skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds a bit like babble print, which is a more complex type of encoding mechanism.[0]

The first I encountered that was in SILC, where it was used to make the key fingerprint more or less pronounceable. It's interesting that the encoding scheme never really got wider attention, although it is available in both openssh and openssl.

Similar ideas come and go, and get rediscovered - so maybe now is the time for wider acceptance.

A bit of googling provided me with a nice starting point for implementations, so babble print has certainly been recognised in some circles.[1]

0: http://bohwaz.net/archives/web/Bubble_Babble.html

1: https://github.com/eur0pa/bubblepy
> Sorry if this is off-topic (and maybe a bit personal), but as a recent graduate, I'm not sure what I would do with all that extra money. What do you (or most people) generally spend it on? I make less than that, but if I didn't have student loans, I wouldn't know what to do with it besides leave it in the bank.

Saving it (in an index fund rather than a bank) is an excellent thing to do with it. Keep living like a college student (or even a fair bit better than that), and save the rest, and you'll be able to retire in your mid-to-late 30s.

Resist the inclination to expand your expenses to match your income; it doesn't actually make you any happier, long-term. (Many different studies have confirmed this: increasing your level of spending tends to give you a short-term burst of happiness followed by a return to the baseline; it doesn't permanently raise your baseline.)

You don't necessarily have to retire early. If you prefer, keep working past that point as long as you're enjoying yourself. You'll be able to have a lot more flexibility in your work, and later in your career you'll be well into the territory of "start your own charitable foundation" or "don't bother raising a series A".
Given that Revolv's server software was presumably running before Nest acquired them, and from all rumors, not improved since, what possible proprietary Nest code could it have?
studentrob: > Netflix was still building steam.

Netflix's stock price went down, but they already had a huge streaming business and were not distressingly low on cash.

In fact, raising prices generated record revenue.

So your comments don't make any sense to me.

However, if you had said, "Hollywood could rape Netflix any time they wanted on licensing fees," then that is actually true and the reason Netflix is a sketchy investment, and why they are creating their own content.
OK i finally got to try it (i was trying the CC thing before, i just emailed directly to it this time).

Um. Well it didn't work in Safari 9, I had to switch to the Tech Preview. Also, it wasn't until I tried to do it that I realised how hard it is to make an accurate looking signature using regular 'hold and drag' of the cursor, either via mouse or trackpad.

I think the reason Preview's 'draw your signature' works so much easier (IMO) is that you 'enable' draw mode, and then any cursor movement on the trackpad is interpreted as drawing - you don't need to press down (i.e. a long/held click). Maybe consider trying to support a similar mode?
I am going to try resubmitting this question as the formatting has just gone bananas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11436923
Axibase Time Series DB Visualizations
INSTEON does a solid job. Their protocol is proprietary, but the devices aren't cloud dependent. You can either use a cloud hub device, or just a serial adapter to a PC or third party controller. They have no ability to take away my Insteon thermostat's functionality, or mine data from it. Because all translation of it's communication protocol goes through my computer, and is interpreted by open source software.
A more general solution: just use weights
https://www.gravitricity.com
>> We could try to slap a GUI on top of it, but I don't believe great products are made that way. Good UX requires thinking about interactions all the way down to the protocol.

unsure if I agree. A lot of the user-space Unix/Linux Gui applications are built that way: command line interface first and GUI to control that. (the opposite of windows where often a cmdline interface is built to control the functionality provided by the GUI application).

So by that logic the majority of applications that have a GUI are labelled "not great products". Hmmmm ...
I think you'll find that while Google is good at throwing a lot of money on expensive experiments, Google would be a terrible car manufacturer. Car companies are already doing their own research, and making better user-focused designs than Google's "people are stupid, take away their steering wheels" mindset.
Hue means something to you? Having always worked in RGB, I have laterally no idea that a hue of 30 is orange.

At least with RGB, I can imagine what the mix would be.
Why Rookies Will Dominate the Workplace of the Future
It's funny, but that's true of other categories of "products" as well. Sometimes, you can't really buy things that work well. You have to learn and build yourself, or do without.

Another example: security of computer systems.

