skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you say integration, I assume that goes beyond the chat bots that we have seen on other platforms since ages?
I'm quite sure there will be serious side effects in other countries.

I'm also confident that they won't be "risk 7 billions lives and the lives of their children for centuries" serious.
Not sure if any were mentioned in the piece, but there are plenty of zero knowledge E2E encrypted chat clients out there. None of the ones I'm aware of are also federated like Matrix is though, and I suspect the federated nature of Matrix probably makes E2E encryption a lot more complicated to implement than I can ever imagine.

I definitely appreciate that the Matrix team is aware of and actively working on E2E encryption, but it doesn't change my stance that Matrix is not a feasible building block for privacy-minded apps until that work is complete.
Data Engineering at Slack: Twelve Mistakes I've Made in My First Three Months
That's an interesting way to think about it. It's true that in our daily lives we absolutely depend on privacy and are aware of it being compromised.

Perhaps therein lies the real problem: for the most part these oversteps are barely noticeable. 'Doing something' amounts to a kind of activism. I can accept that as the necessary course of action at this point in time. Working for the right to privacy in the future could be analogous to protecting natural resources.
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What are the advantages of OpenFire over ejabberd/prosody?
To be a Ponzi scheme (which I assume is what you mean), a key factor is massaging new investments to look like revenue, and using it to pay earlier investors. I see no reason to think that Slack is doing anything like that.
Agreed. It was useful for me as I did a lot of Z80 a long time ago, and then some x86, but no amd64.
Apple Actively Working to 'Double Down' on iCloud Encryption
Spotify, as mentioned in TFA.
> The more I look at the govtrack.us page for this bill, the more names I recognize, the more I think "we really need to get away from politics being a legit `career` option."

Which has been tried, and the extreme on the other end isn't pretty either. Strict term limits in California (prior to some revision in 2012) meant that Senators and Congresspeople were almost never around long enough to truly get involved and understand an issue. There was a lot of freshman lawmakers all trying to make their own mark, perpetually blind to the prior efforts.

The question really is how many years in congress, the senate, or both is too much, and how low of term limits is too low? If we can't find a happy middle ground (I honestly don't know), then maybe we need to step back and examine the question again, and decide whether there are some other levers and incentives and regulations we can use to our benefit.

Note: It's also worth looking at whether passing institutional attitude (knowledge?) as you described is actually a bad thing, or a natural correlation. If that district or state has a particular leaning, it could be that it's just natural that a similarly positioned person will be more likely to pick up the seat later.
MixPanel: http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/08/mixpanel-starts-2016-with-...
Instacart: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/12/30/instacart...
"Even though I helped move a company’s valuation almost two billion dollars, I haven’t made a dime from the company outside of making a pretty below-to-average salary. That’s after six years."

Pretty much sums up most startup experiences in the area.
> Some sort of open protocol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
High schooler looking for used copies of SICP
I'm a 10th grader (aged 13) interested in computer science. I got into it using [Scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu/), a programming website for kids. There I met Brian Harvey, the brilliant (former) CS lecturer at UC Berkeley.

I asked on the thread where all the CS geeks (and Brian) hang out if there was any way to get my hands on a copy of SICP cheaply, since naturally my parents refuse to get me one because they think that CS == IT. They (the Scratch people) suggested I ask on Hacker News if anyone's got an old copy they're willing to part with. So that's what I'm doing!

So if you've got an old copy of SICP around your house collecting dust, I'd be very grateful if you could email me at jay@backtick.town and we could talk!
Supermarkets will give you as many 'loyalty' cards as you want. And you can put false info on them.

I assume they can still track your purchases by credit card #.
Yeah, same here :/ I expect scrolling to work one way and scroll by the amount I'm used to, not the amount the author considers good for them. I closed the article after skimming a few sentences, because it was too hard to follow the flow when I couldn't scroll properly.
Except that we really don't need self-driving, remotely controllable, DMCA protected, non-usermodifiable etc etc cars that only drive on what will essentially become parallel railroad tracks defined by beacons.

See "Demolition Man": http://amzn.to/1PcTxrc (non-affiliate link http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AIY58O ).
It's also odd that both numbers are 10,000. Maybe their probability function bottoms out there?
NX Virtual Vitality Prototype, Nintendo ON
I've toyed with the idea of vanishing completely, but nowadays employers often want to see a web presence.... if it weren't for that, and the convenience of Facebook Messenger, I might have disappeared already.

