skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent my 20s going to parties and djing. I entered my 30s bankrupt but I have absolutely no regrets. I had amazing experiences that I wouldn’t change for the world.

Who gives a fuck if I have a million dollars when I retire. There’s no amount of money at 70 that will buy me the experience of djing for a crowd of 3000 people or diving off of a cliff in Nicaragua. You have to live while you’re young.

I’m never going to look back at my life and regret that I didn’t live it.
Is Reddit really considered a social network and not just a discussion forum?
More creative would be to inject an altered video feed with the license plates changed.
Talk about the title isn't terribly productive. I think the link to FP is on the money, though.

A lot of code is easier to read and reason about as a pipeline (or DAG) of data transformations, usually as top-level functions on "raw" (and often immutable) data.

In Python it's often easiest to use a single-purpose namedtuple or some arrays and dicts rather than special classes. In JS "objects" are most commonly just hash tables used as structs to group related data together. And when I say "related", I mean "related by use", not "related by some taxonomy."

Redux/reselect is built on a similar model, too. Often the what the speaker calls "existence-based predication" is also employed by selecting "just active animations" so the consumer doesn't have to branch. Again, usually not for performance reasons, just softeng/maintainability stuff.

I still write classes with constructors and methods and private state etc, and sometimes still use inheritance and "virtual" functions, but not nearly as often as I did when I graduated from uni. That weight is just not always necessary, and it's not often the "right language" with which to express what I want to do.
The article is littered with references to beer. As though the target demographic alcoholics who enjoy PopSci.
I've seen this firsthand as well. I don't know that it was Facebook, but that was the only thing that seemed plausible at the time. My wife had been saying that she'd been getting creepy ads that appeared to be based on things she said out loud. I dismissed it as, "Oh, but you were talking about that because you read about it earlier, and the app noticed you read that story." She wasn't convinced.

Then we watched a random TV show on Netflix. During the show, two characters discussed a very specific medical method of improving their chances of bearing a child. Literally minutes later, she was getting ads for this type of conception therapy. We are both past child bearing age and have not discussed it in probably 20 years. We had never even heard of the specific type of process. We had never looked it up or read anything about it. It definitely came from something listening to our household, but we don't know what. It was way too specific to have been random chance.

We don't fall into the demographics for such an ad in any way. We have Apple devices with Siri, but that seems unlikely given their privacy policies. We don't have any Amazon or Google home devices (or any other types of their devices). She's on FB, and I'm not, so we think it was probably either her laptop or phone listening. She's had mic access on her phone turned off for Facebook and no other apps were running, but these apps have a way of finding their way around such permissions.
that's a pretty strong claim that Facebook is the internet for a lot of folks

It's just reality. There's some deal people in a lot of less-wealthy countries get where they get free FB chat on their phones, but can't see FB pictures, don't have googling/internet etc. It's extremely common in many countries, I know about it because many of my friends around the world have that.

Most of the comments on this page seem similarly to ignore/not be aware of what's happening in most of the world. Young people not caring about FB? Is that just in the US or something? I don't know, but in most of the world (Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America at least) people young and old are posting pics of themselves and their friends, commenting on each others pics, chatting, just like they ever did.
Super Mario Run? I mean, that's basically half the reason it didn't make as much money as Nintendo had hoped; because they ported the 'buy the whole thing for a fixed price up front' model from their console games and the people on mobile who preferred free with in app purchases/ads freaked out at the price.

I guess that'd probably fit the bill. Just simple old fashioned 2D platforming with a fixed set of levels, collectables to find in said levels for extra challenges, and a few mini games and competitive side modes.
> Essentially, I'm not impressed by the reasoning displayed here.

Agreed, the examples aren‘t perfect. But what I liked about the article was it’s intended interoperability and non-specifics.

It thus clarifies it’s main statements (for me at least):

- starting the long game appears never as worthwhile as keep playing the short game

- but playing long, compounds day by day

- but sadly, playing short does so too

Other commenters already mentioned it: those are the same mechanics of the poverty trap
Show HN: Twitter Data Parser
That does sound like a useful use.
https://outline.com/DHJaLL
How many anti-Kremlin leaks did he not publish?

Do you understand that he can only leak what someone gives him?
Really? Doesn't it vary depending on, say, road speed or visibility? It does in California.
Im in the AR/VR space and the whole community is pretty much on twitter. New projects, new research, etc. get shared on twitter before anywhere else.
I know a few too, including one talented artist who decided to go to law school because she wanted financial independence from her wealthy parents who would've happily funded her artist life style in perpetuity. She is a lawyer at a financial firm doing just fine money wise, but she isn't happy.