The common thing here is the widespread demand in addition to the widespread lack of expertise. This results in the market being filled with "products" and "solutions" which are poor quality, but out-compete things which are good quality. Because most buyers can't tell. So if you don't have the expertise to judge for yourself, you'll end up with junk. Sometimes, there isn't a big enough market of buyers with expertise for there to be any decent options available to buy. You just have to cobble it together yourself with hobbyist/non-vendor produced parts.
What a dumb article. If you're dumb you eat mushrooms that you don't know.
Alphabet's is currently "Do the right thing". But anyone who knows anything knows that the people claiming the most they're doing the right thing, are usually the ones doing the opposite.
The black art of commit messages
DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR might just as well exist because of Mac OS which used : as path separator. With the transition to OS X and the Unix filesystem layer above HFS that morphed into /, but in the filesystem it's still : afaik.
I'm in Dallas and I just hired multiple people at around 120k each. 120k is very reasonable here. 60k is entry level here...you might be able to get away with 50... 200k+ isn't uncommon either. There is a stupid amount of money here in tech... Not as much VC money, but startups and small businesses actually making rev. (Not social 'pre revenue' apps made by kids) thrive here.
Prices depend on two things: Supply and Demand.

When you ask why Manhattan is expensive even with increased supply, you ignore demand.

The theory that increased density in itself drives up the value of housing is popular among anti-housing activists. I've never heard an economist who believes it.

If true, it would be an incredibly simple way to generate enormous amounts of money to simply building super dense neighborhoods. Since I don't see anyone getting rich off that, I have strong doubts about that model.
Why Facebook Failed with Free Basics
I usually have to start with some existing logos/material, this is my first stop: http://www.pictaculous.com/
Govt will do nothing http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/panama-trade-deal_n_9223...
Apollo, Meteor's data stack for modern apps
Objects don't need to be duplicated for forks. See the objects/info/alternates file. They're talking about redundancy for the object storage backend, which is independent of how many forks/clones/repositories. In fact, assuming they solve collision detection somehow, they could store all objects for all repositories in one object store and have all repos be thin wrappers with objects/info/alternates files forwarding to that object store repository...
a guess: internal referrer history, ie did you navigate the site or jump straight to the product you eventually attempted to buy.
I live in Shizuoka, Japan where a lot of cars and motorcycles are built. When the nuclear reactors were shut down one of the ways they managed the reduction in power usage was to have the factories cooperate on their work schedules. So Suzuki would open from 9-5 and then Yamaha would open, etc. It only lasted for a few months, but I've heard it made a huge difference in helping the grid meet demands.
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You are wrong. Before they used a single git repository for all user repositories in a network. So the git objects in the original repository and all its forks were properly deduplicated. Deduplication across different networks does not make much sense.

Now, as far as overprovisioning, they had 4 times as much disk space provisioned as necessary: 2 disks in RAID in a single machine times 2 (hot spare). Now they only need 3x, for the three copies.
Assuming Facebook is lying isn't a very good technical argument. There are other ways for them to make profit than doing the shady things you are implicitly accusing them of doing without any base.
The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case
Exactly. Taxes are morally wrong.
Come on; it's not producing boost at idle which is clearly the point. Excuse the slang term "spinning".

And I call bs. You're being argumentative. The debate wasn't highway vs "city speeds" it was highway vs cold stop.

A more advanced turbo solves the problem in a car that is $15k+ more, and I believe you that it can reduce turbo lag. For that price range a twin turbo can as well. But there is still physics that cannot be overcome.
As Portuguese, and I imagine some Italian guys will say the same, it is still noticeable when an expresso is taken in a well tuned classical machine from someone that knows how to do it and an automated machine.

When the right set of foam, bitterness and temperature match is just great.

On the other hand, I also have my share of tasteless dark water taken in classical machines and quite alright expressos in some automated ones.

I do make the extra effort to go to coffeshops where the coffee tastes great and such machines are used.
companies would no longer need to leave the US to remain profitable.
> Microsoft must have thought to themselves in the early 90's: "Gee, we should support unicode... that means we need wider characters, right? Two bytes ought to be enough. Ship it!"

Except it was Unicode which was a 16-bit code back then which got changed into 21 bits with Unicode 2 which also morphed UCS-2 into UTF-16. This happened in 1996, when Windows NT already existed. Blaming Microsoft (and Sun, and Netscape, ...) to follow a standard is a bit out of place. Heck, while UTF-8 everywhere would be nice, things are still messy and various different encodings are rampant. At least UTF-16 is immediately recognisable, as opposed to all the legacy encodings.
Yes... that's why I flippantly mentioned flipping a house, which isn't a business as such but can be used to make money on the side where the money isn't linked to the time you spend.
>Your company might have had trouble brcause it is hard to convince engineers to risk a million dollar tapeout on untested tools.

As opposed to existing, battle-tested tools that are known to be pretty crappy?
You just brought back memories of some of the first radio ads I heard that mentioned URLs:

"Please visit our world wide web home page at aitch tee tee pee colon, forward slash forward slash, acme period see oh em."
But isn't WoW64 for running 32-bit applications on a 64-bit version of Windows? I don't think WoW64 exists on 32-bit Windows.

