skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less about it being an opinion and more about being respectful when sharing it. Obviously it's fine not to care about sports or reality shows (I don't either!), but he went out of his way to basically make fun of those who do. In fact, he didn't have to mention others at all! His entire comment could have been summed up as "I read news to make financial and political decisions." No need to brag about how much you don't care about celebrities or sports.
Not everyone has a device capable of receiving in app notifications, like feature phones. Granted, it’s a small percentage nowadays.
Can you grow fast as a SAAS without any sales?
We can compare them. And we are in almost every measurable way, better.

Comparision does not have to mean the right-on teenager reflex of throwing out babies with bath water- Comparison means comparing against our ideals, as well as against the failings of others.

I am proud of the society my forefathers have created and try to do what I can to both preserve it, and enhance it.

And It is that enhancement that matters here - a new opportunity fell into the laps of our security services, who rightly took that as far as they could. They incorrectly kept it secret from us.

It is now up to us to decide how we balance the advantages and disadvantages of this new technology - something we are barely grappling with on Facebook, something billions of people are familiar with, as opposed to the more abstract Five Eyes world of surveillance.

We will get there. Things like GDPR are starting to grapple with the subject
Oh, they just want the intelligence community to spy on and murder who the president points at. To shut up and do what they are told.
Half of these are either hardware products which reached EOL (just like every other manufacture, maybe besides Apple), or rebranding/merging of one product into another, or just being split out into a separate Alphabet company.

Not particularly compelling.
It's very doable. If you have a masonry building with no plants within 20 feet, you're pretty safe
China blacklists millions on booking flights as social credit system introduced
Facebook is quickly becoming the de facto Great Firewall of the world.

Of course there will be conflict with world-scale ideologues like Soros.

Of course there will be an elaborate dance between Facebook and US politicians who want to control more and more aspects of the firewall.

In case it’s not clear, facebook’s news feed algorithm is a content filter and in many ways it performs (or can be adapted to perform) much the same function as China’s Great Firewall, which is suppression of dissent and certain political ideas.

But compared to China’s Firewall, Facebook has orders of magnitude more power because it has significantly more metadata about each person.
This seems pretty misleading... I wouldn't classify Google X as "killed" when it was transformed into an Alphabet company.
I don't disagree that some criticisms need substance! Lacking substance is part of why it's sometimes rather easy to make the play that critics are conspiracy kooks. Do you have any advice for how to better express what I wanted to express, which is that it's what people believe he has funded (some of it founded, some of it not) and not that he has Jewish ancestry that gets him so much flack? I thought the "alleged" qualifier might be sufficient, but clearly not since I still have someone indirectly calling me a racist.
Creator here. And I agree. Listing every phone is silly. A lot of these were added during Hacktoberfest. Going to go through and prune/combine/edit this weekend sometime.
I used to like the 'Customers who bough .. also bought' feature when browsing books, this has gone now and replaced by 'Sponsored products related to this item' which is less relevant, not only that its repeated down the page. The 'also bought' feature is available when you add to your wish list, but only contains a few items now. It does seem to be becoming less usable, which is a shame, its always been my go to for finding new reading. There's lots of other distracting chuff as well now which litters the page.
Having all the Android devices they no longer sell is also pretty silly. I doubt anyone wants to buy a Nexus One today. Also Nexus Q never made it past user testing (they never sold them, they were a free gift for IO, it was a horrible Chromecast/Nexus player precursor)
not the OP but feel about the same as he does about it. never would I ever want to reduce myself and my coworkers to numbers and karma and have this weird scoring system
It is the worst website that can successfully sell a lot of things to a lot of people.
You generally only hear the complaints, but I think most of us agree that the community is much better because of them.
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Coming from CVS I found Git rather simple.

But I have to admit, I mostly used it via Github and as a solo-dev.
Sorry I should have qualified my reaction.

I don't want any form of quantification of gamification of slack participation. It creates wrong incentives.
Ha, that is excellent. I once thought that Pierce Inverarity would be a great name for a beer. It would be peak hipster pretentiousness: a brewery whose beers were named for Pynchon characters. Unfortunately, they'd probably all be IPAs.
Shouldn't it be 5000 bus rides? 100000/20 = 5000 so <3h and you're done assuming you got enough buses.
this is cool and all but what’s the point. it will bit rot soon enough, despite current laudable intentions.

the only way to signal to google that they are making the wrong choice is to stop using the web UI, not to skin it. eg with the recent Chrome signin gaffe lots of people switched to FF and google had to react.

