skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slack has never been about the underlying tech (which may well be IRC), it's all about the polish. A lot of comments I see here about Slack remind me of the infamous "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ).
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>The shift from Bush to Obama was a tiny shift compared to what going from Obama to Sanders would be.

Nope. The shift from Bush to Obama was immense. It resulted in two Supreme Court nominations by a Democrat instead of a Republican. What would the Obama to Sanders change be? Zero. Nothing.

The shift from Bush to Obama resulted in every Cabinet position becoming Democratic too, of course. Obama to Sanders? Basically no shift would result here; possibly a couple nominations that are slightly further leftwards.

Legislatively, what would Sanders veto that Obama hasn't? Very little.

Would Sanders have more or less luck than Obama at passing major legislation with a hostile Congress? Hard to say for sure, but I'd argue he'd have less luck, simply because he's less moderate.

You're right, of course, that Obama is a moderate, but still wrong about your overall point.
'Should' and 'does' aren't always the same thing in real life. You're talking about upending the lives of many thousands of people that depend on their cars to get to work, and lost of people who depend on VW for their pay checks. I'm sure this will all get worked out, but it would be insane to just pull the cars off the road.
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I think it does matter.

Think of every VW, Audi, and Porsche dealership and manufacturing plant in the US being mothballed overnight. Not even mentioning the secondary effects, that's a lot of unemployed Americans that are paying for mistakes made by people they've never met.
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Actually, I think Mineral Rights is another Fish/Kanefsky parody of the same song.

That one's a reference to a ST:TOS episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPvw0mHbyd0
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I have seen it in market for Asus EEE PCs with Linux. There was a demand here in Czech Republic but Asus was not interested (it wanted to push Windows to the market). It had nothing to do with Linux being not in demand (the laptops were underpowered to run latest Windows), nor with U.S. antitrust laws; and everything with the fact that Asus preinstalls Windows on its other laptops.

You simply don't want to believe these things happen. But if you pay attention, you can see lot of incidental evidence that it happens. But there is always plausible deniability, it's never done too overtly.

> I never said that no one would ever try to "abuse" the consumer

Companies are selected for abusive behavior by evolutionary pressure. No person or company is really interested in being in competition (if survival really depends on it); everybody runs as fast (and as creatively) as they can to avoid it and reap maximal profits. It can be shown on rather simple multi-agent simulations.

I am not sure what leads so many people to conclusion that companies like MS or HP - which can build freaking computers and operating systems - cannot figure out a simple fact that in some cases acting together against consumer interests will in fact increase their profits.
Another three seasoner? This time written for action where the only "moral" around is "death to the terrorists". I hope not, but I do worry.
You just linked to a 3.5 MB web page. That's more than the complete Shareware DOOM
> Chrome OS is far from perfection

In fact, I would say for some users, Chrome OS is near perfection. Take my uncle for instance, who for years was getting himself infected with malware requiring regular visits from me or geek squad to wipe his system. When he was ready for his most recent upgrade, I tried him on Mint, but he didn't like the interface. Then I suggested a Chromebook. He LOVES IT. He says it's the best machine he's ever owned. One year later, and not a single issue with malware.

I don't worry about him getting infected. If instead of a Chromebook, he had gotten some Android tablet with an OS stuck at 4.x, he's likely be infected by now.

Android and Chrome OS serve different use cases. Even if Android manages to fix their upgrade issue, I doubt it will ever be as secure as Chrome OS. From the blog, "guaranteed auto-updates for five years", sounds like a few people at Google get this. Fingers crossed.
I like the React model, but it does make one key assumption. It assumes that DOM mutation is so slow that re-rendering and diffing the entire virtual DOM for every update is basically free in comparison. I like the simplicity of React's approach, but this assumption makes me a little uncomfortable.
I'm not sure. You could make several arguments. I think the idea that environmental regulations are reasonable presupposes that harm to society comes from environmental damage (negative externalities of other behaviors).

