skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to differentiate between "link juice" and overall ranking power which I think you mean by "Google juice" (as links are not all there is to ranking well).

That said, I agree that penalties/demotions seem to have a somewhat dampening effect, e.g. resulting in the previously unmodified rank but times 0.2 or whatever.

However, penalties should not last 13 years if the causes have been fixed. What did said Google employee tell you about your case?

edit: also, there is a way to submit a reconsideration request. Have you tried that?
This is just an FYI that you can take under advisement if you so choose:

Part of the reason you are getting so very much negative attention in this specific discussion is because your comment complaining about the very site you are posting on was the very first comment posted.

This actively interferes with constructive discussion of the article posted as everyone replies to you and your personal complaints instead of engaging with the content of the article. (The term for it is thread shitting. As the author of the piece, I wasn't real happy to see it.)

You also keep focusing on the negative and on points of disagreement and will not drop it.

I'm sympathetic to your frustration, but there are pieces of this that only you can change. I'm aware you are likely to feel I'm "blaming the victim" rather than trying to empower you. My personal default is to wonder what I can do differently on my end to get better outcomes because I'm typically the piece of the equation I have the most control over, regardless of "who is to blame." I'm generally satisfied with that approach.

Last, I will note that my advice to not automatically assume that this one person is behaving badly doesn't translate to "there is no point at which a mod should ever hold an individual accountable for their piece of the puzzle."

That doesn't work. You don't get a free pass for your behavior for all eternity because you're -- for example -- a woman posting in an overwhelmingly male space.

If I thought being a woman posting on HN meant I can do anything at all that I feel like doing and then blame negative reactions on sexism, I would have been banned ages ago -- and rightly so. Saying that it's not okay for the entire group to behave badly towards one individual and then blame their victim for their own choices absolutely doesn't mean the needs of one individual should trump the needs of the entire community. A moderator's job is to find ways to try to serve both needs at the same time, which is a balancing act.

Please note that I waited to say anything to you until after the piece dropped off the front page in hopes of having fewer eyes on my comment, among other things. I thought about various possible tactics and concluded that replying late was probably the least worst option available to me.
What is the political position picked by the site you provided?
My friends and I are currently building a donation platform for summer camp counselor alumni, church groups, etc. Basically small monthly reoccurring donations ($3-$20). We’ve been playing with the idea of having a social network aspect where to join you pick an organization to donate to and that’s your subscription for using the social network at large
Undefined. It's a paradox.
Using it as a router / NAT / firewall comes to my mind.
They used to say that at Signup, first year free, then again waive $1 every year in India.
Is non-European people wearing suits and ties 'cultural appropriation'? No, it's influence.

Cultures influence each others all the time. If other cultures copy parts of your own it means you exist and you have something others think is worth copying. You should be proud, not offended.
Something was wrong w/ your setup I think. All of their code has Typescript annotations, and their autocomplete w/ intellisense is remarkably useful.
>Before Epstein killed himself

Troll detected
> I'm more than happy to give up a little choice in exchange for not having every aspect of my life uploaded to google's servers with a promise they won't do anything I don't like with it.

Android is the platform that gives you some actual control over this. Buy a Pixel, trivial bootloader unlock, and then install Replicant [0] or any of the several other privacy-first ROMs.

If you don't want to go that far, you can replace Google's proprietary APIs/system services with components from MicroG [1]. There are many implementations of the location APIs that can be configured to ping back to a personal server or log to a local file rather than submitting the data to Google, for example. Pull up F-Droid and they're all over the place.

If you want to stop an app from talking to the outside world, get NetGuard (100% free software, buy the pro version instead of chickening out and building it yourself to save 8 bucks) or AFWall+. These are advanced apps that allow users to control and monitor network activity closely, applying rules that allow/disallow network access at given times or on given connections (e.g., "never let Signal use my work's wifi network"), reports consumption, and even allows the user to collect pcaps.

