skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if my dad wants to give me $30,001 this year, or even $300,000 this year, that he's already paid taxes on it and it's not the government's business

Surely you agree that if he instead were to hire an extra gardener with the same $30,000, that money would be taxable as the gardener's income? So why should somebody who works for their money pay taxes on it, but not somebody who receives the money as a gift?
What do we think about hcaptcha.com ?
At the generational time frame, the estate tax serves to capture otherwise untaxed asset appreciation…

Consider Grandpa buys an asset; as company, land, a football team, whatever. 50 years later Grandpa dies and his will transfers it to you. If Grandpa had sold it the day before he died and given you the stack of money, he would have been taxed on the appreciation of the investment. If there were no estate tax, then that appreciation would never be exposed to taxation as long as families pass their assets down to heirs.

The estate tax isn't so much about controlling plutocracy as it is leveling the taxation field between people who buy and sell assets and people with so many assets that they don't need to sell them.
I'm saying the idea that the arts are frivolous is in error and I'm saying not supporting the arts impoverishes us all.
Hyundai does the same thing. There are multiple regional ways of pronouncing the name, all blessed by Hyundai headquarters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25813198
I can block GA with uMatrix and things continue to work.

If I block this with uMatrix, I'm likely permanently gated from whatever I'm trying to access. If Gitlab updates, I won't be able to access my repos, because they (for some reason) make me solve a reCAPTCHA before doing anything on my own repos.
The reddit data is not as valuable as being able to use FB's data to serve ads on Reddit. But it's probably valuable nonetheless.
As a site owner I know captchas are vital in the battle of not being overwhelmed with spam, but as a user I hate Recaptcha with a passion.

Every time I’m asked to identify the motorbikes or traffic lights I feel like google should be paying me a few cents each time for helping train their machine learning algorithms.

And on mobile the experience is even worse. Depending on the placement of the captcha box half to a third of the tiles might be off the edge of the screen, making it impossible to solve. Seriously, how can Google not have a mobile version in 2018?
This is actually quite nice to de-watermark stockfootage.
> When I last posted in 2007, the internet seemed to be a much different, friendlier place.

But then something happened...
I know there is a state wide rules in California. And because of complaints about red light cameras, they even increased some of the limits by 0.5s. I'm not sure of the exact numbers right now. I know my own city was caught doing some of these games but after the changes were made, they saw a 77% drop in red light tickets at some locations.
Bender was on to something. "X but with blackjack and hookers" is the next untapped market for disruptive startups. We've worn out "X, but on the internet" and "X, but blockchain".
You can still get to it via normal means. You don't have to use the desktop site. What you do is go to facebook.com, check the "desktop site" option in the browser... page refreshes, you're in "mobile view" still (m.facebook.com), click messages icon.... now you're able to message people just fine. Works fine for me. I use Brave (which is not much different than Chrome on Android).

It's a clumsy experience but it works.
It's still part of the Expedia portfolio. There are a few brands whose stocks are listed separately.
Are you talking about at the schema design level or more from a stored procedure point of view?

Can you give an example of the business logic you have in mind?
Unless they sit in the Oval Office; then they can tweet whatever they want.
once they do moderation, it ceases to be like the "old internet". the whole concept of "social reputation" (cough) is a bit too orwellian. so is little eichmann mods, particularly user run.

personally I thought the max a forum ever needed, was a user-specific kill filter. :) at least that way, you have some control over what you see.
Those companies are 100% American: they rely on technologies like the Web invented by an English scientist working at the frontier of France and Switzerland. They rely on algorithms invented by Russian, French, German scientist. They hire students from university around the world, to be engineers, managers, salesperson for clients also from everywhere in the world.

If those companies want to keep on hiring people without staggering student’s debt, they need to contribute to the local economy. I know they already do that (I worked for such companies for long enough, and paid a lot of taxes locally) but my point was twofold:

- paying more tax is often a good thing for the people who are going to benefit from the corresponding government services; that is certainly the case in the UK;

- if your company develops, promotes and sells products in a country, it makes sense to also pay added-value- and profit-tax there, and not avoid tax by claiming that the value was created in a tax shelter like Suriname, where you have no activity.
What will be interesting to observe is if this will correlate to usage. Anecdotally, it seems like it will -- but it's also possible that mobile usage of the proper app will simply yield to Messenger and that the desktop will be used other ways.

I will say that for myself, I still have Facebook on my phone but I do everything I can to use it as rarely as possible.

