skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Craigslist is doing really well.

"Craigslist will generate revenue of almost $700 million this year [full year 2016], with a profit margin around 80 percent — making it the most profitable classified advertising site in the world, the AIM Group reports in its Global Classified Advertising Annual."

"it managed to increase revenue by 75 percent in 2016 over the estimated 2015 total"

https://aimgroup.com/2016/11/29/craigslist-revenue-soars-aga...

Story from May 2017 talking about how well they're doing:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/05/03/how-does-cra...

The AIM Group's long term chart on Craiglist's estimated revenue, year by year:

https://i.imgur.com/cAwd2T3.jpg

Obviously we'll see how Craigslist fairs over a longer period of time vs Facebook market. However, Craigslist is a free listing service for the typical user, as such Facebook is a modest threat - people can trivially list on both services.
It's ultimately harder to create a great, original story than it is to film one, which is why it's a shame that screenwriters get paid so little compared to actors and directors.
devalues the value of the qualifications and hurts those that didn't cheat.
Oh, awesome, thanks very much! I'll have to look into that. I wonder if it has any issues with network switching, or if it's just the wifi switchover stuff (which never seems to work anyway).
And it won't take many registrations to recoup the investment. They're charging $999 / year at least for pre-registrations. I clicked through to the price using godaddy and the $16.99 / year price quickly got replaced by the higher number which also indicated that $1000 was the yearly renewal price if one gets the domain through pre-registration. (Your money gets refunded if you don't get the domain.) I'm sure godaddy gets a decent portion of the $1k, but damn.
I like this solution, especially 4a, since I'm a big fan of the Heinlein idea of taxes that represent an estimate of the expected value, with the market providing an enforcement mechanism. I think the multiplier needs to be larger, though, to make it possible to defend inconsequential copyrights. On the other hand, the first 10 years being free is probably enough that small-time content creators can't just be put out of business by Disney. Involuntary sale of the copyright is also problematic because voluntary sales often include things like artifacts of the creation of the work, and merchandising agreements have to be negotiated and transferred as well -- compelling companies to forfeit the work would be complicated by these factors.

We have to be careful, though, not to let the idea of a clever solution get in the way of defining the problem. What, fundamentally, is the societal benefit of expiring the copyright?

In my opinion, the main condition that a copyright holder has to satisfy is to make the work available at a reasonable price. Increasingly this is the problem, that copyright holders both make a work unavailable and continue to hold the copyright, preventing the access to the material in any form. I feel that this is the tradeoff that society makes in exchange for allowing the monopoly. Once the holder can no longer (or will no longer, or does no longer) distribute the material, then it should revert to the public domain, as the public interest is no longer served by that copyright.

The solution above lets holders keep copyright as long as they're making money off of it, but offers no societal benefit other than the money paid into the copyright renewal fund.
63% of SF is renters, but are 63% of those eligible to vote in SF renters?

If even a quarter of those people are immigrants, that tips the scales quite a bit.
The Tracker Tax: How Pervasive Web Code Steals Your Privacy and Time
I think the idea would be that Chrome would sooner or later mark non-HSTS sites like .app as 'half secure' or add a special extra greener bar for .app sites. Given Google's track record, I wouldn't really doubt it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to build TOR or something like it into signal for these use cases?
Agreed 100%.

We only think cheating is only "wrong" because it goes against how the people who set up the educational system intend for it to work, e.g. they are short circuiting the system. It has no counterpart in the real world, and cannot be compared to murder and theft. If it were up to me, I'd make the school system results-only -- i.e. it's about how well you can build a project and explain it, not how well you can write up answers.

People who think otherwise need to wake up from their K-12-university programming.

And in case anyone thinks I'm an uneducated redneck, I am an Asian American overachiever with two engineering degrees from world-renowned universities.
This is awesome. It also makes me really excited that finally there's a language that's catching on (I consider Haskell, OCaml and the like to be niche) where the subset of the language that is used for a formal semantics is very similar to the language being modeled. I feel like with Javascript, C and other similar languages the core language that is used in a formal semantics has to "patch up" all of the unsafe holes in their respective type systems, and as a result the core language ends up looking a lot different from the language it is intended to model.
You read it wrong.

The tamed elephant isn't a metaphor for a man, it's literally an elephant.

The notion is you should endure the abuse of the elephant, rather than lash out at the king for reprehensible behavior.

The overall notion, regardless of whether it is a realistic one or not, is if we stop giving the gregarious attention they crave, it'll cease to be a valuable endeavor. Don't let the king rule you emotionally, and you'll never be their subject literally.

The alternative is revolt against the king. But violence begets violence. And the kings usually have the best weapons.

