skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh my god, so salty!

But here's the deal, and this might be directly aimed at you, since you say you're in the field. As a home-user who works in the industry and with some interest for tech, I generally only get access to the free-tiers of services offered by players working at world-magnitude. Based on my experience with those services I may or may not advertise them to my friends, colleagues, employers. Especially to employers, because there's a good chance that if there's bad-blood between me and the service provider personally, I might be impaired in my professional activity.

This word-of-mouth type of adversiting is crucial to "2.0" companies, that function based on things such as scale, transparency, growth, reach, efficiency. There's also the different type of provider, the "old business" world, with more business-y and less tech-y practices, such as "call us for a quote" deals, "license per year per seat pe server core", etc. Dealing with them often times involves whole departments (legal + technical) with specific training and paid-for support channels.

If you release and roll perpetuum-beta services and software ("2.0" practice), build your brand on word-of-mouth advertising, on try-for-free honeypots for hobbyists (also "2.0"), don't act "old business" if it comes down to support for a puny user and don't push the "well, it was free, what would you expect?" button. The whole deal of your "we are awesome and scale as opposed to <brand that existed for more than 20 years and sucks just because of that>" is the fact that your machinery doesn't do politics and doesn't discriminate between your users based on estimated pocket girth. It's useless if your solution elegantly "scales" to billions of users, if your business can't secure and treat with dignity the first, lonely user.
I'm all for the sharing economy, but I'm not sure if I'd want to put someone else's clothes on my skin. Then again... I do thrift shop. Sounds like a good way to slow fashion pollution, while making a profit - to then spend the income made on rentals. (hair flip emoji.)
2000 words has never been the SEO optimal or standard length for articles. I've been involved in SEO for many, many years, 500 was always the standard.
We're all dumb fucks to him.
I've been using Mastodon. In its current form it's about good enough to replace Twitter (apart from the obvious network effects).
Thanks for posting! Didn't want to come off as a shill.
I'm genuinely sorry that you had a bad interview experience, feel free to email me more details so that I can make sure the feedback is routed to the right people.

Over several years now, I've been very happy with the engineering quality and culture; I feel lucky to work with the people here.
If there is, then it is being laid down on top of several feet of actual turf.
Removed the initial intro, my intention was more to showcase the startup, progress and then how to go about next steps given my problem. Thanks for the feedback :)

I've tried cold emails, while they work many times, a lot of times good investors value intro over cold emails.

Would love to get in touch with your friends!
A lot of Python/Django from work, Japanese by myself, and a lot about art and history from reading.
"This is a difficult problem with multiple unknowns. I will have a progress report for you tomorrow."

Make sure that you are reaching out to the rest of your team.
I wrote a filesystem-and-own-email-account-only cronjob for myself to do it, it and its predecessors have been working fine for about a half-decade

https://github.com/howonlee/diogenes8
While I haven't read What Not I have read the other novel mentioned here, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and I have to say 1984 pretty much completely takes the entire plot from it.

Spoilers follow:

Both books follow the journey of a single man as he has a romance with a rebellious woman, get involved with a rebellion but then find out that an older man who they thought they could trust was really part of the secret police. Both novels end with the protagonist getting brainwashed and once again loyal to the state. While I like and respect Orwell immensely as an author, it's clear that he owes a great debt to Zamyatin for his most famous novel.
I'd like to propose Movim :)

It's a federated social network fully built on the XMPP protocol.

Responsive, with desktop and mobile apps. It offers microblogging features like Mastodon, but also more advanced blogging (Markdown, edit, comments, likes), chatrooms, direct chat, video-conferencing, communities, tags... and all in real-time.

You can have a look on https://movim.eu/.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask them here!
You're not supposed to submit stories like this. In fact, that people do this is the reason that URLs in these kinds of stories aren't clickable. Links on the site are community property, and the submitter doesn't get to capture them with a special comment at the top of the thread.
hacker news is customer support?
I turned out just fine.
> So here's an idea - how about they run subway trains in these tunnels instead like they do in the rest of the world?

So here's an idea, why is there no subway trains there? Easy answers, not enough money/value into them.

He suggest a way to add value to the system, by allowing luxury cars to go through them and save traffic time. It's also a way to keep your car before and after the path, which can't happen in a subway. Theses add values.

