skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a site that predates Facebook: Facemash used "photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#FaceMash
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Yeah, as someone who carries neither iOS or Android devices, app only social networks won't ever pick me up.
> the reddit website has become a travesty - especially on mobile. A huge "DOWNLOAD THE REDDIT APP" banner obscures literally 30% of the page.

Somewhere under preferences you can disable this bullshit forever.

The website is still a travesty though.
There are lots of great libraries out there that don't get much attention, it's a shame that something like this, which is total nonsense, ends up getting attention.
Just some quick napkin math:
In 2015 the US Defense spending was estimated around $598 billion. [1]
In 2014 we spent $12.7 million on the school lunch program. [2]
By reducing the defense budget a little under 5%, we could triple the school lunch program. Reduce it a little under 9%, and we can spend 5x more on school lunches.
I'm not sure of the exact numbers behind an individual school lunch, but from what I know about personal cooking, you can probably spend 5x more and have menus put together for kids that are way healthier than the "Pizza Dippers" I remember.
I'm also not sure if school lunches are sold at a profit, but here's what I found related to that [3]. Assuming they are, do they really need to be, especially if the federal government can subsidize it more?

What's really needed is a societal change with how food is treated. Someone else mentioned a tax on sugar and processed foods, which could help. But another big step would be trying to teach students about nutritious food and living a healthy lifestyle. Of course, it's difficult if the school is the only place they see this, but I don't think it would hurt to have more outlets for healthy living in a student's life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
[2] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50737
[3] http://markbittman.com/health-vs-profits-in-school-lunches/
So I got curious and download the app. Start setting it app and... lo and behold the app tells me that I already have an account. Fair enough I tend to try all new thing BUT . . . there's no way for me to log onto the account, the one and only option that appears in the app is to create a new account.

LOL
It’s important that we incent what we actually want. As it stands the science is often done in universities funded by federal grants. The monopoly owner—which is allowed to capture much of the value—is responsible for the drug testing process and marketing.

The drug testing process is no doubt important but is it so much more important than the initial drug discovery that the entity that funds it should be where all the profits go?
She closed some long running hatefests like fatpeoplehate and took the fall for the very controversial firing of an employee, which later turned out to be Ohanian's decision.
It's been around for a bit less than 2 years
That's a flawed analogy. Eating tomatoes from your own garden would be akin to listening to music that you yourself composed and recorded.

If you enjoy content and declare "It isn't worth the price, and I wouldn't have bought it anyway, so what's the harm, right?" you are still satisfying your urge to be entertained. If, without this access to free, overpriced entertainment, you would have otherwise sought out and bought other entertainment that you deemed worthy of your money, you are stealing from the people offering worthy entertainment.

If someone owned a practically infinite supply of water from a spring and bottled water for $50 per 12 oz bottle, and you said, "Hey it's fine if I sneak on their land and drink from their spring, because I wouldn't pay for their water anyway, so who am I hurting, right?" regardless that there is tap water that you would have otherwise bought at $0.03 per gallon, but now have no need for.

You may not be hurting the spring owners, but you are hurting the utilities selling the tap water.

IMO, this is why entertainment mostly sucks nowadays. It's very hard to make any money in it, because people are all watching/listening to crap movies/music, turning their nose at it and refusing to pay, and then going in for a second helping. /rant
Because that happens.
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It's 2018 and you're criticizing a site for not running well with JS disabled. You're the one actively deciding to make websites harder to use, why should they design the site for you?
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Iranian air force operates F-14 Tomcats still..
That's a heck of a lot of ephemeris data to upload to a missile before it hits you.
Gustave Le Bon, the prominent French psychologist, has a copious amount of writing on the concept of mobs and their behaviour:

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.
App not available on the iTunes store in my country, Romania.

I don't get why app developers feel the need to add restrictions like that. Don't they need early adopters?

Also it's mobile only at this point. While I understand why, another app that's supposed to increase my mobile addiction won't change the world and is not going to win me over, sorry.
Why ‘A’ Students Work for ‘C’ Students and ‘B’ Students Work for the Government
Well yes, that's what I meant. I keep forgetting there are still mobile devices with LCD screens...
Actually there was a report with a bit of an controversy according to official israeli one of the planes was damaged by a bird the other version is, it was almost hit by a SAM missile, search on google for details
Anything released?
Places where the building was via foreign investment, in cash, absorbing all risk?
Put some of your own resources into making a better version.
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The premise seems to be that popularity is what's important. I'd say the useful metric is whether or not you can be productive with the tool at hand. Popularity is sometimes something that can make a framework more productive (as tutorials, documentation and libraries are released), however popularity is hardly a prerequisite.
Google is its own third party: There is no appreciable difference between Facebook sharing your data with an ad company and Google sharing your data with their own built-in ad company.
Does it show ads?
You're off by a factor of 1000, I think.
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Somewhat unrelated, but it's quite aggravating to see the memo-writer (and the author of this article, by extension), using "de facto" good instead of "ipso facto" good.