It's akin to Anarchisms "Rules without rulers".
It’s pretty clear Amazon is in the right here. Actually I’d say it’s a positive that they made an effort at human outreach.
I think it may depend on how well distributed would a service be: having several big servers would not help but if every family and company had their own mini server, located in a non-censoring country then the censors would be unable to do anything easily. These servers, in turn, would be able to easily connect to the broader network. Of course that wouldn't be as easy to setup as a simple installation of the Signal app.
Discussions about cheating aside, I find it hilarious watching these YouTube influencers dropping these ads right in the middle of their videos without even a hint of remorse. I mean, I get it, they want to make money, but still.

It reminds me of the days when some YouTubers would promote/endorse products without specifically saying they were paid to do so. Or worse, promoting products for gambling sites that they had business interests in.

It's interesting to see all this play out, it almost feels like it's the wild west on YT right now. Every time the regulators try to come in and enforce some policy, people still find the loopholes to create a quick buck.
The fun and immersiveness does not come from the screen quality, but from your ability to navigate and interact with a virtual space. If I could convince you that you are walking on the surface of Mars, you wouldn't complain that I gave you a smudged visor.

Until the mobile experiences have a quality 6dof and motion controls, they have almost no appeal to me.
Ah so the us veriosn of the "gentleman's" degree - a third from Oxbridge in the UK
I wonder if it's easier for a compiler/cpu to optimize "async" code ? And I often find myself having an array in JavaScript that calls the same function on each item in the array, it would be nice if such cases would be made parallel, which I think is possible to do in C++. Is that ever gonna happen in JavaScript !?
Egypt and Iran block their domain, so they would have no method of directing users to the current IP.
I’m long MTCH and FB. I’m not worried, here’s why:

Despite what people think, Tinder (owned by MTCH) is not that dependent on Facebook, people can sign up through alternative means, and will probably continue to do so as their audience starts to bring in younger users over time.

Facebook is better off buying Tinder outright than attempting to roll its own platform. Sorry, as much as I believe in Facebook, some of their in house projects never seem to pan out the way people think, though they do get announced with a lot of fanfare.

I see a good entry point for new investors in MTCH in the coming days. I will be increasing my position.
Correct. Site now has a form and a button. /toggle now responds only to POSTs, and redirects back to /.
the two systems are probably unrelated.

muddling newsfeed and ad targeting would make both systems unnecessarily complicated.
Yes. How does the HTTPS stuff relate to that in a way that increases those?
The problem is deeper than that; even if Amazon doesn't sell stuff to oppressive regimes, they host the sites/services of companies who do.

And if the solution was to force Amazon to block any access from their servers to those oppressive regimes, that wouldn't help Signal at all, because they too would be blocked.
It was from memory. I thought his website had gone...
What I really want is purging all messages sent to other people, selectively.
And then the automated system clicks the undo link... Problem solved!
Awesome read, I like how it goes more in depth about things like color burst that most articles I've read ignore since it's not (usually?) relevant to modern displays
Capitulating to foreign censors for business reasons has something to do with censorship.
Short periodic bonuses as a reward for hard work/innovative work/grunt work

Hey Jack, I saw you created a test suite for this giant codebase and now we can make changes without worrying about breakage?

Thanks for doing this unsexy work. Here, take $500. Go celebrate with your partner.

Do this a few times a year, it adds up to an incentive based bonus and keeps employees happy (of course jut the hard work with no reward will make them leave)
I am looking forward to Betty Boop remixes...
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Correct. You can make it easy or tough simply by choosing smaller/bigger sail and applying less/more force. So it can be very relaxing in 20 knots, especially on a lake.
My understanding is user activity and user data are distinct, and I'd imagine by now Facebook has enough user data that this might not be as huge a concern as when they were getting started.
Exactly. Phish's festivals (which were a big inspiration for the people who started Bonnaroo and probably Coachella too) do not resemble the description in this article at all. Plus there are a lot of smaller festivals going on all over. So who's surprised that a big corporate festival is corporatized?
It's a negotiable fuzzy boundary. How would feel if your friends made private copies of posts you shared with them? ("Took a photo of your yard sign").

How would you feel if Facebook provided them a tool to help with that?

How would you feel if Facebook did that automatically as a courtesy to them?
Hmm, not a fan of this idea. Feels like it's encouraging vigilantism and 'taking the law into your own hands', which is not something a well run society should be incentivising. I mean, it seems like someone who hacked another person or organisation's systems to remove private data could end up wrecking a bunch of other things, which wouldn't be good for anyone.

And then what if its a case of mistaken identity? You don't really have proof the data you're trying to erase is on the other party's system until you break into it, which could then leave the other party extremely annoyed and wanting to do the same back...

