skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reddit pattern doesn't work on all of us. I just use reddit less now it is less pleasant on mobile. I use it less when not mobile too as the changes there are not something I'm keen on either.

Another example is sites like Amazon and Wish changing their adverts on facebook and elsewhere to take you to the Play store instead of to the product page you were interested in if you don't have the app installed. Again this doesn't work if, like me, you either give up at that point as you weren't that interested anyway or you google the product and get to their page or a competitor's that way.

I think I'm in a minority though. I assume from the fact this behaviour is expanding, that enough people cave and install the apps it makes the few of use who do not worth losing from that sales vector.
> But I'm surprised they would be wasting valuable dev time with this kind of overhead.

I'm not surprised at all. They have reached a scale where managed services are looked at with a critical eye, and are no longer the default.
The high cellphone + ISP fees in Canada are a result of the monopoly the ~2-3 telecom companies were given by government a few decades back to "accelerate" broadband and mobile infrastructure development.

The only positive tradeoff we've gotten out of decades of paying 25-50% more per month than most countries is that our networks have been cutting edge. We got 3g, 4g, etc before almost everyone. But I don't attribute this to the gov, their investment was long ago, but rather the competence of executives being smart enough to maintain their monopoly without falling into the trap of falling behind as many monopolies do before being trumped by economic progress/tech (ie, see the taxi monopoly lack of tech investment before Uber/Lyft), and via the massive margins they get out of their monopoly pricing providing plenty of capital investment to prevent any sort of competition.
What is hard to believe is that the mercantilist mindset has been vanquished 200 years ago, and you still need to instruct adults into why it doesn't work over and over again.
> I've typed the same postcode into Maps almost every day for the past 5 years

That's fascinating. Why?
ICE Ran Fake College to Target Undocumented Immigrants
But what about Amazon's entire services business?
Overall... great way to cover up the lower living standards. What next? 5 parents? 6 parents? In fact, could the entire society be parents together?

Completely idiotic.
Is that really true?
Are we still fairly evenly developed and having the same economy now?
Eric Schmidt has old person concept of privacy.

>To the older generation, privacy is about secrecy. And, as the Supreme Court said, once something is no longer secret, it's no longer private. But that's not how privacy works, and it's not how the younger generation thinks about it. Privacy is about control.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/privacy_and_c...
Today Is a Huge Day in the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality
The original comment didn't say it was worth less - they said it wasn't real work at all. If someone's willing to pay you for it then it's real work.

So saying it pays less is irrelevant. It's not a competition to see how can look down on whom.

And it's not just Instagram. They said that the MacBook Air wasn't suitable for work, and just gave Instagram as one example of what it is suitable for. I could do my job (programming language research) on a MacBook Air. I know someone who writes medical text books on a MacBook Air. Are these things not real work?

I don't know why the author couldn't just say 'A MacBook Air wouldn't be suitable for my work'? Why add the extra snide bit that if you could then you aren't doing real work? Why communicate that idea at all, directly or indirectly?
An honest look at launching a bootstrap startup
Their core product is an interface, they resell cloud storage. Right?
Verizon media (aka huffpost, techcrunch and others), Buzzfeed, and now Vice. The beat goes on.
There isn't a lot of detail in the Reuters article.

Your comment:
"The accusation is that banks were manipulating an index to make their position more profitable at the expense of the client"
Isn't mentioned in the article, do you have a better source?

Given that lack of detail, there is potentially a reasonable explanation.

I'm only suggesting this in extremis, your quote above wouldn't pass that test by a long way. 2008 might.

Eg if regulators asked banks to hold off selling Greek bonds for 48hrs to avoid trashing the price, while they sorted out a rescue deal. Trying to avoid at the same time, a domino effect on Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal.....

As I wrote in a different comment. The regulations are supposed to bring stability to the market. If the regulations stop doing that, they should be revisited.
What geographies?
I was intrigued by this also. According to https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/ :

> However, in what seems to be his last statement of his position, Popper declared that falsifiability is a both necessary and a sufficient criterion. “A sentence (or a theory) is empirical-scientific if and only if it is falsifiable.” Furthermore, he emphasized that the falsifiability referred to here “only has to do with the logical structure of sentences and classes of sentences” (Popper [1989] 1994, 82).

The reference given is: “Falsifizierbarkeit, zwei Bedeutungen von”, pp. 82–86 in Helmut Seiffert and Gerard Radnitzky, Handlexikon zur Wissenschaftstheorie, 2nd edition München:Ehrenwirth GmbH Verlag.
thanks. I've had lots of students and new graduates ask me about career options - so i thought this might help.
Huh? Are you talking about adding a shortcut to smile.amazon.com to your homepage or do you mean the actual native app? I can add a shortcut (on iOS) to smile.amazon.com but I don’t see why that would ever send me a notification. The native iOS shopping app has no option I can find to default or even select smile. Am I missing something?

