skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This a good start, but I think there could be a lot more thought given to how we should think about monopolies in the context of markets where networks effects are crucial to the business value (aka. Facebook and Google most obviously, arguably Amazon, Apple), because one logical conclusion is that in a market where network effects are a major factor, the biggest network should be best positioned to provide the most value and therefore (assuming it doesn't actively eff things up on other fronts) should continue to grow until it dominates the market...which seems to pretty much be what happened, and it makes pretty good sense for the most part. in these cases, it actually seems BAD to break these networks apart, since their scale is arguably one of its primary values to the customer - this doesn't mean of course that they can't abuse their monopoly powers (I think they probably do to some degree and will continue to), but interesting to think that the traditional "break up monopolies" impulse doesn't make as much sense. this leads me to think it will just be more consumer-protection-related regulation (under the banner of consumer privacy, or maybe even public health, given all the "social media addiction" thought pieces out there these days ha).

(repurposed a prior discussion but arguably more relevant here!)

One thing I've found super interesting/impressive about Snap is that it didn't try to outcompete FB in terms of sheer network size for its usage stickiness, and instead turned smaller, tighter and more private networks into a differentiator, while at the same time providing advertisers/brands with a competitively massive audience - not an easy thing to identify, much less execute on. TBD if that differentiator is enough to keep them alive vs. FB's more traditional network-effect-driven advantage, which will be hard to beat on its own terms. I think Snap's success will depend a lot on its ability to avoid being tempted to play that game (see: Twitter!).

random other thought: this all also reminds me that Mark Zuckerberg has not made a peep about wanting FB to be thought of as a "utility" in a long time (or maybe he has and I just missed it...but couldn't find any recent mentions, see this talk from 2013: https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/18/facebook-doesnt-want-to-be...), probably in part because they are now a lot more at risk than ever before of being regulated like one. Also kind of funny to hear him talk about "we don't want FB to be cool" too, because now it seems like FB very much wants to be cool again now that Snap has become cool and has threatening user counts.
Competent bureaucracy is what they've got in Sweden. You obviously don't believe public goods exists. That's stupid.
Can anyone speak to the effects of increased activity on metastasis?
Well, nothing is free. They all pay them one way or another. It's just that this time they don't hold enough value for the system so they get kicked out. Simply said the wise guys got their properties. It's not really unusual in communist/ex communist countries.
I feel there is something shady missing between all these crazy headline stats.

For example, Facebook messenger stats seem gamed to me. I never really use it, but every time i accept a friend request it pops up a fake messenger notification telling me that i can message that contact (opening messenger of course).

Furthermore the quality of news feed has dropped of a cliff for me. It's really just posts from pages and sponsored posts now. Very few people actually post.
A good way to get a lot of people with a phishing attempt is the 'Unsubscribe' button in an email.
Note that this is from the end of March, and the thread continues at https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2017-April/th...
One of my favorite anecdotes about the government in the US is the TRAX system in Utah. It was initially built under the support of a tiny liberal core of SLC combined with the promise of the winter olympics. But they did something unheard of in the US: they 1) designed it well, addressing real transportation needs, without any frivolous details, shady contracts, or massive stations named after politicians, 2) they built it extremely quickly and under budget, and 3) once built, they continued to operate it with high service levels and low costs.

And because of it, something else happened that was unheard of in the US: Republicans voted insatiably for more of it. Every single vote they put on a ballot was thrusting the system further and further into red country...places where republicans win over democrats with 90% of the vote or more. And they all passed.

This is why I can't get on board with any part of the left in the US, despite ideologically identifying more with the Western European green parties. The left wants more, but won't address the gigantic fucking elephant in the room, the fact that we suck at government and aren't doing anything to fix it. And because of it, I don't blame the right at all for feeling the way they do. The government sucks, and they have never experienced anything better, so why should we vote for more of it? Fix the government and they'll be begging for more.
They are defending with their network, to prevent people from leaving for SnapChat.
The schedule mentioned for exams is not used in most SRS; they already target permanent memorization (which is one reason why they sometimes need a 'cramming mode' for students who are willing to pay extra reviews in order to have cards memorized by a particular date).
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Actually, I would suggest typescript and c# .

C# because I love it after experimenting with a lot of languages ( VB.net the first and c# second though, I'm a bit biased) and typescript because it will improve your current nodejs writing.

Both are closely aligned and I think it's perfect in your case. Start the next project with typescript and change to c# later for another project.

Also, there are a ton of projects to learn from. But other than that ( a lot of languages have great examples), there is a lot of employment in c# and it seems to be a sure bet future-wise.

