skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder two things though. 1) would their operating costs be lower if their infrastructure wasn't designed around this user tracking and advertising model? 2) regardless of the answer to number #1 but especially if that answer is yes, do they _need_ an ARPU of $27 to get by? Could they survive on $10? (of course I recognize not everyone can pay that, it's a privilege etc)

Yeah I understand the goal of capitalist companies is to endlessly print more money for the shareholders and the promise of ever better advertising enables FB to keep pulling in the dough. But maybe something like social media shouldn't operate in that context.
Tabloids are absolutely terrible for it. Gigantic fonts, garish colors, all caps all over the place.
Maybe see for example https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/conferences-v... and the links therein.
You'll note I said open in the title - I should be able to reasonably easily choose another operating system on my phone, or run something which does not rely on Google to run (as AOSP does through gapps etc)
Ah, but this very article informs us that the idea that CSVs are necessarily human-readable is a falsehood programmers believe.

Besides that, anybody who is troubled by working with something like JSON is not going to look at raw CSV. They're going to use Excel.
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Does anyone know if the genetic testing companies like 23 and Me tell you if have the apoE4 gene mentioned in the article?
If your apologies are legitimate, your users complicit and your company an innocent party, then why so many documented dark UX patterns that are still in use today on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp?
Exactly!

Not quite the same thing, but related: When I was growing up, my parents would make me do all of my homework on their schedule and under their supervision. They reasoned that I wouldn't do it otherwise. That ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy and now I struggle with time management issues and procrastination.
Good point, forgot about checkout, diff, clone, blame, add, rm, rebase, init, and probably a few more.

Haven't used reset personally though but only when trying to fix someone's repo.
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> researchers then looked at 736 online reviews left by parents and kids (ages 8 to 19) of 37 parental control apps available on Google Play

Wait, so their source of data is Google Play reviews?!

The title of the article makes it seem that there is a one-to-one correlation between the app and the impact on the relationship, but the author herself says "The takeaway here is that parents should not treat parental control apps as a magic bullet to keep their teens safe online". So, this is really about parents who use these apps as the sole parenting device without doing any parenting and interacting with their child themselves. I mean, if you don't try to have a relationship with your kid, you're not going to have a good relationship with your kid.
>Too many sci-fi shows use science and technology as a glorified backdrop to showcase the characters, which quite often happen to be a recollection of same old tropes again and again.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having the setting act as a backdrop, per se. Stories set in the Wild West aren't about the technology of guns and cattle wrangling, stories set in the Middle Ages aren't about swords and battlements, so stories set in the future don't need to be about technological extrapolation.

Poorly written characters or a protagonist you can't empathize with is often the result of writers caring more about the tech and the technobabble than the human drama. Good sci-fi provides a balance of both - a plausible setting that doesn't explain too much, with stories that focus on the characters and their relationship with the setting.
This seems to be just .csv with " " as delimiters, "[]" used for quoting and line-comments starting with "%".
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Because non-IT users (your customers) are sick and tired of apps from 2000 that run clunky and ugly because someone is "forcing you change it" (aka doing your job) and you don't feel like it. Yes,
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Be assured Mr. Munger, there are now millions of smart, hard working with perfect GPAs and degrees slaves, so with enough hours of work of these slaves, you will be able to get the real thing, so you can lay off enough slaves, make higher profits easier and become even richer.
Wait what?
There are countries that put letters into phone NUMBERS?
I use uBlock, Nanodefender, Adguard and HOST blocks.
Why do we have duplicate meta tags, standard, OpenGraph and Twitter cards?
Most public web pages now include the Standard, OpenGraph and Twitter meta tags, all which usually all have the same duplicated content?
<meta property="og:description">
<meta name="description">
<meta name="twitter:description">
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I think in addition it's about shareholder value - I would argue that telling your shareholders and investors "We have 1000 paying subscribers" would be considered more valuable than "We have made 1000 sales", even if the total value of either is equal.

Subscribers have a lot of "lag", as the parent says, with a lot of people continuing to pay for a subscription they don't use anymore, or where they have to sit out a subscription for a full year.
I'm having a daughter soon and plan on white listing websites through the router. I don't plan to monitor anything but I do know there are things out there that would be detrimental for her to see.

We will add sites to the white list as we go.

Just to be clear, at a certain age I will give her full access.
That’s assuming the regulations work instead of just throw obstacles in the way of new companies.
I use both. I know the Django ORM and I know where its limits are. For getting data in it saves a load of time. When the query gets complex it starts adding time, or making things impossible (multiple join conditions weren't possible unless its been update in the most recent version).
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There's something about the Asimov books that make the mundane interesting. I loved the planning aspect of the foundation's millennia long plan. I'm dubious how a book that focuses so much on slow progress progress and averting major crisis will translate to TV.

