skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your definition of success in this context is purely about the number of people involved? That doesn't make sense and is extremely scary. Is Donald Trump also a success, since he got nearly 100% of the world talking about him and paying attention to him?

There is a lot more to success than attention and time and adoring fans spending their life using your services and talking about you. If that is your definition of success, then humanity will "success" its way to death faster than ever with such successful people like Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump uniting us all.

These are not successful people. They are plagues on society and the attention they get from billions of people is harmful, not an indicator or even the defining metric of success.

Edit:

In response to the comment below (since I am no longer allowed to post on HN, maybe too many downvotes?)

> Donald Trump, Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg are highly successful.

Really? It doesn't seem to me like any of them have met their goals yet or are even remotely close. Maybe we should ask them what their goals are? Donald sounds 100% miserable every day. Was it his goal to be so upset and miserable all the time?

Facebook and Mark sound equally sad and messed up and dealing with major major issues that would make any person feel like they're doing really hard things and are nowhere near success.
The U.K. gets a “paid” holiday?

So why are salaries in the U.K. so much lower than the US?

Seems like the only one paying for holidays is the worker.
I keep hearing that analogy but it doesn't really hold water. Telephone companies don't coerce you into becoming an addict, manipulating their UIs so that you subconsciously associate their platforms with the words "friend" and "like", shove controversy and irrelevant comments from strangers into your feed so that you get annoyed and feel like you're missing out when you clearly stated that you want a chronological ordering of what your close friends and family posted, and then innocently call it "engagement" or "connecting people". So no, it's not like a telephone company.
U.S. visa applicants to be asked for social media history
comment as been deleted, as much as HN can let me...
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The story of western civilization is work smarter and rest more, so good luck climbing the hill you've pointed at.
The future isn't national. It's distributed.

What is Facebook but a fancy web host and RSS feed in one? First, it is a web host. It lets everyone make a free website (their Wall). Second, it gives everyone an RSS reader (their News Feed).

My point is, I think we already have the protocols. What the ordinary user lacks is the software. Actually what they also lack is the hardware. Everyone, technical or not, wants their own website. They always have. But most people are at the mercy of some company providing a server. After all, to run a website, you need a computer that's always on, always connected. I propose we use the user's phone. I'm sure I'm not the first to think of that.

So what we need is an easy-to-use webserver that users install on their phones. They don't have to build their website on their phone. It's just hosted there. They could build it on their laptop and push it to their phone.

Then you also make a nice RSS reader that users also install, and they subscribe to each other's websites.

Profit! I mean, not profit, happiness!
There must be another nefarious goal behind the lawsuit. When there is need to fight the government on so many more critical issues, why would a non profit choose to waste time and money on something so pointless ? Need to dig deeper
Some friends and I got sick of going through the same 20 steps every time we wanted to deploy a project so we built a service that handles it for you.

If you give us a container image, we'll automatically run it in the cloud for you, provide you with a public URL to access it and set up SSL.

We'd love for the Hacker News community to check out the work we've done so far and give us feedback!
As does wine.
How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model worked – according to Kogan
this is an interesting one I found https://www.crocagile.com/

it's designed like a game
Because the question was about outcompeting. Automobiles, etc., there are many competitors, including some American. And weapon systems, there is a national security reason to maintain regional leaders, no matter how inefficient.

In IT, I find it funny that Google has a higher market share in Europe than in the US.
Czechs extradite alleged Russian hacker to US
And "alias ...='cd ../../'" etc. Gotta love this feature.
If enough people report those mails as spam, they'll ban those too. They're simply protecting their business, nothing more, nothing less.

Every mail I receive that I didn't sign up for gets a spam report from me. With that in mind, every single ICO mail I've gotten has been spam.
This should go the whole hog: https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2078323.html
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There teaches a point in size with companies like that (open to its own employees, with candid-ish company-wide meetings every week or whatever), past which the chances of leaking get a lot higher. E.g. you see a lot more leaks coming out of Google now that it's huge.

It's unclear how to reconcile open culture and leaks.
My personal favorite is:

alias fuck='sudo $(fc -nl -1)'

Be very careful with this.
It's unusual for a company that big to have so few leaks in their 14 years of existence, especially one that is that high profile.

My understanding is that FB does not have a "fear-based" culture that would've prevented leaks, so really the only way they could keep people in line at scale is if there was a cultish element to their onboarding process that makes people "love" FB so much that employees are actually so offended by a leaker to make comments like this.
It is a mischaracterization to say this is all the result of bad habits. Asking teens and young adults to perform between 6 and 9 is like asking a fully mature adult to perform between 3 and 6.

> I am a night owl myself, but our "natural" sleep cycle certainly more or less falls in line with school times.

