skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Yammer and Office 365 integration (and typical enterprise Office 365 subscriptions), the built-in connections with Skype for Business née Lync and Outlook's unified communications (plus SharePoint or OneDrive for Business née SkyDrive Pro for files) seems to cover what ININ offers.

Of course, that's for those that drink deeply from the Microsoft Kool Aid fountain, which I recognize as a group that isn't recognized fully on HN. ININ looks like a nice unified communications system.
Onyx: High Performance, Distributed Batch and Stream Processing
Given Apples 7.6% share of the 'PC' market as reported in 3Q15 (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617) I wouldn't be suprised that the vast majority of dropbox users are on Windows, simply because the vast majority of computer users are.
Thanks for the post. If you're interested in what the code does, here's a video: https://vimeo.com/152378869
A lot of people seem to assume you get handed a 18 point font piece of paper that says, "You agree to borrow $70,000 for a student loan." Mine was hundreds of pages of legalese and I didn't even know what the total of my 11 loans were until I graduated and consolidated.
Yap but most of these migrations only migrate the data but left our Parse CloudCode, Web Hook, Background Jobs, etc.

Not to mention the on-going maintenance of Parse Server such as upgrade / security patch.

So a parse hosting service is to keep expanding offers on top of Parse Server open source implementation, and help provide the same hassle-free services some app developers looking for.
Ask HN: Interesting Online Communities?
I love Telegram. In my opinion it's the best messaging application out there; but lately, I've found that a couple of my Telegram groups are just an endless stream of dumb gifs and stickers. Don't get me wrong, I love gifs and stickers, but the abuse of them just kill conversations.
This is not a problem with the platform itself. It's more a problem of the members of such conversations. There's no more arguing anymore, if you want to make a point, just send a funny gif and that's it. No more writing. No more discussion. No more thought process beyond `@gif evil laugh`. And that's a shame.

Jim Rohn once said > You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

So I'm trying to find an online community that is focused in discussing interesting topics and making new (online) friends. IRC, Slack, anything would do it.
Pure. Undifferentiated. Awesome.

Thank you for expanding my world today. :)
>Here's the form: https://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

>, add the target video's URL and it will be taken down automatically.

There's got to be a little more to it than that (at least for bigger channels) because it would mean that random people could take down Psy's "Gangnam Style" video[1]. I haven't tried it but I really doubt submitting a simple web form will get that video with 2 billion views removed.

Therefore, I'm guessing there's a whitelist of special userids (e.g. WarnerBrosMusic, TaylorSwiftVEVO, etc) or adminstrative overrides to prevent vandals from shutting down legitimate videos. In other words, if there's an automated system for takedowns, there's another more god-like automated system that ignores abusers submitting them.

The interesting question is: How do "nobodys" get that "benefit of doubt" treatment for their videos?

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
>A cable that puts 5 volts into random pin is also obviously wrong.

I mean that the physical object is obviously wrong. Such a cable looks like any other cable.
Show HN: HeyUser – A video gallery for mobile onboarding design inspiration
> I think we need to be angry at YouTube too. YouTube makes it exceptionally easy to file takedowns, no proof of validity required.

You should be angry at how copyright law works in the U.S., not at the fact that YouTube has to follow it. The way that DMCA works is that when YouTube receives a takedown request, they have to honor it and take down the video as long as the request has all of the required information. Appeals take 10 days, which is also spelled out in the DMCA laws. If they don't follow the the laws, they could lose the safe harbor also provided by DMCA. There's a flowchart here of what the whole process looks like: http://readwrite.com/2012/02/23/how_dmca_takedown_notices_wo...

It's a web form probably to make things easier on their end; they probably get hundreds of thousands [0] of these requests every day, and I can't even imagine trying to process that amount through letter mail or faxes.

And while the web form may look simple, it's still a legal process. You need to sign into your account to use it, and they suggest that they punish people who are abusing the process: "Do not make false claims. Misuse of this process may result in the suspension of your account or other legal consequences." [1]

> YouTube is not an open, or fair platform like it used to strive to be. It is now very much a revenue stream where creators (who bring traffic to the site) are often disregarded and/or considered disposable.

I don't think there's any evidence to back that claim.

[0]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121211/16152021352/dmca-...

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2807622?hl=en
That'll learn ya.

(For the record, I didn't downvote.)
That is roughly how things are today, yes. In the future, if the VPS vendors don't go down the road of addressing those two gaps, it would remain that way.
Steam games, granted if you can get Greenlight which really isn't that hard to be honest. I have a game on there that isn't exactly the best, but it generates some beer money.
Check your contract. When you buy a Tesla, what OTAs are you buying?
Oil represents 95%[1] of Venezuela's export earnings. When 95% comes from a single source and that source loses 1/3rd of it's value in a short amount of time then its straightforward to understand why Venezuela is in this situation.

