skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many (many many many) people, I stream. I don't get a ton of viewers, but I very rarely get 0. Here are the "magic" tricks I use:
- First trick: I didn't start alone. I belong to a small group of friends that were already involved in amateur video productions on YouTube, and had some other friends hanging out and enjoying our videos. We started a twitch channel as a group a established a schedule: 90% of the time, when a member of our group launches a stream, the other members watch and interact on the chat. And so do some of or friends (not 90% of the time though, but it's all right).
- Second trick: we associated ourselves with another streaming structure. We quit a while ago because we both evolved toward different directions, but in our time there we met other streamers, because very good friends with some of them and became part of their community... and they became part of our's as well! We do occasionally organize some common twitch events with them. Not because it might bring us some viewers, but because we like playing with them.
- Third trick: since we are a group, it is very easy for us to keep an active presence on tweeter and facebook. When something really funny happens on our live-stream, there is usually someone available to do a clip and publish it.
- Last trick: we all have jobs, we all have lives. We don't rely on twitch to get revenue nor to get social interaction. In other words: if we fail on twitch, we'll be quite all right.

When we stream we talk, play and have a ton of fun... and sometimes a random viewer discovers us! And when we're lucky, he/she decides to become a regular. While that's nice, it doesn't really matter: we're doing it out of passion, not for the numbers. If success finally comes, good. If boredom comes before, we'll just stop and move on.

(note: I won't post our channel name here, it isn't the point of this post. Besides, we are french, and it turns out that most people in this strange world don't speak french)
> It does not matter that the average grandma has no idea what that means.

My 23 year old son and 18 year old daughter didn't know what open-source meant.

If you could build a social network around tech people we'd all be using Google Plus.
> Telling me we had tools 320k years ago but we didn't figure out agriculture until 12-14k years ago? Heh. Ssssssure

I think you misunderstood the problem. It's not about "figuring out" agriculture, it's about finding a reason to do it. There's nothing obviously benefitial in staying in one place and working just as hard if not harder.

As they say, everything is obvious in hindsight.
Another interpretation could be that the study found just how much our DNA deteriorates over time when replicated..
Is that true or an assumption we make? How do we know for sure that this was the case for prehistoric tribes? I mean, most habitats aside from the desert are teeming with edible items.
Tiny correction: Should be 1.53 TB, not 1.53 GB
Congratulations, you are contributing to making the internet a worse place for everyone. How did you come to work for a company that's this blatantly abusive?
I guess their payment processor got sick of handling thousand of tiny payment and gave them a random excuse to boot them out asap.
You can buy them at "the market" in Shenzen. You can even put in original Apple logic board and run iOS - and have crazy things like double storage, memory cards, 3.5mm output, etc. You have to build it from parts though, no one is selling a complete product AFAIK.
If it's not federated, there is little control already. If the business models for centralized networks are not aggressive right now, nothing stop them from evolving once there's more money on the table.

I wonder what folks here think about ActivityPub. I been craving for a federated protocol since Google Wave. I'm yet to go through it in detail and see if it really stands.
No. There are no common statues.
> The idea that adults died at 30 is absurd, but persists everywhere anyway, mostly because it flatters us in the present.

Spot on. This type of pride seems to prevent people from learning some lessons from the past.

However I see difference across modern societies in how much people are aware of the past.
The trackpad has more functionality than the mouse. Trackpad will never be more precise.
I wasn't directly involved with NPfIT, but was working for a small healthcare IT company in the UK at the time, and did have some opportunities to talk to some of the lazy incompetents involved.

I can tell you at least that Accenture were heavily involved in NPfIT too. They were forced out with the work uncompleted, although they somehow managed to dodge most of the fine.

There are some obvious lessons to take away about trying to avoid projects which have massive scopes and vague, changing requirements.

Also that contracting out to a consortium doesn't mitigate risk or project size, because the hardest parts of most IT projects are 1) deciding what to build and 2) dividing up the work into the correct pieces.

For me, though the main lesson is that contracting IT systems is really risky if you don't have in-house engineers to vet it. Companies with no competence in delivering software will sell you the wrong things at the wrong prices, and they will do it really convincingly.

For those who work in government, those companies will also have a terrible track record, but your institutional amnesia will prevent you from noticing, so you will hire them anyway. (Probably someone in your department previously attempted to get a company wiki to organise this sort of information, but ended up getting Sharepoint instead, and now no-one looks at it.)
Based on the first page of https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew (30 postings, 29 are "Show HN", 12 have comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17548331 - both comments by the show-er.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547703 - one non-author comment, author responded along the lines "good point" but "edge case".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546384 - one comment, possibly negative (a complaint about the use of the word 'certificated').

