skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone with more info please correct me:

But from what I read it sounds as if Google had to pay him the $90MM+, else be sued by him right? Because if they didn't pay him, he'd sue, then they [Google] would have to prove that he [Rubin] acted maliciously (or whatever), which would've been hard (if not impossible) to do, given that the accuser said they were coerced (not forced).

So it seems as if Google's hands were tied legally on this.
It’s the second biggest economy in the world. They’re not that backward.
Sorry your citizen score is not high enough to access this website.
t_d at its peak was almost as big as politics, now that was not something I expected. Before SandersForPresident was archived when he lost the nomination it was about the same size as t_d.

Would be really neat to select a single sub or group of subs and generate a line chart of the same data.
It allows corporations, non-profits and labor unions to make electioneering communications. That's it.

I find it quite shocking that public service unions can spend millions of dollars electioneering for the people with whom they will be negotiating their contracts, but I'll accept the free speech rights of a voluntary association outweigh my concerns.
Yes, 'money'. Not real estate.
Here's my anecdote. In March my brother and I were visiting my father on holidays. My brother jokes to him that even on vacation he brings a soldering iron (he makes an esp* open source webradio player as a retirement project), and that was the end of it.

Later on in the evening my brother had ads for soldering iron in the Facebook app.

So it totally can be a coincidence, or not.
Did you consider fixing "em -> rem" (in a separate commit) before you start applying your own fix to that code?
That´s not... exactly... what was being referred to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Everyone saying not to sue your asylum host, please consider, there's aren't too many way to interface with something as nebulous as a government and its law.

Talking to handlers only gets you so far. When your livelihood is at stake, and you want guarantees, you have to use the correct channel. They're not attacking the government. They're asking for clarification.
Publishing software with the Anti-Commons Clause is not malice. Claiming it's open source is.
Explain the rationale for why certain people should be born into a massive inheritance of wealth and power while others are born only to starve to death.
I’m assuming this is a sell page for eng candidates? I think you should mention the big engineering challenges you have at Streak. You mention you’re the largest Spanner user outside Google. That's a really impressive point, but what problems are you tackling by using that?

FWIW - I don’t like that you stuffed everyone into the same t-shirt :)
You could try and get them on Wire or Signal. But it's an uphill battle, unfortunately. Let's wait and see until Facebook fucks up WhatsApp, then try again.
Kodak like Sears made money on retail consumers. IBM like Microsoft make a majority of revenue on Enterprise customers and service contracts.
He specifically said it was a 124 grain +P round. +P rounds have well established pressure requirements, it's on page 9 here: https://saami.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Z299-3_ANSI-SAA... It's actually a higher velocity than a standard 9mm round, assuming he's actually telling the truth.
> People need to stop expecting that their insurance should cover literally everything.

Well, yes; in countries with public healthcare, there's still stuff that your coverage doesn't pay for (e.g. voluntary stuff like removing a mole.)

But that uncovered stuff, in those other countries, still tends to be far less expensive than the equivalent service costs at even private "cash only" clinics in the US.
Not being tremendously skilled at improv at the piano, I can't speak to experiences there but simply sitting down practicing or playing pieces or learning new ones, can be quite absorbing. On occasion, two hours can pass in what feels like 15 minutes.
No one ever knows that they're evil. It takes the people around them to tell them so.

You're not evil for using the Anti-Commons Clause, but your software is for all intents and purposes useless because of your choice and it's disrepectful to the genuine free software community, a community to which you should owe a great debt of gratitude.
> As for why we have an estate tax, the general idea is that oligarcies and plutocracies are bad

No, the reason we have an estate tax with broad exemptions rather than taxing generational transfers as income is the general idea in the ruling class that oligarchies and plutocracy are good.
> All I said was that elm was the least leaky abstraction I've ever encountered. Your frustration with IO proves my point.