(And I obviously love the novels, so I'm a bit biased)
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I'm planning to visit Tokyo in May, next month. It's going to be my first time in Japan. Preferably not too far from Tokyo University. Any recommendations?
I think there's more going on than condescending gotchas here. I see the whole genre as fairly tongue-in-cheek enumerations of pitfalls that, all too often, are baked into projects as unexamined assumptions.

When we read them, we have the opportunity to check our own assumptions -- about the subject at hand (today, CSVs) and also (hopefully!) about other subjects we may encounter later.
Which claims? That Russian trolls used reddit to influence US voters?
I really don't see Matrix borrowing that much from Neuromancer and both would be very different stories (in Neuromancer's case, a machine trying to hack itself out of its designed-in constraints), but I still believe Neuromancer is almost impossible to film.

I'll never forgive The Matrix for dumbing down the idea of running the AIs on the organic brains (Agent Smith's disgust is evident) and turning it into using humans as power generation devices.

Also, there is no way Neuromancer can be made into a 90 minute script. It's miniseries material, at least.
Whenever this comes up I feel it is worth pointing out that Linux's "Things break" approach is a problem exclusive to the userland tooling built up around the kernel. Linus takes a very hardline stance against breaking kernel ABI compatibility (except for drivers), but pretty much every piece of software outside of that, including GLIBC, thinks it's totally ok to break things all the time.

It's really very sad that the Linux community never adopted Linus's view.
Computers were primitive when I was his age, but I did have one. I never had any problems with homework. The context here is that I did not grow up in the US, and not doing one’s homework and having shitty grades was not “socially acceptable“ in the peer group. My son is not as fortunate.
I think there's a lot in this. The first users of the Internet saw themselves as librarians and curators, and sought to impose that vision of the world on everyone else. For a long time, people had trouble with the idea that everything didn't need to link to everything else.
Codec refers to the implementation.
How is this any worse than Reddit admins "trolling" Reddit, e.g. undetectably changing users' comments?!
Instead of thinking about the inner factors to whataboutism, I'd look at what factors predict the tactic's success for more insight into why that technique is effective. What enables the tactical fruitfulness of pointing a finger the other way?
You can also have clients that don't have a working OS. But you can't fix that. You need to choose a limit after which you say "no, I won't do that, get you s* together"

Well, it all depends on the money, doesn't it?
Subscription models create a haves / have-nots divide, which is fine for some things, but seems immoral for journalism. Too bad that model's been around since long before the internet.
Street gangs are vastly less organized than you might think. Countries that ban guns have vastly less gun crime because these are not highly competent people.
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With payment processor fees as well as per-user support fees (e.g. if a user asks a question), going to $6/year doesn't seem sustainable even if you have the market size which could provide a huge user base. For many projects they also have to keep in mind that their user base is not endless, so when it begins to saturate they need to have a reasonable income.
America needs to look at citizen privacy laws like they have in Canada and the E.U.

For example if I log into the Facebook business manager for a company I can see tons of data on Americans but not nearly as many details for Canadians, it's because of these laws. The new E.U. laws are even stricter with regards to personal data and how it's used, no matter who you are.

Why there is no demand for this level of protection in the States by its citizens and representatives is crazy.

Anyone who expects goodwill from Facebook, Google or any company is seriously misguided. Privacy laws need to be in place, actual laws that are bound my the federal legal system, and not just state regulations.
Compare subscription to Netflix vs. buying a movie on a DVD (and maybe ripping a personal backup copy).

That's a good comparison, because it makes clear that both approaches can have merit.

For content I'm likely to enjoy watching or listening to again in the future, I too would always prefer to have a permanent copy. The medium doesn't really matter, but having the control does.

However, I've also seen a lot of content on services like Netflix that I enjoyed watching once but maybe wouldn't ever want to watch again. I got to watch it for far less money than I would have had to pay to buy a permanent copy, but Netflix still got some money from me in return. This was a mutually beneficial arrangement.
“A dark and dangerous place where anonymity emboldens people to break the law in the most horrifying of ways. A platform of dangerous crimes and horrific abuse. A sickening shopping list of services and products are available.”

