skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook expanded until it could send and receive facebook walled garden mail (fb messages).

iOS has iMessage.

Instagram and tinder and snapchat all support the basic concept of “mail”.

In fact, I wonder how many apps I have installed that don’t have some concept of an “inbox” or “messages”. Taskrabbit, Uber, GrubHub - all do “mail” in the modern, unfederated sense of the term.

(email started out unfederated, then we got uucp and smtp, now we are back to unfederated, centralized messaging.)
Urban-Farming Startups Tackle a Problem Crop
Requiring some base level of medical training sounds reasonable... Epinephrine injections can have dangerous side effects, so making sure the person with the pen knows when to use it sounds like a good policy.

If you're worried about backcountry safety, taking a first aid class is probably more useful than carrying an epipen.
Those beverage margins are what makes the razor thin food margins tolerable for the business (average restaurant margins are 2-6 percent). If you can’t turn a profit, no point wasting your time being in business (or accepting tech delivery platform orders).

It behooves you for the restaurateurs you enjoy patroning to have healthy financials and not be squeezed, otherwise they can’t continue as a business.
>Since the crash mostly affected the US (see all the Europeans wondering what the crash was), that Nintendo reviewed games only for the US/Europe is appropriate.

So your explanation of how Nintendo fixed this problem was only important in half of their market, and Europe wasn't even facing the problem that they fixed.
I got a lot of weird glitches and bugs as well but I chalked it up to it being (I assume) a web view based app without the rough edges smoothed out.
From the awkward grammar of the name, this project must have been named by a German.
F Natural – Putting the fn back in functional
Google defends controversial China project in meeting with employees
Meet the renegade who’s teaching the world to fix totaled Teslas
Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
Is there support for dictionaries as list items / nested dictionaries?
Yep. People are quick to raise the "well if you can't talk to them without Facebook they aren't real friends" argument but fail to realize it is entirely normal to have acquaintances or relationships with people without them being your close friends, at least for those in the younger age groups (20s?). I'm actually not on Facebook but that was a big downside of leaving the platform when I did (i.e. when people my age actually used it).
Thank you for sharing my article here guys! Glad it gets the discussion going!

To address one of the point in the comments about why i dont have a US Visa is that I haven't been traveling there at all and the process of getting a visa for Thais are very difficult, more so than the Schengen one. We have to fill in the longest form ever online, make an appointment and pay upfront, and then they will call me to have a one on one interview session and I have to dress properly (business attire apparently) for it just require so much effort that I decided to go to other countries instead. But even with the US Visa I won't be able to ask for a visa abroad in countries like Kazakhstan or many other countries that have embassy in Bangkok. They always ask for a proof of residency in the country I ask for the visa. :/

I'm glad it gets the conversion going though and the US is finally on the list now for me and I'll try and see if I can get 10 years. Apparently they are giving less and less of that nowadays as well.
I recommend "The Inevitability of Patriarchy" by Steven Goldberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inevitability_of_Patriarch...
I agree with all but your last point.

Facebook leadership's lust for power doesn't make politicians blush. It turns them green with envy.
It is definitely a pain, but if you naturalize you'll only have to endure this for another 3 years.
I can't see how eliminating regulation of drugs is going to solve the problem of people getting substances that are harmful or ineffective. There is no simple solution, only the obvious complicated one of regulating correctly.
Show HN: I made a website to view and apply for jobs at all the Formula 1 teams
Etymologically yes, although Wiktionary says a troll is "now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges" and so if you take just the "living in caves" part there's some slightly plausible connection.
I think Oakland is seen as pretty cool and edgy. Modesto...oh well... I'm pretty sure it's very much looked down on.
In my case it's https://www.vfh.de/ which is a group of Universities of Applied Science throughout Germany that offer a selection of degrees. I myself am in Berlin, experiences may vary between different universities. I am doing a Medieninformatik Degree which equals something like "Computer Science and Digital Media", meaning some emphasis on Computer Graphics, Web/Mobile Development combined with CS fundamentals etc. If you want a Degree from a research University in pure Comp Sci, Fernuni Hagen is the only options for remote studies afaik.
I think you're right, at the same time if allowed to walk from student loans... wouldn't we see a similar incentive on the student side?

