skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a profound misunderstanding of what someone with billions of dollars in inherited wealth does with their money.

It's not investing in "profitable ventures" that "create benefits", it's tied up in businesses they inherited, it's squirreled away in tax havens, it's spent on lavish properties, club memberships, expensive cars, and tuition for their children. If you're lucky a tiny fraction of that trickles down in the form of scholarships or charity work.

Then that money generates enough of a return that their kids can inherit billions in turn and the cycle repeats.

There's a point at which you have so much money that you will no longer ever have to work, but your kids will never have to work, and neither will their kids. It has such a heavy gravitational pull that in the long run there's no way you can lose.

If you have even half competent people managing your money an estate worth $10B can pretty much exist forever and grow at or beyond the rate of inflation even when extravagantly luxurious cost of living expenses are deducted. A million dollar a month allowance won't put a dent in this money.
login in solves a lot of problems. I know It's no longer anonymous but you can at least use a fake name. If you log in you can disable that infuriating popup. Also, you don't have to look at only the default list of garbage subreddits.

Reddit not logged in is like watching that garbage truck full of memes crash into on-coming traffic.
> They’re trying to destroy our business," Qualcomm lawyer Evan Chesler said at a hearing Friday in federal court in San Diego.

If only they would succeed!
Why not? That's literally the most obvious thing to do as a landlord.
You do not need to sign in the disable the new design, you can just use old.reddit.com.
Almost all the way on my 4 miles of walking per day, there is a bike lane. They still use the sidewalk in about 10% of the cases. That amounts of 5-10 scooters I see on the sidewalk on a non-rainy day.
That's not universally true. If you have a family, if a lot of your salary is tied up in stock grants, or you are an immigrant, leaving isn't always so easy.

I'm none of those things (well, I'm married but we're child-free by choice and that's not changing), and even if tech employees do have more power than employees in other industries, that doesn't make "quitting" so easy.

And my past work in organized labor certainly gives me a bias here, but I'm of the opinion that if you like the place you work and you enjoy your job -- the appropriate response to bad things happening isn't always to quit (sometimes it is. Sometimes things are too egregious and you walk out. I did this once when I worked retail in college and saw blatant racism targeted at an employee by a regional manager and I walked out), the appropriate response is to fight internally to change things to make them better.
To sweep something under the rug means to ignore it and not deal with it. Google did deal with it, so it's incorrect to say that the accusation was swept under the rug. Sure, you may be displeased at how they handled it but there's no denial of the fact that they did take the accusations seriously and fired a high level exec.

You're ignoring the damage cause by the optics of such a lawsuit. Google being known as the company that used an allegation of harassment to try and cheat an exec out of his outstanding compensation would be atrocious for the company's image - and not to mention attach huge negative stigma around people who come forward with harassment campaigns against powerful people. It's easy to be idealistic when you're not the person or group who is at stake.
I use Facebook in the same way you do - for participating in local motorsports. All the clubs organize via Facebook groups, so it's the only practical way to stay active in the sport. I'm using the personal account that I've had since 2005 but I don't post anything publicly anymore.
Why do you want Qualcomm to fail?
Clearly you're satirising. The very basis of the HTTP protocol, and the idea of the World Wide Web, is one of easy access to, and discovery of, information on openly accessible servers. It provides numerous mechanisms for protecting data that is deemed private.
I know it's different things but at least this has a road map of what is planned and when by.
Look, we disagree on how tax avoidance should be dealt with on a personal and a corporate level and that‘s fine. But you‘re constantly conflating a valid point (which is a proper distinction between the two terms and which I agree with) with your opinion on the matter.

If one were less charitable you could call that a strawman.
He was not "terminated for having sexual relations with a subordinate". From the article:

> Google gave Rubin a reported $90 million exit package in 2014, following an investigation into an allegation that he had coerced another employee to perform oral sex on him. That investigation reportedly found that allegation to be credible.
They have nobody to blame but themselves. They first enabled extremists by "protecting" (profiting from) their speech and then, as they should, readily offered their client's data to the government as evidence of a heinous crime a member of their community committed.
OT, it's useful sometimes, but is outline legal? I mean, whatever the purpose it looks like stealing somebody's else content.
Hello HN!

About a year ago, I wanted to build a personal website in C++ to host projects and blog posts. I experimented with multiple C++ web libraries and went through several complete rewrites. Like the authors of all the other web libraries, I decided to write my own. The result of that endeavor is the Belle library. It has been powering my personal website since it went live two months ago. Its goal is to have an intuitive API, reasonable defaults, and great performance.