Doesn't that prove my point, that there's an impedance mismatch of Elm trying to present a purely-functional world on top of a very side-effect-full environment of the browser+DOM etc.?

> but the practicality won't be apparent until you create a huge 10 million LOC monolithic SPA with elm

It sounds like you're arguing that for apps smaller than "absurdly large", plain JavaScript can be better.

Calling bs on anyone having anything approaching 10 million LOC in Elm. You're just making things up.

Edit: for reference, the Linux kernel has about 20 million LOC (according to Wikipedia), so you're talking about half a Linux kernel written in Elm. Absurd.
One of many reasons we are seeing a crackdown on free speech and internet freedom in general. In the information age, having a monopoly on information is the grand prize. The ruling class is going to do everything in its power to regain that monopoly, and with it, control over an easily-influenced population.
Not talking about starting a laptop business - talking about a major corporation with 360K people that are all-in on Linux. Someone needs to fulfill that hardware requirement - it doesn't have to be IBM. What does that sort of requirement do to the IT ecosystem.
It's kind of like restaurants. The tools I mentioned are like franchises: you know what you are going to get ahead of time: a "B" to "B-" level of quality at "B" to "B-" prices. Individually-owned restaurants may be roach-motels, and/or have the Greatest Food You Ever Tasted. But it varies per owner and time.
I wonder though, how can you be a frontend specialist when you don't even know how backend and servers work?
I want to delete the Facebook app, but apparently it's needed on iOS for other apps to "Login with Facebook."

So instead, I just leave it installed but with all push-notifications, location-usage, etc. disabled, and then kill it right after I'm done using it to log into something.
What is a good way that I could ask this question without getting a toxic response from you?
I am 32 years old and had been a facebook user since I was in college (2004). I completely deleted all of my post history and shut down my account about 6 months ago and can say I feel really good about the decision. I realize now that I thought I was staying more connected with my friends, though I was just using it to keep an eye on what is going on in there lives. Whereas now, I find that I actually take the time to meet up with more friends and connect with them in person. It has obviously dramatically decreased the number of people that 'connect with' (watch through my news feed), but maximized the quality and depth of relationships with people I actually care about.
Love watching the sports subreddits fluctuate throughout the year depending on which sport is in season.
I don't even know what Twitter is for except mutual high fives over the most superficial "look at me" memeish stuff.

It's worse than facebook as far as the "get attention" vibe.

Granted all social media is about getting attention, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it necessarily. Attention is nice, there is good reason for it, but when the message is so tailored to just that and there isn't anything else, I don't know what the point is.

I recently switched careers from a long networking career to web development and thought I'd take another spin on Twitter, but rather I just get sites that paste a link to their website, and hordes of people posting programming truisms or career / resume / coding lifestyle fodder .... so little feels like that person wrote it, so much feels like what those people thing "a commercial about me" should be.

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As for your other notes about the impact on people. It is horrifying. I see some relatives posting terrible things and I wish saying "but you've never met any of those people" had the impact that it should... but it doesn't.
Openshift.
I agree with a lot of this article, but the answer here is definitely not to enable more people to go into the arts on the public dime. If you want free college, let's have it be free for everything except the arts. If you want to get an MBA, or learn mechanical engineering, i'm happy to subsidize that. But I have no interest whatsoever in subsidizing your creative writing degree.
Fedora's default fd limit is too small for many games, so that might be causing your problem.

I'm not sure if the games you played rose above that threshold, but if they did then you'd probably see "eventfd: Too many open files" on the console or in the systemd journal.

It looks like Fedora will change the limit in a future update of the systemd package, but you can fix it manually if you chose to.
Depending what is his objective. If he would want to change their bahaviour, then it will not work. If he want to spare himself headaches and wasted time making their product work, it will work perfectly.
Pretentiousness comes from unusual words being used unnaturally, like someone learned the "word of the day" and is looking for excuses to insert it.
Mobile apps have been around for over a decade.
Do you have any speculation for what those charges might look like if they're unsealed?
I sometimes read them, especially on my own channel. Surprisingly, I haven't really encountered too much in the way of political idiocy there, perhaps because I don't tend to make videos about politics/anything that could get an ideological reaction.

