skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little is more naive than the broad claim "collectivism doesn't work" because the USSR and other states tried some form of it and failed.

Even if you are willing to massively oversimplify things and look at the cold war and all the real-politik business of the last century as a fair contest between the ideas of collectivism and capitalism, "which system wins in a war" is not exactly the same thing as "which system maximizes prosperity." Nor are we actually limited to picking between the two.
> but there isn't really a way for me to leave.

You speak as if you have no agency in the situation. But, you do have agency. Using, or not using, facebook is 100%, entirely your choice. There was a happy (happier?) world before 2005, where families shared photos and stayed in touch, without Mark Zuckerberg.
Well, most phones since the 5s yes.
I think the simple reason is that two characters are harder to type then one character, if they both are a key combo. And to keep syntax more clean.
Coincidentally I am just reading the <<Programming in Ada 2012>>, and found this in the introduction chapter:

> C history ... The essence of BCPL was the array and pointer model which abandoned any hope of strong typing and (with hindsight) a proper mathematical model of the mapping of the program onto a computing engine. Even the use of := for assignment was lost in this evolution which reverted to the confusing use of = as in Fortran. Having hijacked = for assignment, C uses == for equality thereby conflicting with several hundred years of mathematical usage. About the only feature of the elegant CPL remaining in C is the unfortunate braces {} and the associated compound statement structure which was abandoned by many other languages in favour of the more reliable bracketed form originally proposed by Algol 68. It is again tragic to observe that Java has used the familiar but awful C style.
Sometimes I want to take a subset of the commits out of a coworker's merge on staging to push to production, and then put all non-pushed commits on top of the production branch to form a new staging branch. I find having a linear history with no merges helpful for reasoning about conflict resolution during this process. What advantages do merged timelines give in this context?
I think the actors in crypto have no shame. I love crypto, love the potential of the tech -- but does anybody doubt that coinbase, bitfinex, kraken, poloniex -- all the exchanges just flat out robbed people? When the narratives aligned they pumped/dumped.

Then they have no shame. Poloniex gets bought up. Coinbase/gdax announce venture capital arm. Its almost like they sucked too much money selling hopes and dreams to consumers, and now that SEC is watching closely they cannot keep pump and dumping the market. Just look at the volume drop.

Honestly, the democratized/decentralized characteristics everyone promotes is a bunch of bull until someone shows me a way democratically bootstrap ownership without total failures like Satoshi owning 20,000,000,000$ worth of BTC or a couple of whales owning 50% of the ETH supply because they bought when it was worth pennies and after BTC went up 10-1000x.

This whole thing seems to just be another means for wealth transfer.
PyPy won't change your data structures and algorithms, so it's not finding mathematical insight.
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> The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up

People do write replies, but I feel the conversation is much terse these days. I enjoy HN because in general the crowd here is more mature and willing to invest in an informative thoughtout reply instead of just witty one-liners for karma (which I'm glad people here downvote).

But yeah, I wonder what if we took away the "likes". We had an internet and community without them before.

PS Thanks for the book recommendation.
1. I've bought more than 100 domains and I'm planning on launching atleast one site every week. They should mostly be wordpress CMS sites but I also have few SAAS based ideas for them. So, I need a lot of design services. Though I'm a designer myself I hardly have to time to work on my own projects as I've lots of things going on.

2. I work as a Remote UI Designer for Healthcare based SAAS startups similar to TelaDoc for companies in US, UAE and India. Since, I work as a contract designer myself for entrepreneurs who bootstrap their startup, I could help in what kind of output your customers expect in what timeline, will they be okay if you take time more than deadline. I have successfully completed more than 3 projects from idea to implementation. Each project takes atleast 6 months to 18 months to complete. I have been the core members of companies in initial stages and Now, I'm on track to create websites of my own.
> If you don't like Facebook don't use it

Fine, I won't. That won't stop society in general being surveilled though, and all the attendant ills of that that the article suggests. Further: more and more apps require me to use Facebook to sign in.
You mean you didn't just read git's easy-to-follow, well-structured man pages or built-in help? /s

Half the time, when I know what I want, I both keep forgetting git flags and sub-commands - and struggle to find them in the man pages.

Like the fine:

git diff --name-only # i list only the files that are changed. But I'm not --list-files.
Most technologies that were specific to the "Semantic Web", such as OWL and SPARQL, failed to scale and failed to solve realistic problems, and therefore died. (I always maintained that running a SPARQL endpoint amounted to running a DDoS on yourself.)