Any comments, questions, or feedback is welcomed!
I started leaving my phone in airplane mode when not expecting a call, and that drastically reduced them. My friends all use Signal (which can use wifi) so I can go a week or more without turning on my cell. These bots mark people who don't pick up as bad prospects, so doing this will usually get you a couple months of peace.
Well it's up to you. I think in this case you lose waaay more than the developer does.
Pretty cool. Like a web version of Whisper. The first thing I wanted to do was comment anonymously. Voting is fine but secondary.
Well if this is such a large problem, you go set up a class action lawsuit. If any law firm saw this and thought, wow, there's actually significant damage going on here, there'd be a dozen at the gate waiting to represent the thousands of people affected.
> First, realize that for a large part of its demographics, facebook is the internet, and when they quit they 'll leave the internet altogether

Isn't that hyperbole?

Or rather, that might be a demographic they never lose. Might explain why they were big on "internet.org". Anyone with options seems to have found better places to hang out (shocking - even IRL).

Maybe the better prediction is quitting FB is like quitting the soi-dissant "social" network thing. Is that a bad thing?
Rails finds the fields from the dB and turns them into properties automatically... Isn't this exactly what you were asking?
They abuse the patent system like many large tech companies. I was being facetious, admittedly.
See my reply to another comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332259

It will never work, for the reasons I stated, unless the scooter operators go at the same pace as pedestrians, and we know they won't do that.
All I see is big "Download" links everywhere, that just go to a JS alert popup saying it's not out yet.

It looks interesting but with no way to preview the current communities or content before downloading, I'm hesitant to go through downloading, installing, and signing up to a new service, only to find out it's another Voat.
Why would he ever think any of his thoughts are bad? When would it even occur to him?
It also does when your neighbor wields such enormous political power they can get you evicted from your building under eminent domain, bulldozes it, and replaces it with condos you can't afford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action
> 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.

I think this is really insightful. The difference between being truly poor and just being a broke college student is that while a broke student may not have any money on their pocket, they can always call it quits if things just too hard.* Makes me think more carefully when people claim "hey I know what it's like to be poor too - I had no money at college!"

*assuming they're not also truly poor.
When Apple owes you $7 in royalties, that's Apple's problem. When Apple owes you $7,000,000,000 in royalties, that's your problem.
I'm in the same boat, but I didn't go to digging, but came back here. The new redesign, coupled with the realization that I spent far too much time with the same arguments showed me that Reddit is broken now.

Why can't I just have a nice link aggregator with decent discussion? HN is great, but it doesn't have as much content as other platforms. I just want to discuss politics, hobbies, and lifestyles with the same level of discussion we have here, why is that too much to ask?
> Many companies have built valuable services by automating HTTP requests. One might even think that Google would like them to stop.

Exactly this. Note that reCaptcha v3 is meant to be placed on every page, not just forms, and returns a "bot score" which the site can use for any purpose. I can see any new web search engine being horribly muffled by the (mis)use of reCaptcha v3.
Blockchain and Serverless: A Marriage Made in Cyberspace
I was thinking in terms of what level of detail is preferred in a database. Is it merely the database schema? Is it adding constraints and data validation logic to that schema (or placing that outside in your programming language code)? Or is it also adding (stored) procedures using the database language too? I'm guessing that everyone will have a different opinion based on the projects they've worked on.
What a patriot...
Yes.

Crypto is a compelling simulacrum of classical liberalism (free individuals engaging in trade and limited governments using precise laws to protect the commons).

This time we are trusting machines and mathematics to preserve individual rights rather than culture.
Honeycomb.io postmortem: RDS clogs and cache-refresh crash loops
i think that the `conn_waiting_area` variable is undefined in the source code
> US tech reporters are often insular, ignorant and lazy.

And then there are the bad ones…
The solution is to develop a perspective into which you can integrate these kinds of phenomena.

Mine is basically... The world is decidedly unfair. Even though some people, e.g. trust fund kids, are dealt pocket aces at birth, you can't be angered because you'd be grateful it if happened to you. However, being in this class comes with obligations. These people should be aware of this obligation and they should be striving to produce great things with their means. If they don't, then they don't deserve their advantages, they should illicit frustration, and they should be maligned.
It's the "tactical everything" lifestyle crowd versus someone who just knows what they're doing.

All fancy tools and no common sense.
Since client connecting to a single port? So you'd get 1 client IP, 65k client ports, connecting to 1 destination IP on 1 port.
It probably eliminates 90% of it for 90% of websites, like off-the-shelf spamware hitting your blog's comments.

