skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is available in all countries actually. May be your language settings is limiting the app? It’s only in English for now. Or App Store takes time to index the app in all countries. Please check back in that case. Sorry for trouble.
Seems great, definitely keep us updated!
How is FoundationDB's graph performance/feature set compared to those of other graph and multi-model databases?
I don’t think Palantir is in the direct data gathering business at all.
I'm sure it's being brigaded by both sides for political points/fire control.

But you'd have to be willfully blind to describe the events up to now as a "nothing burger."
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what Palantir does. It builds tools for data analysis, it doesn't gather data themselves. Anyone who has done the most basic research on the company (like watching the youtube demos) would know that.

Palantir clients maybe could still have access, if they pay for it; I probably can't convince you that we don't build tools that interact with Facebook.

Disclaimer: I work at Palantir.
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I haven't used one, but some of the low-end Liva machines[1] seem viable. Or Compute Sticks of various flavors (depending on what you wanted to do with them - no GPIO on either)

1: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_LIVA_SPEC.a...
Is it far fetched to think that the top technologists / developers in Russia / EU / China / etc. are working for their respective governments & Defense agencies?

From a pure game theory perspective, if you accept the premise above, then SV should absolutely work with the Pentagon so that the US doesn't fall behind competitively. Unless there was such a strong coalition of cooperation among the entire community globally to not contribute towards Defense initiatives - but even the most optimistic would say this is fantasy.

As one example, I've been warming up to supporting stronger collaboration between the US Tech Industry (because it's bigger than just Silicon Valley) and the NSA purely for the cybersecurity benefits that are going to be needed more and more over time. Cooperating with the best in the industry in the US is the only way to execute well.
I had made a job board for machine learning jobs as well https://mljobslist.com/
Just an aside that some east coast liberals ignore. Because of DARPA we have literally every successful technological innovation in the Valley.

Silicon Valley pompous, egotistical, man child billionaires mainly mine user data, advertise, and sell and improve products created by someone else. And how do they get market share? A fair percentage do due to laws and regulation loopholes making other companies unable to compete.

You think publically traded or privately backed VC companies will spend billions on R&D on a moonshot or just try to maximize profits as they should.

Silicon Valley today seems most interested in addicting people through cheap psychological tricks and owning/tracking/influencing every part of their lives, and then selling that information. Silicon Valley is what we in the Valley thought Wall Street was two decades ago. I would trust Wall Street, the Pentagon, and The Military before the holier than thou hypocracy prevalent everywhere in the Valley today
It is worth noting that Russia's goal with its initial propaganda efforts was not necessarily to elect Trump, but instead to sow dissent against a likely Clinton presidency. This included a heavy pro-Trump campaign, but also a sizable pro-Sanders campaign. Therefore the extremist views you see on Reddit on both sides of the aisle have likely been spiked by Russian propaganda. I'm not saying Reddit doesn't lean liberal, just that the "ultra-liberal" side of the site that appeared during the 2016 primaries might not be completely genuine.
> They are a very successful company, how so if their products really have usability problems of this kind?

Because their products are cheap and relatively stylish, so people bear with it? IIRC, their success comes from the efficient logistics that this kind of design enables.
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The big tech industry is weirdly obsessed with growth. I'd guess that this is because platforms that have collected huge amounts of users can monetize them later.

And...startups that sell for millions make growth look like the best KPI to monitor.
One to add that's not on the list: https://www.moonlightwork.com
Firstly: Wow! this is amazing news!!!

I'm also kind of confused.. is the single repo complete?

What about the SQL Layer [0]? Where is all this stuff in the new GH repo?

Or is only the KV part be open-source?

Looking forward to some CockroachDB vs. FDB benchmark showdowns :)

[0] https://github.com/jaytaylor/sql-layer
>if Reddit, specifically, focused all their efforts on the health of their platform, on the people that are really the contributors and not the consumers, they would see growth beyond what they’re getting.

I think Digg tried this, shortly before being crushed by Reddit.
finding front end only work is problematic?

try looking for systems programming work. most of these sites don't have have categories for any kind of software development - the closest you can get is DevOps/SRE or 'full stack'.
The whole issue with facebook is that they:

1. Follow you from site to site, scooping up all the data they can on you.

2. Allowed all of that data to be accessible not just by you opening up to a bad actor app, but by any of your friends opening up to a bad actor app.