There are many similar options for all kinds of things on Android. I admit that I have never used an iOS device full-time, but it's always because every time I consider it and start to do any of the basic research to see if any of this is tenable, the answer is always an immediate and loud "no, Daddy Apple wouldn't let anything bad happen, so all of that is silly". Please let me know if things have changed.

The point is that it's your choice how much you're going to disclose/transfer on [unlockable] Android hardware. On an iPhone, you are stuck with "Apple knows best". If you actually care about control of your data, it seems you'd prefer the platform that gives you control over it, rather than the one that just says "Hey, we're not as bad as Google, so you can trust us!"

[0] https://replicant.us/

[1] https://microg.org/
I think so. To put in Taleb's turns, they are very "anti-fragile". They allow a company to benefit from randomness.

Satya started them at Microsoft (monthly though, IIRC), and I personally loved them and derived a lot of value from them about what was going on company wide and perhaps learning new places I might be able to contribute. It also just made me trust leadership more and more motivated to work there. Was only an ~hour a month and I'm sure led to many unpredicted positive effects.
SoftBank's Second Vision Fund Is Starting Life a Lot Smaller Than the First
In it he admits that the site is being penalized for having prominent ads above the fold.

Yep. And so I removed all advertising from the site for months.

There was absolutely no change in ranking.

Matt Cutts also wrote, "Your site is also affected by our Panda algorithm..."

My website had citations of slang use. By definition citations are 'duplicate content' since they also exist somewhere else.

So I removed all citations from the site for months.

There was absolutely no change in ranking.

The 3 claims Matt Cutts made were:

1. "...the only manual webspam action I see regarding onlineslangdictionary.com is from several years ago (are you familiar with a company called Web Build Pages or someone named Jim Boykin?)..." Wrong. I've never heard of him or his company, I've never worked with anyone involved with SEO, and there was never a change in ranking / site traffic that would suggest that my site had a penalty. Given the very very dim view of SEO practitioners among technically savvy people, I can only assume that his implication ("are you familiar with") was designed to discredit me here.

2. "You're affected by a couple algorithms in our general web ranking. The first is our page layout algorithm... your site has much more prominent ads above the fold compared to Urban Dictionary." Wrong. (As above, I removed all advertising from the site.)

3. "Your site is also affected by our Panda algorithm." Wrong. (As above, I removed all citations from the site.)

I can't say that anything Matt Cutts told me was truthful.
Personal experience, but it's also been born out by studies:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creativity-the-art-a...

https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-emotions-that-make-us-more-creat...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0266...

TL;DR: It's not the specific emotion that matters (indeed, there's evidence that having mixed emotions, where you can synthesize aspects of them, is crucial to creativity), it's the motivational intensity behind it.
Ha, that is indeed the exact documentary I was talking about, thanks!
I've been working on exactly this! https://get.thread-app.com/

It's a side project of mine at the moment, so it's quite basic, but I'd love it if you checked it out.
Google and most SV companies are somewhere between left to far-left.
Have you ever wondered why it became partisan to begin with?

Lots of other issues are not partisan like "smoking causes cancer", everyone generally agrees that it does, even many years ago before the "science proved it".

There is some science that is so obviously manipulated by power and money everyone knows something is wrong, but can't do anything about it.
Countries That No Longer Exist
This just lends more evidence to the view that the system is rigged.
MinHash vs. Bitwise Set Hashing: Jaccard Similarity Showdown
Not even just that. The difference I had in available time in my 20s compared to my 30s is very different.

