skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases, they have very little.
I may hate Comcast, but if I have the misfortune of moving into a place and they're the only game in town, it's basically tough luck. Could rant and rave all day about how terrible everything is, but I have to have internet for work either way.
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> Will FB be able to infinitely increase their engagement, or will they run out, and be left with a bunch of zombie addicts who are no longer valuable to them, since they've effectively killed their host? It seems like drugs sometimes have this end game.

Perhaps more saliently, microtransaction mobile games already have this pattern. They grow aggressively, stabilize after consuming all easily reached users, then slowly peter out.

Rather than unbounded growth, we actually see something a lot like bacterial growth in a closed culture: lag, log, plateau, death. [1]

It's (part of) what killed Zynga: their long-term engagement predictions didn't pan out and they couldn't cycle users to new apps fast enough. Subsequent companies like Supercell have learned to EOL apps like Clash of Clans - they draw down their advertising and onboarding efforts in favor of monetizing their existing players, and eventually wind down in favor of the next big thing.

I'm not sure whether Facebook will end up like this - they have a real advantage because their users generate new content without requiring corporate effort. But I and several of my friends have abandoned FB less out of any moral principle than out of sheer disinterest in their increasingly unfriendly, cash-focused product. My suspicion is that they'll emphasize daily time per user and monetization, but slowly bleed daily users in return.

[1] http://academic.pgcc.edu/~kroberts/Lecture/Chapter%206/growt...
Apples to oranges comparison. TFA is about managed service.

If you could show that RDS runs faster or slower than running PostgreSQL yourself, that would be interesting.
Actually Steam/Vive brought that tech first to market with the HTC Vive + Lighthouse, and after trying both the Lighthouse tech has noticeably less latency (through less complex tracking mechanisms). Plus side is Valve is giving away the tech for free.
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I see it kind of akin to how so few people carry cash on them. Credit cards and streaming are great for the day to day things and make things much easier. It's important to have a backup for the things that you care about. If the power goes out how are you paying for lunch. If your cloud photo site shuts down or has a data failure you just lost those baby pictures.
The social value lost is one-on-one development of friendships. Let's say I find something interesting. Without social media, I might share this one-on-one with my friends. I'll text a link to Joe, email a link to Jane and share it in person when I see Mike. Instead, with social media, I post it on my timeline. Since I'm 'friends' with Joe, Jane and Mike on Facebook, I won't share it with them individual and I lose out on actual human interaction and friendship-building. When a friends shares something with you individual, you feel like they thought of you specifically. But when you post it on your timeline, no one feels special.

Due to this, I've stopped sharing everything on social media, except for the stupidest, lowest common-denominator stuff, and even that I will first consider sharing with individuals instead of social media. I've made a spreadsheet of all my friends I want to keep in touch with along with my commonalities with those friends (music, art, literature, psychology, etc.) I send them things individually when I come across them instead of posting on Facebook.
This reminds me of a story from my AI professor in college. Not exactly his words, but it was something like...

"You have to do all of your work on your own. But let's say you decided to copy someone else's homework. Well, to make sure you don't just plagiarize it, you're going to start changing variables and function names, and maybe alter the structure of the code altogether. As it turns out, the more you alter the copy, the more it actually becomes your own work and eventually you would have, in a sense, done the work yourself."
Most dating apps have some kind of integration with Facebook and/or Instagram this seems like a no-brainer. I have seen apps use FB data about liked movies, shows, places etc to generate matches. So, this should work very well.

Though that leaves a question - What next for apps relying heavily on FB data?
Later google will launch .ampp for apps that are certified to only have Google and their thousands of partners sharing your PII 'securely'.
As a fierce Facebook critic, I admit that Facebook itself is a company with amazing teams and outstandingly built services.
Too bad it's also the company with the worst possible track record on privacy, who championed scientifically engineered attention grabbing as a tech tool.

I would sincerely like to see a paid for version of Facebook. I would easily fork out as much as I fork out for Netflix for a service that would offer me the same functions without all the profiling, with more granular control on shaping the user experience (i.e. I would rearrange my FB dashboard to focus on groups, events and messaging, while having the newsfeed as a secondary page).
>Is Facebook ever going to let us unsend messages?

Does any service actually allow this? I can't unsend an email (except with Outlooks recall feature I guess). I can't unsend a text.
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> I always assumed that someone like Linked In, or even, Bloomberg would start a dating app.

Why? I can tangentially see LinkedIn, but both LI and Bloomberg are very much professionally-oriented; a dating app would just lower their value in the eyes of professionals.
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At least Disney isn't pushing go.com as hard anymore.. That's a start? ;-)
Weird, they talk about great circles yet insist on “straight line” rather than geodesic terminology. Still a good read though.
3DOF, right? No positional tracking?
I hope clearing this history would give me back the chronological feed, would maybe make me use Facebook more than once every month. I completely missed that one of my old friends graduated, another friend moving to a different country for a new job and I missed one of my childhood friends mourning his lost mother. All three of them had posted updates about it on Facebook but since I didn't interact much with their updates Facebook drew the conclusion that I couldn't give less of a shit.
Can you provide an example? Something more specific than merely competing with existing businesses. The intent is key in the original definition of EEE.
It's similar to other imprative languages in some constructs, it's very business application focused in others -- e.g. built-in support for forms, for monetary calculations and such.
There are waterproof jacks...
The original title of this post (and the document) was "List of best places to find remote jobs"
How many people have resorted to SIMD intrinsics because C wasn't low level enough?
Facebook knows us better than anyone else [1]

However, this means that Facebook may know better than anyone who I would be best to date.

