skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You believe that the web is such a broken application platform that it is possible to convince enough vendors and people to get behind a better solution. However, I...have been around long enough to know that will never happen."

"That's not to say that the web might not some be supplanted by something better..."

Whomever wrote the first paragraph of your comment should get in touch with the person who wrote the second paragraph.

OK, seriously, though, let's summarize:

1) Person says "web development sucks, here's why: $REASONS"

2) You reply: "it's the only truly cross-platform development environment ever"

3) I (and others) reply: "no, it really isn't. it isn't even a development environment, by any reasonable measure."

Now you're putting words in my mouth about convincing vendors and starting movements. I'm not trying to start a revolution here, just trying to counter the notion that we can't do any better than the pile of junk we've adopted. You don't have to love your captors!

I have no idea if someone will come up with a revolutionary, grand unified solution tomorrow, but I know that this process starts with the acknowledgement that what we have sucks, and that we have lots of examples of better solutions to work from. Hell...just having a well-defined set of 1995-era UI components defined as a standard would be a quantum leap forward in terms of application development.
This native delivery is pretty much a solved problem, just look at how firefox and chrome auto update.
Those are possibilities. As is Disqus-style moderation. Nonetheless, it's a lot of extra work with nothing to show for it and possibly dangerous to site experience. That's the problem Tor poses.
Nothing is impossible, but if it's very hard most of people will not manage to do it on their own, it's just a simple fact of life. Push them harder and just more of them will fail. If you throw a 100 non-swimmers in a pool, probably all 100 will manage to swim out alive. Throw them in English Channel and tell them to swim over to France, and most likely all of them will drown.
80 GHz isn't quite optical yet. It's a couple octaves down from infrared. SFAIK, it's still very much radio.
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Wow, I hadn't realized! That makes it dramatically more likely that Cilk will gain some traction.

Full support for Cilk Plus has been added to the GCC compiler. Cilk Plus is an extension to the C and C++ languages to support data and task parallelism

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html

Do you have any idea if support is likely to be built into clang as well?
Purely for API access. It's totally free and unnecessary to register otherwise. Your API key will be on your home page when you log in.
I got that part. Neither you nor the original poster gave a good reason why that's a bad idea. After all, "end to end" learning is the holy grail of AI.

The only reason people have historically (and many currently) separate the two is because it's been too hard! But that's the point of research: solving hard problems.
That's a pretty narrow ledge to stand on @ 800 GHz. Wonder what the FEC regime is?
That would have worked 15 years ago but again Apple needs access to China's market so they can't just unilaterally pull out their manufacturing.
> pro gun

Bernie Sanders is in no way "pro-gun."

He is very much anti-Second Amendment (as affirmed and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.)

(Preempting any ignorant "militia" argument)
a great deal lower, the optical ITU DWDM grid is around 191.7 THz to 196.1 THz
If we put aside that the money isn't his, he kneecapped better products with such ferocity that a generation later our industry is still struggling to make up for the lost progress.
It seems to me that the bankers were just as necessary to the Irish as garbage workers were to New Yorkers. Why couldn't the people of New York set up their own program for trash disposal just like the Irish set up their own replacement banking system?
I have it. And I agree...
Doom is not a good measure, when web pages become bigger and more bloated than your average printer or scanner driver, then it will be alarming :)
How expensive is too expensive? If you can increase a battery's lifespan by 100x, certainly there would be applications for it even if the production cost was 50x that of current tech. You'd still be doubling your lifetime value, right?
I don't think you need a fourth branch; the judiciary should collect the data and determine when it can be searched.
So what? Snowden even said that Truecrypt was one of the only tools that currently the NSA could not defeat. I'd rather trust him on that than your opinion on the matter.
Full disclosure I work for MSFT.

Honestly I'm a bit surprised this wasn't posted earlier (maybe it was and I missed it). One of the biggest knocks against Azure, in my opinion, is that the documentation is spread all over so you end up going to 2-3 different sites to figure something out. This at least puts all of it under one location even if the links still take you to various sites :)
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I just realized something. We are such a wealthy and privileged society that there isn't much real motivation to take a high demanding and stressful job like software development.

You're playing on the Indian/Chinese are good at C.S. trope, but really isn't it possible that life is just harder there and they are forced/highly motivated to MAKE themselves good at C.S. in order to improve their quality of life?

