skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> someone else came up with/suggested original The Facebook name.

It was a tradition on Harvard campus that academic Houses published their own facebooks. The people Zuck stole the idea from were making a digital version. Here's a piece about it from Harvard's newspaper in 2004:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register...

>Lisa H. Feigenbaum ’04 said that she joined thefacebook.com because it provided an open alternative to the password-protected House facebooks.

Harvard was also trying to make their own before students did it:

>“There is a project internally with computer services to create a facebook,” Davis said. “We’ve been in touch with the Undergraduate Council, and this is a very high priority for the College. We have every intention of completing the facebook by the end of the spring semester.”

This is one of the most telling parts of the whole story:

>Davis said that the principle complication with the creation of an official facebook was figuring out how to design an interface so that directory information could not easily be compiled without authorization.
You're Addicted to Your Smartphone. This Company Thinks It Can Change That
I would suggest to read Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs[0]. This will help you to understand the growth of JS.

[0]. https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-...
Hey guys, I'm aware of the unfortunate name of the product. Munt actually means coin in Dutch. So my apologies to people I have insulted.

I will change the name as soon as possible, if you have any feedback on how to name it next, that would be appreciated.
Right. And I guess what I'm saying is that if Peepeth can solve the crypto UX problem, I'm already sold - but I've seen nothing in their page that suggests this is even on their radar. They seem to take ETH for granted - which is kinda' like Whatsapp saying that "you need to install bcrypt, create a public-private keypair, configure your identity wallet to keep the private key, and then you're all set to start using Whatsapp!". You can see how that is not a very attractive proposal - for most users, encryption is completely transparent in whatsapp, they don't even know it exists.

Peepeth could do something like Whatsapp, say "it costs you 1USD/month to use Peepeth, but for the first year we'll waive the fees" and transparently purchase ETH on your behalf behind the scenes. But they don't do that. They put all the crypto burden squarely on your shoulders, with no hint that they'd consider making it all seamless/ transparent for the regular user.
It seems to me that knowledge worker support staff (paralegals, PACs, etc) are the current low hanging fruit in terms of automation. Firms without them will be able to turn higher profit on less revenue.
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> So are telephone numbers and addresses considered very private in the US?

To a degree yes, there is no public resource to lookup that information. There are however brokers who deal in that data however the quality is questionable (e.g. I routinely receive fliers in the mail at my new address from house flippers who wish to purchase my old property).

People in the US consider their address to be private information even if it is easily obtainable.
The Zeeman Effect
I still strongly favor Ember for exactly the reasons React and other frameworks simply haven't caught up: the out of the box experience.

I can start building an actual app within 3 minutes of typing "ember new" – with React, I'd spend the first couple of days just fiddling around with build scripts.

Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use. Why not just make it a part of the framework?

I think one of the reasons React has been successful is that most developers inherently enjoy the actual act of tinkering as much as they do actually building something. They are ok with spending the first 72 hours of their project picking and setting up their build tools.

On the other hand, I can't stand that stuff.

That's what's so weird to me about all this. Ember is to front end JS exactly what Rails was. Yet rails was successful and Ember wasn't. I think it's the difference between front-end culture and back-end culture.
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I'm probably not supposed to say "Me too" either, but it is good timing for me too.
I'm just going to say it: Their mascot was an annoying hamster.

This was their downfall.

Angular, sexy geometric design. React, sexy nuclear design. Vue, Sexy V geometric design. Ember, a big goofy rodent looking at you lol. "But abledon, what about GOlang? they have a rodent too?" Yes but golang resides in backend land where designers and frontend visual brains are lacking, only performance matters, doesnt matter if your framework's logo is a steaming pile of poo, if its fast and easy to write concurrent code in, it will win the backend holy wars.
I think the audience is being unfair and have flawed expectations if they go into a movie adaptation of a book and expect it to be "better".

They're fundamentally different, and as long as the creators and the audience are on board with that fact you can absolutely make quality movie adaptations from books as long as you play to the strengths of the medium.

You can't make a movie with as much depth and breadth as a book. You can't cram as much exploration and detail in and hope it'll come out even halfway decent. What you can do however is show beautiful and breathtaking imagery, and offer action and thrill-rides the likes of which you can't hope to match with the written word.

Reading Lord of the Rings makes me appreciate just how special it is that Legolas and Gimli become friends, because there's more room to explain the relationship between dwarves and elves. I get to feel what Frodo feels when he leaves his home behind.

But when I saw Rivendell or the Mines of Moria for the first time in the movies it overshadowed what the books had told me about those places. And I still to this day get goosebumps whenever I see the charge of the Rohirrim. Something I never experienced in the books.