I'm excited to see where this goes, and a little terrified.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/science/facebook-knows-yo...
I like this idea, and they're not in the paper. (The paper shows a globe rotated so the paths are straight, but not a flat mercator projected map).

It should be possible to make one with this tool: http://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/
I completely believe you on OpenMP being bad for games and graphics programming; we were targeting the HPC community which had a heavy interest in Cell as well. But all the while, I knew a bunch of programmers out in the world were shipping Cell code, and I was always curious what their patterns were. Thanks for the answers!
Can you expand on how to perform the steps added in your edit? Thanks!
Does this mean all request's will go via Google servers ? Like cloudflare ? Or how else would they enforce httpS ?
He acted morally right to me. Lowering value of shitty diplomas you can cheat easily is useful to society, and brings future competition to this industry
Please get google to add you to https://www.registry.google/about/register.html

Lots of registrars are in there that aren't part of the Early Access Program.
Facebook has always been a dating website, this is just making it more visible/defined for the less aware.
Or he was taking ketamine, or he was drunk, or any number of other things.

This is not uncommon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/3yrulm/took_ketamine...

https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/floatation-tank...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20533982
You "can". I have not tried programming, but I have tried reading.

Resolution is poor, so text display doesn't look great. Not horrible, just not great. However, if you secretly wanted to program using a movie theater display, I guess that would work. I think that's how it would feel like.

The thing is, other than having a gigantic (perceived) display, what's the advantage? We'll still be manipulating text – and you'll have to touch type, because you won't be able to see the keyboard.

We need a lightable-like VR experience before that makes sense.

For watching movies it works. Depending on the person it may be uncomfortable after a while. If you are ok with it, then it is actually nice. The software is not yet there though, the ones I've tried just emulate a movie theater. If/when you can project 3D movies, then it will be great.
If one wanted to embed a random token in an email, what would one use instead of base64?
Here's the important info from a review

> Unlike the Oculus Santa Cruz, the Oculus Go doesn’t include full motion controllers or futuristic inside-out tracking technology, which lets users walk around rooms with no external cameras. It allows you to rotate your head, but not lean or walk around. You can move its small controller like a laser pointer, but not fully mimic a virtual hand. It’s got basically the same features as Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR, but as a dedicated piece of hardware, not a combination of smartphone and plastic shell.

So basically it's another one of those "turn your smartphone into VR" without needing the smartphone.
Rarely.

Like people might check their phone if they get a message or need to respond to a spouse. But the majority of my friends, if in a bar or shop or party, rarely ever look at their phones .. unless a good several minutes go by and no one talks to them and it's a way to avoid boredom or awkwardness.

I mean people look at them when they're alone on a bus or train, but I mean before that we just looked at books or magazines. It's like a better book or magazine that's interactive.
GearVR and Rift owner here. Social VR, for example AltspaceVR, is also quite worthwhile with mobile VR like the GearVR. Yes, you cannot look around people and you have only one 'hand', but that's good enough. Another feature I regularly use is PhoneCast to use most Android 2D apps in VR. I remember catching up 4 seasons of The Walking Dead in double speed with BsPlayer every night. Of course BigScreen will also be a killer app when it's released for mobile to watch movies with others.
I’d say the touchscreen is essential if only for text input. You don’t need it as often as you do with a smartphone, but not having it when you want to type pretty much anything is a nightmare.
> Morally this is wrong since cheating hurts everyone in education.

Going to slap a big "NOPE" to this bit. It's the school's responsibility to educate and assess students, and therefore it's their job to reduce cheating.

IMHO, if it's really easy to cheat on a test (mostly rote memorization), then students SHOULD cheat. It's a bad test and and insanely huge waste of everyone's time and money.
If this is GDPR related then it's to do with privacy, not competition. Suppose you did download a bunch of liked pages, friends comments. What would you do with them? Learn python and import it into, I don't know, Twitter or something? Most people aren't actively looking for a way to do exactly whatever it is on Facebook.com using a different URL.
So there's a difference still from email vs. posting on Facebook - email which is usually 1-to-1 with explicit intent because you are typing in the email of each person receiving it vs. a Facebook post set as private ("Only to friends"), going to a pre-set group of friends in (unless you select to show it as Public). Do you feel there's a difference if old Facebook posts sent to "Only my friends" should still be readable by that pre-set group of friends vs. having the same ability with email?
There's not logging in automatically, and then there's using other data they have about you (however limited) to still provide a good experience. The parent comment is clearly talking about the latter (creating experiences that are equally good for privacy minded and open book people) while you're focused on a small feature that isn't really relevant to the bigger picture.
>>This could be said about so many different aspects of Apple products that I find it hard to believe that concern for user happiness and understanding is really that big of an explicit concern.