Smaller tunnels can also be much more cost effective and can be done in an iterative way, based on the actual needs of the system. In Montreal (my city) that's a big issue where we just can't get the funds to improve our subway system because it's just so much money which is hard to justify. Our government pension program is currently funding a pretty big improvement in our transit system because THEY have the funds to do it and it's going to be profitable to them. They made it profitable to invest into our infrastructure and yet the freaking government can't do it.
This is just the main line, full family tree has two million members: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-02/16/content_646052...
True.

But I'd argue Uber is largely replaceable -- you still have public transport and taxis while Facebook has no alternative and most people are too inert to even think of replacing it...

We can all see how the media grows bolder and reports quite negatively on Facebook but I wonder if that even makes any difference.
And nobody will care

They’ll be “so relatable” at that point

People might actually listen to a candidates’ policies
Google+ refugees are also looking for a new home. Lots of people are flocking to MeWe, but I don't think another proprietary monolith is the solution. Distributed, decentralised, federated social networks are the solution.

Diaspora and Mastodon are among the more popular options. I'm looking at Friendica and Hubzilla, because from there you can connect to people on both Diaspora and Mastodon.
> Funny thing is that some of my friends are protesting against facebook on facebook

Ironically, that's exactly where they should be doing it.
A law mandating open access to APIs would do wonders to spur competition.

Remember Pidgin? Knitting together disparate IM platforms into one client was great. You can't do that with Facebook, their TOS doesn't allow for it.

Open access to 3rd party clients that can bridge platforms will break the network effect lock-in and allow for real competition to emerge.
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Thanks for the BRAT software - I used it for my PhD and it was very helpful. From the looks of things things though BRAT is now abandonware? Despite that, I actually used it this semester to have students do annotations and it worked out quite well.

I also agree the tool looks nice but relation support is definitely something that I also would need to see supported.
DHS says: Walls work
Seems like it. Def tons of clothes lying around in our closets. Admittedly, if we could monetize my gf's closet via rentals, we could finance our next vacation.
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Will it probably take about year?

Will it probably take about month?

Will it probably take about week?

Will it probably be done in a day?

Most of the time their looking for a ballpark.
Not so hypothetical now that they delivered the first tunnel. I'm guessing that might help him land a few more deals for more tunnels. My understanding is they already closed a few such deals.
Oh cool, I knew there had to be one. The Spotify responses should be pretty small other than the images, so unless the handshake was really expensive it might be ok (small key sizes?)
Sure, but this should be reflected in vendor ratings?

At Amazon the vendor is not even clickable in the overview. And even after clicking in the product page it does not show any vendor ratings(!?). This can and should be solved via UI though.
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> Any thoughts on how a company should balance good service to users (and false positives) with the need to fight black hats?

Charge money.

A big part of why MailChimp responded this way is that they have a very generous free plan. With that they can't afford to dig deep on free plans that violate ToS. You'll get buried under the weight of support/vetting for that.

Once you start charging even a little bit, the amount of spam/fraud BS you have to deal with plummets.

Every hurdle your free plan introduces to blasting out emails adds friction for spammers. Give them enough friction and they'll move on somewhere else. Forcing them to provide a valid credit card before they can send emails is a great way to add that friction.
> lol. nice and detailed april fools article. just wish it wasn't posted in December.

> > avoid global state by having a global name that hold the state

That state is not global though, you can use multiple getters from a gettergetter in parallel.
It does seem to me, reading online the past few years, like there has been an inflation in difficulty of a certain category of interview questions, as a result of people studying.

Usually, when interviewing people on an algorithms interview, I've asked an straightforward warm-up question, followed by a more interesting second question, that might be difficult for somebody that hasn't thought about anything interesting in 10 years. I don't think there was ever a situation where somebody got through the first just swimmingly, and then hit a wall on the second. The pain always starts on the warm-up question.
So did Travis, the way the shareholders and board got around that was by threatening expensive and public lawsuits.

If you take a lot of money from rich people you're never gonna be above their power.
Imagine if Hacker News was whitelisted to a set of people you trust & respect (so only their votes count), and it queued up the top links so you don't miss anything, even if you take a day or two off. That's what we're trying to build.
> Spend 50% of the writing time actually writing, the rest tweaking, reading and illustrating. Details are important.

I find this true not just of blog posts, but any time I've done formal writing at all. There is an immense gulf in quality between writing that has gone through even just one heavy edit/revision process and writing that never has.