Calling it "overly open APIs" is misleading at best. The point of an API is that it is a public interface. If Scuttlebut has proper permissions controls then they wont have these problems... and because they're open source those problems can be scrutinized rather than remaining opaque.
But what if you're looking to hire people who go outside sometimes and can talk to people and can write code too? Or should that be illegal?
What does that mean though? People who post in one sub aren't allowed to be in any other sub?

People in TD can write in others subs too, as can people from late stage capitalism.
Wanting to forcibly segregate and silence people with different opinions is I think at the heart of the problem with silicon valley right now.

'remove those who disagree with me' has killed hundreds of millions over the years, and is a common and dangerous kind of groupthink.
So Ikea should send you home with a Swedish assembly-bot carrying your boxes.

(I'm thinking of something like Bender with an accent, but hey that's just me.)
Interviews should be an hour tops on site and 30 mins tops on the phone.
> The cynical side of me says that Facebook realized awhile ago that the API was NOT helping them making any more money.

This is so hard to quantify. A developer ecosystem around your product helps build engagement and lock-in. It provides free testing ground for experiments with your data (for better or worse).

A lot of people look at this as a "gift" to the developer community, but the relationship is symbiotic.

Now, given where Facebook is, am I surprised? Hell no. Billions of investors' dollars went away (temporarily, surely) almost overnight[1]. Their reputation took a hit. They needed to do ... something, anything. I get that.

But they didn't take a smart approach, likely because of the time constraint. The smart approach is lock down the parts of the graph that have the largest vectors for privacy invasion. Instead, they just hit the STOP button and are apparently calling it a day. In fact, there are some conflicting reports on some endpoints that officially will be up for review but privately have been discussed as permanently deprecated. I expect a walled garden.

We saw this with Twitter for different reasons. The lesson - as a developer/entrepreneur - should be: never make another company a mission critical component of your own. If there's a rug to be pulled out from under you, one day it will be.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/facebook-has-lost-60-billi...
of course it does. you can choose to create a commune, nobody is going to stop you unless you try to create it on the property they are homesteading in.
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I would say the general public's level of intelligence in general, and the effect of dumb content on it specifically is definitely significant enough to need a solution. Many solutions, probably.

Of course no one will seriously suggest a gif prohibition (I hope), but regarding fake news specifically, regulation such as the FCC Fairness doctrine could possibly work.

The point is not to eliminate undesired behavior entirely, but to make it less available and less desirable compared to alternatives. For example, smoking cigarettes is being largely successfully solved by education, promotion of general health, gross packaging, putting cigarette cases out-of-sight in supermarkets, and taxes, not outright prohibition.

I don't think that just because the content is digital you can't do anything about it without introducing worse problems for freedom of speech and such. Tons of industries are successfully regulated, this one is not special enough to be unsolvable.
Thinks what's normal exactly? That not all of his employees get paid an equal amount? I'm inclined to agree that he thinks that's normal, yes. Given that it's true at almost every company in the world, that seems like a reasonable position.
HBase and Cassandra both provide much weaker guarantees. At best they can support compare-and-set operations that are local to a single region/"row", whereas FoundationDB lets you do optimistic transactions (and consistent read snapshots) on the entire database. And at least in cassandra even getting that level of consistency comes at a big performance cost.

The benefit of ACID transactions isn't just safety at the application level, it's the ability to compose abstractions and build complex data models on top of simple ones. For example, indexes in FoundationDB are typically more scalable than in the majority of other systems, where index queries often have to be broadcast to all the systems in a cluster. Yet FoundationDB doesn't even have indexes as a feature - higher layers build and maintain index invariants using transactions.

FoundationDB is also just really reliable and fault tolerant. Its testing story is drastically better than what the teams building these other products are doing.
They are very low-cost for some items that are traditionally high-cost. And for all the people who have trouble doing assembly themselves, most (nearly all) have a family member or friend more than willing to help. This means that even though the same person buying and owning may not be building, the popularity remains. It is also more than a meme at this point, is a specific bonding time between friends and family alike.

Edit: I forgot to add, I think everywhere IKEA also offers an assembly service, even same-day if you do it early enough. And with the assembly cost added, I expect their furniture is still cheaper than much of their competition locally.
There is also duplicati

But I can't imagine suing would achieve anything. they're all dictionary words.
This means a very sizable percentage of Amazon's workforce (though not quite half) could qualify for SNAP.

