skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's take a look at ElasticSearch, since that's the current hot topic.

If Lucene followed the same logic being espoused here, then ElasticSearch as we know it wouldn't exist, because they wouldn't be able to use Lucene, which is an incredibly core component to ES. Elastic employs several people to work on Lucene full time at this point, so they're "giving back" in that regard, but they're still making money off of pre-existing open source.

What is the litmus test for this being okay? No one seems to be upset at Elastic for making money off Lucene, but the idea of the big cloud vendors making money off of ES is upsetting to a lot of people. If Amazon or Microsoft employed a handful of people to work on ElasticSearch full time does it become okay then?
The visual simile is Ok, but it contradicts theory of Relativity developed by Einstein, because theory was based on _absence_ of these ripples in vacuum, as proven by Michelson–Morley_experiment, which leaded to assumption that c(vacuum) = const.

IMHO, author should change text to "like the ripples in fabric of pond created by tossing a pebble in a pond", to be in line with Einstein.
I'm predicting "Whoops! Someone reported it, but our ML service detected it as a false flag so no human was able to review the report. Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, and we will make an effort in the future to prevent this from happening again."
so why do you hate it? what are the reasons you'd rather be on AWS?
Of course, his opponent was objectively unqualified for every conceivable post but had the opportunity to be elected president of the U.S. merely because of her husband's name.

America's in a lot of trouble. 2020 is going to make 2016 look like Jefferson & Adams.
Maybe it will not make "Lamborghini collection" money, but I have been making "buy a house and raise a family" money from it for the last 8 years. I know I'm privileged in this regard.

In my last 3 gigs, one of them was fully opensource (the Madrid City Hall decided to build a direct democracy platform) and the two others have been "open core", where there was an open-source component accompanied by an "enterprise offering" which was closed source, with extra features. Money was made by selling this "enterprise version", plus support, to other companies. This money pays for my salary, which involves mostly the open source side of things. The Open Source version is a "foundation" and a very good "marketing tool" amongst other developers. There's an ecosystem built on top of the open source version and we have some pull requests from the community. The main drive behind new features is still our internal dev team.
Note they said "less than 40 hours", so that's "at least $300/hour". I feel like my buyers agent, who I really liked, worked more like 10-20 hours for $9K, for $450-$900/hour.

Don't get me wrong, I really liked her and she did a great job, but I'm not sure she did $9K great...
The IRS has always been good with me -- they've been fair and fast (for a federal government operation).

My state's revenue department is the one I truly fear.
Or you can go work for a normal company that treats its employees well. There's plenty of them out there; it's a competitive market for good staff.

*Edit: I don't understand the downvotes. If you're in tech at the moment and somewhat competent, you can basically name your price and benefits.
> a technical term making it illegal to share, possess or distribute.

This crosses a line between discouraging horrific material being easily available by pressuring Facebook, which practically speaking makes sense because people who wouldn't want to see it might see it, and a ban on facts. If they can ban this video, could they also ban videos of police or military abuses of power produced by a private citizen?

It isn't even an obviously good idea socially, that video (which I have not seen) is presumably one of the most pro-Muslim and pro-gun-control pieces of propaganda to be produced in the last 30 years. There is no pressure group that supports gunning down peaceful people at prayer time.
Facebook is a microcosm of the internet as a whole. The "X thing" here is a global decentralized network, not social media.
They're also begging for change: https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/385098/new-zealand-i...
I believe CS degrees require discreet math (and highschool algebra 2), which means they've done permutations and combinatorics, so yes they've done these types of problems before. The real question is how long has it been?
> Well, I asked the question, and I consider his response an answer.

It's non sequitur at best, but technically an answer, sure.

I'm more interested in something tangible and (hopefully) universifiable than "delete Facebook".
Kiwi TCMS releases version 6.6
Are you saying that if San Francisco has more people, it will become more sustainable and affordable and people will be happier?

Of course that's a broken causal chain and obvious straw man. You have to start out with more and cheaper housing. Economic analyses indicate we could build a huge amount more housing, and people would snap it up. Build enough to actually bring the housing prices down, and yes, there would be a much more vibrant and diverse city life. (But the market has to follow this naturally. Legislating prices lower will have the opposite effect.)

As far as cities being "sustainable" -- cities draw resources to themselves. That's simply how it works. Sustainability is something that only matters in the economy as a whole. Cities need not be locally sustainable to generate wealth and to be a positive benefit to society.

Paint that picture for me, please.

New York City in the past. Houston in its run up to becoming the 4th largest metropolitan area in the US. Chicago in the past as well. San Francisco is artificially held back from the density the market in other cities have achieved.
I disagree, I think you're describing what a surprise is.
I'm not sure what specifically caused it, but a representative from the Play policy team just reached out to us and has given a thorough review of our developer account and reinstated it.

