skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I see how having an open mind could help with finding opportunities in life and make someone 'luckier' in a certain sense, but at the same time I also feel that there's still a huge portion of success that's down to things well outside of someone's control.

I mean, I often write about underrated creators on sites like YouTube, and while there's definitely some semblance of a correlation between marketing effort and success, it's very much a minor one overshadowed by a lot of other things. I know plenty of people who worked far harder than I ever could, and ended up struggling with only a few followers as well as people who seemingly just lucked into success purely from one random friend having existing popularity.

And I suspect it's similar outside of the internet too. There's a correlation between open mindedness and trying hard and promoting yourself and success, but it's not an absolute one and often overshadowed by a lot of other things.
> Less top talent will want to be associated with facebook.

I don't necessarily consider myself top-talent, but I'm personally avoiding facebook's open source projects (e.g. React) because I don't approve of their company values.
what if they post lower growth rates?
> I think Facebook's doomed if it's ever prevented from buying rival social networks

Yeah, good luck electing FDR (or even a lite version) in the USA for the next decades.
I would argue my pets tie me down more and cause me more stress than my job. My job doesn't interfere with my ability to take trips much, but having to board my pets does.
>Less top talent will want to be associated with facebook

How certain is this? Whether you like what Facebook does or not, you can't deny their engineering talent is top tier. I don't even use Facebook but I'd still want to work there just to work with the people there and the environment. Companies like Facebook and Google are pretty engineer friendly, more so than other companies. I don't think this event will be the tipping point for top talent to leave Facebook.
Apple doesn’t use your data for asdvertisements.
The author's arguments abut the optimal form of perception for survival remind me of Cuvier's faulty argument against evolution: change is impossible because every species is optimally designed for its niche in life, and would become extinct if it changed in any way. This is both factually incorrect, and irrelevant under the reality of environmental change.
re-frame in ClojureScript is probably the best frontend library I've ever worked with. Solves a lot of the unit-testability problem of UIs.

However, after spending some time with it, literally everything else now feels dramatically inferior.
It's the association risk. As much as we like to say there shouldn't be any guilt in association, humans aren't really wired that way.
> Steve says An­droid is Google’s most im­por­tant chan­nel. That’s on­ly if you don’t mea­sure by mon­ey. From a busi­ness point of view, AdWords is five times more im­por­tant than any­thing else.

Even that's misquoting Yegge, he in fact said:

>> Android is probably Google’s most important channel — if not today, then certainly over the next ten years.

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/who-will-steal-android-from-...

He's not even saying it's a more important channel than search today but something that has the potential to be in the next decade.

Additionally after rereading Yegge's post, I don't see anywhere he asserted AdWords is a channel either, which it clearly isn't. He states channels are merely a proxy for ads or it's "little sister" paid subscriptions.

And when you're speaking of channels, as something entirely distinct from ads/subscriptions, then it's clear they must be things customers want: positive experiences, good content, social gratification, etc. Aka, good products. Users are not just a faceless question mark before + "impressions for ads money = profit". It takes hard work to keep users happy in order to even have the opportunity to show them ads or sell them subs. So you're entirely correct here.

Google is very much in the business of customer happiness, as much as they are in the business of keeping advertisers happy on the other end. They are not merely middlemen for advertisers... they control plenty of channels.

Which I believe is based in a common myth about businesses in general, popular among anti-capitalist political ideologies: that industry is only about "making money" - as if that is somehow distinct from providing value to customers. Absent a central body ala governments or in some cases monopolies, it's impossible to make money without providing value in return, aka keeping 'end-users' happy.
aka "Traction Park". Went there a couple times in the 80's. That place rocked, but it was, uh, a little unsafe.
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So while it seems like $100B dollars is a large sum, it's really about 12% ish of the market valuation. Yes it hurts, but no, it's not the end of the company.

Think of it this way. How much money will FB have to spend to rebrand itself and fix the privacy issues. $1 Billion, maybe $2 Billion?

You can do a lot with $2B dollars.
React is open-source it will live on.

But to address your underlying implication that Facebook is going down, as much as many of us would like to believe otherwise, this will blow over in a matter of weeks. Facebook will emerge out the other side stronger than ever. The outrage machine of the internet is working well lately, but it's still mostly toothless. Even potential regulator or court involvement is unlikely to result in more than a token slap on the wrist if history is any guide. People have too short a collective memory and attention span to produce long-lasting changes. Look at Volkswagon, stronger than ever after going through much harsher public outrage and regulatory action.

