skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can see the same sort of thing with other instruments of creative professions, too. Like, look at machine tools.

Modern lathes are made tough, well, and often with features like CNC attachments. But the 'old iron' behemoths produced by South Bend in the 1920s are also still running and performing precise work day-in, day-out. They'll probably continue to do so for a very long time, and they'll still blow a modern introductory benchtop model out of the water.

Is it really that the old models were in some way 'perfect', or is it just that we tend to be impressed by bespoke works which continue to perform outstandingly over the ravages of time? Maybe it appeals to a sense that we could someday overcome the transience of our possessions.

I guess that's sort of an existentially futile goal to chase, but it would be nice in the context of things like batteries and plastic junk.
Thanks for this! I was looking for something like this to play with.
>We connect people.

>That can be good if they make it positive. Maybe someone finds love. Maybe it even saves the life of someone on the brink of suicide.

>So we connect more people

>That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.

>That's not admitting that others are misusing FB,

You're only quoting one part. He addresses that in the quote above. It's the opposite of what you're saying.

>it's admitting that FB itself is doing questionable things under the umbrella of "the end justifies the means".

What is there to "admit"? Its a piece of code running on a smartphone. Any moderately skilled engineer can figure out what its doing. Calling something questionable doesn't make it illegal or immoral. "the end justifies the means" implies that the entity has purposefully employed illegal or immoral actions. That is clearly not the case here. Although it is clear that the author is torn between seeing those actions as legitimate business actions. Whether you think Facebook using your contacts is a breach of trust is up to that individual person and their views on privacy. A person choosing to create an account on Facebook and installing their app is a voluntary action. Privacy is defined by choice. A choice that is in your hands. It is also not an absolute, because at times the choice can be taken away. For e.g. You don't need to go up-to every single person and ask their permission before taking a picture at a tourist spot. But you can't take a peek inside someones bedroom.
I'm not sure I'd consider anything he suggested a good solution, though.

What he's done, and the aggressive/dismissive way he's handled a perfectly reasonable request afterwards, are what very expensive defamation lawsuits are made of. That is as it should be, IMHO, given that notwithstanding the developer's personal opinions about visitors understanding, the consequences of his actions demonstrably did reach someone close to the person whose photo was used and cause real distress and concern.
They made money through discounts on retail shipping as well as fees. Concentrating pick-ups to a small number of warehouses while doing the specific packaging and labeling and palletizing requirements of the shipper increases the discount.

If they just charged retail plus a little more the product would’ve been even more expensive.
They did all this legwork and a (small) proportion of their customer base is threatening their "value proposition" so they simply decide to not do business with them.

Seems pretty rational to me...

As an aside, someone could easily set up an ICO to fund a competing business to take a big chunk of Mailchimp's user base -- assuming they weren't fraudsters, of course.
Xmarks shutting down on May First
Their version of better is a dystopian nightmare.
Have not been to a physical grocery store in over 6 months because of Amazon Prime Fresh. Would be willing to pay much more than I do now after being accustomed to saving so much time.
>how often did i read a piece of journalism outside my area of expertise with equally lazy mistakes, without noticing them?

This is often referred to as the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect":

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
Your last line lost me. You're putting your own negative connotations in a way that totally recharacterizes reality, both for the space race and for Facebook's actions.
> no one talks about it on HN because they are not a startup

I think it's simply that a lot more people have used Cloudflare because it has a free plan, whereas Akamai is expensive in comparison.
Resources are abundant. The distribution is the hard part.

Birth rates are high because of poverty, not the other way around. You need a lot of kids if you want your family to survive harsh conditions. Eliminate poverty and you'll see birth rates go down to a sustainable 2-per-family.
I lead a small group of people twice a week in mindfulness practice. I agree wholeheartedly with what this article is saying. Mindfulness has been sold as the latest snake oil, a cure for all ills. It is not, and it should not be taught that way. Mindfulness is the benefit of practice, not the salve for our wounds.
They've been doing this from the beginning. Are you specifically marketing ICO or crypto?
> We're just burying our heads in the sand about the reality of it.

As a US citizen, what can we really do. I realize our country shares responsibility for climate change, but isn't a major problem here also poaching? To really solve this, wouldn't Africa have to step up and crack down locally on industry damaging the environment, and poaching?

I don't think anyone is burring their heads in the sand, we just have no power to change things here or abroad. Half of our country still thinks climate change is a hoax...
At the risk of blowing your mind, my analogy was referring to the fact that people usually shower AFTER they get dirty.

Blue collar workers shower after work, because their work is where they get dirty. Its not because some mythical voodoo. It is precisely and unequivocally because they have accumulated waste on the exterior of their bodie.