It makes me rethink my perspective that "yes everyone should learn to code because it makes your life better (money, independence, etc)!". Honestly we talk so much about depression, anxiety, poor work-life balance, in this industry WHY the hell are we trying to drag more people down with us? Is the compensation really worth it compared to alternatives? Aren't there actually a lot of jobs that pay $80k+ (or equivalent Bay Area spending power) in the world?
I believe Apple, unlike most companies that contract manufacturing to places like Foxconn, actually owns most, if not all, of the equipment inside the Foxconn facilities. If what I've read is correct, Apple is completely responsible for setting up the actual assembly lines as well. Foxconn essentially just provides the factory space and the labor.

I've also heard that Apple is the largest purchaser of CNC machining equipment in the entire world.

I'm curious to know how many years away we are from robotics being able to complete the final assembly of small electronics at the same speeds and low prices as humans and what affect this will have on countries like China that rely heavily on low cost factory labor.
They don't allow it but it tries hard to look like regular SSL then there is stuff like obfsproxy that helps to hide Tor furthermore.
"I'm so tired of NewYorker-style liberal's attempt at humor about other political groups."

Too soon?

From Rubin's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Rubin

"regressive left"

The regressive what? According to Rubin, there's a bunch of liberals defending atrocities done in the name of Islam.

I'm just about the most left-wing person I know, very involved in politics, and no one I've met is an apologist for haters.

Edit: Okay. I had to watch a Rubin episode, just in case. Because you know, he might not be a whackjob. Chosen randomly:

Julie Lenarz and Dave Rubin: Brussels, Terrorism, Immigration Crisis (Full Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfxJPJDzMo

I stopped at 1:20 when he stated that many on the far-left endorse terrorism. Which is apparently the intellectual equivalent of when conservatives paint all Muslims as terrorists.

No worries. Just added Rubin to my ever growing twit filter. Thanks for the tip.
if the connection is encrypted, a UUID is much closer to a password then a fingerprint
> regularly used as Facebook or Twitter or Reddit or Soundcloud

And there's the problem. I don't use any of those four sites regularly, but I have visited all of them. Hyperlinks provide for that, and they (a) don't exist or at best would be awkward in a native app (not that webapps handle them well to begin with, though all of the above do allow for them at least) and (b) work between apps, platforms, and what-have-you. If I got a link to some image, <160 character sentence, comment thread, or song and was prompted to download an app, I would probably not view that content instead.
>Of course they could make a bold move like make a big outlay to get their supply chain operating in another country/region, that strikes me as something they could do. But it would be a really big deal.

The supply chain is made up of thousands of companies who in turn rely on thousands of others. You can't recreate this top down, it has to be through organic growth.
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> If you connected two computers to each other with a cross-over cable, would you feel the need to encrypt all communications between them, just in case?

If I cared about privacy and I couldn't control physical access to the cable? Yes, of course.
Its not about the environmental impact, its about the litter problem.
Microsoft's products are popular due to excellent marketing, not because of their technical merits.

Most of their products are mediocre at best, and many of them seriously suck. Particularly their operating system.

IMHO the only thing MS has produced that's actually good is Excel.
The more general dividing line between microwave and infrared ( outside comms ) is 300 GHz, which was what I meant.
Can you give a reason why we shouldn't cure death that isn't vague mystical equivocation? People are not seasons, they are not days, they are not stars. We do not need to "deserve" immortality, we just need to be able to make it happen.

Death sucks. It would be better if it didn't happen.
If you do come to toronto to check out the city drop me a line and I can help introduce you to the city. Jordy@tapfun.com
There are solutions that are lower end than this one, but still gigabit, at relatively affordable prices.

This Ubiquiti setup is $999 per side: https://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/
Because the body of a male (as defined medically by the person's physiology) is dominant in a wide range of competitive sports.
You can't E2E with a web app?
An AF5 or AF5X PTP link isn't a transparent 1Gb full duplex bridge, realistically you'll achieve 250-400 Mbps max. They're great radios but physics is still physics, 40 or 80 MHz wide dual polarity channel at 256QAM 5/6 code rate is not 1GbE.
That's an interesting question indeed, specifically: would easy access to legal weed reduce property crime in the area (for most of the crime seems to be smash-n-grab property crime).

