skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farenheit 451. It made me look at the things we have in the world today differently. I personally think it came closer than 1984 at predicting the future. The attitudes of the general society in that world reminded me of the way certain topics, information and discourse have become taboo and society has become the arbiters of what information is deemed allowable. The way everyone is expected to numb themselves with drugs, their giant tv screens and their ear buds and anyone that would rather learn is looked at with suspicion.

I never actually read it until around the time the iPhone came out and everyone was walking around with those white earbuds. I remember sitting on the bus reading and I looked up and stared around at the people on their phones with their white earbuds and all I could think was holy fuck Ray Bradbury was right.
I switched from a 5S I bought at launch to an XR. I’m enjoying the battery life, although the larger screen took a bit of getting used to.
For me the answer is any random book from Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchet. Both authors basically shaped my understabding of humour and the state of the world.
Two come to mind for me.

The first is Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. This was the first political book I had ever read and it completely rocked my world. I knew the US was involved in some nefarious stuff, but never to that extent. Completely changed the way I read news / history & how I react to current events.

The other book is Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
I'm not sure if I can answer that as I don't know their rating system. However, I'm confident of the fact that if they have inspectors who have expertise in Indian food then there will be dozens of restaurants from different Indian cities alone. Every part of India has unique food offerings and diversity. Street food alone has so much to offer in India. Now ever popular dishes (across the globe) like Butter Chicken were invented in few restaurants in New Delhi around 70-80 years ago.

[1] Butter Chicken - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_chicken
A lot of good answers already, but to add a slightly different perspective:

I'll always add a money back guarantee to any SaaS product where it makes sense. I believe it helps conversions, but I don't have data to back that up.

What it really does is help more easily identify the type of customer who would be a pain in the ass and costly to support, and give an easy way to fire them without it being a straight up "we don't want your business". Instead, its a "we're sorry we didn't live up to your expectations, per our guarantee, we're refunding you your last month and deactivating your account." or something to that effect, with variations based on circumstance. It turns a likely negative customer support interaction into a potentially positive one.
"It's ok to be greedy/selfish" is a clickbait title for the statement that you look out for yourself first and foremost whether you admit it or not, and you want things innately.

In a well regulated capitalist environment, those drives are yoked in a way that the paths through which you become rich and powerful and sexy are the same paths through which you improve the lives of others around you.

In a poorly regulated one you get dupont and enron, but show me a silver-bullet government theory and I'll show you an unrealistic fantasy.

>A mindset of "greed is good" and "it's okay to be self" does not even try to understand the difference between "need" and "want"

You're assigning that. Honestly I don't think most of Ayn Rand's critics have read her books.
It would be cool to get some of this stuff in Electron but I think in that case it's actually possible to just do this in your app yourself.

I've been heads down on Chromium + Electron performance with my app around a personal knowledge repository:

https://getpolarized.io/

Electron has been great for this but it can be slow.

We have to render PDF and HTML documents for annotation and this part can get overwhelmed if I lock up the main thread.

We still have a lot of work to go with threads and web workers to make this stuff easier I think. It's possible to do but it's definitely not easy.
There was also for a while a native Windows NT version of Calamus (they even had Alpha et al versions, if I remember correctly) that was quite good; I used it to make money for quite a long time, and although by now I guess there must be something that approaches its functionality (haven't followed DTP world in years), at the time it had features that Quark or Adobe couldn't touch.
And yet despite all the talk about the American Dream, social mobility in the US is uncommonly low amongst the Western democracies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#/media/File:Th...

The US is right there with deindustrialized Britain and Italy with its massive North-South divide. These are not exactly models to emulate.
Loved mailgun when I was using it a few years ago for some small campaigns. Unfortunately the free tier service had a big problem with server reputation. A noticable amount of emails were spam-flagged or rejected by recipient systems.

Not surprising that free services would be abused, but was a little disappointing. I would assume the paid customers get servers with better reputation/history.
So far it seems to me like research on game-playing AI has not carried over well to solving problems that people care about. Deepmind's success in applied settings doesn't really seem to have benefitted from any meaningful way from the game-playing research as far as I can tell. What are the best examples of this so far that people are aware of?
Nobody claims accuracy on the timescale of such a high resolution. Aditionally, we don't know about future emissions and land-use changes, and feedback effects, so we cannot predict the exact future.

Please check the wikipedia page for what is actually claimed.
Huh, I'd actually never noticed this.