All of the rest of us that adjusted to the initial new reality of having to expose our privates to our peers by realizing that it was our own anxieties that were the root of these fears. Once we took the leap of faith, and just showered after PE, instead of before, the illusion that exposing our privates to our peers would deliver our imminent death evaporated, just as facing every other irrational fear has.

How about a more extreme example: why do you think Stormy Daniels has been the most successful at parrying the universal wall of controversy that comes at her? Because she literally has gone out of her way to show the entire world what the most of the rest of us are paralyzed with fear of what would happen if our own mother were to see.

Knowing that, would you posit that Stormy Daniels has more, or less experience learning how to cope with stress and fear, when compared to the average person?
Which will never happen because that'd go against capitalism. Even in the western world the majority of people lives in bad conditions. You really think you can improve the living standards for 90%+ of the world population?
Leaking Damore's memo worked exactly as the leaker almost certainly intended, as Cromwell points out below: It got him fired, which is what many Googlers were demanding internally before it became public.
> Overall, men stay up later than women

I would be careful about concluding that women and men have different biological clocks from this observation. I feel like society strongly discourages women from staying up late (constantly telling them it is unsafe / will make them ugly / suggests they are sexually active).
* Palm detection: disable the trackpad, use the trackpoint like a boss.

* Display: did you have the WQHD IPS option? Did you calibrate it on Linux using DisplayCal and a calibrator, such as Datacolor Spyder? Mine (T25) is really nice even though it got some negative reviews. Doing a calibration really fixed lots of issues.

* External monitors: I'm using i3-gaps and xrandr setup, but can't really help because most of the time I don't need an external monitor with my laptop.

Linux is such a no-brainer for me as a development OS that there is no going back to OSX or Windows. A tiling window manager, minimal installation of software and the magic combo of Emacs + st + Firefox is a deal braker for me.
Cloudflare is responsible for even providing such a "feature". They aren't off the hook here.
Tossing her in prison for 5 years as part of a "crackdown" on voter fraud in an effort to prove it is a problem, and then disenfranchise as a "correction", is a pure republican move.
Can we add (2016) to the title?
Growing the food industry
Fattens my buttocks and belly

I wonder why this is never talked about when we discuss the obesity epidemics.
iCloud works perfectly fine on Hackintoshes.
Comparing different global problems in terms of potential for impact [video]
It seems like the person who wrote this analysis assumed unchanging variable costs, rather than recognizing that they will decrease over time.

1) Where did they get a $5 marginal SG&A number? This seems high to me and no source is given.

2) There is no way that, at scale, delivery costs are as high as $5/order.

The IRS standard rate for mileage in 2018 is 54.5 cents/mile. (Maybe not the most accurate metric to use, but a decent rule of thumb.) So this analysis assumes that, at scale, for the average order a driver travels 9.17 miles. This routing would be incredibly inefficient - Amazon should "batch" deliveries so that in a 10-mile "loop" a driver can drop off 3+ orders.

Furthermore, I'm not sure if Amazon drivers are employees or 1099 workers. If they're independent contractors, the delivery costs are irrelevant to Amazon, since they're passed through to the drivers.

3) Naturally, drivers utilization rates will increase as demand increases.
They get signed to a one day try out contract. If they are college players they cant accept any money to retain their amateur status but otherwise they get a small amount of money, around 100 bucks
So now there will be blockchain-specific mail deliverability providers? Seems like a straightforward enough business.

21.co/Earn (the pivot to bounty-paid spam inbox) is interesting, but not a great implementation of the "email anti-botherance bond" idea from the mid-1990s.
It looks like this doesn't offer any way for video creators to get paid?

Right now a lot of major video creators are looking to leave YouTube because YouTube is marking their videos as ineligible for monetization. That's the market you want to capture if you want to succeed as a YouTube alternative. Sites like d.tube and steemit.com and bitchute.com are offering this. Getting major video producers with a following on YouTube to use your alternative platform is how you get enough viewers to achieve critical mass. They won't come if they can't get paid.

Now there's a problem here, because the average YouTube channel suffering from demonetization is a right-wing political channel, and attracting too many of them is a great way to make no one else want to come to your platform. These aren't the only video producers who are suffering from demonetization; the most egregious case I know of is science education channel CodysLab[1], which has been barred from uploading new videos a couple times on account of violating youtube's content guidelines for microwaving crickets to show that crickets are too small to be hurt by microwave radiation, and using black powder explosives.

A federated network might be better able to handle this problem, giving the right-wing creators a platform on some instances, but not on others. But if peertube offers no monetization options, then it will never compete with YouTube.