Is one set of experiences better than the other? Or are they just different.
Nothing is being given to the populace in this scenario.
There's always DSL. /s
Robotics. Not humanoids necessarily (I find them creepy to tell you the truth), but the ones that will act in the background making mundane and repetitive tasks easier - garbage collection, cleaning, watering plants, restocking grocery store aisles, further automating industrial tasks, etc.
You can't just order as a guest like you can with the pizza chain apps?
A fellow 15+ year developer here. I concur. Well said.
Offer free cooking and nutrition coaching for low-income families. They're the ones with kids most likely to subsist on junk. Presumably if it proves to be effective, the gains will eventually extent to the hold-outs in the middle-class.

I would observe as much at the supermarket on the regular in an area I once lived in, heartbreaking to see.
Ah, I meant mobile apps, not web app. Too late to edit. If there's a similar startup time, though, that's an excellent point.
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> Where you can build things that actually work, and aren't just static representations.

Designers can do that in PowerPoint for presentations or mockups.

There is also Adobe Edge for the web and theme designers like Divi in Wordpress.

> HTML + CSS is the best design tool you could learn.

The problem for designers is that you're asking them to mentally translate from a medium they're good at (visual) to a textual medium. But we've had GUI tools for making visual stuff for several decades now.

The web is behind on this front, even though companies have tried to make things like Dreamweaver, Flash Designer, Frontpage and Edge. With gaming, you have Unity. A lot of desktop software has layout managers and visual tooling.

It's kind of silly to expect designers to want to work with a textual format in 2018. Smalltalk came out in the 70s.
It wasn't an insult, only referring to anything widely used. I'm sure he's thought of things.
CRISPR. The ability to edit DNA in living animals (especially in the germ line) will cure genetic diseases, make us live longer, and increase our ability to feed the third world.
Electric vehicles, especially as the range increases and price and charging times drop. I hope that an ancillary benefit will be reexamination of how we generate grid power with a focus on renewables and nuclear.
How do you do this:

You should make content to establish yourself as an expert. I did for recruiting. Over the course of 6 months I went from some random person who knew nothing to an authority in the space.
Why even bother wtih bookmark syncing? Sites like https://start.me enable you to access your bookmarks from any device/location/browser without the need to sync bookmarks.
> What are your thoughts? What, if anything, should be done to make Ember relevant in the JavaScript horizon again?

As a total outsider to Ember, but an insider in the JS community, having worked in various web-dev roles for 10 years and served as tech lead on a full-stack ReactJS app, my recommendation is to double down on production of junior developers (yes, I said "production" instead of education, and that is how you should look at it; producing capable workers).

High barrier to entry is the Achilles' Heel of ReactJS. It's in a very similar position to Ruby on Rails five years ago. If you want to kill React, go for the low-hanging fruit: the juniors. Take a lesson from Python. It doesn't matter how old you are; capture Programming 101 and the future is yours.
> Private industry has been very effective indeed at hooking millions of people on opiates.

Opiate addiction is a direct result of government policy regarding drugs going back over a century. You can't put the blame for that on pharmaceutical companies.

> Meanwhile, where are all those new antibiotics?

We're literally commenting on an article about curing Hepatitis C. Not too long ago, chronic Hepatitis C was a long and slow death sentence. There was a time during which having HCV was considered worse than being diagnosed with HIV, because the prognosis and treatment was so bad. Now, it's completely curable in just a few months. The cure for Hepatitis C was funded and developed in the US off by private industry, using funds obtained from pharmaceutical sales.

Incidentally, there have been discoveries recently about developing new lines of antibiotics, though that's not really the issue. The point is that you're missing the forest for the trees, if you ignore all of the unbelievable advances that have been made in pharmaceutical development in the last 25 years alone. Almost all of that - including pharmaceuticals developed by European companies - was funded from US pharmaceutical sales.
I run an agency at ever.io. My close rate is much higher, around 50% (I'm a sales guy). I've been coding for 20 years, but not as focused on that anymore. If you want to reach out to me, I'd love to connect and see if I can help.
CRISPR-CAS9 for genome editing. Briefly, it allows us to identify particular bits of DNA and modify one or more bases. It's a very new biotechnology (research essentially began within the last 10 years) which applies to essentially all species we've tested it on. It is cheap and so easy to perform that I could probably teach 99% of HN to do it in a week's training or less.

It's still not as accurate as we need it to be, but that won't stop biologists from modifying plants for improved performance as crops, bugs for less disease spreading, or other mammals to increase the pace of biological discovery. In time (and in China first, most likely), we will see the use of this genome-editing technology on humans flourish.