I should also add the caveat that because of the "public" nature of my former job (and to a certain extent, my current job), I have been unable to use Facebook like a normal person since late 2007 and so my investment in it as an actual social network is far less than might be the case for others, who like me, joined in college, and then saw it as a catalyst for lots of other things.
change password to something insanely long and boring to type
write it on paper stick it in your draw, log out of fb, clear all passwords
Laziness wins most of the time and you wont be bothered to take out your password and type it into the browser that is fjvhcji8987sdhcsl@!j

If you desperately need it, you will. When your out and about you wont have the pass as its in your draw at home
Watson represents the end game of IBM's retreat from selling solid (literally) products.

When I worked at IBM eons ago, products were very tangible, and often very physical in form, and there was no doubt whatsoever about what they did. Each came with beautiful bound folders for Africa describing functionality and usage. As a Systems Engineer, a part of one's job was being able to drive the configurator and other tools that controlled updates and upgrades and ensured products interoperated correctly.

Watson, it appears, is more the sort of snake oil that one would associate with a flakey, fast moving startup that can promise anything and then somehow make it sort of happen for the early adopters. Its hard to pin down exactly what is IS - which is kind of the point when using it as a sales tool.
"The big deal was encapsulation and messaging to provide loose couplings that would work under extreme scaling (in manners reminiscent of Biology and Ecology)."

This describes exactly why Erlang scales so well.
> All that said, I expect FB (the social media network, not the company) to peak and shrink, at some point. It just seems more like something that exists for a certain period of time.

Probably true in the US. But FB is still growing overseas.

> Facebook hasn't shown execution ability like that yet. Their moat isn't that deep.

Their moat is pretty deep. They own 4 out of the top 6 social media platforms.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...

All their properties are growing worldwide (even FB). And the fastest growing platform in the US for young adults is instagram. Guess who owns instagram?
Wow. Thanks for the way you put this out. This is exactly how I was feeling / what I was experiencing. So I went ahead, and installed my own MatterMost instance with friends.

What I realized recently is that Facebook is built in a way that makes it really hard to have a real conversation. People only share links and shout their opinions with no real place for exchange.
When it's gone, the "old internet" will be gone
When I was in college I was broke one summer and not keen on working as I was heavily invested in producing music (which wasn't paying at the time). I took a £500 credit card and then immediately blew it on a weekend at the Edinburgh fringe festival. I spent 3 weeks eating plain white rice afterwards until I started working because I had to as that was all I had left at home. Though I'm now interested in FIRE and have a family and this behaviour is the opposite of what is required I'm still happy I did it. One of the best memories I have. I should note that I definitely did this from a position of privilege and if shit really hit the fan I could have always swallowed my pride and asked for a family bail out. Not sure if I would feel the same way had this not been the case.
I've got to disagree. I believe making diversity a goal is a misguided effort and it has nothing to do with kind communication guidelines. RMS mentioned that Code of Conducts are punitive in nature and don't inspire people to do better than the rules require. I would add that they create a somewhat "ominous" or "heavy" atmosphere, making for a less playful and creative environment. People respond to requests better than demands.
>> FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

That's just about the worst thing I can imagine
Worthless.

This is a naive extrapolation based on 'adoption' proportion, which fails simple scrutiny as it does not account for the scheduled reduction in coinbase rewards. Put another way, Bitcoin mining is currently subsidized to an enormous degree by massive inflation.

This doesn't even get into the weeds of scaling cryptocurrencies, the elasticity of txn demand (and supply, if not for the arbitrary 1MB cap), and all the factors that go into equilibrium mining prices.
Not for their investors who put in $200m and want a return.

I use Reddit daily, but it's days are numbered. Having Facebook acquire them I think is it's only saving grace. I use the word "it" deliberately, because Reddit is now in the hands of its VCs.
Medical twitter is fairly positive and a great way to learn about new papers and interact with educators and researchers. Check out the #foamed (Free Open Access Medicine) hashtag. I usually try to avoid following political people and keep my feed science-focused.
If you're talking about storing business logic in the database for building an MVP, e.g. using stored procedures and views in your app, then yeah, go for it. Deal with the existential risk (your business might not work) before you deal with the risk of needing to fix tech debt.

If you have the resources to avoid putting business logic in the database, in a production app context, I'd avoid it if possible. It's just another thing tying you to that database, and if you ever decide to migrate, it's another hurdle preventing you from doing that.
I basically use Twitter for what I would use Facebook. I follow people I consider friends online and see their updates. I don't look at my timeline even, I just look at the stuff my friends post and share, the only time I see something from an account I don't follow is when a friend shares it. As a platform for keeping touch with a few dozen people you like, it's pretty good.
Show HN: Belle – HTTP/Websocket lib in C++17 using Boost.Beast and Boost.ASIO
reddit is only usable if you have a plugin like this

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

which will auto-redirect you to the old-design
Building an IaaS with OpenNebula
Top Combat Aircraft of 2030
Germany is like this for its speed cameras: the ticket must go to the driver.

