skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering right now companies like Facebook are very actively making the world a worse place I would say this would be a strong move towards something better.
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People are still using Google in 2019 ?
But isn't that like saying Chicago is one of the deadliest cities in America, but it still shows up on tourist recommendations? As a Chicago native, it is dangerous, but only if you go way deep into the wrong area, which you would have to do on purpose -- everywhere else is pretty safe in general
Perhaps a less opinionated description of new tech, and their business proposition is here [1]

"...
FreedomCoin is a regulated cryptocurrency powered by BitRail for merchants that puts the power of payments
back into the consumer’s hands.

Meant to be used for inexpensive, instant, and secure payments and money transfers,

FreedomCoin allows consumers — for the first time — to have access to a cryptocurrency for common transactions with impressive ease-of-use.

..."

Pricing is 1.9% per transaction (at the same link).
Better than credit cards or paypal, obviously.

No more than 5,000 USD per transaction (regardless if it is an ACH transaction or just between parties).

The usage is not anonymous.

[1] https://freedomcoin.cc/#more
Sounds like you’d like to see Google classified as a class II common carrier...
You can share account access with other accounts. There is a Users & Permissions panel in the Google Play Console you can use to invite new members. There's no need to share your password with other people.
See NextDoubleHighRes() here:

https://github.com/colgreen/Redzen/blob/master/Redzen/Random...

There's an explanation in the comments, and a link to the original fuller explanation and source, here:

https://mumble.net/~campbell/tmp/random_real.c

I.e. I'm pretty sure your approach gives a non uniform distribution, but happy to discuss in more detail if you want.
Not sure what reddit's user growth rate is these days, but remember that a large proportion of users weren't around for some of reddit's other crises.
Please correct me if this is disingenuous, but I feel like you basically just said you're used to having VCs subsidize your entertainment platforms and that you've extrapolated that entitlement into a justification for never paying for any entertainment acquired over the Internet.

It has worked for several years. So why not?

At the very least, it seems obvious that it's unsustainable and likely that creative artists will be the first squeezed.

It's unlikely this would ever happen. But mostly, I'd be fine with embedded ads if they were used responsibly. But, according to Wikipedia, Spotify was founded over 10 years ago. In 2017, it was reported that it was still not profitable despite its subscription models: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38930699. Last year it launched an IPO.
So somehow, Spotify magically became profitable enough to launch an IPO or it lasted over 10 years from what looks like VC funding without being profitable and is still not profitable.
That leaves only one question, how does such a business survive so long without profit and did VC's really care considering how popular the platform is.
Western PA in general seems to be slipping back into (as I've been told it was like) the pollution of the 70's.

Even without the recent coke plant fire, Pittsburgh had a record worst year (since they've cleaned up in the past few decades at least) for days of high airborne particulates, warnings for those with asthma, etc.

The gas wells in the south west of the state used to pool their run off/waste water (which contains at least benzene IIRC) and wait for it to evaporate off. Those pools occasionally leaked though, and the pictures of dead fish in nearby ponds/streams looked bad. So now they mist the water and spray it into the air to be dispersed over a larger area. Last time I was home I saw my neighbor mowing his yard with a white surgical mask on.

Tap water has turned cloudy at best and isn't trusted by anyone, so everybody buys bottled water, which just increases pollution again.

Last I read though, Bayer was getting out of Pittsburgh, and BNYM was doing a bunch of layoffs. As much as they should, I can't imagine the local govts bringing down the hammer anytime soon. In leiu of tax breaks, Appalachia has a long history of selling the environment and locals health in exchange for business.
No, they didn’t “give it away”. Please let’s stick to facts. The news is being extremely dishonest. Apps that you could send FB messages through could see the message (how else would it work?) And it was explicitly opt-in, users had to authorize it.

“Take Spotify for example. After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app. Our API provided partners with access to the person’s messages in order to power this type of feature.”

https://www.thewrap.com/members/2018/12/19/facebook-admits-n...
Agreed. A lot of the "good" stuff you can do for SEO nowadays is pretty close to "stuff you should be doing anyway" for accessibility, usability, etc.
I believe the point parent was trying to make is that advertisers are more valuable customers while app developers, as customers, are expendable.
Would that be so wrong?
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If they get a seat on the board, they become a pretty loud voice in the company.
The real problem is when you can't reasonably choose to do business with someone else and move on, as they are free to do with you.

Something I learned the hard way when I first started out in business is to never make your business dependent on a single entity.

Whether it's a supplier, or a publisher, or a telco, or whatever. They are all single points of failure, and unless you're a huge business, one failure can be all that's needed to take you down, too.

