skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been fed up with Facebook's mobile app for a long time.
This is the main reason why I rarely use it, perhaps a few times a month, only when I really really have to check something.
When it comes to posting, I always use Buffer so Facebook's mobile app is only to browse my feed when bored.

Facebook's mobile app is extremely slow and bloated. Granted, it does a lot of things for us (all groups/pages etc) and to use us (extensive tracking).
I want something that tracks me less, gets rid of what I don't use and stays clean.

Today, Sunday Nov 3rd, I started creating my own Facebook mobile app, for fun.
Current functionality:
- sections: newsfeed, notifications and profile
- tap on thumb-up icon to like
- tap on on comment icon to see comments
- tap links to open
- tap images to load high-res

... the easiest way is for you to give it a try.
You can get it via TestFlight by going here: https://testflightapp.com/install/7e17cf90679ef0e88c0ec3ed47...

Obviously I'd love to have everyone try it so you can tell me what is most important and what's breaking.
Please remember, this isn't a rebuild of Facebook's mobile app like Sencha (kinda) did with FastBook; this is a lightweight version.

Again, please try it out and share the link with friends: https://testflightapp.com/install/7e17cf90679ef0e88c0ec3ed47...

Giacomo
Really? To which company are the bigots going to turn?
Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
There are at least two massive fallacies embedded in this quote (and afaict in the larger essay, though I did not read the whole thing):

- Due to better modern reporting (and the 24h news cycle), despite generally lower rates of crimes and various other bad stuff, we feel like their rates are higher now, so we get all nostalgic for the 1950s.

- More importantly, 1950 was a good time for certain kinds of people and not so much for others. Within the US, internet or no, 1950 is not a great time to travel to if you are LGBT, disabled, female, non-Christian, or ill with any of a variety of chronic conditions, and it's especially shitty if you are black (or, to a lesser extent, of another minority). Outside the US, Europe and Japan were still basically starving from post-war deprivation, the Soviet bloc was hitting the worst parts of Stalinism, China was approaching something like a thousand-year low in terms of civilisation, and most of the rest of the world were moribund colonies of the dying European empires.

If you're a middle-class able-bodied white straight Christian (preferably Protestant) man in the US, though, sure, 1950 sounds super.
Having an LLC license the IP to a C Corp will not protect the C Corp from a patent infringement suit. The patent holder could go after either entity.

The definition of infringement is broad and does not distinguish between licensor and licensee: "Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent." [1]

This is why patent trolls like Lodsys go after individual app developers, even though the developers are licensing the allegedly infringing tech from Apple.

Standard Legal Advice Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but I am not necessarily your lawyer.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/271
"We've found that when people feel valued for who they are, they have the comfort and confidence to create a monstrosity like iTunes."
Silicon Valley may have an arrogance problem, but Wall Street, DC, Hollywood, and the mainstream media have pretty much ruined the United States of America, so pardon me for being mostly unmoved when an ancient and beholden behemoth of the Murdochian trumpet parade decides to bellow it.
Scholrly:

As of now, CS centric. Great discovery + recommendations:

http://www.scholr.ly/
It's 100 years since Fritz Haber found a way to synthesise ammonia
If I added up the sum of everything my family spends on every brand appearing in this infographic, I would be surprised if it exceeded 2% of our gross income. And by no means do we go out of our way to avoid BigCo's.

"Everything you buy"? Not even close.

EDIT: Worldwide revenue for these 10 companies was around $520B last year. Total U.S. consumer spending: Something like $11T.
This is totally awesome. I was already excited about Zach's upcoming talk at CascadiaJS [1] but now I can't wait to see what he's got up his sleeve.

[1] http://2013.cascadiajs.com/speakers/zach-bruggeman
I almost linked to this, too, in the "Western Union says Bitcoin is not ready for international transfer" discussion[1].

The interesting thing about Hawala is that it provides a ready source of liquidity in local currencies. If someone was to link the two (ie, a local Hawala agent accepted a Bitcoin transfer from an untrusted source, and then moved the money via the trusted Hawala network) then almost all the problems of Bitcoin would go away.

It would also set just about every TLA agency in the US looking at you (Semi-anonymous crypto-currency which has been used in drug markets + untracable Islamic money transfer network? There's a techno-thriller plot right there). OTOH, Hawala agents seem to ignore US laws at the moment, so they might not care about this either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6665635
Google adds new layer of defense
Art is powerful, but it's not that powerful. War is in our blood. You're asking wild-born wolves to behave like domesticated dogs just because they have enough food. Heck, even domestic dogs can be pretty vicious.
>Robots are doing stuff for us, and some people are actually complaining about it. To me, this seems really sad. It's like they're saying "I'm so worthless, I can't even compete with a robot."

