skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That, in part, was how I ultimately was able to sneak into the Andreessen Horowitz corporate apartments and stayed there rent-free for sixteen months. I currently have twelve monogrammed a16z robes in my collection

At which point what little sympathy I might had for the author vanished, unless I missed the part that explains why this isn't just outright thievery. And then to publicly admit that if it's not nailed down, you'll steal it. Yeah, "tall poppy syndrome", that must be it. You were just too good for this world.

Besides, do I want to take advice from someone with such large blinders on? Yes, HR joins video conferences because they want to personally thank you for your outstanding work. Be careful at train crossings, Zach, because if you didn't see this metapohorical train coming with it's lights and horn ablazin', you might not see a real one.
If someone want performance, simplicity and encryption, take a look at our project: https://actor.im
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We need open protocols.

Then let a thousand clients with different paradigms bloom
It's gone from 0% annoying to 60% annoying. Compared to the 2009 benchmark which was imageshack.us - 100% annoying.
California is the most populous state in the country; it has about 12 million more people than the next-biggest state (Texas). In general, people aren't really actively choosing it as much as they're either a) already there and using it by default or b) forced to be there to more easily access the market of almost 40 million people that reside there. This is in fact the only reason that California can afford to mistreat business owners -- they have a great deal of leverage.

However, tech hubs are draws in and of themselves, and they could easily be located in friendlier states. People will come out to them.
What people (including these yahoos) fail to understand is that every attack against Donald Trump increases his popularity. If they want to help him get elected, this is the best way.

He's a troll. Running for President of the United States. A troll. For President.
Can't have a Qt thread without mentioning Nokia Meego, the best phone ever.
Classification of course, assigning entities to categories according to their attributes, is itself logic.

Making a distinction between "reasoning by analogy" and "reasoning with logic" is actually pretty weird. Analogy is also (informal) logic - drawing attention to the common characteristics of objects and reasoning about their therefore shared attributes. What Hinton really means, at least as I understand it, is "reasoning with approximation" not by analogy.

But, approximation is what you do when you _can't_ do logic. It's your recourse when you can't do the optimal, which is indeed, reasoning with logic according to knowledge.

Hinton is advocating that, because we managed to get ahead with some hard problems by approximating solutions, we should forget about ever getting a good understanding of the problems. But that's dangerous, defeatist and goes against the way we've progressed pretty much throughout all of human civilisation so far.
What about Telegram? It's partially open source (clients only for now) and provides end-to-end encryption.
I think the email goes further than poorly worded. It says pretty clearly that access will be cut off, gives no suggestion that there could be a negotiation.
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It's a pun on http://zerotoonebook.com/about/
It's not even that great of an article, and yet it's the top post on HN? I hope at least dang looks at the data. I'm sorry it's pretty suspicious. Like what is so notable about this post that it warrants being at the top? Above the living social layoffs and the various other way more interesting things on the front page right now.

Worst case, it turns out being a legit article, in which case it's cool. Eh, no big deal.
Yeah, comparing it to Google Wave probably is a bit too much. In my neck of the tech woods HipChat is still pretty hip. I suspect that by the time we discover Slack, something else will have taken Slack's place as the new wave. Meanwhile I'll just keep visiting the same IRC channels outside of work that I have been frequenting for a decade. Will Slack be around in 10 years? Maybe. Will it be the poster-boy of internal chat? Unlikely.
With all the success they've had in bitcoin (or lack thereof) you expect me to believe that jumping to ethereum is going to bring profit? Isn't the whole goal of ethereum to displace companies? I have yet to figure out just what problem ethereum even solves
Point in case?
The first few times these discussions were interesting. But for every submission mentioning Slack, somebody has to come and claim that IRC is all anybody ever needed, and all the arguments have been rehashed over and over. The alternatives mentioned in the article on the other hand are barely discussed at all.
A new SimEarth would be cool, but if they made it now it would be the size of a tiny asteroid and you'd have to deal with everyone else on other asteroids in the asteroid belt.
http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...
Although Google is a corp and has financial interests, I think it's in Google's interest to share these ideas in workable form with the world. It can (and I hope it will) contribute a lot to improving a number of things that are wrong with the world.

When I was an academic scientist in the mid 2000s, I ended up with more data than I could deal with, and none of the computing systems in academia at the time dealt well with that (they were tuned for HPC/supercomputers). The bigtable, mapreduce, and GFS papers were huge to me, because they provided a nicer framework for data processing. Although Google made those tools for Search and Ads (and profited greatly from them) they also published them, and Doug Cutting and others incorporated them into Hadoop. A similar thing is happening now, but Google got better at releasing their codes as open source, which reduces the time between publication of a good idea, and replication of that work by others outside the corp.