I’d just go ahead and count on scare tactics.
The novels, especially the first couple, are honestly pretty episodic. Given that they were published as magazine serials before they were books that's not surprising. But each section of the story deals with a self-contained crisis within the context of the arcing narrative, which imo fits pretty nicely into modern tv storytelling.
Page appears to be down from Tokyo.
No you aren't obligated to give her a platform. But if you go stage a protest so unruly that you block her from speaking at a College Campus for instance you have effectively negated her right to free speech. Are you really so infantile that hearing her words will ruin your life? Are they really so dangerous that you can't engage in a debate instead? I am a staunch liberal and the arguments about this coming from the left are truly mind boggling and very troublesome.
Adobe XD, just to give one example.

https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html

For the rest you can turn that Microsoft hate into something positive and spend some time releasing steam while searching.
> Since the books span many centuries, characters come and go and are mostly not very fleshed out or interesting

...except for the last three, I think? They are a more typical epic space adventure that takes place within a single lifetime.
The fact that more people voted for the opponent should say something as well.

2.9 million more votes is a big fucking deal IMO>

https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary...
I’m ok with that. At least it’s better than “YouTube watcher”, or “Minecraft player”.
I'm curious, what do you think is the right age to give full access?
Php3 and php4? Php4 and 5? Then I've lost contact with pure php
What consequences could you imagine a parent should allow a 10 year old to experience?

The consequences of an abnormal sexual development or an unhealthy attitude towards females
due to stumbling across hardcore porn and becoming addicted to it at a young age?

The consequences of mistaking someone on the internet as a friend and giving them your full address and name so they could bring you ice cream?

There are things on the internet that a young mind is not sufficiently developed to handle, and the consequences of exposure can last a lifetime. Hell, there are things on the internet that most adult minds are not capable of handling. Some things cannot be 'unseen'.

By installing a monitoring and filtering system and informing my child of this and developing in him an idea of what is acceptable and appropriate and what is not and protecting him from potentially life-altering harm.
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Oh huh, that's pretty cheap. Cheapest I've found in the Caymans is $2500 setup and $1500/yr, and many lawyer firms rip you off by billing you hundreds of dollars to give you unsolicited advice (yeah, it's that bad). Panama sounds like a much better idea, unfortunately it's impossible to get Stripe/another processor for a company outside the EU/US.
I just don't know what thought process I'm supposed to go through when someone tells me writing `sep=,` in a CSV is horrible but doesn't offer any alternative way of fixing the problem that solves.
Yes, my direct team is small of 4 devs but the main repo we work on is used by 100+ devs. We use git workflow (new branch for each feature) for the main repo and github style workflow (clone and then submit PR) for some other repos.
In my day we called "decentralized apps" simply "programs".
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One project I really like is Streamr. It looks promising. Monetizing realtime data on top of ethereum. It's great to see projects on top of ethereum creating real value.
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Honest question - why should we believe Equifax would act differently from Facebook?

Are there additional regulations or something? Every company under the sun wants to do credit checks before they do business with me; and they often don't ask me about it in advance. Is there some mechanism that would make that data less valuable to them if they wanted to do political targeting?

I don't take it as a given that Equifax would be more careful with my data than Facebook is, but maybe I'm missing something about how credit regulations work?
How could you possibly handle a single file that mixes and matches encodings? I'd think opening that in any software is going to result in some garbled characters.
But then this brings us back to square 1, "tools" can just scrape user messages/content without authorization and then use that to collect data on those users. If the whole point is to solve the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, this is just going to make the situation 10x worse.
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It sounded like no one even proofread and edited their questions or lines of reasoning. There should be a panel of non-partisan people, not even experts, taking the dumb out of their questions before they engage. It was a waste of time. Even some strong questions and ideas were shutdown because they couldn't formulate it, and then the internet turned it into another way to laugh at congress.

Maybe there needs to be an old-lawyer to SME translator doing the talking too. This person questions a SME on behalf of the senators and they can speak up or seek clarification when needed. Proofread questions and competent speech.
Well here's your problem:

"Now let’s look into the credit_card_expired method:

def credit_card_invalid(user)"

The method being called has a different name than the method being defined. Sure, clean code matters. Proofreading matters too.
If greater regulation in the social network space comes along, it's probably a win for Facebook. They have the resources to implement compliance. One more barrier to entry for any aspiring competitors, as if any more were needed.
I think you have to be exposed to the bullshit. I explicitly follow people on Twitter I strongly disagree with; that sometimes outright outrage and disgust me. I don’t interact with them, but I read what they’re saying and what people in their filter bubble say back to them. That’s my best solution to trying to escape too small a filter bubble of my own.
The spirit of Lindsey Graham's question was to determine if consumers have a choice

While this may or may not be true, part of Graham's job here is to make sure that the meaning of his questions can be ascertained by the actual wording of the question with no interpretation required, unless he's intentionally trying to confuse Zuck or get him to misspeak.