A few such arguments might be that there were harms to:

- peoples' lungs, wildlife, etc.

- profits lost by firms that played by the rules

- more cars sold than would have been (hence more environmental damage caused than with fewer overall cars on the road).
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Matrix as a protocol supports arbitrary login mechanisms; Vector + Synapse can hook into CAS, SAML2, LDAP and OAuth flows already. Patches more than welcome to hook it into OpenID or Persona :)
There are lies, damned lies, statistics, then, there's this article.

> Now that we've accounted for the low cost of living in Mississippi, we find that Mississippi ($26,517) is no longer the state with the lowest median income in real terms. New York ($26,152) is now the state with the lowest median income due to its very high cost of living.

The amount of fuckery one must do to the data to make New York look more poor than Mississippi is mind blowing.
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What other companies belong on this list?
One of the biggest backbones in Finland had both a major fiber and its backup running in the same ditch. Surprisingly the same excavator broke them both at the same time.

It was a great opportunity to learn who your local ISP buys international transit from.
> At least 5 years of experience and knowledge of: Emoji

Hummmm.
well this was found the other day.
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/306706/

libchromeos is transitioning to libbrillo and chromeos namespaces
and include directory is changing to brillo.

brillo is Google IoT OS, https://developers.google.com/brillo/?hl=en they say its based on Android?

also the new Google onHub Router are running ChromeOS http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/root-google-onhub-chromeos....

I think the idea is Google are just aligning there Core Linux base between all there products allowing for a whole range of improvements from resource sharing to a even better security. and it may even allow them to upgrade Android at a better update rate, with reports that the Google Pixel C a Tablet running Android is getting updates every 6 weeks.

i would also like to point out Microsoft has basically done the same thing with the Windows 10 Core its now on XBOX ONE, Windows Phone, PC and even a Raspberry Pi runs this core but they all have there own user space setups/gui.
Fairly substantially. ChromeOS is a fairly standard Linux distro under the hood, albeit with not using X11 or directfb for their rendering layer, while Android uses a different libc, rendering layer, etc.
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The "perfection" I want is "not having to trust Google as an operator, only as a developer (and, open source!), and being able to plug in my own enterprise as root of trust for XXX-OS, with my own choice of backend services too -- which may include google apps".

I'd also like some non-defeatable indicator in the hardware/display/etc. that "box is in "good" state. The dev switch doesn't retain state.

These probably don't matter much for individuals but do matter for enterprise. If this existed, even if it were just keys to approve/sign updates and still required google services for a lot of the functionality, would be awesome.
Looks cool, nice idea :)
Well, Google has already indexed a new article x. When article y appears, and Google sees that y is an almost verbatim repeat of x, it shouldn't be that hard to figure out that article x is the original, should it? Especially if they both have time/date stamps....
Slack already has the ability to do the opposite: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...

There's some startups like https://grove.io/ that do it.

I think the biggest problem is the people who use IRC aren't the type of people to pay. Additionally, walled gardens are pretty nice when it comes to making a cohesive experience. As soon as you build on top of something else, you're beholden to its limitations.
Even though he didn't have a chance in the Presidential race. If he built a serious campaign, he could have made an impact in the debates and push for change.

I support his work and message, but even I couldn't take his campaign seriously because of his plan to resign as President after elections and campaign reform.

Bernie Sanders may or may not get the nomination; but regardless, he is making a big impact in the debate and influencing the agenda.
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Systemd refuses such patches as a matter of policy. You can form your own opinion as to what kind of open-source citizens that makes them.
I do not think there is a golden standard to follow, however I can share with you my experiences from the past.

I have analyzed traffic patterns from web logs and google analytics to determine the best time of day to schedule maintenance. Problem there is no one likes deploying at 3am!

I have added a feature to allow showing a notification banner on websites and mobile apps (typically via a new database entry) and used that to show the scheduled maintenance notice 1 to 2 weeks in advance.

