skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After Facebook took down the Internet last time, they updated all of the script snippets that they have and added an "async" attribute to them. The functionality is still missing when FB goes down, but the site you're looking at still loads quickly.
I think it's fully down now.
I don't think in any way that you are a shill. And if you were, it wouldn't affect the validity of your arguments in any way. Shills only rise to the level of concern to me if they drown out all discussion that disagrees with them - and people who do that don't even have to be paid for me to consider them shills.

i.e I already support that you aren't a shill, and people who are interested in journalism or the protection of freedom of expression would do well by listening to your own experience in your own country under your own country's laws rather than poisoning the well with accusations (and no evidence.)
facebook is a huge tech company much on the scale of google. People are curious because it's like watching Goliath trip himself and fall down.
I just skim through it, pretty good reading to understand where we are now. Main key-points:

- fiber has been rolling out for library, public housing, schools and public Wi-FI. But not on community / businesses.

- SF has the infrastructure, it just needs to build "the last mile" to connect with the houses / buildings

- there has been effort for community-fiber since 2011, but as of 2014, the city is still not in favor of this kind of development.
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This affects germany as well...
I switched all of my social sharing widgets to static image buttons that bring up simple sharing windows just yesterday. My site loads so much faster and is completely unaffected by Facebook being down as a result.
Inkscape seems to have some pretty active devs who've worked on quite a few projects including others in the libregraphics group (eg Scribus).

Their Launchpad page says

>"Inkscape has 122 active branches owned by 62 people and 6 teams. There were 188 commits by 16 people in the last month."

Just because there's no price tag on it doesn't mean it's not for sale?!?
As others have mentioned in this post, Facebook is used as a log in for many other websites and services. Whatever your personal feeling is about Facebook, it's an integral aspect of user interaction with websites far outside of its native social network platform. For this reason, the condescending guffaws are out of place.
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Ahhh this is good to know

Thanks for writing such a good article, so people can have a better glimpse of what Emacs is capable of. It saved my time because I don't have to research all of those and make my article even longer :D
Hmm. I'm sure it's a calibration issue looking at the hex, but the red looks rather orange on some of my displays.

(Basically it looks red on my IPS panels, but very very orange on my TNs. The same panels - not from the same manufacturer - also make the actual orange look more like a goldenrod.)
It's a business concern for a lot of us, and not only those of us using OAuth as an option for login. We use facebook pretty heavily for marketing and advertising.
It's a huge pet peeve of mine when people use EST when we're in daylight savings time. This, presumably, should be 12:23 EDT. Also, it's not back up.
Does some offer this as a service yet?
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This goes back to the argument between monolithic applications vs small single purpose utilities chained with pipes.

With a simple application that simply prints out the article titles, I get a 6.6M binary on my local machine.

http://play.golang.org/p/iIsSMGlsaF
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I've been wanting to push for community fiber in my area, but I have no idea where I would even begin. Are there any resources available for those of us who want to get involved?
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I used to be very into the hacking, software cracking and reverse engineering scenes when I was a teen – spending my nights discussing Softice cracking methodologies, scripting telnet fingerprinting utilities, and other trivialities in IRC while taking care of FXPing releases all night.

One day my mom's email stopped working, so I contacted a CSR for the ISP. After 2 hours of being passed around to their highest level of tech support and explaining that she signed up for some shitty extra antivirus service some time before and that her actual email was probably aliased to an account on the special antivirus server, they kept insisting the account didn't exist and that I was lying. I tried to explain that it was almost a given that the alias just got deleted by someone doing clean-up too many times and I lost all patience. I dedicated all night to gaining access to their mail servers and getting my moms account back up.

I documented everything and the next day I went over and talked to their head engineer. I explained everything while sitting in a computer in his office proving the hack. I got a free lunch and 3 months of free internet service out of it. I was also called in a month later to corroborate the vulnerability was patched.

Two or three weeks later I got suspended from school for stealing some exams from the teachers shares in their "private" network. I covered my tracks, but a girl in the computer room at the time accused me of doing "something fishy" and I was caught with a floppy that contained the exams. That drama took the better part of the month and included my lawyer (my uncle doing me a favor) making incredible legal threats. I almost failed that quarter, but I did get off mostly unpunished.

I do development and specialize in security and risk assessment these days. It's nowhere as fun as it used to be in the early 90's.
Um how did you compare that? Amsterdam public transports sucks, so I question your other cities also.

