skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly how the market works and will continue to as long as humans are involved.

First hand experience here that seems to escape the engineering brethren that have never glimpsed into sales: The same exact product is sold to every customer at a different price. Yes sometimes there is a higher demand which might push price a tad but most of the time there is not. I always enjoy when people on HN complain that so-and-so doesn't publish pricing on their website. Of course not, because then they would lower their revenue. It also removes leverage, sometimes it makes sense to sell something at a lower cost today to negotiate some terms, and then down the road either sell at volume or raise the price. Sometimes you just like someone and give them a discount. Oh its the government? Yea raise the price a LOT. etc etc.
A lot of that may be due to the way Facebook has changed their algorithms in the last few years. I know that both Pages and Groups that don't pay for engagement have had huge issues with their content no longer showing up in follower's feeds. Could be that rather than users "ignoring" the group
They don't 'sell data' they show you ads based on relevant data, it's a deliberate mistake that defeats the argument.

The major issue here is that user consent won't be sufficient anymore, I don't mind the business model in question and I'm not alone so let us have it, and those who won't consent they're free to take their business elsewhere. This degree of micro managing the industry is unprecedented in a supposed free market system, and ad targeting is far from only benefit to the data, it's just potential killing legislation.
Well, there is quite a bit of free expression still. Anyone is empowered to make a subreddit and moderate how they please. What more do you want?
> toxic racial politics

> white trash

People like you is why the right's popularity has surged and continues to climb.
Hey, this is strikingly similar to a tool I built a number of years ago, and used personally for some time. All the way down to the color scheme and the heatmap style calendar. Great job on shipping - something I never did!

My only real immediate feedback is that your initial editor gets drowned out in the monochrome color scheme among everything else on the page. I had to go hunting for it. Otherwise the "just start, then create an account" is a great workflow that I've used successfully in other places. However, most users don't understand in-browser saving versus saving on your server. I would recommend making a stronger push toward signing up for an account in order to save.

In my app I had a feature built to "ramp up" your writing. This was great because I didn't have to immediately start out writing say, 500 words a day - I could start small with 50. Once I hit that the counter goes up and the next day I have to write 60, then 70, and son on. It doesn't have to be linear, but being able to start small and increase my progress each day was much less intimidating.
As a long, long time user of Reddit, it has been quite saddening to see its descent into the shallow, ultra-toxic husk of a corporate entity that it is today.

I'm not surprised by its popularity; it's a headline-surfers paradise, one in which you get feel good points for displays of virtue or shitposting easily digested content in an era of unparalleled narcissism and shortened attention spans.

All is not lost though; as the steaming pile of defecation of the internet it serves effectively in attracting and distracting basically those who would otherwise pollute the greater internet community with their presence.

So congrats, Reddit, I guess.
Feels like Cryptocurrencies are recreating 200 years of knowledge of financial markets and regulations and irrationality and need for intervention in 1/20th the time.
Keep in mind:

1) Most Facebook users use the app, not the website, which Alexa doesn't track (Which is also why Facebook doesn't fear commonly used ad blockers).

2) Alexa uses a number of metrics to rank sites, including pages visited. Reddit users load many more individual pages than FB users.

In reality, Reddit is nowhere near close to the traffic and engagement leviathan that is Facebook.
They already scrape the bottom of the barrel, as others mentioned this looks more like a way to keep those on an upward career trajectory from becoming flight risks.
As Google and Facebook's entire business models are built on invading your privacy, which both the UN and the EU classify as a violation of fundamental human rights, is it wrong that they are receiving complaints as soon as it is legal to file them?

UN, Article 12: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

EU, Article 8: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:120...
>Will we have to go back to glass, or drink our beer out of paper cups?

They're called cans and they're highly recyclable.
I'm more of $30 Timex guy myself for day-to-day wear. But there are people who appreciate the craftsmanship associated with high-end watches. There also is such a thing as fashion which I don't personally much care about (within reason) but many do.

Most people who have some amount of money spend it on things that aren't strictly utilitarian.
Where can I find out more about Channel<T>? I've been googling but it's hard to find anything (especially as Channel 9, and old WCF channels comes up a lot in the results).
Except that Scrum added time-wasting extra stuff on top of the situation.

If management doesn't buy in and I can operate my own low-overhead, low-formalism workflow, then so be it. I suffer the badness of management, but I don't also pay time waster costs for a formalized process whose sole purpose of better facilitating productivity is categorically disallowed in the first place.