I would find it pretty tempting when graduating to ... default. You've got plenty of time to fish your way out of bankruptcy as you're young, you don't have much for assets or anything...
Thats illegal since the GDPR.
Well no, I just meant that sometimes working in inverse units makes things easier to understand than the “intuitive” units you use in daily life. “Time per distance” helped me personally get a better intuitive sense of time dilation and length contraction. I hadn’t heard of rapidity before, but it’s really interesting, and makes sense after some musing—thanks!
You’re making the assumption that women as a gender have different product needs then men do?
For the remote programs unfortunately I think they are german only.
What I support has nothing to do with it, they can do what they want. I already don't use Twitter, I don't care one way or another.
Blah title, but article is quite good. Referenced Reuters article is even better.
> I said nothing about matching engineering's gender distribution to the user base's.

Then why say this?

> women are on the order of half of their users.
There’s so much political bias in tbe posted news story, it makes it difficult to ascertain which are actual facts.
The press derived a valuation using valuation = price paid X 100/percent equity

Those liquidation preferences mean that investors will pay more for their equity % than they would have without them which inflates the valuation estimates used by the above formula. The basic idea is that not all % equity is the worth the same amount, but it is assumed to when a valuation number is reported.
Will you ever actually talk to these people? I have lots of these people in my contacts list who I once knew but haven't spoken to in ages. I have never once randomly messaged one of them.
Males are more variable in a wide variety of traits than females. Any cognitive test yields more men on the far left of the curve than women and more men on the far right.

The Slate Star Codex article is a good reference http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required...
I really don't see why Facebook is blamed for this. That ethnic tension was present way before Facebook even existed. It was kept in check by an authoritarian military dictatorship and then bubbled up in the transition to more democracy, which really shouldn't have been unexpected. Facebook was just there at the wrong time, and happened to be the way people were communicating at that time; Aung San Suu Kyi has also gotten a lot of criticism for being in this even though she has been mostly powerless to do anything about it either.

All Facebook can do is stop the propagation on their network. Even with China-level censorship, they would probably need serious manual effort or even a complete network shutdown to stop being a medium. But the same problems will still occur using other channels, maybe the hate won't move as fast, but it will still be fast enough to cause plenty of damage.
Thank you! I'm working on a new map project using some of those techniques.
I do not interact with my "friends" on social media at all. Call, SMS, WhatsApp, and hangout once in a while are the ways we remain in touch.

It's the "acquaintances" who used to wish me "HBD <inset smiley>" once a year on social media (on Fb usually; almost all of them used to wish - just those 2-3 words) and when I made my birthday private that too stopped. Later I deleted my Fb account altogether. And I don't miss any of that really.

I still get many birthday wishes. Those are from the people who have been wishing me since I was in school, college, and a couple from work. They are the ones who remember that date (maybe have added in their contacts). But they wish and they want to celebrate that day by meeting and hanging out somewhere and we do that. PS: Well, how I myself feel about birthdays is another matter altogether.

Point is, there's no merit in this kind of FOMO.
> and as high process as demanding an entire day at the embassy on the specific case of the US.

I've obtained three Brazilian visas and witnessed other Americans obtain them, and I've never seen anyone have to spend a full day at the consulate. In fact, we can request them through visa expediters without appearing at a consulate in person at all.
Suspension of write access via the web to a node in the graph?
Potentially. Although in my experience safari works 99% the same as chrome so I'd bet a bunch of devs just assume if it works on chrome it will work on safari.
Rather than laugh at them, maybe you should explain. "History" is a very broad subject, and very few people, if any, are well versed in the history of every country on Earth.
Maybe I’ll give it another shot. The app bugged and double charged me for one order and it took a week or so to sort out so maybe they flagged me. That would be bit obnoxious but understandable if they couldn’t differentiate between a bug and fraud.
>That is much like the soft-glove approach localities are taking with the Antifa communists today

What are you talking about? If anything we are missing the bear jew breaking some Nazi skulls
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
This is not true. Doctors actually have to specifically state that substitution is not allowed; otherwise pharmacies will fill with generic.
Stan Kelly-Bootle's famous bon mot on the subject: "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."
No they don't. Time and time again have chosen the local competition.
Interesting, how do you get 'play' from 'ple'?
I did try different payment methods to no avail. I didn’t know they have a group order feature, that’s actually makes trying it out again tempting.
How to Do. One. Thing. At. A. Time
I'm a US citizen and this screwed me when landing at the wrong airport in China once (China Southern Air). It was just supposed to be a layover landing in Shenzen on the way to Vietnam, but we got diverted to another China airport and it was late at night.

The entire plane of non-chinese citizens was stuck in the customs control area, while all the chinese could leave and go to a hotel for the night. Nobody spoke english and they could not provide us with any food or water (or even enough seating, people were sleeping on the ground).