"130% of the poverty line for a three-person family is $2,213 a month, or about $26,600 a year." https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-quick-guide-...
>Antisocial behavior is inherently hostile and doesn't deserve a platform

How many posts would we need to go back and forth for you to tell me who gets to decide what “Antisocial behavior” is?
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Noticed the Visual Studio project files. Was Windows a primary development platform for foundationdb?
I think the first thing Silicon Valley should do is to stop building total surveillance systems that can be used for advertising but also for controlling a population. The East Germany Stasi or Stalin would have loved to have Facebook data for finding their opposition and it's just a matter of time that their data is falling into the wrong hands.

Not working with the Pentagon would be just a symbolic action that doesn't address any real issues.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with Reddit.
Well, I agree with alottafunchata.

Are Google employees an unbiased sample now? Also, regardless of what authority / stature they may have, the "call to authority" fallacy would apply if you use that data-point as the crux of your argument.

Lastly, accuracy <> popularity - an argument can be right or wrong regardless of how many people agree with you.
I'm hoping folks will have a "fool me twice" mentality with this.

No API is permanent and no service will ever be reliable in this regard.
Facebook, but in javascript and giant Electron app with hundreds of dependencies, probably including stuff like is-number and is-odd
Oh, agreed! At very first blush I thought comments would sully reddit's simple essence, but I very quickly realized how wrong I was when I grew to really appreciate the comments and the discussion.

I mentioned this merely as a historical footnote to show how far reddit's come.
These days most people know Hadoop for a distributed storage. In my opinion, though CEPH [1] has the bigger potential.

[1] https://ceph.com/
> looks like shit on mobile

No, it looks usable.

Just make it scale up so its no 25% of the page on mobile

This, in the `HEAD` tag, might do it

`<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1">`
Our vigorous interview culture also allows us to not be as credentialist & elitist about what school you've went to. As a result, someone can get a job a google without having to have gone to a top ten comp sci school, like you would have to with law or business.
I didn't say that assembling the furniture was impossible, just that there's probably some basis to the complaints that may not be experienced equally by everyone.
It’s bullshit.
This is more challenging for robots that it looks to most humans. The phenomenon is called Moravec's paradox.

It also explains why no robot is nearly as agile as a mouse, while computers routinely beat human world champions at many ‘complex’ games.

"Moravec's paradox is the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources. The principle was articulated by Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, Marvin Minsky and others in the 1980s. As Moravec writes, "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility".

Similarly, Minsky emphasized that the most difficult human skills to reverse engineer are those that are unconscious. "In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best", he wrote, and added "we're more aware of simple processes that don't work well than of complex ones that work flawlessly"."

"As Moravec writes:

Encoded in the large, highly evolved sensory and motor portions of the human brain is a billion years of experience about the nature of the world and how to survive in it. The deliberate process we call reasoning is, I believe, the thinnest veneer of human thought, effective only because it is supported by this much older and much more powerful, though usually unconscious, sensorimotor knowledge. We are all prodigious olympians in perceptual and motor areas, so good that we make the difficult look easy. Abstract thought, though, is a new trick, perhaps less than 100 thousand years old. We have not yet mastered it. It is not all that intrinsically difficult; it just seems so when we do it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
>> Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos received $1,681,840 in compensation in 2017, the proxy statement said, $1.6 million of which represents the cost of providing his security.

Is that pretty typical for a person who is say, in the richest 5-100 people in the world to spend on security? What kind of protection does that buy?
>If a 10 hour project-specific coding task reduces mis-hires by 50%+, isn't it better for both parties?

In theory, yes, and that's why they're popular. But you're missing that:

1) The candidate has to do this for each job they apply for.

2) There's no investment on your end, and I have no idea whether you're just going to ignore it after I'm done.
Caché is more oriented towards vertical scaling, big monolithic servers, where FoundationDB is more towards horizontal scaling.

Also, the obvious difference is that Caché is closed source and prohibitively expensive.

FiS is only FOSS on selected platforms (Linux x86, OpenVMS Alpha), and proprietary on all other platforms.
I’m pretty sure it was about the amount paid not that not everybody is paid the same.
FoundationDB at its core is not a graph database. You could build a graph database on top of it, using FoundationDB as a very strong and feature rich storage engine, however you'd like. It would be much simpler to do than building a new (especially a distributed) graph database from scratch.
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>This is not news, and the real dangerous trend that I'm seeing is that antisocial behavior doesn't matter and should be protected. No, it shouldn't.

There was a time when approving of gay marriage or suggesting that women are equal to men in most regards would have been considered "antisocial" by a good chunk of the population.

There was also a time when it was not antisocial at all to suggest that certain races of people are superior to others.

