skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At reddit, any time someone bought merchandise, we sent them a hand signed postcard thanking them. Every once in a while we'd have a signing party where Alexis would bring a bunch of postcards and pens and we'd all sign a stack of postcards.

And of course, the most well known hack was Steve and Alexis submitting most of the content for the first few months until there were enough people to keep the front page fresh.

We did other stuff too, like office tours for anyone who asked (and showed up in SF), giving free reddit gold to anyone who sent a postcard (which we had to process by hand), sending merch to people who did good things.
Even before iOS 9 (anchors) the verbose autolayout was better than anything available for the web. Now there is CSS Grid which makes it easier but there is no mechanis that could describe relationship between elements like AL can.
Throw in a couple extensions for NSLayoutAnchor and it’s a very pleasant experience.
As for IB—it’s a matter of taste. I had no real problem with it, but at the end layout purely in code is the best option for me.
Is this a serious comment? Poaching is a pretty common term for actively hiring someone, especially groups of people from another position of employment. Similar to head hunting not referring to actual collection of heads.
5. You don't have enough social credit for wheels.
I would expect that the emotion of disgust is much more powerful in advertising, but hard to use to make positive emotions. Could disgust be used to counteract the brainwashing effects of advertising?

How many 'normal' impressions of McDonalds ads would be negated from a single viewing of an image of a person projectile vomiting with McDonalds branding next to it?

Could buying 1% marketshare counteract the effects of the other 99% of the market?
> was Steve and Alexis submitting most of the content for the first few months until there were enough people to keep the front page fresh.

To wit, they submitted most of the content -and comments- under a variety of pseudonyms to give the illusion of mass-adoption
Seems like architects have similar urges as software architects :)
I think UIStackView would be much simpler solution for this ;)
Parse.com did the same thing, as did all of those old-school PHP hosts, so it's been a common solution for at least the 22 years I've been using hosting services -- maybe longer.
> IBM just made it's biggest acquisition ever on an open source company... It seems strange to use that as evidence that open source is not an effective tool--in certain circumstances--for building your business.

It's more about sustaining the business. Redhat's most recently reported quarterly earnings growth was negative. Did they sell now because IBM approached them with an absurdly high price? Or did Redhat executives need to shop around for a buyer, because they felt they were near a local maxima and things were starting to go downhill?

edit: that said, this is a subject I care about and will be adding your podcast shortly. Hopefully you figure out podcast sustainability as well =)
An authoritarian government that has declared as a matter of policy that the system on which it has spent billions is flawless doesn't need to worry that it isn't flawless. You'll say that wasn't you entering the subversive bookshop - but sorry, citizen, the system is infallible, so why are you lying to us?
Are you arguing against white men's privilege compared to whom, exactly? Their past selves?

I think a lot of the challenges you list apply to most people, and even then white males have a big leg up on most anyone. Times are tough all over. Tougher for those more disenfranchised, already.
It really doesn’t take that much extra work to explain why someone should care about the existence of a function. But it makes a huge difference in how approachable the library is, and how easy it is to learn (for instance, is this even the function I’m looking for?)
He was a product star. He could see demand unmet, and guide to a filling of it. He saw the big picture.
Reminds me of the suicide gland of some cephalopods with mating. It is one thing to starve to death while guarding their eggs constantly but an actual gland to kill them?

Likely a result of letting their niche be taken by descendants made them more adaptable than ones which lived until other constraints or more or less bad luck (cummulative fatality risks over time) killed them.
> I don't understand people that listen to non-premium spotify either.

When I listen to Spotify (non-premium), I usually only listen to albums and music in my lists, and not anything random. I am not sure if that plays into things.

But what I have on my browser is uBlock Origin, which seems to block the majority of "interstitial" adverts they stick sometimes in-between tracks. Occasionally one or two sneak thru; many times they are ads for Spotify Premium (kinda hard to block those).

I just don't listen to enough music or anything to justify spending money on the premium offering; the $10.00 a month isn't an issue for me, but I've maybe have listened to the music I have on Spotify a total of 1-2 hours for the entire month of October, and that was kinda random for me - prior to that I hadn't listened to it for months.