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17545446 - one non-author comment, seems like a valid critique

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544832 - only one author comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544332 - only one author comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544330 - only one author comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541458 - only one author comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541114 - I felt the one comment was negative. I have added a more positive followup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540687 - the one comment starts "Genius"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540393 - a meta Show HN doing sentiment analysis on Show HN. Many comments. Mixed. Seems overall positive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540210 - only one author comment

From this I conclude that 1) Most Show HNs go uncommented, even when the author tries to encourage feedback by adding a comment, and 2) it is not the case that "the HN community is always hating on new ideas."
It makes me wonder whether there is any place further north than Sutherland where the ESA could set up (or has already set up).
> If we could make an atomically perfect copy of the Mona Lisa, it would be absolutely indistinguishable from the original.

"Absolutely"???

The painting is an off-axis bump on a slowly rotating roughly spherical planet; consequently it sheds gravitational radiation. The painting is effectively a rigid extended object, and thus the gravitational radiation has a corresponding characteristic mode depending on the painting's position and orientation. The mode propagates to infinity. Sure, it would take an ultra-super-hyper-advanced gravitational wave detector to pick it out at interstellar range, but it is possible in principle.

Before forgery: one Mona Lisa mode; after forgery: two Mona Lisa modes. The modes will differ because of different position and/or orientation on Earth. The position and orientation of the "original" has changed over time, pretty substantially; the latter's position and orientation is likely to change over time too. Anyone observing the relevant bits of Earth's gravitational radiation spectrum (over time, if you want to think of it that way) would be able to distinguish the two. Trouble if the buyers are already accomplished gravitational wave astronomers (we've just barely started) and keep detailed records.

I think it's easier to handwave an extremely tuned gravitational wave detector than an exact atomic duplicator or a device which determines that a pair of ~ 8kg paintings are atomically identical (especially one that does not render them atomically non-identical).
Not sure they have their priorities right. The last item in the list of goals (at $500,000, no less) are iOS and Android apps. I would think that should come first as without this very few people will want to use the service at all.
Site is crashing and throws a million errors on the console.
If you're looking for a real-time federated social-network (that is what I understood by "Google Wave") solution have a look at solutions based on the industry standard XMPP. I'm building one (Movim https://movim.eu/) and started to explain how is made the architecture in this blog post https://nl.movim.eu/?blog/edhelas%40movim.eu/how-s-made-movi....
Based on wappalyzer, webpack & jquery are used on the website. But no other framework (React, Vue, Ionic) is detected... So it's just jquery + webpack?
Speed and strength for hunting? That's crazy. Why would anyone think that?

Unless by speed you mean quick reactions. That might help for catching a lizard by stamping on its tail. (I did that as a child: the tail came off so it wouldn't have been many calories.)

I imagine persistence hunting as being a big thing in olden times. You'd need to have a long-distance runner's physique, and ability to follow tracks. Also bow and arrow: skill in moving quietly, and aiming well, obviously.
Yeah, marketing lies. Go AMD go!
City A.M.: “Approach Blockchain with Caution”
No, 87k$: https://leandesign.com/pdf/Tesla-3-Analysis-Sales-Informatio...
The splash page is hideously slow and stuttering even on desktop. Is the CSS/JS just this bad, or is this site trying to mine cryptocurrency in the background?
A long long time ago (in 2010), Facebook sued a start-up called Teachbook for using 'book' in its name. Hope you don't get into that muddle.

https://money.cnn.com/2010/08/26/technology/teachbook/
Introducing react-site-nav
Social networks, back then, was to bring minds together, not people.
I'm not sure I can imagine any path to success here. Maybe focus on a small interest group or locale to begin with, then look to spread outward from there. A small college campus perhaps. ;) Still...this needs a hook other than the privacy angle, and a big one at that.
A nearly empty webpage that lags like crazy is very bad promotion and makes me question whether they have the knowledge to create a high-traffic social network. Also, the quote of the founder:

Openbook is not only an evolutionary step for social networks, it's also a humanitarian project at world scale.

Makes me want to vomit. You're making a website, not feeding hungry children.
A beautiful navigation bar you always dreamed of. Powered by styled components inspired by stripe. Check it out on github or the blog http://www.reactjunkie.com/react-site-nav/
Your average grandma will also be annoyed, when she learns that the website doesn't work without javascript, because she doesn't know what JavaScript is so she turned it off along with many other options she didn't understand when she combed through about:config after installing Firefox from source code.
I can't click on any links, am I doing something wrong? The only links that are working for me, are the ones on the right side of the page.

Website looks like this for me:
https://i.imgur.com/7OkVlUz.png

I am using Google Chrome on Windows 10
The two-time pad: midwife of information theory?
China is urbanizing at a rate of about 1 full US per 20 years.
Intel keep positioning optane as "close to dram" preformance (especially with misleading marketing nonsense like this), it does have some advantages over flash, mostly related to random access times, but its nowhere near the orders of magnitude more preformant that something would require to fill the preformance point between DRAM and SSDs.