Another friend of mine in his 40s is a full time artist, with a very supportive wife backing him. He still beats himself up for not being the provider.
> instead they almost always just vote party-line no matter who is on the ballot

This is a really hard single issue to run on. You’d probably have to have a law enforcement or prosecutorial background, to avoid looking soft on crime. And you’d have to tell wealthy voters how you’re going to replace the lost revenue. In a wealthy county like Suffolk, these are tough sells.
I disagree that this is good. Volatile tax rates and regulations make businesses less likely to invest and innovate. They will spend more of their time hiring lawyers and accountants, spending less time producing valuable goods and services.
Not all places in the western world have such legal and social traditions.
Alternate theory: it's important for a young company to practice things like finding office space, figuring out coffee machines, building independent team culture, learning how to recruit, filing state taxes, etc when they are early and mistakes are easier to fix.

Good companies are not just the product they ship.
Yeah it's hard to curate a feed, I'm sure there are good groups out there (there has to be). I just struggle to find them.
I am not a lawyer, but the awkward phrasing `or, alternatively,` seems to be the complex legalese separator clause here, which would seem to indicate to me it is not a part of the affirmative statement requirement, but an alternative to it.

(It is somewhat fascinating that lawyers use written languages like programming languages in trying to avoid logical ambiguity, but of course the legal approaches to such questions evolved so entirely different including very different environment pressures.)
Yes. It's not particularly surprising, though, since research grants is basically a field with much higher demand than supply.
In many ways, Reddit reminds me more of the "old internet" than Facebook or Twitter. There seems to be better discussions, more variety, and even quite a bit of experimentation going on within certain subreddits. It feels like a freer place and that much I like. I still don't like that people get into their own bubbles and do little to bridge the gaps between political and ideological differences, but it certainly feels more exploratory than the other two.
I get that there is a widely held belief that startups eventually reach a point where they need veteran leadership. The kids built the thing but they need adult supervision in order to become a real company. But I find myself wondering what the logic is behind hiring a 40 year old to design the strategy for a company who's primary demographic is in their teens and twenties. Clearly this is a strategy that has worked before but I'm curious why more orgs don't try the opposite. If you won't listen to what your customers want (which Snap has not) why not hire a young executive who more closely aligns with the demographic your catering to.
"For a variety of reasons — none of them very good — this way of being safe lost out in the 60s in favor of allowing race conditions in imperative programming and then trying to protect against them using terrible semaphores, etc which can lead to lock ups." - it would be great for you to lay those out! Also please tell us other Krautrock songs you dig!
This is a version of Google Analytics you can't adblock without breaking the site
It is. Any anti-cheat system that relies on having explicit control of the client is inherently flawed, but it is considered "good enough" by most people.
The usual speculation is Espionage Act charges related particularly to the Manning documents, but charges similar to those files against the various Russian parties with regard to the more recent leaks wouldn't be entirely implausible, either.
I use Firefox with maximum tracking protections and a VPN, so I'm first in line to claim frustration about being forced to solve reCAPTCHAs.

But on the other side, it needs to be understood just how important having a CAPTCHA is. The amount of destruction to user experience that bots can cause is sometimes far worse than the pain the CAPTCHA causes.

The long chains of reCAPTCHAs annoy me to no end, and I hope a middle ground can be reached, but bots are a very serious problem.

I do wonder if maybe computational challenges are a feasible alternative in some scenarios, or perhaps as an alternative choice you could give to the users.
There were a handful of visualizations posted on r/dataisbeautiful a while back that compared the social media giants.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/87q8pn/the...

https://imgur.com/gallery/c4Wzo

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8yma4e/oc_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8ahy05/int...
We've had 6 tech companies breakthrough billion $ threshold this year.

We're the biggest tech company creator in the EU.

Sounds more like you've got a small (or incompetent, depending on your outlook) source of information.

In the past year, the UK has added six billion-dollar tech companies worth $12.4 billion to its club of 26, more than any other European market, and has produced the highest number of billion-dollar companies in Europe since 2000 – contributing $64 billion to Europe’s $240 billion ecosystem of billion-dollar tech companies

https://www.information-age.com/tech-titans-europe-end-big-t...
anyone remember the blog from the late 90s or maybe early 00s who just ripped apart every bespoke captcha that existed on major web sites? It was really entertaining/interesting/informative to me at the time. Can't find it anymore...
It's interesting that it peaked at 1.5m comments/mo in late 2016 and it's shrunk to 820k comments/mo. That's a huge drop. It sort of makes sense, seeing as the election ended, but that activity decrease is far larger than any other subreddit, even political ones.
Sure, let's say this new decision is the actual right one to make. It took him only two days to realize his mistake. What could he realize in two days that he couldn't in the (hopefully) weeks it took him to make the initial decision? Either they weren't diligent enough in making the initial decision, or they didn't like how someone (or their stock price) reacted to the decision and turned back. Both are bad.
This is a very confusing way to explain a simple thing. In fact
"Eulers formula simply shows how one can parametrize a helix using the exponential function", see

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3510/how-to-prove-e...