I've recently been encouraging my technical co-workers to expend more time on not-code, such as documentation, tutorials, plans, postmortems, internal RFCs, carefully worded PR/commit comments, etc. One challenge is that people sometimes think that when they "finish" a piece of writing, they're done. Unless you've been iteratively revising pieces of it in smaller chunks, I think you're really only halfway there.
This is congruent with the link I posted elsewhere in this thread: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo.... My favorite paragraph from it is:

To me, the story reads a lot like a media narrative that has very little to do with users’s actual lives. And I’ve been reading variations on “Why Facebook sucks” and “Why Facebook is doomed” for a very long time. It’s like the “Why this is the year of Linux on the desktop,” but for media companies.

Does anyone else remember reading on Slashdot about how Microsoft is evil and any day now, we're going to move to Linux and revolt? Except that normal people didn't care and didn't notice?
I fail to see how I can be ignorant of what I find less frustrating and more compatible with my user expectations.

>It allows them to use their own tools for bookmarking, link sharing, and history management rather than forcing a from-scratch experience when they come to the sites.

Such as the behaviour of buttons outside the sandbox the browser provides? To quote you:

>browsers haven't been stateless url-loaders since the late 90s

Why break the expectations of the back button to hack the other tools to work how you'd expect when, really, all of the features you're describing worked perfectly fine before SPAs. The very reason pages like this frustrate me are because they don't work with the history management I expect.
"I am not important enough to be spied on"

Such a familiar phrase. I'm so tired of hearing it from people I know. This is exactly like saying "I'm too broke for anyone to steal my credit card".

What you think of your own importance has zero bearing on how some unknown third party perceives you. Neither can you predict how they will use your information or how it will affect you. It's insane that people spend time and energy on keeping secrets from their relatives and friends (which everyone does) and yet can't see that a third party that actively seeks your information is more likely to cause you harm than people you know. This is a trivial deduction, yet so many people can't comprehend it. They think that because they can't imagine how someone else could screw them up using their personal info, no one could possibly screw them up using their personal info.

Apparently, I'm not eloquent enough to convey this in a verbal conversation. I've tried. Funny thought: maybe I should print the paragraph above on a card and hand it out when someone says the key phrase.
L. O. L!!! This needed to be broadcasted... https://twitter.com/harrisreynolds/status/107541797337921126...
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823234503355158528?s=20
I'm inclined to agree but surely there's a difference between physical privacy and privacy online.
It is true that this issue exists with every software.

I wanted to point it out anyhow because it often is overlooked.

Not sure about the line in your copy. Maybe it is possible to state more clearly what the actual privacy and security mechanisms.
Automate cleaning your desktop on OS X
If they did it without user consent, it would be an issue for sure.
Your implication is my conclusion too :).
Generating New Ideas for Machine Learning Projects Through Machine Learning
Best landing page I ever designed/wrote had this headline: "Fuck it, we like Reddit and we got some shit to sell." By every single metric (views, clicks, time spent on page, conversions), it murdered every other landing page in that campaign. Point is: experiment, have fun, be creative, copy other people's work, add your own flair, do things totally against best practices and logic. Marketing isn't a set-it-and-forget-it kind of activity. It's always moving.
As a manager of a customer service team, everyone on my team knows exactly whether something has been "totally wiped" or not, regardless of whether it's something that would require developer intervention to recover. To have your reps not understand this and ultimately mislead the customer (or, in this case, I suppose former customer would be more accurate) is a management/training problem, and what the rep ultimately said on behalf of the company was a lie as a result.
I am currently contributing on libraries for libpurple (the central library used in Pidgin) and Spectrum to improve the transports between those 3rd party networks and the XMPP one. Also with the integration of those transports within the Movim project.

Recently I was able to bridge Discord and Slack and working on Instagram (to finally have a decent way to use Instagram DM on desktop).

See https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord, https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-instagram and https://movim.eu/ :)
He first needs to believe in the need to replace himself. Or something easier, yet a permanent solution: He could have completely abolished the CEO position, require board meetings for all executive decisions and require supermajority for all essential board decisions.
First question: there's deaf and deaf -- how severe is your loss and how good is your speech? That information will help us help you.

Second - which country do you come from? Many now have some form of assistance dog specifically aimed at deaf ("Hearing dogs" or similar). These serve a very useful purpose in sign posting the fact that you have a disability which is otherwise not visible. They also act as awesome icebreakers. The dogs are bred and trained specifically to deal with situations such as crowded and noisy rooms, and will not be the least bit anxious or feel the least bit threatened in such a situation.