Optane is almost entirely hype, with no substance.
From the EU, you shut it down two months ago.

And (tinfoil /on) if you were planning on winding down, compliance development is exactly the kind of thing that would be stopped. Shutter that, prior to shuttering everything else.
The Allen institute (see e.g. https://twitter.com/danbumbarger?lang=de) and also Jeff Lichtman (https://lichtmanlab.fas.harvard.edu/) are very close to having solved the data acquisition problem (using very fast TEMs or multi-beam SEM) for cubic mm sized volumes, and we (http://www.neuro.mpg.de/denk) are also working hard on it. On the analysis side (i.e. automatic reconstruction), I am actually optimistic that it is mainly a software engineering problem (scalability to Petabyte-sized volumes, use tailored machine learning for remaining problems, e.g. to identify reconstructions that make no sense) and not so much a fundamental algorithmic limitation problem anymore. So 2 years from now, we should see the first cubic mm reconstructions.
BlackRock CEO made big mistake when describing crypto yesterday
In the sixties, the gunless fighters had problems and there was a return to more maneuverable fighters with guns. But missiles today have quite different capabilities compared to those in the sixties and seventies.

Even in 1991 basically it was all missiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_engagements_of_the_Gulf_Wa...
I imagine their GDPR failure will be a reason it's interesting.
How Google's Safe Browsing Helped Build a More Secure Web
Why? Animals don't usually starve to death. Nor do humans. Any generation has an established means of extracting what it needs from its environment. Starvation is an exceptional occurrence.
You don't have to. Just don't use those plug-ins? If you do need that functionality, it makes sense to "fight the build tool" a bit (or just go through the docs, they really aren't as bad as you say).

I personally always found a solution with Webpack. I find this amazing for a tool which is so young and written in a language without static types.
They should publish in XML, which kind ever, not HTML.
>You do realize this was simply bad teaching, right?

It was in the history textbooks.
Ask HN: You are made Walmart's CEO, what would be your online retail strategy?
I have a feeling that the only thing Walmart lacks is a vision and spirit to fight.

I think board may have a role to play here by tying compensation to online retail performance- revenue, users and losses.

assuming that's there, what would you do to Walmart?
It is worth mentioning that protocol-based social networks exist. Like https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
> the CEO is going to investors pitching the fact that we've built/are building some deep learning engine that can be applied to all problems.

> there is no 'engine'; we're a consulting company.

This is pretty close to fraud. There's a huge difference in return to investors between skilled data scientists doing one-offs, and an engine that does the work on its own. If they're not even trying to build a generic AI engine, it's over the line.

> Unless he is blatantly lying I'd say what you are experiencing is pretty standard.

I would say that he is lying, if the description of the situation is accurate, and that "what you are experiencing is pretty standard" isn't _really_ true. But it's not far wrong either. And that's unfortunate.
Re: #4, this type of technology is already in use for trains and works at speeds of up to 500 km/h. Of course those are always perfectly aligned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobalise
Don't tease us! We aren't all familliar with economic theory - what is the consensus on what worked during the great depression?
>There are quite a few underwater cities in ruins, and of course myths and legends of even larger ones. But they don't get much play.

Indeed, the tsunami back in what 2005 revealed ancient ruins out underwater, carved animals and a temple when the water receded. An entire city, right there in front of their noses, only revealed when a massive tsunami caused the water to recede temporarily.

Then look at how entire islands effectively have all traces of humans scrubbed from them when hurricanes go over, or islands that disappear outright from rising sea levels like these 5 https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/world/pacific-solomon-islands... as well as Sandy Island https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia
> Mangopay hasn’t provided a detailed explanation of their decision, so we’re not sure. We’ve tried to understand their concerns, they seemed related to the fact that Liberapay is open to everyone

Likelier: Liberapay’s KYC was insufficient.

Mangopay probably received a call from the regulator, and they realized that they could not ensure that Liberapay was not (unwittingly) letting people launder money or finance terrorism.

The AML/CFT requirements that would have needed to be applied by Liberapay to all its users would probably have caused such friction that they would have grown much slower, however.
In addition, their (mis)handling of spectre/meltdown PR also eroded trust IMHO.
That Bernie Clip was funnier than the guns for kids one i saw
> the next Uber or Facebook won't be a better Uber or Facebook but something totally different.

Based on what premise?

> I wish companies would stop trying to be better copies of existing services.

