skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was very evasive about Facebook tracking users outside of their FB site and mobile apps. Kept saying he doesn't understand the question and "team will get back to you".

It's unfortunate no one (that I've seen) brought up the presence of the Like button and Facebook comments on a large portion of the web, which means Facebook knows pretty much most of the sites and pages you visit (even if the site you visit doesn't include any FB widgets, but the next one you click to does, since they also track the referrer header).
"What a story, only in America right?" [About facebook's origin]

Zuck: "Well, senator there are big Chinese internet compani.."

"The answer is yes, you're supposed to say yes".

So much about China. Only in America. The answer is mandatory, it's "Yes".
Accept the fact that, if cities don't want to allow for high density development, then that is their right, and to move your tech startup somewhere else.
yup, folks should give plausible but wrong answers to those questions and then put them in your password manager because you'll definitely forget.
I semi-regularly have my fingerprint distorted by cuts and burns to the point where they can't be identified by a scanner.

You can't replace passwords with fingerprints, as you still need a backup to update said system.
most of this article is covered in the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_operator#Confusion_...

but Wikipedia says:
"The reason for all this being unknown. [footnote] Although Dennis Ritchie has suggested that this may have had to do with "economy of typing" as updates of variables may be more frequent than comparisons in certain types of programs"

while the OP says:
"As Thompson put it:

Since assignment is about twice as frequent as equality testing in typical programs, it’s appropriate that the operator be half as long."

Thompson and Ritchie designed C together.
True, but there is also locality of reference (having everything in a contiguous block uses less cache than pointer-chasing) and garbage collection pressure.

In principle, using NaN boxing or a similar technique to store non-floats, you should be able to store floats in an []interface{} as efficiently as in a []float64. Scripting languages do this, but not Go.
I just needed to test if I can send emails to gmail accounts form my selfhosted mailserver without them getting put into the spam folder.

I'm using that email for ~6 months now, I haven't yet send an email to gmail... I checked. And I use email quite a lot actually.
> Modern architectures make even simple applications hard. We make API calls using REST and HTTP/AJAX, but we also need queues, authentication, transactions, retry logic, error handling, and rate limiting.

err. herd of erlang ?
https://www.twitch.tv/washingtonpost is continuing to stream the testimony. Some of the questioning sounds tougher now, so it's a shame that markets are closed.
It was a fantastic question.

It’s a public exposition; getting and decomposing/de-spinning fundamental answers is kind of the whole point.

Most Americans do not even think about thinking about how Facebook makes money, but use it every single day.

zucc’s shit-eating smile was my favorite part of the whole thing.
Please correct me if I'm mistaken but your comment seems to rely on the assumption that it is not reasonable if someone chooses to not make 10 minutes of time for breakfast.

While I do not wish to state my position on the "making time for breakfast" matter, I do, however, wish to state that if you _are_ indeed starting from that assumption, you are not really trying to understand where the other person is coming from.
How is that the least bit related?
And then be asked a dozen questions how the layout should behave on small and wide screens, should the headline be ellipsized or word-wrapped? I don't see a general purpose solution for this kind of problem coming anytime soon.
Yep, books have typically been a poor way to learn for me, unless they're really good (by the metric of keeping me engaged).

It has always been a frustrating thing.
Key Value Storage on the Ethereum Network
I feel like 200mg of caffeine is way too much.
Granted they had some bad keyboards; there's a oft-reproduced photo of Thompson & Ritchie at Teletype 33s, but those had '63 ASCII, including ←.

Probably more important is that the Unix/C developers came from Multics, written in PL/I, which (following Fortran) used ‘=’ for assignment. And Fortran was still important; Unix had a Fortran compiler at least as far back as Second Edition, when C was being born. Kernighan & Plauger's Elements of Programming Style used Fortran and PL/I for its examples, and Software Tools used Ratfor. ‘=’ is simply what they were used to.
He also emphasized that the majority of their users are not speaking English or in the US, so their foreign workforce would not reflect the political views of SV nor the US.
That is how it has gone for many languages, but it isn't the only way. Examples of languages that have gone differently include Java, Javascript, Erlang and Visual Basic.

More generally, if we look at devtools adoption as a whole (and I suspect Dark's adoption will more closely resemble a B2B devtool than a programming language), I don't believe those steps you outline are sequential at all. As an example, PHP was adopted by small companies extremely quickly, as were Parse and Firebase.

So I understand your point, and I'm not going to claim that you're wrong, but there are definitely other adoption models that potentially apply here.
Getting rid of Section 230 doesn't kill user-generated content. It kills the ability of website operators to do any moderation or filtering without becoming liable for all user-generated content.
From someone in the Bo-Wash Megalopolis: There are about 30 states I would be okay with leaving before one of the largest economies in the world.
I understand the article is about the fact that teachers salaries have not scaled over time.