Times change. Today's acceptable could very well be tomorrows antisocial and vise-versa.
I'd always hear it was derived from Save Our Ship, but in reality, it's a backronym, and was chosen simply because it was easy and clear to transmit in Morse Code.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/07/01/sos-mayday/
I used to think that I knew how to use Facebook properly and that it was everyone else who was using it wrong and getting the wrong rubbish things in their feed. Then I realised what was more likely the case was that only a small proportion out of my friends going back over a decade is interesting in any way. And out of that segment, only a small number are on my level reciprocally communicative terms - the rest are way above my "league" (I don't comment on their posts, and they don't comment on mine).

So here was the conundrum: Continue trusting the sorting algorithm by posting and sharing links to a very small obliging audience (as well as continuing to read and comment on links shared by another, but not necessarily the same small group), or change something? I went for the deactivation experiment. So far so good (I think?).

At least Twitter has a larger pool of "talent" to start with, but it still doesn't make "curation" any easier and most users* would probably concede it's a massive waste of time. Admittedly, Facebook Memories has made me realise that past-me is a poorer version of current-me and if the trend (hopefully) continues, future-me will also cringe at current-me.

Seriously, there's so little time to waste: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

* Of course, there's probably a minority who have gotten employment or work connections through Twitter but I'd say that's a small minority compared to main userbase.
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If your app depended on getting user data from facebook, you should have moved away from that anyway, they made so many pointless changes and limitations over the years that the fuss was not worth it. you can still use the feed dialogs for viral engagement.
Same. Just tried to give it another shot and there's only 3 public servers and none are currently working
You can't legally do this with people on a work visa.
If you're all in with Apple devices, News Explorer is also really nice. iCloud sync for Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, even Apple TV I think.

Works really well.
Exactly. These 3000 engineers that protested in Google don't seem to live in reality. In the real world, China and Russia are doing government sponsored hacking against Western government/companies all the time, stealing IPs, strategies and bankrupting companies. I wonder how these engineers would respond when Google is hacked and its business is down, and engineers fired.

Case in point:

"Brian Shields, former Nortel security adviser, alleges Huawei hacked company for 10 years..."

"It was on behalf of Huawei and ZTE and other Chinese companies that could have used this information to compete against us in the marketplace. It gave them a strategic advantage. How can you survive when you have a competitor basically right there knowing all your moves, what you're doing, what you see as the future products?"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-aga...
Lot of great insights there I think. I especially like Leah's "When an engineer is a fan of the product, they stand out." That is something I look for in candidates, passion for the work they will be doing.
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I wanted to take a look at how it works but the on-boarding process is not really welcoming. Getting started [0] redirects to this weird site [1] served over plain HTTP, installer is also not signed :(

[0]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/getting-started.html

[1]: http://dinosaur.is/patchwork-downloader/
Doesn't UBI have the potential to cause inflation (demand and cost-push)? Is this a valid enough concern to search for an alternate solution to UBI?
There is nothing, except a large paid hoax propaganda campaign. With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. But anyway, let's agree to disagree. Because the world is nicer that way.
It does seem pretty low, but at some point I guess the lifestyle changes required become the constraint, not the money.
> The whole Cambridge Analytica issue was caused by APIs that are too open. For distributed systems there are more ways to exploit the APIs and gather data on users.

Huh? Scuttlebutt is fully encrypted.. doesn't that make the API vastly more locked down than Facebook/etc?

> There is a clear issue with Facebook's accountability in these areas. Distributed systems are typically open source, they run on multiple servers by different owners, this leads to zero accountability.

This is no worse than Facebook though. With Facebook, your friend could steal all of the data you let them see. With Scuttlebutt, your friend could steal all of the data you let them see.

At least with this I control who sees my data, no? Sure, I can't have accountability with a friend, but at least no company/etc has access to my data.

> GDPR compliance about deleting data is almost impossible in a distributed system.

Doesn't GDPR apply to companies? If my mom sends me a physical card, do I have to adhere to GDPR laws with her address/name? How is that any different than Scuttlebutt?
A sibling link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16875793) has a poster (not the same map though)
I just watched the demo of 5 machines and 2 getting unplugged. The remaining 3 can form a quorum. What happens if it was 3 and 3? Do they both form quorums?
Fair enough. Any suggestions?
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Putting toddlers in ziplock bags would cause a pretty serious asphyxiation risk.
FoundationDB was a company that existed in the market, licensing our database technology for quite a while. Licenses don't necessarily terminate upon acquisitions.