss leader for another product

- Microtransactions

Facebook does ads.

Subscriptions hurt network effects.

Google+ ran into a brick wall of network effects.

Nobody uses Flattr, and it's hard to imagine people paying a buck for video filters or other premium features.

It'd be great to solve the problem without building another Facebook, but my best guess is that if Facebook goes down someone else builds another system basically identical to Facebook and we all have this conversation again 10 years in the future.
I wasn't summarizing; I was reiterating.
> If that's true, solve that problem directly via education and enforcing transparency.

This doesn't always apply. Should car regulations be abolished in favor of educating the ignorant?
> By subsidising otherwise prohibitively expensive mobile data connections for Facebook traffic only, Facebook has become the internet in many countries.

I like to see how much revenue Facebook gets from those countries vs. the US and Western Europe.

> Competing with something this deeply entrenched would be difficult

I don't think anything you listed makes FB so entrenched that's it's invulnerable. Facebook's big strengths are network effects and its pile of cash, but its weakness is that it's a leisure item in a somewhat trend-driven market. All the money in the world can't keep something fashionable forever.
I like this the idea of showing the most common use cases for a git command (or at the very least, a valuable use case), separating the sections by building out the flags and options.

The git man pages, while thorough, don't provide anything this concise. I could easily add these commands as aliases, which I appreciate.