skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instant hot. You can buy a instant hot water dispenser for your sink, and decades ago they were really cool and lasted for a decade, but the modern ones are all precision engineered for maximum profit to fail in less than a year, requiring plumbing work to replace. There are desktop hot water dispenser products but they cost about as much as a loss leader k-cup machine.

Also my wife has one of those re-usable coffee grounds things but sometimes you just want a quick cup and don't want to fool around. Today I'm running late and if I had an extra 5 minutes I'd stop at starbucks and blow $5 instead of 0.50 on this disposable cup or $0.005 on home ground. I drink black tea and I have an emergency stash of tea kcups. I think it slightly inferior but not that bad. It is much more bitter than my looseleaf home brewed. Obviously my kcup tea always tastes kinda coffee-ish which is a little gross.
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I care so little that after a few rounds of this I just made everything public by default. I've never used it to share personal information anyway.
[not related to content] I usually print interesting articles to XPS because the XPS reader on my tablet is so much faster than web browsers. As I've been doing this I've noticed that lots of sites out there just cannot be printed. For example, this article's content is put into some sort of a container, I presume, that has a fixed width or something that cuts off a part of the text. Even the "printer-friendly" version exhibits this problem. Sadly, but for me this means I'm not reading the article.
>however the idea that you can see an order and get a ahead of it is clearly front running even if it's legal

No one gets to see an order and get ahead of it.

> The issue is exchanges have an incentive to sell "early" access to information

All exchange access is "early" access. There is no way to stop latency advantages.
That's pretty much it. Since so many of my friends are on it, the benefit to being on it is high. (And after a transcontinental and trans-oceanic move, it's much easier than staying in contact in person.)

But I do limit my Likes - I don't Like any ads or commercial entities, with 1 exception - I endorse musicians. Since I am a musician and many of my friends are as well, I Like their music pages.

I don't Like Books/Movies/Games, whatever else. My profile info is relatively sparse and I ignore FB's attempts to make me fill it out further - everything on my profile is already publicly accessible info.

Ultimately I'm useless for marketing data anyway. I've participated in voluntary consumer surveys a few times, and none of the questions were about activities or products I've ever used. I'm so far removed from mainstream/popular culture that there are no advertisers marketing anything of interest to me.
The problem with filesystems is that they don't usually support transactions. For example, it is not possible to atomically change two files, without resorting to ugly and dangerous hacks.
Yes, Calc does have pivot tables, but it is very limited. Even the number of levels (dimensions) that you can nest was inadequate the last time I checked.
This pretty well matches my personal experience, fwiw. I was pretty content as a youth to have a full time job working for someone else, then I saw a couple of really good, young, skilled people get unceremoniously "let go" one day. A few years later it happened to me, and I ended up bouncing around from job to job for a while before starting my own business.

I didn't start my business solely because of employment issues. I was still employable, I could've gone and gotten another job. I wanted to be able to provide something to lots of different businesses at the same time, and striking out on my own seemed like the best way to do that.

But, seeing other people lose their job and losing my own at one point completely destroyed any belief I had in job security. I naively believed at first that only "bad" employees get fired; as long as you were valuable to your employer, your employer took care of you.

So launching my own business seemed like better job security. Except, that was naive too. I really didn't understand all of the benefits of employment: paid time off, a schedule, mostly reliable income, all of the resources that a larger business has, and most of all, the ability to leave work at work and go home and live an entirely different life.

I think the social contract between employees and employers is pretty broken in the U.S. at the moment. Employees are spending way too much time at work on Facebook and Reddit and other things; employers largely aren't treating their workers as anything other than human livestock. But I still wouldn't recommend getting into business for yourself to most people. It's tremendously difficult.

A little less than 10 years later, and I'm doing OK and my business now employs other people and is still growing -- very, very slowly -- but I'm still attracted to a stable, reasonably well paying job.
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Thanks. I did like Abiword but for that problem - it's really lightweight and has the core functionality that I need. I'm presently using LaTeX/emacs for my documents.
You're filling out a few fields with fake data, but filling thousands of "fields" daily, for real. Those come from your behaviour: what sites you visit, when, with what frequency, what do you click, what do you install, who are your contacts, when do you sleep, when do you move, how often you send messages... I can not even imagine how long the list must be from all the things you can extract from someone's internet + mobile behaviour.

Edit: and that's what I find most troubling: that someone can know much more about me than myself. Things that you can only realize from looking at the data over time, things that are invisible when experienced on real time.
"He is among the most selfless and externally-generous people I’ve met in my life."