Also what does Amazon have to do with SV?
When I was doing managed Colo we used Intel "Datacenter" drives (ex. Intel S3500 SSD) which were priced at around $1/GB (so ~3-4x as expensive as the consumer counterpart). They were performant and, luckily, we never had an issue with them.
> That's unrelated to what other people might want.

Sure it is. The more capabilities you enable, the more things become supported or expected. Giving more freedom to side load apps means developers would expect more users to do so as well. This threatens the walled garden approach, which some people actually like.
The future you're afraid of is already the present for the rest of the world under the hegemony of the Anglo sphere. The future looks very bright for me.
Line is doing 150 billion msgs/day on their Kafka infra, about 3million per second.
https://www.slideshare.net/linecorp/building-a-companywide-d...
U.S. Withdraws from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
More than equal as far as I know.
ironically how there are guns designed exactly for target shooting, for example, the models used by Olympic shooters are even cheaper than some rifles, yet all the people with a gun hobby will promptly ignore those and buy the ones specifically designed to kill people instead, while claiming the killing purpose of gun means nothing to them. sounds like the reasoning of someone buying a yellow hummer because they need a minivan.
I can only speak to Fathom (since that's my product), but we have no personal data to sell if we sold our product. We collect nothing about website visitors other than a tick in the aggregate data. So if we sold our business, there's zero personal information from website visitors on any of our customers dashboards that could be used against them.
Because there is a moral compass in the human being that takes into account non-economic benefits as well.

Why would you cheer against slavery if you could buy some up?
> But realistically, in today's academic climate Einstein would never be published.

Can you expand on this? This isn't a leading question, I actually don't immediately see what you mean.
Twilio closes acquisition of SendGrid in all-stock deal now worth $3B
Learning Language in Deep Sleep Isn't Just Science Fiction Anymore
NYT hasn't done quality journalism in a while. They exclude stories, twist facts in very obvious ways, and have become obsessed with Trump-hatred to the point that the Trump-haters need their own newspaper.
Before anything else: lawyer up
Currently I can order cheap products (less than 20€) from China without customs fees or VAT. The shipping cost is around 1€. It means that it is cheaper to buy from China than from my local store. Unfortunately, that is about to change soon (customs fees for all products from China).

Having something like that between EU and Japan would definitely boost the trade.

Edit: I just checked and the same no customs fees rule applies already to Japan. I wonder if it is going to change at the same time as Chinese products get the customs fees.
Didn't Britain de-industrialize of its own volition, in the 60s/70s/80s? :)
They non trivially interact.
I have had to visit the #nixos channel in Freenode (IRC) lately on a computer with all tracking disabled and the Recaptcha that is usually just click and continue becomes a multi-minute endeavor finding street signs, cars and buses. You really get punished if you opt out of tracking.
>pieces of art are made by dozens to hundreds of artists, and we'll punish along the hundreds of innocents to get to the presumed guilty.

Punishing people for association is a common means of striking fear into the people who don't care one way or another about your movement (most of the population doesn't care strongly about most issues) and getting them to at least half hardheartedly act as a force multiplier for your vocal minority.

I'm sure you can imagine why a business owner in 1870 Alabama might not want to get caught selling to black people or a white tradesman may not want to take on a job for said business or a publisher in 1922 might not want to publish a book by someone who's known to be a communist.

Same principal.

I'm sure we'll look back on it the same way we look back on the red scare. Regardless of whether the goal is a good one or not these sort of witch hunts where a majority of the population is kind of uneasy about how extreme they are almost never look like good ideas in hindsight.
If you're really willing to go to a dumbphone... just get an iPhone and don't install any apps. That way, at the very least, you still have a killer camera.
You seem confused. No one implied that there was a third option.
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As an almost two decade Haskeller who really wants to try Rust in a performance and security sensitive production context, I really appreciated this article. However, it might have actually pushed me more toward Haskell. I have decades of experience in C-derived languages and the syntax is just not my favorite, compared to Haskell and LISPs.

Of course, given the 3,619,661 compiler extensions in GHC, whats another that would enable this sort of lifetime/reference tracking (and endless chasing of type errors that all Haskellers are used to anyway) functionality to be pushed into the type system? I almost cannot imagine it has not been done.

Great article!
EU has to allow the UK to leave first before the UK and Japan can negotiate a free trade agreement.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/26/an-seeks-early...
Find your art twin in the collection of the Dutch Rijksmuseum using AI
Hi brootstrap, since you're a specialist in this field, I'd be interested in your views...

here in the uk, I am often interested in whether or not it will rain in e.g. a 3 hour, 6 hour or 12 hour period. Either because I am going rock climbing, laying concrete, spraying weedkiller, painting outdoors, etc etc. Often this is very important (not just - 'oh, if only I took an umbrella today').

