skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hacked together something similar (not CLI) at https://www.fbexporter.com/
Facebook will definitely get this site taken down quickly. There is something called the Trademark Clearinghouse and registrars work together with them.

http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/

IANAL but whatever trademark equivalent of fair use exists if any I don’t think OP site falls under it even.

I mean, the site is a valid criticism and it’s clever and I applaud them but no I don’t think it will last a whole lot more than some few hours more at tops.
the O365 argument reminds me of when people said blackberry would never go away
Nope. Hangout is not at all a convenient app. Main Android apps after Whatsapp are Telegram, Kik, imo and WeChat.
You can also use the Debian package i2c-tools to communicate with things connected to the busses on your computer.

I once used it to play with a set of Melexis IR sensors I'd soldered to the VGA port on a crap video card. It made writing the Arduino code way easier after figuring out all the hard things with Linux. There was even enough power on the VGA pin to run 4 of them!

Really though, it was just exciting to be able to wire some of my own hardware into the computer and write a program to talk to it. Made me feel like I actually own my computer again.
Well, at least it scales well in those tasks.
I mainly meant Office 365 & SharePoint, but there is a growing list of services above the infrastructure layer that Azure is leading in as well, like identity (Active Directory), hybrid cloud, Dynamics CRM and BI/data processing.
If you play your cards right, half a million after benefits and stocks are consider is within reach for engineers. Director level and up and it’s very attainable. The Bay Area isn’t perfect, but it has a lot to offer for many, especially if you’re in the top 10% or so of earners out here. If you make minimum wage out here it’s probably awful aside from the weather and how nice and relaxed people generally are compared to the rest of the US, though I’ve seen that slipping in the past 5 years, especially on the road — it seems like there are a lot more angry drivers now than even a few years ago.
Are there actual cases of those who did not?
Forgot about email accounts and contacts.

Cant remember what year it was but at some point FB removed each members personal email address and replaced it with a username@facebook.com address.

This cut off the possibility that members might try to contact other members via personal email, and instead redirected all their communications through Facebooks servers.

Facebook needed to see those communications because... why not?
a better web interface, for one.
The numbers absolutely have to be aligned along the decimal point. You can still "center" them in the column by indenting it
I thought parodies were allowed
it's 18% percent.

current market cap is 465 billion [yahoo data]

market cap 10 days ago was 565 billion (465 + 100)

drop is 100B/565B = ~18% over the last ten days.

share price now back to july '17 price, wiping out 9 months of gains.

i'd also posit that there will be more to come to light.

loose data practices costs points!
Um, is it really that hard to fire someone in CA? It's an at-will state and you can get rid of someone that day for any reason under the sky (that isn't 'discriminatory').

Firing doesn't seem hard but I think your point does stand that the cost of having to do so is kind of great. Find, hire, onboard and train a new employee, one that you hope does better than the bad hire.
Getting acquainted with Kubernetes 1.10
It's wrong. UI code isn't hard to unit test. It's borderline-impossible to integration test the state of the art in "controlling a browser to poke at your UI" is woefully inadequate, as are the debugging mechanisms available when anything unexpected happens. And I'm talking about a single-browser suite of tests, not even trying to assess cross-browser testing, testing on the nigh-infinite number of (device-spec * OS version * "value added" OEM android garbage libraries * custom build of chrome) matrix that is mobile devices.
Agreed. For context, in the Netherlands you pay about $100 in monthly healthcare insurance. You pay about $160 a month for college tuition. You don't need a car, and transport to work (by public transport, car or indeed bicycle) is generally paid for by your company. Student loans are available at 0% at the moment. There's housing and healthcare subsidies for lower-incomes. (<$34k)

I'm not sure about housing though. There's a few crazy cities in the US, NY, SF, LA etc. But by and large, the median American pays a substantially lower square footage price than citizens of somewhat similarly rich European countries like the UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, as far as I'm aware. And we also have our outliers in London, Paris etc where the price-income ratio is off the charts. The US has far more land and is far less dense than Western-Europe, with land prices as a function of density (demand for land) I'd say Europeans have less real purchasing power on housing.
I agree, when Kafka is (or can be made) a good fit it simplifies a lot of this. Thanks for the presentation link. I'm seeing companies trying to use Kafka for "Request style" services, ie as just another enterprise messaging system.
Not to mention that sheets is far from a replacement for excel.
I have memories myself of a summer camp with a nice long slide that was waxed with the insides of McDonalds cups. You rode down on a burlap sack and if for some reason you touched the slide itself you would get a gigantic friction burn (ask me how I know!).
I'm a new father of two boys and couldn't imagine the torment I'd go through if something tragic would happen to them, pain like that cannot be "made right" by a simple settlement, however large. What irks me though in this instance, is that Caleb's father is state legislature in Kansas and because of laws he has voted for, (or rather against) his compensation should have been capped at $300k -- but instead through "getting around laws" which he himself has helped pass, he was awarded one of the largest settlements in Kansas history[1]. No sum of money could ever compensate such loss, however, when he's made a career out of denying other Kansians for similar losses it just seems hypocritical to me. Even after receiving the settlement money, he hasn't had an epiphany moment and campaigned/voted to help other families with similar losses. If ever there was negligence sufficient to warrant one of the largest tort settlement in his state, this strikes me as a short-runner, but what about other families, why is it a one rule for me, and one rule for my constituents.