I was just thinking about how since one usually uses the same identity for many different accounts and interests online, it would be very easy to find someone by looking for people that match those specific sets of interests. You would have to make separate identities for every sort of interest, and never mention the other from a different profile.
Squarespace staffer: Exec told me, “You’re so black, you blend into the chair”
The depressing aspect is the accelerating fragmentation caused by more custom protocols entering the game. Supporting them all as the space grows will only get more cumbersome.
Make apple devices great by using Google services.
Ghostery counts 27 trackers for me on this single Wired article, 19 of which are classified as "Advertising". I would not call this "not to be too invasive".
SIP is not am IM protocol. There's one crammed on top of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMPLE_%28instant_messaging_pr... but SIP is just a framing for it.
I so deeply agree with this, and I was surprised to discover just how much startup-specific stuff these specialized lawyers can do. Model your cap table in various scenarios (since most of us don't have a finance person early on this is HUGELY helpful) and also give you the due-diligence checklist for pretty much any counter-party, since they've sat opposing them all. They're also working on lots of deals, so they can give helpful answers to, "is this normal?" or "what are you seeing in the market?" that can help inform how hard to negotiate.

If you have a distaste for lawyers, as a lot of people do in our culture, and try to put off deeply engaging and instead do it yourself you are going to get burned. It is better to pay someone their hefty fees and then ask TONS of questions, so that you will truly learn from everything you have them do. This is the unsexy part of running a startup that I wish I could tell every founder. You just have to embrace it, might as well get good at it.
I suppose it's a better caption than "No one on the streets of Seoul gives a shit about the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol Go match"
> ...difference between philosophical positions and...

Philosophy is a pretty huge domain, where one end of the spectrum is navel gazing Platonic forms and the other is the propositional logic that informs compiler design. It sounds like you describing the trap that medieval scholars fell into, where they would recursively construct syllogisms until they found themselves talking about how many angles could dance on the head of a pin. This is what happens when you fail to check your premise, you end up with a logically consistent delusion. So the "self-coherent but completely impractical" philosophy you've condemned is just a condemnation of poor logic - which doesn't do your utilitarian argument much good.

As far as the the rest, you've now changed the topic from "what defines a state" to "what defines a well judged, scalable, long-lived civilization".

> ...anarchy as a form of government...

One of those words doesn't mean what you think it means :)
I still don't see how going from being completely inaccessible to the vast majority of people to basically showing up in your kid's happy meals is not a complete sea change. Quantity has a quality all its own.
Sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to hear more about the research.

One area that gets my brain cycles rolling is the private and sensitive nature of making contractual agreements. It doesn't really fit the collaborative, community-driven, mass interest model with very many parties.
Yea big news. We all benefit from competition here
What is the deal with a battery powered video doorbell?

Is there really a powerful enough battery to make it work for a useful amount of time?

Are people really willing to charge or replace the batteries as often as is required (likely every few days or a week at the very least, by my back-of-the-envelope calculation)?
Exactly. Which is why big labs going pre-print/OA is meaningful, but the heads of those big labs saying "As Chair of my Department, OA publications will be positively considered in tenure, hiring and promotion decisions" would probably be a bigger deal.
If you normally work on your project using the command line (vim, emacs, &c) it's probably better to use git from the command line. If not, you should definitely learn to use command line git anyway even if you use the GUI normally because IMO it gives you a deeper understanding of the tool.
They don't, but they got a fraction of a penny to put the app in front of you. Nobody (to a first approximation, and especially on the Android side) buys a phone because of the software - they just look at the hardware (if that) and make their decision. By the time you're being annoyed by NFL apps it's too late.
Don't forget the apparent JS -> Go
No offense intended. I (poorly) chose the more common name with regard to the incident I referred to. I was speaking more of the situation rather than the person.
Google's really ahead on the networking front, and other cloud providers are following suite. Networking hardware is super cheap now. When you couple that hardware with open source software networking gets cheap.
Very fast:

http://demo.project-strus.net/query?s=BM25pff&q=hacker+news&...

I wonder why they choose "C++98". The project seems recent.

"The open source project Strus provides a collection of C++ (C++98) libraries and command line tools for building a competitive, scalable full-text search engine."

http://www.project-strus.net/index.htm
Well, mainly because I had no idea about the actual costs. I kinda spoke too soon.

I just thought that moving that much data would cost some serious money. Apparently that's not really moving "that much data".

Wrong assumptions on my part :/
Sorrows of a Polygamist
Agreed.

The few use cases I see that have a hard requirement for IPv6 typically involve arbitrary drivers like government regulations for unique addressing. I have yet to see much demand for IPv6 driven by functionality.
> focus on your craft, because your skills will speak louder than your gender.

The post is about her gender. None of it even mentions what she built.

Am I a jerk for pointing that out? Because males deal with nitpickers and doubters every day.

I have nothing against working hard and against adversity, but I've never understood why there's this dire urgency to treat the nature outcome of social demographics as if its more an important than what value you bring to the table.