And that's it.
I always wanted to write a "Philosophy of Software Design", except I wouldn't dictate HOW to write software. Instead I'd focus on what questions to ask and what trade-offs to expect. It would be Yoda-ish: Yoda teaches you how to ask questions and how to find answers, not the answers themselves.

In the end: there is NO right way, only trade-offs. At least know what the tradeoffs are. My book would be a trade-off recognition training guide.

I would state my experience, though. Such as "In my experience, typical shops are more comfortable with pattern X over pattern Y. I have no idea why: it's a psychology question I don't have the funds to answer."

And there'd be a chapter on how to recognize and scrutinize fads.
Well I agree but would add:

If you’re stuck in the short game poverty trap, it’s harder to even realize what your (underlying) big ticket items are.

Or to put it from another perspective: you have to be able to afford to minimalize. In the West, there are no Buddhist temples in the ghettos.
VmWare is part of Pivotal/EMC. They sell cloud foundry that is an on premise cloud directly competing against OpenShift from RedHat.

From what I've seen, they're doing a lot more sales than RedHat.
There people might as well be in an economic cult.
At a minimum, the vehicle owner should have information about who had the car if it wasn't stolen (and that it was stolen if it was.)
FAQ says they currently make no attempt to deal with that and it straight up won't work if you try.
Are you saying people should pursue art as a primary occupation because it makes them better at math? That seems a bit backwards.
The Strategy Pattern comprises a single interface with a single method. In other words, the Strategy is a function, so it's entirely appropriate to say the FP equivalent of the Strategy Pattern is "function". Objects and interfaces just obscure that simple essence.
On the contrary, the examples I saw on /h/ looked pretty impressive for the most part.
Would it work better as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325498#18325828?
Have you contacted your state's attorney general? This sounds like exactly the sort of case that their office would be interested in pursuing.
> while I agree that society is, often, skewed to favor those SWGs (bless their hearts), it’s amazing how little time we spend discussing the largest, most obvious barrier to new voices in the arts: money.

This is IMO the most important achievement of feminism: convincing people that sex, sexuality or race are more important in life than class or money. As they say, first you divide, and then you conquer.
A summons based on the idea that the car owner might know who ran a red light seems even more absurd...
> but perhaps to interact with a more diverse group of people.

Your FB is probably far more diverse than reddit at this point. Maybe reddit 5 years ago, but reddit today is a propaganda platform for a political party and ideology. It's the echo chamber of echo chambers.

I've never had FB. I started weaning myself from reddit years ago. I primarily use youtube now. Though that is getting screwy too.

> Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

Doubt it. Bolder prediction: FB will be around long after reddit is gone.
> Capital is rewarded because the investors are taking opportunity cost risks that advance the sum value of humanity's wealth.

And the vast majority of that advance in humanity's sum wealth accrues in the hands of those very capitalists. How peculiar!
Ditto. Had a boss drop dead at 42 of a heart attack. Seemed like a shitty card to get after spending most of his adult life in a cubicle.
> Serious question, I'm wondering, why you, personally, value other people getting MBA/Engineering degrees over arts?

Because they increase GDP, and thereby pay back their education in the form of income taxes, and increase the available wealth for everyone.
That’s why people who reduce such complexity with software are doing God’s work.
You say it will be ignored, but here we are after the shooting. And gab was not willing to take it down. Nor did laws help.

I love the idea of free speech to explore the space of possible ideas even against the current flow. But now we have easy filter bubbles and are missing effective mechanism pushing towards consensus. I have a hard seeing how it will not end with violence when hate speech and other surreal propaganda doesn't have consequences. But yes, we haven't found a good solution for that, yet.

The situation here in germany is even more... "funny". Gov decided to ban hate-speech, but the decision per individual case isn't up to some judge, but has to be done by the platform or face fines. Yeah, so far I prefer the current US way of not doing business with assholes.
> In the West, there are no Buddhist temples in the ghettos.

Like the boiling frog, that's an attractive illustration that is literally untrue.
When Walker's recall campaign failed, I stopped being sad about leaving the state, because at that moment I knew that it was now majority gullible idiot.

Walker is as much of a track mark on Wisconsin's dirty drawers as Blagojevich was on local and state government back when I lived in Chicago--perhaps a bit less obvious about it, and with an (R) instead of a (D) pinned to his dark money drop box.

