skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Doing something about it" is a good idea. As others have noted, your approach is unrealistic to the extreme.

A far better approach would be to create a tool/alternative platform that allows people to interact with Facebook and their Facebook friends, without directly using the app. It might be a bit of an arms race with Facebook if the tool is scraping the site, but there isn't a lot they can do to stop it if a lot of the users are using a Chrome extension or various other client side tools.

That means that people that come to your tool/app/page are not stuck interacting with only those other users who have left Facebook. Which of course would be terrible, except for tiny little pockets of people here and there who only interact with one another and all have the same concerns about Facebook. (maybe the OP belongs to such a group...but I've never known anyone like that)

If you were to build this, you wouldn't have the immense disadvantage of having a tiny network to begin with. Eventually, as more as more people join you, you can tweak your strategy, when you are no longer such an underdog. Obviously, such a system would have to be open source, and open to all the "alternative platforms" as well. Maybe to participate people have a choice of a paying a small subscription or viewing "nice" ads, or maybe none of the above if enough of their contributing friends approve them. Or something. Maybe it would be a WeFunder project. All options should be considered.

I'd suggest anyone thinking about this first do some reading on Game Theory, Tragedy of the Commons, etc. Don't design something that expects everyone to individually do something that is against their interest, or you WILL fail.
The story is a composite and as such the character is fictional. The different incidents and occurrences are based on real life events.
What features does wikipedia have besides collapsing sections?
Well this explains a lot.

I recently bought NBA tickets to Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals (Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Golden State Warriors), and I was absolutely pissed off at the whole process.

I went on a small Twitter rampage to vent about it, with a picture that shows NO TICKETS available LITERALLY THE SECOND they went "on sale" (10AM Thursday May 19, 2016), and then beside it another screenshot of ALMOST 1,300 TICKETS FOR RESALE at the exact same time.

https://twitter.com/vlucas/status/733315798068953089

I learned the system was rigged against me the hard way, and it totally sucked. It was painfully obvious that all the tickets were sold out well before the game, and that a whole lot of scalpers were making lots of money on reselling tickets that were not fans, and never had any intention of going to the game in the first place. The kicker is that the system actually seemed designed intentionally for this to happen, screwing the actual fans in the process.
Exactly. Amex has become almost worthless in the US for me because most retailers don't accept it. (When I've asked them why, they say the fees are too high and Amex takes too long to pay them.) Amex still works for airlines and hotels, but not much else.
Animated pic made me motion-sick and prevented me from reading the article.

Edit: read it on mobile with JavaScript off.
Messenger is a facebook instant message app.

It improves on what is already built into your phone because it hooks into all of your facebook contacts, which means full names, and pictures.
I would love to have my AC unit controllable by my computer. Then I could automatically scale the temperature settings between comfortable and good enough for the cat. The real payoff would be the bedroom since our sleeping hours aren't consistent.
I'm not sure it's all that misleading, what I got out of the article was that there was apparently an explicit law (Wilson doctrine) in the UK designed to prevent spy agencies from spying on political officials. But now that they have begun using cloud services, etc, the doctrine has been quietly rendered irrelevant because of routing technicalities.
This is somewhat sad... Out of all the aggregators, SimplyHired sent the highest quality traffic compared to Juju, Indeed, Jobs2Careers, etc.
New Device Turns Thoughts into Speech
I'm drinking the TypeScript Kool Aid right now and I'm still not convinced. Ill give it a chance, since I'm still early in the project.

The good: it uses a structural type system. For someone who got the good old 'JavaScript is a toy language you should try Java or C#' at university, this feels really refreshing. It mostly works as JS and you get some nice auto complete. So it feels dynamic and not clunky, like the aforementioned 2 'true' languages.

The bad: the tools seem to work random. Sometimes they pick up the definitions, next time you open a file, 'cannot find module 'react'' or numbers in import paths break the auto complete etc. also often you don't find type definitions for you libs and as a type-n00b you often lack the skills to create good ones yourself.

Anyway, I hope with TS 2.0 things will get better. Especially with strict null checks, which hopefully will be a giant win.
Do leftists love him or hate him? On the one hand there is that quote you just posted, but on the other there is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Y693cSF7E
you're right, but that's Steve Jobs you're talking about. In contrast, Andreesen spent many years after Netscape in wealthy obscurity which makes me doubt his innate PR tendencies.

Speaking of the power of PR (whether innate or professional), take a look at this bit of Jobs-inalia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeXlJW70KQ nothing Steve says in that piece is at all remarkable or prescient, nor was it at the time.