So if a channel is fairly obscure and doesn't focus on politics, the comments can be... bearable.

But anything remotely popular is a hive of scum and idiocy that most people will rightfully not touch with a fifty foot bargepole. Less political there just means more 12 year olds posting outdated memes in place of the Russian bot farms and political trolls.
I think the advantages of the Bay area are overhyped. If you take a look at the of number of people that are employed by these companies, few of them employ more than 500 people. A lot of them employ less than 100 people. I think you can find 100 qualified people to do all of the tasks you need in any US city that has over a million people. VCs and angel investors have to beg great companies to take their money. However, it's best to not need outside investment at all. It's easier to keep the burn rate low if you're in a cheaper city.

https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
> There can be no growth because contractors don't scale. They bring a fix percentage of their day rate.

IBM's revenue growth over at least the last three quarters is due to its mainframe business and the launch of the z14.
I doubt they're trying to prop up a single tech journalist. If I had to speculate on intelligence agency motivations I'd speculate that they're trying to attack SuperMicro.
Yep. I've heard of this movie but haven't watched it yet - though my sibling assures me it is a copy of our experience with our parents. They were conservative/moderate at one point, but now regurgitate radical right-wing talking points without defending them, and say that "everyone just reads what they want to believe" but applies it only to me and my New York Times, moreso than them and their literal fake news peddling outlets.

The Brainwashing Of My Dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTjz2H57rE

FWIW I now have my own blog (not associated with HN, yet) that I use to type out my thoughts on things. I've shared it with a few people in my life that I think might care. The act of it being a blog instead of posts on Facebook is very intentional, and I don't care that not many see it. It is more of a journal.
It's not completely arbitrary. Where the HQ is usually shows where the company got started and experienced its initial growth. Also, while a company may have multiple remote offices, most execs will be in HQ and that can have a huge impact on the culture of the company. A Google office in Japan may feel more like a Silicon Valley company than a Japanese company's office in Silicon Valley.
I think it is a pretension to assume it is the artists and leisure enthusiasts who are the weak. Perhaps it is all the men of strong skills and closed minds who cannot achieve, or even envision good times - they bring the hard times because that is all they think is possible in the world, or perhaps all that it deserves.
Nope. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/...
For those interested, I've done a similar (far less pretty) analysis on Hacker News:

https://austingwalters.com/trends-on-hacker-news-activity-gr...
Someone in my building has a magic leap and I got to try it yesterday and it was pretty impressive. We played angry birds and you could walk around the bird structure shooting birds at it and it perfectly tracked everything.

Granted I haven't tried any other AR or VR device but combine that with some CAD software, google assistant, and some leap motion style hand tracking and you're now Tony Stark building iron man.
Very interesting to watch the sports subreddits fluctuate in size as their respective leagues come in and out of season.
I remember some tech crunch reporter claiming they'd never heard of a nine figure tech sale in Europe, the same day as a local business in my home city (Nottingham) was sold for over £100 million.

It's not that we don't have a tech industry in Europe, it's just that US tech reporters are often insular, ignorant and lazy.
Hah that's perfect. I hope reddit never lets themselves ruin that for some ad money.
> Regardless of what he did, in the civilian world, he'd be similar to a squatter.

No, he's more like a couchsurfer that wants the legal tenant on whose couch he is staying to provide cleaning services, indefinite rent-free residency, and to allow him to do things that violate the tenant's lease.