Why? Almost all creativity and improvement goes by creating a better version of something that exists already.
LineageOS – Trust Interface
From their website:

>In partnership with FoundersPledge, we'll be giving 30% of our revenue towards projects for education, sanitization, climate change prevention and more.
the website is spitting js errors like crazy
Facebook vs. Google: A Fight for Attention and Profits
>If you don't believe me, find the smartest people you know who are professional crypto investors, they will say they secretly hold bitcoin cash

you genuinely believe yourself?
I flagged the original submission because I honestly thought it was spam or a joke or something. Perhaps it’s a vindictive flag in return.

But yeah, there’s not much else to say about a recipe on GitHub aside from the fact that it is on GitHub. Am I the only one that finds it strange? Am I taking crazy pills?
$50 per hour, Even with your smart phone,make money(cash,gift cards,pay cheques)
Physical violence isn't the only way that the working class can seriously disrupt the normal functioning of society.
Probably because, if one wants a social network, there are already many good ones in the market. And the people who care enough about privacy to quit facebook, probably won't use any social network at all.
Token is like a bearer share which can be transfered digitally from person to person. Bearer shares are not that common nowadays but I understand that in the past they were quite popular.
So it’s noteworthy and interesting, but here I am getting crushed with flags and downvotes. github can do no wrong, all within its walls are sacred, how dare he speak against our holy temple
First of all, kudos for trying this.

So far I've only read comments that have a strong tendency towards the destructive or even pejorative end of the spectrum. I think that's unfair considering all the effort they are putting into this.

Having said that, I'd like to know what distinguishes this from e.g. Facebook in the long term. It's easy to put out a manifesto and pledge that you are never going to do bad things. It's also easy to come up with a vague theoretical business model that doesn't really say how it will work.

Let's assume they succeed with this – there is nothing that enforces these early statements anymore and soon investor pressure will lead to an outcome similar to the established success stories.

That's why I think you have to be much more different if you really aim to make a difference at scale.
It is also a strong possibility but wouldn't Mangopay would have given some time for Librapay to adapt to the regulation ?

The fact that they stop the contract so soon without previous warning (unless Librapay is not disclosing everything) is what make it really weird for me.
How are openbook going to fund this? It costs a lot of money to run a social network. I read through the material and the only thing I saw was a pi-chart, nothing explained their revenue model. Not to mention their privacy model seems exactly the same as facebook's.
At large scale, you still need to have proper API boundaries, even with a monorepo.
Otherwise, even with the best tooling, you will never be able to change anything.

The APIs are there to ensure the behavior won't change and break anything. In a monorepo, that is easier to check by running all the tests that are affected by your code changes. The actual programming "syntax" is a detail though, and that can be changed (atomically everywhere) anytime with proper tooling.

It's only in the old traditional split model that APIs are supposed to be a guarantee for syntax + behavior (+ sometimes ABI).
Public by Default: One Year of Venmo Transactions
What do you mean by “replaced”? Do you have an example of a place and time where statistical mechanics was taught, and not thermodynamics, and later thermodynamics had replaced statistical mechanics in the curriculum?
Ah, nice. This is the answer I was looking for.
The best keeper in the world cup.2018
Well, I'm not a part of the SPA hating crowd since my job is making fast SPAs. It's very easy to mess up (scroll) performance even without jQuery.
Seems like Zootopie (Zoo + Utopie) would've worked just fine.
> and that it was a server socket

What's wrong with that? High-end workstations often have the same sockets as servers don't they? Did they say it wasn't a server socket?
One of the main reasons I stopped using Linux is the touchpad! It is horrible out of the box experience and the insult to injury is the lack of no good user interface to even set anything. You have to screw around with libinput or xinput with zero documentation on both parts and hope you will hit a sweet spot eventually and hope that any future updates won't break it.

I am way past of the tinkerer phase where I would enjoy spending a week on trying to make something work under Linux just so I can feel better. Or the patience where I waited for 1.5 years just to have proper support for the AGP slot on my motherboard.

I want a Linux system that works out of the box and has no problems with standard features like a touchpad.

Under Windows 10 the new precision drivers are fantastic, very close to Mac comfort. Whoever creates something similar under Linux deserves a Nobel Prize and a monument.
site doesn't work
Trump and Putin
This already exists, I forgot the name of the company doing it.
Until they can work without installing additional app they will never be mainstream.
Their licensing deals with studios such as NBC, Fox etc. are time-based. Netflix is not purposely getting rid of shows. Nor is Netflix the one deciding that "Parks and Recreation" is to only be available in the US.

Netflix is producing all of their own shows precisely so that they will no longer be held hostage by other license holders. Of course, now everyone doing the same thing, and consumers are left having to subscribe to a ton of providers (even when said providers currently are in a "drought" between seasons of your favourite shows) and jump between apps to get what they want.

(As an aside, Hulu stands out here in providing a "pause" button on your subscription. But it's month-based, and you still have to manage that yourself; it doesn't automatically credit you for those months when you didn't use the service.)