Jobs had a great promotional ability, and a great leadership ability, he was a great man, but I'm deeply doubtful about the insight everybody credits him with.
This is why I play speed chess exclusively. It combines the potential strategic purity of chess with the human craftiness involved in games like poker.

Limitation is the source of all creativity.
I hope the bigwigs at FB don't read your comment. Messenger and whatsapp should never be merged. Part of the reason why I'm glad that Messenger is doing so well (I don't use it myself) it's because I believe that gives them less incentive to mess with whatsapp too much. It's very likely that they will fuck it up eventually but the longer it stays usable the better.
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Thanks! Working on testing this. Have you read the "Are you a Rockstar?" - sarcasm is welcome at Aleberry.
Be careful with this line of reasoning, or you might notice that pretty much all the valley hero pundits don't have any kind of track record of real prescience or predicting the future through periods of genuine upheaval at all, and mostly just talk their own book and spout Tom Friedman style business folk-inanities about how the world is changing fast and stuff.
>Given the cost of an aircraft and the value it represents, surely the data cost is more than worth it.

How does broadcasting to a satellite reduce current or future costs?
I wonder if they will just make http://messenger.com more mobile friendly. It's all I use on my laptop.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833484
A more accurate title would be something like "Why you can't get good tickets for popular events via the official websites."
The Met's Egyptian exhibits have artifacts spanning those millennia. I just had no idea. I went in blasé about ancient Egypt and left determined to become an Egyptologist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
> But outside these few cases we don't know. One factor is reporting. Do poor kids in India suffer fewer allergies or are they simply dwarfed by the other problems -- or just not reported?

This is a great point that gets overlooked: lack of data is often taken as non-existence, even implicitly. When the average life expectancy is under 50 and there's fewer than one doctor for every 10,000 people, sneezing and occasional sinus pain doesn't even warrant a mention.
Er, the "Six Years of Hacker News Comments about Twilio" article was an admitted troll by the OP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11786464
I keep saying this in every comment I made on this thread, but I'm talking about the entire mobile ecosystem. Who cares if Android Chrome supports it, iOS doesn't. Which means it's not a 100% coverage. Just by letting this happen you are providing a low quality service to not just the iOS users but also the Android users, since there will be an assumption that the recipient doesn't always get the message in realtime. If you want to send that kind of messages, there is always email. Messaging apps are built on assumptions that people know the other person receives push immediately.
No, see, home-taping was illegal and in the physical world you can't break the law as easily as in the lawless wasteland that is the internet.
My belief why many people are calling this cycle a bubble is because they experienced two big bubbles almost back to back. I think much of the bubble calling over the past few years reeks of recency bias and people have been burned, not just once, but twice.

I have no idea if we are in a bubble or not, I'm sure some segments in tech are bubbles. I think focusing too much on whether or not we are in a bubble is a distraction of doing the work in front of us, whatever that work may be. Don't get distracted by the hype of bulls or the bears.
What's wrong with blindly auctioning off all of the tickets?

That way more tickets will be sold, the artist can't be accused of being greedy, there won't be much profit in the resale market, and everyone who attends the show will have paid an amount they thought was reasonable during the bidding process.
This past winter I actually rode several times in below freezing temperatures. I definitely wasn't comfortable, but I wasn't particularly prepared for it. Single digit and below... yeah, I'll forgive you if you can't take a bus. Short term leases would be on my mind if that were the case for me.

Like I said, though, snow on the road is a good stopping point for the average driver – car or motorcycle.
Undocumented Facebook API to identify friends in photos
I appreciate Racket's huge emphasis on making it easy to get started. Not relying on complicated tooling (but making it possible for advanced users to do so) makes Racket an incredible way to begin learning Lisp.

Follow along, hacker news comment reader! This only takes a second!

1. Download and install http://racket-lang.org/

2. Open Racket

3. Type the following into the top text box and click "Run":

#lang web-server/insta
;; A "hello world" web server
(define (start request)
(response/xexpr
'(html
(body "Hello World"))))

4. Read about the webapp you just wrote: https://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html

Everything builds off of that.

No need to putz with the command line (but you can $ racket that-file.rkt if you want to). No need to fight with Homebrew and Racket's package manager (but there is a package manager if you want it). No need to install support for your own text editor (but if you don't want to use DrRacket, you are more than welcome to Emacs-Major-Mode it up if you want).
What I mean is that the only known way to produce a Muhammad Ali is to start with a Cassius Clay, even though there is an important distinction between them.
It feels like the ticketing process in general is broken. There's too much demand for events, making the entire market dysfunctional.