We had to wait until the next morning before they cleared us into the departure terminal (where we finally got water) and then we had to wait for that to open as well so we could book flights to continue onwards.

Never flying that route again.
"Daily active users in developing countries" is, in all probability, a KPI at Facebook.

"People killed as the result of rumors spread on our platform" is probably not. :/
I feel like there's a pun in here somewhere... ಠ_ಠ
Is anyone not going to med school because of debt? Not sure what problems this solves.

For the long commitment that doctors make and the debt they take on, they receive basically guaranteed highly paying employment for as long as they wish.

There's also a shortage of medical school spots, we can't create enough doctors.

I think this is probably an attempt to compete with other medical schools for top students. NYU is pretty well respected bit probably loses a lot of candidates to Harvard, Yale, etc.
What politically bias? Given that your account is 6 minutes old are you sure you do not have a ulterior motive for your comment?
Please note that it is not written from scratch and is using a wlroots library that does most of the job. Most of the code are just the handlers for events emitted by the library. You cannot write a Wayland compositor and implement all required interfaces with just 500 lines.
Yep. Also,

> American companies now produce many more products with far fewer employees

PSA: You may have heard that American manufacturing is stronger than ever, it has just become automated. This story is largely result of funny accounting.

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...
Great visualization (I think posted here recently) of where you can travel with a passport.

http://multinational.io/compare_passports
Similar experience with Russian passport as well. Treating someone just by a place where he/she was born is a racism, just in a less obvious fashion.
This article is dated July 20, 2017
I've had it in Aleppo too, though that's about as notable as seeing a San Francisco chain store in LA.
Media outlets often have to censor themselves, legal notices to pull articles in Australia are routine. The problem with this case is how it's been dragged out, silenced and the defendant slowly bled dry with legal fees, by the time it sees the light of day it will be old news.

A while ago the name of a senior state politician was pending trial on child pornography charges, there was a massive undertaking to ensure his name never got mentioned in print for the few months before trial.
Create, Edit and Convert Word Documents Without Using Microsoft Word Using C++
counterfeit money?
I too have the same habit of browsing HN on a daily basis. Normally I browse through the list of articles that I might be interested in and add them as favorite so I can revisit them later.

Anyway, good job on coming up with a solution to fix the addiction.
Thanks for the answer!

I've seen this advice before. Keep a streak and practice a little every day.
AdLib replicas are currently manufactured.
If you were China, would you want these American companies having such visibility into and influence over your people's lives?

Just look at how FB was abused in the last election, of course China doesn't want a third party running the show.
I wouldn't agree that your evidence base is replaced with anecdotes (not sure what you mean by SWIM), rather since the drug has been outlawed, all you have left are anecdotes. People will use and describe the effects of drugs with or without the law's discretion, and I would imagine the decriminalization-party should be thankful for the experimentations.
> I really don't see why Facebook is blamed for this. That ethnic tension was present way before Facebook even existed.

I think it's because they were given ample, clear warnings that their platform was being used to incite ethnic hatred and genocide, but chose to do nothing for years. I don't think they would be getting so nearly so much blame if they hadn't been so utterly negligent about the problem. They didn't even bother to translate their objectionable content reporting tools into Burmese until a few months ago, long after the persecution started.

When you are repeatedly notified by human rights groups and the local government that your essentially unmoderated social network is being used to organize lynch mobs, you should either shut it down or hire enough moderators to control the problem.
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Wow that's a scary argument from authority, but you are right, only dubious blogs currently write about it.

The mainstream media are highly aware of the case, they are all legally blocked from mentioning it until the trial is finished.

A good article on the fixated persons unit by a QLD lawyer: https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/queenslan...
> by supporting people regardless of their genders/sexual orientation/religious group.

Here's the thing, the position that people should be judged on their merits, and "regardless of" those things is something I completely and unreservedly agree with.

In the real world, however, that just isn't the case. The overwhelming evidence of implicit bias in, for example, blinded résumés doing better than non-blinded when the candidate is a minority or woman puts the lie to that being the case.

Then, consider the research demonstrating that one of the most effective ways to correct insular and/or incorrect ideas about another group is to interact with members of that group. We're largely operating on internalized, false narratives when we pass on a résumé with the name "Linda" on it, but say, "I want to interview this guy" if it doesn't have a name on it. Exposure to the people we have those narratives about shows us how wrong they are. We need to over-correct for the tendency, in order to encourage the exposure.