I have been to Paris/London (multiple times) and their system sucks comparing to NYC. In NY I can get easily from point A to point B anywhere in the city aside from SI.

NYC has 24hours subway service, it's hard to beat that.
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Did you hire those two guys? Or did you hire someone else that paid for tools, carried the insurance, and then hired two cheap day laborers for minimum wage and said "go lay this floor"?

Most of the time it's the former. But if you really paid that much, maybe you're not that good at bargaining?

But let's stop talking about plumbers and tile setters and get to what's really bugging you.

> i see a lot of people hired to do work on computers for less then 37k

> Charging $43/hr in software freelancing is HARD

> (from your original comment) "they somehow charge often more than I can do."

I'm gonna speak frankly here: you're either seriously overestimating your skills as a developer (and getting upset that people won't hire you) or you've managed to seriously undervalue your own work. If I had to guess, I'd guess it's the latter.

I charge well over $43 an hour for actual freelancing - 1099-MISC, pay my own insurance, etc. Even in cases where I take a side gig while already having a job I typically charge more. I think I started around $45 an hour, and that was with a very limited skill set years ago.

Far too many people undershoot the market rate and end up working for less than they should. The problem also is that when you undershoot the market rate you end up attracting clients that don't appreciate what you do and why it's hard, further depressing your pay.

Here's what you should do: take whatever your hourly was when you last freelanced and multiply it by three. See what happens.
How websites are experimenting on you
I agree that it is not the most intellectually interesting. But HN, for better and worse, has evolved to be one of the front pages of the Internet (at least for certain demographics), and some people do come here for transient, immediate information. In that sense, I don't think it is entirely useless.

Also, sometimes "X is down" type of submissions can start conversations interesting in their own right in the comment section.
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I think when you see efficiency run amok and start to look like central planning, that's a sign that something is out of equilibrium.

Case in point: Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart used to be a great store -- until they won their commanding market position. In many areas, it's a gas station, CVS or Wal-Mart. Now they skinflint everything... they understaff, don't merchandise product, and have a shopping experience something like DMV.

And it isn't just the retail end that's a problem. Because of that dominant position, they've squeezed out the distributors that provided the supply chain to the retail economy.

Real competition is messy and inefficient on it's surface.
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If I hadn't seen this submission I wouldn't have even noticed it.
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I've not seen any ill will towards you from the people I named above, at least not publicly. They all know it was your project and you were free to do with it as you saw fit. They disagree with your choice, but it was yours to make. You had good intentions, even if the actions played out badly, but that's all now in the past.

Strongloop, on the other hand, has the ability to change the outcome, and have chosen not to. They've been given loads of evidence of what the maintainers want them to do, and so far their actions have not demonstrated a desire to resolve the conflict. Their public responses have been entirely self-serving and barely apologetic.

I am firmly of the impression that they want to hold on to Express so they can claim it's development as an R&D tax write-off. This fits with why they've stated they would only give it to an organization backed by a non-profit foundation, since then it could continue to be a charitable donation. They want to make money off this situation, and that's basically thumbing their noses at the people who put their time into it for free.

As I said in the github thread, there are some major differences between this situation and when Ryan sold to Joyent. Ryan was still working on Node, and Joyent hired both him and Isaac to continue doing so. They also announced [1][2] the transition before it happened, made it very clear what was happening in terms of code ownership, and answered everyone's questions ahead of time. The repos didn't transfer until four months later [3].

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/lWo0MbHZ6Tc

[2] https://www.joyent.com/blog/a-new-abode-for-node

[3] https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/45adc907c9b3eff0bc560d...

edit: I'm being told Strongloop is actually helping to create a foundation for Express to be owned by, they're just not doing it publicly. So that's good.
> "If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong"

Sure. But if a small number of easy-to-misconfigure experiments appear to disagree with the conclusion of a large number of experiments of various difficulty all pointing in the same direction, its not unreasonable to suspect that the most likely explanation is an error in the setup or interpretation of the small number of experiments.
The 7 (Mostly Free) Tools Product Hunt Used to Build their Early-Stage Community
They changed their motto to "move fast with stable infrastructure" - so someone is probably getting fired. (I'm only kidding, but if someone were to get fired, making the homepage globally unavailable for 24 minutes seems like a good way to make that happen.)
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What are you talking about? NYC public transportation system is one of the best in the world and its 24 hours.
Funny that this is how I find out fb's ipv6 has their name in it (pinging their url)... :)

2a03:2880:2040:7f01:face:b00c:0:1
Dropped you a line ;)