We are extremely grateful to anyone in this community that may have played a hand in having a real person at the Play policy team reach out, as well as the ongoing conversation here to improve overall relations between the Play store and it's developers.
> The state should have been working on some plan to give high-speed access from the SF Bay, where property is really expensive, into the Central Valley where it's really cheap.

Given that that's one of the key things HSR would have provided (and a key reason that it routed through the inhabited part of Valley), and one of the earliest it would have (with the planned San Jose to Merced Initial Operating Segment) provided, how exactly was it solving the wrong problem?
>Why shouldn't he? The bigger valley companies got caught in a wage fixing scheme that by some estimates depressed wages by around 20% across the board, and all they did is send out a few checks for a few hundred to some of the employees.
>He's almost certainly not getting a fair market wage.

Bingo! Complaints like that sound like people getting mad at professional athletes for getting paid and asking for more. If they get less money it's not as if you, the fan, are going to see that in lower ticket prices or anything. That's just money that goes to management instead. Why are YOU mad about it?
The part I seem to be missing, is that most of the people working at Kickstarter are the top 2-5% of the U.S.. Their business caters to many people who want to start projects, who aren't living pay-check-to-pay-check anyway.

I don't really understand the purpose of the unionization effort, beyond the facade of just wanting to in some way "fit in" with a social movement.
I used Tildes during the first round of public closed alpha and it's pretty nice, everyone was polite, and they didn't put up with rude folks or bullshit trolls. I ended up quitting because there wasn't enough content at the time and I was wasting too much time there, like I did on Reddit. However, I would say it might be worth going back there to check it out again. The platform itself is open source, I believe, and it uses as little JS as possible to make the site simple.
Weren't they on the Gimlet Startup podcast too? [1] Looks to be a different company/founder though.

The other bento started out trying to make the meals themselves but couldnt make them cheap enough. They were losing money on every one sold. Eventually, if I remember right, they tried to pivot to a service like this that got meals from restaurants, but didnt fair much better. They were doing last mile delivery though if I recall.

[1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/kitchen-confidential-sea...
That's palpably false. She was the single most qualified candidate for President, from a policy viewpoint, the nation has ever had. It was dismissive nonsense like that comment, that was her biggest obstacle.
When did the "Awesome Bar" become the "Quantum Bar", what's the difference, and why can't they call it the "address bar" (yes despite it being overloaded with other functions)?
From Apple's info page on Location Services:

> Your approximate location is determined using information from local Wi-Fi networks, and is collected by Location Services in a manner that doesn’t personally identify you.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204690
Perhaps true but if you are buying and don't have a broker you can already reduce the price 3% by not having the seller pay any buyer broker fees.

That's a garaunteed 60% discount off of you hypothetical 5% that the agent would have negotiated.
The data is available (although anonymized), so you can just run your own analysis.

Here's the mean z-score (and its standard deviation in brackets) aggregated by country, elite status and gender:

China elite male: 0.360 (1.534)
China elite female: -0.338 (1.046)
China non-elite male: -0.730 (0.623)
China non-elite female: -0.791 (0.514)
India elite male: 0.181 (1.304)
India elite female: -0.538 (0.918)
India non-elite male: -0.847 (0.599)
India non-elite female: -0.921 (0.459)
Russia elite male: -0.374 (0.975)
Russia elite female: -0.829 (0.602)
Russia non-elite male: -0.739 (0.594)
Russia non-elite female: -0.897 (0.445)
USA elite male: 0.872 (1.006)
USA elite female: 0.563 (1.174)
USA non-elite male: 0.146 (0.958)
USA non-elite female: -0.248 (0.818)
> Who are these people? I never know this dark side of humanity exist and it horrifies me.

Here you go: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-...

They're terrible people who largely manage to avoid doing illegal (merely unethical) things as a hobby.
You know, they can both be bad.

Just because a government does bad things to a group, doesn't mean the group is now good. Doesn't mean they're bad either.
Could someone in the know please dilate on this claim?

"Fixed: <button> element is no longer special cased in event dispatch, per latest specifications"
To avoid trashing the ...

(... trashing the what? What’s going on? Where’s the article gone? scrolls up/down. Oh... premium article)

The UX on that was really bad.
I think the issue is that refutations now occur closer to real-time. Consequently, the book doesn't get time to get buried into academic "consciousness".