Why don't we 1) make tickets non-transferrable (but refundable), 2) start pricing half the tickets as what the person will pay via auction and the other half as a fixed-price lottery? I'm not aware of many other ways to make things fair when demand outstrips supply so much.
That's exactly what a bubble would say in this situation.
Please read my other comments on this thread. Basically just because Android supports it doesn't mean it's all good since iOS doesn't. Also the "open web" you think you have on Chrome is not really that open as you think if you think about the entire mobile ecosystem landscape.
Didn't they already do this long ago? I thought it was a few years ago that they made me install messenger to use messages. That thing was a little too... cowboy... with all those bubbles splattering all over my screen. I uninstalled Facebook Messenger to save my sanity and haven't conversed via messages for years.
10x or not: You’ve got to do things right
Most of my stuff is in numpy/scipy, so that sort of array would be great (they are C arrays under the hood, so pretty fast).

As you can tell, most of my work is in python. But R is absolutely huge, so providing an interface to that would certainly be handy to most.
Xonsh: a Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
But, my Windows...
I've updated the FAQ to cover this question.
I'm far out of my area of expertise here, but can anyone offer thoughts about the potential of wrapping these C routines and accessing them from python (Cython) to give python this level of concurrency?
Why do people keep saying "Chrome supports push on Android" to criticize my comment which says "iOS chrome doesn't support push"? It feels like talking to a wall almost.
> His name and commentaries started popping up everywhere a few short years ago which to me smells strongly of having a PR agency

This is exactly right. One of the first things a16z did after it was founded was to hire Margit Wennmachers[0] and her PR firm [1].

Horowitz openly addresses the topic in his book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things[2]:

> “We hired the Outcast marketing agency, headed up by its formidable founder, Margit Wennmachers, to generate media interest. We needed people to know what we were about as we had decided to defy the conventional venture capital theory of no PR. The daughter of a German pig farmer, Margit was the furthest thing from a swine wrangler imaginable. Smart and sophisticated, she was the Babe Ruth of PR. She worked her contacts, landing a cover story in Fortune in 2009 that featured Marc posing as Uncle Sam. Andreessen Horowitz was an overnight sensation, and yet Marc and I were still the only two people in the firm.”

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Wennmachers

1: http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/news/economy/ozy-silicon-val...

2: http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/00...
Crazy idea, but maybe there are individual people that have a spectrum of political and social beliefs that don’t neatly fit into “left” and “right.” Maybe the world isn’t so starkly bipartisan as you suggest. And maybe such people have a variety of complex feelings about people that don’t neatly fit into “love” and “hate.”

Maybe, just maybe, binary thinking is the exact opposite of being a Hacker. Maybe it’s a crutch, an excuse for not seeing the world as it really is, or a rhetorical device for steering discussions away from truth and towards an end someone is trying to socially engineer.
No need to go private, Strava has an 'ebike' option in you can choose. I use strava when I commute on my ebike and it's nice to track overall/combined miles without dirtying non-assisted results.
I've been hit with this and rather than give in to Facebook wanting me to install their messenger, will be looking into a third party app like Trillian, etc to do my chats.
Tell me what's factually incorrect about "Chrome doesn't support push on iOS". Want me to spell it out for you? Here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34588506/ios-web-notifica...

I am amazed how many people on this thread are attacking me saying "Android Chrome supports push notification" when I said "Chrome doesn't support push on iOS". Are you even listening to what I say?
The most important part of this article is its last paragraph: "Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations."

With that in mind it is understandable that the rest is a over-generalization that tries to find a one-size-fits-all explanation for political development in various countries all over the world, lashing out at every "bad" guy.

For example, Evo Morales is mentioned once and even that in a questionable context - the cited "little respect for any institutions [...] a vibrant private sector" were actually what got him elected in first place - and not by middle class but the dead poor who could not afford tripled rates for water[1] and did not want to sell out their natural resources[2]. Contrary to what the article claims later, this did not lead to economic devastation but to "economic growth [...] higher than at any time in the last 30 years, averaging 4.9 percent".[3]

Maybe a disrespect for institutions, esp. when then are called IMF, is not a bad thing after all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_gas_conflict
[3] http://cepr.net/publications/reports/bolivian-economy-during-morales-administration
Well he also said that Jews are devils, the mixing of the races is an abomination and that homosexuality is a white man’s disease.
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There are "noseless" saddles and saddles with a channel down the middle that may help protect the sensitive bits. http://www.thebirdwheel.com/noseless-saddles-tested-updated

But my biased opinion is buy a recumbent! Fewer back, neck, and nether region issues, plus, they have comfy seats! http://www.bacchettabikes.com/recumbent-bikes/

VERY comfy seats! http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/scorpion_plus20/index_...