>>People in US clamoring for leftist populism should take deep look at Venezuela.

I don't see a reason to bring your political leanings into a discussion of straightforward economic cause and effects.

[1] http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/171.htm
I’ve used RescueTime and Freedom at work before joining Facebook, and Facebook at Work when I worked there, and you can filter between the work and the personal services quite effectively with a basic filter.
Dropbox will be in business by acquisition. How about Microsoft acquiring dropbox? Their onedrive is not as good as dropbox and will surely help in their cause.
The only thing missing is a good binding to a javascript engine, for code that has to run on both client and server.
Am I understanding correctly that Amazon is only monetizing Underground through interstitials at app launch time? If so, I'm impressed.
I've actually been working on a ground based launch platform for automated space mining that uses magnetics and plasma lasers to launch the miners into space.
I've got a few drawings and stuff but I haven't published anything yet because there are a few things left to make sure of.
Such as, using a plasma laser, how much electricity would you need to pass along the beam to displace air?
That kind of thing, but I haven't had time to study up on it yet.
Markets are not monolithic
I see this as propaganda to push the concept that Yahoo has negative value, which, I'm guessing would be beneficial for some group of shareholders to promote this view.

Personally I don't give a crap what those shareholders want.

There is more to a corporation that just shareholder value, and I don't particularly relish thousands of people losing their jobs so some people can make a quick buck.
On Interviewing Software Engineers
Given the context and the way corporate boards generally communicate, I'd say an offer to "engage on qualified strategic proposals" is a pretty clear signal that they're interested in acquisition offers.
Thanks! It's anywhere from $100 to $200 a month, more around Christmas time.
CloudFlare’s Impact on the HTTP/2 “Universe”
How physics challenges assumption that beached whales are crushed by weight
I'm not sure why someone down voted you for this. When the Commander in Chief uses a military term, I think it's a safe bet he knows what the definition is and actually meant it in that way.

He literally meant "we're not going to send fighter jets to kill him." Taking that to mean "we're not going to try to get him should the opportunity present itself" is just not a realistic interpretation.
Is email really broken or are people looking for things to change?

Reason I ask is because I see this "let's fix email" so often, peeps build something new then it either gets acquired & killed or goes no where.

What if email isn't broken. Instead email as we think we see it is merely a feed with or without action and its up to us to manage it.

PlainEmail appears like an attempt of changing our habits of reading a feed with GTD concepts. I'd much rather prefer to see my feed and an algo/machine learning identify action emails and suggest to me the best method (GTD or not) to handle it. Otherwise I'd carry on with my usual habits.
> What exactly is missing in our setup that you think is critical?

Where do I report bug reports? Where can I see the source files? I guess the answer to the last one can be found after digging a little bit in cgit. But you'll have to admit that it looks quite dated compared to GitHub.

I also guess most people don't like mailing lists anymore. While I have nothing against them, try to use HyperKitty http://hyperkitty.readthedocs.org/en/latest/, which looks a lot nicer than the current Pipermail archives.

> The reason we don't use GitHub is because we like to be in control of things rather than relaying on someone else's whim. Maybe we could setup a mirror?

Either that or use something like Gogs http://gogs.io, which is a lot more familiar (and IMHO more usable) to other developers.
You're right. That was totally unexpected.
What ridiculous propaganda. This is the cost of depending an entire country's budget not only on one single commodity export, but on highly optimistic predictions of that commodity's future price. Commodities go through major boom and bust cycles and all countries depending on oil are feeling the bust right now, regardless of political leanings.
Thanks. Had a few people tell me their pain points but at the point of trying to validate our solution. Was thinking about taking our solution back to those we've contacted.
it's complicated (and getting more so)

Foreign affairs and defence are UK wide so UN, NATO, EU etc are all UK representations. The UK is the international entity.

Scottish education, healthcare, and the legislature are independent, sometimes markedly so. Since the referendum they've gained somewhat limited control over taxation.

Even Scots who support the Union tend to see themselves as Scots rather than Brits. Meanwhile most English would rarely call themselves English, preferring British. :)

I think that's far enough into the rabbit hole!
So you signed on to borrow money and had no idea how much you were borrowing? That's even worse than the alternative.
> Stoozing. Find a credit card with 0% interest on balance transfers. Stick the money into a savings account. Or, if you like risk, on a horse. Need a good credit rating and decent savings rate to make more than a few hundred a year though.

I remember doing this in 2007. I wasn't aware there was a specific name for it.
No surprises here.