The prevention measure you create for the remaining 10% (like a moderation queue + human review if you can afford it) is likely to only work because its workload is diminished 90% by a crude measure like ReCaptcha.

Your dismissal doesn't illuminate anything. It turns out that abuse prevention is hard and costly.
This is an amazing resource, I didn't know about it.

Thank you for sharing it, I'm reading it already.
The business value of design
Was trying to understand this myself. I guess the table next to the bathroom is the most undesirable location for a table since there are smells/foot traffic/noise? Whether parent meant reddit is the bathroom, or the restaurant, I'm not sure.
> The end result probably looks like us burning most of the modern world to the ground, literally

The end does not justify the means. So what good is a society built on prejudice, harassment, and corruption?

If you can sweep controversy under the rug until such time that it's convenient then good luck ever getting change to occur for the better.

> by getting rid of the organization and making any people behind it anonymous & fungible, you can continue to organize economic activity without painting a target on your face.

Making it anonymous & fungible is only necessary if you're unable or unwilling to stand up for your actions. If you're unwilling to stand up for what's right or are doing something you know is unethical, then what right do you have to the proceeds from your actions?
> I'd say that historically billion dollars fortunes got diluted between the 10 children then the next generation

Throughout history and across most cultures, it was usually the first born son who got the father's legacy and the lion's share of the wealth. It's why it was so important for wives ( especially of the powerful and wealthy ) to produce a male heir. Sometimes it was a matter of life or death. We all know of king henry's wives.

"When Anne failed to quickly produce a male heir, her only son being stillborn, the King grew tired of her, annulled their marriage, and a plot was hatched by Thomas Cromwell to execute her."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wives_of_King_Henry_VI...
CoinScribble Content to Be Distributed to Blockcontainer.io Network
"Eventually we got it working by using four servers each running a single instance of ab in addition to the one running our Ruby process"

So 4 source ips. Guessing they were just bumping into a (configurable) max open file setting.
I am kind of surprised billionaires and CEOs don't order each others' killings more often.

I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head. So perhaps I have pretty low expectations on what powerful people without morals can do.
What's funny about this is people could defect to g+, with it's well thought out 'group' structure to promote focus, but Google just killed it.
I'm guessing it's like getting the table next to the bathroom at a restaurant; A second class experience.
Was iptables running? Maybe they hit a conntrack limit
I'd go with the matematician, Cardano.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerolamo_Cardano
Interesting. I'm in a similar boat as you (5 years of professional experience) and I had decided to pass on my co-workers' reading group for this book, but based on your review I'm now reconsidering!
You don't even need a native bottle. The site just needs to offer a PWA manifest and associated service worker functionality. https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
Intersectionality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality) is an interesting subject. Privilege has many axes and can vary with circumstances; it's dangerous to reduce to a one-dimensional less-than/greater-than scale. A black woman from a wealthy family may have more privilege and more opportunities than a white man from a dirt-poor family, and that must be taken into consideration if we want to make a better world. But at the same time, it remains true that the average black woman has less privilege (in most circumstances) than the average white man.
This.

And then you have ethically dubious practices like Starbucks getting a super sweetheart deal in the Netherlands, and then "charging" the UK arm a "licensing fee" for the brand name. Despite being the same bloody company, just to exfiltrate the tax from where it should have been paid, to where they will have to pay less.

Legal? Yes. Ethical? No. Should it be stamped out? Yes. Will that require all countries to act? Sadly, yes.
It really depends on your perspective. From one perspective, it was terrible that the least sympathetic defendants they could come up with were like Thomas Paine's great-grandsons targeted by a tyrannical FEC, so the courts really had no choice but to throw out the terrible law. From another perspective, it was really convenient that all the rhetorical noise and political effort that went into McCain-Feingold could be neutered so easily. Why did Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart really start out with such an absolutist argument? The "even one sentence" formula was fairly shocking in that context, but the public may never know why he used it...
Did I ever say that? Taxes usually increase. Do your own research.
What matters are the outputs and not the inputs. The author has all of these resources, but her output is frankly disappointing. You could accomplish more in 6 months than she has in her career if you truly dedicated yourself to the craft. Persistence and dedication still matter more than money.
That I prompted before I was banned by the San Francisco liberal gustapo from HN for saying "oriental isn't an offensive word"
What do triglycerides have to say about your health?
They could've claimed he broke his employment contract (I'm assuming he had a contract - he almost certainly did) which presumably had some "bad boy" clause in it, thus firing him for cause and not paying him anything. But that is messy, and costly, and the outcome is uncertain, and while Rubin sounds like a scumbag here, this also wasn't the most egregious behavior out there. Bottom line, Google was screwed the moment they signed that employment contract...those things are written incredibly favorably for the employee.
> Does anyone have recommendations on how to overcome the resentment I feel against people like the author? I am jealous and frustrated by their advantage, but that opinion is purely negative and doesn't help me at all.