I wondered whether Housing inventory vs Price (homes available for sale) by decade might shed some light on the authors conclusions, and found the following Forbes article, with data from Trulia (in 2013) showing Homes built vs Asking Price, by Decade [0]:

To me, it looks like Asking price increases semi-linearly starting in the 40s

https://b-i.forbesimg.com/trulia/files/2013/05/Chart_Templat...

[0] -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2013/05/02/american-home...
Shkreli was obnoxious and disrespectful.
If he was polite and considerate, he would've gotten the slap on the wrist, guaranteed.
Interesting take. I actually read that as a 'softball question' from one supporter of adtech 'free as in beer products' to another. As in, aren't these people who are outraged funny? How else could we create something for free? It was in effect a signal 'don't worry, this won't turn into any meaningful regulation affecting your bottom line.' Don't be duped by people who 'play dumb'. There are many examples of people who don't understand technology in Congress, I don't think this is one of them.
> because at the end of the day, how often do you not know whether a particular variable is a string or an integer?

I'm refactoring some data-pasta to more clearly declare types because we just have dicts of lists of whatever, so often enough that a random reader chimed in after 20 minutes.
> Ken Thompson [...] personally, aesthetically, wanted to minimize the number of characters in source code.

Funnily, when Thompson was asked what he would do differently if he were doing it over again, he said, "I'd spell creat with an e."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
They're not exactly cheap.
make the link for me between CA housing prices and the federal government.

> And we're well aware that California isn't fond of us either

I think you need to find some less biased news sources.
>> Cultured meat production requires a preservative, such as sodium benzoate, to protect the growing meat from yeast and fungus. Collagen powder, xanthan gum, mannitol and cochineal could be used in different ways during the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

This is what wikipedia says.

They are all bad for health and simply used to extend the life time of a product beyond its natural lifetime so that the seller does not loose the money and with no other healthy intent.

https://www.glutenfreeschool.com/2014/06/10/what-is-xanthan-...

15 grams or not. Why eat it when there can be better choices.
this reminds me to
MS InfoCard/CardSpace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CardSpace
Ellen Pao also
You obviously didn't have relatives killed from the actual bombs. How about you try to be a bit more sensitive before you compare a democratically election that you didn't like the outcome of with hundreds of thousands of people getting killed in an afternoon in august...
Can you expand on that? California being part of the USA makes its culture de facto American.
TIL: "BCPL later adding a floating point keyword. And when I say “later”, I mean in 2018. "
I dunno.

I already acknowledged that there are some counterexamples. In most of those counterexamples, natural talent is necessary but not sufficient. There are probably hundreds or thousands of people with the same level of natural talent as Michael Jordan who are not in the Basketball Hall of Fame, and there are definitely hundreds or thousands of people with the same natural talent as Michio Kaku who never applied themselves.

I don't think it's generally helpful to treat these outlier situations as if they were especially common. Most people err on the side of thinking they're limited by their natural talent and giving up.

Even if you're in a position to become a theoretical physicist--e.g. if you're a 16-year-old high school student and you're struggling with your math homework--it's not really worth having a ten year life plan built around becoming a theoretical physicist and making your day to day decisions based on whether you think you can accomplish that based on the outcome of some IQ test you took. You should still care a lot and work hard on your math homework.

If you don't have the natural talent to become a theoretical physicist, you'll find that out after you get accepted to a good college and start taking theoretical physics classes and you hit that wall. And that might be upsetting for you. It's probably upsetting to the 16 year old kid with dreams of athletic stardom to hit the wall at age 18 and not get an athletic scholarship. But what other option do you have at that point? The only one I can think of is to try and find something else you care a lot about and can work on improving your skills at. There's no getting out of that part.
My issue with the larger teams vs. smaller teams argument is that the price of success is finding yourself with the wrong tools because successful projects usually grow large teams. The counterargument is that the price of choosing the right tools for a large team may be failure when those tools don't let you execute quickly enough. I don't really buy this trade-off. Maybe it is true for the specific language of Java for a small team (I'm not so sure it is) or Ruby for a large team (I have lived this and found it to be anecdotally true, so I do buy this one), but I don't believe you have to make this choice; I believe there can be languages that are productive for small teams while avoiding foot-guns for large teams.
Amid ban from serving as an officer, Elizabeth Holmes still CEO of Theranos
NOTHING :)
I'd ask him to give a straight answer.
A 7k+ monthly mortgage for a single-earner family is dangerous -- if you don't believe me, ask anyone who lived through any of the previous two downturns. Unfortunately you cannot just turn off a mortgage, nor can you guarantee your next job pays 250k.
+1 on the fasting, say what you would like about the products that HVMN (formally nootrobox) sells, but they have an awesome blog that covers keto/ketosis and nootropics use in general.

