skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit's the best way to get lots of real people's opinions of stuff. Search for "best Windows backup tool" and you get a pile of sponsored pages and fake recommendation sites, and probably some malware. Search for "best Windows backup tool site:reddit.com" and you get people posting in sysadmin communities having real discussion.
I'm about to do the same and I really like that philosophy.

Not sure we'll be able to implement that fully but at least in the spirit, because it clearly fits my worldview.
"Good cop, bad cop" relies on an abusive dynamic that's contingent on a heavy imbalance of power and the threat of receiving potentially severe punishment.

That type of behavior has no place in a team setting.
You're painting communists with a wide brush. The differences in thought between Stalin and Trotsky ultimately boiled down to if the revolution should be seen as international or not.
I mean, Facebook tricked advertisers initially into spending 100s of millions into the platform (if not billions?) with their bait and switch of telling advertisers they'd "own" the users that liked their pages - and people still trust them even with that starting pointing to keep advertising? It's strange to me.
not only does the industry not have a labor union, there's a culture of passion which is almost like having a negative union.

any time passion is involved, you are being paid less than market. cash is a more liquid currency and can in fact buy passion.
We know that social networks are here to stay, and even if people disagree the writing is on the wall for Facebook to have Myspace moment, as soon as an alternate is available.

What will it take for some prominent VCs/Investors to just come together and create a fund to fund FB replacement? If done right, they will make a killing (from a returns perspective).
It is an anti-network effect. The early adaptors are cool, the late adaptors are not. In Facebook's case, the early adaptors are now old people posting photos of their children. The users aged to irrelevance.

There definitely was a big difference between MySpace and the other social networks. Facebook ran well and worked. People forget the total shit show MySpace was in the middle of 2008. The site ran terribly, was getting hammered by spammers, and they starting covering it in banner ads. We didn't see a repeat of those problems with Instagram or Snapchat.

There is a coolness factor. It isn't as defined as fashion, or the latest hot nightclub, but it is there. That alone won't be enough to make the "next" Facebook, but I think it is the foot that gets stuck in the door.

Facebook might be able to acquire the next challenger in the US, but they will definitely fail to get it by EU regulators.
Apparently I can't read the article in my RSS reader because it's a TOS violation for Bloomberg.

That's ok though. If it's a TOS violation to read the article without giving my info to their 23 trackers and 6 intrusive advertisements I'm all set anyway.
Does this book make one feel better or more depressed?

The article has not a very good vibe to it, tbh.
A story of Maplin Electronics, a failed tech retailer (UK)
No conflict of interest there!
Logo was my first programming language! I recently rewrote my own version of it so that I could draw a time-proportional train map. I wrote "fd 5" for 5 minutes, for example.

http://peterburk.github.io/tra/

The version I wrote can read values from a spreadsheet, so could be used in other applications too. I think this kind of thing could be a great way for a young person to go from a homework project to the front of Hacker News. If any of you have kids, I'd be happy to help gather the data for some other subway networks!
I'm going the opposite way, I'm trying to get rid of the 6s. I've had nothing but bad luck with touch disease and NAND solder joints breaking over and over.

The whole early build of the 6 and 6+ is cursed. I hope Apple loses that class action lawsuit in a super-bad way.
I doubt that any such blanket bans could be democratic. Banning cars from city centers could be. In times of crisis, cars become untenable in any case. A car can help guarantee your freedom in a crisis in a low population area. In a crisis in a city, it's often useless.
I guess you are right. It's unfortunate because judging from the comments here you would think that there's a market for a simpler orchestration software while it will be hard to compete as just another Kubernetes distributor (even more so now that there are several alternatives for the container runtime). But hey, what do I know about product management?! :)
> But hopefully I’ev misunderstood something.

I am and have been what might be called a 'climate change alarmist' for decades now. More concretely, I believe that there's a non-trivial chance that the climate will, in the lifetimes of people reading this, become hostile toward our civilization, as it stands today. These considerations have come from deep and wide personal studies on relevant topics.

Human extinction is exceedingly unlikely, even in the worst possible cases. Many deaths (where 'many' means 'substantial percentages of some populations') are possible, though hopefully still unlikely.

Things will change. A lot. Even though who are well read on the topic will find it impossible to characterize those changes.

We are introducing tremendous amounts of additional energy into our climate, which increases variance and especially uncertainty.

But even given all that, extinction is exceedingly unlikely.
I mean being able to set up zackbloom@cloudflare.com as a proper inbox that can send and receive mail without forwarding to another email. Having a web interface for it would be cool but I think a lot of people could also configure existing email clients to access it (at least at the start).