My suspicion: no, no change. For all intents and purposes weed is legal in Vancouver. You have to be pretty out of touch not to be able to get it. But weed is cheap, and non-addictive (physiologically anyhow, I suspect the jury may still be out on psychologically; IANAP). I would be surprised to find that anyone is committing re-occurring petty crime to buy weed only.
Politics and fame over understanding and progress?
According to this, the domain name is send unencrypted in the initial handshake request.
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86723/why-do-htt...
I thought the latest meta studies showed that there was not a significant positive correlation between diversity and organizational/team performance? I was doing a SciFi diversity gaming challenge, and went reading papers. I was really surprised to find that

"The evidence based on meta-analyses, which systematically aggregate the results from all relevant studies, tentatively suggests that gender diversity within teams does not exert any influence on team performance (Webber & Donahue, 2001; Horwitz & Horwitz, 2007; Joshi & Roh, 2009; Schneid et al., 2014). A notable exception is the meta-analysis by Bell et al. (2011), which evidences a negative association between gender diversity and team performance..."
Or start announcing more specific routes.

If you have a /20, and some jackass starts announcing it, you announce 2 /21s instead.

You're screwed if you only have a /24, though, since everyone will filter /25s.
This isn't anything new. China kicked Google out 6 years ago.

> India's pro-market government

Is still behind China in many respects when it comes to pro-marketness.

> Not to mention the governments of USA/EU etc. might do the same to Chinese companies.

No I mentioned this explicitly.
Hey man, it's life. At least 80% of people are going through the motions, and that the default rate you should expect.

Thats not a humbug fact though, because finding someone who isn't going through the motions can be explosively good. It's like, a gold mine digs up a lot of dirt, but boy is it worth it when they hit a lode.
Is the product free for teachers and students to use? How will it make our job as a teacher easier? I like the linear feel.
Well it can't be entirely passive for time-sensitive/comprehensive monitoring, because telemetric data won't cross one of their numerous tap points unless the target is roaming or the target's carrier is being queried by a roaming partner (or partner of a partner of a...). I'm sure they've got taps inside of major carriers, but I doubt they're inside every network. Considering how regularly ss7 is abused for criminal/commercial activity, they may not have to do much active probing for intra-network monitoring - but the barrier to entry is so low that it would be silly for them not to front a carrier with direct access. I can accept the excuse that ss7 was designed for a world with a few trusted carriers, but the latest stuff (that isn't even backwards compatible) has the exact same class of security flaws. The only rational explanation for the obviously insecure standard defining LTE RRC connection setup (base station control, no mutual auth, no crypto, identifying info in the clear - often with lat/lon) is intentional design. So the argument that the leak had any operational impact sounds pretty silly to me, but I won't deny that it caused serious embarrassment to people who really don't take criticism well.
> a high demanding and stressful job like software development.

That sounds like privilege privilege. Maybe ive been incredibly lucky, you you've been incredibly unlucky, but I would not call our industry high demanding or stressful.
But with a Jump Rope
I agree with you, often the tone of EFF feels off. It can vary a lot by article.

I think this is evidence of a nascent tech community. We are fractured in our approach to some things (e.g. RMS vs others) and this shows in the varied responses by EFF.

I definitely don't agree with everything they have to say about tech and policy but I am glad they exist. They keep pretty good tabs on government and private company policy. Sometimes it feels weird when they criticize some private company for a policy which I feel is not a big deal, but I just register my disagreement and note they're not me ;-)
That is true. One of the fun things illustrating first-hand how microwave/millimeter wave and fiber are the same thing is if you ever get to handle a 120 GHz band waveguide/feed. Some radar and military stuff operates in the 120 band.

It's so incredibly tiny and narrow compared to a 11 or 18 GHz microwave waveguide. Then imagine continuing to make it narrower while increasing the frequency, follow that to its logical conclusion and you have imagined a 9/125 fiber.
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This meme needs to die. Buzzfeed does aggregate some social media phenomena, but curating that content is still valuable. But on top of that, it does a ton of novel media work. It has great podcasts and serious reporting now. It launched "the dress" phenomenon, which sat on reddit's front page for a long time too. Its video production are largely original, and includes way more race/gender/sexuality diversity than any most productions.
About rel=noopener
They can't kill him now. Assassination would risk public backlash way beyond anything he could say.
Back4app: Someone has a reference about these guys?
I'm considering this company to migrate my Parse app and would like to know how's behind the company... The Website is: https://www.back4app.com/
The maps exist and folks who go in those areas are expected to use them. Available cheaply (free?) anywhere you might get hunting supplies.
Appsee guest post: monitoring in-app ads
Why would that matter? If the website has the content I need it doesn't matter that this other site that doesn't match my query as well but loads faster is now the first result.
The NSA Bluffdale facility might just squeak in that line for me. Think they'd hook me up?
+ Work hours typically above 45 hrs/week