From my perspective, it looks like the corruption is growing, the normal measures to fight it are not effective, and it may be necessary to take up arms to bring it back under control, or just leave and not look back. It seems like almost everywhere is at least near its tipping point, if not already well past it. The Citizens United decision might have made it a runaway.
So like Yahoo email then.
While I'm sure FB's algos are somewhat to blame for this, it's hard to estimate just how much content has been driven away by the site since the halcyon days of 2007-2012. Most of the reason I left was because none of my friends posted photos or thoughts any more -- folks just started sharing links and regurgitating talking points without generating any original content, so I left because I have HN/Reddit for that (with better curation tools, at that). Facebook was a good place when all of my friends used it for messaging and sharing their lives, but at some point everyone I knew started to use instagram and snapchat for those things.

Snapchat has mostly been killed by monetization, but instagram is still on life support for now. Losing the chronological timeline was quite the blow, though. Is it really that hard to balance "pleasant place to share my life" and "shove ads into my face"?
First off - I really dislike it when people deal with blocks of people as if they are a monolith. As if all white people have some innate starting advantage, all black people have some disadvantage, etc. It’s a brutally racist mentality that is very common.

Secondly, poverty is not a lack of money or material wealth. That is part of it and is definitely a symptom. But actual poverty is a culture and a set of habits that easily pass from one generation to the next. The idea that just injecting money at the lowest levels of society will fix this is absurd. This is a multi generational problem that will not be fixed with money. I don’t know a better answer, but I think about it a lot.
It does when that neighbor buys my apartment building and hikes my rent.
Amazon's not always the cheapest as it is. If it prices it in, then competitor's start to look more attractive; which is exactly the point.
Not much to do about v.reddit, but you can disable the redesign in your user preferences, and as for comments- unsubscribe from the default subreddits and then go subscribe to specific, smaller subs that catch your interest. /r/SubredditOfTheDay, /r/TinySubredditOfTheDay, and /r/Serendipity are great ways to find out about about new subs.

(Unfortunately, there's not much to do about the mobile app, which is pretty bogus... although there are a few third-party apps which are less obnoxious.)
> That's how taxes everywhere usually work.

So, taxes everywhere usually see a 500% increase over 10 years? Forgive me if I require some sort of evidence for a claim as extreme as that.
Are you familiar with "the art of unix programming" by ESR? It's in the same vein as what you describe. It even has an appendix with buddhist-like dialogues!
What are the heuristics for computing your chart? How much energy was it to make the plastic on the credit card terminals? Do bankers drive Priuses or Cadillacs? What if Bitcoin eliminates 50,000 bankers's air-conditioned office desks?

Is Bitcoin's cost per transaction a fixed number or improving in efficiency? What if planes were "downvoted" 10 years after invention due to inefficiency over rail transport?

Which side of history will you be on?

https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/1057022650919337984
I can enumerate why anything in the world is suboptimal. It's not a very strong point on its own.

But notice that you haven't suggested an alternative. You're just lamenting one of the few, generalizable, cheap resources a website operator has to avoid abuse in a world where it's only getting easier and easier for bad actors.

Your analysis is just as thorough as "but somehow it's OK to put locks on every door because some guys are abusing the system o_0?!" Food for thought: Is everyone encumbering their life with keychains for the fun of it? How do the trade-offs look? Do locks play any role beyond feeding the locksmith industry? What other options do people have and how do they compare with buying a $17 lock for their front door and installing it with a few screws?
Probably just an ideological difference to you. If you're rich enough to support them throughout your life (& after death), why is it important that your kids are self sufficient?

Maybe they think being able to practice their creativity/art/passion would have a bigger effect on their kids' happiness than knowledge that they are self sufficient.
Here you go. Reddit was always bigger than snapchat. They are about the same size as twitter.

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

Note that FB owns 4 out of the top 6 social media platforms on that list. That's how dominant FB really is.
I’m not sure comparing a sub for a specific candidate to a sub about all politics makes a ton of sense.
Imagine FB's data attached (by email or cookie) to Reddit's screentime - would easily quadruple Reddit's ad revenue with the same ad inventory. If they got away with it without driving away Redditors, would be salivation worthy as a marketer.

Reddit's main traffic problem for advertisers is that most users don't really subscribe to subreddits or make accounts, but rather browse the front page casually. So you can target, for instance, /r/smallbusiness to target small business owners, but you'll exhaust that inventory very quickly. A Facebook acquisition would mean that a much higher percentage of Reddit's audience could be served relevant ads.
That regulation (and the attitude to business and its place in society) is the reason every employee is entitled to 29 days annual leave min, I can't get sacked at any time for any reason and I don't have to pay medical insurance (hell I didn't know what it was till my mid twenties) cause the NHS.

Sure it discourages business in ways, but in many ways it creates a better society. Business isn't fundamentally good and regulation isn't fundamentally bad either. Remember that it's regulations that banned slavery and child labor.
I suppose the quality of the comments very much depends on the subreddit(s) you read. I mean, something like r/haskell is bound to have a different commenting culture from r/funny.
It depends on size of intersection and speed limits. Are you saying all intersections in the EU are 3s?