If Graham wants to determine if consumers have a choice, he should ask consumers if they have a choice. I'm sure the fine folks of South Carolina would be glad to help him out with that one. That would get him a more accurate answer than asking Zuck's opinion on the matter.
In my experience yeah. And even still in the past decade. People on IRC want to sharpen their chops and keep their skills fresh, and if you’re respectful and doing most of the learning in your own, they’ll usually be glad to give feedback or suggestions, or even help you understand difficult topics. It’s mutually beneficial to all involved, even lurkers can benefit a lot from it. Hugely underrated resource. I’m not sure if the same culture is there in slack though, but plenty of people still use IRC to socialize and learn and teach.
Why not go after both?
Good overview. Does this mean that the next steps to confirming/expanding these findings would be to reproduce this result in neuron cells, rather than skin cells which were differentiated to neuron cells? What are the next steps required to move further up the evidence chain?
Consequences for what? Everybody is lying about something on Reddit, why should Russian trolls be singled out?
> By installing a monitoring and filtering system and informing my child of this and developing in him an idea of what is acceptable and appropriate and what is not and protecting him from potentially life-altering harm.

I think OP's point though is at what cost?

It's a given that protecting kids from harm is good, but to be convincing in your case I want to see that you can enumerate the downsides and state why they're good tradeoffs.

Too often do I see courses of action being advocated for because they're short term "obviously" right.
How would it not be?
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The letters all correspond to numbers. I don't think most applications with phone numbers really need to support putting 1-800-FLOWERS instead of the real number.
What a disingenuous comment. Comparing this to a single instance of an admin prank done in good fun that was changed back immediately.
Why is "sleeping in a sleeping bag on the factory floor." a good thing?

It seems utterly ridiculous to me. A good night's sleep is a must to be most effektiv at any task. In addition you can't tell me Musk can't get a bed in his office.
Software and construction are not analogous. For one thing, no one is talking about regulation of social media that has to do with life and death matters. Are you proposing that no one should be allowed to create a video sharing platform unless they can prove in advance they can actively monitor all uploaded content, regardless of how popular they get?
So what Dapps does anyone here use apart from decentralized exchanges and crypto kitties?

One I came across recently that looks promising is joy stream:

http://joystream.co

Joy stream appears to be a service which rewards people for hosting torrents. I could see this being used by a lot of people.

Are their any services that provide usage figures for any of these Dapps? I’d be curious to know how much they are used as I think Dapp usage is a good bellwether for utility token valuation.

I really want to see crypto currency move beyond just being used for speculation.
As a parent of four little kids, my biggest concern is really that they understand consequences of online activity (sharing data for example.) An app generally doesn’t teach that — it’s called “parenting.”

“Find my Friends” on iPhone is also nice, just for safety but not as a tool for helicopter parenting. My wife and I have it enabled on our devices for each other, but it’s rarely used — it’s just an additional layer of safety. It’s especialy great if I am out in the hills climbing — if I get hurt, at least she has my last known location.
The main reason you'd choose CSV is precisely that you can open it in Excel.
"It’s important to learn that you can learn anything you want, and that you can get better quickly."

Pure gold.
I haven't really decided yet. Right now I'm leaning toward 15. Hopefully by then we have mapped out a vast majority of the sites she actually uses and it's not much of a transition.
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> Yes, VP9 is basically on par with H.265 at standard resolutions, so if AV1 is 34% better, then it is a lot better than H.265.

Is that really true, though? The most comprehensive test I've seen [1] led Netflix to conclude that H.265 was better than VP9 by about 20%, including resolutions all the way down to 360p. In my own experience and other tests I've seen the gap seems even wider. There's a few usecases where VP9 is superior (most notably screencasts), but generally it seems to lag behind H.265 while also being much slower to encode.

[1] http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Ar...
What makes dapps "special" (i.e. why we have a separate name for them) is that they utilize a blockchain in one way or another. For example for storage or transfer of data.
Can someone explain to me why I should pay to use the dapp Twitter clone?
> ...almost half the population of the US voted for Trump

Well that's obviously not true.

Edit: I understand what I hope you're trying to stay, that almost have of the people who cast votes in the US Presidential election voted for Trump, but when using statistics in an argument, it's important to correctly represent the data.

Implying that half of the US voted for Trump is dishonest, even when 'the US' is defined as "eligible voters".
The worst thing about academic CS is that nobody respects that it's chosen to be different from every other field?