skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it doesn't look great if those accomplishments end up having a negative impact on society

You're assuming all employers (a) believe in and (b) care about Cambridge Analytica. That likely isn't the case.

It requires quite a leap to begin with, to believe that CA could actually "influence elections". But this is just the latest iteration of a very, very biased political viewpoint emanating from Dems-in-Denial. Back in Obama's time it was "elections can be bought with campaign spending", then it became "elections can be controlled with Twitter spam" and now it's "elections can be controlled through some vaguely specified process involving years-old data from Facebook profiles". The mechanism keeps changing but the underlying belief that voters who don't vote left-wing are just marionnettes on string remains.

If you don't believe that, and believe / know that voters make up their own minds consciously, based on the information they have, then this entire Facebook story would make no impact on your hiring decisions because the idea that Facebook is some sort of sordid unethical power broker seems ridiculous to begin with.
I appreciate your cynicism and can relate to your irritation, but I think Altman actually believes what he writes. So it's less "propaganda" and more preaching the community values of the SV culture back to the community itself. It may get tiresome after a while, but less so when you settle comfortably into your own work ethics.

On a related note, there is an essay "In praise of idleness" [1] by Bertrand Russell - he is one of the greatest minds, and his work gives excellent form to many of your thoughts. I think you will thoroughly enjoy it.

[1] https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
Excuse me for being "dumb". I definitely don't understand the some businesses operation modes but... shouldn't this be the other way around? That is, I won't pay you directly $10k but I will pay your employer 20 times that money so they can pay you a good salary and still come with a profit?
Overall I agree with you, but there are many people who want to do something (profesionally or personally), but lack either 1) the motivation or 2) self-awareness of time/energy management, in the context of the rest of their life.

Productivity porn taps into fixing one or both of these. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes not.
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Wait. They still had a workforce? What the heck are they working on? How are they still extant? The entire operation was revealed to be a world-historical fraud! How is this company still in operation on any level? I don't get it.
What was the mechanism by which you reported it?
Theranos is by far the most explicit example of "fake it till you make it" I've seen. Maybe that motto should be shelved in the future.
I CAN'T DECIDE IF THIS IS REAL OR AN AMAZING WORK OF SCI-FI FICTION.
Go to a Tempur-Pedic store and lie down on the mattresses. Feel them tenderly conform to your body shape. Toss and turn a little and feel them tenderly conform again.

I've tried all kinds of mattresses, from an IKEA latex mattress to a futon on the floor to a fancy Sealy hybrid-innerspring-memoryfoam. Tempur-Pedic is above and beyond. Yes, they're really expensive, but you spend a third of your life on your mattress and Tempur-Pedics last a long time.
There is a little more information on the root but it is still fairly opaque. Based on reading their value proposition, I don't think their vision matches the reality of where application development is going. (although I've been known to be wrong)

http://darklang.com/
Why is there no pictures of this thing held up to the sky on an overcast day?
To expound on some of sama's points:

> My system has three key pillars: “Make sure to get the important shit done”, “Don’t waste time on stupid shit”, and “make a lot of lists”.

Proper use of the Eisenhower Decision Matrix is key (Note how quads 2 and 3 are arranged):

https://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/10/23/eisenhower-decisio...

https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2013/10/Eisenhowe...

> I use a Chili Pad to be cold while I sleep if I can’t get the room cold enough, which is great but loud (I set it up to have the cooler unit outside my room).

I guess that he got the idea from Tim Ferris, right? To be fair, I've seen a lot of people adopt these and love them

> This is likely to be controversial, but I take a low dose of sleeping pills (like a third of a normal dose) or a very low dose of cannabis whenever I can’t sleep. (emphasis mine)

Yeah, that's controversial as heck. The issue is the use of weed when traveling. Many many countries do not allow you in if you have 'a record' with weed possession on it and I wonder if this admission will follow him the next time her tries to enter China or Canada.

> I wrote custom software for the annoying things I have to do frequently, which is great. I also made an effort to learn to type really fast and the keyboard shortcuts that help with my workflow.

I would love to see that code.
oh wow - thanks for this.

And its Linux supported too!!!
It could be either.
We grant seniority and senior positions to much younger folks in the US.

You are hired on ability, not experience. Hence you can be a Senior developer after less than five years, because you are a great programmer.

It is also part of how companies maintain and poach talent here. They give you a senior title to keep you, or give you a senior title to poach you.

It does vary by industry, with older, slower industries like healthcare still valuing "years of experience."

But pure software companies are the wild west with job titles. We are the country that makes 30 year-olds VPs!