However, we got something kind of cool out of the RDF model that underlies it, especially when some sufficiently opinionated developers identified the bad parts of RDF and dumped them. We got JSON-LD [1], a way for making APIs describe themselves in a way that's compatible with RDF's data model. For what I mean about sufficiently opinionated developers, I recommend reading Manu Sporny's "JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web" [2], a wonderful title for the article behind the main reason the Semantic Web is still relevant.

Google makes use of JSON-LD in real situations: for example, an airline that uses JSON-LD can send you an e-mail that Google Assistant can use to update you on the status of your flight, and Gmail can use to give you a simple button for checking in.

[1] https://json-ld.org/

[2] http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins-2/
What is clear that the world governments are and have been accelerating their efforts to quash tax avoidance.

For example, in 2013 the oldest running Swiss bank, Wegelin, (itself older than the US) shut down as a result of a guilty plea for a case brought by the justice department.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swissbank-wegelin/swiss-b...
I think why many won't is because the fear of missing out. They fear they would lose contact with many "friends" that they have. Be it distant relatives, or friends of friends. That in itself is the problem with Facebook: that's their draw. People overvalue the opportunity cost of missed opportunities if they quit Facebook.
Hmm. Maybe more overall minutes/calls due to the lower cost? I know for sure my phone bills got cut in half when I switched to MCI. I didn't call or talk more often, just paid less.

Maybe others paid more than before, but enjoyed the additional minutes.
I'm a BC resident about to begin working remote for a US company.

I'm planning on setting up a sole proprietorship but am curious if there are advantages to incorporating.

I've only spoken briefly to an accountant (on the phone) and he recommended starting as a sole proprietorship and then looking at incorporating in the future.
> Why would I expect a 500$ TV to last less than 2 years?

My point was specifically a $500 TV that was 80" and OLED.

If all the current models with that specification are up around $5,000 - $10,000 or higher, and there is a model that sells for 1/10th the average price. An argument could be made that you could expect that might not last as long as one ten times higher.

The law is intentionally vague about time limits. "One could expect that a TV that costs ten times less than all the other competition, may not be built to the same quality as all the others which are much more expensive". There still isn't a specific time limit though.

And if it did fail within 2 years then you could probably make the argument that you expect a TV to last longer than 2 years.

To put the argument a different way - If you compare $5 kitchen knives at the local discount store vs $250 Japanese steel chef knives. You'd expect the $200 knives to last longer. As to how much longer, that's up to the person making the warranty complaint.
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Because calculating a Levenshtein distance is to complicated...
I have seen quite a few of the same in Chicago as well. It is always hand-wringing over there being internet forums where johns review services, and a lot of assumptions that anyone engaged in prostitution obviously must be trafficked, or forced, or coerced, because surely nobody could ever possibly do it willingly.
The fact that their slow query scanned billions of rows means that they didn't bother to simply shard by customer.
> Wow, that sounds like some serious liability for the manufacturer. Given these regulations I imagine these kinds of products in Australia are quite expensive relative to less restrictive countries.

It's expensive(ish) here anyway, mostly due to lack of competition. A country of 25m people surrounded by water, we're stuck with local manufacturers or importing (without local warranty).

> I also don't fully understand the need for laws to fix the "planned obsolescence" issue - if a manufacturer's products consistently broke shortly after the warranty expired (well before expected end of lifetime), why would anyone continue to purchase from that crap manufacturer...

Because maybe that's all the person can afford.
"pull" might be the first thing I'd throw out, if thought there was any hope of fixing git ux. Then add a working merge --dry-run #do i have conflicts?.
Why do you suggest one can “opt out” of facebook?
They profile non-members and encourage users to disclose personal data of non-members by installing apps or helping them to “find my friends” based on sharing such data (e.g. address books). #1 and #2 apply to facebook as well. We might find out about #3.
Exactly. And they are the ones who write laws for us. Some even far more important than ISP regulations or what to do with Facebook.
It was always a cruel joke, never to be taken seriously.

At its core were SEO hucksters trying pass off page rank hacks as a business model for consulting work, during the post-dot-com bust period, when money was scarce and web design couldn't pay the bills anymore.

Many ascended to the priesthood of RESTful web microservice development, where they poo poo and tisk-tisk improper path grammar and noodle with JSON objects, in between periods of intense navel gazing.
Zuckerberg's talking point from his AP photographed note sheet (https://i.imgur.com/3UP1b4X.jpg) is a good one.