That's not what they're saying. The labor market isn't automatically going to expand to accommodate their need for employment. "Finding" new skills all too often means amassing a crippling amount of loan debt (in the US at least), to enter a job market which simply has no room, nor a desire to find room, for the population it put so much effort into letting go.

Humans may not be intrinsically special, but being biased towards human survival, as a human being, should not be difficult to understand.
THIS

the test of... if they truly thought it was a billion dollar idea, surely it would be smarter of them to retain all that equity for themselves, not a single drop for the developer.

but gee, perhaps there's a chance, just a chance, it won't be worth a billion dollars, and perhaps... nothing. So in that scenario, the brave entrepreneur wants to minimize his cash spend down the hole. but where there's a chance of great reward there's a chance of loss (whether of dollars or time.)

Also a certain percentage of entrepreneur types seem to correlate with the psychopath/sociopath type. And it's hard to identify those folks early on sometimes. And it's early on in your relationship with them where there's the most pressure to take on an equity relationship. Which gets back to a "dating before marriage" and "work for cash, only" and "observed actual performance and iterative reciprocity" policy as being the safer, more conservative best practice. For all parties, I suspect.
I remember this level in Deus Ex. Luckily I hadn't really developed my firearms tree; more hacking and lock picking.
> "Even if Silicon Valley comes out as arrogant to the outside world, it is quite justified."

Uhhhh... Way to prove the point, man.

> "Technology is going to be more powerful than many laws and regulations"

Yes and no. And this is part of Silicon Valley's arrogance: it is so utterly full of itself that it has usurped the entirety of the word "technology".

Think about it for a second, step back from your day to day writing code and think about the word "technology". We software people occupy a tiny portion of tech, even though we're so loud and so good at attracting attention to ourselves that it seem to everyone else (and us) that we are technology.

Forget nanotech, forget good old mechanical engineering, forget aerospace, forget biotech, forget electric, civil, geological engineering. Apparently those don't exist, and the only technology that matters is code.

What a load of shit, and I say that as someone who writes code for a living.

We are part of a much, much greater whole. We do interesting things, occasionally they are immensely impactful, 99.9% of the rest of the time it's really not.

There's a old Chinese parable: "the frog at the bottom of the well" - about a frog stuck at the bottom of a well, who is immensely self-satisfied with his situation, because the rest of the world is just one boring little blue circle.
One thing that goes completely unsaid in the WSJ article is that people want real representation and self-determination, and the government, and maybe America itself, is too unwieldy to deliver on that.

Small democracies can be restored. Big ones... maybe not.
Do you think that discrimination against blacks and women was good for business? I submit that it was not, but companies did it anyway, because they were not rational. I'm not sure we should expect them to be now.

I also submit that if you think discriminating against blacks and women was good for business (a defensible claim), then you probably ought to be disagreeing with Tim Cook about whether sexual-orientation-based discrimination is good for businesses [1]. In my view, that would make the case for anti-discrimination legislation stronger, not weaker, because if both prevailing biases and good business sense favors discrimination, then we really need to act.[2]

[1] Perhaps you could believe the former but not the latter. They seem pretty parallel to me though, so I'd be curious what you thought the differences were.

[2] You could disagree with this too and simply be a lassez-faire fundamentalist, but that would render your original question kind of pointless.
>more Elizabeth Warren-esque rubbish suggesting that Google wouldn't have been created if not for the public road system

And so, according to you, we need to wait for Africa's "benevolent" dictators to stop warring with their own people and just create a public infrastructure before private industry can create civilization? Keep it up with your liberal bunk, you'll be a second-class citizen in our new Society soon enough. :)
Oh, we're serious alright.
Workers are paid based on supply/demand of the value they can provide. If they were legally required to be paid based on their output, some people would make 10x as much as others for the same amount of time and education. It would basically just be based on luck, whoever could land the higher yield jobs. Does this seem more fair to you?
Given the dynamics of mining and the fact that it's denominated in BTC, I think Bitcoin mining is even more of a gamble than Bitcoin speculation. So I'd say it's smarter to speculate than to mine it.
I find it hard to believe that sites like whitehouse.gov and barackobama.com aren't blocked.
> Majority of the time their expectation is that coding is fancy typing and changes take seconds not hours.

THIS. spoken like from direct experience. that's a definite pattern I've seen with some kinds of clients. "How long will it take for you to type up these features?" They have no clue as to how complex software is, all the moving parts, the interactions, the hidden bugs and quirks, lurking complications, constraints, trade-offs, under-documented or mis-documented behaviors, etc.
>Are you arguing that all currently protected classes (e.g. race, religion, sex) should be abolished?

Yes.

Realize that it's a reactionary position to take, but it just seems right. If someone wants to run their business with bigotry, so be it. I won't respect them, but I'd respect their "right" to do so.