Ps. CMS -> Umbraco. Webshop -> Merchello. It's like woocommerce and WordPress but easier and cleaner
thank you, makes sense now. why do they think we think that you can take an open source thing and make it closed source? All you can do is force them to buy commercial licenses by using a GPL on Moby. That is common use of GPL after the fact (see ExtJS history), but I'm not sure how they get around the viral aspect of GPL when they are using source from GPL project in their commercial offering. They'd have to be completely separate. If tomorrow the free "CE" product went away, what would happen? Imagine if we had to pay for the Java runtime or JDK.
Is Firefox that far from Chrome? I thought it was ahead in some ways.
I feel like the amount of hassle in terms of time spent is probably more imagined than real.

I tried VS Code for a couple months last year. It felt like less of a hassle than vim from 10 years ago. But with pathogen, cloning into .vim/bundle doesn't feel any more burdensome than finding the best plugins on VS Code did.

I mean, to each their own.
> you clearly do not understand the magnitude and the background leading up to the Rosa Parks incident.

Indeed don't know you, treehau5 and how your life has been, any more than you know mine.

But yes, I do have some idea: when I first came to America in the 1960s with my parents we landed in D.C. My parents knew to drive north because had we tried to stay in Virginia we would not have been permitted to all stay in the same hotel. At the time of their marriage my parents' could not even get married in my native country, although the marriage itself (performed elsewhere) was legal, unlike in parts of the US.

I have seen firsthand the effect of racial laws on my direct family. I myself have been barred entrance to a hotel on racial grounds (though thankfully I think those times are behind us). I don't sit around complaining about it, or even thinking about it every day for which I am thankful: not everyone has that luxury. But yes, I think I have some understanding.

You are correct in that I was not here when Rosa Parks staged her protest so I do not understand firsthand what it was like in the South before the civil rights movement was accepted by whites. Perhaps you do. But I am very much aware of the benefit I have derived from her effort. As well as the social reasons why Colaudette Colvin's protest could not have had the same effect -- and how today's calculus has changed.

> There is literally no insight to be had.

You blandly make this claim but do not support it. I did in fact claim there was insight to be had. You can disagree, but simply stating your disagreement provides no explanatory value.
Someone could do the legwork of selecting one such system each year, put it up somewhere and collect referral commissions. Much like voter guides help those interested to gain political clout just by doing their own research and publishing it.
> (snoozing, send later, reminders, open tracking, etc.)

None of that has any appeal to me, I'd much rather a mail system which doesn't require using someone else's server.

Maybe this isn't a priority for other people, but just putting it out there. This is what's making me not use Nylas today.
Sorry, I forgot giving a link to Python Tools for Visual Studio which includes the debugging and profiling utilities I linked to(https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/python/).
If you ever wonder why more people don't subscribe to your viewpoint regarding taxes, consider leaving out the part equating it to slavery. In case it's not obvious, voters legalizing slavery give no choice to the indentured which is completely different from marginal tax rate increases.
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I wish I could give you 100K karma points for your statement!
My impression is that Microsoft was a lot stronger than Facebook or Google are now. Not having a Facebook account is annoying, but there is a very large world outside of Facebook. If you have a website that is not in Google's index, then you have a problem. But for just about anything else from Google there are plenty of alternatives.

When Microsoft was dominant, basically a PC implied that the operating system came from Microsoft. Very few people had the option of not running DOS or Windows. People would regularly send Word or Excel document and there were no reasonable alternatives to Office to deal with those.

And without the Internet, finding details on how to avoid Microsoft was also hard.
Could you expand upon this? Do you mean the unsubscribe takes you to somewhere you need to then sign in with credentials to "unsubscribe"?
There were electric cars before the Model S. None of them were especially commercially viable. The Tesla has the potential to be something like the iPod or the iPhone, in terms of transforming a product category. Yes, there were MP3 players and Blackberries and PalmPilots, but they didn't deliver the same level of experience as what came after. I don't believe that there are similar opportunities in the PC desktop and laptop markets, which are contracting, commoditized markets.
+1
Vote for them to revert it here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971
I also find the answers interesting and like reading them.

But it does a lot of harm to the person asking the question if they make a life changing decision based on it without being prepared going in.

I just wanted to offer some advice to the person asking the question so if that was their goal and that is what their intentions are then they can go in perhaps a little bit more prepared.
Yea, that comment almost felt like a joke. 4% difference (53.8% in cali!? holy cow) and s/he's complaining about people deciding where that 4% goes?
If you look at the concept of disruption (not what most people think disruption is, but the actual definition from the guy who coined the term in The Innovator's Dilemma), it is a small competitor that arises that better serves a need that only a small part of the market cares about that goes on top create a true competitor. They don't have to do everything the biggie does, they just have to do one important thing better.