You can look at base points for Venezuela credit default swaps in 2014.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/12/investing/venezuela-russia-d...

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/141212155648-venez...

Wall Street has been betting against Venezuela for two years.
I'm party to this thread branching of which you speak, but yes, it's predicated on not answering the question and using a principle similar to what you're saying: save, invest passively, and get back to work doing what you do. It's probably as a good a strategy or better than chasing returns in other ways that may also end up requiring a lot of work, depending on skillset, demand, and financial conditions.
Your calculations are pretty much meaningless. Orbital mechanics is not that simple.

Here's the path we actually used to send an orbiter to Mercury. Interestingly, it did a bit of solar sailing to make some fine adjustments to its trajectory by angling its sun shield.

http://www.theplanetstoday.com/messenger_flight_path.html

More direct transfers are possible, but they require more dV on the spacecraft, and the rocket equation means increasing dV increases the ratio of fuel mass to craft mass exponentially.
Filing a false dmca claim is a federal offense and you can sue people who abuse it for damages.

While it's being abused some what it's usually due to automated content tagging systems from various IP protection/management firms, if you intentionally troll people with dmca you can get into a heap of trouble.
iCloud data store syncing is OK, but file syncing is unreliably slow. Unlike Dropbox, it doesn't have the "two computers synced before I even turned around from one to the other" experience.
Defer is always greyed out. Why is that?
I've noticed that iCloud has a really hard time removing things. For instance, I've tried to delete some "keyboard shortcuts" for about a year now and every few weeks it manages to restore every last one to all of my devices. It doesn't seem to matter if I explicitly delete them from all devices.

Every cloud service needs a "delete, damn it, I really mean it" option, otherwise it seems their sync mechanisms are too conservative and resurrect things forever.
This is a niche interest that you may not share, but I enjoy this cyberpunk Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cyberpunkculture/

I also find that my favorite online communities are really just loosely organized coalitions of Twitter acquaintances who share certain interests (e.g. Media Twitter). Tumblr is good for the same purpose. But it's not as simple as just dropping in -- you have to cultivate your circle.

Slate Star Codex commenters tend to be particularly thoughtful and interesting people. If you can stand to navigate a WordPress comments section, that's a good community.
I made a website with a free exercise to learn to type faster: http://www.learn-2-type.com ...sadly a lot of people are using ad blockers
First of all, lots of results sent back from backend services (or databases) are arrays of objects. So no, tables are not a "niche" format - tables are heavily used.

Second, an array of arrays could mean anything. You have not semantics telling whether the arrays are independent or if the first array is an array of columns for the following arrays. ION Tables add that semantic information.

Third, yes, we could encode everything as text or as raw bytes and leave it up to the user to make sense of it. But that is exactly what we are trying to avoid with ION. We want to give devs a decent standard data format to use, that doesn't require a lot of data encoding choices up front. The encoding options have been thought through already, and sensible choices already made which you can just follow.

Fourth, you can nest ION tables inside ION tables, and thus create a more compact representation of an object graph. Using JSON / CBOR you would need a lot of nested arrays inside arrays to emulate that. Possible, but not exactly pretty.
If it weren't for the mistreatment of Bradley Manning, I'd consider US Government attempts to capture Snowden somewhat reasonable.

If (in hindsight) there had been any high level response acknowledging the inappropriateness of any of the revealed programs, and attempting to fix or impose accountability measures on covert programs, I'd feel reassured that the bad behavior evidenced by the leaked information was an anomaly.

But since neither of those happened, it appears that the US secret police are simply out of control.

Why would a politician speak out against the programs when his/her most private information is now known (by the leaked docs) to be vulnerable? Now his/her most private emails or correspondence could be used against him by those wishing to thwart accountability measures.

Why would a journalist spread awareness of the leaked information and question the legitimacy of the organizations found to be acting in extralegal fashion?

It's chilling (and somewhat ironic) that the atmosphere of fear and suppression of dissent that is desired explicitly by governments that have run aggressive secret police regimes is exactly what we've now got in the US.

A principled president would have owned up to the misconduct and taken steps to regain the public trust. A principled president would be ashamed of the chilling effect on journalists.

When you consider the utter silence from powerful people about the leaked information (with the exception of a few eccentric celebrities and billionaires) it's clear what a profoundly chilling effect the revelations had.
That sounds like a good idea and I'm onboard.

How as the AdWords approach been going? Have you had any interest yet? I've stayed away from AdWords so far because we've got some serious competitors with tons of cash so I'm not sure we're going to win on keywords.
Interesting. Why do you think the question is what is beyond the pale. Interesting. Or maybe "condescending" is the word. Math, physics, and realty have always limited search. Try executing a search warrant on a satellite. We don't require satellites to come down out of orbit for a search warrant. Similarly, turning math into contraband would be equally stupid.
> Know one cares how many time your project was stars or forks your project has. If that was relevant they would have contacted you :) Just link to your GitHub/Bitbucket/whatever- page.