Yes, Google Play is effectively the only way to publish an Android program. But it's also a single point of failure, which is why until there is no longer a mobile program duopoly, I don't invest in app companies.
Unless whoever is patrolling this filtering is completely insane just show them that page that you were on and how hovering over the link triggers the filter.

Every instance of web filtering I've been subject to in my life just blocks the bad page and the admins expect people to have a few bad requests just by accident or whatever. You'd have to be constantly hitting the filter for it to actually become a real issue.
A chemist friend of mine has handwriting that is illegible even to him, and his solution is a high quality dictaphone. He used to have it transcribed, but today he just hooks it up to a computer and lets it do the work.
I think you’re mischaracterizing the genesis of this design pattern. Fowler didn’t come up with it based on what he saw in nature, but instead saw something in nature that allowed him to illustrate the pattern in an understandable way.
Those app developers who have been dutifully paying fees to Google may be surprised to discover that they are somehow not also paying customers...
I'd also hesitate wasting resources in such a way.

About your first statement though, which server software do you use that still sends data after the client has closed the connection? Doesn't it use hearbeats based on ACKs?
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> Beyond some point even actual violence is OK.

For behaving like a jerk? That's bonkers.
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It might be but in that case they should have told them so. Not just "you are banned because of somebody else, sorry, good bye"
Do you snore? There are health reasons to see a doctor about it
Just create a new account and reupload the app!?
I think this is the argument for PUT instead of POST, not GET instead of POST.
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Rule of law demands it be clear what is and is not illegal. Make it illegal to film people in public and the guy who made the Rodney King tape is going to jail.
Sure, but how do we retrain billions of users? And more importantly, how should we convince two massive companies that take 30% of all appstore revenue to give up their control?
The inflation would render the money we gave everyone nearly worthless, by approximately the amount given out. It’s similar to adding six zeros to every bank account.
I'd guess most of them, if you actually consider the whole world.

Probably not enough to matter, if you are only looking at the UK.
Facebook is people and people suck. Facebook is also a scapegoat and to the contrary of what a resentful media industry would like you to believe the sum of their contributions to the world is overwhelmingly positive
There are a number of issues with System.Random, all of the known issues to date are described in this open github issue:

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/23298

The redzen library contains RNGs that address all of the known issues, e.g. see:

https://github.com/colgreen/Redzen/blob/master/Redzen/Random...

https://github.com/colgreen/Redzen/blob/master/Redzen/Random...

That Xoshiro256StarStarRandom source has also been merged into Math.Net.
>No one has ever died from targeted advertising.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-go...

Targeted advertising can be and is used to target people at their most vulnerable. There almost certainly is a death toll.
Don't hold your breath, you're not the only one. They claimed I clicked on my own ads which was never the case, of course there is no way to appeal. They stole my money because yes, they still owe me money, these punks sent me a 25€ voucher to buy ads, like it solves anything.... I will never ever trust them or rely on any of their services like the Google Cloud Platform.
A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume (Sect. VII. – Conclusion)
The other problem is that 10 senior devs sounds like too many cooks and egos in one kitchen.

Junior devs have less experience, but that also can mean less rigidity and a willingness to explore new options.
I got pay walled to read this. Cleared cookies. Paywall climbed; now reading about pay walls...
Those middle class progressives sure are easy to spot. Unlike you, with your innovative counter-arguments like “homogeneous country v.s. diverse America”, “some people just wanna be addicts”, “street lifestyle”—you are a real original.
Only a small part adjacent to god-blessed America is something like a warzone.
The argument you made is cyclical -- it assumes what it's asked to prove.

To say "Clojure doesn't run Lisp code" is to already assume Clojure is not a Lisp (else you would have to admit that it does run Lisp code: its own).
Have read some of it. Maybe I should read more of it.
Yes, there is, it's called the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. It's called the US legal system. That is the apparatus.

You have no constitutional right to have a Google account. And you probably agreed to forced arbitration in the Google TOS and likely even agreed that Google can terminate your account for any reason, at any time, without cause.

Good example: https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-poli...

Son commits crime using father's car and car is seized using civil forfeiture. The car has already been returned and the ACLU is fighting the police department in federal court:

https://www.tba.org/sites/default/files/cain.complaint.pdf

Not saying civil forfeiture doesn't need to be reigned in, it does, but there is a legal apparatus for getting your stuff back. I admit it gets trickier on things that cannot be traced easily, like cash, but I'm mostly responding to the OPs example of an innocent persons car being used in a crime by someone else.

Another good example below where the owner of the vehicle committed a crime in the car they owned and the state tried to seize the vehicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana

So, I admit the legal system moves slow, but there is clearly a strong legal case for fighting these unlawful seizures.
Unfortunately the macroeconomic aspect is a total taboo in Germany. Even "solidary" leftists claim we profit so much from the Euro... The ones on the very left get it, but they barely talk about it. Germany will never give up on the cheated export surplus until the whole thing goes bust.