I don't know why, but it really grinds at me.
> I never said anyone should be forced to peel oranges against their will.

Here's what makes it seem like you did:

> Making peeling a free service from the produce department, available on request, seems reasonable

If a store chooses that as one of their features, it certainly is reasonable for them to do so. Yes. But that's so obvious you wouldn't be saying that..?

So the line reads (to me, and I presume, others) as: "It seems like a reasonable thing for us the people to make 'free peeling on request' a thing that produce departments do." ie, an accessibility law.

> "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is still the best fundamental social principle I can think of.

The problem is that needs are infinite and my time is finite. As a loose moral compass it's a nice idea - as a government principle it's nearly slavery.
Pretty amazing. The mathmetical structure in islamic art is really inspiring. Curious to see what types of applications these materials could be used for. Any thoughts?
Building Visual Studio Code on a Raspberry Pi 3
Was bracing for something about Mary Lou Jepsen. No dice. What a drag.
Can we have the link changed to be the Medium post[0] that this is copied from please? The site currently linked hijacks the scroll and has annoying popups trying to get you to subscribe.

[0] https://medium.com/art-marketing/being-a-female-developer-6f...
Theres plenty of ways they might respond. The kid's exact response probably depends on both the parents and the kid.

Beyond that, the amount of surveillance that already exists in a mobile phone probably far outstrips any new tech around the corner.
I didn't look too deeply, but yeah, that's ridiculous. I don't need any Wired article that much.
Here you go: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf
Recently I was talking to a co-worker about this and I said I prefer IRC over Slack and HipChat. You can certainly build robots on IRC and make fancy automation. You can also use IRCloud if you prefer someone hosting it for you. I came from a company where IRC is literally the primary communication channel for both business and technical staff (the word starts with the letter M). When we did townhall we all jumped on IRC and we asked questions from there. We use other software for conferencing and video calls. We are okay with that.

Here at my current company we have a big challenge. We use Skype for inter-team communication, Webex for grooming and remote conferencing. We also looked at Lync (aka the stupid lame ass 'Skype for Business'). While Skype allows you to keep history (I can go back to 2 years ago!! how amazing) and create groups, but I have to know everyone first. This is where IRC-like channel is really powerful. Everyone can join some lobby and then we branch off into individual team channels. With Skype I can't. Oh good luck finding the group you forgot to favorite 3 months ago. Also, I can't build nice robot in Skype and make pretty command to automate our infrastructure! There used to be restriction with how many people we are group video chat before we have to get into paid plan (not sure still apply or not). With everyone at different location and with different operating system, colleagues would have problem accessing or using Skype / Webex, espeically our Linux users, and they have to boot up a Windows VM. What a nightmare chore.

What if we have a tool that can do

* text chat

* video chat

* voice chat

* integrate with Jira / ticket system

* mention people and actually MENTION people

* create a large lobby

* integration with active directory(?)

* have a decent API for automation

* cross-platform

* safe and secure

* integration with other third-party services/tools that we have signed up (Box? Dropbox?S3?)

* record things?

* history

wouldn't that be awesome?

I am excited about trying out Hipchat and Slack. The problem is, Hipchat is the only one out of IRCCloud and Slack offering on-premise installation (we do have onsite Atlassian). The downside is we'd managing additional infrastructure, esp if I want to use the video & voice feature. Oh.

If I have to choose I prefer Hipchat or the Campfire style (they are pretty similar in terms of style). Slack - a lot of people like it, but the UI is just so awkward and clumsy and crowded. I don't like it. I don't know. It hasn't changed since launch.
I think it says a lot about how popular Go is in Korea that the games would even be on street signs like this.
There is no exodus. There are a lot of companies moving to multi-cloud, which makes sense from a disaster recovery perspective, a negotiating perspective, and possibly from cherry picking the best parts of each platform.

This is what Apple is doing. They use AWS and Azure already in large volume. This move adds the #3 vendor in cloud to mix and isn't really a surprise.
Read the Memo Intel Capital Just Sent Its Portfolio Companies
Thanks. How long has it been roughly $1/Mbps/Month ? Do you know of any sources with historical data?
To whatever extent allows us to learn more.
It might also be based on the HTTP Accept header, with which you can figure out if a request is for an <img>.

This redirection reminds me of other, less clean image hosting services. :/
Larry Tesler (source: http://www.nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Adages_and_Co...)