I assume you mean "no" instead of "know".

But more on point, are you sure this is true? I have heard many companies (Google is one) look highly on projects you made which are very popular.
I didn't say that JSTOR was interested in making an example of Swartz. I said that if they had wanted to make an example of him, that would still not have given them a reason to pursue civil action, since Swartz was already facing a criminal prosecution that would have acted as a far greater deterrent than any conceivable civil action. There would simply have been no point in spending lots of money on a civil suit (money which probably could not be recovered in full) when the person in question was already facing jail time.

More generally, that fact that JSTOR did not pursue civil action is totally unsurprising given that Swartz was already facing a criminal prosecution, and it tells us very little about what JSTOR did or didn't think about what Swartz did. It's like saying "you must not think that the burglar harmed you by burgling your house because you're not pursuing civil action against him" -- in an instance where the burglar was already facing a criminal prosecution.

If JSTOR had believed Swartz's actions not to be harmful, they clearly would not have blocked JSTOR access from the MIT network. And indeed, Swartz didn't actually succeed in doing JSTOR much harm becuase they successfully stopped him. What you're effectively saying is that being caught before you've succeeded in completing a crime ought to count as a good defense. In other words, if I try to burgle your house and you catch me before I succeed in making off with your stuff, then you can't complain, because after all, I didn't actually get hold of any of your stuff!
So I was one of these kids for the better part of college. The issue is that you dont care because you don't have options. You're already in college and stressing out about oweing $100k isn't productive. You look at your loans once you're done with school and need to pay them back.
I'm a Software Engineer born and raised in Venezuela. I moved to Canada one year ago. Ask me anything!
I read the Reddit post; that looks easier to set up than I thought. I might give it a try some day. But I don't mind rebooting to switch OS anyway (10s boot times plus fast legacy BIOS).
"it's great if you can come up with engaging apps"
...and the Amazon app marketplace has a miraculous recovery and somehow because a legitimate revenue source. It probably speaks volumes how badly their device sales are on how likely that is.
I remember reading an article several years back, before it was obvious the hell that was coming to Venezuela. The reporter was quite impressed with Chavez's ability to speak and act for the people. He noted that one day Chavez was walking in the city and saw a nice building. He said something to the effect of "The people need this building much more than the rich companies using it" and boom, those folks lost their building.

Yet it was somehow a mystery to both the reporter and many folks in the states that somehow this was a problem. There were tons of supporters of what was going on in Venezuela, all over the world, thankful that somebody was finally truly looking out for the common man.

Read a book once which compared many different cultures over the centuries. Lately it's fairly common to wave your hands around and say something like "There are no better or worse cultures. Each has its own values" but this author did not do that. He made the case, and I agreed, that whatever your values, it's better living to 75 than it is dying of disease at age 8. What was one of the primary things he felt made a difference in cultures? Respect of private property.
>>I don't see a reason to bring your political leanings into a discussion of straightforward economic cause and effects.

That means, when they were going well, they shouldn't be boasting the "Leftist" government and so, right?

But what did we see? they and their leftist supporters kept on chanting "Chavez, Chavez" and "Left, Left". Did they ever consider the so "straightforward" economics then??
I've been using CEF for many years where I work, nothing new (as usual).
People in Venezuela were standing in lines infront of empty stores as early as 2013 (if not earlier) when Oil was well well above $70.
> You're touching here on one of the common bridges from libertarianism to neoreaction

Actually, my reasoning is coming from an entirely different point of view. My basic assumption is that people follow incentives. Markets (i.e. libertarianism) are very good at providing certain kinds of incentives (basically, they encourage competition and drive the world toward greater and greater efficiency), but there are also well-known examples of market failures: monopoly, duopoly, cartels; externalities (pollution, resource exhaustion); barriers to entry and wasteful competition (main example being infrastructure - do we really need 2 companies digging through the whole city to establish 2 sets of separate, but otherwise identical phone lines?); agency problem; tragedy of the commons and free-rider problem (i.e. who pays for the fire department). In this case, I believe that government regulation is required and welcome; it has to be carefully enacted and continuously evaluated to make sure it results in increase of competition in the markets (otherwise we get e.g. copyright, which significantly hurts competition). I don't think neoreaction is a good example here; I believe that parts of EU, allegedly Denmark in particular (with their "flexicurity" style labor markets) are particularly good examples.
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I like that quote. Thanks.