For instance, Instagram might have been a Facebook killer, which is why they bought them early. Oculus Rift might also have been (but that's a stretch I think). Just to play it safe they also bought them.

So what are the features that a minority of the market cares about at this point that might spawn a competitor that would challenge FB?

Someone dedicated to privacy, perhaps. Someone with a model that eliminates advertising, maybe, even if you have to pay a membership fee. Perhaps someone who does a better job of incorporating articles from third party sources without all the spam/fake news that clogs feeds. Maybe someone who does a better job of using the camera, or mobile-first/only technology, like pure audio instead of text/pictures.

Other ideas?
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You're presenting opinions (strong ones) in the guise of facts, but you have no data nor even really anything to go by other than your experience/preference/anecdotes.

In general, the stronger your opinions the more you must work to ensure that they're communicated in as non-alienating a way as possible. This is one of the fundamental forces of communication/persuasion. As it stands, your current comment leans on hyperbole quite a bit, and uses unkind labels for groups of people who are quite likely to read your comment. As a result, I suspect your comment may not go over well.
Tesla voluntarily recalls 53,000 cars due to faulty parking brakes from supplier
Microsoft was far, FAR stronger and more destructive. One can easily avoid Facebook today and still use the Internet if they so choose. In the 1990s it was exceedingly difficult to avoid using or paying Microsoft if you used or bought personal computers, either in your personal or business life. They also made it their business to thoroughly crush anything open or standardized that competed with their own technology. Facebook is not even close.
> outside hackernews

Isn't hackers congregating on a new agg site like Hackernews where other hackers are already hanging out the same network effect in action?
I guess that would depend on if there was some reason to try to have extensive industry on Mars or not.

At first people would anyway live by whatever resource they were using. If a deposit ran out they might choose to build a haul road over moving their entire settlement.
I open Safari just for that... It wasn't like that a few versions back.
Can someone explain how this could possibly be true given that absolute wealth is monotonically increasing? https://ourworldindata.org/slides/world-poverty/
I would be more than happy if my father had been cycling and would be still with us today.
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How about dropping Twitter for Mastodon entirely? What are you really leaving behind, anyway?
I had some of the same frustration with Python, and eventually switched to julia-lang for this kind of stuff. You still don't get the static type analysis step of something like C++ or Haskell, but you can more easily control the types that flow through your computations (compared to python) by using julia's type system. You don't have to deal with numpy's magic, because julia has very nice linear algebra built-ins, and as long as you produce type-stable julia code it's usually plenty fast. There's also an opencv package for julia, although I've never used it.
Network effects remain, but it's still something that can be used as an advantage over Facebook. A lot of FB refugees choose other networks when they are starting to get fed up with lack of privacy on FB.
> I am personally annoyed at the current state of the open source ecosystem where all the top open source projects are dominated by large tech co's.

It's fascinating how far we have come in the past 20 years. First the introduction of using opensource at work, then businesses starting to opensource things themselves, and here we are complaining that the top opensource projects are in fact backed by companies.

I understand your point, but it's also a luxury to be able to complain about this.
I would strongly recommend C. You will learn a lot about computers, rather than computer science.

If you want to stay in the computer science realm, I would recommend C#, C++, or Go. All three have the critical mass to be dominant languages in the next decade.
This article is too narrowly focused on IDN. appie.com has fundamentally the same problem, despite being pure ASCII.
I am still facing dilemma Java vs C#.
I have to say I like C# more but there seems to be many more Java jobs than C#.
It's still SF though:

Human computers (mentats), drug-assisted spaceship navigation, genetic manipulation and cloning (the Tleilaxu), ecological reshaping of planets, complex ecological lifecycles, etc.

Anyway you dice it, Dune is a genuine work of SF with a rennaissance/medieval flavor.
> Americans' allergic reaction to paying taxes is just one more reason why the country is circling the drain.

A big component of the founding of this country was as a reaction to taxes. In general taxes have lead to many wars and revolutions in the past.
Has the author even read Dune? Like, really read it?

One caption reads:

> This looks like a future computer, I’m pretty sure.

Obviously suggesting it's not science-fictioney enough, but there are no computers in Dune - everything doing data storage and retrieval in that universe is understood to be a very complicated mechanical machine.