Now that you say it, I see a lot of these comparisons talking about odds of a person born in one quartile/quintile ending up in a different bucket as an adult. Often, it's specifically cited as the chance of a person moving between the highest and lowest buckets. Which on reflection is actually a composite measure of income variability, inequality, and societal wealth.

Running those stats alongside a Gini coefficient would help somewhat, since lower coefficients imply more similar gaps between adjacent buckets. But even that's not enough on several levels. It wouldn't distinguish where inequality falls, particularly patterns like the US and Singapore with large variation inside the outer buckets, so a Lorenz curve would be more useful. It also doesn't clarify the raw size of the changes - position in society matters, but it also matters whether a ten-percentile jump is a 10% gain in purchasing power or a 100% gain.

I'm a bit embarrassed, really. That's a massive gap in the utility of those stats, and I never even considered how many different things the same numbers could mean.
It’s this sort of frothing hyperbole that gets the tech community laughed out of the room in the places where decisions are made. It’s not helpful.
How are they not profitable yet? Every third post seems to be an ad.

Their new design is hideous, but other than that it doesn't seem like they're doing anything tech-wise.

So is all the money just going into hosting fees? Or am I missing something?
One thing with Thousand Plateaus is that you don't have to read the book in sequence. You can start with random chapter. That's the only thing I remember from the book.
Agreed. Relationships are how we get things done in life. Reaching consensus, asking for help, motivation - all based around relationships with others.

Since How to Win Friends is already mentioned, I'll add Musashi here. There are so many lessons it's hard to pick them all out, plus I don't want to spoil it for anyone.
The RPG game "Traveller" [sic] has a method for creating fictional worlds using a variety of dice rolls. The original game was created in the early 80s, but the multiple editions since have created system of remarkable depth. One supplement even was able to generate biomes mapped to a dodecahedral sphere.

Size, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Population, Government, Law level, Technology, all would dictate the kind of goods available, the political structures, the economics.

It was so easy to generate systems that the game came up with an Atlas of the Imperium which featured thousands of stars. I can confirm that a sufficiently motivated nerd could rustle up a RPG subsector (with 20-40 planetary systems) in an hour.
I was surprised no one else mentioned at least one book by Dostoevsky, actually. At least, at the time of commenting.
Fuck hn for shadow banning
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SendGrid used to have a free plan but things have changed since being acquired. I moved to SendGrid anyways though and use their free 25,000 emails / month on Azure even though our app is hosted elsewhere:

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/app...
thanks! my text should be correct but the table is wrong. just fixed.
For what changed my outlook on life? Xenocide - Orson Scott Card. The 3rd book in the Ender's Game saga, it spend a lot of time exploring how people with fundamentally different perceptions and interpretations of the world around them led them to conduct themselves in ways that conflicted with each other, but were virtuous and the right thing to do according to them.

Was a big help in helping me understand how empathy can help to resolve issues and how fundamentally different we all can think - be it medieval humans or alien beings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenocide
I've seen sciter come up in discussion on quite a few threads related to Electron and other web browser embedding systems, but I've never seen a good answer for "why not sciter", so I'll try to put some points out here:

1. Electron is open source, sciter is free as in beer only.
2. Electron implements the exact same javascript as the web, sciter implements its own js-like language. Harder to find developers with experience, and harder move your app from sciter to some other engine down the line.
3. Electron implements the exact same html/css as the web, sciter implements html/css from a few years back plus its own proprietary bolt-ons. Same problems as #2.
> Reddit is raising $150 million to $300 million to keep the front page of the Internet running, multiple sources tell TechCrunch.

How much does it cost to run a website like Reddit per year?
Small labels. All kinds of niche music is not affiliated with the big associations. Ketzer Records is one, for example. That's one from the metal subgenre (Black/Pagan, Death, Doom, Ambient). I assume all niches have their own small labels.
Pew: Smartphone Penetration Ranges from 24% in India to 95% in South Korea
Add web notifications to your React chat app
7 Habits made me think about certain things differently, but I had many people tell me that it really changed their life. Didn't do that for me, but "change your life" is a really high bar. Definitely How to Win Friends did.
Is there a theoretical reason for the "self-referential struct problem", or is it just an artifact of the current borrow-checker implementation?