I realize that there counter argument is that I've never lived in a time in which such regulation was needed, I never experienced Jim Crow, etc - and of course today Jim Crow still exists, in a way, for homosexuals.

But it just seems like another case of "two wrongs make a right." Forcing others to adhere to our own moral preferences seems fundamentally and deeply flawed. There must be another way.
Obama Says He's 'Really Good At Killing People' with Drone Strikes
Dell Officially Goes Private: Inside The Nastiest Tech Buyout Ever
> Nestle — famous for chocolate, but which is the biggest food company in the world — owns… clothing brand Diesel…

Not exactly, Diesel licenses their brand to Nestle to make perfume and has absolutely nothing to do with any of their apparel.
I'm with you - I count 3-4 products that we regularly buy, and nothing else from the lists. That said, we don't live in the US. But even then, the main determining factors for us don't usually include brand when the item is sub $200.
I was able to get my GAE costs way down by focusing on minimizing DB writes. Some tips:

- Instead of storing an array in the database directly, store it as a json string. storing an array uses a DB write for every array element.

- Don't index things if you can get away with it (indexing doubles writes).

In my case I was using about 600 writes for every user action when I only needed two. This may be common knowledge, but I was pretty surprised that storing arrays was costing me so much.
>After the September 11, the American government suspected that some hawala brokers may have helped terrorist organizations [...] since confirmed that the bulk of the funds used to finance the assault were not sent through the hawala system, but rather by an official inter-bank wire transfer to a SunTrust Bank in Florida, where two of the conspirators had opened a personal account.

>However as a result of intense pressure from the U.S. authorities, widespread efforts are currently being made to introduce systematic anti-money laundering initiatives on a global scale, to better curb the activities of the financiers of terrorism and those engaged in laundering the profits of drug smuggling.

The interesting thing about this line of logical failure is the possibility that a Hawala wouldn't work to transfer funds to terrorists, they had to use a de-personalized banking system that doesn't really care what they're doing with the money, unlike the Hawala system where the agents have to consider the impact of their actions on their network/family.

Of course, such a logical failure that just happens to further secure the power of established banks against other systems, "logical failure" is a generous judgement of what was going on.
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-illicit-fi...

The first few pages are a very readable, understandable description of how the system works in layman's terms. Recommended read.
I remember using PLATO at tech, but can't remember what class it was for. Chemistry maybe? Or maybe, strangely, Intro To Psych. The terminals I remember were in the Lyman Hall building, which was also the freshman chemistry lecture/lab building at the time.
Maybe we should swap out religion for sexual orientation. At least the latter is genetic (like race and sex).
Many, many programming languages have been designed to be English-like.

Unless they are specific to a very narrow domain, they generally don't end up doing that very well, and even the best don't help very much, because you still need to use them more precisely than you'd use a natural language.

The closest thing to an english-like language that is successful is probably SQL.
>the main concern you ought to have in your calculations is bitcoin being killed by a government or a competing service that offers the same and better benefits that using bitcoin does. Very different from SatoshiDice.

Those seem pretty unpredictable to me.
They're not prisoners until they're captured and put in prison. Thus lobbying for more prisoners is a way of exploiting more people, especially the poor, young black men who are most likely to end up in prison. Similarly, lobbying for the capture of more slaves on the west coast of 18th century Africa is a way of exploiting Africans.

Additionally--and I suspect this is what the GP was going for--the lobbying effort clarifies the underlying intentions. The people demanding that prisoners work are doing so not under the banner of exploitation, but under rhetoric about prisoners "giving back to society". That prison organizations are lobbying for more prisoners reveals their real intentions, which is why it's used as evidence of the exploitative nature of the penal system.
The cyborgs I thought about as a kid were way cooler than this lameness. They talk about this like it's some history making implant that's never been done before, yet much more sophisticated implants for various ailments like ICDs are quite common.

A 10 year old with a cochlear implant is way more impressive than this.
A peaceful exit, on our barge. Good day sir.
> No more so than werkzeug since it works the same way.

I don't know if you are being intentionally dense. Werkzeug doesn't work the same way. Thread locals restrict themselves to thread lifecycle; werkzeug locals restrict themselves to request lifecycle. They are 2 very different things.

> Which is exactly how Python's threadlocals work.

Except for different lifecycle.

> You do realize that nothing stops you from "cleaning up" your threadlocal "when the request completes" right?

That "cleaning up" makes it request local, not thread local. They are global for the duration of the request and one request scope is separate from another request which makes them request local(how it is done is immaterial). Spare me the definition of global. There is no point in continuing this discussion any further since I don't seem to have any epiphany from your insights; and doesn't seem like you are going to have one either.
If you don't mind ruby, sinatra is 2000 lines.

https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/
CDC President William Norris planned to make PLATO a force in the
computer world, but found marketing the system was not as easy as
hoped. PLATO nevertheless built a strong following in certain markets, and
the last production PLATO system did not shut down until 2006,
*coincidentally* just a month after Norris died.