[1] https://youtube.com/user/thecodyreeder
Also freedom to march through the streets with their guns while chanting nazi rhetoric.
Microsoft Reorganizes Windows to Fuel Cloud and A.I. Businesses
Funny, I feel the opposite, Go being more like C and Rust being more like C++; mostly due Go's strive for simplicity while Rust seems more comfortable embracing C++ level of complexity.
Highest incarceration rate in the developed world.
I'm perplexed by the downvotes. So I can refine my understanding, I'd love to know where I'm thinking incorrectly. Here is what I think are the possible counters to what I proposed:

1) Societal utility is NOT a weighted average - namely, an acceptable outcome will only have positive externalities.

2) Processes in which ideas are suppressed are in general preferable to those in which ideas can be unconstrained

3) We can discover the full set of "good" ideas without being exposed to "bad" ideas

Where else is the disagreement coming from? What are your insights that lead you to reject what I've proposed?
The article says that you can still unpublish packages from NPM at will. If that's still the case, then yes, leftpad should still be brought up in 2018 before someone unpublishes the "is-string-empty" package or whatever the dumb packages that people put on NPM are.
I personally recommend caching package tarballs locally inside your project [0], using either Yarn's "offline-mirror" feature, or if you're using NPM, a tool called Shrinkpack [1]. Might not be the best fit for every project, it but it guarantees reproduceable installs without having to go out to NPM's servers.

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/07/practical-redux-par...

[1] https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack
And I would add that spam, in the US, is "perfectly legal". CAN-SPAM, even if it was aggressively enforced, effectively only requires marketing email to contain a valid postal address for the sender and a working unsubscribe link - it doesn't require opt-in.
The ECMAScript spec doesn't include details about its environment. You can run it in varying environments, each of which has different security criteria. For example, you can run a fully isolated JS VM that has no interactions with the real world, which is certainly quite safe. Node has full access to pretty much all the user's system resources, while the browser is a bit more sandboxed and restricted in what it can access.
Does quad9 offer encrypted DNS?

From their FAQ:

Does Quad9 support DNS over TLS?
We do support DNS over TLS on port 853 (the standard) using an auth name of dns.quad9.net.
They love to point out that no one else is free, anywhere.

It's ridiculous.
> "[H]ow is the crawling ever completed before
> it needs to be re-indexed again?"

Crawls essentially never finish and indexes are never 'done'. If you're building a modern search engine you crawl and index continuously and you use the ranking signals you have developed to steer the crawler to promising new pages.

The reality is that there are roughly between 5 to 15 billion pages that are nominally "not spam" and not duplicates. Literally 99.9% of the internet is crap. So finding web pages as long since switched from 'crawling every page that is accessible from the web' to 'only surfacing those pages that have something of value on them.' That was the fundamental thesis for the founding of Blekko and it is still true today.

That said, a cluster of ~100,000 threads and a couple of petabytes of storage attached with sufficient bandwidth to keep the threads busy can deal with what is out there. If you can create a hash space for strings that is sufficiently uniform you evenly spread the load of crawling every URI you discover across the cluster.

As you crawl you take new pages you discover and apply your ranking algorithm to them where they will score a value between 0 (never index) and 1 (always index).

At which point you can dial the 'rankable' value from 0 (index everything) to 1 (rank only must rank pages) to set the size of the index you can tolerate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16715751
And if you don't get tired earlier? I find that even when I wake up early, I'm usually wired around 11pm-12am.
Not exactly, here are the specifics:

eGPUs are supported on MacBook Pro notebooks released in 2016 and later1, iMac computers introduced in 2017 and later, and iMac Pro.
And yet you don't see users leaving in droves for that fancy terminal action. I wonder why? Hmmm...
I'm kind of surprised no one has tried to make a standard library for node - although I guess underscore/lodash come close.

The package situation is a serious problem for distro maintainers, which AFAICT have basically given up packaging any npm packages the traditional way. Luckily Nix[1] and Guix[2] can most likely support automatic importing from npm.

Incidentally, one of the many things I love about typescript is that it has zero non-dev dependencies [3].

[1] https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg008...
[3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript?activeTab=dependenc...
Go could be considered a modern C, in that it follow's C's spirit of simplicity and clarity at the expense of power and expressiveness, but it is often not used as a replacement of C for various reasons. One of Go's stated design goals was (and is) to achieve performance parity with C, but it falls short of reaching that goal in many cases.

With its type system and support for generics (in C++: templates), Rust has much more in common with C++ than it does with C.
Introducing TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript
That's what my buddy said about them too. He only saw them when he blasted off, but could feel them around for a while after.