I personally, as a matter of experience and opinion, would take it further to say that certain properties of Agile / Scrum actually add fuel to the fire and allow management's already bad behavior to manifest in even worse ways. But even if someone doesn't agree with that, I think the point stands: why incur the overhead costs of Agile if the same outcomes happen because of mismanagement anyway?
Here’s Mary Meeker’s Essential 2018 Internet Trends Report
Same as how TV and Radio ratings are done - statistically significant sampling of the population via surveys: https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/200449744-How-ar...
It's pretty insane that 90% of the plastic dumped into the ocean comes from 10 rivers (including many famous ones)[0]. Two are in Africa (the Nile and the Niger) while the other eight are in Asia (the Ganges, Indus, Yellow, Yangtze, Haihe, Pearl, Mekong and Amur).

What were once historically prominent rivers that greatly contributed to agriculture and civilization are now disgusting cesspools of trash and pollution.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
I avoided Reddit for many years - for no good reason mind you, I just didn't "get" it. Now I do and I am a big fan.
Just because your properly-disposed straw in Vienna won't end up in the ocean doesn't mean the bill doesn't accomplish its goal of reducing ocean waste. It just means the bill has wider-reaching impact than its stated goal.

If that wider-reaching impact is, more generally, to reduce plastic waste as a whole... then I'd say this is great.

Given the amount of people who think like you, though, I'm quite glad the EC is micromanaging. Reason is hard to come by.
Crypto was shortable on several exchanges prior to futures, via market orders
In San Francisco the typical ferry requires at least 3 crew members. There's a captain, two deckhands and sometimes a coast guard officer (I'm assuming to prevent hijackings which an autonomous system wouldn't be liable to).

A few years ago when BART workers went on strike the ferry service had to call in all available workers. The people they brought in were clearly amateur, they needed a lot of supervision and seemed to struggle with assisting with the docking/undocking procedures. Boating requires a lot of labor, and it seems like there isn't much of it that's trained and ready to work.
It really depends on whether the regulation actually changes practices and cuts into their core business model. A big part of GDPR is simply making consumers aware of how their data is being used. As awareness and scrutiny increases, it's entirely possible that ad tech as a whole suffers, and that will hurt Facebook/Google disproportionately.

If the landscape changes significantly, that is advantageous to startups because they can choose to avoid quagmires entirely. It's really the middle-stage ad tech companies that don't have the cash to comply, but have too much momentum to change course that will really be fucked.

Of course it's true that you can't start another Google or Facebook today, but that is for many reasons among which privacy regulation is merely a footnote. I get that a lot of fortunes were made in ad tech, but innovation will not stop because practices need to change.
Safe spaces tend to turn into echo chambers. By reddit banning everything, they've effectively dictated the narrative that's currently found on the site.
Supercomputers Provide New Window into the Life and Death of a Neutron
> The tuition subsidy will apply only to associate and bachelor’s degrees in two programs that are somewhat related to retail work, but the areas of study could be expanded to other areas in the future, Walmart officials said.

Hmmm... sounds _very_ restricted. This feels like either a PR stunt, or they're catering to programs that only allow Walmart employees to grow within Walmart and not branch out elsewhere.

The lack of detail seems really suspect.
From now, the bot should post around every 3 hours or so :-)
Great job on the site!

I might as well mention that before writing streak I have built a similar habit tracking app for general types of habits:

https://helix.startuplab.io/
I would say there are huge privacy differences between selling data and selling the right to advertise to their private data. The latter is quite a bit more privacy secure.

(Note, the Cambridge Analytica stuff happened in 2013 when Facebook was much more open with APIs using their data, since popular demand at the time was for FB to be less of a walled garden)
D'oh! Sorry about that!
> Reddit is quickly becoming a toot for [...]

Reddit was always a giant majority opinion circlejerk because of the nature of the voting system. As much as I dislike /r/the_donald, at least it's some working minority subreddit unlike what /r/romney similar subreddits were in the 2012 election.
https://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2017-archive/se...
Navigating Digital Transformation Icebergs
Rodney Brooks' collection of historical AI documents
By definition stability (low volatility) is safety and implies low risk (not no risk), please offer counter examples.
Best Buy refused to price match Phillips Hue bulbs for me because they were apparently a "prime" only price.

Made no sense for me to pay more ($20 across 4 bulbs) to get them that day in person.
Summer holidays for 5yr old. what should I do to keep him engaged?
My son has two months of summer holidays from next week. we have a nanny to take.care of him and his toddler sister. wife and I will be at work during daytime.

What should I do to keep him occupied and sane?
There's always time to find another job. For every hour of overtime you have to do, spend an hour looking for a better job.

Yes, it is exhausting, but your future self will thank you.
Where do you find the time for side projects? (updated)
To be fair, the simple kanban doesn't stop you from creating a scope/goal, you need to generate your TODO list somewhere, which isn't any different from sprints, but it's less rigid when it comes to the deadlines.