If you choose to use flowery expressions, particularly Latin ones, you should at least be accurate.
I was similarly skeptical about `Unlimited PTO` companies, but I am currently working at a tech startup in NYC with Unlimited PTO (we don't track time off) where the norm is for engineers to take about 4 (sometimes 5) weeks off a year.

The workload is high, but it's very common for engineers to take a week off after a big, stressful project is delivered.

Because the norm for vacation is set high, I don't feel bad about taking as much time off as I feel I need.

It really helps that our CTO also takes at least a 2 week vacation every year and takes time off for himself when he needs it.

Having said all this, I am not too optimistic, in that I don't believe this situation is very common in the industry.
Licensing rights, because if you develop an app that makes money out of playing music it is gonna make some people uncomfortable, even if it the music of the owner of the app. There's gonna be C&D letters even if the app proves to be licit.
Compare to a city with great transit, then you know. I used to think that Vancouver transit was great. Then I started working in Shenzhen. Shenzhen and Hong Kong are awesome at public transit, Vancouver sucks. Part of the problem is that it's difficult for public transit in Vancouver to be profitable because the population density is so low.
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Which not useful if you prefer to lurk rather than login or use incognito/firefox focus to browse.
1. Get all the crap out of the food supply.

>Will never happen when crap is cheaper and releases more quick feel-good chemicals. This is a billion dollar industry.

2. Put an end, permanently with threat of severe sanctions, to all the fear-mogering in the media that frightens parents into keeping their kids indoors.

>Will never happen when fear-mongering sells, and is a necessity for 24/7 cable news. This is a billion dollar industry.

3. Deal with small-scale, crime, bullying, availability of drugs, etc. etc.

>Each one of these are enormous sociological issues with no simple solutions.
Will you use the cyclops app
I am working on an app that lets users find a digital version of physical books(www.cyclops.cc)
I will like to know the following
1) Do you find the app useful
2) Will you pay to use it?
3) How likely are you to delete it from your phone when you running out of memory
4) I will like to know your thoughts and ideas
I'm not sure if this is open to the public yet, but if you really are interested you could post your questions here:

https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/
I use iTunes 10.6.3 and sync to an iPod.

That keeps track of play counts on both devices, lets me make smart playlists and playlist folders, and syncs music, contacts, and calendars all over USB without any cloud services prying into my personal data.

Apple went from being a leader in the music-listening industry with excellent UX to trying to compete with Spotify and YouTube, who are frankly not even that great (e.g. trying to keep playing a song in the background).

Flash memory was small when the iPhone came out in 2007, so everything moved to streaming. Now the capacities are finally big enough again (e.g. 128GB iPhone SE), Apple's broken their sync services.

I like having play counts, ratings, and playlists, and I like that I've continually built up my music library since the days of Soundjam MP for the Rio 600.

Doppler is trying to put a new theme on Finder's MP3 playing feature, but it's not the syncing library manager that I need.
I think I read a headline that some department of Google had the heebiejeebies about AI for the US military, but I think it's a bit broadbrush and also redundant to make the claim you have here.

China has huge AI potential, and I'm not sure you do or can speak for them; AI may increasingly be a 'package' that's brought into tech, so I'm not sure how much difference morals make in its development, if the end product has universal plug-in potential?

- ed

Unless, I suppose, the smart, utopianistic & pacifistic people who form AI in the first place deeply-embed moral stuctures that cause AI to somehow magically recognise its use for malintent and then auto-terminate... . Unlikely!
The real question here is whether they removed the very inappropriate animated emoji.
It's interesting reading this as a European - although offices and large public buildings in the UK are air conditioned, homes aren't. Our climate is often humid but even in peak summer, few of us even think of seeking shelter in front of an air conditioner. The only place it's common to find one is in a car, and even those are seldom used because the energy use is immediately visible on fuel consumption.

I agree with the amount of energy used by the machines - humans are remarkably willing to expend huge amounts of resources for what many would view as pathetic personal comfort. On the other hand, ACs allow us to do work around the world in climates where we would end up sweating in seconds and needing breaks every few minutes. Of course, in other places, it's taken to excess - in Dubai, for example, AC and related technologies allowed the construction of an indoor ski resort. I cannot imagine how much power that attraction consumes to keep the desert heat out.