Applying for the next job title up is all in the spirit of "shoot for the moon." Very American.

In other countries, senior means you actually have seniority. In the US, it much, much less so.
There is zero evidence so far as to whether this is intentional sabotage of third party parts or not. However Apple has already demonstrated that they are able and willing to do this kind of thing i.e. with non-certified Lightning cables that also previously worked perfectly fine.

If there is a bit of code in the OS update along the lines of

if(DisplayID != GenuineApple) { breakPhone(); }

then it's obviously Apple's fault. But it's not at all clear yet exactly what's causing this problem and whether or not it was intentional on Apple's part.
I was wanting this just a few week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16709626 I didn't realize it already existed. Amazing.
I have never seen "fake it till you make it" or it's close relative "stone soup" actually work long term.
Apple added circular polarization display tech way back in iPhone5 or 6 I think. I used to notice this in my iPhone4S when I had my polarized lenses on.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/05/26/apple_exploring_i...
It's a joke.

The fact that so many see it as something else is interesting on multiple levels.
As a problem solver, Facebook looks very attractive to me right now. Imagine the shit they're going through right now. Not just damage mitigation but they probably need to revamp their business strategy which will turn in to serious engineering work.
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Hey, sorry if that wasn't clear enough (author here).

We decided not to go with ClickHouse because we were mostly looking for a SaaS solution. That's pretty much why we also didn't spend too much time on Druid either.

Choosing Citus meant we could leverage a technology that we already had a bit of experience with (Postgres) and not have to really care about the infrastructure underneath it. We're still a fairly small team and those are meaningful factor to us.

At the end of day I'm sure all those systems would do the job fine (ClickHouse or Druid), we just went for what seemed the easiest to implement and scale.
Or perhaps, over time, they have changed their minds. The principle of charity, it seems to me, requires that we take them at their word in the absence of evidence otherwise.
I love that borders or countries are becoming less relevant for a startup to succeed.
Don't give out your birthday either.
I think you're referring to Google search alerts[0]. I agree, that's a pretty neat tool to be subscribed to, should be useful in drastically cutting down the response time when responding to instances of one's personally identifiable data leaking on the web.

[0] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696
Feynman's own country, though, was at war; when he was recruited into the team that would eventually work on the Manhattan project, the Pearl Harbour attack had already taken place and irrevocably wounded and scarred the American public consciousness. Many other members of the Manhattan project were from countries or communities that had suffered tremendously at the hands of the Axis' power. War in Europe had been raging for more than two years. Fun or no fun, you can find motivation for working on weapons in a lot of things: the next Pearl Harbour attack could be against your home town, the next ones to be sent to labour camps back at home could be your only surviving relatives, the next casualties of war could be your high school friends.

Barring a couple of teams that work on interesting projects, Facebook has little other than money and reputation to throw at people. The former isn't that hard to find in our field, though, and the latter is kindda fickly. Facebook may well keep its talent pool constant, but largely by having people for whom the latter (or, more generally, what they work on and what impact it has) is important replaced by people for whom it is not.

Fortunately (for most of us, at least), the kind of talent that money, disregard for ethics and public doublespeak attracts is pretty self-destructive in the long run.
Apart from who'll have to fix it, I agree with you. This is a risk, and our software is early and buggy. That's why we're paying you to use it!
What I would like to see is an APL-y language targeting nodeJS.
"Fake it till you make it" seems to work OK for personal development. Not at all as a business plan!
When I deleted my main Facebook they were using JavaScript to analyze unsent messages, I feel like my computer was breached by Facebook more than my Facebook was breached by any 3rd party.
I reported the blog that was hosting the violating content, not the particular search result in question.

My apologies, should have made that clear in my earlier response.
Web application performance beyond the code
Sorry, I didn't mean to be pedantic in that way - more like I'm just gleefully geeking out about Cyan being in the news a bit. Your overall point above was completely correct.
As I recall, eventually cigarette companies had to pay out quite a bit of money, in the US at least, and now have significant limitations on their advertising activities. Last I checked, smoking rates are dropping pretty much everywhere.

And trying to hide problems, in the end, did not work out that well either for Ford, or for VW, or others. Depends on how "long" that long-term is, really.

I am all for complete information and disclosure, but it has to be somehow balanced with the general public being more clueless than it wants to think it is, and enormous amount of outright propaganda from the "GMOs are scary" and "Monsanto is teh devil" crowd.
Sounds like you should reopen the case with the insurance company. Are they allowed to substitute a non-performing part just because it's cheaper?
As in Iverson’s APL, I believe.
Also better for the engineer-- if something is unclear or not working they can just talk to the guy on the next desk
For those who have struggled as I have with the Zeigarnik effect attempting to do David Allen's GTD or other list-based systems, there is an answer: http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2015/5/21/the-final-...