Google Suite is something like $5 / month per domain name so offering that as a free feature would be a pretty big deal.
It's fascinating that, to draw crude boundaries, "conservative" thinking is pro-capitalist/free-markets, which is largely justified by the theory of distributed local knowledge, but also strongly in favor of centralized authority on social/moral/scientific/religious/artistic matters.
Time for a new roommate.
According to Stallman GNU is "done" as Linux is a GPL'd kernel. There isn't a reason for GNU to -make- their own in-org kernel when a perfectly functional GPL'd alternate exist.

If you are a big on "purity" there are `make` flags to avoid bundling proprietary blobs. So its not like you are even giving up your ideological idealism using a GNU/Linux OS.
For me, Javascript now means Typescript, thanks to all who contribute to this great language!
Re-reading this the next day, I realized my above post is exactly the type of woeful chatter the OP was talking about.

I'll take that as my cue to lighten up! =)
A Comparison of Data Visualization Tools
It seems like Sweden is leading the way in creating an inclusive and fair society, a model for the whole world.
Why We Fight (2005)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight_(2005_film)
I think we need proper privacy measures, since the misuse of data is not necessarily an "antitrust issue". For instance, would breaking up Facebook really mean that the newly formed constituents respected privacy? And would antitrust enforcement against Google or Facebook reduce privacy exploitation by smaller entities?

I'd argue that it would not -- 1,000 small Facebooks could still violate privacy. Creating privacy legislation is the only real way to achieve proper privacy guarantees.
Why Humans Prefer to Talk to Bots
Awesome!

I hope you don't mind me ranting a bit about custom domains

> Custom Domain Protection for Cloudflare Registrar, available on the Enterprise Plan, protects your organization from domain hijacking with exclusively out-of-band verification of any changes to your Registrar account.

This is what keeps me locked into Google and other services. I just can't trust my custom domain, if I'm targeted by any semi competent attacker it WILL be hijacked. That you're offering this service only makes my suspicions stronger. I want to use your services but that's a showstopper. It's not your fault, of course, all registrars face the same issues. You need so many different factors to make the process secure it's not even funny, and you said it yourself: "That, obviously, doesn't scale".

A few years ago one of my customers domain was stolen by contacting the registrar support (one of the big ones, always recommended around here). They even had a scan of his passport. With so many data leaks, even from your own government, how do you even protect against these kind of things? His life for the next few months were living hell.
I have run into some of these issues in the past when trying to get into software.

I'm a chemical engineer / scientist with some programming experience/skill* but I would suck at modern coding interviews because I don't program regularly in my past 3-4 roles. I would have to get up to speed on the job, with pre-prep before the job started, and I could develop into an awesome programmer. Most job posting are written such that I am 99% certain my resume would just be a 'fast pass' in the 10 seconds a recruiter might look at it. Oh well, engineering is pretty interesting too... so I really can't complain much.

*My programming experience and background:
-- wrote Python/PyQt apps for parsing/analyzing/visualizing semiconductor device data, wrote sensor simulators/analysis tools in MATLAB and Python. Wrote image analysis routines in Java/ImageJ. I taught myself the languages and libraries and wrote correct and performant code.

I dabble in Python, JS, Julia, Rust, C++, various LISP's at home but I don't have a lot of time or energy after 8-10 hours a day of engineering work.

I have done a fair amount of PLC programming and control system design in the past. I also have 10+ years of post PhD engineering and physical science in several different fields and all of the capability and skill sets required to be successful in those fields.

Software gigs I have applied for in past generally have not even given me the time of day... oh well.
I've only ever seen a "report not mine" function from Google. Where else have you seen it? I am not on FB/LinkedIn/most similar ones, so I may be missing examples.
This is a really interesting idea.

Adversarial collaboration has produced some interesting results, and is probably our best bet for settling arguments on topics where results are consistently rejected over methodology. It's done good work on ESP, and shows some promise on priming if anyone will actually sign on.

But that basically requires finding fields with conflicting viewpoints and well-understood methodology spats, which means established debates. This idea would get the same effects - experiment design that's accessible and verifiable - on untested topics, while simultaneously baking replication attempts into initial publication.

The more I think about this, the more impressed I am. It guarantees replications, it guarantees data and methodology availability, and it makes replications a publication-worthy step by making them part of the initial 'success'. It doesn't solve the file drawer or salami slicing problems, but it does huge work to sidestep them by forcing another p<.05 which isn't subject to them. And wildest of all, it might even be acceptable to journals in a way that "publish replications and null results" isn't. Thanks for the most creative approach to the replication crisis I've heard in ages!
Open source advocates love GNU too, even if the love doesn't go both ways.
"Given the nature of the human mind and the material state of the world"

The material state of the world my friend.
I'm far from perfect and have made plenty of poor comments.

