skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So wait... In the US, my "value" to facebook is about $100 a year? (~24/q rounded up)

Can I subscribe to facebook and opt out of all advertising and any data sharing exposure with third-parties? That is totally worth $8-10/mo to me.

Edit: I get it. You don't like this idea, or you don't think it will work, or you don't think facebook's investors will like it (full disclosure: I am one). Why on earth should that stop me from putting my obviously flawed opinion out there that I am sick of being the product and I'd love to opt out of that process?
Most android phones have hardware backed secure storage. You can't read the raw files once they're there.

It's kinda like yubikey vs having a PGP key.
"An extreme form of self-improvement is what some call having a “chip on your shoulder”."

"What's the meaning of the phrase 'Chip on your shoulder'?

"A perceived grievance or sense of inferiority."

-- https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/chip-on-your-shoulder.ht...

"Having a chip on your shoulder" indicates you get into many fights.
Any comment on MakerDAO + DAI[1]? I think it's an incredible project / feat of engineering and would be interested to hear how you think it's just a toy that doesn't serve a good purpose.

Whether or not you "believe" raffles/lotteries to be a useful system does not change the fact that it was a system with a $280BN market cap in 2015. Lotteries on a blockchain with smart contracts solve three problems with traditional lotteries: transparency (provable fairness), easy and secure participation, easy and secure disbursement.

We'll surely see them.

Yes! You can see them right now. There are thousands of DApps, at different stages of development[2].

1: https://makerdao.com/

2: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/
Ask HN: What would you include in a tech curriculum?
Imagine you're asked to add your own topics and courses in a tech curriculum. What would you want to include?
Even if you can, it's possible to circumvent that (see: analogue loophole).
Hey Gang. Author of killcord here. I'm honored and humbled this was submitted to HN and I'll be reading through the comments to answer questions and respond to feedback. I started this project after a thought experiment in using newer decentralized tech for internet activism.
Yes, but there will be a service charge.
OP, perhaps you might consider TopTal or similar? I have never worked for them but I hired a few of their guys for several momnths who were very good and they seemed to enjoy it. You might be barred from some kinds of projects but I'd give it a shot regardless.
I don’t think you risk much data exposure now.

That’s, assuming that you are not using AirBnB, Uber or Tinder.
You should read the "Never Let Me Go" book.
Powering real-time reporting dashboards is definitely the #1 use case we see for PipelineDB from open source users and customers of our new SaaS product powered by PipelineDB, called Stride (stride.io).
Could you explain how "any email service" means Google? Is ProtonMail a Google service?

OP's question was about how power users can keep UX control while services degrade their features to cater to average users. That's what I care about, not ideological purity in my software stack.

People like you are the tech equivalents of the militant vegan.
>people are able to purchase proscribed plants and medicines in a way that completely subverts the efforts of state to prevent that.

No it doesn't. This is the kind of absurd nonsense that earns blockchain proponents this level of scorn.

People could buy drugs before. Sure they can use cryptocurrency instead of cash, but the old problems remain: getting the product from the buyer to the seller. The state can, and sometimes does, prevent that because until teleportation is invented getting the drugs you bought online into your hands opens you to risk. Buying drugs is certainly easier, but it doesn't help to talk in these ridiculous terms. I bought pot in college just fine. If I buy drugs and have it shipped to me I'm at the same risk whether I used cash or Bitcoin.

>"Wow - that's something people have been trying to do since the garden of eden and nothing has ever done it so successfully. I wonder what else this thing can do?"

You've got this backwards. It's been 10 years. People have been asking all that time "so what else can you do", and the answer so far is...nothing, really. This despite the relentless, utopian hype all during that time.

If proponents want people to keep an open mind and not be so cynical, maybe they shouldn't have spent years promising that blockchain technology is the digital coming of Jesus that will completely change everything in every way and usher in an endless golden age of peace and prosperity.
Python 3.7 – Dictionaries now ordered
> Also it's not as if it isn't very clear what you're installing

I certainly disagree that this qualifies as "very clear". The user asked to have mysql installed and the very first item on the list of stuff-to-be-installed is called "default-mysql-server". That certainly sounds like positive confirmation that you are indeed getting what you asked for.

Now, if you keep reading, you will see "mariadb-server-10.1" and stuff on that list, and if you also know two pieces of information (that mariadb is a fork of mysql, and that someone at Debian contemplated the idea of substituting one for the other), then you can see that you may have concluded the wrong thing and you can backtrack from there. Though really, at this point you still have conflicting information and it isn't conclusive.

So, I wouldn't say "very clear" is accurate. More like "possible to decipher if you have all the relevant context and are paying close attention".

As UIs go, this definitely violates the principle of least astonishment.
I think you're right about Eastern European food.