A long wheelbase (crank behind the front wheel) and a more upright riding position is perfect in city traffic. On my commuter, my eye level is about even with drivers in crossover vehicles.
New shell packs power of Python and Bash
> It's truly mind boggling that airlines don't do this.

They don't do it because they don't need the data. Governments do, for when they need to do search and rescue. So, governments should make it a requirement.

For a manager making a decision in an airline whether or not to use this service, he would have to justify the cost to the airline. If none of his competitors are using it, then he's just got an unnecessary cost which the airline has to eat or pass on the cost to the customer.

The way around this is to make it a requirement for all airlines. Then everybody has to eat the cost.

You may not be aware but there is an effort in the United States to move aircraft from primarily radar-based Air Traffic Control to GPS-based. This requires all planes to be equipped with additional equipment to transmit their location, and there is a mechanism to transmit via satellite. It's just not a requirement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...
> it's partially your fault because you didn't do that

I never implied that. If something, I said that too much pressure by society is making parents work harder, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
The example_client may help answer your question: https://github.com/robsco-git/spreadsheet_server/blob/master...

I don't quite follow your question but I'll give it a shot. Here is a high level version of how I am currently using the tool: A user is presented with a bunch of input variables on a web page that are then set by the user. These variables are sent to the server and the server sets the relevant cells using spreadsheet_server. Resultant values from other cells are retrieved by spreadsheet_server and then sent back to the web page and presented to the user in the form of a graph or table etc.

Pretty much all of the logic to get from input to output is handled in the spreadsheet by LibreOffice.
Ask HN: How should we go about killing Flash?
Okay, so Flash is horrible, terrible, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. We know this. So how do we go from making flash's use not recommended, to actually killing it?

Personally, I think the first step is making Project Shumway fast...
Do you have aa citation?
An Obvious Secret – Perpetual Engine – AiXdao
For countless generations, humans have searched for a perpetual engine under the belief that it was impossible. Everyone wanted that engine for their own power. There is a word for this - we call it selfishness. Its curve is like a dagger (3-2-1 pop!).

However, a much better business model exists. We call it teamwork. It's curve is 25-25-50, 25-25-50,... forever.

By using fibonacci's straight line and the mathmatical straight line, we can combine them to make that curve an alphabetical algorithm.

More importantly though, is that we use that curve for all of us.

As a business model, it is like this 1,2,3.123...

Consider that everything we know about the universe is spherical. It goes in orbits. Even your very consciousness is a sphere.

I dream of a human business model where each person works to find two units (individual or otherwise) that can work together and teaches them how to work together.

Uber, Youtube, and others have found success sharing revenue. As much as possible.

1+1 =2.
2 + (1+1) = 4
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8.

=
Teamwork

Whereas

1 + 2 = 3
1 + 2 = 3
1 + 2 = 3

Is running is circles.

Fibonnaci's straight line (The Golden Line) is the ideal output model for most of creation. Plants, rabbits, chemistry, seashells, etc... It is also the ideal business model for humanity.

Y-Combinator and has come closer to this model than any company I am aware of.

I hope and dream that the Gates foundation with Y Combinator can be linked with Linux and Alphabet. Then I hope they can link Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Tesla, Alphabet, RedHat, and many more....

I dream one day we will stand together as one unit. Undivided with liberty and justice for all.

Please become professional heroes. The world needs you...

Godspeed...
It would be hard for someone who did not grow up in the '70s to understand the huge cultural influence of Muhammad Ali. The kids next door were African-American and my younger brother and I watched several of the Ali matches. He was strong, fast, smart, and good looking. He was outspoken and opinionated. He was a different kind of black man than what was portrayed in movies or on TV. He was revered by us kids at the time. If I knew nothing more than what I witnessed in the boxing ring he would still have been revered. But of course there was much more to Muhammad Ali than boxing.
Slack requires a lot of configuration and training. For example, users may not know how to mute or disable notifications for certain channels. They may not understand the implications of using @channel in a channel with 100 people in it on a Saturday morning. The API integrations may have to be dialed back or restricted to a separate non-public channel with keyword notification (i.e. continuous integration results).

Once these problems are solved it becomes very efficient work with other team members in real time. We've also built out some bot functionality to answer common questions that stakeholders ask.

We use Slack for conference calls. If they add the ability to screen share no one on the team will ever use Skype again. Good riddance.
How so? What stops any state in the US from doing similar things? Genuine question. California for example routinely establishes new and stricter (compared to other US states) environmental rules governing emissions and whatnot. Legalizing pot is similarly fairly out of the mainstream and it is being done independently by several states.
> I want to (but not yet) implement some algorithms based on research paper to play around

They have to catch you first and then you have to be big enough for them to care.