I can assure you it absolutely was in my experience. The problem is that there are so many of these issues and so much pressure to release new features that delight users that Apple has scaling pains.

It’s also possible that the C-Suite doesn’t think like that at all, as a grunt I had no insight into their actual motives. But I assumed the values they told us to uphold were genuine. It’s just really hard.

To this point, I’ll mention a talk Ive gave to new interns where he outlined the (then) controversy over the headphone design (the wired ones that come with your phone and slide into the ear). He was tasked with one earbud design, and for some people with different ears it just didn’t work. But for most people it was the most durable and best sound quality, yadda yadda. He talked about focusing on the majority case, making it as good as possible, and then giving a fallback that is also excellent (the old style rubber pad earbuds) for everyone else. Don’t be worried if someone does some niche better than you, he was saying, do the the absolute best for a large number of people and let other people own those niches.
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And I'd add to that advice: Never be afraid to add corrections and show them.
Why?

You only require the HDMI port used by the Rift. Everything else is rendered as a texture inside the virtual environment. That works today, you can have multiple screens floating around, your Windows desktop, etc.
I would tend to agree but add one condition: They have to pay good living wages to all their employees, not just to the few (relative to total nr. of employees) at the top level, e.g. software engineers.

Yes yes - "the market", surplus of low-skilled labor, etc. Look, as far as I can tell the "economy" and everything we have to guide it is the tool(!) and the humans are the top target, and not the other way around. That means if we find areas where the tool fails to deliver we have to adjust and use a different one. All those arguments based on "theory" place the tool first and make it the goal.

I like this quote a lot (found on twitter, I found it on reddit):

> When you blame a poor person for not getting a better job, you accept that while their job is necessary, whoever does it should be poor. (source: https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/85550195728851763...)

And from the reddit comments this one:

> My favorite thing to ever hear come out of a custom's mouth was "get a real job". Standing there, performing a service that they themselves are requesting and spending legal tender on, and they don't see the validity of said job.

I love efficiency. I love people who work hard, and who keep learning, experimenting, failing. I love entrepreneurs. I am independent myself, had a small business and worked as freelancer consultant. I also consider myself "conservative" when it comes to how to deal with "low-performers" who do so for no reason other than laziness.

And yet, I won't accept the "market outcome" of extremely low wages and stressful lives (e.g. long commutes, multiple jobs, bad housing, etc.) for people who actually try, and I'd say that includes everyone who takes one of those warehouse jobs or any other job. The theory and the tool ("the market") are failing us because they could not care less about human fates. There is no reason whatsoever to accept that. It is completely in our power to do something about it. We should use "the market" when it works and look for a different tool when it doesn't. Already society is extremely selective about it (and equally selective in its perception), so nothing I say introduces a new element, not even at scale.

So I see two choices (that I like, obviously other people can come up with other options including "everything is fine as it is"):

- Force businesses like Amazon to pay living wages. This means they will have to have higher prices. Maybe large parts of their business model might not work any more.

- Subsidize the work. Choose this option if you think having Amazon outcompete other businesses in some sectors still is better than not having it.

Of course, anything is going to have a (low-skill labor) "market distorting effect". So what? It's not like there is none right now, the price for it all is being paid even now: The burden is carried by the employees, on shoulders considerably less capable of carrying it compared to other options.
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They are the ones that lobby to keep the flaws of the system.
sex.app returns this "available: false, reason: in use".

dating.app returns this "available: true, tier: premium"
San Francisco is just one part of the problem, the other part is Silicon Valley. In SV, housing is even more expensive than SF, and public transportation is dismal at best. Rush hour in the San Jose area rivals that of LA, NY, etc.
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On some level things have to get worse before there's willpower to make progress toward a solution.
I'm pretty sure everyone with a crawler has hit this sort of problem before. The first startup I was at did with someone's wiki that had "delete" links everywhere with no auth.
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What is far more likely is that people will simply leave the Bay Area, and demand will fall. It's far easier to create tech clusters in other cities than it is to convince a bunch of NIMBY boomers that other people need places to live, too.
I don't disagree with common usage, but common usage is not what's being discussed here.

It is a side effect in programming usage (not just HTTP).

Something is side-effect-free if and only if the only result of it running is that you get an answer. If you ignore the answer, then you cannot tell you ran the function/method/call/whatever. PUT is not side-effect-free.

That said, side-effect-free-ness is an incomplete paraphrasing of the HTTP spec (RFC7231); you'll notice that the only mentions of the phrase "side effect" are giving examples of legal side effects.
Itanium suffered performance wise initially because they had trouble with compilers, but that's not the whole story. You also have to consider that AMD launched AMD64, which was backwards compatible, at about the same time. Later on the Itanium compilers got better, but on release it became a choice of "sluggish, incompatible and expensive Itanium with potential to perform well in the future" versus "backwards compatible, currently faster and cheaper x86_64." It didn't gain any real momentum to start because of this, which ultimately doomed it even when a lot of the issues were resolved later on.