This is absolutely not true for adolescents continuing through young adulthood. Adolescents naturally have a delay in morning alertness levels compared to fully mature adults and other children and also have sleepiness set in more slowly/later in the evening than either other group. It is not (necessarily) poor sleep hygiene which causes teens to stay up later, but their own biological processes.

> Before artificial light, our sleep/wake schedule was set by the sun.

This seems to be an argument in favor of changing times. My highschool started at 7:10. Assuming I woke up an hour before to shower, dress, and catch the bus, that means I had to wake before the sun every day of my highschool career. The only time the sun rose earlier than 6:10 was during the summer when I didn't have school.
This is basically how all laws currently work. The prosecutor gets to pick who to charge (or sometimes gets to pick which case to put in front of a grand jury, though generally the process is so one sided that the prosecutor effectively has full control over what evidence the grand jury sees and is thus able to sway their decision either way). We would need to change the system to remove the choice of enforcing criminal charges from all, but this will be a very bad thing to do given current laws (just look at issues with teens sending photos to each other, what would happen if we really cracked down on all cases of illegal photos being shared).

The system appears designed so that once you are targeted, they can easily crush you by bringing forth laws generally ignored for the average person not targeted by the legal system. It needs to be fixed, but there is almost no political will to fix it and any fixes will be a drastic deviation from what we currently know.
Same counts for Snowden.
This would be an awesome way to "wage war". I fear that it isn't cool enough for people, but it sure would be interesting.

Next question: once they have that cpmputational power, if they stop using it to encode Beethoven, what would they be able to compute? I don't believe that general AI will arrive soon, but it would he interesting to see the possibilities.
If it was a public open network then maybe, I wouldn't use it to share things between friends though or messaging. Could be based around posting of public events like a billboard/invitation feature (the tool i use most on fb), and maybe a twitter like status feature too. I wouldn't share images unless random gifs and memes or anything too personal/controversial. It wouldn't be a full network more like a public information service. There was talk of bbc doing something like that.
> ‘How fucking terrible that some irresponsible jerk decided he or she had some god complex that jeopardizes our inner culture and something that makes Facebook great?’

I wonder if some Facebook employees understand how folks in the IC feel about Snowden or Manning now …
I think at least Django stores passwords with an additional field that defines the algorithm used to generate the hash of the password. One could think of a case where instead of algorithm selection you could properly define a simplistic DSL that actually defines how the hash is generated:

algo | hash
bcrypt(hardness=2,input=INPUT + 23423526) | 938240
bcrypt(hardness=3,input=INPUT + 342352643) | 239223

Now the only thing that one needs to do is convert this table to:

algo | hash
bcrypt(hardness=3,bcrypt(hardness=2,input=INPUT + 23423526)) | 23423423
bcrypt(hardness=3,bcrypt(hardness=3,input=INPUT + 342352643)) | 90192902

Where

bcrypt(hardness=3,938240) = 23423423
bcrypt(hardness=3,239223) = 90192902
That is some real interesting insight derived from a gossip column about a few facebook posts.
"Facebook does emotional experiments on you without your direct knowledge or any outside influence. Facebook has been hell-bent on testing to see if it can make hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously depressed. They can do that and they are proud of it."

Evidence please?

There was one test conducted with 600-700k users (out of 2 billion plus). This is negligible and honestly not statistically significant enough.

Plenty of reasonable concerns around political advertising, bad actors, transparancy into who is funding / buying ads are largely things to be concerned about.

However, errant ranting as above is not exactly helpful to this debate.

Also calling $FB not successful is laughable? On what grounds can you actually say this?

There is almost no evidence that the ad product actually influenced america (it was more likely TV). If you need to be educated about advertising i'm happpy to help you here but as someone who does this for a living I can categorically tell you this - the ads did not sway the election based on the pseudo-science bullshit from Wylie, Nix and anyone else in CA.
A big win for privacy but a big loss for science.
This is awesome to hear, and for all of the criticism Cloudflare has gotten in the past, they have spoken loudly against censorship, not just for people they like, but those they dislike as well. I'd much rather point my DNS at them than Google, an ad company where tracking is the whole business model.
"It doesn't mean you can't eventually get that good too." I respectfully disagree. I'm an anesthesiologist. I can teach anyone commenting here — in 5 minutes — how to give a general anesthetic. To wake a person up without damage? That'll be three years of your life (after you finish medical school).
We used to shift our schedule pretty much daily. Outside of the equator, the night shifts pretty majorly throughout the year. And at the equator, the sun is deadly during the day. Such that our ancestors probably slept as often during the day as the did some nights.

Not to say we shouldn't work on sleep hygiene, but the myth that it is a modern crisis is misguided. Used to, people blamed caffeine. Just look for numbers to see how much more coffee used to be consumed.