Eh, just feels like companies and individuals wanting to become internet vigilantes if you ask me.
What if Signal sent the correct domain by default, but made it user configurable? Users in oppressive regimes would figure it out pretty quickly.
> I'm guessing you haven't spent much time looking into how oppressive regimes work.

> They aren't going "to realize that they are being an oppressive regime" and have an epiphone where they realize, "Hey maybe I'm an evil dictator?"

Not to mention that, in a truly oppressive regime, people don't have the liberty to either move or protest.
Yes, puns are called śleṣa (shlesha, श्लेष) in Sanskrit poetry. (For a bit more, you can search under those two spellings, make sure to search the first two pages and also Google Books.)

There are even entire long poems that are a “pun” — they tell two stories, depending on how you read each verse. Yigal Bronner has written a book about these:

> Extreme Poetry - The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (2010)

though the book is a bit lighter on examples and heavier on theorizing (the price of academia) than I'd like.
Good, go ahead and pass those laws and I'll use Cloudfront to impersonate Amazon.com and steal credit card info, and Amazon will be legally unable to stop me.
I thought it was 100% objective, straight across. I don't see any barbs or negativity toward Amazon whatsoever, just the facts about that situation and an honest discussion of the facts looking forward.
I agree with you. Why not take advantage of the loopholes given? I think that's clever.

I'm a math major, and something I've noticed is that my exams aren't helpful for actually learning math. I don't cheat on the exams because I want to learn as best I can, and I want to say that my good grades really are mine, but in all honesty my degree isn't useful in the future because I have the ability to get the right answer by hand on a carefully constructed math problem-- it's useful because of mathematical thinking, and because I now have the awareness of the mathematical tools at my disposal and their known use cases.

But really, cheating isn't more "wrong" than any other category of thing some people wish didn't exist but does. If there's a loophole and that loophole gets you where you want to be all things considered, then take the loophole.

I agree that, for some people, cheating is ultimately harmful. For example, if you're a comp sci major and know nothing about computers going in, you're gonna want to do it the way the university wants you to do it, or you should drop out and learn a different way if that suits you better. But otherwise, just consider the costs/benefits and cheat with awareness. Our most innovative and important achievements as a species were obtained by finding loopholes.
At the recent Rust All-Hands in Berlin a few groups of researchers independently working on verifying Rust's semantics decided to form a working group to focus their efforts (see the official announcement at https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-formal-veri... ). I don't recognize any of the names on this paper from there, so it looks like there may be even more people working on this than we thought, and if that also happens to encompass anyone reading this comment, feel free to reach out to the working group. :)

Regarding the OP, I'll quote a comment from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8g6mam/krust_a_formal...

"It looks like they wrote an interpreter for a small subset of Rust in a particular formal system. But the subset is extremely small, and it doesn't look like they derived any novel results from this. The examples they give, of proving the running time of a GCD algorithm, would work in pretty much any procedural language; it's pretty much just a syntax modification away from the same example in any language.

They implement a very simple model of borrow checking, but their subset doesn't seem to support references in type signatures, so it doesn't seem like they can even model any inter-procedural effects of the borrow checker, just some purely local restrictions on aliasing.

I suppose that this is a good first step if you want to write a formal semantics of Rust in 𝕂, but it seems like there's not really enough here yet to be of interest."
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Getting downvoted here, but see the non-partisan IGM economic survey on this.

"The 9% cumulative increase in real US median household income since 1980 substantially understates how much better off people in the median American household are now economically, compared with 35 years ago."

When asked to agree-disagree, 60% of economists (70% when you weight by confidence) agree with this.

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/us-median-income
Note that this was about to break in any case: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/enhanced-domain-protec...
Very well written but it's only if you are still within the matrix that Facebook even matters to your life.

I see teenagers checking their little phones every minute on Instagram or Facebook and I think it's sad, but they will learn from it. Currently human kind is learning what it feels like to require random likes from strangers in order to feel happy. At the same time a lot of people feel nervous in real life because they get less and less practice doing real human interactions.

Facebook makes people act like monkeys to get bananas. Its funny and sad how real humanity is disappearing from our lifes.
News from 2029:

Skylynr, the 'Uber of nanoassembled highrises', last night replaced 44 San Francisco Victorians with apartment buildings.

Reached for comment, SF's Planning Department said the overnight construction violates a city moratorium, to study displacement issues, now in its 14th year.

The Board of Supervisors plans to address the issue in an emergency session next Tuesday. A Skylynr spokesperson says over 4,000 new residents, in the nearly 2,000 new apartments, will be registered as voters on the San Francisco Department of Elections blockchain before that meeting.