The one saving grace is that an AC is actually quite an efficient machine. Per unit of input energy, it is able to move multiple units of thermal energy between its 'hot' and 'cold' zones. ACs can even make efficient heaters by working in reverse, pulling heat in from outside rather than burning fuels or using electrical resistance, and transferring more heat than the power input of a heater. The ability to move heat around is a very useful engineering accomplishment.

However, the article does point out the many downsides. Not only is the energy consumed contributing to climate change, but I can imagine that with many, many devices pumping heat out of buildings into the air, they're actually heating the local air by a small percent and probably incentivising those nearby to run their own ACs. A nice little vicious spiral.

Though mentioning the dangerous environmental impact of the older generation of refrigerants, the article doesn't touch on a key breakthrough in recent years - using carbon dioxide itself as the working fluid. This is a really neat idea and has a two-pronged approach - not only is the gas not immediately harmful should it leak (at least compared to other refrigerants), but in building ACs that use it, CO2 could be captured from the air itself and isolated. Obviously in small quantities, but when considering how many AC units are in use globally, there's likely many, many tonnes of refrigerant in use. Replace all that with CO2 and it could make a real different to the planet.
Its consistent with American values (personal freedom etc). So often the idealist jumps straight to "Lets make people do it my way, uh, the right way! With restrictive intrusive laws! Or raids! Or some other totalitarian tool! Because that'll work!"

I understand its hard to see folks making choices that diverge from my personal sense of what's optimal. But it is a cost of living in a free society.
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Trains have wifi or you can just use 4G.

I never ttavel by plane but I assume they offer wifi too nowadays.
Seems to be it means Holmes and company were acting like snake-oil salesmen, much like Rasputin and his 'spiritual healing'.
Anything less than "I'm absolutely sure that I'm not currently speeding towards an obstacle" - that's an unattainable goal; there's no way to actually reach this, whether a human or a robot is driving. I'm overwhelmingly sure during the most part of my drives, and mostly sure for the rest - but absolutely? Never.
Google don’t care about shutting down products with large user base. Like Google Reader.
EU privacy watchdogs to look into harvesting of data from social media
I moved away from it because the object model is too prescriptive.
It’s Google, smelling blood
I think what you’re trying to ask is, “Who else can we get to pay for this?”

I’m sure you’re not thinking FDA approved drugs will literally rain from the sky and magically fall into your mouth curing you of this horrible deadly disease...
I'm pretty sure they banned all the racist subreddits at one point. Was that not the case?

I'm not a fan of the more fascist aspects of the reddit userbase. There's immense value, I think, in allowing ignorant people free speech and over-labeling things as hate speech can be dangerous. For a while the site has been more about shouting and downvotes and less about dialog.
If anyone deserves to lose fortunes, it is him.
It's worse... Once you've signed up through mobile, you can use it from any browser. Makes you wonder why it wants you to sign up on mobile... Wants your phone number? Wants access to you contacts?
The private sector is risk adverse when tax policy encourages risk aversion. Look at the capital gains tax for example, the existence of that tax means that you have a n% lower risk tolerance since you would have to exceed the cost of the capital gains tax plus make a profit.

If taking a moonshot costs $1000 and if it’s successful, you make $10000, but after capital gains you net $5000, that means it cost $1000 to make $5000, however if the percentage chance of success is just 5%, private markets would be less likely to invest compared to a $1000 investment that has a 90% chance of making $2000.

Which means you get a lot of the “safer” investments and very few of the high risk investments because the risk/reward ratio is destroyed by high confiscatory taxes.

But, if capital gains taxes were zero, you would have a necessarily higher percentage because the reward side of the ratio is much better.

This somewhat explains why a French VC is much more risk adverse than a Silicon Valley VC. My point is risk aversion is a function of the risk/reward ratio.

Since government isn’t really directly accountable to anyone, they can pour money into highly risky “investments,” because they really aren’t beholden to anyone. The US, for example wasted billions on so-called green energy investments in companaies that no sane private investor would have supported: Solyndra as an example. In Houston, taxpayers are being forced to pay for Astrodome renovations to turn the aging structure into a parking facility; government promised that the facility would be “profitable,” yet, if that were that case, they would have had no trouble raising private capital for such a “profitable” endeavor.