But not a squatter, because he has permission, for now.
I hate Instagram more than FB. Everybody become some sort of "influencer" there, everybody is selling something!!!??!! On top of that 1 out of 3 posts is an AD. I don't have it on my phone anymore.
Imagine if the US started deporting Saudi Arabian persecuted journalists back to Saudia Arabia, if those journalists criticized Canada. (And then Saudia proceeded to murder those asylum deportees. )

This is basically the same exact situation. Just because the US didnt murder the deported asylum seekers, it is still an extreme attack on free speech to deport them, to be murdered by another country, because they criticizing Canada.
Most of them are on instagram and whatsapp anyway. Besides, teens stopped using email too, doesn't mean they don't start using it once they turn into adults on the workforce.
Sorry you're of course right. I did a bunch of research before starting my company to work out whether HMRC had a tax on digital goods (currently it doesn't even have this concept at all) and understood they'd changed that, for all companies.
It is interesting that the #1 story in HN is decline in FB and the #3 is growth in Reddit. Personal anecdote, I have shifted all my FB screen time to Reddit. Not out of any agenda, but perhaps to interact with a more diverse group of people. Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon
It's obvious the poster meant that. Just like it's obvious that by a Chinese company, people mean a company from the People's Republic of China.
A lot of what goes on in t_d is artificial, so the actual size of the community is probably a lot less than what it appears here.
Last I tried that mode still had screwy mouse input, but even assuming that it corrected it completely I don't feel I should reward a developer for producing a product that the community had to fix for them.
Some pretty poor categorization of some subreddits in there. gamesofthrones, mylittlepony, thewalkingdead, and BigBrother are in sports (asoiaf is in entertainment). sysadmin and techsupport are in hobbies/occupations while buildapc is in tech section. tumblrinaction, kotakuinaction, and blackpeopletwitter are in entertainment. DebateReligion is in news/politics, not discussion (with other debate subreddits) or lifestyle (with other religion subreddits).

The hierarchy is on GitHub: https://github.com/MetASnoo/Subreddit-Directory-Skeleton/blo...

But it's not in a structured format and tough to verify. There's no methodology for the current organization, and it doesn't look like it matches the actual graph.
Oh cmon, afaik §103 StGB was copied from older law, never used then quickly removed the linked issue occurred.

I'm not familiar with the second case, but feel confident in someone writing "Kill Pope Francis" on his car being not acceptable anymore.

> Germany has been governed by the SPD/CDU coalition since 1974

This is just ridiculous. Like saying the US is governed by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.

Actually, there is a difference: Our system allows more than two parties to exist practically. This pushes extremists into their own parties... NPD (+ now AfD) for Nazis, Linke for Communists. This makes our two big parties actually represent common people. But yeah, they are closer to each other than I'd like. Hope SPD will find a more socialist platform. If not... well, they are already on the way to be replaced by Grünen. Something that could never under the US two party voting system.
I wonder if they have tried already
yep sure and I'd guess that not many individual UK citizens purchase Google or Facebook ads :)

Companies do, but it's just a small bump in their advertising revenue.

The UK gov are alll about raising taxes that aren't obvious, so they can raise more cash whilst claiming to be reducing things like income tax.

Remember the UK has a really low rate of corp. tax (19%) compared to most other countries, so hitting internet advertisers for a small amount of their budget isn't a big thing.
Yup. Cordova / PhoneGap pretty much more-or-less does the trick for this.
And yet you're discussing this on Hacker News...
I don't think there's any sort of "stigma." There's just the fact that, since "old people" are on Facebook—and that likely includes your parents and other relatives—they all expect you to add them as a Facebook friend. At which point you won't be able to be yourself on Facebook any more, because they can observe any of your "broadcast" activity.

The nice thing about the other platforms isn't that they don't have "old people" on them. It's specifically that your parents and relatives won't even think to add you on, say, Snapchat.

Also note that the apps that teens mostly do interact with parents through now, consist mostly of group-chat apps like Messenger or WeChat, where there is an explicit separation of social contexts (the groups you're chatting with), such that you don't need to worry about your relatives seeing anything as long as you don't put it in your family group.
There are a lot of sources for error here. 1. You may pay more attention to ads you wouldn't have noticed. 2. Something prompted you to say what you said and Facebook may be aware of that cause. 3. Your behavior may change as a result of having said it and Facebook may pick up on that.