I'm tempted to buy Facebook stock, on the premise that people seem to be overeacting and that's always a potential for profit. I strongly dislike Facebook personally, and don't have a Facebook account.
Google has a much better public profile than Facebook. In the eyes of the public, Facebook is a good deal more "evil" than Google.
No, don't skip it, particularly in random situations.

If someone isn't making _actual_ eye contact with you, they're not open to being talked to. Simple as that.

If you're good enough at reading body language and talking to random people that this advice doesn't seem true.... this is probably not advice that you need. If you're like me and couldn't figure out how to determine this through other means - or are rather fearful of intruding - well, it's a real handy rubric.
If top talent working somewhere was enough to keep top talent from leaving, then no company that employed top talent would ever loose their position without missing payroll.
1. What did you learn in the last 6 months that was super exciting?
2. What's on your todo list for the next 3 months?
3. Who are the engineer(s) you learn from most / admire the most?
4. What can QA / DevOps do to make you more productive?
5. What can your manager do to make you more productive / happy?
I mean, Facebook is losing money right now, but I don't think they're going anywhere.

But, for the sake of argument, let's say everyone deletes their account and Facebook goes away. React is open source. The people from Facebook working on React would probably just get jobs with some other company that relies on React and continue working on React.
It seems like this could have been a grizzly endeavor.
Sometimes deleting code isn't enough and you have to do a rewrite. I once rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I just used the one that was already on the computer.
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What are you talking about? They already settled a civil lawsuit for ~20 million with the park and engineering firms very shortly after it happened. This is the criminal case.
If you hate the company, don't invest. If you're non-fussed but think it will return to it's glory days invest. If you love the company, invest.

You aren't the only one who doesn't like the company, it "can" be taken as a negative signal and suggest the company will continue to lose.

How many people LOVE facebook? I don't think they really exist anymore. Apple has it's haters, but it also has it's fans. Google has more haters than fans.

Of course, we're talking about more mature companies here, so the upside is not as great, the downside could have a real impact.

Of course, you have to consider FB as more than FB. If you loved Occulus, I'd say maybe invest. Big fan of Whatsapp, maybe invest.

There should be other opportunities to invest in things you do like that you would be proud to own.
There's about a 0% chance of a company that doesn't license or open up their platform not having a credible rival, because by default, there's a huge open market they're leaving on the table. This is the same with Tesla, and why Tesla cannot be more than a niche member of the EV market in the long run.

If anything, the companies we need to worry about are those who offer extensible "open" platforms that build partnerships with most of the industry, while retaining control and decisionmaking authority over them all.
But braking on a highway might not be the best response in all circumstances.
Let me say some more. Maybe you are not trying to undermine decentralization, but if so I am still angry at you. Let me explain why.

The article is about why we need to decentralize. This is an important issue, and so we need to have a discussion to decide whether or not this is the right course of action. And we have this great resource, an internet comment section, in which to discuss it. And you are a netizen, so you should think about it and add in any useful comments you might have.

Instead you made a comment that derails the conversation off onto a track that it seems to me isn't useful. I see this happen a lot here at HN. There is a lot of useful discussion, but so often there are also people who make comments that derail the discussion, provoke an argument that isn't really relevant. I wish every commenter would first think out what is the basic issue at stake, and avoid making comments that lead to disputes that are off track from what needs to be discussed and decided.
Facebook's officially stated approach of "it's the user's decision" is right, in my view.

The problem is that they were, and are, insincere in saying that. The user has no option to say NOPE I'm not giving you, that, that, that and that. No way to see what something does before giving them anything at all.

If that was done right users would have the choice.

Failing that Facebook is culpable.

The trouble with the culpable or "rule of law" approach though is that it's up to politicians, maybe bored law enforcement people, maybe some bribery and corruption. i.e. it generally works poorly if at all, all too often it achieves the opposite.

I say avoid legislation and give individuals their own control. Real control.
I'll try.

Unit testing frontends is hard because to create a test case, you must simulate a human user's behavior (clicks/taps on a UI) which is inherently complex, and has a lot of possible variations, and then test the correctness of the response the system displays as a human would perceive it. Just because the system sent back the correct data doesn't mean it was rendered in a way that the user can see/understand.

With non-user-facing systems, you can just send the input, and test computationally that the output fits the expected value or range of correct responses.