If there were no options I’d be more generous but there are plenty of mail clients one can switch to. plenty.
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Concur ..

From the OSS (CIA) Simple Sabotage Manual:
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

(1) Insist on doing everything through"channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

(2) Make "speeches," Talk as frequently as possible and at great length., Illustrate your. points.. by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments

(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.

(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
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The constant popups asking me to signup for Prime, with obvious dark patterns that twice tricked me into clicking 'ok' put me off buying from them altogether.
A simple text editor built on top of Emacs.
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LibJIT provides JIT independent of any particular bytecode, language, or runtime
(googler on maps here)
the maps backend team makes an explicit effort to keep old things going, I wouldn't be surprised if old gmaps on some really ancient phones still worked.

Last I checked the pre-2012 Apple Maps (the one that used google tiles, iOS5 and below) still works.
Another word for what this service is offering would be "coach," in which case it sounds a lot less ridiculous. Plenty of people hire personal trainers, why not a productivity trainer?
Eventually All internet company will love and move to gcp. i.e. snap or Netflix or Salesforce or slack etc. All enterprise company will move to internet company. Google wins.
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Reduce the cat in a state of prolonged hunger and it will jump on the tuna when you offer it.
Unless you have flawless discipline, which is exceedingly rare, then you would probably also benefit from someone hovering over your shoulder and holding you accountable.
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HN modding is certainly the driving force in maintaining civil discourse on the site.

In my more out there moments I imagine the internet moving more towards this model. Lots of interesting places, owned by deeply involved individuals who enforce courtesy and truth telling. Personally I love to read opinions that are different from mine, as long as the two points above are met.
I N T E R N E T

The wealth of informtaion and access to people it brings. It truly is web of human minds.
LOL. Your comment comes just a day before this article on China putting up their no-fly list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513221
I would argue that functional programming is just a tool as well... Programmers are paid for solving problems and code is just a means to that end.
“Stay away from iPhone”. Predictable behavior from FSF but still disappointing to me in 2018, given iOS is one of the hardest targets from a security perspective with a comprehensive guide on techniques used [1] and offers an excellent overall user experience.

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
This is why Google struggles to compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the enterprise cloud space - the trust that these services will be maintained and legacy support provided just isn't there for large enterprise clients.
The most obvious case of this is Writely, listed right down the bottom. Yes, the brand is well dead, but Google Docs is still very strong.
You forgot the most offensive part, which is that their entire business model is to leverage the utility provided by market dominance to force users into handing over information that they would otherwise like to keep completely private.
They're far more concerned with being able to put food on the table and being able to retire someday than anything else. Can you really blame them?
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I'd recommend taking a look at App Engine.

I've got services that have been running on there untouched for years.

Really amazing especially how gae can scale from 0 to 1 instances quickly.
Even when they don't kill the service, they can increase its price so dramatically overnight that it may as well have been killed, as many who built a business on Google Maps discovered. When Google makes almost all of its money on advertising, everything else is of so little concern to them that they can kill a service or arbitrarily make a change that they expect will literally drive away 90% of its customers, and it won't matter.

Apple is that way about 3rd-party developers, too. When they make almost all of the software in-house that they hope you will use, they can make platform changes that will break others' apps and shrug it off. Their software will be prepared for the changes, and if you can't afford to keep rebuilding your product given the tiny price you have to sell it for, Apple won't notice that you're gone. Apple could probably set up a special program for about a dozen major software providers (Adobe, Google, Facebook,...), tell the rest to build web apps (as Jobs originally planned), and Apple would "bravely" get past the howls of complaint and move on mostly unscathed.

The majority of us really need to be as biased as we reasonably can be toward open systems, standards, and platforms that can't be shut down by a single, large player that has no need for our business.
I've never used it myself but from the looks of the UI, it seems to be heavily influenced by gmail in design.

here's the google reader blog for historical reference: http://googlereader.blogspot.com
Thanks for sharing!