[1]: He did this by bringing suit out of Kansas and instead in Texas under "choice of law" ...

I read about this here: https://www.injuryrelief.com/blog/how-is-representative-scot... - I assume it's a reputable source.... but could be a load of crap and out of context falsehoods, written by authors who have an interest in raising the cap in Kansas.. but hey, even if they do, the underlying sentiment is still true?..
You should tell that to:

NeoBasilisk 3 hours ago [-]

I'm so sorry.
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Don’t forget all the Prop 65 earnings in apartment complexes! It’s mostly for asbestos in the case of apartments.
Google obviously relies heavily on ad revenue, but their business is far more diversified than FB. Consider:

Google Play revenue (apps + media purchase/rental)

Hardware (Pixel phone/Google home/Nest hardware)

YouTube video ad revenue (brand based ads rather than search)

Youtube TV, Youtube Red subscription revenue

Google Cloud (>$1BB/quarter)

Plus the other tech on the horizon, that if something pops here, it will be accretive to revs:

Waymo

Verily

DeepMind

Fiber (if it ever comes back in growth mode)

Google Ventures

Etc etc

(struggled with formatting on this despite many attempts.. grr HN)
But its users want.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-...

I wonder if this contributed to Eric Schmidt leaving.
What makes you say so? I fell Whatsapp will hit a scandal first.
Samsung's email app is crap and additional to the google app, while gmail feels like a useful default email app.

It's a super fine line that is basically just preference, and they are both bloatware in a technical sense (can't uninstall it).
A great place for new luxury apartments and condos! I wish I was kidding.
Repo at https://github.com/Ivanca/PresentationIvan/
https://imgur.com/a/7nxyJ

How does this make it to HN
Desktop email clients like Outlook let you do things such as: select all email messages -> save as .txt -> feed the .txt to a python script that extracts useful data.

If we were using GSuite I guess we could use the Gmail API to get the message body data, but at the end of the day having local access is just more convenient (edit: faster).

Edit: for everything else that is not email (spreadsheet, word processor, presentations) there are also similar advantages related to having full fledged desktop applications.
Money in a way isn't a real thing but a symbol representing things like work and possessions. It's entirely possible to artificially overvalue things like the rich having a piece of paper claiming ownership of things and build up an infinite obligation to work our entire lives away to fulfill that paper obligation without society as a whole being short on resources or labor.
When said obligations become ruinous and paper title to nearly everything is held by nearly no one perhaps those obligations will be reevaluated.
> The key is tying these services to discounts on Windows licensing

Like Microsoft 365, which is a superset of Office 365, and includes Windows licensing for desktops, along with the other "nice to haves" from the Azure AD premium suite, like Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, and the Enterprise Mobility suite stuff. Oh, and an OMA DM compliant MDM suite with DLP and ...

I work in this space, and it seems like the "365" suite is rapidly becoming an incredibly well integrated kitchen-sink approach to end-users software & devices.
In my experience, Cisco Umbrella flags quite a few sites as malicious that absolutely aren't. Most of the flagged sites I've noticed have come from a HN posting.
With time, Facebook is becoming the white pages[1]. Sure, people have profiles there, but just like the white pages, it's entirely passive and something that's there because you forgot to opt out. That publication barely exists now, but there was a time when it was the place to advertise.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory
May I ask what you do with Excel that you cannot do with sheets?
No one from the state showed up and said "you can't let people ride that" ?
I want to know the correlation of people who like this article and consider themselves a lucky person.
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That's really cool of you.

And, parent had a good point to. The one time I asked for feedback and received it, I did react the same way (Them: We didn't see this; Me: But I have done that!). I figured while I had their attention to give it a shot. I was already rejected so what's the worst that could happen? Anyway, I tried to be extremely thankful and polite about getting the feedback. Should've done the Glassdoor thing since they also actually formally rejected me and did so in a timely manner.
> Persphinctery statements...

I don't know what these are but they sound evil.
> If you think about it, a guy who wouldn't mind his career being about PHP is exactly the type who wouldn't get why ('zuckerberg-couldn't-get-laid(a-busines-carries-founder-DNA)).