His company has a complete opposite reputation: Pushy, spammy and invasive.
Those are good insights. You could probably add to that the fact that exhortations to avoid "marketing myopia"[1] aside, it's not all that clear what distinctive capabilities Kodak brought to the digital photo game. It certainly wasn't their chemical supply chain (though they sold off Eastman Chemical a long time ago). Nor was it especially their distribution channels many of which, as you suggest, were actually negatives in the context of a digital shift.

Furthermore, consumables businesses--especially one as rich as the film business--are hard to replace. Printing had some of the same characteristics for a while and Kodak was somewhat in there. They did the online photo service too. But nothing like film sales and processing. Kodak could have done better but it would have been a tough navigation. Fujifilm seems to have dome OK but by a very circuitous route taken by a smaller company.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_myopia
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> That is exactly why facebook must be faught [...]

Why the war talk? Can't people who are willing to accept Facebook's terms just use it, while those who are unwilling refrain from using Facebook?
FB is valuable for me too but that doesn't mean I trust it. As you say, it's a business that exists to turn a profit and I am cattle. I don't like this arrangement but I don't really have an alternative (as you say).

However, that does not mean that people shouldn't draw attention to what FB is, what it captures and what it does in your name. Nobody reads the "instructions and warning labels" and even if they did, they're not going to comprehend them. Would you then admonish the user to RTFM? I'd call that victim-blaming. How many developers would dare blame the user for not understanding how to use their shiny new web-app? Why take the same approach to those who can't understand a ToS?

FB may be a tool but that's also an oversimplification. It's not anything like a 'hammer', or even a chainsaw. I'd consider it more like a drug (eg morphine), which is also a tool but is not really your friend. Those kinds of tools get regulated.
Wouldn't it be interesting to go further than "what is your favourite number?" and find out why people claim 7 is their favourite number?

I'd be interested in anything that tests whether 7 actually is a preferred number in real situations rather than just the number that people say when asked.
We do less and less of the former because "smart" money follows innovation and not invention.
This mentions the killing aspects of games multiple times, and does make me wonder if we can make more games that aren't about overt violence.

I know a lot exist, but it feels like if a game has some "story-ness" to it (so not a God game, but something with a narrative), and it has more than a minimum of mechanics (unlike puzzle/adventure games) , the mechanics end up having to be about violence. Maybe I'm wanting to come to this conclusion
I'd like to add that engineers/developers can hardly do the jump to being independent in the described situation, but there many lower paying jobs where this is being done, too.

Also, I am compeletely amazed by how idiotically this is handled by management with respect to software development, where the code can have negative net worth without the guy who developed it, and knows its ins and outs. And people put on contract work will eventually leave these untenable situations, especially if they are competent.

Call be bitter, but I am quite disheartened when I see how much opportunity and talend is squandered for some temporary short-term gain, like "reducing" fixed costs by outsourcing.
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> In the long run, it's very important to switch away from a system of maternity leave to equal parental leave. Women of child-bearing age are routinely discriminated against because companies know that they might quit/focus on the children/work less hours/have long maternal leave etc. By having equal paternal leave, and making sure that men take as much as women, this discrimination will disappear.

You aren't going to be able to force a father to take time off, just because you think he should. Even if he takes a week or two, the vast majority of them will go back to work in short order.

I would argue it is pretty much impossible to get men to take as much leave as women. The baby is literally attached the the portion of mothers who breast feed. It is stereotypical, but in my experience true, that mothers are more in tune with their infant and end up taking a lot more of the burden than the father. Ignoring that, single mothers are going to need time off, the father isn't even in the picture; and that is going to skew things as well.
https://www.hackerrank.com/ has a AI/Machine Learning section
OK. I'm not willing to accept Facebook's terms.

Now, what should I do about my friends posting my photo and personal details such that Facebook creates a shadow profile of me without my permission?
Our IRL identities are the new Intellectual Property, I think. I'm waiting for copyright attorneys to start viewing social networking infringements on privacy/security as identity theft.
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Spoofing is illegal mostly because we said it should be. The reason we as a community decided it should be, is that we like that the markets are very good at finding accurate prices and spoofing is specifically built to prevent that.

To your points:

- Spoofers impact all orders, buy and sell equally.

- All market participants rely on the market to judge price, that's how the markets work.

- Market makers, who spoofers are targeting, have already stopped relying on unfilled orders (or more specifically they've gotten more sophisticated about predicting spoofing). This is very expensive and that cost is being passed on to everyone else in the market place. The problem is, what else should they rely on to determine the fair price of a security other than supply and demand?

