skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several of my friends use https://twitter.com/newsycombinator and the HN website only infrequently/on weekends.
I've played around with APL a bit, and I agree that it's not that hard to gradually get to a solution in the repl, but...

The problem I have is that when I gradually get to a solution in Lisp/Ruby/Python, I end up with something which is also close to lots of other problems I want to solve (or that my manager or users ask for). In solving the problem, I've naturally built up tools for that entire problem space.

In APL, I end up building a solution which is not at all close to other problems I might want to solve. I'll take an identity, flip this, zip it with that other array, reduce it with this function, and then poof, the final step slides all the puzzle pieces together and it's perfect (and only 17 characters!), but only for that problem exactly as stated. When I get a request for something slightly different, I almost have to start from scratch.

I assume this is what the "beautiful diamond" / "ball of mud" dichotomy referred to.
Netflix’s Production Technology = Voltron
> At a meeting over the issue he said Zuckerberg also told him: “This is probably the last time you’ll ever talk to me.”
Not really. People could be in debt, people could be taking care of their parents or other family members. You are making a lot of assumptions because you think everyone who works at Google is rich.
One does not "use" the CEO (or whatever his title was) of a billion dollar company. Either it was part of his duty and responsibility to the company or he willingly cooperated with deceiving a regulator.

To portray it otherwise is just a spin.

At least he admits to “At the end of the day, I sold my company. I am a sellout. I acknowledge that,”. I'm sure it's much easy to be remorseful with a few billion dollars in the bank.
So, when one reads unclear language from the part of Oracle, one does not interpret it in the most antagonistic way possible?

Has Oracle been restructured recently, or are you expecting me to ignore the entire company's history?
Then how do you complete when your competitors already have and their costs are now significantly reduced?
“The Hookup” Matches You with Your Ideal Coffee Bean Mate
Thanks vorpalhex and mschuster91! To me, your two posts capture the takeaway and explain why there seem to be no airlines which run outstanding software departments.
Using my ad blocker's element picker worked great to permanently remove the popup.
Affiliate Systems Suck, So We Rolled Our Own
We replace people who are curious about science with people who are good at getting grants.

Iron law of bureaucracy at work.
> They are (and are within their rights to) withholding value because you aren't giving them what they want, which is mineable activity information.

Seems like a clear violation of GDPR which specifies that collection of additional data except as required to provide the service must be voluntarily.

And no - ads/tracking doesn't count, and no - it is not voluntarily if they punish you for not accepting it.
Talk of U.S. Military Intervention in Venezuela Suddenly Gains Traction
I see where you are coming from but the debate is so stupid. With the Chrome situation, people discovered an issue, complained about it, and it was "resolved". With Home Assistants, they've never been found to spy on anyone and the manufacturers have explained in detail how they work and protect your privacy at the same time.

The first moment that somebody finds a home assistant sending massive streams of data to the mothership then we talk about it. But until then it's just a "debate" without any facts at all just wild incorrect speculation.
Win3mu (Windows 3.0 emulator) Source Code now available
They're not volunteers if you're paying them, and you'll want to use some kind of bookkeeping software in conjunction with the payments. You probably need to bite the bullet and use a payroll company.
Tell HN for "I've built this product" seems off. Using the Show HN format (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065385) is better.
Centralization was more or less required to do offline messaging. Not so much the selling bit (but note that Skype had already been sold twice before Microsoft bought it in 2011). I agree Microsoft hasn't done a good job with it, though.
IBM Watson AI Interview
This is why we are building Snips at https://snips.ai: create a 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI which will be open-sourced

We did this to solve privacy issues, and empower makers!
Collecting data subsidizes the cost of the service.

Would facebook have 1 billion users if it cost $5.99 a month?

Data collection is not going anywhere, so long as people are willing (even unknowingly) to give up info for a perceived discount.

Now here - fill out my form with your address, email, phone, photo id, and passport number for a chance to win a brand new 2019 Honda!
The USA and I've been doing it for two decades, honestly copyrights and licenses are not important to me. I have taken a fuck all attitude without consequence and will continue to do so forever.
Your point #3 cuts both ways. How many will refuse to contribute to a politically charged environment where they can be outed for having any thoughts outside of the acceptable groupthink?

I'm a T that doesn't fit into the LGBT community, at all. Most of my beliefs run perpendicular to the community at large and in some cases I get irritated with them for trying to police how people should treat me - this policing usually results in my interactions with others being worse off. But because I don't conform to the community, I'm not a "real trans". I'm depersoned and outcast. The LGBT community has treated me worse than any other community I've ever tried being a part of.