Mexican and Chinese do have high end representation. It's pretty paltry on the East Coast but you can go to Rosa for Mexican in NY or Red Farm for Chinese to see examples of high end. Of course there are lots of places in Mexico or Asia where you can get extremely high end cuisine of that type. I have very little experience with Easter European food (but love it!) so can't say if it's the same in its native region but I bet it is.
Brandon Eich said he thought he was hired to put Scheme in the Netscape browser, but management wasn't interested. Meanwhile Sun wanted Netscape to put Java in the browser, but Netscape wanted their own scripting language, so they worked out a compromise, with Eich creating Javascript (I think he may have worked with one of Sun's developers for JS 1.0).

Eich did a podcast on the history of JS a couple years ago. If memory serves correct, he said that Netscape did try to put Java in the browser alongside JS and canvas for both to target, but only JS met the deadline.

Netscape was pretty ambitious back in the day. They did have server-side JS and JS stylesheets. I wonder how far they would have gotten had MS not decided to get in the browser game.

I don't know about the Smalltalk angle, but that would be very interesting to hear about.
According to Stackoverflow's developer survey it is [1]. Doesn't surprise me since developing for web means JavaScript.

Curious to know what rankings you are referring to though.

[1]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology
GDPR anyone? lol
The problem for Facebook is that it is really not worth that much for many users. Even if they charge $10/year many would dump it.
Thanks. I applied at TopTal about 9 months ago or so, but did not pass their algorithm-heavy coding test. That said, I've passed every other algorithm test and coding test I've been given by other companies. But TopTal has the hardest one by far considering I never went to college for coding and university-style algorithms are not my strong suit.
In other words (in other letters?), Kazakhstan is doing more to rid itself of Russian influence than the US is.

Ouch.
The median salary package at FB is $240,430[1]. Now I understand how that is possible.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-median-pay-240000-20...

edit: salary package (salary, bonuses, and stock grants), not salary alone
Don't mean to kick you while your down. I figure honest feedback will be helpful.

Now that I've Googled your name and read the articles there's no way. You committed the same crime 4 years apart. The nature of your crime is relatively benign as far as sex offenses go. However, it's such a shocking departure from societal norms it makes me wonder what other inappropriate things you've done without getting caught. As a hiring manager, there's no way I would risk it.

This post was an excellent hail mary attempt and probably your best option for employment.

Your other realistic options are freelancing for people who won't do a background check or develop something you can sell.

Edit to add:

Again, not trying to be mean, but when your picture came up I said "Yep, that looks like a guy who'd expose himself to minors". Grow your hair out, ditch the goatee, find more mainstream outfit, and, most importantly, take the picture inside. In your photo you're squinting and furrowing your brow which makes you look a bit threatening.
You know how developers feel their managers never listen to their input before making big decisions that have drastic impact on their day to day work? That happens between managers and executives just as often.

As a manager, I have never been consulted about work space beyond a general "how do you want to arrange these desks we bought for you?" kind of way.
What rankings have you been seeing? Javascript is on top of the list from what I've been seeing.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology
In volatility trading you don't cary naked options (you hedge them usually dynamicaly - readjusting hedge every now and then) and usually close positions before options expire. So your analysis does not apply. If you want to get understanding on how to trade volatility the "Volatility Trading" by Euan Sinclair is excelent.
Superconducting compact claw pole motor with electrical solid-state cooling
> One is to have a price to treat a condition, e.g. a hospital can charge $X for a pregnancy, regardless of whether it’s a C-section or a vaginal birth

The side effect of such a policy is that hospitals will then have huge incentives to perform the cheaper procedure. E.g. if the real price of C-section is higher than the real price of vaginal birth, but the effective price for both is mandated by the government, then hospitals will have too much pressure not to perform C-sections (even when they'd result in better outcomes for the patient).
Do you think Kazakhstan and the US have similar levels of Russian influence?
This should have an extra clause: and that properly accounted for their per-trade profits in taxes.
Bitcoin software on your computer allows you to start being a bank in the exact same manner that a table in a public place and an advertising banner is sufficient for being a physical bank.

You technically can provide banking services (the core one, of course, being moneylending) with that, and this has been traditionally done that way since literally biblical times, but nowadays that would be just as illegal as doing the same with Bitcoin.
Got a spelling error on your portfolio: "techical articles"
Not like people are going to refuse to trade with the US because we have customary units, realistically. That's the benefit of being the world's richest country and not a small Central Asian one.
You typically do not get to pick the language of the place you are born in.
> So you still fail

You do?

> Can't say much against it.

You could say it's a poor prediction and explain why. For example, it isn't exactly an inevitability, even though it seems fairly plausible.
Those questions are very thought-provoking, and here are a few more:

* What if someone with access to your house/bag/coat slips in a Micro SD card with an illegal file on it?