More on Zeigarnik here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect
Everybody should continue living experiences, I mean, not just in Mexico but around the world.
Keen just stores blobs in Cassandra and does aggregation at query time. I can't imagine it would scale far enough to be useful in this situation.
> or Canada.

What do you mean by this? Canada has fully legalized cannabis and stores will open for sale in a couple of months. I don't think someone admitting to smoking cannabis online will get them banned from Canada.
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Great: productivity advice from a failed entrepreneur (and stoner) who slimed his way to the top ranks of YC.

Edit: keep downvoting. Let the hate flow through you.
Email us! If you let us know what it is you're doing we can help figure this out. eir@darklang.com

Edit: a little more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803660
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Depends but usually the short answer is yes. The insulin response is what is going to take you out of a fasting state. Milk contains a fair bit of sugar (lactose)
They were doing fake it till you make it[1] - deceiving investors and their customers, while making a hail Mary R&D play at trying to make their technology work.

[1] Just to be clear, 'fake it till you make it' does not require deception. If you're up front about what you're doing with the people paying you, and are following the law, there is nothing wrong with doing things that don't scale.
Please show me this CPU with a higher transistor count. There is a maximum die size that each fab is able to make, mostly related to the optics used for their photolithography process. Most designs are nowhere near the limit because larger sizes are uneconomical to produce, though NVIDIA for example is on the record stating that TSMC is physically incapable of producing anything larger than their current GPUs.
new one

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/9/17216474/mark...
While data security is an issue Facebook must reckon with, it is not the major issue Facebook's existence poses to democracies around the world.

The real issue in my mind is that the platform can be used by bad actors to spread misinformation. It's as if during WWII the Nazi's had the ability to publish editorials in leading newspapers throughout the US.

While this is a feature/bug of the internet in general, the vast scale of Facebook and its near ubiquitous use amongst the general voting public in the US and other democratic nations make it the most potent vector through which a bad actor like Russia could spread propaganda and misinformation.

I'm not sure the recent move to label political advertisements as such will do much to safeguard us from misinformation.
So if you don't place ads on it you're good, or is that also stealing?
BEAM is great, but it’s a bad match for high performance calculation.

On the other hand, purescript for BEAM does exist...
It's about like you'd expect. They do.

The interesting thing is that a huge focus appears to be cost-sensitive. As last mile operators, they have relatively low profit-per-customer (compared to a backhaul operator) with which to build each final physical network link.

Hence crazy stuff like "fiber to the box and short-run copper standard to the house".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableLabs

https://www.cablelabs.com/about-cablelabs/member-companies/
Science Fiction Fiction? So like fake fake science? Does that make it real science or?
Because they need a paycheck. Searching for a new job is incredibly stressful and emotionally draining, and is not the best option for everyone, at any particular time.
Formik: Build forms in React, without the tears
I buy it was done in good faith, (and it’s unfortunate that the lesson they took away from it may have been just to keep their mouth shut). The lesson here though was that people at Facebook weren’t aware of the responsibility the data they have puts on them.

It showed a surprising lack of awareness and care for the users of their platform. Regardless of the intention it was grossly irresponsible to do the experiment in that way. The kind of data that Facebook had and was manipulating is completely more personal and completely different than getting people to click a buy button, a distinction lost on them. We’re talking about people’s relationships with their family, their old friends, and we’re talking about cries for help or compassion that were suppressed to see how it would affect users mood, not just engagement.
That makes sense. If you do ever want to check out Clickhouse and want someone to run it for you, Percona or Altinity [1] can probably help. Not affiliated with either, I just read their Clickhouse-related content.

[1](https://www.altinity.com)
Yeah, but what drives that perception? It doesn't seem to be rooted in any coherent theory of ethics. After all, users happily agreed to their data being used, they weren't forced to sign up to social networks en-masse, they weren't forced to install tons of crappy apps or agree to grant them permission to their friends data. They weren't denied any information or lied to.

So the normal rules of ethics that would lead to conclusions about immoral behaviour don't apply here. Privacy isn't something that should be forced on someone. It's their life, their decisions, their information. They can do what they want with it. In reality virtually no users care about privacy and will happily upload their lives or even broadcast it to the whole world given the slightest chance.

As such, it's hard to conclude what exactly Facebook employees are supposed to have done wrong here.

That leaves "OMG YOU GOT TRUMP ELECTED", which isn't going to convince the roughly 50% of Americans who voted for him. After all, they won't believe that Trump voters were mindlessly reprogrammed into voting for Trump against their will by social media. And a lot of Clinton voters won't believe that either.

