skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not imposible, but brings more problems than it solves. It's better to forget, that it exists.

RFC6296, by Cisco.
I've been dreaming about this a lot lately, but there's definitely some roadblocks for the average person. They don't want to clutter up their existing email, and they will drag their feet to getting a new email address just for social networking. People also like the idea that they can actually delete their posts, even if it's illusory, which they can't do to any meaningful extent with email. With ActivityPub, I think a lot of potential developers don't want to bother with email because it's not the future. It is still a great idea in general, though. I would totally build it or sign up for it if enough people I knew were willing to do it. The problem is I wouldn't want that form of social networking just to connect with people who are smart enough to use it.
Modern examples include JavaScript and the web as an application platform.

While the arguments here have some validity, I think a more important reason for the triumph of worse-is-better is human cognitive overhead. The correct solution being more complex requires more cognitive overhead to support, maintain, port, and implement when new implementations are needed.

Yet another reason is probably political. Correct solutions are harder to develop, so they are often developed by commercial entities and subject to restrictive licenses. Free software has less resources, so tends toward the New Jersey approach. It's hard to compete with free.
How can one even consider buying something if they don’t know what it is, what it does, or if and when it will even be available?
You can handle pointer events with synthetic events (onMouseMove and such) unless I am misunderstanding
Interesting.

Faced with the choice of punishing myself for making a mistake vs. adapting my environment to accommodate me, I'll always choose the latter.

(Plus, since you use `ls` so frequently, just make `l` an alias of it, especially if you have difficulty typing "ls"! Using a computer doesn't have to be some weird, punishing, bondage and discipline experience.)
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Based out of Russia - the nation that just attacked the British with a nerve agent.

If you're going to make the mistake of giving that kind of information to some entity, at least either pick your own companies or government, or an ally.
Founders are no longer forced to wait for IPO before selling shares. And after you get an X0 million dollar check who cares if you own 1% of what's left.
That makes sense to a degree, but it always killed me that in my school district had elementary school starting at 8:30, and high school at 7:15. They told us that it was to stagger the buses and give high schoolers time to work part-time jobs, but it was rough. Especially because the bus ride took another hour out of the morning.

Also, most elementary schools around there offered before and after school programs that working parents can leverage to fit their schedules. That, and neighbors who took turns watching the bus stop to make sure everyone made it on time, gave us enough support to get to school when parents were on tight work schedules.
There's a monthly who is hiring freelancers thread. You can check previous thread or post in the one in the next few days.
Just make it easy for everyone to create their own mailing list. Then you could subscribe to friends, and get updates from them, plus participate in discussions with their other friends. "Muting" a friend would be up to the controls in your desired email client. "Unfriending" is simply unsubscribing.
Have you ever seen that in the wild? I consider myself happy, that I didn't.
And the reason that MailChimp's servers are trusted for delivery to third parties is that they do front-end filtering to keep spammers and scammers off the platform so that third party mail recipients have a reasonable expectation that they can rely upon MailChimp's due diligence legwork. In this case MailChimp is deciding that the vast majority of ICO and Blockchain marketing is spam/scam email and continuing to allow it has a negative impact on those high delivery rates.

Anyone with an email server can try, but given the nature of this particular community it is more likely that this competitor would soon find their email delivery rates hitting 0%.
> Too late to convince them to ever come back to a platform with such an offering

It's the exact same problem on YouTube with clickbait thumbnails and titles. It doesn't frustrate people off the entire platform, just the channels that are repeat offenders.
Like 1/3 or more of the weight of the final product will be water.

There's also really nothing wrong with calories. Most people need something like 2000 a day, leaves plenty of room for eating things just for taste.
It always surprises me when people claim they have no way of keeping in contacts with others outside of facebook.

Phone numbers and emails have worked perfectly fine so far.

What facebook provides is the feeling of staying connected without any of the actual connection.
Facebook employees in disbelief memo was leaked, think spies might be to blame
He didn't say that at all. The only fact you can derive from evolution is that some things existed, and now they either do or don't exist. That's exactly what he is saying.

You could argue that maybe some solutions were not even tried before, or that they were tried and abandonned for random reasons. But actually, since the evolution process took a long time, we can reasonably say that we are witnessing the mean outcome of these events. Aka, in this case, the overwhelming majority is a work-related school schedule.

This doesn't invalidate 'free schools' such as Montessori, as these could be good local solutions. They just apparently don't scale to the ensemble of society since they didn't yet and had plenty of time to do so.