* What if you download a large video file as a torrent and it contains an illegal file embedded steganographically within it?

* What if your computer is storing a large, possibly random-looking, file, and someone can produce a "one time pad" which, when XORed with that file, produces an illegal file?
I get many/most prefer to be the product than the customer. I, however, would love the option to switch.
And was immediately and irredeemably invalidated in May 2016 with the DAO fiasco, yes.
What if you could sell the data to a third party for $10+ dollars? (I’m working on a project to do this )

Also, you would need your friends to opt out too? Or at least turn on timeline review.

It seems paradoxical to share your information and also require it to be private .
This is what libertarians actually believe, folks.
My gf has lots of problems with various foods and manages to keep on top of it fairly well - although she has very little concrete evidence about what it actually is that is causing the problems.

I could see her trialling a comprehensive ($30 a week) package for a few weeks, then dropping to a less intensive (~$10 a week) package that kept her on the right track.

I personally don't think she would pay $30 a week unless the service gave her a significant material difference in lifestyle (which I certainly imagine it could have the potential to do).
there are plenty of ways to make money doing things. playing the game and then doing something positive is also a legitimate option, so long as the game has no negative externalities (and it often does).
Las mejores tarifas de FIBRA and MOVIL – Movistar fusion descuentos especiales
Perhaps I come from a different land, but in my field, knowing a specific language intimately is not as important as knowing the wider scope of software engineering and distributed system design.

I'm not a developer who is down in the weeds optimizing specific algorithms though, and I can see how a mastery of language-specific data structures and how they are represented in memory might be required for such a person.
That's crazy. Their net income is almost the same as Google's with 1/3rd the number of employees. I am surprised that they have 25k employees now, wow!
> I think you are scraping the barrel a bit by bringing military cars into it. We are obviously talking about cars for civilian use. A Ford focus is not designed for killing.

Some guns are designed for military use, others are not. Anything designed for military use should probably be kept away from civilians.

> As for guns having other uses such as protection or hunting; well I view shooting animals as something only psychopaths do,

I have relatives that in the not too distant past (30 years or so), relied on hunting during portions of the year to have enough to eat because otherwise they couldn't afford both food and housing, and this is was in the continental U.S. People live in this state around the world. Dictating that that they shouldn't hunt because it makes them a psychopath when it's actually how they survive is fairly hypocritical.

> Most countries don't allow civilians to own guns

Are you sure about that? Perhaps you should research this. I just did. You might be surprised. You can get a license for a firearm in the UK, and the EU doesn't disallow firearms either (but individual member states might). Here's a handy table with comparison of laws by country.[1]

> yet those civilians are not coming to any harm as a result of not having a gun. In fact they are safer! People in developed countries outside of America are safer, did you know that?

Well, since it's not due to completely doing away with firearms, the question is where is the safety coming from? Is it from sane gun laws and license requirements? That's fine, let's do that. It's not really evidence that completely outlawing guns makes people safer though, since most these countries you are talking about allow people to obtain a gun that want one and show responsibility. To be clear, my position is for sane gun licensing requirements and restricting certain classes of guns, while the only way I can see to interpret "the sole purpose of a gun is killing people" is for a position to completely ban all firearms (why would you allow them if they are only for killing). So what position are you actually trying to advocate? Most your evidence doesn't really support a complete ban on guns, but your wording implies that's what you're arguing. And if it's not what you're arguing, that was my whole point. Purposefully inflammatory language doesn't help people come to an understanding.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation...
Dr. Brennam, bonecall...something...about a bone?
It is a figure of speech. Surely you did not think I was confused on this point.
petting your trading bots is doing something
I will give you one free code thing per day
Link to the text story https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
> I look at how blockchain don't solve a single problem that hasn't already been solved more efficiently on much grander scales, and I call them out as such.

What about the problem of running an immutable log using compute power around the world without paying for the costs? That's what santoshi accomplished. He stopped mining many years ago and it's been committing logs every 10 minutes for years.
That was my first thought when I saw the headline. I thought it was a reference to Dune, and not to an animal species.
Single payer system still make financial decisions about who gets care and who doesn't.

"It's crazy that I live in Canada, but now I'm looking at having to sell my house for coverage of my medication."[1]

[1]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-f...
I wonder if since this is a pure script change there will be such a clear and simple transliteration that it's possible with a finite state machine. I.e. regex replace
That's a good question. I imagine it's not a one size fits all type of solution though.

Where I'm from, the outskirts of Charlotte NC, a lot of the old "industrial" buildings were cotton mills. Many of them sat empty for years, or just became warehouses after the industry left, and were considered a blight. Eventually some areas started growing more and changed zoning laws, so these old mills redeveloped into prime real estate for restaurants and breweries.