Finally, spoofing is not about when you cancel an order. There is nothing illegal or even objectionable about canceling an order immediately after placing it. Spoofers put in orders over a wide period of time and then pull them all at once. Even that isn't in itself illegal or even objectionable, it's their intent when they put the orders in the book that is illegal.
If they have the income to support it, many will put their child into day care (for a quality program in the NY suburbs that is around ~$1500/month) or hire a nanny (~$500/week).

I don't know what people on a lower end of the income spectrum do.
To be fair, Facebook hires psychologists to basically get you addicted to Facebook and hides (as much as it can) the nature of its practices from its merchandise.
Well then please enlighten him/me, I do think the insurance business is a scam as well (in France).

Never in my life has it been worth it, and I'm outraged to know it is sometimes required by law (you can be fined, by a cop, if you car isn't insured for example).
If you can take those days intermittently over 8 years, it seems like that is an easy cop-out for the dad to take 8 days a year to satisfy the requirement.
The entire appeal behind Facebook is the huge user base. Everyone I know is on Facebook, and so is everyone they know. If you're going to get people to switch, you'll need both some killer feature that sets it apart from Facebook and some means to mitigate the loss of that user base - perhaps some compatibility layer where information that wouldn't reach your friends that switched with you to Platform X gets posted to your linked Facebook account.

I'm ultimately envisioning a future where people could host their own Facebooks or set up an account with a family member or small business, seemlessly transfer their data between servers whenever someone wants to switch providers, built-in SSL for everything, PGP with automatic key sharing between friends, encrypted file storage, etc. - everything that tech community advocates for in an easy-to-host-yourself distro.

So much good could come out of having a standardized platform for social media; you just have to be able to overcome Facebook's inertia.
Fnv is well-know hashing function, like CRC. Names in the code are not the main problem.

1. Structure of the code is a mess: everything lives in the same namespace, while some stuff could be a private properties of classes/structs.
2. Why structs rather than classes?
3. Why user is forced to use std::string? (template parameter, please)
4. Why user can't plug own hashing function (maybe better or faster)?
5. Author assumed that "unsinged char" has 8 bits - std::uint8_t is the valid type.
6. There is no abstraction for integers encoding, just hard-wired varint encoder.
This article is rambling, unfocused, inaccurate, and has many distracting grammatical errors. Why is it upvoted?
I'm not sure if I understand your workflow - but the page also has a link to PDF, may be that works for you.
>It's interesting to think about what would happen if all restrictions from markets were removed.

We've lived in that world and know what it would look like. Read about the US equities markets prior to the 1910s. It wasn't great.

> sell a stock at the market price don't generally care about the noise.

People who want to sell a stock at the market price care keenly about the noise, as the noise is what determines the market price.
Maybe if it were simple as that, the 'war talk' would be avoided. However, as the article explains, facebook tracks people who don't even sign up to its terms.
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You can search and replace your argument with the automotive industry and it works pretty well. You can't be a successful adult without a car, no matter how loud an extremely small minority of the population claims otherwise, and the general public has pretty much no interest in the alternatives.

Yet, in contrast to the auto industry, no one thought it was great that Ford Pinto gas tanks would explode, or the cops punish people for the crime of "driving while black".

If as a company you insist on business practices or class of business operations that inevitably results in the destruction of any real free market probably via monopolization, you can expect criticism and regulation to at least try to reduce the harm.
I seriously doubt that 'millions of dollars a month to run' price-tag. There are alternative, even superior open source software solutions.

The only cost are the servers, but certainly, even with facebook's traffic, a well built stack could run on not more than a dozen. So I'd imagine facebook could be run on a few thousands of dollars a month, certainly the costs shouldn't be that much higher than wikipedia's.

The only thing that's valuable in facebook, and hard to replace, is the user-base, which was won through heavy marketing, and having a more attractive product at a critical stage (more attractive =/= technically superior).
Do you work for Sumo Logic? https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rong-hu/8/140/75 is a "Rong Hu"

This comment seemed incredibly positive for a neutral comment, but didn't disclose a relationship to the company (here or in the HN profile, at least as of this writing). The comment seemed odd as the first-ever comment from a 5+ year old HN account.
Some of it is covered in the article; for example I once had a prospect want me to sign a web dev firm want a non-complete which said I wouldn't work in any industry they work in. I believe every client I've had before / after would classify. I'm not going to sign away my right to take on clients.

I've seen IP ownership clauses that say the client owns everything I create, whether or not it was done for them. These clauses are written in such a way that the client could claim ownership of work I did for other clients, my blog posts, podcasts, books I've written, and even things that have nothing to do with tech, such as songs I've written and/or recorded.