Moral of the story is succeed while you have the time.
How is trying cast a wider net in hiring the same as "courting activists"?
Solution in Scala, with JaCoP:

import org.jacop.scala._

object Main extends App with jacop {
def forAll(l: Seq[BoolVar]) = l.foldLeft[BoolVar](true) { case (r, m) => r /\ m}
def forAny(l: Seq[BoolVar]) = l.foldLeft[BoolVar](false) { case (r, m) => r \/ m}

val v = List.tabulate(6)(i => new BoolVar(s"Answer ${i + 1}"))
v(0) #= forAll(v.drop(1))
v(1) #= ~forAny(v.drop(2))
v(2) #= forAll(v.take(2))
v(3) #= forAny(v.take(3))
v(4) #= ~forAny(v.take(4))
v(5) #= ~forAny(v.take(5))
satisfy(search(v, input_order, indomain_min))
print("Solution: " + v.filter(_.domain.contains(1)).map(_.id).mkString(" "))
}

Results in:

Solution: Answer 5
I've been hacking at a basic version of ad-free, subscription based group messaging, coordination, event planning, etc - check it out! https://get.thread-app.com/
What might happen is the rise of an informal communications channel managed by employees that Google executives cannot direct let alone cancel. That's far worse in a way.
But how can that be, when I actually find the meetings themselves to be absolutely traumatic and misery inducing.

I question what my life has come to. Why such a pointless spinning of my wheels must keep me separated from those I care about, and force me into contact with co-worker who I know for a fact will never love me?

This is torture, and the antithesis of therapy. It directly damages me, to persist in a tension inducing work environment.
Generic corporate commitment to 'diversity' is activism?

Yeesh.
My son at the age of 8 got diagnosed high precocity. He was showing the intellectual capacities of a 16 yo.

Everyone was suggesting us to skip two or three classes and keep skipping them.

I refused and kept him in his normal track because he was emotionally a 8 yo kid,who spittle play with other children, who silly things and learn to be social.

I let him read a lot, he was interested in science so we were discussing these subjects a lot etc.

He is now 16, happy, doing silly things with his peers and otherwise attending the 3rd high school in the country (being average+ there). I am everyday so happy with our choice.
If you print money and then give it all to big banks who use it to ramp up the price of equities, it never really reaches the average person for them to be able to ramp up the price of the basket of things which CPI measures. Inflation here is seen in the stock market tripling, but that isn't included in government measures.
Facebook pulls an average revenue of $70/year on each American user, so $1/mo is leaving a lot of money on the table by their standard
> I believe there's only two companies making laser printers now

Oh no, not at all: Samsung, OKI, Epson, Canon, Xerox, Kyocera and maybe others all have multiple models of B&W laser printers.
There is this guy I watch on YouTube, he had a Patreon account and a BTC address. I don't want to sign up for Patreon, so I sent him BTC.

The great thing about BTC is you can send it so easily without going through all the hoops other 'systems' need. Sure, it isn't so easy to get started with BTC, but once you are in, it is a breeze.
I just went through and clicked on months of past orders, lots of electronics, odds and ends types of things. This isn't true for a single product I clicked on.

How is this happening so much for you?

Do you have screenshots or examples?
Microsoft and Apple employees might care. However, workplace is not an appropriate forum to fight over politics or other non-work related topics. More importantly, it is important to maintain professionalism and focus on the job you've been hired to do. You can be an activist in your spare time. You may also not like your coworkers due to their political views but we live in a diverse world. Acknowledge that and work with them regardless of their political leanings.
We are going w/ Fargate for now, but the similarity in syntax may help us make the leap to k8s when we're ready.
Wikipedia is far from neutral and full of activists and people with agendas.

It can sometimes be acceptable for a broad overview of a subject, but it's so full of opinion, inaccuracy, and misinformation that it should have near zero credibility for anyone who is seeking truth and bias-free knowledge. Appropriately, it has zero credibility in any credible academic environment BTW.
how does this differ from here: https://github.com/lemire/simdjson/pull/365
When I was being fitted for contact lenses for the first time a few years ago, I asked my ophthalmologist about implants and he basically acted like I was insane for wanting that procedure versus laser.

After experiencing truly dry eyes for the first time - from contact lenses - I will probably never get laser correction. Even a 1% chance of having permanent dry eyes at that level of discomfort sounds horrific.