I'd be one of the first people targeted by people through the CoC for, ironically, being "anti-trans" and disagreeing with someone in the greater LGBT community. One such example, "tranny" is a word I claim to identify myself with and screw anyone who tells me I can't use it because it is a slur. They give the word power when they cower from it. Because of this, I won't contribute to any open source project with a CoC. It's been a political tool used to wrestle control of a project or oust someone that someone more popular doesn't like more often than it's been a tool to foster a more inclusive and friendly community.

Note that the idea I'd be one of the first targeted is merely perceived - the same bias, but mirrored, causing others to be excluded for a perceived preexisting bias against them.
You're proud that you make webpages that can't be consumed by the primary method most people use to get online?
You can also build ergodone or sp50 for half of the price.
Some cool concepts there.

>Static Site

This should be an obvious choice for sites not requiring dynamic elements. Also their choice of comments through email is a good solution to a problem static-made blogs have.

>Dithered Images

That won't work for every case, but is interesting.

>Default typeface

That's nice. I'm already disallowing sites to choose their own typeface. Except if a site is about design, then the typeface doesn't matter and probably I won't prefer their choice over mine.

>No Third-Party Tracking

This makes sense and I don't understand why self-hosted sites are doing it. The logs are there. Analyzing them is all that is needed.

>No Advertising Services

I'm fine with that but some sites rely on ads. I ain't aware of a method that will keep with their goals and provide ads.
And of course he is well known for that.

What is less well-known is the elite institutions which groomed him tend to not do much of anything about the fact that they are sometimes, not always, sending these types of Stanford-Prison-Superiority-Complex personalities out into the world.
Obsessed DR's refusal to settle malpractice suit for $50K cost him $1M. He'won'
I quit for a year after a burnout working at a faang. This was the 1st time in my career where I had absolutely no plan after leaving my employer. I usually switched jobs in the past for a better job. This time I had no plan but to just chill.

What happened? I was out of the rat race and I took time to look around me. I could feel the rush of people going to work on the morning and coming back on the evening, while I was simply on my way to starbucks or to the nearest gym. It is scary. You understand how a 9-5 job turns you into a madman. People looked so angry, depressed, like robots. You endup doing things during the day when everyone is in jail working. You have to try it yourself to realize how life sucks if you follow the rat race. The only way to get out is to break the rope. My goal in life is to never go back to this dark place.
When China was admitted to the WTO, manufacturers in China gained access to other WTO member markets on better terms than they had before.

And, in theory, in exchange for that access, outside companies gained new access to the Chinese market - to investing in factories there and selling products and services there. That was supposed to be part of the WTO deal.

But, the requirement in China that state owned companies had to be partners, that IP had to be transferred to these state partners as an additional condition of doing business -- that's what is unusual, that's where the word "forced" enters the conversation.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think WTO rules reallly allow for that sort of required government involvement.
I have a question about the Apple Watch's EKG/ECG feature, maybe someone can answer:

I had a routine EKG last week for a pilot medical certificate. Before the EKG, the nurse rubbed a cold gel on my skin, at the places where she then placed the EKG contacts. I'm assuming this gel was to ensure good contact. If doctors have to rub this gel before an EKG, why doesn't the Apple Watch need this, to ensure good contact?
For me personally, producing a 20-25 minute interview/conversation podcast on some topic hits the sweet spot for my own podcasts. It's not a lot of work to record, some light editing/automated intro/outro/posting, get a transcription done, post that with some show notes on a blog. Done. It's no more than a few hours of actual work.

Frankly, the biggest job is scheduling the guests which is one reason I tend to do the recordings mostly at events.
I've had that book sitting on my shelf for a couple years now. I read the first couple of chapters, but the writing seemed poor and I couldn't really get into it. Is it worth giving it another go?
The 10 cents isn't for the SMS. The 10 cents is for providing a lead channel, and either now or later, business level features around that lead channel.

Intercom's pricing probably works out to something comparable for the average SMB. If the price is too high relative to the value then businesses won't use it and they'll have to drop the price.

But there's nothing outrageous here.
Can someone explain why you would want to use a block chain here and not just a "database"?
I assume DoH is dns over http, what is DoT?
Although they are massive, they don't own literally everything, at least internationally. At least here in Germany I think avoiding them wouldn't be hard, but of course there's other large companies owning many of the other players, so leaving them != supporting small companies.
> Those are good finds, but

nothing.

Your claim wasn't that they didn't receive enough scrutiny. Your claim was that people haven't done anything.

You lied, or at best, are seriously misinformed, and got called out for it, and now you are moving the goal post trying to pretend like you weren't wrong and ignorant. Just admit it. You were wrong, you didn't know, and yeah, they are trying to do something, but haven't found anything yet, and even in 2018, they are calling for investigations.

What more do you want? Do you want them to NOT investigate or ask for investigations?
I think that's a reasonable position in response from an employee trying to "activate a clause written into their contract to allow them to immediately get all their stock if the company began “implementing monetization initiatives” without their consent" .