I suspect that things like "Freakonomics", for example, would qualify, except that people have already picked it apart.
> The point is to take pressure off the airspace

The original business plan actually was based around taking pressure of need for increased freeway capacity, not relieving airspace pressure.
Ask HN: What would you recommend a 14y/o to learn over the next 2 years?
So here's the deal; I'm 14, a hobbyist web developer and I'm really overwhelmed by how many things I could learn.
My goal is to be proficient in at least one major stack by the time I'm 16, so I can A) Have something to show off to colleges and therefore B) have even more to show off to potential employers. I feel like 2 years is enough for me to get a moderate understanding of a popular tech stack, however I have no clue what. I know I'm capable enough in PHP and I'd like to imagine I know my way around the LAMP/LEMP stack, however I _really_ don't want a career in PHP development.

So, HN, what would you recommend I commit to and practice throughout the next 2 years?

If it makes it easier to help, I'm currently capable in Python, PHP, and the basic web stack: HTML, CSS, JS (as well as Node.js for server-side).

Thanks!
Lyft's $23B IPO is already oversubscribed
Due to GP's mention of playing Valve games on Linux, I mistakenly assumed the poster was hoping to run the other games locally. Thanks.
What I am hearing is “Hey corporations, we have this great open source project and everyone should adopt it (including you!) just don’t try to contribute your changes upstream because they are toxic and serve your dirty, corporate needs. This project should serve the needs of the indie developer first, non-commercial developers second and commercial developers last.”
This has been the way Google has worked from the beginning. Stories like this need to be shouted from the rooftops every time they happen, just to warn people. Google got to where they are today by building absolutely everything with a mind to scale, and justice doesn't scale.
Hmm, which tax penalty do you mean?
Data miners find giant flying beasts may be coming to Apex Legends
If you look at linux, the biggest part of the source code has been created by professional developers employed by large companies (ibm, google, intel, oracle).

Without the backing and investments of commercial companies, Linux would not be the success it currently is. So in the end everyone benefits in some way, although maybe not financially.

Same goes for a lot of other succesfull opensource projects: without commercial backing it would not be as succesfull.
I fear C++ has outdegree zero.
Google wants to change the game with Stadia
And is in fact about what some people do pay, proving there is a market for such services:

> The economics of drug dealing make it cost-effective to pay 5% to 10% to betting shops to launder the illicit profits.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/08/gambling-mac...
Is it?

Chrome is moving more and more towards controling their browser experience, and monetizing their existing web properties (example, there are now ads in the Gmail iOS App)

Apple is focusing more and more on privacy, especially for Safari.This is the best way that can fight back against Google's market share. They've definitely done their market research, so Firefox doing the same is probably in step with market needs.

I think longer term this is going to pay off big for Firefox
"Okay so how did the Kroger union help my friend at all?"

Ive read their contract. The union negotiated great health/dental, paid vacations, time to sleep between shifts, no sit shifts for food workers, and most important: due process. At union companies like Kroger, they have to either prove you weren't doing what they said to fire you or laying you off cost something. The unions also act as private lawyer representing you during wrongful termination. Those two are all I need to hear to be pro-union in a capitalist system.

Now, lets consider Kroger. I boycotted the ones down here since their shelves stayed empty. Workers said they had no staff on purpose, cutting it aiming for bonuses. They also micro-manage a lot adding distractions further reducing profit. Did more cuts. Instead of increasing staff, they just blame workers threatening their jobs with some fired. Union and local workers told me all kinds of examples.

Currently, Kroger is trying to roll back some or all of health/dental and pension despite being more profitable than they were in tougher years. Union reps said they were fighting hard to keep them. On top of that, they intervened for a few management sacked as punishment for staffing-induced, performance problems. They still work there with some doing a lot better with newer set of managers they had no bad history with.

So, that's how unions help your friend at Kroger or other places if the union is good. If management did cuts and targeted them, the union would ensure they remained employed so long as they were doing whatever the company wanted them to do. They would also have benefits in a sector where many don't.
Ah how did I miss putting Loonify in the next-gen transport category!? Incredible idea

Wishing them and everyone else the best of luck over the coming months, rounds, and decades
Whats missing from this facebook statement is -

Why would you not ban/tempban/"deplatform" users for sharing/replicating/liking this on Facebook?

This is pretty directly against the "public interest" just like child pornography.

This isn't a grey area, it was the murder of 50+ people.

Why would you not just flat ban and forward the accounts of anyone forwarding this video, again just like child pornography?
> Do you have any proof of this?

Not proof beyond my own example, but that's one case for, and none against that I know of. I expect that at a bare minimum, it will help retain customers through the period where the pricing is new, and at the point you eventually move them to new pricing (perpetual grandfathered pricing is stupid, I'm not going to argue for that), it may help with the reception.