Update: didn't link.

https://hvmn.com/blog/
And in the 50s people bought land and order house kits from Sears.
You can google image search "Sears house kit" and see hundreds of designs that might remind you of the houses in your own neighborhood that you grew up in.

https://insme.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sears-house-pl...
"How long have you been on this planet called Earth?"

More productively:

"How can you claim to let users delete content when the papers on your own company's storage and file systems explicitly state that data is never deleted but instead marked as unavailable?"

EDIT:

To wit:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/685565858139515/needle-in-a-...

> The delete operation is simple – it marks the needle in the haystack store as deleted by setting a “deleted” bit in the flags field of the needle. However, the associated index record is not modified in any way so an application could end up referencing a deleted needle. A read operation for such a needle will see the “deleted” flag and fail the operation with an appropriate error. The space of a deleted needle is not reclaimed in any way. The only way to reclaim space from deleted needles is to compact the haystack (see below).
Can be raised to your full potential but no more than that. By default most people are way below their full potential, exactly like their physics, they can improve their physics a lot but you can't gain height or width above your potential genetics.
Germany. Appartment prices are very stable - risen only 0.05% per year, 1970-2003.

And it starts with politics,law I think: there are strong rights in the German constitution for people who want to build on their land - which can override zoning.

And the salary of leading local officials is tied to their city's revenue ,and the only way to increase that, is to increase the number of local citizens.

And that creates competition between localities.
Show HN: IMDb extension shows the relative age of actors on each of their films
Fix the zoning and also prevent tiny minorities from having veto power on new housing.

Last year, SB 35 improves this process for developments when a municipality is not yet meeting their planned amount of housing build.

This year, SB 827 is up for consideration which would force municipalities to allow taller buildings close to rail and ferry terminals.

These are radical changes for a state that, 30 years ago, said "we're full" and had a massive political movement to stop housing development. However, commercial office space development did not stop at the same time.
All you need to do is provide a example of a moral hazard that would not be negated by legalization.
> That is about a specific bad policy

Yes, exactly.

> What about taxes on alcohol that fund anti-drinking campaigns and help fund treatment centers?

They mostly fund anti-youth-drinking campaigns and responsible drinking campaigns, not anti-drinking campaigns (OTOH, tobacco taxes often do fund anti-smoking campaigns.) They also fund licensing and enforcement agencies that license vendors and enforce laws against selling to youth, selling in inappropriate venues, etc.

I think you would find that many people who oppose prohibition of prostitution would support loosely similar tax, regulatory, and enforcement structures.
I do not have the facebook app on my phone. I downloaded Instagram and it magically knew one of my email addresses (not the one used with my facebook account). I deleted it, mashed the keyboard for the new email address, declined syncing contacts, blocked the permission as well as every other permission, and lo and behold it still shows all of my facebook friends on instagram as suggestions.
Fucking creepy.
You made a very good point and I'm in full agreement. Sex is overrated.
>>It's perfectly predictable what courses of action a desperate person will start to contemplate. It's equally predictable what is bound to happen when desperation becomes systemic.

Absolute poverty levels are at their lowest level in history. Any revolution based on class will be fuelled by resentment, not real need.

Mass guillotining would also not be a phenomenon ever borne out of necessity, given it would only be possible after the revolutionaries have obtained power and total control over the population targeted for mass executions. It is borne out of spite, and if it's targeted at the rich categorically, from envy.

>>History suggests that violence and suppression ("pushing back"), works temporarily, with the predictable result that the targets now have even less to lose, and become even more desperate.

It's not about suppressing some irrepressible force. It's about shaping human behaviour away from the arrogance of assuming one has a right to take by force another party's assets.

I believe people can react differently to relative poverty depending on which behavior is tolerated in society. If you continually tell them they're victims of those who are succeeding, and validate the message by instating forcible income programs that institutionalize receipt of unearned income, they will see demands for politically coordinated violence and forcible wealth transferral as both a viable and a morally justified position.

>>When given resources, people who have nothing go and spend those on necessities–basic consumption, precisely the stuff that stimulates the economy

Spending at Walmart is not good for the economy in any general sense. Between investing $1 billion in R&D for a tech company, and being forced to hand over a billion to give to people who could be earning that money doing one of the many jobs for which companies are unable to find willing workers, it's clear which one would actually enhance future productivity more.

>>They're not going to send the resources to an off-shore account.

Money held in an offshore account isn't locked up in a vault. It is invested in real economies, to enhance productivity and abundance.