Lastly, there's various strategies for dealing with the phone side of things - in the UK there's NGTT, an app which puts a stenographer on the call too, so it can be subtitled in real time. You can obviously do something similar with a co-worker if necessary.

I'm profoundly deaf. I've run my own software company for ten years, a large chunk of which I was also remote working on a small island (off grid). I don't think being deaf has made an iota of difference to my career, you just have to identify the issues and route round them, as you would any other obstacle in day to day life.
The latter includes the former, unless there's specific safeguards in place?

I think that's the crux of it: what communication/disclosure has to happen around granting a company access level X, even when they only hold it to implement feature Y which doesn't do all the bad things you could do with that access level, and who gets trusted with that and who doesn't? (I haven't seen the details of the precise example, so I don't have a detailed opinion on it, but would like to note that a design process aiming to reduce this exposure would maybe have removed or restricted the ability to read messages, allowing only to send recommendations or only read responses to sent recommendations)
There's an app for this - https://stompapp.xyz/

But Mailchimp really should be making it easy for you to make your own mail backups!
It's a lie that organizations have backups?

"Your data has been deleted" pretty much has always meant that it was deleted from the live servers and that the deletion will propagate through backups depending on the orgs retention policy/requirements.
I'm interested in this simple closure code from the article:

function getGetNext() {
let i = 2;
return function getNext() {
const next = i;
i = i * 2;
return next;
}
}

As a lisp coder [and not a JS coder], I'm wondering: why does the function getNext() have to be named? Why not just say something like:

function getGetNext() {
let i = 2;
return function() {
const next = i;
i = i * 2;
return next;
}
}
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There was a great bit in Ken Burns' Vietnam where vets explained how young soldiers will do anything you tell them. It's a part of being young and ready to prove yourself that makes young men so great for war. The vet said that the officers/leadership should be blamed for atrocities committed by soldiers since young men don't philosophize about what they are doing.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/05/29/ernst-juenger-war-m...
Jay, your FAQ says “EULA only gives you the right to use; the Confluent Community License grants other rights as well.”

This is factually untrue. Many EULAs grant additional rights, such as the right to make a backup copy of the software. In the case of Freeware (ah, halcyon days!) the EULA often allowed redistribution of copies.
I deal with small business owners regularly. While this seems crazy, it's not even close to the worst we've seen. Entire businesses based on free email, entire businesses based on a social media following from one network, entire businesses based on an undocumented "black box" server that everyone is afraid to touch ... the list goes on.

I routinely think about by my business model and the repercussions of losing access to an online service. I backup incessantly as a result. BRB, going to backup my MailChimp lists.
> although there's some new interesting developments in using rasterization for production now

Interesting, do you have any links for further reading?

I'm biased, of course, being in the real-time space, but as time has passed I've really come to appreciate the simplicity and practicality of rasterization…
Yes, but my point was whether the price if the tires is a show stopper or not.
I’m 21, but I’ve been blogging for almost 10 years.

wtf..mindblown.. His IQ must be off the charts. no wonder he is so successful.
I use path tracing for scientific/engineering studies of light propagation; in particular, I attempt to simulate monochromatic light sources and reflective/transmissive/absorptive material configurations (ranging from specular to diffusive, and everything in between) to determine the irradiance delivered to specific geometries. In the past I have used commercial packages like ASAP (APEX Solidworks add-in), Zemax, and FRED (in order of preference).
I've used an app for this - https://stompapp.xyz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie

"A lie is a statement used intentionally for the purpose of deception"

I don't think you can prove it was a lie.
Loving the idea of being able to rent unique items otherwise unable to be found in boutiques or department stores. Similar to AirBnB's unique experience offers. The idea of wearing someone else's clothes is a bit icky, but the pickup is at a dry cleaners so essentially it's cleaning than shopping at a store where who knows how many other people tried that item on before you purchased it.
This current set of Facebook scandals wouldn’t exist if they had kept their platform closed and walled - the whole scandal seems to be that other companies were permitted access to the API (e.g. Cambridge Analytica). In response Facebook is locking down APIs and making their platform more closed to avoid such issues in the future.

Doesn’t Pidgin still support Facebook messenger?
That's not the full answer. It was introduced to accommodate people who wanted their pages to work like SPAs. It's the intentions of the people who are frustrating me.
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You're getting downvoted by people who don't like that you think clinton was bad.

You're point though is true. The $10-200k that russia supposedly spent and the surrounding meme/fake news bubble that expanded around it simply didn't have the influence that people keep claiming it did.
What's the future of the pandas library?