Of course, one could create a vision system that tested the response of a UI for correctness, but that would be ... super-hard.
What are you talking about? The NASDAQ was down 4% since last Friday. Facebook was down almost 20% from Friday this morning...
The most important thing is to understand is if the role is actually a 'lead' or 'manager'. Since it sounds like you're going onsite (at least partially) for the team to interview you, it doesn't sound like a manager role. (just based on my experience: lead roles you'll often be interviewed by the team, management roles not so much)
The father of the kid that died is a state legislator and he got a huge settlement.
I didn't know you could use it as a ssh public key. Thanks.
“Snoot Mountain”

I want a picture of this.
With notable exceptions (e.g. Therac-25, or self-driving cars) most of us have the luxury of working in spaces where mistakes may be annoying or costly, but not deadly.
All good arguments except for the end braces/LOC one. The visual cue is worth far more than the one line it takes up.
I am doing this right now, testing an idea for an app and learning how to make mobile apps in react native.
Yes. For new readers, suggestion for this article: start with the last sentence. Then skim the article re AI. Then respond. So we don't have to keep saying/hearing "Why not both?". The author's take is: both!
I can think of maybe 2 or 3 cities where minimum wage is anywhere near that high. And at least one of them that's coming close, Los Angeles, you absolutely need a car. New York, maybe San Francisco or Portland, you could reliably get around without a car.
Its almost like completely different problems have completely different design constraints... There are plenty of "real" engineers who design stuff that have very little safety implications, such as optimizing electrical boards or minimizing costs in manufacturing.
Facebook isn't going anywhere for a long time. They'll retain the privacy-clueless fossils with FB. They'll keep the aspirational set with IG. Anything even remotely competitive or alternative they'll just throw cash at and snap up.
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FB‘s open source projects are one of the few things they are doing right, so why avoid them? AFAIK the licenses are ok, so they are interchangeable in the end as maintainers.
If facebook’s engineering talent is top tier, then how come I have to recommend to everyone to delete that awful battery draining app.
This comment is probably missing the biggest part of the problem: The vast number of end devices that will need to present the UI. Even if you're building for iOS, there's several different devices that you need to account for, each with their own quirks, shapes (notches?). But once you go talking Android or web, you're talking about hundreds of potential niche cases, and all of these can change on a yearly basis.
AFIK, thats not unit testing. When you can write unit tests, they are usually lighter, faster to run and easier to maintain. You would use Selenium for integration testing.
So are many countries in Europe. Look at East vs West Germany or Catalonia vs Extremadura
Xiami phones have two officials ROM from the manufacturer, chinese and international.

The chinese ROM is Asian languages and English only. It is loaded with the usual Asian apps instead of google play. The phone is not usable out of the box for a westerner, for instance you don't have a typical English keyboard. You can install google play by following the instructions.

The international ROM has 10+ European languages. It comes with google play and the usual apps pre installed.

Both ROM can be downloaded from the manufacturer website but you need special hardware and possibly an unlock code to swap them.

It's possible that the importer gave an international version that is perfectly legit, or that he installed google play by himself, which is also legit. The ROM can be checked in the about page.

Some re sellers might replace the system with a fake OS loaded with adware/spyware but that's a different problem.
Oh please - the overreaction from this is ridiculous.

I'm buying FB call options.

Facebook's network effect is extremely strong - this is also not even including their other assets (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus).

The API access was in violation of terms of service and the ability to access data through friends via the FB graph has already been closed.
A dual-income tech salary may well qualify as rich. The median household income in MA is about $75,000 (much higher than the national median). That's also about what the median software developer is paid. (https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer/...)
I'll grant you that, but it doesn't make it any less hilarious :P
Unfortunately, even if Facebook were to collapse into a sinkhole and disappear tomorrow, the general takeaway for the sort of person who would abuse user data will be "be unethical, make billions of dollars over a decade, jump ship when shit catches up with you and get off scott free!"

It's not exactly a fable that discourages repeats of history.
Right. They settled for ~20 million shortly after it happened. The Kansas attorney general also took over the investigation.

Still not understanding why the criminal indictment isn't for the designer or owner who are mentioned several times...
Facebook did not lack sound advice from competent executives, they just didn't have the spine to do the right thing, because money.

One central tension at Facebook has been that of the legal and policy teams versus the security team. The security team generally pushed for more disclosure about how nation states had misused the site, but the legal and policy teams have prioritized business imperatives, said the people briefed on the matter.

“The people whose job is to protect the user always are fighting an uphill battle against the people whose job is to make money for the company,” said Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook enforcing privacy and other rules until 2012 and now advises a nonprofit organization called the Center for Humane Technology, which is looking at the effect of technology on people.