Not sure where the idea of 'reduction' came from. The way I understand the product, it's an enhancement on top of whatever noisy day-to-day activity happens on chats.

One can say 'well done!' or post a funny custom emoji, but is that appreciation strong enough?

Also, there is definitely a cultural component to this. Some teams are comfortable with _negative karma_. In NZ and AU this is definitely a show-stopper, a tool for embracing 'toxic work environment'. In Spain, for example, it's OK:

"I understand that negative karma might not be the most desirable thing to do. But it happens, at least it happens in our team. And at the end of the month we check the rankings, and we have like a “developer of the month” kind of prize, so it’s cool to take negatives into the equation."

All I'm saying, I guess, is that people and businesses are different. We try really hard to understand our customers.
If I read the spec correctly, PATCH method is actually more of APPEND, no?

It would seem logical and practical to allow PATCH to modify any part of a resource that is already present on the server and/or to extend it by appending. This would also make the whole thing useful beyond resuming of interrupted uploads, e.g. to allow for rsync-style updating of existing files.
I've searched for some of my old posts from the early 90's onwards (mostly in non-controversial political discussions and comp.*), they're not there. It seems to be a selective archive. It's verging on impossible to find anything meaningful.
100,000 people shouldn't be too hard, we move that many people into and back out of football stadiums regularly and inside a matter of hours.

If it isn't being done then it's because it hasn't been planned and/or paid for, not because it's a scale we can't deal with.
This is backwards. Google rescued Deja’s archives which were going to be deleted and then expanded the archives back to 1981. Without Google’s interventions you’d all be left wondering what was in Usenet.
And I am generally not sarcastic. No, really.
I find that people understand "linearized" concepts easier than other kinds(DAGs included). When elements are left-to-right or top-to-bottom, you can read what is going on at a glance.

So the next major step in VCS technology will most likely do something to help linearize our views and reduce the tangling that comes into play with any tree or graph structure.
Yes, the runtime needs to be JavaScript.

It’s not obviously faster, but it’s been benchmarked to be faster. https://youtu.be/nXCSloXZ-wc

You can skip to 29:34 for the performance demo.
I've got a set of small repos of small government sites I've used a combination of `wget` and `curl` and other shell commands to snapshot, mostly so I can have a reliable mirror when teaching web scraping: https://github.com/wgetsnaps

But as the submitted article points out, archiving the Web is much trickier these days, and wget is no longer sufficient for anything relatively modern. I've been impressed with what Internet Archive has seemingly been able to do, and I've been interested whether it's the result of improved techniques on their side, or of certain sites following a standard that happens to make them more archivable.

For example, 538's 2018 election trackers are very JS dependent, yet IA has managed to capture them in a way that not only preserves the look and content, but keeps their widgets and visualizations almost entirely fully functional:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181102125134/https://projects....

However, even the excellent archive of 538's site shows a huge weakness in IA's efforts: IA (quite understandably) aggressively caches a site's dependencies, such as external JS and JSON data files. If you scroll down the 538 example posted above, you'll see that despite being a snapshot on Nov. 2, 2018, many of its widgets only contain data from the last time IA fetched its external dependencies, which appears to be August 16, 2018.
Every source I've found says that the government delayed the evacuation by more than a day before sending in the buses. Once the buses had arrived, it took several hours to evacuate.
Yeah, it is amazing. Maps only recently stopped working on my ancient BlackBerry.
> "The best" is purely subjective

Bullshit.

Find me one "indigenous culture" as advanced as a modern developed western country (or China) and I'll believe you. I don't care whether your metric is life expectancy, scientific progress, quantity and quality of art produced, fairness of our legal system, political/religious freedom, lack of food scarcity, or corruption. You pick.

We in the West have it as good as anyone ever did in the history of the world. Tell me one thing "western culture is only new relearning", I'd be interested to hear?
The question is now "how can we get other people to agree with us?" Imagine all of the bandwidth we could save. User satisfaction would improve.
In the US, your office is 20 miles away from the nearest grocery store, and both are 20 miles away from your house. Driving is like walking and buying gas is a non-negotiable cost of living.
Masonry is a non-starter in CA because "muh earthquakes". Rebar is a thing but politics has no time for technicalities like that.
Try https://learngitbranching.js.org/?locale=en to get the English version.
What would be the right incentive?

One usually gets karma when there is actual work or a good deed (e.g. helping your teammate) been done.
According to the estimates cited on Wikipedia, the Epic of Gilgamesh is about 9-10 centuries older than the Mahabharata, which in turn is older than the Ramayana.
There is so much to be thankful for. Thank you to the many people on HN who have taken the time to type in an insightful comment and have resisted the urge to just down vote something they disagreed with and had the respect to share some insight.
It was a fantastic RSS aggregator. Had a superb compact UI you could read on a tiny phone screen in bed. It was fast and (yeah ok, free). It had everything you needed to keep on top of all your feeds.

Everything else pales in comparison (sure I know there's https://bazqux.com/ and the like, but Google Reader just worked).
Some items on this list are rather silly.

Does anybody consider the iPhone 7 as being “Killed by Apple” or was it just superseded by newer hardware?
I forgot. Feedly works just fine and so do several other alternatives.
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"Facebook doesn't want this kind of stuff on their platform. But, it can be very hard for them to stop it."

So, in other words, this is the price of doing business?
Yup, second that. My old boss introduced the whole team to Scala and made us attend a weekly tutorial as part of training/team-building. Since then, I try to write stateless functions, methods and objects as much as possible regardless of language or platform.

Git is quite elegant if one has a good grasp of graph theory.
There are plenty of standards for earthquake proof masonry in CA. AAC is not allowed, mainly because nobody has done the work to certify
i dont think the hyperbole helps in anything. there are other avenues, and nobody can force me to use facebook.
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Right, but what is weird in this case is that the person who calls the company run by the two smart jews evil is jewish himself.
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That’s a correct but ultimately naive perspective. So many of the other systems (such as news publishing) are closely intertwined with Facebook and strive to publish content that will be maximally boosted by the algorithm.
Apropos my previous comment. I'm 51 and lived through the inception of RSS (Dave Winer, RSS, Atom etc). It was a normal thing before Facebook and Google+ came along and shat on the parade.
Hey, that was more interesting than I expected. It looks like "boss" is in fact a loan from Dutch rather than a cognate:

> Middle Dutch baes, of obscure origin. If original sense was "uncle," perhaps it is related to Old High German basa "aunt," but some sources discount this theory.

> The Dutch form baas is attested in English from 1620s as the standard title of a Dutch ship's captain. The word's popularity in U.S. may reflect egalitarian avoidance of master (n.) as well as the need to distinguish slave from free labor.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/boss
Cool! I also wrote a Gameboy emulator in Go, but I never got to supporting audio or GBC. I wonder how much harder it is to do Gameboy Color once you've got decent Gameboy DMG emulation?
Is this click bait? The link is to a sales page, where is the emulator/info about the emulator? I feel tricked into clicking
>I find it a tad frustrating that people don’t think about these things until they are happening, but life isn’t assured, your government might not always be coming to help, you are responsible for your own safety.

The second part of your sentence is the cause of the first. The idea that there exists a situation where one could be literally on your own with no authority figure to help you is an ideological non-starter to a lot of people. It's just wholly incompatible with everything they believe so any discussion about how to prepare for that possibility won't happen.
China only has 1/3rd of the worlds extractable deposits. Rare earth minerals is the typical "China Bad" scare story. They reduced the amount they sold because they wanted it themselves to value-add making electronics/renewables and being the vast majority of world supply it got them a better price.

Much like many other countries on earth do. OPEC even has multiple annual meetings where they all decide to collude on restricting oil supply.

If the rest of the world was truly worried they'd subsidise the industry, as it stands most countries throw away all their rare earths in tailing dams as mining byproduct because it's not worthwhile to extract it.
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He also created peerflix, the magic behind Popcorn Time (now Butter)
OK, I've considered it. I immediately concluded that $25 / month will not pay for even one of the many functions you just listed.
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Not even if you stick it in quotes.

Why are people accusing him of unfounded stuff, as you say they are doing. What is their reason to make up or spread unfounded accusations that rile these other folks up that you mention, why are they doing that, do you think?