If you break up the major US tech platforms, it cedes leadership of those sectors to Chinese competitors. Something to think about in discussions about breaking up Facebook, Amazon, and Google.
Can you demonstrate that Postgre is significantly faster than MySQL on average? Highly doubt so. The problem is in the way data model was architected and implemented.
Sure. Not discounting there are girls that do this work willingly. Just that the Asian spas, for the most part, aren't in that category. They are a special case that does indicate traffickers exist and are prolific in the US.

And they are likely not the only case. I believe there's a Russian/Ukrainian equivalent as well.

Here's a pretty convincing story that Chicago (since you called it out) has this issue as well: https://medium.com/@markguarino10/a-victim-centric-approach-...

And it doesn't sound "difficult" to find or validate.

You would have to believe there are women that want to live 24/7 in these strip mall dungeons on purpose, sleeping on massage tables, paying off inflated debts, to deny the trafficking angle.
People have careers today for the same reason they had farms or shops or a regular practice of hunting and gathering in former times: to support their own lives and those of their families. Whereas the motivation towards a career is conditional on its support of survival and the more adaptive urges, the twin motivations of survival and reproduction are invariant.

Viewed in this light, the article is confirming a truism well known to anthropologists: men work so women can have children. Our society is little different from others. So much male parental investment is an unusual arrangement among primates, but it’s well documented among humans. Men produce roughly 2/3 of the calories consumed across a broad range of the societies ([Marlowe2001]). This is due to both:

* The difficult, dangerous and demanding nature of human birth and gestation, which is quite different from that of other primates.

* The enormous amount of energy expended in gestation, nursing and early childhood to support growth of the human brain.

The benefit of this arrangement is human brain development: we have larger brains than other primates, and the brains undergo considerably more training before functional adulthood. We are able to have these arguments about women’s careers precisely because of the situation we are complaining about: that women set aside so much to have children, and men set aside so much so they can.

Nothing about the energetics of pregnancy, nursing or early childhood has changed as a result of our transition from working mostly outside to working mostly inside, save that the length of “childhood” is now considerably longer, as long as thirty years in some cases. That women and men do not work equally well when pushed to live the same life course is no surprise, when we consider human history and the lives of the other primates. Should men and women be pushed to live the same life course, it’s not clear how it would be stable: men must bring something to the relationship to balance the large and fixed metabolic cost of gestation and nursing, which they can’t do if they can’t earn more than women. Men who failed to find some way around this would not have offspring and consequently later generations of men would be descended from — and have not just the genes but also the habits of — those men who found a way to obtain superior renumeration. This is no doubt how men got to be what they are in the first place.

[Marlowe2001] Male Contribution to Diet and Female Reproductive Success among Foragers
One core element how I measure the performance of my managers is how they maximize the output of their teams. That’s obviously good for two reasons. First, we will reach our goal faster and second everybody is more happy, because everyone is dreadful when they’re unproductive
There's no number on the amount of money you have to earn to be a business. Corporate structures can be useful even if they don't directly earn money.

Either way, yes it's just a cost of doing business in California, and so profits need to be greater than the cost for the business to be sustainable. Perhaps it's not a great description to say "taxed into bankruptcy" but it's no different than "did not meet costs and ended in bankruptcy", with the costs specifically being taxes.
Don't you think your relationship with said "customer" is going to be too cozy and hence not "real"?

Why don't you randomly offer half a months rebate to some percentage of your customers last month? (Also those who left you). Consider offer money as well as freebies (esp. for the former customers).

As you have a 10-day no questions refund policy also make sure, that you write clearly that it is a one time offer and totally okay if they don't wanna help..

I think you will learn more of that..
You also cannot opt out of Facebook, they keep shadow profiles on basically everyone.
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We should probably expand on this notion of Clickbait that assumes readers are merely tricked into clicking. Catering to some 'lowely' urge is way we usually think about these, but there is more.

Traditionally, clickbait refers to a type of optimisation for more 'static' media outlets- those with more rigid publishing chain: writer <editor <owner.

Youtube's low barrier to publishing disrupts that, so we now have viewers assuming editor + owner role with their newfound power of directing attention. So now users demand to be catered to. Sense on entitlement is at the center of this thing.
What the actual fuck? Long distance prices dropped 99.9% after the breakup
>Git won because of GitHub

No it didn't. GitHub was built because of git's popularity. That's a really silly claim to make and doesn't even logically make sense. The tool was popular, someone built a hosted service for it.