Another remark : this doesn't apply to things that were recently invented or discovered.
Just when you thought the UK couldn’t get any closer to 1984, they wheel out a doozy like this. This is coming from the country where you can literally end up in jail for shitposting on Twitter.
Data Science reproducibility – feed back on idea
An Engineer's Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)
But the assertion was that environmental regulation was regressive, in that it disproportionally impacts those on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum. So I was trying to show, a bit ham-fistedly maybe, that incrementally more expensive new vehicles do not impact the lower socioeconomic rungs very much.
Because when I think responsible, competent custodians of personal data, I think federal government /s.

Secondly, the mere premise that we "need" a Facebook, or alternative, is inherently flawed.

Probably echoing the rest of the comments in here at this point, but my 2 cents fwiw.
And where is the European Apple? European Google? European Facebook? Even the European Intel, ARM, now belongs to Japan.
Youtube is more than just a tool, it's a store of culture almost. Imagine Youtube suddenly disappeared. A wealth of information and video would be lost, like rare videos which are only on youtube. Sure, someone somewhere will have a copy but on the whole you can't access them seamlessly like you can with Youtube.

Of late I have began to think this is too much power for a company to hold. I trust Youtube to not fuck up so bad that all videos are gone, but I would sleep a bit sounder at night if it was decentralised.
But what else is the Council for Education and Research on Toxics going to do with their time?
This is a must read book even if you're not building a database :)
> Find a desperate entrepreneur who will pay you the bare minimum cash to support your family, along with some equity.

How do you do this? Isn't implying that you'll work for a low salary a big red flag?

I see here on HN that some companies won't consider older workers because of the idea that they demand a lot of money, but I have no idea how to show that I am an exception to this stereotype. I sometimes tell recruiters etc. that I'm more interested in good working conditions or a convenient location than salary, which is true, but that's as far as I dare go.
I have h=ls and hh=ls -l, which are much more comfortable with the Dvorak keyboard layout. (The equivalent would be j and jj on Qwerty.)
Some would say that, others would say that they enjoy seeing and making posts. I don't think that your clause is generous or thoughtful, some people have challenges in their lives that make traditional methods of "nourishing relationships" difficult, why should they be denied a mechanism for developing and continuing friendship?
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As a consumer, I want to know the risks posed by what I buy and consume. Part of the (predictable) response to this is because its coffee. If it were, say, water bottles, cooking pots, or drinking straws; or if it were keyboards, cell phones, or socks-- the response would likely be different.

The problem is that the labels do not give us any idea of the absolute risks involved, and so, yeah, they are all ignored. A 3-4 level color coded warning would be much more useful, perhaps with a link to something more informative.
They wouldn't be held legally liable. (CDA Section 230.) The real problem is that ICO emails tend to set off spam filters, and this could damage the deliverability of all mail originating from MailChimp.
Source code: https://github.com/vernetit/Infinity
Haven't heard of it before, but they look decent. I think the price difference with brand laptops becomes less impressive if you go for the higher specs and also want it shipped internationally (20% UK VAT).

The base weight for their portable 14.1" one is 1.6kg, but switching from i3 to i7, adding more RAM and choosing a bigger SSD would probably bring it closer to 2kg (compared to ~1.2kg on the x1).

I think the x1 does things like soldering the RAM to the motherboard, which makes upgrading hard, but also makes it really thin (1.5cm compared to 2.2cm for the System76 one).

Since the number of possible configurations on a build your own is quite high, I imagine it's more likely that you'll run into issues on getting everything to work on Linux.
The UK.

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

(I was actually shocked that Americans don't always get paid holiday.)

Note that we also have 6 months paid maternity leave, and 1 weeks paid paternity leave, with both of those extendable on a lower pay rate.

New legislation from the 2010-2015 government allows parents to share this leave, even if they work at different companies, and start/stop it during the time when it would be taken (so mum can take the first 3 months off, then dad take a month off, then mum again, etc). Sorry for the hetero-normative example, adoptive parents also get paid leave in the same way.
This is a post hoc argument and a weak one. E.g. fuel injection was not really invented because of regulations, it was used first in aviation engines in WW2 then in race cars[1] and then, eventually, in consumer cars. Like pretty much all performance improvements. On the other hand, CAFE regulations gave us such an awesome vehicle as SUV [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_300_SLR

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120310182737/http://www.tsc.be...
Well ever since social media converted the US into the United States of Meme Generators & Consumers, it is not really possible to go back without mass lobotomies.
Homosexuality in general is associated with higher risk of disease[0].

But from a values standpoint, we believe (as we have for 3500 years) that God's ideal for humanity is monogamous male/female marriage. Homosexuality can't produce children and families, which are important for the stability of a civilization.