I have a strong impression that the ability of the uk's met office to forecast this is very poor, such that is only just worth consulting their forecasts. OK, sometimes we have settled weather and forecasting is easy (in these cases, looking towards the prevailing wind is also good). But in most cases the weather changes several times a day and the forecasts are poor. This can also be seen by e.g. checking how the forecast for a specific day changes as the day gets nearer - every day you look, it tends to have changed markedly. Also, the uk met office and norwegian met office (significantly better than the uk one, but still not so good) generally disagree with each other.

I really cannot square my 10+ years of 'studying' weather forecasts and the weather with what you are saying (in the case of the uk (pennine hills of northern England)).
And 'stunningly accurate' is just a bad joke.

I presume that precipitation is somehow hard to model, compared to windspeed/pressure/temperature (which seem to be forecast more accurately, though I care about them much less)?
Reminds me of when I replaced Windows NT with Linux on a Dell NAS. Used extra PCI slot to slap in a SATA controller, then built an external hot swap array for off-site backups. A NAS and backups for less than $2K! (yeah it's not tape backup, meh)
I didn't think it was that bad, free to use and everything has an ID right? If you want details l, query the ID, seems like a super simple base to work on to me.

There's actually a whole [1] list of opensource Hacker news clones that you can look at to see how they do it...

[1] https://hnpwa.com
this is a extremely naive view of the situation

obviously there's no problem if you are of the belief that the EU would act fairly in the situation where a new workable friction-less trade technology/mechanism is created

the ERG do not share this belief: their view is that if the withdrawal agreement is signed then the EU has no incentive to ever permit the UK to leave the temporary arrangement, as it would lose control over the UK economy and trade policy without gaining anything in return

they believe it's all about incentives, and in this case: they're probably right
loling at the steady retreat to "it happened 200 years ago"
How the Fed’s balance sheet works and why investors care
Vice Media Cuts 250 Jobs, 10% of Workforce
I have an iPhone 8 actually, but the screen is broken. Recently switched to an Samsung, which I now kind of regret.
The big problem with stereolithography resins is that they tend to degrade with time, especially if left in the sun. Photocuring is carried out by creating free radicals to induce polymerization. Well it turns out that these same free radical producing chemicals stick around even after the curings done and can make more free radicals if left in light. These free radicals can cause some pretty nasty damage to polymer chains. The chemistry is improving though, at the very least to allow more interesting materials like silicones.
One can mix in composites to stereolithography resins, but in general this isn't done. The problem is that whatever you mix in scatters light, so light doesn't penetrate as deep, so curing takes longer. Unless the composite used is transparent and has the same index of refraction as the resin, it would not be possible to use this tomographic approach to make parts.

There is one application of composites that's extremely disruptive though: producing ceramic parts. It has been found that you can mix in ceramic powder with the resin fire it in an oven to make very detailed ceramic parts[0]. Structural properties aren't necessarily that good, but that's ok because it's good enough to make very complex and detailed investment casting molds[1]. Investment casting molds for making single crystalline jet turbine blades are very complex and require a very complicated process to produce, with this process they can be made in one step. That's a huge disruption right there and investment casting is a pretty general process. The detail produced by this process is so high that the the triangulation of STL became a problem and a special file format developed for fax machines had to be used to represent all the slices.

[0]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229293237_Photopoly...
[1]http://ddm.me.gatech.edu/page8/page8.html
I did this on some of my prepaid phones I keep around. The Moto E phones are cheap and capable of plenty of things. I forget how I got the files into the app though. Kiwix is the app in case anyone's interested. Looks like Kiwix just fetches it for you. I recommend getting an SD card with plenty of storage.
Ask HN: Tips on getting better at marketing
I want to get a better sense of marketing, and how it fits in with the process of building and releasing a new product.

I _think_ I've always trivialized the marketing aspect of startups & products. It's no rocket science, right? Either ads on social networks* or posting links on places like HN/PH and hoping for the best.

Is there more to it? What are some good resources to learn about some no-nonsense marketing topics? Right now it feels like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle.

Any personal "aha!" moments? Books, talks you'd recommend to help in a slight mind shift?

* - sure, crafting a good, attention-grabbing ad isn't easy
- there has to be
I would argue that economics drives at least some of this because Hollywood and media in general have no shortage of talent waiting in the wings.

So new mechanisms for generating attrition will always find more fans (the underdogs) than opponents (the top dogs.)