I have the majority of the music anyhow as MP3s on my phone; I don't really like non-premium Spotify on my phone because I haven't found any easy way to block the adverts, plus the player in non-premium mode doesn't support "play the album in track order" - it's stuck on "random", which isn't something I like for all of my music (I prefer to listen to albums, rather than songs).
Most people don't determine their own schedules. They have to get to work, or class by a specific time. Even independent contractors have to accommodate their clients' schedules.
Now that DL has reached its current level, detecting an ad will always be easier than making it go undetected. The reason is that humans have to detect the ad at a conscious or unconscious level (otherwise it makes no sense to place the ad). Additionally, in many places, an ad has to be clearly marked as such (e.g. the word "advertisement" above an ad in newspapers).
The choice isn't between using OTR vs. using PGP. It's between using unaudited (but perhaps convenient) commercial software vs. using possibly-audited, offline-friendly (probably inconvenient) PGP to exchange extremely-high-sensitivity messages. The apocryphal Snowden account even appears to suggest PGP for the lower-sensitivity message.
Could that have been intentional? I'm completely speculating, but a public belief that 'they both taste the same' could benefit the challenger at the expense of the market leader.
You lack quite a bit of self-awareness.
Outside work I rather spend time with family and friends.

When I do something is just the outcome of dabbling in something as part of learn process, just contributing back some bug reports or minor fixes.

Hence why I tend to pay for the software I use, either via donations, buying author's books, distribution CD/DVDs, or actually buying licenses.

I believe that the authors from the tools I earn money with, should also get a piece of the cake.
Despite popular belief, ISPs are not geographical monopolies at all. When they are monopolies, they are purely artificially formed ones, like in the US.
It took Kotlin 2034 seconds and C 0.5 seconds to find first 10,000 prime numbers
Smart TVs where the software is managed by the hardware vendor are IMO garbage. I'm saying if you can find a TV where the smart features are provided and managed by company whose device you were going to plug in the back anyway (Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, etc.) then it's not too bad.

Isn't LG running webOS? Didn't think they had any Android based non "Android TV" models.
Android Studio is coming to Chromebooks next year
AT&T is not going to be too eager to cut your service. They want your $50 - $150/month (or more) if they can get it.

FTA: The bottom line: Very few copyright infringers ever get booted from their broadband provider, pointing to the severity of these cases and the number of steps at which the customer is told they are violating copyright before they are cut off from AT&T's service. Copyright infringers are often illegally pirating hundreds of hours of stolen content, not a song or two from their favorite band.
Nobody investigated the why like this - the two scientists followed most prominently in the article possibly found a genetic marker for high and low responders to placebos, partly because those two had the background and experience with placebos working in acupuncture from professional work and treatment and the expertise to investigate.
It's ok, this is the internet. You can say that you literally schlepped tons of shit for your customers. :)
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> Even transexuals get it.

To be honest, we are actively hacking our body when using hormone replacement therapy. Strange things are bound to happen. Skipping a dose of estrogen can trick the body into triggering PMS like symptoms, etc.
It just so happens that in the real world independence can only be defended by force.

In a civilized society, this force is normally only exerted by specially designated people, the police force, and, more rarely, by citizens defending themselves against assault.

But any society that wants to preserve itself has to have an army, or some other kind of a self-defense force, else the first invader to come by will overrun and subdue it. Delegating this to someone who are not the citizens possible to an only very limited extent.

Violence is not a great thing, sure, but sometimes it's the lesser evil, when the greater evils are serfdom or extermination. What a civilized society has to curb is aggression, which is the source of violence.
Very unusual name - does "Cruip" mean something significant in a language other than English?
I'm convinced that a "None of the Others" mark is pretty essential to making any ranked system good.

But we're talking a lot of complexity to have both ranks and scores as separate marks. Super long ballot, will turn away most voters and seem really hard to process.