Also, the slight chance of losing near vision in exchange for far vision is not worth it imo. I'd like to put off needing glasses to read in bed for a few more decades.
For me, talking with my client over Slack or Skype about the task works. Suddenly some uninteresting thing defined only by a JIRA issue becomes something more. Some feature which provides real business value with context.

That's one of the reasons why I work where I work, because PMs don't stand between us and the clients.
Competing by what measure? If quantity is your measure, of course you can never beat free, and I'm sure Jimmy Wales knows this too, having founded the free Encyclopedia.

People won't pay for a platform unless they're using it, so you can be sure that of the users that are paying, they're likely to be engaged.

I don't know about you, but social networks tend to suck when the users aren't even logging in. I don't need a billion users or even a million on a given platform to necessarily find reasonably good interactions on it.
Definitely not a finance expert, but their forward P/E ratio was lower than their peer group.
YouTube can now delete accounts that aren't “commercially viable”
Colombian woman’s genes offer new clues to staving off Alzheimer’s
From your article, his group tried to get lens implants classified as drugs making them subject to FDA regulation.
Despite the limited scope, this information is "out there" now, and could potentially be crucial for some future "useful" application. Not that I think you're trying to downplay it or anything, I'm just seeing this as another example of how the internet is still a good thing.
> What else do you need for a 'social network?'

Mass adoption. The user base is the valuable aspect, everything else can be easily recreated.
It's important to differentiate between "link juice" and overall ranking power which I think you mean by "Google juice" (as links are not all there is to ranking well).

True. I wanted the text to be immediately understandable by non-technical people. I'm on like revision 3,194 of the text. :) Any suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Also, there is a way to submit a reinclusion request. Have you tried that?

Yes, several times.

However, penalties should not last 13 years if the causes have been fixed.

They shouldn't. But in this case, it has lasted that long. It's a manual penalty turned on by a Google employee. The only way to get rid of the penalty is for them to (manually) turn it off.

What did said Google employee tell you about your case?

That there's nothing I can do.
Linux Foundation publicly disinvites developer over political opinions
Thanks for offering the AMA (as well as the work on druid).

A few questions, and feel free to ignore, tangent, etc. any as you see fit:

1.) It seems you had a good educational upbringing from your parents. What did they do to encourage and promote your ability to learn and understand?

2.) What things do you think children in your situation need to be made aware of–whether it's to understand life, childhood, society, or themself–that may be overlooked?

I'll leave it at that for now. I ask because as I plan for parenthood, I want to make sure I can help my child understand the world better, but also be socially well adapted for their peers, as well as feel good about their life as they understand who they are in the world.

Thanks
Auftragstaktik
Did that make WhatsApp any money?
Are any meetings ever useful to anyone?

Rarely. Most could be summarized in email.
That's not what the site you provided is about though.
Yeah, that's my point. Contrary to the claim in the post I'm replying to, it seems clear that having the ability to do unsafe impure things in a language doesn't mean users of that language "loose all ability to reason reliably". To the extent that the libraries and the ecosystem doen't make inappropriate use of unsafe behavior, you can have your impurity and reliable referential transparency too.
That's not what OP is describing. He wasn't "in jail" in the sense that he was sent to prison for committing a crime. He was being held by the police prior to a trial. This is absolutely a bail/processing related issue being described.
Hmm... just to set the record straight, Pulumi definitely does have TypeScript type definitions for all resource types, across all of our providers, and it has had them since our initial launch.

Happy to help you debug why you're not getting type hints, drop me a line at alex@pulumi.com or on the community slack: https://slack.pulumi.com/
Exactly! If I could have a Facebook minus any news, that would be awesome.
$20/month?!? Forever?!?
This is just to protect themselves. They need to signal that they're at least trying to hire more under-represented minorities.
awesome! I used to use emacs with an api key to read ESV, this is nice.
Perhaps I should clarify why we believe HintPod can help businesses achieve product-market fit. HintPod isn’t an app, it’s a plugin that integrates directly inside other apps (kinda like intercom).