"Where a man is judged on the context of his character" (yes, MLK, gender-bias is a thing) is a wonderful world, and one in which I very much wish to live. We have some difficult, uncomfortable work to do before we get there, and all the pushback I see about encouraging the participation of women and minorities in tech tells me it's likely to be even longer and harder than I'd thought.
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Might have been a flop, I agree on that. Yet here you are, mention it twelve years later.
Sadly this is just the way of the world. If Facebook completely blocked all access to users in Myanmar, there would still be equivalent horrors happening, just mobilized elsewhere.

People like to blame/target the largest entity around as though it's job is to be mediator and police. That's taking the bad with the good. You see a similar story with the US Government often. Groups will condemn US intervention in some places, while chastising lack of intervention in others. Certainly different circumstances, but the mindset of the criticizers is similar.
> spent his birthday holed up in Tesla’s offices as the company raced to meet elusive production targets.

How tough?!
Ironically, Russia is one of the most difficult countries to enter in the world, for passport holders from any country.
I've done a few times and no problem. I just told them I had no idea of the exact dates and thus will plan when I know. On one occasion, I did request the officer to stamp me for a 5+ month (the usual was 3 months) as I might be staying for that extended period. I flew back a day before the B2 expires.
When was the last time you closed your browser?
Cigarettes should absolutely be illegal.
Honestly, putting a pair of parentheses in all of these plain text format, you get back lisp.

Greenspun's tenth rule rules!
Musk may have made the biggest mistake of his career with that single tweet. According to rumors, Tesla's internal legal team has begun to calculate damages; possible impact from potential investor lawsuits apparently surpasses $1 billion.

https://twitter.com/CGasparino/status/1030176495631839232
I believe founders have preferred shares, and employees have common shares.

Edit: Above can be disregarded, see below replies, I misremembered my options paperwork.
Illegal Alien Broke into Home, Hacked Man with a Machete
Makes sense since the name of the website is "Shanghaist". Shanghai + ist = shanghai.ist.
Ritual is an “order ahead and pick up” app.
I don’t know if you’ve ever put your whole body and life in to a project, but we can push ourselves well past our healthy limits. It can genuinely be hard on our bodies and our minds.
Nope. We raised on clean terms, 1x liquidation preference, no ratchets. Has been true for every single round —- we have and will never take dirty terms, even if it means a lower valuation
No they are not, his post seems to be political rather than factual.
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Please elaborate on how this could be the cause of a mental blockage
I always install tig immediately after git.
You provided unnecessary and unhelpful definitions, from my perspective.

I assume as axiomatic (and required by HN guidelines) that you intended to be helpful and relevant, so I asked a question to determine what you were thinking.

If you do not think lawyers use the "baseless" language in a totally transparent, sincere way, then I would've expected you to be more interested in when and how they do that, which is the discussion I was looking for, if any.
The challenge of course, is multifaceted:

1. It's not a trivial problem to be able to identify what is hate speech in a regional dialect automatically

2. It sets a problematic precedent if Facebook throws 100s of - hard to find, hard to pay and hard to support - native language local reviewers at every place where Facebook could be abused.

I'm no Facebook apologist, however I recognize how hard of a technical problem, and how it's equally a personnel management, prioritization and scaling problem.

Facebook risks chasing every group that makes a loud enough noise, and then being criticized for it irrespective of what they do. No win situation.
They never really entered the Myanmar market in a serious way before recently: they probably did the localization work long before Myanmar had widespread internet (which was recent, I think in 2014 or 2015?), focusing mostly on some Burmese expats. It was probably considered to be a minor thing and they didn't follow up aggressively when the political situation in Myanmar changed rapidly, thinking they could just continue supporting Burmese language like they were doing for 10 years previously.

Ya, that is neglectful, but accusing them of aiding in inciting racial hatred and genocide is disingenuous.
You'll pardon me if I find someone's saying of a thing which I think matters a great deal things like, "means absolutely nothing", "empty buzz-speak", and "whatever that means" to be dismissive of that thing.

Please see my follow-up to 'realusername's comment, which is sibling to yours, for an elaboration of my position.
This ^ and it also has the benefit of saving your employer money. The term 'scalable' got hijacked ten years ago to mean distributed computing, but it should also include algorithms that run faster on a single machine/cylinder.
I remember being blown away by a DAC on a Commodore Pet. Unfortunately I don't think there are any videos. It wasn't common to own a video camera in 1980

http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/pet/audio/index.html

I'm not actually sure that's the correct software. All I remember is it sounding like real instruments back when I was used to simple beeps from the built in sound
Tri-Space View of the Universe
Oh, I missed that. Whoops.