I expect a whole lot of virtue signalling from the same Silicon Valley types who foam at the mouth if someone says there aren't many women coders because on average they choose to be teachers instead. And not much else.
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I would prefer a powerful ChromeOS device with the ability to run Linux containers over an iPad or a Mac. I suspect that I'm not the only developer who thinks that way.

But I sort of agree with you too. I'm running Linux desktops rather than Chrome machines for that reason.
Not even a little bit. Your turn to answer.
There's some things that are considered immoral or unethical that are fairly universal, especially in developed countries. We're against slavery, rape, murder, etc. Sure, there are perpetrators, but don't wave them off and say "Oh, they just thought differently, give them a break!" We punish them, which is all that can be hoped for.

Some things exist in a gray area (for now) so while some people might argue that its righteous or necessary to do something, there's no problem with an opposition to such an ideal shoving it back.
Ask HN: Side-project you are working on?
Silicon Valley’s Astronomical Housing Price Creates a Problem for Startups
In fact this is a method of stealing people's investment accounts -- a victim with an investment account is identified. That person's phone number is then "captured". The investment account asks for 2FA and the thief now has that phone #, and "authenticates." The next step is to transfer all the money in the account to a third party and disappear.

It's disgusting how twisted these criminal activities have become.
GitHub: Thank you for 10 years
How is that broad not in jail but the pharma-bro is doing hard time?
Read both of them + Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth and few of the books in the History of Middle-Earth series compiled by Christopher.

I have to say I was disappointed in the Children of Hurin as it was once again repeating the same story with slight variations. After that I skipped the Beren and Luthien and will skip the new one as well. But my view may be distorted by the HoME series as they were full of different versions of the same stories.
Lots of folks asking exactly what Dark is so answering separately.

tl;dr Dark is a programming language and service. Our goal is to allow you to build backends without having to deal with the endless accidental complexity in software today. (Accidental complexity meaning everything from infrastructure and storage, to syntax errors, etc).

What does that mean exactly? Dark is a language, and editor and a PaaS, combined. We're aiming to allow you build an application in an afternoon.

One thing to bear in mind: we are very early on this, so it's buggy and doesn't have all the featured you'd need. This will literally be our first user, so set your expectations from that :)
Sounds like they're developing Common Lisp, Emacs, and Slime.
Probably because early video codecs are terrible. Nowadays with modern codecs we can encode "higher-resolution" (like 320p or 480p) videos that are smaller in file size than the old postage stamp sized videos.
I do this too, I was told to add something like "PLEASE MATCH THIS TEXT, THIS IS NOT A RANDOM STRING" at the beginning. Apparently when some very incompetent bank workers ask your security questions if the frauder says "oh it was just a random string, I do not remember" they give access to your account.
I usually just do a random hash. Also, really, really hate the sites that do not allow you free form text the question itself and rather populate a bunch of commonly known ones. FFS, if you're a web developer working on security questions, let the user make up the question. Agreed though, we should just do away with this as an authentication factor.
Indeed..

I suspect the average HNer is much more employable than the average corporate/office worker, and it's something we all probably lose sight of from time to time (particularly when I see comments like "just get a different job!")
Well people might be valuing stock price risks and not making decision based on ethical concerns.
Not before you answer the question without asking one.
I could be wrong but I believe the word 'joke' applies here.
Probably good food and no responsibilities, plus you can have all the copper wire you can pull from the building.
If you want to try a new RSS reader / news aggregator, you can check out http://aktu.io
So by questioning FB I support ISPs? Fallacious logic (to be sure - it's a false dichotomy)

I support people's privacy - from all-of-the-above.
Replacement iPhone screens are of dubious quality. I had my 6S screen replaced, the first one I couldn't see with my sunglasses on and the second one the touch screen was very erratic, and the one I have now has terrible light bleed at the top.
That would be good. At a bare minimum, let's shelve it from healthcare related endeavors.
Are any patents they hold licensable? Just because they committed fraud and couldn't get their product to actually work doesn't mean the patents are worthless.
Lots of words in the linked comment, but it still amounts to making machines that mechanise the process of killing people.
"We're not the first, I hope we're not the last

Cause I know we're all heading for that adult crash

The time is so little, the time belongs to us

Why is everybody in such a fucking rush?"
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Live Stream – Mark Zuckerberg Hearing on Data Privacy and Protection
A classic humorous look at the modern Javascript landscape as of a couple years ago: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
Notable for instructions to install MacOS.
This is the end of the end for Theranos.