By November, over half the city's voters may be residents of the on-demand skyscrapers popping up across the city, most built by Skylynr or its competitors Instatower and Zipartments.
> 4a. To keep the rights holder honest, after they submit their estimated value, any other person may buy the copyright from them for 110% of the estimated value within 90 days.

So if my copyright is legitimately worth $1000 (because I'm not a big company, I just wrote some eBook that sells 100 copies a year) someone can steal it from me for $1100?
Maybe in the other 9 instances that this happened before 1000 worked. Lawyers are not hiqh-quality PR people who understand that today the smallest thing can blow up in a multi-million dollar problem.
>>Direct access to Signal has been censored in Egypt, Oman, Qatar, and UAE for the past 1.5 years.

Yeah but Amazon alone, should not bear the cost of making Signal accessible to these countries--especially without their consent. People underestimate dictators, they will block God's channel to ensure their own survival. How many times has Youtube been blocked by countries? Plenty of time. So Amazon cannot risk being blocked completely because of this.
I have a good understanding of Wavefront shaping but holography is out of my comfort area.

I DDG a bit and found that "The difference between a hologram and a conventional photograph is that conventional photography records intensity of light while a hologram records both intensity and phase."

So maybe...
I think this is a good time to introduce Richard Wolff, my favorite economist. Here, Wolff makes a few general remarks about Amazon in comparison to outsourcing to China:

https://www.rdwolff.com/is_amazon_the_1_threat_to_jobs
This also breaks non terminating load balancers.
That ARPU is on a quarterly basis...
The difference is essay writing service is not criminal.
> Bell knew there was a distinct possibility of a patent fight with Edison, so on three occasions he had papers and experimental products sealed in tin boxes and deposited at the Smithsonian Institution for safekeeping.

You can (or could) do that?
I'd be in favor of this applied federally and being based on amount (percent, not dollar) of property taxes paid on the property even though it would hurt me personally.

Non-residents cannot hold governments accountable (by voting) for how they use the money which allows the towns to side step one of the core principals of democracy (not to mention that non residents don't have as good information on which to evaluate the performance of local government since many local issues will not affect non-residents). I would have no problem taxing people who enable this by having income or vacation properties in towns they don't live and taxing local property owners who vote for the people who do it.
It's not arbitrarily. You can use the standard HSTS to be applied domain wide https://hstspreload.org/#tld
Couldn't they ask people to donate their AWS instances or a portion of their webserver (or domain) resources to running a small outward facing webserver as a dummy, making the domain look like its a real website (eCommerce etc) and then passing Signal data through a Shadowsocks (or something similar) proxy? Couldn't they develop an AMI that they hold the keys to that people could deploy with ease?
Honestly, it depends on what you mean by 'look up' - Coffee Meets Bagel (another dating app) includes a feature that will show you mutual Facebook friends (if such a thing exists). That's a really interesting indicator how/where a match's social circle overlaps yours, which can say a lot of important things. That totally ignores, of course, the opportunity to get a second opinion from one of those mutual friends as well.

Stalking and/or looking up 13 year old college party photos is probabally, shall we say, less sane.
Classic COBOL needs a stack (or something equivalent. A popular choice was to store return addresses of calls near function entry points, distributing the stack through memory) to support the case where a single subroutine is called from more than one place in the program (most, if not all, programs will have those, if only to do I/O)

What it doesn’t need (and didn’t support) is recursion, and without recursion, the maximum depth of the stack can be computed at compile time, so that a program can refuse to run if there isn’t sufficient room for a stack that size. (The first FORTRAN’s were similar in this respect. If you wanted your program to support larger arrays, you recompiled it)
Erm... I wasn't asking if it's difficult, I was asking what do you look for? Why in the world would a set of things to look for be a subject to conceal?

Edit: never mind, just realized you're worried I or someone else is trying to sell stolen goods and will abuse such a list that way, sigh...
Looks to me like they only mean the kind of websites, where you allow the application to use your Facebook profile, like Tinder or some minigames so that they can post "XYZ has clicked 1000 times in FooClicker!" on your timeline. This kind of history you'll be able to clear. I doubt they mean the tracking cookies that are everywhere in those "Like" buttons.
I agree.

I think you have to force yourself to commit to something. Sign up for a meetup and get that perfect attendance. Go a minimum, say 10 times, before giving it up. We're too interested in instant gratification but connections take time.
I'm no buddhist, but yes, neutering and emasculating yourself and realizing that your status (which you fear would be tarnished by the king riding you) is worthless would, I think, result in contentment. You can either choose to try to hold on tighter to your imagined status, and possibly succeed and live only with constant fear that it might be taken away... or let it go.