There is a solution to all this. A (repeated) double blind experiment.

Pick two phrases. Say one so the phone can hear and one so it can't. It's very important you don't know which is which. You could eg have a friend put the phone in one of two rooms.
Only a couple of data points, and I recognise these are not a trend, but:

1) Estonia have been doing some interesting things recently. In fact, they contributed a lot to Skype in the early days.

2) a significant portion of developers etc for Upwork are European.

3) SAP

4) Trust pilot

5) Zendesk

Cheers!
AFAIK, many countries do not tax gifts or have an estate tax (ex. Canada).
Not at all, there are many very small and even solid state LIDAR scanners on the market at an accessible cost

edit: Here's a review of 12 https://www.dronezon.com/learn-about-drones-quadcopters/best...
"Login with Facebook" without the app will just use the browser on your device and you can continue login into apps using your fb account without the app.
Why would someone drop CSS as their skill when they know other frontend bits?

Designers don't need to know HTML/CSS when frontends can just build it up from images.

It's a weird place to draw a line that designers need to pass the result as HTML/CSS instead of just the image file.
You're just making stuff up and trying to rationalize a decision you weren't in any way involved in.
Websites that want to prevent automated bots from attacking them benefit immensely.
/r/politics leans left, so it kinda makes sense.
I completely agree. They have all the users but their core product is shambolic.

For example, Facebook messenger should be the best way to communicate with someone, yet it's surpassed by even one of their own subdivisions (Whatsapp).
So I think I have to learn ruby the hard way, through outdated sources, ruby's latest version is 2.5.0 right now,

I'll be learning through source on 2.0 and 2.1.0

please tell me if you have a better alternative or if it even matters to learn the latest ruby.
> Complaints about being denied NIH funding are as common among biomedical researchers as spilled test tubes after a Saturday night lab kegger

Is this supposed to mean complaints are common?
> Since reCAPTCHA v3 doesn't interrupt users, we recommend adding reCAPTCHA v3 to multiple pages.

Frictionless user interfaces arr great, but could this be a ploy to get websites to add Google-property tracking JS on more pages?
> You're free to reject a brilliant game over such a petty hurdle

I'm more rejecting the developer. That port was outright insulting in how bad it was. That'd be forgivable, except that the developers didn't ever deign to fix it. That's an unacceptable level of disregard for your customers in my opinion.
Good starting resource: https://www.hackthissite.org/
Unlike in the U.S, those lower mid earners are the people bearing the tax burden in much of W/NW Europe. The overall tax rate for a person earning less than median income is over 50% in Sweden (granted some of that is about mandatory charges for services like health insurance, which differ in being technically optional to Americans in the 5-45th percentile, and somewhat universal to those below).
Introducing the Matrix.org Foundation (Part 1 of 2) – Matrix.org
It depends what your end goal is. To me, Anarchy reminds me of something like Brainfuck - a hobby project that'll never see serious use. If that's your end goal, call it what you want as there'll never be that many users anyway.
Ask HN: Experience with Toptal, Gigster, or other communities to find work?
I'm a developer and the community that I previously used to find work has shut down (https://crew.co/). I'd like to find a replacement. Does anyone have any experience with Toptal, Gigster, CodeMentor, X-Team, or any other community that matches developers with projects? If so, how has your experience been?
Facebook needs a "reset feed" and "dislike".
Exactly! Panama papers, koshoggi murder, arab spring, occupy movement, etc. there is a ton of light shone upon corruption. The problem is that the light does nothing to eliminate the flow of money being made from said corruption and thus that money is used to quash oppress and extinguish the light.

Id say the most successful attempt in the US was the OWS movement, given how quickly it was brought down.