More to the point is, setting sprint goals is defacto pressure which many people and orginsations are poor at handling, and we can largely avoid it by not having people doing or managing the work care about end of sprints, but just that the tasks are scoped and are of a reasonble size.
They do have a stigma attached, but they have the tech and knowhow. Maybe as a separate sub-company.
Yeah, this is very surprising. Even more surprising is how high Github and Stack Overflow are.
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Ask HN: What's the best desktop keyboard for Mac users?
I have never been a fan of the regular Apple keyboards, and prefer the old school ones with a lot of tactile feedback. I bought a Matias Quiet Pro which I did like quite a bit but I had to return it after a few months due to dead keys. A few months later the new one also has the same problem. So I need to change plans.

For those that use MacOS in a desktop environment, what's your favorite keyboard choice?
Yeah, but that's how real societies work. Reddit is just the most recent approximation of those societies, on the internet.
Kenya's High Court Suspended Sections of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act
Gdpr hysteria has not even started - wont be until the first rulings start coming.
Reactive Native AR SDK, SceneKit SDK Just Launched by Mapbox
Gruyere: Intentionally vulnerable python web-app by Google
Honest question, what would prompt you and so many others to assume that the laws of thermodynamics are only applicable to isolated systems? Do you honestly believe that we don’t have a model that is useful for realistic systems? Like thermodynamics is only some pipe dream that. Vet actually planned out because we do not only have isolated systems?
The global data panel is not surveys of a random population. It's data collected from people using Alexa toolbars. It's highly weighted towards desktop traffic and the kind of people who install toolbars.
If you take substrings of strings; using string.AsSpan() then allows you to work it as a Span<T> and take windows of the string without allocating an new string for the substrings.

Also it means you can now pass readonly arrays (the elements) to things using ReadOnlySpan<T>; so don't have to do defensive copies
People can move to where housing is cheap, but there aren't jobs or ones quite as good, leaving less demand in the tight areas.
I disagree wholeheartedly.

> You may be "anonymous" to fellow users, but not anonymous to authorities.
True, but this only matters to a very small percentage of its user base. A vast majority of people who use Reddit don't know or don't care about data collection. They only care if their friend/coworker/family can ID them from what they post.

>Reddit is 90% government, politics and new propaganda and 20% ads...
The front page/top posts, maybe. 90% of the content doesn't reach the top of /r/all though. And I don't know if I consider what is popular/part of the echo chamber as an 'ad'.

>Do you really think reddit in unprofitable?
Profitable or not, what's the difference? They've maintained a relatively ad free experience and don't expect you to 'pay to play'. Content isn't pay-walled. Yes they've made cosmetic changes to shift towards a more 'social-media' style experience, but the changes are not that bad and haven't drastically changed the user experience.

>Any garden variety forum is better than reddit.
This is personal and can't be claimed with any objectivity. You may find that certain nice forums offer you more value, personally, but that doesn't apply to everyone.

In my experience, whatever shortcomings Reddit has are greatly outweighed by the information and entertainment I've received.
I'd have to disagree. While IVR sucks (most current implementations don't use ML by the way), image recognition and categorization is at or better than human levels in most cases now. Cutting edge TTS is now nearly indistinguishable from a human. Just check out some samples [1]. And while translation still sucks, ML based translation is still far better than previous approaches.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17167200/google-ai-speech...
True, but they are quite easy to track down.

In systems like Unisys ClearPath, you can even configure the system such that only admins can execute applications with unsafe blocks.

In C any line of code, if care is not taken to use the correct compiler flags, can be a possible source of UB.
Trump’s visa restrictions aimed at Chinese STEM students to start in June
Just from a marketing perspective...

We don't need to know that on your landing page. That's your business plan, and honestly you might not even follow it.

By the time you get to that point, you may have chosen to go with an ad model, or you may have added some new features that make this clearly worth $10 per month, and VERY different from Office 365.

Just remove that bit. Use this space to share with me the appeal of your tool RIGHT NOW, not the potential cost of your tool at some future point.

I'm excited to try your product. I've been struggling to get into a writing habit and definitely could use something like this!
Mail, for one. People are very tied to their email address and don't like changing it.
> Reddit is unlikely to have the kind of quality data that facebook has to sell - directly, or indirectly.

It's a different kind of data. Spez claims to know his user's "dark secrets" and that can be an ad-tech advantage for Reddit. [1]

[1] https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/05/30/reddit-knows-y...
Or use Google: https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=twitter.com
Why did it take so long?
Reddit’s year-over-year growth has been outrageous. A year ago I categorized each of the top 5,000 subredddits, and many of them have gained 10x the subscribers since then. For a website that’s been around for this long it’s absolutely unreal.
There's also the fact that Walmart achieves low prices by strong arming suppliers into giving them lower quality goods masquerading as the "same" model.