I try to make such IP transfer clauses as specific to the work I do for the client as possible.
It's rare that I find fault with Kahneman but here - yes - also:

if someone is seeking to sell a mug to me, my perception of its value just went down.

if someone is willing to buy a mug from me, my perception of its value just went up. I might have been intending to throw the mug out before I knew that someone would buy it.
Probably because if it worked they'd already be doing it.
Now that computing has shifted towards mobile, do WIMP UIs even matter? In the mobile space Jobs clearly had the last laugh over Microsoft.
I'm about to buy a Gameboy Pocket just due to this post. http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/02/lets-play-some-gam...
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> I'm ultimately envisioning a future where people could host their own Facebooks or set up an account with a family member or small business, seemlessly transfer their data between servers whenever someone wants to switch providers

I think you've just described Diaspora.
Sounds like we should get more relevant ads soon. Is that bad?
I read about the fuzz but to me its unclear what changed in the policy. I dont haven a Facebook account because the current policy isn't very different from the bad one years ago when I had an account and therefore deleted it.

So does someone know what exactly changed and why my dear ones should suddenly stop using Facebook?
If still staying on facebook, and being quite assertive with content shared, then what else can be done to limit one's online footprint. The article mentions ghostery and some EFF browser extension - that I unfortunately is unable to download at the moment, from the link in the article.

But without limiting your own freedom to much and being to much of a hassle what are some good minimum precautions?
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Huh what? Are you really suggesting facebook could be run on a few dozen servers, or are you just trolling?
Can you really get out of it?

I closed my account years ago. Use NoScript, Disconnect, uBlock. But my profile is probably still there. It's been mentioned that they keep profiles of people who don't have an account.

I can imagine they could attach this comment and my online activity in other platforms to that profile. Even tell my friends about them.

That would make a good episode of Black Mirror. Titled "The Privacy Freaks", it would show people in a social network observing the lives and making fun of the absurd things privacy concerned people do to stay "out".
Sure.

The goal of capitalism is that stuff is used in an economically efficient way, and capitalism is a bit broken when that doesn't happen.

'Use it or sell it' is needed but dangerous: applied naively, this creates false incentives.
People move from platforms all the time. Before FB there was MySpace, before Google there was AltaVista, before GApps you'd probably use MS Exchange etc etc. There are many examples.

What's needed is software infrastructure to make it easy to build decentralised systems -- everyone should have their own piece of the cloud. On top of that is the need for a compelling use-case (beyond privacy) that will spur word-of-mouth and user adoption. All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
Or go to your local coffee retailer and aquire a french press and a grinder and start making better coffee.

There are about 80 better ways to make coffee than a keurig machine; you just need to figure out the two things keurig does adequately; delivering a measured amount of water that is hot but not too hot and a measured amount of properly ground coffee.

And really, does keurig have the faintest idea as to what you consider good coffee?
According to this [1] Facebook has multiple data centers with around 60,000 servers as of 2010, probably a lot more now. If you know how to do the same thing with a dozen servers, I am sure they'd love to hire you!

[1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/the-facebook-data-center-...
Not centrally, no. But many existing P2P networks prove that you do not need massive data centers to hoard everyone's data. You can use the collaborative effort of humanities existing computation devices.

Decentralize all the things.
It can often be cross-checked with information that others provide about you (in good will, or even unknowingly - either explicitly, or by implication, etc.), and you have no control over that
To be fair, the concept behind diaspora. I was closely following the development at the time diaspore was "hot" and, honestly, the setup was too complicated for people who are used to setting up wordpress or something.

I still think the concept is amazing, but unfortunately, they kind of failed to deliver.
Sure, DMCA is an American legal construct. At this point it'd be a good idea to get in touch with a lawyer and see with the appropriate course of action for your country is.
Evolution of a photography gearhead:

1) Buy the best possible camera - no good pictures ever

2) Buy the best possible lenses - barely any good pictures

3) Buy the best possible lights - now we are getting somewhere

4) Learn how to compose and capture the moment - Bingo!

Most people assume 1) and 2) are the most important, barely anyone does 3) and some do 4). Any digital camera since 2010 or so can produce breathtaking pictures with 4) and cheap zoom kit lenses, for studio work it's all about 3). Then to get to the ultimate pro level it's about Photoshop skills to finalize the look as desired.
Every time I looked into Diaspora over the past several years it seemed dead. I took another look, and it seems to have progressed quite a bit - I just signed up for account!
I know nothing about erlang, but if performance matters and you won't be deleting from the middle, an array-based implementation will usually be better than a linked structure. Better alignment, less pointer chasing, fewer allocations and reallocations. Also the synchronization cost can be lower in a multi threaded context. Cost might be more memory allocated in some cases (but less in others and less fragmentation in your memory allocator's pool).