IMO, these happen when there is an underlying organizational problem. It's not tolerance of bad behavior that's the problem, tolerance of bad behavior just means that the organization is unwilling to address the real problems.

In my direct experience, I was part of an organization that didn't train newcomers in process or define clear divisions of labor. The organization made no effort to accommodate it's need for uninterrupted programmer time.

As the organization fixed its management problems, I got less feedback about these kind of remarks. It also helped that when these kinds of remarks happen, management realized it is not doing its part to direct the organization well.
There is now an Ethereum 2.0 client being written in nim: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus
Oh wow. That looks so frictionless, thanks for sharing the example!
An upvote button and a flag button I think might do the trick.
Hard to say.

"In March, I gave an interview to the Guardian in which I repeated my usual—and unwelcome—assertion that the literary novel had quit center stage of our culture and was in the process, via university creative writing programs, of becoming a conservatory form, like the easel painting or the symphony."

Hard to say. Various authors role out big literary novels at their pace: Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen come to mind, and they get respectable reviews.

"Furthermore, I fingered ­BDDM as responsible for this transformation, the literary novel being simply the canary forced to flee this particular mine shaft first."

I don't think that the RSPCA made it to the coal mines back then.

At the moment, I'm a bit too BDDMed to follow the argument all the way, though.
It's worth reading through, I'd recommend it. It doesn't take long.
Plus its followup, "The Look of Silence" http://thelookofsilence.com
Yes. Especially ones with broad arbitration clauses, and double especially ones where your access to the courts is determined by whether you opt out within a short time period after agreeing to them.

These are frighteningly common, typically enforceable in the US even for consumers, and typically enforceable in most countries for even small business customers (though rarely for consumers in much of Canada and Europe if the vendor has enough ties to the area for local consumer protection law to apply and you win the race to the courthouse).
Not exactly a fair comparison to other Cloud providers on cost for egress, since you largely just do backups. So most data is incoming rather than outgoing. I assume you don't charge for incoming data either, and most providers don't...just adding a caveat as to why you are so so cheap compared to AWS and Azure.
I would also like a rec
Its pretty simple to crack unsalted hashes using rainbow tables, unless each hash is salted with a random distinct salt and if that is the case then these hash seem pretty useless. So how do tracking providers use these hash ? What other info is sent along with the hash ?
We're talking about insecticides, i.e. chemicals designed specifically to kill insects; and bees are insects.
Your "insightful" terminal comment is dead.

Terminals are a highly productive environment ignored at your peril. Can only tell you GUI-only folks are not well regarded in the industry.
How do I contribute? I recently used ADTPro to copy a lot of old Apple II software onto my MacBook Pro as DSK images.

5.25 floppies:

https://mega.nz/#!yDITXIZC!8fREZdAruk2yYLv859jKABGSWeG4UkRoC...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150180606@N08/sets/72157672562...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150180606@N08/sets/72157672589...

I've also got a larger selection of DD floppies, HD floppies, JAZ disks, SCSI disks, IDE disks, MacFormat and other CDs. Please tell me if you want the links!
Barriers to entry are very low which is great.
Does anyone who uses Slack actually like Slack, aside from people who work at Slack?

I use it at work and church and I have yet to find anyone who likes it (including myself).
You totally ignore design systems here. Similar to color palettes you want named styles for consistency and to show purpose (e.g. margin-small, margin-large, etc). Hardcoding margin:10px throws all that away.
When you say free data, how does that compare, in your mind, to open data? Are they the same?
Hypernormalisation from Adam Curtis.
I have been looking for another documentary as visual appealing, as evolving as this one but haven't found any other documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM

Do you know another documentary as good as this one?
Is it not possible that this is unique to the Bay area and SV and not representative at all of the tech industry, in general ?

Whenever there's a "gold rush" mentality around anything, you're going to get more than your fair share of assholes, sociopaths, and all-around weirdos showing up to claim their prize...
Companies are made out of people. A person writing algorithms in the corner does not create value; in order to create value, they have to work with other people to make decisions, deliver work, help each other, etc.

Some of those other people might not know as much about CS, but might have other skills like design, marketing, management, etc. Empathy is a trait that helps one to appreciate and adapt to these differences constructively.
iPhones are not that bad at security.

Anyways, always put any device behind a router/firewall (at least when on wi-fi).

Also, prefer an app that pushes (to a remote server, ...), instead of an app that opens ports.

And don't run other apps on the device.
Before this sort of technology keeping in contact with friends wasn't trivial. Both parties had to want to keep it up. And if they didn't, or you didn't, you just lost contact with a lot of people as a normal matter of course. Everyone moved on with their lives, you met new people, and so on.