A lot of how we perceive our reality is influenced by the narrative it's housed in. That's why it's easy for the internet to blow up every couple months, but if you revisit the issue a while afterwards, there's often a different, more nuanced story that was lost.[1][2]

In a reality where the narrative can run wildly out of control to your detriment, there is some benefit to being able to delay or protect your customers from that. I'm not sure whether the benefit is always worth it, but I'm sure it's a tool I would rather have to call on than not.

As a simple example, Netflix's price change in 2014 was widely publicized, as it was one of the first major price changes they had done (a 25% increase of the base cost), but they grandfathered in the people that were paying the lower price previously (37% of their customer base).[2] The previous time the changed pricing (by splitting our DVD service but keeping streaming only the same price.... so a price change for some), there was mass outrage and cancellations.[3][4]

So, the question is, did Netflix's differing strategy of grandfathering customers avoid the cancellations because people stayed loyal, or because not enough customers felt affected enough to contribute to the narrative that time, or because the change was purely pricing and less complicated, or just because the narrative didn't take hold for unrelated reasons?

1: https://apnews.com/90c35b0e3b1f41abbcb28eef7cf4bd9a

2: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/04/netflix-is-in...

3: https://gigaom.com/2014/05/09/the-netflix-price-increase-is-...

4: https://gigaom.com/2011/07/12/netflix-price-hike/
It's a good theory in general, but I think in this specific case it's because there's one dev and he works on this in his spare time.
Functional Components with Recompose
The niche is already filled by shared web hosts.
"The best ideas" is a pretty unclear phrase. The ideas that make the individual lives of managers the best will win. That's usually strongly correlated with profit for the company (on purpose, using mechanisms like stock grants). Depending on how things are structured, it may or may not be correlated with long-term profit for the company. And it's very likely to be poorly correlated with long-term happiness of workers. As a worker, an idea that increases my long-term happiness is "better" than one that increases the company's profitability. But that same idea is unlikely to appear "best" from management's point of view. You can quantify the cost to the company (and thus to the personal payout of management) from giving all workers a raise of X% or an office with a door instead instead of an open-plan desk or increased PTO or whatever, and it's harder to quantify the benefit to profitability.

But in the end, the "best" ideas in the sense of the most profitable ones will still win, because companies with truly bad ideas from populism (e.g., "empty the company's cash reserves into end-of-year bonuses") will just not survive. Unions don't change the fact that companies themselves participate in a market.

And if you prefer that system, you and others who agree with you can absolutely participate in the market too and compete as part of your own business. You can choose not to join unionized companies. But I don't prefer that system. That's all.
I would imagine that old people struggle to do what they want because they are old. They have family, health, and longevity issues to contend with.

For everyone else, hobbies exist.
> there's already one person in jail for doing this.

I'm a little conflicted about this. As a NZ'er the chief censor[1] has always done a decent job, we've never had to debate the issue of censorship in NZ much before. In this case the ability to retroactively label something criminal, and someone to face charges for it feels unjust.

On the other hand, and details are light at this point, this one person who is being charged allegedly mirrored the live stream during the event, cheered it on in his comments, and may have posted inciting materials prior to the attack (a picture of the mosque captioned "target acquired", but it's not clear based on the public information yet if this was posted before or on the day of the event).

[1] The idea of a chief censor may seem really appalling to many reading this, I encourage you to actually research what they do and the legislation they operate under before casting an opinion on it. Essentially the role is to provide ratings on media items, and rarely outright censor things. In the past day to day shit for them meant watching DVDs of rape videos and crap like that coming through the physical borders.
We need to eradicate this myth that only power users use Firefox anymore. There are plenty of laypeople still using it that never switched to Chrome, or recently switched to Firefox for privacy or other reasons, and those people generally don't use many addons (if any at all) or change the settings from the defaults. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but I'm sure Mozilla knows the answer, and I'd be willing to bet that it's much more than half.
Techcrunch – The Top Startups from Y Combinator W19 Demo Day 1
Hi! Author here, this has been a fun side project for me, It's pretty much finished but I keep coming back to it to do one more thing.

This project is a CPU written in VHDL that executes Forth. It's based on the J1 processor, but with a few new instructions and interrupt handling.

Also included in the project is a VT-100 terminal emulator (emulator is not quite the right word here) written in VHDL, which some of you may find useful. It supports a fairly large subset of the ANSI escape sequence commands.

I originally wrote a smaller compiler for a Forth like language in C, but I've since rewritten the tool chain so the eForth image running on the target is built with a more traditional meta-compiler.

Here's a video https://howerj.github.io/h2/107.mp4 of the project running (I've since added color support to the VT-100).

If you type 'make gui-run' it should build and run the graphical emulator for the device. (or just 'make run' for the command line simulator).

You can play a little game by typing:

1B 20 thru
you-are-dead

:)