My other point is that governments have a long, illustrious history of treading in areas that are actually terrible investments, but since they can literally print money (and provide payoffs to various constituencies,) they are under less pressure to actually do their diligence (or ignore diligence that counter argues their project viability.) As long as the right groups “get theirs,” a government effort continues unencumbered by pesky ideas such as return on investment.
Popularity is important if you want to hire developers - developers are generally less interested in moving their career in a different direction than the industry trends.

Popularity for frameworks is also important if the framework needs adapters to enable third-party libraries to work with the framework. Depending on how opinionated the framework is, the friction in embedding libraries may hamper productivity indirectly.

If you're a one man band, then it's definitely less important. If the framework is a really good fit for the job, likewise. Otherwise, there's safety in numbers.
Lispbox is very old (though worked good enough at the days; I actually started with it). The current "Lisp environment in a box" thing is Portacle - https://portacle.github.io/.
If you still use Emberjs then you must be living under a rock!!
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The problem isn't how food is treated, it's Americans unwillingness to use tax dollars to help poor people(even children). Foods got nothing to do with it, it's the same with their school supplies, technology, quality of education, etc.
To be clear, the only conclusion here is this program was the wrong approach for the audience it targeted.

Diet, exercise and personal responsibility still do matter. This program was not able to get the target to embrace such things.

That said, there must have been some successes. Who were those? And why? Why was it effective? How can that be replicated and scaled to effect more?

Moi? I suspect too much was targeted at the kids and not enough at the parents. The parents do the shopping. They do the cooking. The kids, by definition, follow the lead of the parents. The kids adapt and conform to the nurture provided to them. Not to sound harsh but how often do to see a (pardon me) chubby kid and then see the parents are similar or worse?

Put another way, I'm willing to bet there was no change for the parents' weight / habits either; in turn no change for the "culture." And so it persists. This is what humans do. We conform to the norms around us.
For CSV it is.
I feel like Facebook Groups and Google Plus communities have proven that organizing people around their shared interests doesn't work very well.
And for android : Keepass2Android is very good
Bitcoin will likely never hit another record high, Barclays says
While I expected nothing more than what it has been, the reality was painfully beaten into me when I read "can this guy just go to jail already???"

It's a sad state of affairs. I only heard part of the second day, but one of the ladies asked a question about the Obama administration using that survey leading to the huge amount of data gathered. Had it not been only four minutes, I feel this is the question that would have lead to the most important discussion of why it was not against terms for that administration to use Facebook data, but was for Analytica (Other than the fact that it was sold to them, but I believe unless Zuck passed the buck, it could have lead to discussion about the data itself being the problem, not the selling to Analytica.)
Not sure if that'd work. I guess his lawyers told him it's ok to evade questions this way. Esp following up is probably safe since he doesn't give away any details. And playing stupid could also work, even if there was an email a few years back explaining the topic to you.
It's the school lunch "million", which should be $12.7 billion.

(so all the percentages are reasonable)
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I am the son of a geologist. My father spent his career working around crushed or ground minerals, and the chemicals applied to them. The trousers he kept to do his own coal sections would have been rejected by a fair proportion of the homeless population. He was a wonderful man, but not much of a model for what one wore to work.

I married the daughter of a manager, who in fact started giving input on my wardrobe before we were married--I think before we were particularly serious. Since we married, she has generally set out my work clothes. Monday through Thursday, this includes a tie. September through May, it includes a jacket. On an irregular basis it will be a suit.

At the job where we met, I was expected to wear jacket and tie to customer sites. At the next--a government contractor--I was expected to wear a tie. At this one, nobody cares. I have been here long enough that people would certainly notice if I started to show up in tee shirt and jeans, or even omitted the tie, but I don't think anybody cares one way or another. Most employees here wear what I'd call business casual. In a building with about 250 persons, there might be five other men who wear ties, and a few more women who wear something comparably dressy.

My advice: blend in. Don't give people an excuse to reject you.
I wish the blog post had dates because from the comments I don't know if it's the hello thing from Google, a relaunch or and old blog post showcasing something that failed years ago.
Ask HN: How do you refer to independent vs. team work projects on your resume?
I think knowing something was done independently or on a team is important info from hiring perspective. Do you distinguish between projects that you've worked on independently at work, versus those you've done as a team? Specifically, how do you word this?

For example, "Independently designed and developed X feature.", "Jointly migrated X to Y", just "Migrated X to Y" regardless of whether there was more than developer on the project, or some other variation?
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This is why I never saw the setting to disable the app prompt. Reddit tracks every single action on their site (no duh) and I don't feel like being monitored when I'm on the toilet looking for LULZ