Dune is more steampunk than laser beams, and Lynch brilliantly captured that aesthetic.
Looks like a combination of JS and C++,
see for example https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/db/mork/src
The guy trailing the robot was actively trying to hide the fact that they were controlling. Half up their sleeve and very close to their side.
Why would they even change that?
Numpy is not perfect but this is the first time I've heard it being referred to as abominable. What is it doing fundamentally wrong?
I use python for build automation, custom build jobs, code generation for C++, glueing command-line tools together and for multi-platform shell-scripting. For that it is really great. I also had some tasks where vanilla python was simply too slow. In this case I found it easier to move the slow parts into a small cross-platform C++ command line tool and call that from python instead of trying to make the python code faster. YMMV of course :)
do we really need a bunch of rich fucks staring at us while we're talking to our friends? how do you even make friends in that kind of environment? shouldn't social networks be, you know, personal?

we haven't won yet, but we will.

https://www.bbnet.io/
http://www.fediverse.org/
https://mastodon.social/
https://gnu.io/social/
$800 for Chicago to Louisville is a bad example. I can get a round-trip flight tonight between the two for $200...

$800 round trip is like Boston to Hawai'i next week.($822 from next monday to the 1st of May). That's 8,081km/5,021 miles. It honestly wouldn't be that bad.
Looks really nice. Unfortunately, I usually don't want my task list associated with dates. I just want a list of stuff I need to get done (actually, A lot of lists of stuff). Once in a while I'll want to associate a reminder date but that's about it for the way I work.
Not to be rude or anything but the people in charge of such changes need to take a class in change management.
So the creator of Eraserhead, Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet is being lectured to about world building? Dune is one of the few Lynch works I haven't seen, but given his oeuvre I'm willing to chalk up any lapse to him not being on his game for a moment.

As far as the title of this article is concerned, I doubt that Lynch is overly concerned with any genre so much as the ineffable, ill-defined language of human dreams and desires.
This little python script will fetch your Twilio SMS logs with a specific user/phone number and display them like a chat app.

I built it because debugging automated conversations through the Twilio logs was really painful!
Tesla issues voluntary recall for 53,000 cars
Same here. Macros worked inconsistently, finding matching parens, and search/replace using registers just was off.

I use sublime, atom and VSCode every once in a while when pair programming but apart from intellisense/autocomplete I don't get a lot more value from the Vim alternatives.
"Regressing" ??

Didn't we just have a Lead Contamination issue for years go unnoticed in a major city (Flint)?

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Overall, this article is neither profound nor useful. The best descriptions of America that I've found are those that build off of the 9-subnations model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_Amer...). (There are more modern approaches, like "11-subnations"... but these models are much better)

This article oversimplifies the situation into the "two subnations" of "Rich and Poor". Which completely missed the problem and the current situation. The only part that I agree with in the article is that "Education" is the key to reaching the upper echelons of society, but the opportunity for Education differs grossly on a state-to-state basis.

After all, its the individual states that provide education for the citizens. The Federal US Government plays a very small role in Education.

The NorthEast states, with their emphasis on quality PUBLIC education, have better mobility than say the Southern states, which focus on Charter Schools, and Private Schools.

And that's fine. Each state should grow as according to their local politics.

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True, there's a "Rich and Poor" dynamic going on but the situation is far more complicated than that. And any attempt to focus excessively on wealth metrics will miss the trees for the forest.

We have a collection of 50-mini governments that run the vast majority of our lives. There are over 50 educational systems (indeed: Regional accreditation for colleges is far more important than national accreditation), there are over 10,000 Police Departments (Not just Federal agencies like FBI, but then State-Police and then county Police... and sometimes even City-specific Police). Etc. etc.

In many respects, the USA should be thought of more like the European Union... but for some reason, people want to think of the USA as a single contiguous nation. It just doesn't work that way in practice however.
As I mentioned in another comment, joining Facebook is something that just isn't a good idea for young people. The network that is praised as the primary reason Facebook is successful in the article, does more damage to someone's future than gives them benefit in the present. Schools and Colleges running checks on Facebook for anything negative about them, finding one student and following the network for other, has affected some of my friends. As has employers and work experience checking Facebook. 'The Network' also means that family are suggested to friend you almost immediately; I don't need to explain the problems with that. Snapchat is a safe haven for creative, throw away content that isn't indexable, searchable, doesn't have a social graph or a permissions model.
C#. It's used from the web (ASP.NET) to gamedev (Unity), and has an excellent implementation of most mainstream view on statically, strongly typed OOP. In my opinion, the best language to write usual business logic heavy projects, that don't need dynamic metaprogramming trickery on one hand and manual memory and cpu cycle management on another.

There are many other languages that will teach you valuable things; buy if you're asking about one, or at least the first one, C# is definetly the best choice. When you'll come from it to Haskell or Rust, you will already be equipped with a habit for OOP and static typing, and will not face a frustrating cognitive overload.
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