It sounds like you might appreciate 3-2-1 voting. https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/3-2-1_voting
> you may find that the ones who
> your pogrom are more willing to
> fight, and to fight dirty.

...neatly justifying your continuing oppression of them and others and investment in your security machine.

This stuff is frequently by design.
Ah man, even the Shreveport Times has a special EU domain. This is fucked up.

https://eu.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/outdoors/2015/06...
> To think that deep in the Apple labs that don't already have A-X laptops running - and have for, for a while is not thinking like Apple would.

Right. To me it's unthinkable given the amount of low-level code shared between iOS and macOS that macOS hasn't been running on ARM since day 1 of iOS.
Is uninformed consent meaningful in the first place?
As a European I think this is a smart move on the contrary.

Google cannot get rid of the EU market, if it does, EU competitors might have a chance.
So the EU can just tax Google as much as it wants. What are we to be afraid of ? Google leaving EU ? Please do ! This will only gives us a chance to come we our own solution to the web Google&FB think they invented.

I don't get how we could not be glad that we tax more those dystopian companies. Google, FB, etc... don't respect any values of privacy and freedom, they should not have even the right to do what they do in EU and GDPR is step in the right direction for that.

The only problem is that we have no weight if we don't act together, so if some European countries are too short-sighted and put their self little short term interest above the rest and prefer offer encourage Google's development, then yes we will fail.
Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Helps Train Thousands of Robots Simultaneously
I sometimes feel like if we could just make volunteer labor tax deductible, we could get part way to this place.

For some projects a couple hours of my time might be more valuable to everybody than the twenty bucks I’m willing to donate. And ten hours a week would increase your take home pay by about 6%, versus working 50-60 a week for your employer for a slightly bigger raise.
Im building a small online store focused on selling products from other small(er, ish) stores/manufacturers. Havent written a line of code yet. Been meeting and working with potential partner stores/manufacturers and helping them with their sales/marketing. This allows me to learn about their pains and needs/wants. It also helps them see how working with me would be a benefit. Been doing it for months now, and am projecting that first line of code will be written in Q1 2019.

To give you the most recent example, I collaborated with a small store owner and helped him increase his conversion rates. This put hin on track to hitting a very important milestone of selling $1000 worth of product each month. Doesnt sound like a lot, but his margins are insanely good.

This is not scalable at all, and costs me a good amount of money to do. But the insights and connections are more than worth it. To give you an idea, I used to have a business doing the very same things and charged goid money for it.

If you sell anything online, get in touch. Id love to collab with you.
I'm annoyed that smart TVs are a thing; it's like having a smart monitor, it just doesn't make sense. I'd rather have a beautiful dumb display that I can plug in to the smart part, allowing the (relatively cheap) smart part to be upgraded without having to upgrade the (relatively expensive) display part.
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> To wit, they submitted most of the content -and comments- under a variety of pseudonyms to give the illusion of mass-adoption

That's not correct. There were no comments on reddit for a long time. By the time we launched comments, there were plenty of users to make them.
Cool survey!

Related;

I've seen some talks about knitting, art and matrix algebra recently:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02h74L1PmaU

* https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/its-just-matrix-multipli...

Another one from Strangeloop:

* https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/a-box-of-chaos-the-gener...

Also, I recently learnt about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot. Maybe here at HN!?
I haven't had a chance to read the article yet, but Anand Shimpi is hardly "Apple marketing." He was almost certainly hired because of his technical expertise, not for any marketing ability.

If I were to speculate, due to his decades of industry experience evaluating hardware platforms, his role in Apple is to provide strategic direction and guidance on how to build the best hardware platforms. I can't think of any other role they would have wanted him for... which could be a failure of imagination on my part.