(eventually, I went to google to get direct access to its infrastructure; built Exacycle, gave away an enormous amount of free computing time that cost Google rather than profiting it, the leadership loved it even though it cost money, and I even managed to get Googler to apply machine learning to academic problems I cared about).

So I don't think Google solely acts in its own short term financial interests.

Also, aspirin has turned out to be amazing at solving a wide range of health problems, so I think bayer was probably right (if not for the right reasons) on that one.
No problem, it's been a while since I have seen one, and like you the only place I had seen one was in the education sector. Good luck!
I'm really not even sure a16z has corporate apartments. It's just poking a little fun in the middle of a dreary subject. I don't even own a single robe, much less twelve, although I'd be into it.
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Having had friends on the inside, it also just seemed like a terrible place to work. Grew quickly and they never paid down the organizational and technical debt. I think there were a lot of troubling signs for this business from the start, including the business model.
I realize you're skeptical too, but I'm saying I wouldn't even go as far as to call it a revolution. Call it a trend if you'd like, that's giving it too much credit.
It's one of the most 'demanding' website too. It's my favorite web browser pressure test these days. Who's imgur's imgur now ?
There's a lot more (Axciom, Neustar, etc.). Just check out one of these Lumascapes--the data companies are slightly off to the right near the top in the DB Marketing, DMP and Marketing Data sections [1].

Advertisers and publishers can also sell this data directly on exchanges (a relatively new thing) like Adobe's Audience Marketplace [2].

[1] http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/marketing-technology-...

[2] https://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/advertising/source-...
There was a picture that I remember describing "The problem with social media" and it had a couple of people sharing something they thought interesting with friends. Then five more people joined and it got noisy. Then a bunch of people showed up, spouting irrelevant noise. Then the first group of people left.

Unfortunately I think it's inevitable. If only there was a site where I could search for images like that |;)
No mention of Zulip? It's the first to come to mind for me if you ask for an open source Slack competitor.
Arent's the systems being studied in life sciences much more complex than in machine learning?

Consider the problem of protein folding, which has taken up many a processor cycle over the past decade or so. And that's just a tiny sliver of life sciences.
It's also lacking adoption (which is understandable since it's not "officially released" yet).
I actually use adblockers on my phones for a different reason. On my phone I'm reasonably sure I won't be affected by malware (up to date Nexus and I know not to install unknown applications), but ads take up data and slow down browsing.
Some people may live in apartments happily forever, but most humans intend to pair off and reproduce at some point or another. Units like this may be suited to the types of people who already live in dorms, but on top of the fact that people prefer to have a lot of space, they're not a good solution to the type of housing that's needed to accommodate most human families over the long term. That means the populations that rent will be transient, making it even less desirable as no real sense of continuity or community history will exist there. Now there are 3 big factors working against it: it's too small to start with, it won't accommodate people as they form families, and because of 1 and 2, it will have a high turnover rate, which makes for disinterested and fatigued neighbors. It doesn't work.

As many other commenters in this thread have indicated, this is not a new idea by any means. There are many examples of tiny units and condensed urban spaces all over the world, and they're not popular.
"The better part of" a million dollars. I believe the SFH median in Victoria is around $600,000 CAD. (Which of course means half of them cost more than that.) My point is that it's a lot of money to spend with no time to think it over or do due diligence.
I'm hoping that Typescript will be willing to break backward compatibility when necessary to maintain its core advantage of being an assisted version of the standard rather than just another non-standard language. If Typescript gets out ahead of the ES standard and adopts a feature that is presumably coming in ES, but ES changes course and doesn't follow, TS will no longer be annotated, standard ES.

In this case, I'm hoping TS will just make the breaking change and go back to being pure, standard ES plus optional type annotations. Developers who use it would just accept that from time to time, this could happen, but it could probably be made a non-issue if MS just wrote another transpiler: oldTS -> newTS, for people whose choice of Typescript meant they had committed from the start to a system that would ALWAYS require transpiling.
Hey, my name is Stephen. Base Deploy allows users to build web apps without coding. Its focus is user generated content.