None of this “let’s blame someone not responsible because it’s easier than finding who is really responsible” business.
Infosec Twitter does share valuable information and job opportunities. It also has its share of drama and memes though.
How do folks find out about music/art/local events without Facebook? My account would be in the garbage otherwise.
"The new president of Ecuador is not the strong and good man than his predecessor was."
That comment really, really bothers me, even though I am no supporter of the new president. Assange was granted assylum by Correa, the previous president, a populist, a big ally of Chavez/Maduro. Granting asylum to Assange was a great international PR move for him. It made Correa seem like a supporter of freedom of speach/press. While he was in power there was no freedom of press/speach here in Ecuador. Today several of his top officials are in prison or have fled the country. Correa himself is wanted for the attempted kidnapping of an ecuadorian opposition leader in Colombia. The only reason this came to light is because the colombian police was able to capture the kidnappers during the attempted kidnapping. It turns out the kidnappers were all government officials... Many similarities to the Kagashogi story.
Anyhow I truly wonder if Assange has the slightest idea of what type of 'leader' he received assylum from.... It is so ironic....
Something like Wikileaks would have been never, ever seen the light of day during Correa's regime here in Ecuador.
Well over in Fedora, it is full steam ahead. CoreOS is going to be merged with "atomic" (in particular rpm-ostree style updates and layering), and then base Silverblue on that, which will become Workstation. Could all of that work just stall out? shrug Yeah sure, and Red Hat could suddenly decide they want to support Btrfs.
I've used reddit quite a bit the last two years and have felt the content quality has decreased. That, or I'm just used to it or bored of it. Feel like I may be getting a little old for it. There are still some subs that are useful, like fantasyfootball
Google employees will walk out protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct
It's the "without needing async poll/select loops" thing that makes it so crazy. It's a protocol that encodes the multiprocessing limitations of its hosts.
Big straw-man there.

It's actually a Heffalump.

I've chosen to avoid putting labels on people based on twitter-length blurbs [...] haven't seen the full on full on overt, racist, 'final solution' type of Nazism

You know who else was not super-overt about the 'final solution' part of their Nazism? The Nazis.
Facebook and Reddit serve far too different purposes in my life to make sense of a comparison. I might just have grown too old, but the talk of Reddit (or instagram etc.) replacing FB don't seem to make very much sense, as long as FB is the go-to platform for connecting with real-world acquaintances.

I literally have no connections on FB to people I haven't met in person, and don't know a single friend's reddit account.
What would you consider digg, myspace, slashdot, 4chan, etc? Online watering holes seem like social networks, they just have different forms with similar concepts.
I use reddit on my mobile browser without logging into to an account. Recently when clicking links or images in the mobile view a pop-under will appear freezing the site until I select the prominent first option (to download the Reddit mobile app) or the second option to continue using my mobile browser. Because I am unauthenticated this preference does not carry over to page reloads for things like jumping to a different subreddit, leading me to experience this pop-under over and over again.

Needless to say it's cut heavily into my reddit usage. I genuinely believe they raised a bunch of money, hired a bunch of engineers and managers, convinced the C-levels a re-design was necessary, and then implemented a subpar re-design with a giant middle finger to users all in the name of ads. Glorious, world improving, ads.
In my jurisdiction, they changed the laws to make it nearly impossible to fight the ticket and exempt the signor of the ticket from having to appear in court.

(Ontario, Canada)
Next up in deep learning for porn augmentation: TenseHerFlow.
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/uSVqoW1rz6w?t=850

"We know all of your interests. Not just your interests you are willing to declare publicly on Facebook – we know your dark secrets, we know everything… (laughs)"
If I understand correctly they were making significantly better money in that time frame.
Behind the scenes on Cambodia’s first million-dollar action movie: The Prey
> Could I just randomly scribble some blotches on canvas and call it a week of work?

if you had to qualify your art with somebody to receive the benefit of the basic income, then it's not basic income. Art should be for art's sake - the artists themselves know if they are making art (they can't lie to themselves).

There should really be no obligation to work, and if those who don't feel like working (to produce anything, art included), they should be free _not_ to. Basic income should cover the bare minimum of living expenses. The incentive to work/produce should be an innate desire for more than the basic income. Society should encourage it, but not force it.
I will go against the grain, a bit, here: I do think there is some value in FB: once a week I go on for 5 minutes (I time myself) and try to quickly look at stuff family and friends have posted, at least what FB’s algorithms choose to show me.

Also, If I release a new open source project or a new book, I like to use FB, Twitter, and G+ to announce it.
Number of comments seems like a bad metric. A lot of these are informal subreddits where the most common comments are going to be "lol" or users collaborating to complete a sentence one letter at a time as part of some meme.
Your comment:

> that activity decrease is far larger than any other subreddit, even political ones
There are still some of us that are trying to keep the old internet alive.