Thinking specifically of humans, it will allow us to eradicate inherited genetic diseases like sickle-cell anemia, to target cancer cells very specifically, and will hopefully revolutionize treatment in many sorts of diseases. Now, when it comes to enhancing humans and their germ-line (eggs/sperm), which allows enhancement on down the generations. this is the most controversial point. It will probably be done on the black market if we try to regulate it, and it would probably be immoral to disallow people from giving their children all the advantages possible.

But where does that stop? Do we allow a bunch of 6'5" mega-geniuses with blonde hair, blue eyes, and all the right genotypes to take over society? Will that occur? Who's to say. Either way, utopian or dystopian or somewhere in between, I think genome editing is the most influential class of technologies on the horizon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16813823
This was not born child. It was a frozen embryo that did not belong to them. Grandparents fought for it for selfish reasons of having a grandson while knowing, that the child will be lonely and possibly dysfunctional.
I think we're at a standstill for most PC/mobile/the sort of tech most of us work with.

Electric cars and the explosion of renewables are going to change _everything_, faster than people think.

Doing a quarter mile in a Model S is fucking AWESOME.
As someone not in biotech at all, biotech is so cool to me in general. Definitely a the sexiest field as an outsider for me.
Self driving cars. The amount of time saved for humanity will be absolutely staggering and free up people to spend more time accomplishing more things.
He said having it available is the right thing - and I am assuming here but it's because Reddit is a site that says they promote free speech.

Why do you assume that because he is for free speech on another site, that he doesn't belong here?

Reddit gives you the right to free speech, but it does not exempt you from the free speech or right of others.
It's amazing how many people expected Zuckerberg to understand every technical aspect of Facebook in minute detail, and accused him of lying or deliberately dodging when he didn't have an answer immediately available. Facebook stopped being a one-man-band a very long time ago, I don't imagine he's personally touched the code in years.

I can't believe I'm defending the guy - I'm really not a fan - but most of the criticism I've seen seems to be based on unrealistic expectations.

By all means criticise Facebook's business practises and hold MZ to account for getting them changed... But this circus seems like a meaningless distraction.
Nah. He's been running the same scam since he started, as exemplified by that famous quote:

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

He's still doing the same thing.
I used to believe that automation will lead to greater unemployment. Now I think that two things happen: goods get cheaper which lowers the minimum amount someone needs to earn for a job to be acceptable. People who still have a great job have more spending our. This unlocks new jobs that previously nobody would have paid for and nobody would have accepted. But both maximum price somebody would pay went up and minimum price someone wants to perform went down. Recent examples are all these delivery services and obviously Lyft and Uber, although the car services are a little more complicated since there always were taxis.
Reddit is a private corporation, these supposed core tenants of western liberalism do not mean they need to provide a forum for racists. Don’t confuse their love of ad clicks for being some champion of free speech.
Hydrogen cars. A long way to go yet.
Various AI accelerator hardwares. It seems to me deep learning advance is currently limited by computing hardware resources.
And have you found that yet?
Mind if I steal this idea? I've been meaning to learn some elisp for a while and games revolving around fictional computer interfaces appeal to me.
Agree. I think the hunt for ever-newer computing tech is misplaced (blockchain lol) but CRISPR might actually cure cancer. That's way more important than Yet Another Logistics Company at this point.
Nowadays, whenever I read about any new for-profit social network platform, no matter what their new twist is, my gut reaction is to feel as if they're asking:

"Please give your data to us instead of Facebook, Google, or the other usual suspects."
"JS disabled" is just the consequent, tech-y angle to not requiring JS to display every damn text box. I get JS to load things like simple menu-pop-ups or expanding an image, but it's so infused in the new reddit layout, you need it to basically display simple, static text content. It's just bloat.
NUMA systems might take 1 microsecond just to retrieve time internally from a shared hardware resource. The operation is not concurrent, so there's a chance for it to block for much longer.

This can happen because RDTSC is not synchronized between physical CPU sockets (NUMA regions).
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Rafale is nuke-capable (F3 standard) since 2008. Dunno if the nuke-capable version is exported though (the F in F3 stands for "France")
Firstly, You're wrong. I'm not going to say you may be wrong, or that you're possibly wrong. Denying climate change is as wrong as claiming the earth is flat. The other replies to your comment should (but probably won't) convince you of this. As well as the vast consensus of scientific (actual, not "scientific") opinion.