And, frankly speaking from experience, as a child and teen I benefited from having both a masculine father and a feminine mother. I needed both growing up. They both taught me things the other couldn't. All other things being equal, it is good and scientifically natural for a child to have both a mother and a father.

Prescriptions: Prescription prices can be bad. You get discounts as a self-payer. Places like Costco and Walgreen's typically have a membership where you get a pharmacy card and thus lower costs on prescriptions. But ultimately you're on the hook for the cost; health sharing ministries (at least, the one I'm using) don't help with it. If you have high cost prescriptions, health sharing ministries might not be a good option for you.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/index.html
True, but at the same time deleting a post only matters because new people can see it that may not have initially. With this, only people who the message was sent to would see it anyway.

If as part of the on boarding process you could provide instructions to move those messages out of the main view and into a folder so they didn't clutter up the rest of the email too.

It probably makes more sense as an open source project. There's not much of a profit model for decentralized social networking where you can't inject ads that people didn't want to see.
>Phone numbers and emails have worked perfectly fine so far.

I'm glad that works for you, some other people have other experiences.
Ooooh yeah. I have that. Not a thing you notice, but I got it.
In the spam economy, up is down and left is right. If they used plain understandable language, they'd never be able to look in the mirror.
6am is when the bus picked me up in highschool (start time was 7:15). Wakeup alarm was 5:15. It was awful.
>Why can't this need be met by a corporation that gets paid for what they are doing?

Because you can't serve two masters. For-profit corporations are going to side with profit over privacy when they conflict.

>The size of the problem here is bounded by the amount of money the companies are making invading your privacy. Simple math [1] places it at about $20/year/user for Facebook, who are probably on the upper end of what they can make by doing this. So to incentivize a company not to stay in business via selling your data, that's the bar you have to leap.

That $20 isn't just for costs it's also for profit. How cheaply could Facebook run if it didn't have to return any money to it's shareholders? That's a major case for either a non-profit or a nationalized service.

>whenever you say "The $GOVERNMENT should...", you really ought to remember that "Donald Trump" is a valid expansion of the term $GOVERNMENT.

Well here let's put it like this. When you leave something up to the $MARKET you should remember that 'literally anybody' (including Donald Trump) is a valid expansion of the term $MARKET. With government at least there is some (admittedly meager) level of democratic accountability. How much accountability is there in the market? I think we've seen how these privacy violations play out with Equifax already. Richard Smith, Mark Begor, Mark Zuckerberg these people are just interchangeable names/faces and no matter who you swap in and out of these roles the desires of a corporation in the market place to maintain and increase profitability will weigh on them the same. I prefer a system where these people are directly accountable to the people ie nationalized services, not a system where their accountability is obfuscated and mediated by the market.
This type of research is just BS to begin with. The way they collect and analyze the data is only capable of generating conflicting evidence while never leading to cumulative knowledge. The method is called NHST (null hypothesis significance testing).

The main issue is that a null hypothesis is tested rather than any real hypothesis, then they try to draw conclusions about the real hypothesis (yes it is a simple strawman argument). These problems are well known, yet it continues. I was trained to do it not too long ago.
For some reason the typo I tend to make the most is ';s', so I've gone ahead and set `alias s=ls`
Maybe I didn't read the article closely, but...what feature of Facebook makes nationalization necessary? Do we need a FB-like platform "of, by, and for the people" for...ads? News distribution? Sharing news? Connecting people? Classifieds?

To me, the biggest utility of FB that would make such a project worthwhile is the pure network aspect of it; there are very few people in my life who aren't on Facebook.

If that's what we're looking to nationalize, does this just become a national ID card debate for the Internet era?
Agreed. That's what is keeping it alive most likely. Those who are unfamiliar with obligate carnivore status of cats should do a search for "feline hepatic lipidosis" which is a horror story. Also search for lists of plants that are fatal to cats.
Of course no one "needs" Facebook. Or a cell phone. Or computers. Or coffee. But they're still of value.

The values of Facebook are varied. I'm a full-time traveler and it's easy to find an English-speaking Facebook group for any country I visit, which is of real value and note something I would otherwise find. Facebook is also useful for sharing photos with friends and family without necessarily sharing them with the world like you used to with Flickr or Smugmug.

Granted, there are other ways of having forums, or photo sharing, or anything else. But that misses the point. For whatever reason, Facebook became the de facto way to do certain things. And if you want to delete facebook, it's nice to have an alternative with some feasibility in reaching a critical mass.
That seems like a false equivalence.

There are no legitimate Nigerian prince emails. There are legitimate coin emails.

Blocking all coin topics like Facebook and ICO emails like MailChimp goes beyond “spam filtering” into big brother territory.