(Shameless plug: https://beta.getaether.net)
Don't be so combative. You're the one spreading the falsehood that "The only fully correct term, as used in our laws and in numerous Supreme Court rulings, is "illegal alien"" despite having no real evidence of that.

> Undocumented is when somebody loses their wallet, so that won't do.

No, because someone without their wallet will still be documented in the databases.

> These people generally have illegal documentation, possibly even matching your documentation.

Do I need to track down how that's false too? You really seem to enjoy making statements with nothing to back them up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295589
What public union is spending millions of dollars on elections?
You seem to subtly express the notion that we are somehow "entitled" to access a website, just because it has a public IP address and we happen to have an http client.

Well - we're not.
I'm guessing you are not interests in local events.
> If we're in favor of equality of opportunity (and almost everyone claims to be)

The problem with that notion is that people often talk around each other W.R.T what it actually means. For some people, the only value of that opportunity is to be able to create a better life for their kids, often through inheritance.
Huh? You don't see the irony in using a web toolkit as an example of how you can be more productive NOT using the web? Anvil is a VB/Delphi-like platform for the web, it even transpiles python down to JS in order to run in the browser. You're proving my own point for me. The web is so versatile that it gives you the power to do whatever you want, including clone a Delphi form builder in the browser. How is that an argument against the web?
> How many regular people have had their life improved in any way by IBM?

Anyone who uses a PC.
I agree it's not unique to Wisconsin. Maybe it's more prevalent in places that don't have that much industry in that area, so it's easier to fool people. When a new amazon fulfillment warehouse comes to a city, hopefully people know it's not going to be filled with programmer level salaries. But if you had no expose to software design and only had warehouses then you might not know the difference.
That sounds suspiciously like a phishing scam, they had photos and everything?
Books, food, housing, transportation.

There is a lot more to "covering" school than just the tuition.
Were these the people connected to the Clinton Foundation?
>It’s not because of the color of someone’s skin.

I didn't say it was. I said it was because of race. Skin color is only one of hundreds of measurable objective racial differences. What does it say about your argument that it rests on such a terrible strawman?

>It’s not even clear where racial lines are drawn

It is abundantly clear: https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1398471221438.png

>Your comments are why it’s a problem

You are simply stating there is a problem with no evidence to support your statement. Blacks commit more crime. The fact that they get arrested more is due to their committing more crime, not due to "racism".

>reinenforcing the historical data and increasing inequality.

There is no evidence to support your belief. Holding black people to the same standard as white people when they are genetically incapable of meeting that standard seems like a much bigger problem, which causes conflict and violence, far larger problems than a completely irrational belief that inequality is somehow unnatural and societally imposed.
> Vertical integration in law enforcement is coming.

It's been around for a long time, it's called “the state”.
In the US most people keep pretty good track of who is using their car at any given time. The idea that the owner would not know who ran a red light using their car, or at least be able to narrow it down to a couple of immediate family members, is pretty close to absurd here.

How do car owners manage access to their cars in your country?
As a thought experiment, if there were a decent standard multi-select-list widget (that doesn't require the Control key) in HTML or an equivalent

Why "doesn't require the Control key"? AFAIK,

<select multiple></select>

Behaves just like a standard control from e.g. Delphi would (i.e., ctrl + mouse click or shift + arrow keys or shift + ctrl + space). No custom widgets needed.
In Portland someone did a fantastic statistical analysis of how their yellow lights are chronically undertimed per state regulations. He mentioned that he was an engineer in the report submitted to the state to try and overturn his wife's red light ticket. They tried to fine him for practicing engineering without a license.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/0...
wow this sounds familiar ..

I have worked on such a redesign of a crucial part of a popular service.

Thankfully this was killed before it was launched to everybody.

Basically as soon as the first working prototypes were out, nobody could say with a straight face that this was ever going to go well.
> On the social front too too, European pay and ownership is more concentrated in the hands of the leaders and is less evenly distributed than American counterparts.

I would be very surprised if this was the case. Could you please back this statement with data?
> Other people seem to think that's charity or a bleeding heart or something. I see it as just [...]

I firmly believe that moral virtue and wisdom are inseparable. That is, to behave more virtuously or with more charity (in the old definition) is to benefit oneself more.
What exactly do you mean by computational challenges? That seems like the exact kind of thing a bot would be much better at compared to a human.
I'm facing the same problem. I still have my account for now.

What I'm thinging is that if I delete it, the ones that will contact me with an other way (messages, phone, email, ...) will be my true friends and not only fb friend.

Of course we will lost contact with John or Sara or Maria who is somewhere else in the world, but concretely what was the last we discuss each other ?