All of that said, much of the difficulties in education for kids are also explainable by our bar just being higher. Much higher. But, I'd rather our methods improve. Not lowering our expectations.
Agreed. In addition, tech companies are successful because they enter into mostly unregulated markets (this is a truism of new markets in general, govts can't predict where new markets will pop up so they aren't regulated when they do). Regulation and experimentation are kind of inherently at odds. Unfortunately what we are learning about FB is that regulation probably should have happened when the CEO started referring to his company as a utility.
One of the downsides of ballot initiatives is not only you can pass silly laws via fear mongering, but it is also impossible to repeal them
Like most companies, team culture depends on what division you're working in. I hear some teams there can be great. Overall culture of the company is a different matter.

The downvotes are likely because, much as the other reply to the OP outlines, they're not really right. While Acxiom _has_ been a staple in the AR tech community for decades, they have also garnered a pretty horrible reputation over the last ~10 years or so. The company is a slow-moving monolith with frequent layoffs, stagnant (low) pay, and no real direction. People are leaving in droves.

They actually recently sold off (or announced a plan to) the portion of the business that exists in AR[1]. Instead they will focus on some startup-ish company they acquired in the SFBA, which seems to be their only profitable venture at the moment (or the only one the CA-based CEO is interested in).

[1] http://katv.com/news/local/axciom-to-spin-off-or-sell-its-tr...
Why (almost) everything reported about the CA Facebook ‘hacking’ controversy is
This is some kind of anti-resilience philosophy. If you assume things work correctly all the time, you are going to have disasters and downtime, long debugging sessions and hard to find bugs when things break, because the system is not architected to survive incorrect assumptions.
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“It’s like a telephone company admitting their services will be used to call in bomb threats, coordinate terrorist attacks, conduct verbal abuse,”

I do agree it would be like a telephone company doing that but a telephone company would never openly admit that to their entire company. Also I doubt they would describe as necessary for growth.
The problem is that the cost of Blockchain / ICO spam does not just fall on Mailchimp as a company, it falls on MailChimp's customers, who have to suffer through reduced email deliverability (for the same cost they are already paying).

Other than that, MailChimp is a private company, not the government, and can damn well serve who they want.
I just found 3 oz for 13$, but thats still 17 times as expensive as Yerba Mate. I guess I might try it just for the novelty, but it's gonna take a serious agricultural effort to make this a viable product.
What about the actual program thefuck? It can fix more than just sudo, and asks you to confirm
Do the people behind this lawsuit truly in good-faith believe such warnings for coffee will make the world better? (It seems hard to imagine.) Or are there other motivation at play here?

While I suppose the plaintiff could have altruistic intentions, I’ll let you guess what their lawyers’ motivation is....

https://youtu.be/sXJXLq1lN7U?t=1m44s
We need stupid long yellow spotted horses for our children to behold.
Which Type of Music Represents Your Personality?
www.typeform.com how's this post-rebrand?
More ISPs are going with bandwidth caps. I don't think things like this will take off.
Often PE teachers (and coaches) are also teachers. My civics, geography and geometry teachers were all football coaches. Incidentally, they were also not very learned in their respective courses.
It's common for businesses to turn away customer segments that could be antithetical to their ability to service the rest of their customers. For example, many credit card processors will turn down businesses with higher rates of fraud, like strip clubs. That keeps everyone elses fees lower and lets them operate a more efficient fraud department.

On top of that it's hardly like Mailchimp has some sort of monopoly. There's dozens of ESPs and turnkey email platforms that will welcome blockchain business... they just don't have Mailchimp's inboxing rate.
It is a well compiled list.
I think the OP titled it incorrectly, which has led to some sagely advice and even debate about productivity in the comments!

In fact these are the kinds of things I'd like to see more of on HN - A peek at personal notes, resources, links etc used by the HN crowd.
Are you really justifying making hundreds of thousands of people depressed, just because they didn't make millions of people depressed? The distances people will go here to defend Facebook are literally insane.

Making even one single person depressed on purpose is 100% pure evil. Hundreds of thousands of people depressed is a massive crime against humanity. There are sources all over the internet for this. Also I do not think Facebook had 2B+ users in 2014 or so when the "study" to hurt people was done - but that doesn't matter anyway.

> This is negligible and honestly not statistically significant enough.

300,000 depressed people doesn't matter to you? It's not statistically significant? What do you even mean by this? This is literally the most offensive thing I have ever read in my life.

> Also calling $FB not successful is laughable? On what grounds can you actually say this?

Yes I am. On the grounds that it is based on revenue from stolen money, illegally gotten gains through criminal behaviour and morally wrong actions. Not only that it is dirty money driving that price up, but it's so early in FB's days it doesn't make sense to call the stock successful yet.
Yeah let's ignore the research that shows teenagers literally have a shifted sleep schedule and can't actually go to sleep early in a reliable manner.