Buying anything that you expect to keep more than a year is a waste at Walmart, even if its cheaper.
Cursor, a new take on data collaboration
If the dollar amounts refer to the training cost for the cheapest DL model, do you have references for them?
A group of people at fast.ai trained an ImageNet model for 26$, presumably after spending a couple hundered on getting everything just right: http://www.fast.ai/2018/04/30/dawnbench-fastai/
National Security Strategy of the United States of America [pdf]
Having a large body of existing packages would be nice, but if this can be used with a private repository, it's be hugely valuable to me even if it had no open source packages available at all. I work in a corporate context where projects frequently have multiple complex internal proprietary dependencies. The hacks and workarounds I've seen just to get a sane build up and running in this context are unbelievable. After having used Cargo for some personal projects, I yearn for a similar tool in the C / C++ landscape.
> Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you.

Usenet meets all three criteria, but it definitely is not used nearly as much as it was in the past.
banning prostitution and the drug war have both proven to be counterproductive.

> The individual is not held sacrosanct,

By you perhaps, but those are the principles of the Enlightenment and modern western society and have served us far better than collectivism.

> especially when he/she acts against the group.

Right, sharing my data with another individual or company isn't "acting against the group" or even involving the group.

> What remains to be decided here is whether the collection of data by "surveillance capitalists" is corrosive enough to society to be forbidden or restricted as well.

Not if you respect individual, natural rights. Furthermore, scientific/medical research, traffic prediction, spam detection, self-driving all are arising out of voluntary submission of data by free individuals. I don't see any sense in hindering innocent, positive efforts out of a desire for retribution against "surveillance capitalists" based on the "guilty until proven innocent" model of preemptive regulation.
Thankfully the principles of individual, natural rights have been codified into the US Constitution to a large degree.
Dude, 50% of the american population uses Facebook every single day of their lives (according to FB's quarterly statements, which would be a serious crime to lie on).
Channel<T>? Where is anything on that please?
Most of reddit content is facebook-tier entertaiment,
I have to create a filter script to block thousands of irrelevant subreddits to increase signal-to-noise ratio.
(filter script in question: http://void.wikidot.com/code:reddit-contentfilter-user-js )
I wonder how their economic viability changes if interest rates double. A lot of these kinds of companies seem to have assumptions of historically cheap money baked in.
This happens on all sites that use voting systems. For such topics, it may be worthwhile to create a blog or related website to keep the discussion points alive.
"A couple of" cities was not meant to mean two, but 100 sounds like too many, and even if you live in the best-served metro areas, the service is usually limited to a small portion of it.
> I assume it'd be pennies in most cases considering your Facebook account is really only worth like $12 a year to Facebook.

Facebook quarterly ARPU was USD$26.76 for US/Canada and USD$8.86 in Europe in Q4 2017. I'm also guessing that people willing to pay for Facebook are more likely to be a high value demographic, and would conversely need to pay more than the average user for that region.
One benefit caught my eye, but was not explained:

"Much easier to manage platform dependencies in project files and with self-contained application publishing."

Anybody know anything about this? I frequently deal with applications that have platform specific components, and it's a real pain. Sometimes the platform specific code is a platform-specific native dll that gets called from the same P/Invoke wrapper, sometimes it's two different managed implementations of the same interface, sometimes it's both. It'd be great if this sort of thing got easier to do.
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Quickly? More like always. That’s precisely what upvote/downvote buttons are designed to do. It’s their job.

Don’t like downvotes? Try a different subreddit. There is always a more welcoming and engaging subreddit just around the corner.

Personally I use Reddit for amusing and funny subreddits and so the political bullshit is never my problem. And you can have the same today for the low, low cost of not giving a shit about echo chamber groupthink.

Bad actors get punished. The gamergate and incel subreddits were taken down because they incited harassment. But to use your other example of r/southafrica, blame the 90% of the country that isnt on Reddit for allowing that subreddit to descend into groupthink. Their country, their subreddit, their responsibility. Not Reddit’s.
If an email is all they require, that seems almost like an intentionally low bar.
HN never ceases to amaze. The GDPR is not even a week in full force, and already people call it unsuccessful.
> The sheer number of lobbying groups each of these tech companies is involved in is amazing

GDPR was written for lawyers and lobbyists. Those who can lobby the EU’s twenty-eight data regulators will do fine. Those who can’t must reconsider their pricing and exposure to Europe.
Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis