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Ask HN: Is this the real reason of the crusade against Facebook and Zuckerberg?
I think there is a hidden reason behind that the media has been raging against Facebook and Zuckerberg for the last couple of years. I guess the Russia collusion and data collection scandals are pure pretexts for the real reason which is that Facebook changed its feed algorithm 3 or 4 years ago so that Facebook pages became simply dead. Views and interactions have became very low even for pages with millions of likes and followers. An ordinary Facebook post that could simply get 10,000 likes in 2014 can't even get 100 likes now. Even with lots of money paid to Facebook to promote posts, you still can't get half the exposure you got 3 or 4 years ago for free. Facebook made many changes so that users stay in Facebook as long as possible including making it harder to view YouTube videos inside Facebook and blatantly allowing stealing videos from YouTube. And unlike most other social media outlets, Facebook doesn't reward influencers and popular pages for doing a good job. It's like everybody knew that Zuckerberg got greedy and wanted every cent for himself only. And now publishers and media outlets are seeing the opportunity to punish Zuckerberg for his greed. I also think Facebook's feed algorithm change is the real reason why Reddit became even more popular in the last 3 years for example.
The article doesn't say characters in ancient fiction doesn't have feelings, it says "medieval authors represented characters’ mental states mainly through their direct speech and gestures" - rather than say through internal monologue. This is also true about the Illiad.

However the article continues "Moreover, emotions were usually predictable reactions to external actions or events, revealing little about a character that was complex or surprising." which is absolutely bullshit. The Icelandic Sagas which the article uses as an example have lots of examples of complex and surprising emotions - it is just narrated in a "show - don't tell" genre.
"I have way less trust for our tech illiterate congress than I do for Facebook."
That is a perfectly fine position for you to take. But if you consider that a majority of the citizenry also does not understand the ramifications of "API integrations", doesn't it seem like the Congress is reasonably representative of the population? And that in that case, recent revelations might lead them to being fed up?
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The author's thesis is fundamentally flawed. They say it isn't clear why everyone was so excited to have a Facebook, but that's exactly the answer - because everyone had a Facebook. One of the biggest appeals of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (which is arguable even more useless than FB), etc. is that every nobody has direct access to an audience of millions. They can scream their offensive, unoriginal, spontaneous, nuanced thoughts into the void and instantaneously get sympathy, disgust, praise, and simple acknowledgement with little to no effort.

Contrast this with maintaining a personal website. Even in a world where FB doesn't exist, it's still a chore to get people to memorize yet another URL and regularly visit it, especially if it isn't updated on a consistent schedule (which most personal websites aren't.) Furthermore, given that the author seems to be advocating for self-sufficiency as much as possible and avoiding centralized platforms, assuming you're hosting your own website and not using a cookie cutter template, you're now fighting Google for search engine visibility and that's a battle that is absolutely not based on merit of content.

This is not to mention the unpleasantness of using most personal websites because they're poorly designed (light text on a white background), or they try and guilt-trip me into supporting them with Patreon/Paypal popups, or the only consistent content produced is content promising to produce more content in the future, etc.

I'm probably reading too much into the author's article, to be honest. It's a nice sentiment and I agree, but at the same time the thing I don't understand about the recent trend of publishing articles on mainstream news sites preaching the life benefits of going cold turkey on social media is that it isn't a binary choice. I know it's a novel idea, but you don't have to quit FB to pick up that hobby you once loved again! You don't have to quit FB to maintain your personal website! In fact, you can probably use FB and your audience on it to grow your readership on your personal website! Even if you accept the author's argument that personal websites fulfill the purpose that FB does (strongly disagree), they give no reason why you have to pick one over the other.

¿Porque no los dos
Very negative and condescending article in my view. Why would you spend time and money optimizing for a tiny percentage of users? Also they always underestimate the amount of power you gain by using frameworks like React and the amount of features and interactivity required when building modern web applications.

I'm not going to spend weeks hand coding some progressive enhancement in vanilla JS so some angry blogger can view my stuff in a console based browser with no JS.

It's like these people think that developer time is an infinite resource. Old woman yells at cloud indeed.
I don't know of any public references, but I can confirm this is happening to government entities as well. Oracle is being extremely aggressive and mounting what is essentially a phishing campaign against organizations that it sees accessing the extension download page. They are e-mailing employees directly and asking them to contact Oracle.
I think most people she want to share a pic and tag their friends. I don't think people want something so complicated.
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AI Has Started Cleaning Up Facebook, but Can It Finish?
Or maybe they were just comparing the current subject of cappuccino to the other expected kind of household coffee, rather than every single type of coffee out there.
The link between HGH and beta-amyloid is new to me, and makes me wonder how many former NFL players now suffering CTE may be affected by that as well as brain trauma.
Agreed: the ridiculously long copyright we've got now can't financially incentivize authors' work. Therefore, something else is motivating arbitrarily long copyrights. What is that motivation?

I would suggest just plain control freakery. Even in USA, control over employees and resources, even to the detriment of the corporation, seems to be prized.
Corel buys Parallels for Mac
While you're at it, you've got `vuejs` and `vue.js` listed separately :)
A bit surprised, pleasantly I must admit, to see Django keep pace with Rails. I have never been quite able to explain the startup world's love affair with Rails. Nothing wrong with it but the money question is why?
yes, and clapper still has a great career. he is a disgrace.
This is a play on Arthur C Clarke:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
While stealing is obviously wrong, there's no real impact from losing a video game account. For the victims hopefully this will be a cheap lesson in the importance of following good security practices: choose strong passwords, use multi-factor authentication, and keep your devices free of malware.
FedEx needs both big, slow, high-volume trucks for moving stuff between cities, and small, nimble tricks for delivering to the doorstep. Someone decides that it’s inefficient to maintain two separate standards: any driver should be able to get into any available vehicle and have it Just Work for whatever job they have at hand, right? So they decide to make a single vehicle that can fulfill all roles.

Well, a vehicle that can squeeze down an alley won’t have the cargo room of a giant highway truck. The inter-city drivers will hate its poor capacity. Likewise, one that has a big 20-speed transmission for for hauling heavy loads is going to drive the city drivers nuts. They’re going to end up with one single interface to all possible roadways that everyone can come together and agree to hate.

If the database API is so free-form that you can store anything in it, you won’t get the advantages of PostgreSQL’s strict typing and lightning fast joins. If you make it so regimented that your data model ends up looking like a set of tables with foreign keys, then it won’t be able to make full use of MongoDB’s... whatever it does well.

They’re different animals. Choosing one highly affects the rest of your system design, from how you arrange your data to how you add new data to how you search for it. PostgreSQL and MongoDB have fundamentally different strengths and weaknesses, and if you make something that works equally well with both, it’s inherently going to suck equally on either.
The trains in the narrow tunnels push air around, so recent stuff like full height platform screen doors help improve conditions (allowing platforms to be air conditioned without having to air condition the tunnels)
Virtual assistants will make complaining at work more dangerous
Would there be an issue with just changing the string to be matched to "scala " or " rust"?
As long as you’re willing to run a bouncer (and an organisation could run one for all their users), there are usable mobile clients with synchronization between devices, persistence, user status and even profile images.

For example my app https://quasseldroid.info/ which requires you to run the https://quassel-irc.org/ bouncer, but provides all that. As well as IRCCloud and Weechat-Android, which are also very awesome and provide a similar amount of functionality.

The other features are atm a work in progress.
> They have a point based system which lets decently talented immigrants in

I keep hearing about Indian tech talents but I haven't met one in real life yet. The ones I know are very good at nepotism. They usually exaggerate each other's works and belittle non-Indians' works. At my workplace, many even take credits of others. I understand that they are doing all of these to reinforce the rumor of Indian tech talents and to pressure managers to hire more Indians. However, I must admit that I haven't met one with actual technical skills and decent characters. IMO, many are political talents.
> Not every immigrant gets free healthcare

I think it depends on the job. If you work for a foreign company and are temporarily in Norway (e.g., spending a quarter at the Olso branch from your HQ elsewhere), you're on the hook for your own insurance: https://helsenorge.no/bo-i-utlandet/posted-workers-outside-t...

If you immigrate to Norway for a job, you're covered like everyone else: https://helsenorge.no/foreigners-in-norway/employee-from-a-c...
>It will take time before decentralised services become mainstream.

Again, this is looking at things backwards IMO. You seem to imply that there's a slow momentum from a centralized web to a decentralized one when in fact there's been a rather fast momentum in exactly the opposite direction over the past decades.

To me what you're saying sounds like "horses are about to become a very common way of moving goods". Maybe you're right but merely looking at the trend it's clearly not going that way at all.

>The backend is basically figured out at this point and we need to focus a bit more on UX.

You'll have to tell me more specifically what you have in mind there because that sounds very optimistic to me. We've had decentralized "backends" for as long as we've had the internet. The web is mostly decentralized by design. Even DNS is distributed across plenty of authorities for the various TLDs (even if each of them is effectively centralized and not anybody can become an authority).

Email is decentralized. BitTorrent is decentralized. IRC is decentralized. We're collectively moving away from these technologies, not towards them. I'm personally still a heavy user of all three of these things but it definitely feels niche now (email obviously isn't but self-hosted email is).

>Regarding torrents, many game clients will use torrents for their downloads, the user simply doesn't see and deal with the torrenting.

Which is pretty much irrelevant in this conversation then. It's about the technology people use to share content with each other, not about how Blizzard chooses to update your WoW client. It's a locked-down, vendor-approved way of distributing software from a centralized authority.

>Don't confuse self-hosted with decentralised, not the same :)

It's not the same but it's related. In general if something is truly decentralized then it becomes self-hostable otherwise it's more distributed than decentralized. Anybody can host their Bitcoin node, their Bittorent peer or their email server. I can't host a Facebook node.
How about user count? Isn't that the only metric that really matters for the question of who won? Slack beat IRC for work-related chat. It hasn't beat email for general written communication.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Dispora* yet: https://diasporafoundation.org/ I looked into it a while ago and it was a little cumbersome to set up, but I really like the idea.
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Well, the mainstream phones have much more powerful processors than Cortex-A53, they just power manage them well…
People in the uk voted brexit, because it was just after the uk us and france were dropping bombs in lybia and syria, arab spring they called it, the destruction of infrastructure created millions of refugees, the bbc amplyied the importance and strength of isis, and flashed images of thousands of the refugees in calais tripping over each other trying to illegally cross the channel into the uk. The good souls of england thought they were under attack, bless em.
If Slack did this because of her trip to Cuba years ago it means they have kept records of her IP going back years.

This causes me to think about the metadata records they have held onto in addition to all the data.
> I would prefer to see something like unionization or communism break the ability to conduct labor arbitrage (not as an ultimate final goal, but as a counter-force to capital's ability to have things all its own way), but I do not think that's what Trump is up to. If he was, I'd say he was unfairly maligned too. Since he's not, I consider him fairly maligned .

You seem to be saying that Trump has an anti-globalist position, which is reasonable for a number of reasons, but he should still be maligned because he is not a communist. Is that actually what you're saying, or am I misreading it?
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Magit is really fantastic. I used to be a person who used to pay for a GUI. Once the billing model changed for my former preferred GUI, I bit the bullet and took the time to learn Magit. I don't regret it one bit. Some of the main perks for myself are easy selection for partial commits of files, amazing support for interactive rebasing, really sane key bindings. When I pair-program with others who are CLI users, they are impressed by Magit every time.
So one simple way to solve the scala and excel issue is just to match for the space at the end or punctuation. So search for "scala " and "scala." instead of "scala". Same for "excel " and "excel."
In fact you could just combine them all into word + end where end can be [" ", ".", "!", "\n" etc]
We stop them when we no longer needs cookies and the market demands privacy-respecting services.

I personally stopped visiting a lot of sites that have them. For example, I no longer even consider clicking on Tumblr links or anything by the cancer company called "Oath" (ex Yahoo).

When enough people do this there will be a business incentive for less cookies & tracking.
The challenge though is when my friends connect their account and drag me into things.
Yes, but it matters who gets those discounts. If you took a prior action to earn the discount no problem. If it's assigned randomly, no problem.

If Costco charges $1k for a bagel and gives it away to everyone for free except insists on you paying, that's a problem. You're not allowed to isolate discounts based on race, gender, etc. So Costco would have to have a pretty creative reason for making you pay and no one else. It wouldn't hold up in court and it would be price discrimination.
I've only ever seen one company actually have a "reputation" metrics mentioned in the employee onboarding or customer support and outages.
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Don't want to sound defeatist because I do think it is a good idea, but: The great thing about distributed social networking standards is that there are so many different ones to choose from[0]. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use case[1]. Even then there would be a risk that one dominant player would emerge and embrace, extend and extinguish the open standards[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro...

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Ooh. Nice. I didn't notice that.

I wonder why they're expecting "performance degradation" though…
Why Would a Company “Go Private”​?
A rough timeline of the early 2000s:

1. Google creates the first noteworthy current gen search engine.

2. The web slowly starts moving towards a semantic platform with separate presentation.

3. Google creates the world's largest ad platform.

4. The semantic web inexplicably dies (see 3).

5. The web painfully and lossily becomes a series of dense monolithic networks.

6. People realize this might be a bad thing.
It really does.

I work at a big accountancy firm as a software developer so IT is quite security minded, and while our ThinkPad T470p notebooks aren't top of the line, they should be at least faster than my Dell Latitude E6520 of 2012 which both have i7 CPU.

We run Symantec Endpoint Protection and this antimalware software is quite intrusive. I had an exception for a week to run with Symantec completely disabled, and never had a better working laptop. Still quite slow, but a good bit faster than usual.

Since the Spectre microcode updates performance has only been getting worse.
It's really cool, but it's not going to be useful until you correct these errors. You might want to provide a note to readers in the meantime.
> But the cultural focus is on developer happiness, on developer fun and ramping up of code-related skillsets. "How does this benefit users?" has suddenly gone missing from our vocabulary.

No, it hasn't. It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams. That is quite literally the only thing that matters and everything else is a means to an end.

I'm not going to deny the fact that there are some shoddy websites out there. There are some sites that are using the latest and greatest JS stuff when really, they should just be using HTML and CSS. Fine.

The majority of the work that gets talked about here, by software and tech startups, will not be effectively built using HTML/CSS or server-side rendering. Since we're on the topic of users, users have come to expect a certain level of interactivity. They expect that if you right click on a row, you get a drop-down menu and you can delete it. They expect that you can do inline editing of an item without being redirected elsewhere. They expect that you can create a new thing on the page without reloading and redirecting.

Let's forget about that part, though. Most software features are, at the end of the day, experimental. We don't know exactly what is going to be a hit and what isn't. If new tools allow us to iterate at 2x or 5x or 10x the rate of old tools, this is a net positive for users.

No one would denigrate a carpenter for using an electric screwdriver over a manual one. No one would complain that the carpenter only cares about their "carpenter experience". At the end of the day, the "user" wants their cabinets finished.
2010 was the only year that the number of new applications provably didn't hit the cap - i.e. the entire quota was definitely not consumed. There were ~76k applications approved. The annual cap is 65k + 20k Masters + 5k (Singapore & Chile) + unlimited for non-profits[1]

I know people whose applications from the 2011 quota were made and approved well into 2012 - so 2011 almost certainly did not hit the 85k (65k + 20K Masters) quota either. I assume 2009 was similar.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#H-1B_applications_ap...
I'm pretty sure the GP means: Be careful not to install unlicensed proprietary software thinking it's part of the free software that has basically the same name.
Ask HN: Is Akka/ZeroMQ/Hbase a good stack to learn?
Is this a worthy stack to learn? Will the core concepts be useful in the future if I were to pivot to a different role?
There exist various attempts at decentralized social networks. But when I googled to find an up-to-date list I find they're all unfamiliar to me. All the ones I heard of previously are apparently dead or zombies now.

Decentralized social networks can't or won't do the kinds of orchestration of social interaction that help lubricate getting a social network up to speed. Many of those mechanisms, like bots, are underhanded and exactly what people want to get away from in decentralized networks.

We likely have to live with the fact that social networks are artificial creations, and that they are hostile to many kinds of expression. They probably can and should be better at preventing propaganda manipulation by hostile national adversaries, and at protecting the vulnerable from bullying.

But they're never going to be a force for good. Just a less-damaging vice.
The correct method is probably something like "\<$lang\>"
VaLUAble.
tRUST.

I would be pretty surprised to see these two so much more commonly requested than Javascript.
Some longer term solution?
https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/journals-declaring-indep...
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I don't know if this line from the article is what you're thinking about:

> He said he knew what he was doing was illegal, but his parents were aware of his activities and had not stopped him.

But the chances that those parents actually have a clear idea of what is going on are pretty damn slim.
The issue is that you can't interact between profiles, or if you interact it's centralized. Looks like there is existing a decentralized social networking protocol: ActivityPub, having the features of social media (as mentioned in related comments).
If you can't solve the cost (free) and the on boarding (technical aptitude) then it isn't going to replace Facebook. Additionally, a great deal of Facebook use is shifting from photos and writing to video, which makes the cost problem even greater.
Essentially how MySpace used to work?
Why the reverse scroll on the map?
Mullvad does. I can say it works, but haven't compared to others enough to "recommend" it, per se.
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You are assuming they ever even cared about Solaris.

They bought Java, because they were using it everywhere in their own product offering, and didn't want it under someone else's control (esp. if IBM would have been Sun's buyer rather than them).

Anything else which came with the purchase (Solaris, OpenOffice, VirtualBox, MySQL, the hardware business, 30K+ employees) amounted to, in their eyes, literally strings attached, that they had to pretend to care about for a while.

Even Java itself is not getting treated too well, but that was never the point - the point is not to lose control, and to monetize what they can.