I believe this helps businesses reach validation because they can see if their users are actually engaging with their vision. General analytics can show engagement with the app as a product, but engaging in a community hub inside a mobile app shows engagement between the user and the business’ vision.

Additionally, by following suggestions from their users, businesses can improve on their app and build a better product that they know their target audience actually wants.

HintPod gives businesses validation and helps them build a better product for their users. This is done through the plugin that enables a community hub directly inside the app. And through this, they can get closer to finding product-market fit.

I agree it isn’t enough on its own, but it can facilitate this.
Bill Gates is the epitome of a no-talent ass-clown who owes 100% his financial success to his personal family connections (his mother was personal friends with John Akers and John Opel of IBM due to their work on the United Way board together, and she leveraged this connection to get a fledgling Microsoft a sweetheart deal to develop the OS for the IBM PC) and his willingness to mercilessly steal the source code of people far smarter than him. Seeing this vicious bastard praised on a "hacker" forum is mind-boggling to me.
The best Wirecutter recommendations come from the comments, not the articles.
The Lions commentary was basically a work of literature for the 80s developer. Very few people were running DEC-PDP11s in the 80s, you couldn't really run the code.

Don't get me wrong: the data in the Lions book inspired later operating systems and is very important. But its a very difficult read, ill-suited for the general audience. The code does NOT run outside of DEC-PDP11 (and almost no one had that computer by the 80s, nor the compilers or tools needed to actually generate the code), so it really was just a work of literature and OS-study more-so than actual technical documentation.

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In contrast, you can buy a complete Rasp. Pi system for $35, with a myriad of books and materials on programming (Python, C, Java, even GPU-coding).

Then you can buy an Arduino for $20, and a breadboard kit (wires, breadboard, resistors, etc. etc.) under $100 and get cracking today. Complete understanding of the machine, and very cheap and accessible.

Even the Commodore 64 was $500+, in 80s money (so inflation adjust as appropriate).

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The 2010s is way better for learning programming than the 80s ever was. Not only is computing respected hobby these days... but its so cheap and information is freely available.
Besides the advantage of an already established network - what are facebooks other advantages?

I suppose money is the biggest. are there others?
I think their diversity initiatives failed miserable. They created a monoculture that is violently intolerant of diverse viewpoints.
Hm, Stretch has an old version, no? Or do you use a backport repo?

But, yes, turning on debug mode is harder than it should be, and it's usually not the right level. (I usually just go for strace first, but with netdev I guess it's using netlink to talk to the kernel, so that'll not help much :/ )
> Amazon is good only for books and probably cables.

I've had good luck with CDs, too. Digital downloads are pretty hit-or-miss, though.
The best social network is already on your phone. Call and text people you care to engage with.
Why would you use that instead of FB though? FB is free and most people are on it already.
"Cash Bail" doesn't mean "pay your bail with cash currency" it means "you're kept in jail unless funds are provided as collateral".

You do you mister patriot cash man sir.
To be fair, it's actually "automatic arrest for DRIVING without a licence". That doesn't seem completely unreasonable.
I didn't post the site, but those are the politics involved within the company and its hiring. The connection is pretty clear.
The employees were being too mean to the leadership, I guess.

Obviously companies need to do what they need to do to keep operating. But they should really knock off this "bring your whole self to work" business, because they don't actually want that and it's dishonest to pretend that they do.
I own a Brother HL-L2350DW and can highly recommend it. It has wireless and does AirPrint. Works great from iOS and macOS.
They quietly should've hired a designer ;)
Communication implies two sides. If one is not willing to listen, what's more likely to happen is instead of communication channel an echo chamber will form and without the avenue to vent frustrations the rhetoric will get more and more extreme as people assume the worst, often incorrectly.
You’re going to hate reading this:
https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html