Definitely on my todo list.
AFAIK climate change is a small factor in the endangerment of African species. I could be wrong, but is seems like it's not even close at this point compared to poaching.
And do you think that Googlers shouldn't be mad at the leaker?
Tails 3.6.2 is out
That's the point though - we only know that perpetual motion machines are not yet possible because nearly every testable idea we've come up yields nothing. Our system is better for allowing, and dismissing, bad ideas than never allowing them at all.
> Bosworth distanced himself from the memo, saying in a Twitter post that he hadn’t agreed with those words even when he wrote them.

What's most ironic about Bosworth's words and his response (other than well, it's impacting company PR now), is that FB folks expected their internal memos to stay private while knowingly allowing exfiltration of personal data for millions of their users.

The hubris here is ridiculous. If you support public-everything don't sound shocked when your internal stuff is also exposed.
Simple and cool!.

A bit of curious - I see your blog is hosted on github. Is this app also hosted in github? How is that achieved?
More specialized -- goaltenders, like drummers, have to make a big investment both in equipment and in a means to transport it.
You are exactly right, and specific keyword search allows you to weaponize a search engine so Google doesn't let you do it. (they have been victimized in the past for letting people specify things that could pull out social security numbers, for example.
Good thing your parents didn't think the way you do huh?
I agree to a certain extent. Definitely aliases.

But, for your main tools, if dot files can make a difference then you should make an exception.

Vim without my .vimrc is almost a different apps, and I'm way less efficient without it!
For the record, good old fashioned bag of words representations (tf-idf, LDA, LSA) still provide useful representations for documents. Obviously we hope to do better, but recently people act like there's no way of turning a document into a vector.
Hah, YES! This will be fun :)

So, it's calmed down a bit, but here's the homepage for rakuten, the biggest ecommerce site in japan. Nothing too out line, except the very Japanese block-ads on the top of the page and running down the right side: https://www.rakuten.co.jp/

See also the "superdeal" page (this may expire) https://event.rakuten.co.jp/superdeal/?l-id=top_normal_flash...

Notice the quick scrolling banner, the word "DEAL" in english sprawled everywhere (with SUPAAAAA!!! in Japanese before it) lots of different color background blocks with white/black/red text over it. Very much the "assault the senses" style of Japanese advertisement.

The watch ad, for example. "50% OFF!" "ONLY UNTIL 4/2 9:59!!!" "GET 20% POINTS BACK!" "SUPER DEAL!!!!"

Here's the relatively more calm website for book-off, the largest retailer of books in Japan. I think reading is more popular in Japan as a hobby though I don't have empirical data as evidence, just my personal observation. Maybe I only think this way because the cities are more dense. Anyway: https://www.bookoff.co.jp/ scrolling banners with many colored backgrounds and different font colors, lots of "ZERO YEN!" kind of stuff, lots of different font stylings, sizes, etc. Controlled Chaos.

Notice also the prototypical "block style" ads all down the page. We probably think of them as "grids" or "cards" in the web dev world these days but they've been doing this on japanese internet since the 90s and it harkens to Japan print ads, magazines etc.

Ah, here we go, I knew Don Quixote (or Quijote) wouldn't disappoint. Right down to the url: "donki.com" lol http://www.donki.com/ not https note

GIANT banner ads scrolling at the top, as of now we've got a black and white one, sliced through with angled images. Simple model photo after that, another one but with a very blue background, then fourth one BOOM that classic Don Quixote eye assault, complex golden background with streamers, Japanese equivalent of comic sands with tilted font in all sorts of colors and sizes, the Don Quixote... penguin? screaming at you. Scroll down for more madness.

Thanks for asking me to do this, I haven't taken a peek at Japanese ecommerce sites in a while. In-person ads have hardly changed in Japan (I was there last week for the sakura) but it's clear to me that the web design styling has calmed down remarkably. If you ever get a chance to pick up some Japanese classifieds, you can get an even better sense of what we used to deal with :)
Too bad, they were pretty convenient for consumers. Made selling stuff online super snappy, as you never had to worry about packaging, dragging something to the post office and waiting in line during lunch rush hour. Any chance a still-alive competitor exists?

I remember thinking that the business model did seem tricky. Early on, when they just started, they let me ship half of my already boxed apartment for $5 + whatever USPS shipping costs. They had to bring over a truck, and I think about 3 guys to pick up the boxes over maybe an hour or so. I don't know if I was the person who had shipped the most stuff ever with the company at that point.

That was an interesting hands-on experience with watching a company deploy VC capital on early product discovery.
The ridiculous rate at which it is happening is not a normal part of evolution. It is the 6th great extinction event known. [1]

Its "sadder" because its preventable. Humans are self aware and know that we are causing this. If we change our behavior it wont happen.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Company Startups and me
Dear God why would you want core-utils? It's full of esoteric commands and relies on text parsing for its pipelining.

Powershell is miles ahead in every way I can think of.