It doesn't seem unsafe to have a struct field refer to another member of that struct, but maybe I'm missing something.
I read this book at a time when I had lost my religion which had been very dear to me and the foundation all of my thinking. I was reading lots of different religious texts. This was the first thing I read that said that how we know what we know is more important than what we know. It was the first philosophy I had encountered that would challenge even evidence in favor of itself on the grounds that that evidence didn't meet a certain bar of quality. That was huge and this book helped me understand that concept. Which really made scientific skepticism stand out from other belief systems.
Yea, there are pros and cons to bigger and smaller homes. It’s just that the marketing of the Tiny House “Movement” and the constant pushing for us to be happy with small apartments instead of houses reminds me of Huxley. “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard.”
Just discovering the game but the imperfect information and convergent nature of the game looks like a good fit for a monte-carlo based algorithm.
The Selfish Gene & The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins

Evolution is the reason we exist! Understanding how it happens and why it can lead to counterintuitive outcomes is very important. He also narrates his own audiobooks and is excellent at it.

The Blank Slate & The Better Angels of our Nature by Pinker

Both books counter much accepted wisdom. The second book, in particular, will make you think of humanity in a fundamentally different light.

The Black Swan & Fooled by Randomness by Taleb

The role of chance in everyday life! It plays a big role!
The degradation seems to directly correlate with the modern-feel of the page. I'm not sure if that's intentional. It seems that modern front end fashion is a huge step backwards from earlier fashions in web development.
You are definitely not only one mate
The problem is that technology developed for "good" drone surveillance can be transferred quite easily to drones with strike capabilities.
> What would you suggest the alternative is?

Does there need to be one? This site seems to manage to avoid it. Quite how you get into the situation reddit did is mystifying to me.

I completely agree that anonymous free speech is not the ideal it sounds.
Bruce Pascoe, "Dark Emu"

This book really highlighted for me how we literally rewrite history to suit our own prejudices, and finally taught me what "history is written by the victor" actually means (including claiming victory).
It is highly compressed! but not in a dense way, distilled might be a better term.

He writes my favorite books.
He mentioned a new software job. An onboarding "event" should more or less happen existing software /architecture. This wasn't mentioned.

Pair programming is slow. You want everyone to be B+, while they become C's.

I keep the A+'s and migrate the F's to testing or something else.

I never excluded meetings anywhere.

I suppose the normal flow of analysis and explaining inner workings/features is still possible, I hadn't banned them. Just mentioned the stand-up as a recurring event for normal development days
One of the strangest things about that text is that very few of the folks I've talked to about it seem to feel that the issue with the pigs at the end is that there is a farmer.

That is to say, I very rarely find anyone who will agree that the book is anti-capitalist at teh same time that it's opposed to Stalinism.

I see the book continually taken happily anti-communist text. But the text is certainly not _just_ about the Soviet system under Stalin.

Over the years, the big impact of Orwell to me has been how readily people can look at systems that they consider to be Other than their own and critique them while eagerly ignoring the implications for their own situation. That is, everyone here thinks the sheep are dumb, but at least they went through a period of time where they tried to replace the farmer with a different pig... where I live in Texas, all the sheep just think they are the farmer.
Diamond is bunk science, however. We discussed this not a week ago. Some https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19045376 here , more on r/askhistorians
I believe you are doing your self a disservice.

As you grow older and “wiser” you realise that your time is precious. So you understand the opportunity cost of reading a book. You should then choose books that are foundational that are often the sources used by other books. You see more deeply into the meta meanings in the books, drawing many more links to other concepts hence you understand them better. This also means you could probably read much more deep/technical or difficult books.
Yes. Let's ban repulsive stuff defined by democratic vote. Since the country is mostly Christian, no more talking about gay people - that's repulsive. Welcome to Russia.

What is downright repulsive is people who think like you do. Here's an idea - you don't like it, don't go to the subreddit and let them do what they want. We don't need people like you dictating the repulsiveness level of what others can say. I know it makes you feel more in control of your life, but who would want to live like you do? That would be one sad existence.
Thanks for mentioning an amazing book of literature. The Master and Margarita is my favorite fiction book! I've read it in two translations and I prefer the Burgin & O'Connor to the Glenny, but both are great.

Everytime I read it I gain more insights. I absolutely recommend reading this book alongside a readers guide which gives more background and depth, there are many biblical, historical, and author-related references that won't be understood otherwise. The author's own life is massively relevent to the events of the novel. I recommend this guide:

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-Critical-Companion-A...
The disgusting and disrespectful portions might be a reference, but it was the "Glasses at the end of his nose" line that jumped out as a potential dog whistle. The response with 25 upvotes that talks about Shumer's "sniveling nose" also doesn't help.