That'd make sense if they were running 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Windows, but the article says a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit CPU. You'd think that would just look the same as a 32-bit OS on a 32-bit CPU in the headers, unless Firefox is going out their way to report a 32-bit OS on 64-bit hardware.
Ah, the curse of being Torvalds. He writes 600 words clearly explaining his position in an educational manner, and near the end, says an action is 'stupid' (not a person!) in one single sentence. This is characterised as "once you strip away the insults". You've just insulted Torvalds more than he insulted the person he was responding to; hardly a position to be moralising from.

Fuck that shit.
I am curios to see what Tesla will do when their cars get old. Will they open up or will they just brick them?

I really don't linke where this is going. Apple started it with the phones by making repair very difficult. Now others have also gone that way. Even the MS Surface has its battery fused so you can't replace it easily.

I understand it if you make a device that is water proof but for anything else there is no reason.
If someone controls your budget you are not independent.
I can't think of any YC company that laypeople will remember in 100 years. Reddit maybe? Maybe there will be something in the future, but there's certainly nothing like that right now.
Come to Australia, $4.00-$4.50 for a flat white/latte.
I consider myself pretty comfortable with command lines, given that I more or less live in a terminal window for work purposes.

GPG's particular command-line interface is still a counterintuitive mishmash of stuff that essentially boils down to having to look up a tutorial every single time I want to do anything related to key management. I've actually been known to ask people to email me just so I can fire up a mail client with Enigmail and have it auto-fetch the key into my keyring and set trust on it through their interface. Which, while not great, is light-years better than GPG's native key-editing interface.
> As long as we're talking about the GNU AGPL then absolutely! I would say that the original AGPL is sufficiently FOSS but it's GNU GPL incompatible which might be annoying. It's not necessarily a deal breaker though if it's handled well.

It's GPLv2 incompatible. GPLv3 has a special exception for the AGPL.
Be interesting to see how you could build this on a smaller scale for home use, using something very heavy but cheap like lead.
One day coffee shops should just have machines like that, but still look inviting and warm, artwork on the walls, earthy color schemes.

Heck might even have a "barrista", but they just press the button on the machine. But then machine automatically drops a cup and makes your drink.

You order by voice or even better via an app on your phone, ahead of time, as you get closer to the store it starts to make it so when you step in, it is ready.

I wouldn't be upset a bit if the barrista got paid the same, and instead spent more time interacting with customers, or picking music, and kicking out people who have camped there for the last 5 hours after buying a $2 cookie.

But to be serious, I don't understand why coffee making still needs a human for measuring, timing and mixing things. Just guessing that a machine will be more consistent with all the variables (temperature, water, coffee, milk mixture etc), and will be more efficient as well.
MS didn't use / for directory separators before. They wanted to in DOS 2.0, but that would mean they had to change / in front of options to something else. So to keep backwards compatibility they used \ instead. It's true that they were ok with breaking that backwards compatibility, but IBM convinced them not to
I doubt it. People like sitting down in cafes with their laptops. A friend of mine interning in Seattle this summer professed that he hoped to get into the "cafe scene" before he went there. I thing he's going to enjoy all the awful slam poetry.
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Not the OP, but I live less than four miles north of downtown Austin and my rent is $800. I have two roommates and we have a 2000 square feet backyard. I wake up every morning to bird's chirping outside my window. It's amazing.
Hey bemmu, your presentation last year at Hacker News Kansai was really interesting, and I learned a lot. Thanks for putting the time into following up!
I went on google.com and saw http://www.olmtopstconverterpro.com/. Really this is a super software to convert olm files into pst format. This is highly recommended tool.

Thanks OLM to PST Converter Pro!
Elizebath Olsen
My cpa gave me the advice that a c Corp is the best option if you have retained earnings for exactly that reason.
The Productive Attitude to Privacy
Thanks, this is really useful information.

I'm also curious about your $2000 budget. It seems like a lot of money to me.

What are you spending it on? Have you often spent up to $2000 on a project that ends up going nowhere?

Presumably your successful projects are paying for your failed ones. What's your expected ratio of hits to misses?

Finally if you'd be happy to share any of your projects here that would be really interesting.
I think that's wrong, because all 4 if-statements are evaluated for each sample.

But yes agreed, in general there are lots of edge cases. I actually wrote a finite state machine specification for an elevator in a logic class once. Without having really thought about it much, it looks like the biggest problems with thermostats are dealing with scalars, sampling frequencies, and sampling error.
Here's the thing. Creating and updating a system costs a lot more than leaving it alone. They already did the expensive part. To abandon basic maintenance is pretty disappointing.
Again, go start and run a non-trivial business and you'll understand. I don't think you understand how most businesses run. Not everyone is Facebook, Google or Apple. A payroll increase of 25% to 50% can kill most businesses, even healthy ones, if management does not take drastic measures to balance the equation.
Isn't there an issue with starting subprocesses on windows if using one slash or the other? I seem to remember this as a problem many years ago but I might be wrong
Awesome. Gitlab is following Github well.
Yep, a vestige of the French influence, it's pretty crazy in D1of Saigon. Some places with fantastic ambiances to work from, whether an elaborate garden cafe, a "Bansky cafe", or a techie place like Workshop Cafe. Saw plenty of nomad types with MBPs.