Investment by people who are proven to be good investors, is excellent for the economy.

>>Which is not to say that basic income is guaranteed to work. We don't know yet, because it hasn't been tried at scale.

We have tried forcible income redistribution, at ever greater intensities, over the last half century, and there is every indication that it's not working.

Economic growth has slowed, wage growth has slowed, the labor participation rate has decreased, and the rate of incarceration, drug abuse, and single parenthood has increased.
If you have a 10k/month mortgage, it's because your mortgage is for $2M. Housing prices around here are high, but they aren't that high for perfectly reasonable houses. If you house costs $2.4M (ie, you paid 20% down and got a $2M mortgage), then you paid a lot more than you had to for a house.
"When you've got 100 people and 30 houses, 70 are not going to get a house one way or another."

Unless you make people share houses.

There are solutions, even if some of them may not be palatable in the current political climate.
"other people of the 50's (including teachers)" saying it your way suggests we should blame teachers for putting themselves in this position which isn't the case.
>no one with a "D" after their name asking Zuckerberg a question today

I can't even see where the goalposts have gone.
No, I don't disregard the effect of capital. Actually I clearly said that the capital influences the content, just on the next sentence.

Anyway, the content is a cultural product and if not treated as such you'll end up losing your business to someone who does. In that case, if the blockchain people figure out a way that to reward content in a different way than pleasing advertisers then there's a huge opportunity to disrupt Youtube.

At the end of the day, despite what your analytics software says, it's not just impressions what your product gets - it's people watching videos. Content creators don't necessarily want more viewers, they want more influence or more money or more appreciation.

After all, there's a reason why don't consume the same content since the invention of camera and advertisements.
Would this data file include the user's friend connections? In other words, if I exported my data, and my "Facebook friend" also expected their data, would it be possible to determine from the two files that the two users are friends?
> coordinating a complex architecture is hard, I only build easy stuff

If this had been the actual title of this submission, I would have been much more receptive to it. Let's expand on that: "Coordinating a complex architecture when you do not need it is needlessly expensive, so I recommend not doing so." This blog post coming from a contract software firm tells me that they're willing to sacrifice billable hours to instead write just enough software to solve the client's problem.
Magic?

Serious answer: trying to get the US to move away from single owner cars, detached homes, meat or the 2nd amendments is a near impossibility in the current social paradigm. Continued removal of non-urban economics (consolidation of farms, slow death of retail, etc) will probably force that to change in the next 30 years, but if you're trying to get today's people to buy into that, seems difficult.
Is Facebook collecting or storing data related to persons who have not agreed to Facebook's ToS and who have no Facebook account?
Your service is much expensive than them
It honestly comes across as a bit disingenuous.

It was definitely careless in regard to accuracy. But the original Trulia article it misread from comes a lot closer to making the comparisons you're after.
Even if it is, most of the media bang would be him admitting to it on video.
When I write pseudo code I still use <- for assignment (or a \leftarrow in LaTeX), despite being fluent in Python now. I guess old habits die hard.
> lending money

Usually, not that, just charging interest.
There is no end to this. Even if you had 48 hours per day and boundless energy, you'd feel similarly. I'll freely admit I'm no wise sage but if I know that there's no end to it, then I'd feel inclined to figure out where I want to stop.
I don't think that the point the GP is trying to make. It's rather the curious uniqueness that we imbue sex with. We treat sex as different from any other human interaction. Why?
Senator: “Yes or no answer”

Zuckerberg: <launches into longwinded speech>
Why did you hire a psychologist from the company that inappropriately disclosed data to Cambridge Analytica?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambri...
Ask HN: Anyone interested in an opportunity to become a co-founder?
Hi guys,

Wondering if anyone is interested in joining my project as cofounder/engineer. I've built a fintech platform for Pakistan. Think Venmo+PayPal for the local population.

I've built the backend (v1 in NodeJS + v2 in Golang), iOS app (Swift) and Android app (React Native). Its functional and is connected to all the banks + Cybersource for visa/mastercard processing.

I'm hoping to find someone who would be interested in splitting the work with me in exchange for equity (can't pay yet). I'm based in the BayArea (San Francisco) and would prefer someone from the local area although I'd consider remote if there were any applications.

Main reason to bring on someone is that new requirements of marketing and sales are popping up and I need someone to help offload some of the development responsibilities from me.

If you're interested in working on a fintech platform and potentially playing a huge role in its direction please email me at

ziyad.parekh@gmail.com
I recall running into a caddie drive once.

Effectively it was used like a tray drive, with a removable tray...
All companies eventually go bankrupt, or change in some fundamental way.

By your definition, nothing can ever be a monopoly, can it?