In the past on more legacy b2b systems (several hours of downtime) I would even send out email notifications. This is really important if you are going to make an IP address change as customers will likely have to update firewall rules.

We would store the notification email list in an external resource / system in case of system outages.

Update your SLA to include these policies, add a section that states emergency maintenance may be performed without notice.

This is really about implementing SOP / policies and following them.

Your long term goal should be to achieve continuous deployment after achieving continuous delivery. This will likely mean removing that 'back office architecture requires downtime' hurdle. On a modern PaaS service you typically deploy to a staging environment, validate, then swap ips (production goes to staging, staging goes to production). And if everything goes to hell swap ips again to essentially roll back. This has become much easier with newer platforms and databases.
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OTR has some major shortcomings - in the classic implementation, it doesn't do group chat and it requires both parties to be online at the same time to synchronise the cryptographic ratchet. The best explanation of why Axolotl is better is https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting - or if you prefer a more comprehensive spec, we've published one at https://matrix.org/docs/spec/olm.html.

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I thought it was a god awful wannabe BSG.
Startups are really bad about this. I'm 1 for 4 on getting replies from YC companies recently. One is leaving me hanging after a full day coding project + an interview that (I think!) went really well.

Just gotta keep trying. It's a numbers game.

Having been on the other side of the equation and been bad about keeping tabs on applicants in addition to my normal duties, I can't help but feel it's somewhat karma-related, too. :) In small companies, I figure it's generally due to not having people dedicated to sourcing/hiring so things just get overlooked.
Insurrection is my favorite of the Star Trek films and I hadn't thought of it that way before but I think you nailed it.

With the exception of Riker steering the Enterprise with that hidden Gravis Blackhawk joystick, it was very much like a feature length episode of the TV series.
> Companies like Yelp are trading at less than 4 times trailing revenue.

Yelp has a P/E ratio of either 213 or 80, depending on whether Google Finance or Yahoo Finance have the correct number.

So it's pretty rich of him to use Yelp as his first example of a tech company that's dramatically undervalued, purposefully ignore the P/E ratio, and then use P/E ratios for other companies in his next two paragraph to try to claim that tech is undervalued.
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That, or the other team releases their findings now that they're not gonna get the million dollars.
Skip sign-in, manual server entry will definitely be part of Plex Media Player, right now we don't support it since the app is gated with plexpass which means you _need to sign in_ so we can validate your subscription status. but signing in will not be required when the app leaves preview and plexpass requirement is dropped.

source: I wrote skip-sign in, manual server entry in the core platform.
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Ah - thanks for sharing this. Some fiction I may actually read..
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This reminds me of the John Shirley proto-cyberpunk novel "Transmaniacon," where the pro(an?)tagonist's role was to incite anger/riots in a group of people by doing a bunch of little things that, on the surface, seem perfectly reasonable, but when combined in the right way created absolute chaos.
I met the Boos a few times but I don't really know their music. We had their heads scanned in at a specialist place in London and went to one of their shows.

I got on with Martin and I particularly enjoyed the sequence flying around inside his psychedelic head. I made the animated textures and mapped them with C++ and then 3DS did the rendering.

The walking tiger is from a plastic toy. I took a scan on an A4 flatbed scanner, rotated it, took another scan until I had a full rotation. I then turned the outlines into vectors with the same number of vertices and made those into a triangulated solid.

The three minutes of video took about three months of very long days.
well it seems that jitsi over openfire works well and its possible to deploy over ddns. jitsi is webrtc based.
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Didn't think it would happen, but in private conversation I've been hoping/advocating for giving Whedon and his associates the opportunity to do the next series, if he/they were interested.

It would probably be a bit different -- I don't know where he would take it -- but there would likely be interesting characters and character development.

As it is, I want something that returns to the kind of quality I found in the middle and later seasons of TNG, once it really caught its stride.

I also thought some of the Voyager episodes were quite engaging, particularly those involving Seven of Nine and some of the other... "trans"-human characters.