These companies are free to do as they please - and I’m going to boycot and avoid them. There is a line between “we’re helping!” and censorship and Silicon Valley is definitely crossing it.
I generally have this in my bash_aliases

alias ls='ls -lah --color="auto"'
alias l='ls -lah --color="auto"'
alias ll='ls -lah --color="auto"'
alias sl='ls -lah --color="auto"'
Insurance companies are tightly regulated by state and federal authorities. There is zero chance they would break the law by using illegal data to change pricing for a tiny fraction of their members. And even if they could legally use the data, their actuaries would have a tough time actually using it considering the lack of research about how fitness activities impact claims expenses.
Glad you guys got a lawyer to look into this. Thread very carefully with crypto, taxes and the US government. Good luck.
Good idea. Dvorak users unite!

Do you use regular dvorak or programmer dvorak?
And when a competitor isn’t really the same thing? Such as when google starts “curating” their search results?
I started with an XPS 13 Developer edition. It had some minor issues, but I generally agree it was a good Linux experience.
Apple hiring for Siri engineers just spiked to its highest level ever
Maybe you misread what I wrote. I wrote that I do understand this.
It’s not just one person. As amazing as it sounds, lot of people are expected to be at work on time.
Why do you think Europe will collapse because their native reproductive rate is going down? What do you think about Japan?
Fertility rates and population growth around the world
I have 27 componentWillReceiveProps across 286 components, so not a whole lot. But in almost none of those do I update the component state, the most common thing is to compare the previous and new props and dispatch some Redux action that will start a load of some data, which will eventually update the props (of multiple components) via Redux. I guess I should start using componentDidUpdate instead?

The other case of componentWillReceiveProps usage I see is where there is computationally expensive derived state, but for some reason the asynchronous nature of setState prevented it from being used, and an instance variable "had" to be used instead. There are a few cases of these where after much hair pulling the instance variable "fixed" the issue.
It is generally understood that students ages 14-18 are substantially more self-sufficient than students ages 6-11.

Speaking for myself, I was largely self-sufficient in terms of managing my day at 14. My peers were as well. The major inconvenience of the early hours was being unable to chaperone a younger sibling.
It's still in development. Available at alpha.reddit.com, but it may not be available to all yet.
Why the focus on IT? Automobiles, trains, embedded controllers, space and commercial flight, weapon systems, high-tech manufacturing. All those are areas where Europe has at least one industry leader.

There are so many companies you never hear about because you aren't in the industry they operate in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

The USA is below both Norway and Ireland in the rankings table of GDP per capita, pretty consistently over the different measurements.
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Email is an open infrastructure, if an consensus emerges among the existing players not to allow emails about X then you're free to start your own email service what will feel the gap. If you can't make it stick then the holy free market has spoken.

Wikipedia is currently blocked in Turkey. That's censorship. Mailchimp won't let you use them to send emails about Bitcoin. That's a minor inconvenience.
Nationalised? Yeah, why not just cut out the middleman (FB) and hand everything directly to the 'government'?
I indirectly have control over what the government does with the data (as a citizen). If enough citizens don't like what they're doing, it can be stopped. Also, they have no incentive to make money by harming people.

On the other hand, I'm not a board member or shareholder of Facebook, and they have a legal obligation to make money.

As such, I would absolutely use a US Government social media service over Facebook. (Bonus if it were federated with other countries.)

(In reality I'd use neither because Facebook is boring anyway.)
We've been prototyping a data science tool/plugin to help with reproducibility - love to get your thoughts!
I wish I had this when I started my career. I would have well slept more.
>>He added valuable information that most of us don’t have.

Devil's advocate: he added his OPINION, which, even if he's unbiased (not an employee for example,) it's still an opinion.
Also worth noting that it is a shell of the old Independent that went bust and then got auctioned off.
Could Facebook Be Safer If Built Today?
Disasters caused by numerical errors
I also had the same..but when I stopped watching TV and went to bed earlier I was able to get up be as productive as ever.
In my view, the problem isn't the platform, it's the people using it. Until people are widely educated to give a damn about their own personal information, they will continue to flock to the next free Social Platform over and over again until some scandal, that they don't really care about or understand, now makes that platform 'uncool', and then they will all register for the next 'cool' platform.

Over, and over, again.
This memo is being totally overblown.

It’s like a telephone company admitting their services will be used to call in bomb threats, coordinate terrorist attacks, conduct verbal abuse, but that they should stay steadfast in their mission to provide communication to people for the greater good that comes of it.

It’s a little tacky, but past the last thing on a long list of wrongs Facebook has committed for so many words to be shed over.