I don't see how the opinion you're promoting here is any more mature than what you're criticizing.
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There is only one Steve Blank
FOMO is a powerful incentive.
And that’s still $37,000 making a huge difference between your net and gross income.

I don’t dispute that state taxation makes a difference. I dispute that it makes such a huge difference.
How to launch initial marketing campaign
How do startups get early stage customers. If the product is web based and target market is offshore what are the best approaches to build traction. Is the founder required to be where the customers are even when the product is web based.
Thank you.
Protonmail has the catch-all feature.
https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/catch-all/
They discount it to sweeten the deal for your company's accounting department, who are almost always 100% suits who want what's familiar and have enough influence over the accounts to be able to get their way.

But the reality is that for a 100% single-vendor, integrated system that works well with everything that's already installed in an SMB or larger, there are no competitors for O365.

Back when I was doing SMB consulting gigs, I tried to steer a few folks away from it, because I think it's a bad long-term move to rely on too many services from a single vendor, and especially when those are all off-premises services that depend on a lot of working technology between you and the vendor. But, it became clear before long that I was giving bad advice. The clients that ignored me and went with O365 were happier, and when something went wrong, they just shrugged and said, "oh well, Microsoft will fix it soon."

Whereas if something went wrong with any other system, it was my fault because I recommended it, even if I couldn't do anything about whatever particular piece was broken.

Anyway, point is, every customer that signs up for O365 at any price is going to be a Microsoft customer for a very long time, and I don't see anybody on the horizon that is going to be changing anyone's mind about it.
Often you can sideload the ones you're missing.

Also there's the AOSP. And openness to use a custom launcher, browser engine, overlays, ...
Facebook's network effect is extremely strong...

Network effects are not as strong as you might think. Multiple lines of evidence point to it being O(n log(n)) in general. See https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/metcalfes-law-i... for details.

The log(n) factor does work in Facebook's favor against newcomers. It is a barrier to entry. However it is a barrier to entry that can be overcome with a better user experience.

My desired experience is that I want to see what my friends have to say, and don't want to see random commercial spam.
My Facebook feed includes crap from any time I liked a viral link, and DOES NOT include a significant fraction of what my friends had to say. It is very far from my desired experience.

I already see people trying out alternatives like Mastadon. Existing chat applications like Slack and Discord could be turned into social networks. And properties like Instagram and Whatsapp stand as demonstrations that social networks are more easily started than you might think. Facebook can only keep buying up its potential competitors for so long until it runs across one that dreams of something bigger than Facebook can offer.

Short term I believe that there is an overreaction to news. But long-term, I would not want to bet on Facebook. Not over the next 20 years.
> How did we we get in that state to begin with? I suspect through bad project file merges (or possibly NuGet UI bugs, can't say for sure.)

Most likely someone modified the packages for an individual project and not the solution as a whole. Always manage packages at the solution level and your much less likely to have these issues, unless you have multiple solutions...
This strategy seems pointless because the one remaining "category killer" aspect of Facebook which they can then market is the friends communication interface. If people stay on Facebook and maintain the same friend interconnections, Facebook wins 85% of the battle anyway.

I thought of advising friends to set up a fresh browser specific to Facebook usage, using it only incognito and clearing after every session (as I do), but benefits of such precautions would be wasted in the big picture of interconnected friends, most of whom see no downside to being productized.
You're 100% correct. Most roles (especially senior leadership) are contextual to the company. This post is my take on Mark Suster's definition with regards to how I view my role within my company's context. I thought about whether to add qualifiers to how I talked the position, roles, responsibilities, etc. and I decided to not water it down and accept that to some it won't be applicable for a variety of reasons. Thanks for the feedback.
Still more apps than in iOS's alternative app stores.
"no company has top talent" is much closer to the truth than your implied assumption that even companies drenched in top talent must deliver shit products.
Absolutely. Sometimes you just want to output a quick CSV, open it locally in familiar spreadsheet environment, and explore.
Is there real competition in the front-office / back-office "alternate devices" space? There are certainly niche players but at least at the $bigcos I've worked at, most "real" tasks aren't easily accomplished on a tablet, phone, or Chromebook. Web spreadsheets tend to be feature-incomplete, presentation and document creation is a mess, and that's not even starting in on the hundreds of proprietary front-office tools for appointment scheduling and client management and back-office tools for analytics and finance, which are strongly Windows-based. I've only seen a few people use tablets day-to-day and they're all mid-to-upper level execs whose jobs are far more delegation-and-communication oriented and who have the liberty of sending someone an email when they need "the numbers" pulled or a slide presentation whipped together.

Even the BigCos I've worked at who use GSuite have had an additional subscription to Office365 for employees who need Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. I've seen very few larger companies who can subsist on Google Sheets alone.