Emphasis mine. Is that some bitterness I detect? I guess it's a mark in Wikipedia's favor that things like that stand out, but still...
I hear KKK is coming out with their own Linux distro and Android fork.
I agree with you that that model can go bad too.

I disagree with you on both models being equally bad, or prone to going bad at the same statistically rate. In my experience, as well as the reported experience of many senior programmers/consultants/freelancers/ISV's I trust, the pay-for-time (honestly worked, of course) is the model that's the least likely to explode on either party. And, surprise surprise, that's also closer to how the traditional direct employment (FT, PT, salary, wage, whatever) model also works. And in general terms, both sides always have the "escape hatch" of being able to fire the other party (speaking in general, with the caveat of arbitrary laws per jurisdiction, blah blah blah.) But in general, if one party isn't happy, they can vote with their feet. That's always true in life, in the general case.

But paying for hours/days means the worker is paid in proportion to how much work is involved, whether planned or surprises along the way. And the pay-per-time rate allows the worker to set a value that reflects the quality of his work, his productivity, or his rarity in the marketplace, or total demand for his time, etc. Win and win.

Fixed price, fixed scope is like... an unstable equilibrium. Trying to balance a chainsaw on your pinky finger. It can work out just fine. But that's not the way to bet, and to be avoided if you'd like to retain all your body parts.
Even with the massive consolidation that has created these megacorps, its kind of amazing how many of them fail to properly utilize their brands effectively in concert with one another.

I've seen this directly in the food service industry (including at one company in that graphic) where companies don't share suppliers, shipping routes, real estate, etc. where they could be having significant cost savings and simplified logistics.

I wonder how much of this pops up in other groups.
What happened was laws changed to make their former lives impossible and unbearable. In Britain, new taxes sprang up on land which forced people into the cities.
I've always noticed a great deal of overlap.
Video of original talk from startup school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A
It seems to me that a lot of these toy/joke languages are just thin wrappers around existing languages. Something that can be accomplished by a few #defines or regexes to transform it into a runnable language.
But this whole argument is about how great the quality of life was in the 1950's. Women not having the same preferred economic opportunities as men sounds like a pretty damning quality of life indicator to me.
The Biggest Mistake Young Startups Make When Testing Their Products
Packaged sugar products, cosmetics, and toiletries, truly the linchpin of our economy.

When whoever made this finds out about Sysco they're gonna freak out.
That a policy recommendation does not result in utopia is not a counter argument.
Are there any tutorial that go about implementing your own compile-to-js language?
A manifesto for the truth
Viral B2C startups don't require blogs to grow. If your business requires a blog(it requires sales), it is probably B2B, or B2C with linear growth which takes a while and is likely not done by the CEO but by staff. Thus none of the unicorn models actually require a blogging CEO. A server scaling or coding CEO though would definitely fit the bill.
P&G has some stuff listed that I buy. The rest of the list is a bunch of unhealthy crap.
So you put stupid words in my mouth and use that as proof that my reasoning is flawed. That is an interesting strategy. Have you convinced many people with it?

>second-class citizen

>new Society

pick one. Is it really a new society if it's just re-implementing the same social hierarchy as before, but with different people in it?

Hey, at least you're working hard on it since someone convinced you you'll be at the top. I wonder how you came to terms with this logical paradox. Perhaps you haven't and that's the motivation for your angry and illogical outburst.

Since you seem to be a free-market guru, have you ever considered that Africans, working with only local African resources, can work more effectively and efficiently than Europeans or Silicon Valley nerds at running Africa using external resources that have to be flown in and distributed across a land with no infrastructure?
He talked about tv+twitter for almost 10mins, interesting...
Guess West just learnt about it despite of Asians have been using this to transfer money back to home.
I'll check it out! Looks pretty good. I'll let you know wha tI think.
> Jacques Barzun argues that "Revolution" is the wrong term for what happened in the USA, even as a convenient shorthand. There was no widespread transfer of property and no wholesale breakdown of social order.

While they sometimes coincide, political, social, and economic revolutions are really separate things; the absence of the elements identified doesn't really say anything about whether or not it was a political revolution.
Maybe its because you can't simply trust every citizen to make decisions off of what is obvious and rational. If you actually could trust every individual to make rational decisions and self organize, there would be little need for laws in the first place.
I can't tell you how absurdly naive (or disingenuous) that sounds to people who don't happen to be white, straight males. Entire generations have lived and died while the invisible hand does its work, if in fact that work is to increase inclusion in the first place.