Now whether or not he was in the right to demand it, when actually doing so I doubt anyone expected to have a working relationship after that.
Because it finally provides a mechanism by which bad actors on a network could face repercussions for their activity. Consider how different the internet would be if hyperlinks were two-way rather than one-way. Again, it is not only about data, it is about the speed of transactability that would result when value could be exchanged instantaneously with radical transparency behind the actors on the chain. Bankers go away, auditors go away, credit requirements for market participation go away. What could be do with the trillions of dollars tied up and sitting in credit collateral accounts? Liquidity is a good thing.
I got one for free; I use it daily for setting all cooking timers and for maintaining my household shopping list. I also use it for playing music in the kitchen.

It's pretty fantastic for all those things and I'd probably buy one now if I needed to replace it.
On an RPi I can plug it in to the USB on my router for power and connect with ethernet. Otherwise I have to run a full powered server perpetually to manage DNS for the home network. Made sense to me.

I stopped using it as mine was seemingly hacked (100,000 lookups or so in a short time, presumably some sort of page-impression generation?) and I hadn't the time to trace if it was a problem with the project or not.
The question of whether it is right or wrong is separate from the question of what we should do about it. The question we should worry about is whether it is in our best interest to turn the other cheek or to fight back.

In turn, we ought to acknowledge both the possibility that fighting back might hurt more than it helps and the possibility that we've been shooting ourselves in the foot by turning the other cheek.
I watched the video; they seem to have the same sense there as they do on Twitter.

I don't actually think the BBC is suggesting the soldiers should be executed out of hand, but I think it weakens the story---I don't need the interpretation, thanks.
A particularly nice clapper that has secondary features like telling you the weather, serving as an alarm, and so on, yeah.
Probably a good thing on the surface - less work for devs in terms of compatibility checks. Add competition has made all browsers less complacent, improved performance everywhere, sped up adoption of new tech and general been an adrenaline shot. Much less talk nowadays of “will browsers support it?”
Maybe I'm dense, or just viewing the site at an inopportune time, but even with your description comment, I still don't get it?

• You bid to place your given message on the front page for all to see, correct?

• And it stays up for 1 minute? Or until the next bid comes in?

• By "bid", does that mean someone can pay money and potentially lose out on their message being shown?

I think this is interesting, but is almost more of a viral online billboard.
Oh, if only we had a system to pass articles that are submitted to scientific journals to some sort of expert committee, that could look at it and see if it was likely to be valid. We could call it, I don't know, "peer checkup", or "expert review", or...oh never mind.
Maybe imagine how that sounds to the people who live there (or how you'd like to hear that about your country) before opening your mouth, thanks.

p.s. I've got a joke to lighten the mood. Have you heard of an 'Australian kiss'? It's like a French kiss but Down Under. xD
Iirc there is no jre in 11, just jdk, also Oracle is not dumb they likely have a clause covering your "loophole". Finally why would you develop on Oracle jdk and run on open. Seems like an easy way to get bugs.
There're better comparisons put out by vendors who are building custom solutions on top of the open source Hadoop SQL engines, and from Hortonworks/Cloudera as well.

Hortonworks has been pushing their latest Hive LLAP benchmarks pretty hard. They're doing a kind of a Hive3 "roadshow" at the moment as well.
> Facebook seemed like a "shitty" project
> before it was a multi-national conglomerate.

Facebook is a shitty project. What Zuckerberg gained in the short term he is paying for now: he will spend the next decade of his life dodging tomatoes as Facebook craters.

And honestly, that might be worth it for him. He'll also be extremely wealthy. My argument isn't so much that "it's not strategy that matters" instead of "it's not technology that matters" but rather that making pronouncements like that is bullshit.

Apple comes to mind. Using Ben's logic, Tim Cook's Apple is superior to Steve Job's Apple. The new Apple cares more about strategy and more MBAs work there. The new Apple has made more money. But at the end of the day, for a lot of people, it was more rewarding to work at SJ's Apple. And SJ's Apple still did plenty well financially.

> Everyone deserve a chance to earn a living. Your
> opinion of the worthiness of a project doesn't really
> factor much into peoples considerations.

No, but my opinion exists in the world, as do many other opinions: Ben's personal preferences do not suit everyone. What his maxim assumes is that the only metric for "success" is his. I think for many people, it is better to do work of which one is proud. Not all people, but enough that Ben's advice is BS. For people like me, it's like saying "making 2x more money from your business, and wind up 10x less satisfied with your work."
Before the cookie law websites did not have annoying useless cookie popups though, so it's an unintended consequence
> Not everything needs a bespoke ledger and microeconomy. The complexity is completely unjustified.