This could be something that changes in the next 5-10 years, certainly, but it's been a prophecy that's underdelivered for years. Kind of feels like the "year of Linux on the desktop" all over again.
It's becoming clearer and clearer that the main things preventing total EV takeover are lack of good products on the market and production capacity. I'm excited to hopefully watch both of these problems erode in the next 5 years.

Really really ready to stop breathing fossil fuels all day every day in the city.
I doubt this would be considered a parody, but there might be grounds for defense based on the idea that it's criticism. The domain name they picked is problematic, though, since it could make it seem like they're affiliated with Facebook. Adding a big disclaimer to the top to point out they're not might be a good idea.
> I wasn't any more rational about my personal finances back then (despite having 2 kids) than anyone paying to live in SFBA is now.

> I think though that a lot people out there should leave; it's not a good deal.

That implies that it's never rational to buy in the Bay Area, which is too extreme of a position. I agonized about the decision to become a homeowner out here for something like 5 years. Even now I'm terrified about it. But literally everyone I've talked to agrees that my decision, given my personal circumstances, was a good one. To be clear, it's not the right decision for many, perhaps most people out here, and lots of people here should consider opportunities in other areas! But settling down in the Bay Area can make sense, depending on roots, quality of life, employment situation, personal financial situation, risk tolerance, family obligations, etc. etc. It just depends.

This is perhaps getting into the weeds a bit, but most real estate experts don't think that the SF housing market is a bubble. It's probably somewhat overvalued [1] [2], but it's not for example Vancouver, where the wage/housing price imbalance is far worse [3].

[1]: https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/chief-invest...

[2]: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/02/15/san...

[3]: http://time.com/money/5017121/least-affordable-expensive-cit...
Yeah azure has a nice interface, nicer account/subaccount management features (Iam roles in json... Come on Amazon)

Also I find the billing pretty easy to understand.
... from 11,000 years ago? Are you honestly asking this?
This is actually written in less of a hyperbolic tone than his usual articles.
Indeed, but for this kind of thing to make a serious dent in Facebook, it would need to include a photo hosting and sharing service. Which, unfortunately, cost money to hold the data, so you either need to charge for hosting, or collect revenue through ads or selling data (self-hosting would be nice, but difficult to get your grandma to do it)

But, maybe even a simple photo sharing service _that lets you share those photos back to facebook users_ might be the first crack in the dam wall
I think the context you're missing is the qualitative differences in the uses of the data.

Facebook leaking data to anyone who's figured out how to use it to feed more money back to FB through targeted ads has been going on every day for years by countless parties. Hence the FB valuation. CA was just a tipping point of public awareness.

If CA hadn't been caught on tape admitting to fabricating fake news to elect Trump, the story would be much smaller. It's now more than the sum of its parts.

It may seem unfair that the negative attention brought to specifically the CA acquisition of the data feels disproportionate, but CA brought this on itself.

I assure you, if either Obama campaign had used Facebook to create and spread Macedonia-type blatant fake news like CA did, it would have been a big scandal. But "fake news" in its current very specific meaning did not exist until this election cycle.
This doesn't appear to be publicized on the linked to page, but two of the major open access fMRI dataset repositories (FCP-INDI [1] and OpenfMRI [2] are hosted in S3.

[1] http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/
[2] https://openfmri.org/
Hmm… The indictment mentions that normal engineering practice would include an “upstop”, which is apparently a wheel or other part of the vehicle that rides under the track [1] to prevent it from going airborne. In addition, it says the restraint should have been a “Class 5 restraint consisting of rigid overhead shoulder bars with a locking lap restraint”, which would effectively prevent the rider from going airborne. So it seems like if both of those things had been present, designed properly, and of course tested and maintained, that would provide a high degree of safety without needing to fully enclose the track.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-do-roller-coasters-stay-on-the-tra...
> I also fail to see how Google and FB meeting to come up with new ways of stealing your private data is a good thing.

It doesn't literally have to be just Google & FB. There are plenty of other companies here such as MS, Amazon, NVidia, Intel, AMD and so on. Having a large number of programmers, engineers, and scientists in one location tends to produce a lot of breakthroughs and innovation, similar to what happened with the glass makers in renaissance venice.

> SV does tend to exaggerate its importance. Part of the brand marketing,

Yes, I guess the place where the first commercially viable microprocessor and smart phone were created isn't very important. Most of the work of the foundation of what later became the internet was done here as well. There's a really long list of acheivements that overshadow the bread and circus that's inevitably forgotten.

> As for prices... for anecdotal reference, I am paying about $1000 more a month for a two-bedroom on the outskirts of San Jose

Again, I feel that you're missing (or continuing to ignore) my main point. Despite its problems, Chicago is probably still a great city. The problem is that it has a lot more competition (not including the SF Bay Area) in the 21st century.