So... no, it's not "Apple marketing". Anand Shimpi is involved!
Man, do you do PR as your job? A very nuanced understanding of the matter you have there.
but isn't that what you have to do now, look up what timezone a business is in. The only difference with this scheme is that you don't need to convert between timezones to figure out when they're open in your timeezone

I live in the southern hemisphere and 'work' online in the northern - I have to deal with the mess that is 4 different combinations of timezones every year, and calendaring systems that are unable to handle the idea of knowing WHERE a meeting is going to be held so they can get the time right

Really though people should change their work hours to match their timezones - I live a long way south, we have long twilight in the summers and tiny days in the winter, when it gets dark at 4:30 because we're squashed up against a timezone boundary - I have to get up in the dark anyway, why not move our winter work hours so we get a couple of hours daylight during the winter? it would help with the Vit D issues
Here where I live, I don't have to see a single church spire, nor can I.

No...instead, I can walk down almost any street, and find a sign out by the road imploring me to come find Jesus, or some other pap - and I can usually pass by 3-4 within less than a mile of each one (we have more than one street here where there seems to be a church of one form or another every few hundred feet for a couple of miles - not even joking).

Welcome to America, I guess, where churches are big business (that's putting it kindly).
Yeah, but it's pretty much impossible to find not-smart TVs. :(
The way I see it: in an industry whose main goal is to trick people into buying things they don't need, why should anyone expect it won't use its own methods on itself?
I did not know exactly what Elvis-style slapback echo is, so here's the fruit of my moments of poking around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuStmPbG528 About 1:30 long.
Have you ever given someone a job? My experience has been people crave purpose. Sometimes more than life itself.
>Apple's track record of being able to switch architectures is absolutely incredible. If they want to switch, they can switch.

Sure, but don't discount how every specific instance can be a bit different either. As I said they've got expertise, they've got capital, and there are even previous paths to follow here. But at the same time every time has its own unique hurdles. Previously with 68k -> PPC and then PPC -> x86 for example they were going to something that was not merely just an improvement in some important respect right off but also had a clear long very steep growth ramp ahead thanks to fabrication improvements if nothing else. In the PC world we were still very much in either a very steep or at least steeper part of the S-curve. But those days are just plain done, the issues presented by physics and the geometry sizes being worked with now are simply fundamentally harder. There is certainly more room for improvement year to year for a long while, and more chances to grow horizontally with valuable new features, but it's not like a system made now will be obsolete in 3 years either.

Additionally those were coming at points in Apple's life with a dramatically smaller installed base, and they were also going away from something more proprietary (at least in principle, obviously CHRP never actually worked out that well). The move to x86 which brought Macs in line with everything else meant a huge amount of software opened up to more trivial porting, huge amounts more opened up to trivial virtualization, a vast 3rd party hardware market became more easily accessible, etc. That definitely helped offset some of the old Mac software that ultimately didn't make it, even more so because due to above it is still quite possible to run old Mac software fine: Classic can be emulated, and 10.6 can be run under virtualization still which in turn grants access to Rosetta even on new Macs, and the absolute performance advantages vs 12+ year old systems are significant enough that even with the overhead it's still fine.

Basically there are a lot of subtle day-to-day advantages that come from everything running the same instruction set underneath, or at least being able to stick some sort of translation layer in there. Again, absolutely not saying it's something Apple can't tackle, just that it's a big challenge and I think it's bigger now then it was any time previously. Of course, Apple too is bigger now then any time previously! They're not infallible though and I hope they get the balance right here.
There's no particular reason work should start so early, either, other than the perpetual punctuality pogrom promulgated by lark against owl.
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Do you think robust software should also have a demo packaging, that somehow swaps out all the queuing, caching, database etc. for something else just so that it is super easy to spin up?
Yeah, what a sly word to avoid breaking down what's included: "content". Experienced in carefully choosing words =]
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It just plain doesn't work.

Our startup tried a bit to explore this idea during the .COM wave, but it just doesn't work out as most business look at open source as a legal way of doing piracy.

I know it isn't the same, I am just oversimplifying here, given how many companies leech FOSS projects.

So the solution ends up being dual licenses, hiding the key features behind server walls, or just go commercial and forget the whole FOSS ideals.

This is specially bad in the consumer software, as this is a domain where no one is willing to pay for services, trainings or books. And the few that are willing to do so, don't do it in a sustainable volume.
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