I also think that the mad gold rush has the potential to turn off those who would build the real ecosystem, small pieces of useful, reusable smart-contract code at a time.
Yes, but your phone will eventually get back to the internet. An endpoint on a farm may potentially never be able to connect on its own.

Also, your phone is able to store the images. In IoT there is the problem that a lot of devices can only deal with very little disconnectivity before losing data. In those cases it's better to pass on the data to anyone rather than lose it, even if that someone isn't the central server.
Announcing Hyperswarm
I think I'd rather technology be dispersed without regulatory impedance. There's still the problem of how to reward/incentivize innovation and development of new technology, but maybe the benefits outweigh the costs or there's ways we haven't thought about how to reward and incentivize innovation.
Yes and no. Nothing happens in a vacuum. If person X develops something that they could not have developed without certain institutional and social and physical infrastructure around them then it’s by no means as clear cut.

For example I think most people in the UK would say if the taxpayer has directly or indirectly underwritten something then it’s not unreasonable for a portion of the profit on that thing to be taxed and spend on the NHS, roads, education, whatever the inventor leveraged and benefitted from along the way. That’s not to say that the inventor can’t or shouldn’t get rich themselves, but it is only fair that they give something back.
It also adds latency.
When Zuckerberg Asserted Control, Instagram’s Founders Chafed
See also his four part series (course, really) on wall, ceiling, and floor interactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU7DJXiMAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9fUV7uA2_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1kbABTyeo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRCjVLqjST4

It's amazing how engrossing they are.
The crazy part about overworking in the software development industry is that, at least from where I am (TN, US), job opportunities are abundant. I could maybe slightly understand working the crazy hours if ours was an industry where jobs were scarce or competition was cutthroat, but I've never had issues getting work. Yeah, maybe I won't be working on the sexiest thing, or making as much as I'd like, but I'm going to land on my feet pretty well.

My little bit of advice: save enough money for your emergency fund. I recommend at least six months worth of expenses. Not just for your primary bills, either, add up how much you actually spend in a month on everything and save 6 times that. That way, if you end up in a shitty situation, you can walk away and not have to worry about money, and you don't have to start eating ramen noodles everyday. I feel like money (or the lack thereof) is usually the reason why people put with so much crap. You don't need FU money, just enough to give you a comfortable runway to getting a new job. If you're even a halfway decent developer and you're in a decent market, six months should be plenty of time to get a new job.
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I know a large organization which has a lot of code in an Oracle cluster. No version control, no tests, no development environment.
...and still not as terrifying as this old news from three years ago: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transp...
I'm not sure I follow, but Cloudflare has a history of being a strong defender of free speech. They even defended Neo-Nazis.

https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/
> I heavily believe we should be supporting creators

As do I. There's two significant issues I have supporting most sites:

1. They provide only a subscription that is comparable cost to an old-media full subscription. Like most people in the Internet age I have a small number of main sources that I visit daily, and a much larger secondary tier where I may average one or two stories a week. Or they're the sites linked from here that I only visit when something interesting is waved under my nose.

There's no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I might be getting £1 or 10p a month "value" from.

2. I'm yet to find a site that takes my subscription and turns off ads and invasive tracking. Just ads. Still not an equitable deal.

Leaves things a bit stuck, and me paying out a smaller amount than I'm willing to.
>if it's not precise enough for doctors, then it shouldn't be touted as something my health insurance foots the bill for.

That isn't true. There are level of information. The information I need to decide if I need to see a doctor or not is much lower quality that the information my doctor needs to make a diagnosis.

Health insurance should foot the bill if ultimately the data is good enough to get people to the doctor when the problem is small and easy to treat. If a 100 dollar device for everybody allows them to turn a few $200,000 dollar procedures into $10,000 treatments that will be a big win and they will. (note that the above two may or may not be related)
I use KBFS and encrypted Git almost every day.

I've never needed the identity proofs. The teams/chat features are great but I rarely use those either. Maybe when adoption increases, but until then I'm loving my free 250 GB cloud drive and unlimited Git repos up to 100 GB.
And what exactly are you verifying?
Uh, no, my echo “by design” only starts recording after it hears the word “Alexa”.

Sure it’s possible that that’s a lie, but that’s a different question.
Mark Zuckerberg seems to be the master of putting things in contracts that play out in his favor.

The article says they wanted a clause that granted them approval over monetization strategies. So Zuckerberg gave them some version that he knew had no teeth in order to close the acquisition. But he got exactly what he wanted in the end, without any real compromise.

This falling out with Acton and Joum seem like just another case in the long line of bad relationships: Saverin, and perhaps the Winklessvoss twins, although that "business" relationship was for the sole purpose of ripping them off.
The term blockchain should come with a way to decide consensus, like proof-of-work or possibly proof-of-stake. This is a solution to decentralized consensus which is a truly revolutionary concept.