I know that politicians getting criticized for their looks is just part of the equation and Trump is a big victim of that. However it is a little different when you are criticizing a Jewish person's "sniveling nose", especially in a community that is routinely accused of being hateful and antisemitic.

EDIT: This comment is being heavily downvoted, but I am not sure why. Like I said in my original post this wouldn't meet my personal definition of hate speak. However is it really outlandish to suggest that a community that has been accused of antisemitism might be signaling their antisemitism when their criticism of a Jewish person is the most stereotypical physical characteristic of the Jewish people?
I can't help but feel bad about it, like we really shouldn't be killing anything to eat or to any purpose at all. Yes i'm much more sensibilized than most but we all should be.
Interesting that most of the comments here are about Reddit itself (the product) and almost nothing about Tencent.

For reminder, Tencent owns

- Riot Games (League of Legends, one of the most played game in the west)

- Epic Games (Fortnite, another one of the most played game in the west)

- and now Reddit (one of the most visited social network in the west)
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Indeed, and the encryption is split too. Overall it is starting to look nice to use, although I need to read the spec in more detail to understand a bunch of the details.
The thing is that there's really no other nascent burgeoning platform that could take its place (like reddit did to digg). The Internet has become much more centralized in the past ~8 years ago. And so because of that, users have no choice but to deal with it.
I feel like one such event that could do it though is turning off their API for 3rd party applications. Wouldn't be surprised if it happens soon either, given the advertising pushes they've given their native application over the past year.
I'm a fan of Quakebot by the LA Times. The bot even gets a byline: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earth...
Using Azure CloudShell as a Dev Sandbox
I think very similiar to ighhh.

It doesn't make it fair that in theory 'everyone' could get into it or that it takes probably much longer for someone to do my job than the other way around (like yes i think i would be able to sell things).

I don't know how we should incentive instead but it doesn't make it fair.
What makes an emotional connection genuine? I firmly believe that Dale Carnegie actually cared about his readers, and was telling them these things in order to make them happier, and make the world a better place. And I am grateful for his efforts. Isn't that a valid emotional connection, even though we never met in person?

Or think about it another way... when you listen to music by Bach, do you feel an emotional connection? Do you see it as crass or alienated, or are you feeling something that a long-dead composer wanted you to feel, and grateful for the experience?
It's such a weird twist of irony that someone like Dawkins invented a term that has been so abused and deformed beyond all recognition. As expected, he hates what it's become; but it has truly evolved, beyond his control, so there's a wonderful truth there!
One more thing I'd like to add, my mother has a very similar kind of depression as I do, and ketamine was not effective for her at all. She was on a fairly high, regular dose of opiate medication, and also she's in her mid 50s. Doc said that it doesn't work as well sometimes, for older people. But we couldn't say for sure if it was her age or the opiates, and getting her off the opiates wasn't an option for her unfortunately.
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm Of Coming Into Existence by David Benatar . The best argument I've read as to what it means for a human being to be brought into existence, why it does that person more harm than good, and why we should consider the question. While people generally find the idea distasteful, especially if being or becoming a parent is a primary focus of their life, I have yet to see any well-reasoned refutation to his argument that isn't addressed in the book. The only problem is it can leave you with a somewhat constant feeling of "well, what now?".
this is nonsense.

there are certainly a number of forensic fields which are garbage.

other portions are fine, and are effectively analytical chemistry applied to legal cases. are you aware of a lot of double blind studies in analytical chemistry? what would that even mean?
But that's a small home, not a tiny home. But even small homes (if they exist at all) cost at least 500k in many cities.
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So little sci-fi here. I was influenced a lot by Lukyanenko and his Wonderful Future series of short stories about the post-UBI world.
https://qz.com/1408469/humans-have-bred-fruits-to-be-so-high...
If you take a look at https://pushshift.io/, comment/post activity has seen significant growth in 2018. Of course, this is a completely different metric from unique visitors. I mod a large-ish (top 20 by subscriber count) sub so I can see traffic stats for the sub. Our monthly unique visitor count barely grew over 2018 although that is not very representative of site activity as a whole either.

The team at Reddit has all the data. They will know how to leverage/present them in order to raise more money. Web ranking is not the only thing used in valuation.
Adjusted to inflation, the iPhone 4S was 722$. XR is 749$(not 800 by the way). 27$ difference, not too bad considering the technology is superior in every way to the 4S.

https://i.redd.it/jclu70hbjzw11.png
Machiavelli on Mergers and Acquisitions
Introducing: Linode Dedicated CPU Instances
What does CPG stand for?