Alex Stamos, CSO is the one who led the internal tension for better disclosures and the need for Facebook to be more transparent. Of course, it is part of why he was forced to leave, as reported by the NYT [0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-...
My dad rode a cliffhanger type of slide at Action Park in the mid 80s. It had a plastic covering about 1/2 way down so you couldn't "fall off" the slide.

I'm still amazed to this day he did it because he's afraid of heights. It was easily 50' high. Fortunately, the only downside was it was like getting an enormous enema.

Those sled things that went down the concrete track, everyone has scars from those. Great memories but not remotely safe.

Great Adventure (Six Flags) wasn't as much fun but we all came back in one piece.
Only up to a point. In the real world, people move in multiple social spheres, and usually like to keep them separate. I think the same is true online. For example, some kids see Facebook as "the place their parents are," a place to act polite and keep things to themselves. After all, why are we "toasterlovin" and "username223" here?
1. If you can calculate rough bounds for the terms and their derivatives in the winding number integral, you can figure out how densely you need to sample the curve to calculate the integral exactly.

2. If the winding number is zero, there still might be a root in the region because poles and zeros contribute opposite winding number, and they might exactly cancel.

3. Polynomials are great because the bounds are easy to compute and because you don't have to worry about cancelation since the only pole is at infinity.
This is an open-source project, in case you don't feel like dropping your zip file in to your browser (even though it does run _in_ your browser):

https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook
The solution is not stop encouraging people to take extreme risks, it's to stop encouraging them to take risk that put others, and not them, at risk (and punish them if they do so).

All of the great services and products we use today came from extreme risk taking, it's the corner stone of entrepreneurship.
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Most places in the US, housing near transit options is pretty expensive. Further out, where you get to housing being affordable, is nowhere near transit.
> If you don't want to be indexed, you can just put the appropriate entry in robots.txt and all the major search engines will comply.

Just to be clear, it's not really Google's crawling that I meant to criticize, but rather the double standard employed by the majority of website owners that strengthens Google's monopoly. If anything, I wish more website owners wouldn't mind automated use and copying of their site from anyone and not just major players like Google.
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He is not a US citizen, so he is not a example of what we are talking about. I'll not go into Habeas Corpus, but you might be interested in how that works, even for him.

Also, the first paragraph of the second link says "(other than citizens, nationals or permanent residents of the United States)". Wikipedia is never a source, but it's correct here.

US Citizens, in the US, who have not violated US law, are not subject to the laws of any other country. That's the point of having sovereignty.
That's not really true.

They had been building and operating rides with similar mechanics (e.g. uphill sections with boosters) for years.

They opened the original Master Blaster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e2p6Qw4yIE) in 1996.
I don't think you really need the best of the best programmers to keep Facebook running. Other than the infrastructure needed to support the massive number of users Facebook has, I doubt the rest of the work done over there is really much more difficult than work done anywhere else. And I doubt they'll have to improve the infrastructure very much any more, seeing as they've much got as many users now as they ever are going to have. If anything it will get easier over time as more and more people leave the platform.
Which they covers up by altering the reports.
P&G actually cut their digital ad spend : http://www.adweek.com/digital/procter-gamble-cut-140-million...

> “Digital ad spending was lower versus a high base period and due to current period choices to temporarily restrict spending in digital forums where our ads were not being placed according to our standards and specifications,” the company said in its earnings

I suspect that FB targeted ads are not as useful for larger companies (who are generally advertising for awareness) compared to smaller or niche companies (where the target audience may be well defined).
> that have been defined in the industry that we couldn't find good reasons for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton%27...
It is sarcasm
There's a specific government-controlled list for opting out of credit card offers (task yourself to re-fill it out every 5 years). It really works, I don't get them anymore. I have not tried the permanent opt-out, because maybe in the future I do want offers, so I do the 5 year one.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolici...
Did they really need to screw up? I think we're all on the same page here, it doesn't matter who you are or how much of a fuck up you are, if you're going up against the MAFIAA, pretty much everyone's on your side :P
There is the ruby version, that others mentioned and there is also the go implementation: https://github.com/VictorNine/bitwarden-go
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Both. I think it's deplorable to censor something without understanding it; I also think it's deplorable to plot to disable the free exercise of peoples' right to self defense. Furthermore, in direct response to the earlier question, I think the fact that an overreaching and vague policy can be pushed out is indicative of a bigger problem in their policy-making procedure.
I'd just like to thank you for building something like this! As someone who uses Youtube rss feeds and also likes Hooktube, this is something I've been needing for a while.