Secondly, did you really create an account in order to make that comment? A tip for future comments: If you're going to make contentious claims, it's best to bring some citations to the table.
Is the opiate crisis really tied to drug prohibition? I'm sympathetic to the idea of reducig restrictions on dru use, but drugs are prohibited all over the world, and yet it is the US where opiate painkillers are overproscribed that has a big opiates afdiction problem...
This is probably the same reason GitLab transitioned from a goofy looking mspaint mongoose to a slick angular logo
Ha! Imagine how many people would be in jail right now if that were actually enforced.
Brain-computer-interface, semantic web, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology
Any requirement to obtain UBI by definition means it's not UBI. And I've not heard a single proposal for "mandatory public service" in order to receive any benefit. Not to mention that UBI is squarely a libertarian (small l) proposal and neither the Democrats nor Republicans want it. Republicans only want it if it means slashing public services (one of only two ways it is even fiscally possible, which is a nonstarter for the vast majority of Democrats), and Democrats either don't want it or want it as part of a huge tax increase (the other way, which is - surprise! - a nonstarter for the vast majority of Republicans).
I didn't read it as a direct cause and effect, as they were talking about a 10% increased chance of early death due to forcing their natural circadian rhythm to match everyone else. And they even recommended letting night owls have different schedules at work as one possible solution.
> I can start building an actual app within 3 minutes of typing "ember new" – with React, I'd spend the first couple of days just fiddling around with build scripts.

> Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use. Why not just make it a part of the framework?

create-react-app [1] is the official out-of-the-box CLI for React apps. It's maintained by the React team and has been around for a while now too. I may occasionally disagree with what gets included (e.g. service workers) but overall it's been a massive bootstrapping productivity booster for me.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
Olodolo.com currently uses coinpayments.net for this. What benefits do you offer over their implementation? I have actually been looking for a nicer system to switch over to.
You have literally said....nothing. And 5/5 is 1 genius.
If I already have a Hadoop cluster, which can run a spark job in a jar file on HDFS with spark-submit, how can I install Hazelcast Jet so that I can do the same as with Spark?
Good engineering is robust and efficient. Requiring Javascript to display simple, static text is not good engineering.
"Let your users connect to your IT infrastructure without knowing the password or key used to access the server."

How does that work?
You do realize that Google has it's own reasons for wanting to influence elections, right? They operate their own PAC and spend millions of dollars donating to political candidates and lobbyist groups.

"Within company" is a meaningless distinction. It requires the assumption that Facebook or Google themselves are trustworthy, and smaller companies are not. But the big players themselves, are in fact, not trustworthy. So whether or not they sell the data or abuse it in-house is pretty much irrelevant.
Seek help, friend.
You've made my (and his) point and that's what's misleading about the article. He attempted to make that point but was interrupted and pushed for one and only one. Companies of this scale don't have one and only "biggest competitor" because they don't do only the one thing.
I recall once when a storm knocked down the cable lines in my neighbor's yard. He called Comcast to report the downed line however he wasn't a customer but some how got an appointment to come out on my account. I received a call confirming the appointment time the day it was set to happen.

Aother interesting quirk of their system is that if you ever contact them about your account, whatever phone number you use to contact them is automatically added to their CRM system and associated with your account. That phone number is not shown on your account though if you login to check.

I know this because I received a marketing call at my Office Desk Phone regarding my home account. The agent asked for me by name and then said something like "hi, I was calling to discuss your account that services <my address>". I logged into my Account on their website and verified that my office phone number was not associated with my account. Then I interrupted their script to ask how they got the number and they said that it was associated with my account.
> Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use. Why not just make it a part of the framework?

Isn't this what `create-react-app` is supposed to solve?
There is a presupposition in this article: The automated jobs will leave a vacuum. That is, routine jobs will be taken away with no other jobs to replace them.

What if reducing routine jobs frees up minds for higher pursuits? In the same way that high level programming languages such as Python have increased the amount of programming jobs, as contrasted with writing in assembly. A quick search on Dice shows Python jobs outnumber assembly 8 to 1.

This might actually lead to a jobs explosion.
Munted also means getting incredibly and unxonrroballu high on drugs in Aussie slang.

Perhaps Minted if you want to keep the name similar?
Man this sounds awesome! Sadly it would be a ton of work to do right for a small audience that would appreciate it or you would have to bastardize the concept so much for the masses that it would end up little more than a ‘cockpit with tons of shiny buttons’ like you get in most flying games.
Quantum computing as it relates to chemistry and materials development.
I love Ember and I do think it's the best framework out there. That said, I agree that this is a large part of the lack of market penetration
I'm also a morning person, sometimes I devote my morning time to side projects first. And I leave my actual work to the later part of the day.

But if I need to work on my sides during the evening, one trick I found is making my room extremely bright, making me think that it was still daytime. I also force myself to be away from my bed. As soon as I lay down, there is no way I can get up and be productive.