Go to Taipei though - best work-from-coffeeshop city in the world in my opinion.
This is server software for equipment that's not being sold any more. Nothing is changing. If they weren't willing to commit later money, they should have put some in a trust up front.
Ask HN: How to stay focused when You're getting through a divorce
I know that's not tech question, but maybe here are some guys in the same situation.

Right now I am married for 10 years, we have two little boys (8 and 3 years old), build a house and I started my own business with app development and online marketing consulting 6 months ago.

Since february things at home are getting worse and I decided to move out for some time to calm things down.
Honestly ... it's really hard to stay focused on projects when You're going through this. But I need to because I've increased costs (appartment & living costs for me).

Any advice from You guys?
> ...it is designed for the always-online mobile world

Soft disagree with that. Signal text and voice chat works just fine if all of your communicating party's machines are offline. (Well, I mean, obviously your voice call won't be answered, but otherwise...)
Sounds exactly like Tokyo.
Which automobile?
Except that U+FEFF is specified to be only used as byte-order indicator when appearing at the start of a text stream and does not belong to the text content. It does not corrupt data because it's not part of the data for any conforming application. Non-conforming applications doing wrong things because they don't bother to follow the standard is hardly surprising, then.

Yes, Unicode is messy and could have been better designed (it was designed so that there is an easy conversion path for any pre-existing encoding – thus concerned itself more with making it easy to convert content in legacy encodings to Unicode, instead of making it easy to implement applications in a way that they support Unicode), but it's still orders of magnitude better than anything that came before it when it comes to representing text in general. And it's mostly complicated because languages and scripts are complicated.
I don't know the US tax system, but I assume you have both VAT and income tax. With that assumption, why should a company pay tax of their profit? As soon as they spend some of that profit some of it is taxed in the form of VAT and income tax.

When you have a system where profit is taxed, you get companies investing the money in the most risk free thing they can, to avoid the profit tax. If profit tax is 0% it's far simpler to keep the money home, and to use it when they want to.
They actually don't, as very few MPs have the necessary legal qualifications. So staff, writes it. It isn't uncommon for legislators to be unable to grasp details of the things they propose.
Maybe that's because this demand is much lower than you imagine?
Nobody cares about open source.
Norway solved (or tries to, anyway) this with substantial subsidies for newspapers based mainly on circulation (as in, there's extremely little latitude for them to vary the subsidy if there's a paper they dislike without facing court cases). Unfortunately it's been under systematic attack over the years.
What web are you guys even browsing? hardsexwarez-download.ru or something? I haven't used ad blockers in years and the problems you are describing are completely alien to me.
The issues people find in contemporary systems are inside the CPU or chipset (and the distinction between these two is blurring more and more due to increasing levels of integration).

The "BIOS" (or rather: firmware in general; BIOS being one specification of a firmware interface) is software, just highly specific for the device in question and stored in a flash chip that is available to the CPU from the start.

For firmware, there are alternatives such as coreboot, but they're limited by what the CPU/chipset come with.
If they feature a coprocessor that runs before the CPU even starts (and in fact starts the CPU), has full access to all kinds of hardware (eg. RAM), and that is only running code signed by the chip's vendor, the CPU firmware can't outsmart that.

And so the Intel Management Engine, AMD's Platform Security Processor and similar less than brilliant functions exist in contemporary hardware, and the only chance to get rid of them is to evaluate other platforms (and that means CPUs) that ship without such extras.
Which is what Timothy (author of that email) is doing.

On the upside, a new architecture isn't as frightening when you're shopping for fully open source platforms, since stuff is (for the most part) just a recompile away.
This is interesting. I'm in this sector to an extent, and Accor Europe are our biggest source of revenue.

Not quite in the same vertical as One Fine Stay (we're venue and conference space) but nonetheless it's good to see a large chain finally realising that MICE needs to move online to continue to be successful.
In my place (Seoul, Korea), there are many many and many coffee shop (aka cafe) without having individuality. Furthermore franchise brand like Starbucks beat personal cafes.
Damnit. I also would love to attend, had I known about it in advance enough to take the coaster in.
If the number of active devices is too low for Nest to justify continue running the service, then they can do a "buy back" or replace it with a similar Nest device.