"Tesler's Theorem (ca. 1970). My formulation of what others have since called the “AI Effect”. As commonly quoted: “Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet”. What I actually said was: “Intelligence is whatever machines haven't done yet”."
using command line is better idea, if you know the commands well it really easier than using GUI
The possible integration with ZeroDB definitely sounds interesting! Really hoping that works out for you guys.
This is truly an inspiring story, Jen! Kudos on the journey and all the best with Zube.io
Some premium devices can be bought as "Google Experience" devices (similar to how laptops bought from the MSFT store will have zero pre-installed vendor software).

Samsung however is very bad at this and they have replaced pretty much every core Android feature with their own most of which cannot be uninstalled easily or at all.

So if you really want a clean OS e.g. without Samsung Mail, Browser (which is the most insecure version of Chrome I've seen in a long long time) Keyboard and the other 10,000 Samsung services you have to flash it with an AOSP based ROM.

LG, Motorola, HTC and others usually offer GE devices when you buy it directly from them or trough the Google store.
Why Southeast Asian companies are missing some of the best opportunities in tech
Sad to see the tournament end! Fantastic entertainment. I have started playing Go again, but I don't think that I will start up again doing Go programming.
Spot on. Question is if the entire 'AI' discussion is fair or also hyped by marketing departments. Is AlphaGo really AI, or is it an algorithm focussed on finding the best move to win at the game of GO. When in game 4, people were talking about 'it making a mistake', was it really a mistake. Did it choose the wrong move or did it simply make the move that the algorithm had put forth.
In a world that makes sense: probably. Keep in mind, Slack is not only raising money because it can but also because the public markets would throttle it like the companies had been in 2015.

That said, Butterfield's move to raise more money simply to be attract more recruits sounds completely crazy. But hey, it's only crazy if it doesn't work.

He seems to understand the awkward position his company is in. As covered in a TC article, Butterfield is prepping his company for the public markets even though there are no real plans to do so. This is evidenced by the near profitability Slack has now.

Link to relevant article:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/ready-to-pounce/
> None of the other services had so many companies building integrations on top of them

I disagree. While there is no centralized list of IRC bots (because IRC isn't centralized), there is an uncountable number of IRC bots and libraries for people to make their own.
> Good to see it's being commercialized... again? Swore he had a company.

My reaction exactly :-)

I got to attend their training in 2003, at Cycorp, which is still around [1]. Some REALLY amazingly smart people.

I wonder if he's saying "it's done!" in hopes of not getting buried by DeepMind... kind of a last-ditch effort for "Strong AI".

[1] http://www.cyc.com
That is incredibly clever, particularly exploiting DEFLATE to generate text. I would've never thought of that.
Dan Grossman, who's active in this very story, set up a replacement[1] a while back that I've been using and it seems to work well.

1: http://hnreplies.com/
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.

I don't see that being effective. IPv6 is here, and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. See above where somebody linked to the TWC page where they point out that they have reach 100% IPv6 coverage. And they are one of the largest ISP's around. (And from my subjective perception, one of the laggards on implementing IPv6). Common home routers have been shipping with IPv6 support for years, and probably a huge swathe of the 'net population (in America anyway) have dual-stack and just don't know it.

And IPv6 adoption is only going to keep growing. Pretty soon there won't be any consumers who are stuck on v4, so there will be no reason to try and establish a monopoly on v4 addresses.
>>OpenStack/Rackspace/etc. was basically stillborn

What's wrong with Openstack/Rackspace?
Twitter isn't really a single community, it's many (self-selecting) communities. This means that Twitter don't really need to moderate low-quality content or what have you, but they do need to solve harassment.
Similarly, my attractive and small female friend doesn't walk around the streets of Delhi late at night. If she were to visit NYC (which is exceedingly safe) she probably would. That's the peer-to-peer version of what you describe - individual humans avoiding other individual humans who are likely to rape/rob/otherwise harm them.

The old school B2C version of this is pizza shops not delivering to certain neighborhoods where their drivers get jacked.

I get the impression you are somehow opposed to the high tech B2C version of this. How do you distinguish that from the lower tech versions?
This doesn't quite hit the mark. The example given in Klisp will work with an arbitrary number of arguments. What looks to be the second of two named arguments, e, is actually the dynamic environment from which $and? is called.
Come on, even this nightmare scenario isn't that nightmarish. The POTUS commands the nuclear arsenal, which is arguably more powerful than knowing my shopping habits.
Because a new IRC client without widespread protocol extensions means everyone currently using IRC will hate people using the new client due to the fact there is no place to hide metadata.

See: Microsoft Comic Chat
> Spend weekends and late nights in front of your computer, laying down lines of code, debugging and developing your personal projects.

This is the only thing I disagree with. Although this would be good for your career, it does not work for all types of people.
Could you change the title to "Privacy VPN Service Comparison Chart"?

VPN in of itself is meaningless. This could mean anything from corporate VPN products, through to AWS site to site VPN services.