That there is this artificial world where people can arbitrarily keep in contact doesn't make that sort of non-interaction of occasionally commenting on or liking posts normal or better. It certainly is easy though to search for someone you knew ages ago, add a friend, have the five minute conversation of what's been going on the last five, ten, twenty years and then never really talk again.

In this regard facebook isn't the problem, and your preferred platform isn't a solution. The problem is people.
Do you know any other documentary as good as this one? Any suggestion?
what makes the Stripe API so good? Are you referring to the API design itself? Or just the fact that they programmatically exposed this functionality.
I think the staying power of GNU and the GPL and associated projects is due in large part to the so-called "viral" nature of the license – code that is GPL'ed must remain GPL'ed, and thus is still available with all the original rights due to the end-user as it had, and never less.

I don't think we would be where we are at right now had it not been for this, and for the ardent, strong stand free software advocates that pushed to keep it that way.

Is the GPL a panacea? No, and I don't think anyone believes that (even RMS agreed that Vorbis should be BSD licensed when it was released). But the fact that it rubbed some people the wrong way (and still does) was worth it for the long-term beneficial outcome we got because of it.
Yatra, Booking, and Agoda are what I usually check. Yes, around 10-25% I’d say and usually the discussed price (over phone) is final i.e no additional taxes unlike on portals where after you go for checkout tax will be extra, sometimes other myriad of fees.

On rare occasions I have been actually told to book from booking sites as they won’t be able to offer better prices :-)
It is frustrating how often misrepresentation occurs in this particular topic. So many words are wasted misrepresenting the record and then setting it straight again.

A similar thing happened w/ the Google Memo when so many prominent media outlets (as well as commenters all over the Internet, including here at HN) attacked it for saying things it never said before the accusation was changed to "well, it was based on bad science". By the time it got to that point, the conversation sort of dissipated, and I didn't get to hear much debate about the science.

I don't have an opinion in either case, but it does seem like one side is consistently doing the misrepresenting. And it leaves me (a more-or-less neutral observer), suspicious: after all, why would you resort to misrepresentation if you're confident in your position?
Seriously: this language is amazing. I have to admit I was a holdout for a while, but TS has been fantastic to work with compared to Flow
David Marcus is trying you to forget the facts: Whatsapp should stay without ads and Acton left because this did not happen. It already has been announced that whatsapp will have ads, so Acton said the truth and David Marcus is a BS spreader.
Advances in quantum computing are about people, too
> It is important to make the distinction between this and what Linus actually said, which was "fake it *until I make it" (emphasis added). The latter is essentially practice or exercise to develop empathy. The former is essentially how high-functioning psychopaths work.

Wow. Psychopathy is not a formally recognized or defined term, so it's hard to talk about without being completely sidetracked by trying to define it.

While it's certainly possible to exercise all of the things we're talking about (empathy, kindness, etc) for nefarious purposes ("I'm going to figure out Mrs. Smith's feelings and try to understand them... so that I can get close to her and con her out of her life's savings!") I really don't think that's what we're talking about here.

> You haven't really made a comparison here, because you just say, "I want to help him." What is your motivation? You can definitely help him without having any empathy for him at all.

I'm saying they're the same thing. If you want to contrast them because you want to convince me that they're different, sure! Go ahead! That's your job.

> Empathy doesn't mean "being nice" or "being helpful".

Sure, absolutely. That's why I consistently mentioned them as being distinct things, ie "helpful OR empathetic." Seems like we're on the same page for this one.
Speaking of "a great stepping stone to playing with k8s", there's a free, scenario-based site called KataCoda.com out there that gets you putting Kubernetes (and Docker and other things like TensorFlow) through its paces -- no need to install anything, it's all browser-based.

The site also has some "playgrounds" for experimentation once you know what you're doing and apparently can be used to create one's own courses, e.g. for training people at your company, etc.

List of all the courses:
https://www.katacoda.com/learn
I can't tell if this is meant to be parody.

The first essay is a bit high-level, but the second lays out some pretty specific, straightforward ways that women get the short end of the stick in the CS field:

> It is more common for men to get credit for collaborative work than women, something I experienced when a student wrote in a publication draft that an idea of mine originated with a collaborator — even though progeny of the idea had never been discussed.

If you don't care enough to read that far and then assume that this means there's no "real reason", I think that's the definition of willful ignorance.
the reader view in FF does a good job with those sites (still loads stuff though)
I think I remember reading at some point that another hypothesis is that it acts as a repository for bad bacteria, so that your immune system doesn't forget how to make antibodies for those bacteria. I think I remember the sinuses being posited as serving the same role.