Like think about the insanity of what you're saying. A company was built around some "esoteric" tool, despite plenty of alternatives existing at the time and you think people just whimsically invested in this company because of... what exactly?

You're literally just talking from historical ignorance and making up shit. It's so easy to verify any of the claims you decided to type out yet you chose not to anyway. GitHub believed in Git's popularity, and it paid off.

>I've worked with several developers who don't understand the difference

That's a really neat anecdotal story.

>GitHub could switch to BitKeeper under the covers overnight

No they couldn't. They couldn't even switch to it over a two year time frame. You are making absolutely ridiculous claims with nothing to back it up. BitBucket, owned by Atlassian, has hosted Mercurial repositories. Don't see anyone lining up to switch over to Mercurial.

A really easy claim that is obviously negated by a practical example and you still chose to make it? Legitimately silly.

>All your discussion about git's dominance being a testament to the tractability of the git UI is a false equivalence.

That's not even what that word means.

>When is it ever the case that general acceptance means "objectively the best" instead of "obviously the path of least resistance"?

Don't know if you were around for when git was released but there is now a whole graveyard of SCM's that people actively dropped to switch to git. And BitKeeper was definitely one of them. But I guess those were all dropped because of a future platform that no one knew about at the time. Heavy sarcasm by the way.
Microaggressions
> For anything that takes more than half a second or so, it's usually a big win and can turn minutes into seconds.

As a counter to this, I purposefully try to use CPython in order to force me to find algorithmically optimal solutions. It's a useful way to learn.
I think a lot of people ignore fetch and only ever pull.
So they're "too big to fail"?

If you break of the platforms into smaller separate companies, why would that cede leadership to Chinese companies?
Firstly, it is not possible to opt out of facebook. [1] And they do indeed collect private data that we didn't choose to share (shadow accounts, third party website trackers, etc).

Facebook have broken "actual laws". There are so many cases were facebook have broken the law. [2] [3]

Also, please read up on Fallacy of relative privation ("not as bad as").

[1] https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/involuntary-profiling.html

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/12/facebook-...

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/facebooks-tracking-of-non-...
Yes, I have the agency to lose touch with people I care about, because it's not practical for me to convince them all to use a different medium. It is the FB moat. It's real.
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Corporate Online is available from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, including statutory holidays and from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sunday. Note that due to system maintenance, the Sunday opening at 1:00 p.m. is not guaranteed, although every effort will be made to ensure the system is available at that time.

I think the initiative is good, but in 2018, a website that only works during business hours is a travesty.
The inferred type of

drop _ [] = []
drop x (x:xs) = drop x xs
drop x (y:xs) = y : drop x xs

should be

drop :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [a]

of course.
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Eh, I think you are missing the forest for the trees here.
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No, I would ask also, that I routinely manage to commit successfully what I change vs. losing my changes when trying to commit them.
Gotta agree with others and say that they’re clearly skimming over the facts that:

- they didn’t have the expertise to actually fix the SQL. That query smells bad. The data model smells bad. For some reason HN is always superstitiously afraid of letting developers touch the database, but if you don’t let devs touch the database enough you end up with this sort of thing; or that crap data model with properties in rows instead of columns, because oh god, we can’t let devs actually do DDL so we’d better make it all really flexible (and incredibly slow because it’s a misuse of the database). I mean, implementing your own result caching mechanism? I don’t know about MySQL but surely it has its own caching mechanism (Oracle does) that isn’t being used because the query is bad.

- project management probably had no interest in fixing the performance/incorrect data problems, and devs were expected to do it in their own time.

In a way though this makes me feel better, other people are dealing with these problems too and their overengineered solutions work and keep the company running, I guess mine will too :)
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What about `a = a + 1`?
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right. I was responding to:

>If everyone who fulfills the basics are supposed to get five stars, how do we signal the extra mile except for tips?

Which is asking for ways of showing appreciation without giving a tip (or perhaps even in addition to giving a tip)

I gave a useful answer (the 'complement' feature that both uber and lyft have) as well as a mildly snarky joke ("My guess, though, is that the driver would prefer the tip.")
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How do they profile non-members or even people who've either deactivated their accounts or aren't using them? If I don't log in how does invites affect me? All they could possibly have is my phone number and email. Which aren't exactly private information anyway.
It hasn't been a choice for a long time. 10 years ago I started getting emails from facebook showing me others that I knew that had shared their address books with facebook, giving them my name and other contact details. Mapping all my friends together if they use facebook or not. Tagging friends on images uploaded to facebook. Visiting pages that have the facebook pixel on them.