Hell, barely anyone gets it anyway. Germany is certainly not alone to blame. How can the competitiveness of Germany increase for more than a decade without any other EU country caring? In the past they devalued their currencies, so why didn't they act now? Also Germany violates the 6% export surplus limit, no one cares!
Maybe you should head over there to see for yourself what it's like.

This summer, I'll be heading to Mexico (Monterrey) and San Antonio again, and I'm looking forward to Monterrey a lot more than San Antonio.

Mexico, apart from certain regions (like almost everywhere) is pretty great.
Yes - they're a private company, albeit unfair in this particular instance.
Oh, that actually makes sense. It atleast explains why interest can be nagative on bunds. It's money with a back-up copy in e.g. the Central Bank if you lose it.

Why make the fuzz and having bunds in the first place and not just have the Central Bank offer accounts with a card connected? The bund system seems like an arcaic paper thing that made sense 40 years ago.
You mean "if that page is cached"?
question: what makes hanging out in fortnite different from hanging out in a popular new bar; and corollary : moving on to the new cool bar when it opens up?

I've played a bunch of fortnite last year, even spent a bit of money on some outfits and got a better mouse for builds - don't want to be a default ya'know ;).

It was "fun times" for sure - even met a few people I tried to play with regularly if I saw them online.
Ultimately, the fun factor sort of wore off....next.
Good idea. I'll check that out! Thanks.
Is Thakkar's position that his company did not understand that this "back of book" feature was against the law, or is it a legal feature (perhaps supported by other platforms) that "Trader A" happened to use in an illegal manner?

Does it seem odd that the identity of "Trader A" is shielded given they are the party that directly violated the law? Is "Trader A" taking a plea deal to testify against Thakkar?

I'm sure the truth lies someplace in between, but the government allegations (if taken at face value) seem (to me) to be both plausible and damning. Personally, I hope "Trader A" pays a price and not just these devs.

Unfortunately, at the moment, the government's side sure does read like "Trader A" said: "Hey I would like to break the law, can you help me?" and the devs said "Sure, we can do that."
> Keep G Suite

Why, so Google can pull the rug out from under me at the least opportune moment?
No, Google sends a "litigation paralegal" to small claims court. But you will eventually lose:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-go...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-google-bo...
app stores ruin everything
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Can you elaborate on the sum of facebooks contributions being positive?

Not disagreeing here, I just don’t know what contributions you are referring to.
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Dlaf: Diffusion-limited aggregation, fast
This is a widespread tradeoff. I'd a conversation with a first-tier college biology professor, about a way to give a more integrated, transferable understanding of a topic. He liked it, but observed, my students will shortly be taking the MCAT (high-stakes medical school entrance exam), and our time together is limited, and the MCAT doesn't test for understanding of the topic, only for something superficial and memorizable, so, I would be doing my students a disservice if I reallocated time to understanding.

Perhaps early primary school is an opportunity to escape this tension. With weaker test constraints, and more years of payoffs over which to amortize the costs of better understanding.
Should have used SSR if they really had to stick with the SPA angle for it.
I personally have worked on successful rewrites when the existing system was actually broken. Maybe it worked enough to get most work done but there are manual steps to keep it from falling apart completely. Development has gone off the rails. The rewrite can be a winner that constantly delivers useful functionality.
In the codebase I maintain, this boils down to a 'gradual rewrite from the outside in' combined with refactoring bits of the 'in' where practical. You create new independent code paths on the way 'in' instead of trying to make the existing ones cope with yet another use case. These tend to highlight bits of existing core code which can be refactored as isolated and testable components, typically by copy-pasting them into a separate library and updating references piecemeal. Old code hangs around as long as it's referenced, but new code doesn't necessarily have to touch that copy.

Eventually the monolith's trunk gets hollowed out as useful pieces become dependencyless libraries, and the tangled knot of rotting branches, vines, and strange green things with purple lumps starts to die back as a multitude of independent and healthy trunks grow from the surrounding earth.

At the risk of breaking the metaphor...
Isomorphic server side rendering gets you the best of both worlds and isn't hard to set up these days as long as you have it in mind from the start.
I don't know exactly what that version was, but you may be able to use about:config to enable JS modules.
So the largest companies in China going around buying up pieces of social media and entertainment companies around the world isn't strategically interesting?

The Chinese government forced a US company to publicly apologise when their website merely listed Hong Kong on the same level as China in a dropdown.