In those milieu, everyone - even filthy rich producers, is expendable. Though expendable connotes a sense of usefulness, so maybe disposable works better.
Yep. Especially since communicating clearly is exactly their job.
Another source w/o paywall: https://www.businessinsider.com/vice-media-cutting-10-of-its...
My mind also immediately went to the Homer.
Pytorch and OpenCV Implementation of Quickdraw-Like Program
I bought the 13 inch one with 4gb after my 11 inch one died and that really doesn't work anymore either; for anything serious 4gb is just always thrashing seeing the lovely colored ball which makes you wanting to pull your hair out.
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This is just incorrect,they have many fantastic stories. If you think they're obsessed with trump hatred, you probably need to step back and think historically. Whatever your thoughts on the man, there is no question he is a historically unique and extremely polarizing figure, could you expect any left of center outlet to not get triggered by his behaviors? Their readers crave this content, it drives readership, it drives subscriptions, it's just logical that they cover him negatively so often.
Something important that might be in play is the company insurance policies. If the insurance company comes back and says, "No, we won't cover any activities that this felon does, you're taking on that risk yourself", the employer isn't going to hire you.

Typically this comes up where you're hiring someone for a similar (or the same) sort of work that they got in trouble for.

The same thing will happen if you lie on your employment application; the instant that the employer finds out you lied, they have to fire you or their insurance will stop covering anything you do.

It's possible that insurance is at play, or that their HR department is being overzealous about avoiding risk to the company via that method.
Even after corrections the fake stories from mainstream media still "stick" if they have the proper political value. There are people in this thread still insisting that the Covington High School kids surrounded and intimidated a native elder even though that story was retracted and the media that pushed it is now being sued for libel.
> The H-1B LCA requires visa holders be paid equivalent to or better than U.S. workers.

This is a typical bureaucrat solution. An an immigrant you dont have the power to leverage salary, so there is no chance you will get the same results as an american, adjusted for everything else. First of all, there is a legal cost of the visa, which is and will always be paid by the employee. Second, you can adjust salary in 20 ways the bureaucrat cant see: PTO, stock grants, chances of advances, bonuses, etc. And finally, if you as an employee cant go into your bosses office saying a competing company wants to pay you 20%, because you cant do that with an H1B, your long term income is also affected.
I've always thought it might be cool to package up a bunch of literature on a stack of SD cards and package them with a low power e-ink reader and a solar panel to charge it, then market as a "reboot civilization" kit.

The hardest part is actually finding a generic e-ink reader with an sd card slot that doesn't cost $500. It shouldn't need to run full android, just show a PDF or TXT, that's all it needs to do.

An offline wikipedia dump, emergency medical manual and PDR, survival manuals, etc etc like this site might go well.
I had chronic sinus headaches triggered by food. I've always found it effective.
It may be or may not be anymore, but at one time not long ago it definitely was. When I cared enough to actually profile its performance, you could literally just move the mouse to the top corner to expose the dashboard, and back. Each time doing this, 4MB of memory gone for good.
That particular bug has been fixed. JS engine memory leak. In fact, I invite anyone to look at the number of 'memory leak' commits in Gnome 3/Gnome Shell regarding its JS use.
Theoretically, yes it is falsifiable. If you had sufficient data about a system you could perfectly forecast micro- and macroeconomic results.

Now, is it testable? Only in a very limited sense. You can suss out trends in a decently empirical way, but because you're working with independent agents you can't really get sufficient data to obtain rigorous results.

Economics is not unlike high energy physics in these respects. You can move the needle in legitimate ways, but there are very hard restrictions that make it more difficult to make rigorous observations.
Apple delays FaceTime bug fix until next week
You may also find this Usury faq interesting: https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/usury-faq-or-...

It's from a Catholic perspective, but to a large degree the primary impact of that is just to take a step away from modern ideas and draw from a historical position not well studied or understood by other people. There is not very much "bible" or "pope" in it.

It is also directly related to the topic at hand; student loan debt is considered as a form of usury.

I'm not Catholic, for what it's worth. Whether being a Protestant impacts my opinion of the topic matter... well... "it's complicated", as the social networks say. But I still found it to be a very interested intellectual case, and there are plenty of non-Catholic and non-Prostestant cultures over the millenia that have considered usury a crime as well, too. I wouldn't be that surprised our culture will yet make it on to the list of cultures that discover it's a bad idea as well, on its own merits, regardless of who notices.

Also, I think a lot of HN will actually find the ideas quite appealing even so. A lot of financial shenanigans that draw a lot of complaints on HN are covered by this conception of usury.
The entirety of DHS is the embodiment of "mission creep."
GraalVM and Clojure [video]
You need to distinguish freedom of movement (people) and a customs agreement (goods).

Sweden and Norway are both Schengen members, so they have explicitly agreed on freedom of movement for people. That does not say anything about goods.

But I don't know why such an arrangement could not work with the UK (both the UK and Norway are members of the European Economic Area) – presumably because the UK wants to leave that as well, because they want to go it alone and not align their trade policies with the European partners?
'benefitted'
Funny. The last time I was in a TGV, I can indeed confirm the lavatory was broken. Specifically, I discovered the sink spigot did not work only after I had soaped my hands.