However I wonder if the story would have been different if the mills were more like the factories in north and midwest. I don't have a good comparison point, but the mills which tended to work out for redevelopment typically were:

- 1 or 2 story brick buildings, so typically no need for elevators.
- Ample windows and a good size parking lot
- Not too large
- Located in an area with growth from other industries
- Not exposed to too many harmful materials

for example, this mill which was empty for many years:

http://www.cmhpf.org/S&Rs%20Alphabetical%20Order/surveys&rDa...

Now looks like this:
https://www.visitlakenorman.org/listing/davidson-cotton-mill...

Meanwhile, a few blocks over, on a piece of land that is even closer to main street, there's a dilapidated building that was formerly an asbestos factory. In comparison, it has nearly no windows and even tearing it down is risky due to the materials which were dumped by the factory: http://wfae.org/post/davidson-mill-redevelopment-unearths-as...
I studied Russian enough to know that you are wrong.

Technical words, recent inventions, sports and brand names tend to be straightforward transliterations. Plus more are borrowed. Take Russian words like диносавр, Макдоналдс, киоск, and гамбургер. You probably have no idea what they mean, but the direct transliterations are dinosavr, Makdonalds, kiosk, and gamburger are a little easier to guess?

Not every word by any means. For example refrigerator is холодильник (roughly xolodinьik though the initial sound is not in English). Which literally translates as "cold making thing". But enough to be helpful more often than you'd guess.
Tiobe index for one. But I just searched Google and checked the top few.
I think you just made me realize the value a lot of people get from twitch (and even YouTube, to a certain extent). Which, as a bit of a text fascist, I've had trouble grasping / not really been interested in.

From the love (young) people have for live media/streams - and research into the negative effect of recorded vs live, in person lectures - it seems obvious that "twitch for lectures" will be huge.

Probably not something I'll like any more than unscripted TV series, but probably still huge.

Then again, I do seem to relate to chatting on irc while watching regular scheduled TV (like a buffy episode).

So I do see social/group-interactive viewing as something that'll be great.

Even see this working for stuff like video courses in 3d/game design, development - like an art class. The video is the lecturer, and you can see what 3d models/apps/.. your fellow students create (and how). And maybe even copy/"fork" in real-time.
New Course: Python 3, an Illustrated Tour
I don't think the effects of the privacy issues are completely reflected, given they happened towards the tail end of the quarter. That said, I don't think it's going to make a huge dent in the user metrics. Advertising revenue and usage however will be interesting over the next few quarters.
https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf

> Based on these insights, we conduct a thorough quantitative and qualitative analysis of unintended content on Bitcoin’s blockchain. Although most data originates from benign extensions to Bitcoin’s protocol, our analysis reveals
more than 1600 files on the blockchain, over 99 % of which are texts or images. Among these files there is clearly objectionable content such as links to child pornography, which is distributed to all Bitcoin participants.
I will not debate whether "web apps" are ported version of desktop bloatware but I don't see why you can't write offline-first, mobile-first progressive web applications using Javascript and HTML (except Apple's lack of enthusiasm supporting anything outside their walled garden)
>Ford sees 90 percent of its North America portfolio in trucks, utilities and commercial vehicles.

They mean "cars" to be interpreted as "small cars" like the taurus.

Or maybe they mean it to be interpreted as "vehicles", and this is clickbait.
'It's about expanding Earth': could we build cities in space?
I don't think that's what that number means. If you paid that value in dollars, then Facebooks revenue-tie-to-network effects is gone. Facebook currently has the ability to 'innovate' on the data you provide and presumably convince investors that the value will rise over time due to Facebook's own engineering talent. On the other hand, if you are paying a flat fee, the entirety of Facebook's business model falls flat - that it can increase that value without you knowing. Could Facebook survive a price increase from subscriptions at $10/month to $100/month? Probably not. Could Facebook engineer another 10x return on your data? Probably.

So no, you can't subscribe. It wouldn't work.
All you need to know about Apple Engineering by Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
Cool concept but also very nice logo. Who made that logo?
How about we take this a step further and require hospitals to have one price for each service to all comers.

Then we can trivially pick a plan independently of backroom deals that are impossible to evaluate ahead of time and easily pick the provider that provides the combination of service and price.
sadly (in my opinion), yes. I've done a background check for every job I've had in my ~20 years. Granted, a number of them have been for security companies, but it seems standard.
It obviously is a purely political decision having little or nothing to do with plain linguistic or practical value. So the only way to judge it as wise or unwise is how it is going to affect the country economical, social and political development in the long term.
Didn't the US auto industry make this same mistake before? Gas was ~$1/gallon in the 90s, so they neglected everything to focus on the (truck-based) SUVs that were then popular and profitable. Then gas prices went up and they were totally unprepared.