Here are the major features that other builders do not offer:

- User registration

- User generated pages

- User subscriptions - Stripe

- Sell products - Stripe Relay

- Allow users to sell - Stripe Connect

I'd love to here your feedback on the app and if this makes sense while using the app.
So Gluster, just better documented? /s
I want to expand my knowledge. I'm almost done with college and I'm both thrilled and terrified on what will I encounter from here on, there is still a lot to learn.

I'm not as good as many people here I just lurk most of the time, although, I've been doing web development for years, mostly self-taught. I had the opportunity to freelance as well.

Most of my drive to learn C++ is curiosity and the need to be able to write/understand C++ code because I wanted to work with it, I've been meaning to get an Arduino kit too. I'd love to enter the field in C++ as junior dev if possible, at the same time I won't neglect web development if the opportunity is there.

As I said before, I want to expand. I won't just "throw away" web development either. Lastly, I'm not in the US, the job market here is pretty terrible, and have found it hard to look for a place to work. I can work in the U.S, but sadly being both college student + no cash to do much it's pretty hard to pull off.
Apparently it solves the problem of marketing and hyping bitcoin alternatives.

All I see from it is hype with basically no substance or concrete examples of it working. Bitcoin has literally been working for multiple years now. Despite the lies, deception and manipulation by the current blockstream funded developers, anyone can spend it in a lot of different ways on a lot of different things and it still works extremely smoothly.
Not free! They have now updated the post to include pricing details.
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I still log in too. If I recall things right the chat logs were stored on the server back in the days. Are they still there? Could they be recovered? That would be awesome...

EDIT: I guess I was wrong... https://www.icq.com/support/icq_7/messages/is_my_message_his...
"Defendants appear to insist that the higher the utility value of speech the less like speech it is. An extension of that argument assumes that once language allows one to actually do something, like play music or make lasagne, the language is no longer speech. The logic of this proposition is dubious at best."

I love this - definitely not a side to the argument that I'd considered before, but I find it very compelling. Well written article all around.
Absolutely, and even more, you can not do modern research unless you are part of Google. Only big corporations have computing power and data access to do large scale data research with neural networks. This basically rules out a lot of teams who have much less funding.
Random anecdote while reading this: I used candle light few years ago after being forced off grid for a few hours at night. It was marvelous. If it wasn't for fire hazard I'd use it every night.
Mattermost's applications are js-based. Brilliant marketing.
I found shady SuperPAC connections to Hillary Clinton in just 5 minutes
As someone mentioned below - Phalanger doesn't support PHP 7. Peachpie will and as soon as we manage that, we can provide benchmarks.
Welcome to Portugal, then! Now you know where your money is going ;)
I'd love to know more about this COIN system that has been released. Jenkins causes a lot of pain for LibreOffice infrastructure devs.
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I know it pains neckbeards to hear this, but IPv4 is not going anywhere, as long as it remains in the business interests of major cloud providers, and as long as people continue to deploy NAT based firewalls as a security feature.

Re: business interests: Cloud businesses can acquire IP addresses at price points far higher than the average developer can. Now that the ARIN address space is exhausted, cloud providers will begin to buy more and more IPv4 space until they have a complete monopoly and large portions of IPv4 are controlled by just a few companies. This will price other companies out of offering cloud services that are IPv4 compatible.

Re: security: Sure, the original intended purpose of NAT was not security, but people use it for that, and will continue to do so. If you want to put multiple boxes behind a single IP address, IPv4 is the easiest way to do it. In fact, IPv6 seems to be a step backward in terms of security. Every device does not need to be openly addressable from anywhere on the Internet, and developers will always choose the path of least resistance, especially when it's more secure.
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If it's legal to sell, it's for sale. Credit cards definitely sell your info.

People also forget about "public data". Student organizations (sport tournaments, student bands, chess club, etc) and middle school/high school/college graduation lists are big ones for targeting young consumers. Facebook/Twitter is just the tip of the iceberg. Hyper-targeting is very real and companies know way more about you than you think.

Pay cash and be mindful of what data gets online.

* On a more positive note, I'm excited to see how digital personal assistants integrate this kind of data for personalization.
I completely agree with you, if the company it's going to say anything at all internally I'd rather it be some feel-good BS than an "honest" explanation of what transpired. It's very likely that their version of events would differ from yours and make you look bad (they're firing you, after all).
Southwest Airlines has one that gets you Rapid Rewards points for registering a credit card and eating at certain places: https://www.rapidrewardsdining.com/

I registered, because why not, but most of the restaurants in it are pretty crap.
You should try this as a learning exercise.
Just because the founder is successful doesn't mean they have your interests at heart.
What's "neoconservative" about any of those things? What do you think that word means?
This looks like a follow-up to the review posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270181.
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Visual Studio Code:

1. is a much more complex application

2. has no perceptible performance issues

3. is also built on Electron
but this approach catches more bugs than any other technique

Have you seen the specification for sel4? It's fairly complex.
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Privacy, technology's favorite pet peeve
I know it pains neckbeards to hear this, but IPv4 is not going anywhere

A) Get bent.