Star Trek, whatever series, has always been particularly good when it comes to exploring what it means to be... "sentient", to choose a word perhaps less open to misinterpretation that "human", though I would choose to define "human" as something other than our specific species. And characters at the boundary of "human" (I guess that is the word that really speaks to me) have often been very interesting and effective vehicles in this regard.

P.S. Perhaps it is in part that some of the other series became more interesting to me when some of the TNG writers migrated to them. I don't or no longer know the series timelines (in this world, as television shows) sufficiently to consider this more closely, off the cuff.
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Looks cool. I wanted to build a service that would monitor an external web page for me and notify me about content changes. The problem was that it was constantly detecting changes with ads or menus or stuff not related to the content itself (which is what I was interested in). Didn't have time to get it going any further. One use case for me was to monitor the Washington State traffic laws (or all RCWs if needed) and get notified when changes were published (with a diff that I could actually read, as opposed to just the URL with the change on it). I've found over the years that the laws were being changed in very small ways (like a 1 character diff, like changing "2" days to "5" days, giving LEOs more time to file traffic tickets with the court, or just a few letters, like changing "may" to "must" (requiring judges to dismiss tickets not filed in a timely manner as opposed to giving them the option).
Meanwhile there seems to be no enforcement of large diesel pickups "rolling coal" with modified emissions.
> Vixie ipse dixit is true, but not a technical argument.

It's also rather presuming that Vixie cron is the only cron, something that hasn't been true for ... ahem! ... a little while now.

Back at the turn of the century, a bloke named Paul Jarc looked into how one could do cron the daemontools way. What he came up with was called runwhen. You can still find his WWW page on the subject.

* http://code.dogmap.org/runwhen/

I incorporated some of the ideas into the (32-bit) OS/2 Command Line Utilities, albeit heavily modified to address an operating system that most definitely did not do chain loading.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...

There are several things to learn from this. First, the world is not as rigid as some would have you believe. There's been a lot of work on service and system management, cron alternatives, and other stuff over the years. For a less radical cron than runwhen, witness Bruce Guenter's bcron. (The nosh package has a service bundle for bcron, by the way.)

* http://untroubled.org/bcron/

* http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

Second, what might be true about old Vixie cron specifically isn't gospel for the entire world. It's interesting to observe, as I have mentioned before, how much influence the daemontools family has had over the past decade and a half. Looking at cronie, to pick an example, one can see it nowadays is yet another member of the club of programs sporting a "don't do all that bogus daemonization stuff" option, -n in this case. GNU cron (a.k.a. Mellor cron) actually does not "daemonize" by default, and one has to explicitly choose that with a -d option. To look at old Vixie cron, one might come to the erroneous conclusion that cron always and unavoidably "daemonizes", something that was indeed a problem for daemontools users in the late 1990s. But this isn't true by a long chalk today.
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> that all the individuals on the starship are tracked at all times

don't we already do that on our spaceships?
Good points. I sort of touched on this in another comment, but perhaps the emission standard on these vehicles is what's unreasonable.

We have a more-or-less arbitrarily set maximum allowed tailpipe emissions for a given class of vehicles. Is it fair to apply this arbitrary standard uniformly across all vehicles in the same class?

If vehicle A and vehicle B both meet the same emissions standards, but vehicle B is capable of better fuel economy, isn't it reasonable to suspect vehicle B's net pollution is less over the vehicle's lifetime?

In that light, perhaps these standards are unfair to the companies who are trying to make this class of vehicle. In the case of VW, the vehicles will have to lose fuel economy in order to adhere to this standard, which means more fuel is being consumed over the vehicle's lifetime, which may very well equate to a net gain of pollution (not just for the vehicle's tailpipe, but also the entire system from the oil well through the pump).

None of this excuses blatant falsification of tests - however, perhaps it's time we took a better look at what exactly pollution is, and how tweaking our vehicles may impact the output.