I grew up with a number of people who were far more well off than me. One kid made more interest on his inheritance -most of it hadn't even arrived yet- than my parents made all year.

There's pros and cons. The pros you know about. Skiing holidays, expensive cars, everything you can point your finger at.

The cons are a bit more subtle. The feeling of never being able to deserve anything. The feeling of not participating in the struggle of life, which every living creature other than a rich human kid has. Face it, it doesn't matter how yo do on that math test. Frustration when inevitably some kid you know without all the advantages does better than you.

Also concretely rich people are no happier than poor people, above some quite low limit. It's not like the rich kids I knew were much happier than the poor ones, they could be grumpy as well. In fact it seems to be the case that barely anything affects how happy people feel, as long as they've got more than a baseline.

So even if you somehow managed to swap financial situations with some silver spoon kid, chances are you'd not feel any better.
curl and wget on the client can't easily do this, when the client is another mainframe/minicomputer OS with a record-oriented filesystem. I don't believe they have any platform-specific code to support record-oriented files. You probably can get it to work with external configuration (e.g. on z/OS, using JCL to invoke curl/wget with a DD statement which sets the necessary dataset parameters.) But FTP-over-TLS is already a well-documented and well-understood technology in mainframe environments. What possible advantage could one get by replacing it with something hacked together with Apache/curl/wget?
ZipCar launches dedicated monthly car rentals
> He then landed as SVP of engineering at Uber, where he was forced to resign because he hadn't disclosed the prior HR complaint at Google. Now, obviously, the lack of disclosure is what did him in -- but why did Google not tell Uber that he was asked to leave during his background check?

Likely, because his contract (executives are almost never at-will employees) included a mutual non-disparagement clause, which literally prevents either party from ever saying anything negative about the other.

> No, I do not believe for a second that Google settled to "protect" the victim

No, they did it to protect themselves. The fact that the route to Rubin winning would—as it always is in harassment cases—been destroying the victim further was probably incidental to Google, but no less true for that.

> The climate of 2018 makes me believe that was a fundamental mistake and the company should have fought back to not pay money that a labor attorney could argue was not owed.

I'm not sure even in 2018 it would look better for Google to have fought, lost, and left the accuser as collateral damage. Oh, it would be better optics if they fought and won without the victim's life being further destroyed, but whether that actually was the rational expectation at the time seems far from clear.
Interesting, I would say that it's fortunate nobody can buy Kubernetes (because it only is composed of acceptance and compliance with a conformance suite, there are dozens of separate implementations and they may all be Kubernetes.)

To be honest that's a great feature and one reason why I am not terribly scared about consequences of any news about a RedHat acquisition; that being so even though I do follow OpenShift with some interest.

I'm sure that Docker is also a target for acquisitions by these bigger companies but while we're on the subject thanks to Kubernetes and the CRI, it's pretty darn unlikely that anyone is ever going to totally corner the market on Linux containers, at least any time in the foreseeable future.
GP isn't ignoring the optics of the situation, they're just asserting that being perceived as a company that paid a sexual predator almost one hundred million dollars to avoid dealing with a sexual assault claim is worse than the scenario you described.
You're not asking me, but I'll briefly weigh in.

While not a complete list, I look at https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/ The latter, especially, is heavily curated. The former is, I think, fair.
Chess Puzzles
Are there any users on Twitter except for politicians and journalists, hyping each other's mistakes, and as third group people who try to be funny every Tweet?
It's a term of art in our industry and has been around for a while e.g.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
Yes, and the more protocols running, the less likely it is to ever be replaced some day. Who has the time to write 2 (1.0 and 1.1 are basically equal) servers for a minimum package?

If somebody still sold HTTP servers, I would look how this one was bribing the standardizing process. But it looks like people are doing it freely.
To the extent that we have received large gifts from relatives, yes, we've reported those accurately to the tax authorities in two different countries. There was no tax due, but I would not have objected philosophically to the gifts being taxed.
It has:

- user accounts and profiles (users have their own "subreddit")
- friends list (and block list)
- live chat
- personalizable feed
- communities

So yeah, it's a social network that looks a lot like a message board, and it has been getting more and more social features.

That's the reason I'm leaving Reddit. I liked how it was a while ago, but the recent changes and the culture just aren't my cup of tea anymore. Discussion is still mostly okay, but there's just far too much noise.