What's going on here is that we don't give a shit about people, and we like pretending that the world is fair, so whenever we're committing an atrocity (yes, this is an atrocity, sleep deprivation is a form of torture), we try to blame it on the victim. Because "we have generated an atrocity, built our society around it, and are now trying to not come to terms with that" is a tougher pill to swallow than "teenagers just all, universally, suck".

This is garbage and I really wish parents would start seeing this as a big issue, big enough to raise hell not just with their school, but with their job and with society at large. Parents sure seem to have enough energy to cause teachers problems...
If they are used to store protected health information it’s the practice’s duty to make sure they comply with HIPAA regulations. So for example can’t leave that file cabinet unlocked out in the front lobby.

When I was looking to make an app for a clinic they had to do a security review of the app. If the data wasn’t encrypted at rest it was a no-go. There are entire data companies sprouting out to address this issue. I think TrueVault is a Y-Combinator alum.
Teach health? Sex Ed? Preparation and setup? My PE teachers in JHS and HS were more than just PE teachers. Was my school just an outlier?
"How much accountability is there in the market?"

You are proposing a black/white dichotomy where I proposed a partnership. Let the corporations provide the services, let the government write the rules of the playing field. Why would you trust the same government that is already not regulating Facebook to do any better if it has to implement something itself?

Neither side, on its own, is sufficient. A system where both sides are doing their job is way better.

Mind you, I have some compassion (for lack of a better word) for the government not regulating Facebook, on the grounds that to a first-order approximation, nobody saw how bad this was going to be in advance. Local commentators may vigorously object to this characterization, to which I'd reply that the concentration of the people who did see it coming (including, least of all, myself) is sky-high here compared to the general public.
But not every string is HTML.
You are assuming the fitness landscape never changes, which is not a good assumption.
The early low flush toilets were bad but the newer ones supposedly work just fine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/its-time-to-re...

Also, it's not like automakers from outside the US are ignoring the US because of our emissions laws. They produce cars here and export cars for sale here.
And, by the way, Netflix gives an entire paid YEAR off for maternity.

I wonder why? Could it be that competition has inspired them to compete? My point: free markets are a powerful thing. When there is no differentiation and everyone is “the same,” then it stifles innovation. Working at Peugeot is no more interesting than working for Renault. Which means their cars are going to be average. But if Peugeot were offering some great benefit, the best engineers would flock to Peugeot and that would result in better Peugeot cars. Renault, in order to compete would have to try and top Peugeot, which then leads to great engineers going there.. and so on until competition pressures ultimately drive companies to higher and higher levels of success and innovation. Just like what happens in Silicon Valley. Instead, in Europe, you have this malaise, this equalitarianism that inspires nobody. There is a lack of ambition.
Is this really all the source code? It seems to be missing the database schema, which is pretty critical to using it.

Beyond that, this is actually fascinating to look at. It's small enough that you can actually understand it, but it's more complete than a simple 'toy' application. I'm also fascinated to see how SQL constructs are expressed in LISP. I don't know LISP at all, but it's pretty obvious how the queries in the language map directly to SQL.
Is there an active project that adds TensorFlow bindings to Node. I've found a few, but the latest commit on any of these is 5 months ago.

https://github.com/node-tensorflow/node-tensorflow

https://github.com/yorkie/tensorflow-nodejs

https://github.com/rchipka/node-tensorflow
Well, selection bias aside consider that Facebook (along with the other Big Tech firms) have for years now engaged in a hiring process that specifically targets fresh young graduates who are told they have to absolutely be the best of the best to get through an interview process. "Cult" is the word that comes to mind when I think of the hiring practices and cultures at these companies. It shouldn't be surprising when a substantial number of them have this attitude.
Now he can say he's a former professional hockey player!

Can't be sure if that's good a resume or not, but it's at least as good as being Big Bird in Ice Capades.
While I like the idea, the problem is that bandwidth on mobile is limited and certainly not free.

Also, this would be a battery killer.
Here you go I made it:

https://github.com/riley-martine/inappropriate-notifications
Unfortunately, the summary on this issue appears to be "nobody cares". Including the parents themselves. Teenagers do not really have rights so it's going to be very hard to change this.
Mendocino here (live in the US but visit Mendoza every few years). There are plenty of places one can go for coffee, but American-style coffee shops are not nearly as popular. Mate shops aren't a thing, but it isn't homebrew in the sense that people don't grow their favorite varieties of yerba mate plants in the back yard. You get a bag of yerba at the supermarket, have a thermos with hot water, and a gourd & bombilla. People drink it with friends, but, like coffee, it's also something they drink throughout the day by themselves while working, studying, etc.