B) You think they don't already know the only chance of dualstack going away is so it can become tristack?
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Why is that gauche?
The way I understand it (I've never actually used Groupon myself), the restaurant chose to offer its service at the deal, already at a cost to your host. It's not like your host was falsely claiming there was a hair in their food to get it for free.
Are you also against using restaurants.com type services?
> Besides, do I want to take advice from someone with such large blinders on? Yes, HR joins video conferences because they want to personally thank you for your outstanding work.

Wow, you really hate people who share things on the internet, right?

Anyway, I've worked 3 years at a company where HR joining a meeting usually meant something like "hey we have this great training/project/coach role that we think you'd like to dive in to. would you?". That, or I had large blinders on and they actually planned to fire me each time but instead sent me on a 3-day CouchDB training abroad. Oops!
You are the reason this compiler exists :) many companies mix the two together. We might be offering commercial support for Phalanger in the next couple of weeks, depending on your company and the project.
I will be very pleased to hear what browser/OS do you use
> Source: You'll have to take my word for it.

Fwiw, I agree with you. ;)

Source: Someone tried to sell me this sort of thing once as part of an age verification service.
For reasons that have never been entirely clear to me, chat has been reinvented more times than perhaps any other common Internet utility, and every time it is, there are no shortage of investors lined up for it. I think the cycle is largely driven by fashion, as youth get online and demand chat apps that are distinct (if not different in any meaningful functional way) from the existing ones.
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There's also Matrix.org. There seems to be a lot of overlap between the two projects.
I honestly don't get this. I've been using IRC for a few years, but I don't think nearly enough for blind eye nostalgia to take hold.

It's not like you're stuck with ugly terminal only clients anymore. There is KiwiIRC, IRCCloud, and several other great web clients that not only let you connect to any server but provide bouncer services and backlog. There are also plenty of easy to use native clients that don't require any configuration.

There are some benefits of Slack, but the ones you mention aren't them. In fact, seeing how you CANT host your own Slack server I would say "difficult to host" is a flat lie against IRC.
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Sorry, but I'm not familiar with it. I've heard of it, but what separates it from other image-sharing sites?
For one thing, XMPP is complicated and difficult to implement.
Not for me, though there appear to be broken images.
Chimps also have the mother instinct, as do most other animals.
A hundred different chat systems mentioned here. None of them compatible with one another. Well, I guess a couple of them have IRC gateways, but you have to actually set those up.

Gee, wouldn't it be nice if you could pick and choose your UI? Pick and choose your "integrations", your "plugins", your client, etc without having to lose your entire userbase, history, contacts?

Some sort of open protocol.

Urgh, I've been working on this lately and the entire field is depressing. Between one side that doesn't understand the legitimate need for open protocols, and another side that doesn't understand why IRC isn't the end-all-be-all of group chat (and why UX matters), it's just people talking past each other.

Every new attempt at making "the slack killer" makes this problem worse, because it comes with its own protocol. Its own users. Etc.

PS: If somebody has free time to work on an open source multi-protocol group chat gateway, email me, I have something started.
I wrote this article, at carsongross's urging, as a follow-up to the discussion around his earlier article, "Rescuing REST from the API Winter".[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10941616
Privacy: The DOJ Is Playing with Fire
WW3 ISIS
I fail to see how it's any more immoral than what the VCs are doing to those who are actually doing the fucking work.
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But who will build the roads?
Meanwhile, their stock is tanking. But they seem too busy patting themselves on the back to even notice.
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OK, I'll take your word for it.

Everything I do is being tracked, recorded and passed around by companies big and small. Yep, got it.

Anyone care to speculate on how we actually change this situation? Or is it that there's really not much utility in privacy for most people, so we can just forget about it permanently. I realize that the paths to change are either regulatory or technical (and I find the latter more likely), but seriously: paint the picture.

Should we just accept this as the norm?

(edit: grammar)
If you don't like it, don't use it.

Any "privacy concerns" regarding an opt-in service are dubious at best.

Also, where's the uproar about literally every single ISP, doing the same things on a much wider scale?