The government attempts to control the global narrative about China in any way they can. Of course they were involved with this.
Distro repositories are great but they are several orders of magnitudes smaller than the app stores. Ubuntu has ~50k packages available, app stores host millions of apps. Package maintainers to a great job but I don't think this model can scale up.
These days there's a soft reset every 5-6 months when a new raid tier comes out rather than only once per expansion. For the last few years they've tried hard to make it so that when someone who played years ago gets the urge to give it another try they can actually make it into the endgame content before that urge passes.
Just to add to the others, JOTR[1] had 150 player servers in 2004, with highly concentrated fighting areas.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Operations:_Typhoon_Risi...
Don’t need that, just signed messages.
Possibly we could generate a random number at the subnormal range (with 0 exponent) then multiply by 0.99999~ divided by the greatest possible 0 exponent number.

uint64 x = rand64()&0x000F'FFFF'FFFF'FFFF
return *(double*)&x * 4.49423283715579e+307

I tweaked the multiplier as high as possible without producing 1, but there might be a fraction of a bit bias introduced by the multiplication compared to the method of subtracting 1 from 1-2 range.

edit:
That multiplier seems to be essentially 2^1022, in which case there may be no quantization noise possible in multiplying by it. It may simply cause the exponent to be increased and the result normalised.
Are they a natural monopoly by choice or by necessity? Not sure what "natural" means, here. I could imagine some sort of federation that would make them less of a monopoly, understandably not Google's choice, though.
Yeah same, I find `ReAdABLE` unpleasant to read.
The integers are totally closed under multiplication. They lack an inverse under multiplication that's why they aren't a field.
> if somebody used a GET http link to logout from a webpage,

If you violate the standards, your website doesn't work. Who knew?

> People who read articles by highlighting the text with the mouse would also probably hover over all of the links and would end up wasting bandwidth for no reason.

"For no reason" is obviously wrong, making the web snappier is a reason.

Maybe browsers should only prefetch links on bloated websites since their owners clearly don't mind wasting bandwidth.
That person can simply choose not to use Facebook.
Indeed. I think the key point here is that even if the rewrite 'only' takes 4 years, how many new features have been added to the original codebase (maintained for 'continuity') in the meantime?

There's usually some expectation that the rewrite will make it 'quicker' to develop these new features so of course it will catch up. Eventually. After ten years of splitting the dev team to maintain two codebases. One of which has not produced any value in that time.

Alternatively the application featureset is frozen for the duration of the rewrite, and the company folds halfway through.
I am just inferring from the blurb at the bottom that he does have a final book coming out and this is probably an excerpt.

A final collection of his essays, “Everything in Its Place,” will be published in April
Also: sometimes a site is misbehaving (for myself, or maybe for a user we're helping) and it's helpful to directly navigate to /logout just to know everyone is rowing in the same direction.

Using a POST, especially if you're building through a framework that automatically applies CSRF to your forms, forecloses this possibility (unless you maintain a separate secret GET-supporting logout endpoint, I guess).
It's fine from your perspective, but put yourself in the shoes of politicians. It's their job to advocate for the best outcome for their constituents, which means that they would like all of the jobs to come to their constituents.

>It's Apple claiming they should only pay Irish taxes on the profits of selling an iPhone developed in California, manufactured in China and sold in Italy because they have opened an office full of accountants in Ireland.

They're already paying various amounts of taxes in all of those regions. VAT is paid where the person buys the product, for example. Income taxes are paid where the workers are.
I’m assuming this means you were paying them as well?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6834791
Disregarding security, the app stores also (try) to filter out crap applications, blatant rip-offs, applications that steal your data or ruin your battery by mining bit coins. These things usually don't really need to circumvent the sandbox. One can of course argue that the stores don't really do a great job policing the right things but they are efficient to some degree (e.g.: the recent facebook spy-vpn fiasco).

One other thing is that, at least in Apple app store, the review process catches use of private APIs which are in theory harmless but are not considered stable and could cause the application to crash if a minor update changes the way they work.
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Oh how this made me realize just how much I miss the internet of the 90s.
Of course. Not every application running in a browser is a website just because it runs in the browser. However, here we're talking about a very websitish website, with its websiteness even being the central point of its websitey existence... and yet it doesn't work as a website ;)
> The argument you made is cyclical

It's not. Lisp code existed before Clojure.

If it can only run its own code, then it is no Lisp. Lisps share code.

I have a zillion lines of Lisp code. Then Clojure appears. It runs none of my zillion lines of Lisp and none will be directly translated to it (because it uses different data structures, has different operators, has different semantics, has different pragmatics). -> it's no Lisp

It's derived from or influenced by Lisp, that's it.

Like ML was derived from Lisp (it was originally even implemented in Lisp) and does not run any Lisp code. It's also no Lisp.
Not what I meant. I mean that now I assume newspapers get most of their traffic from Facebook instead of Google, so they won't care as much if Google delists them.