+ Work on weekends regularly

+ SRE + DevOps + Back-end roles

+ Painfully aware of current company's runway

Admittedly much of the pressure is internal (I take responsibility for the successes and failure of my work, which increases anxiety and influences me to work longer hours), am I an outlier?

I honestly believe the industry pushes this towards the norm with a mixture of the "full-stack-engineer" and "start-up culture" motifs.

By the way I'm also asserting that the high rates of depression, anxiety, and mental health disorder, prove that SWE is a demanding field.
And here's my small tribute: ZeroMQ is good. It's well designed and has unusually good documentation. You'll enjoy reading up on it. It has a quality feel.
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It's a pointless signalling thread where people are falling all over themselves to say "Awww, that's nice. Oh, it gives me hope for the world." It's akin to a story about a cop who adopts an abused dog that they found at a crime scene and nurses it back to health. Hence, people are falling all over themselves to disapprove of my disapproval as if it were a competition. It's the kind of thread that "attracts low quality responses" as dang would say - but HN is more tolerant towards low quality threads that don't devolve into ideological wars.

Here's my stance: I don't believe in cruel or unusual punishment. I believe that defendants who "remind me of my son" or "remind me of me, when I was a kid" or "me, if I had made one wrong choice" get better treatment than the heartless superpredators that don't look like the judges son.
Calacanis: Lions and lambs in the post unicorn era
Almost 0% interest rate is not capitalism. In capitalism you need capital that you have from your hard work to start a successful company. With the current climate you just need better banking connections then your competitor.
Hm, I wonder how they hack these numbers together. I just made up my own unemployment metric, absolute unemployment. A-U = Population - Employees. For US. A-U = 308 mil. - 140 mil.(1)
which suggests there is about 55% of the population who are not currently employed. So, A-U - U-4 = the approximately 50% of the population who don't need jobs I guess.

1.http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
If you don't like it, pay for it.
No, they're gender-neutral pronouns:

ve = she/he

ver = him/her

vis = hers/his

I encountered them in Greg Egan's Diaspora.

And yes, True Names :) An inspiration.

With a decent host machine, one can run numerous Whonix instances, each with one or more personas. They can be long-term or throwaway.

I do nothing at all private on smartphones. Signal and WhatsApp are cool and all, but radios are untrustable black boxes. Even if the data is secured at rest.

Edit: In Egan's Diaspora, one of the protagonists is a software-generated entity, which literally has no gender. In my case, I'm referring to invented personas, which have whatever gender I fancy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552182
(2 petabytes)/(1 gigabit/second) = 185.2 days

Good luck downloading that :)
Maybe you should hire an immigration lawyer. Or at least talk to one.
He's being sarcastic. Links are literal web links and the Company he's referring to is Google.
here is the paper http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e1501252
Actually believing in god the way American Christians understand those words has not been a major part for many religious through history. Religious are about a lot more than just a bearded father figure in the sky.
The capital gains tax rate is not 15%. It is 20%, plus a 3.8% Obamacare tax. So Bill Gates is probably paying 23.8% on investment profits.

Here in California there is a lovely 13.3% tax, bringing the total to 37.1%. Bill Gates is a resident of Washington, though, so he doesn't pay that.

You can't blame Washington for not having a state income tax, though. Their tax laws seem to have worked out very well for them in attracting companies like Microsoft and Amazon.
Terry Gou, CEO of Foxxcon, predicted back in 2015, that in 3 years they would be able to complete 70% of it's assembly line work by robots.

I wonder what the remaining 30% is. It seems to me that the most delicate work is the stuff you want to automate the most to lower defects. The less delicate work can be done by humans. But the less delicate work should also be the most easily automated?
Talk to a lawyer. Also if you have a degree and speak French/English and come from a developed country it should be relatively straightforward, but again, talk to a lawyer.

The path to citizenship most of my tech friends have done is by being sponsored by their employer, if you open an office for your business in Canada that employs Canadians should also make things easier.

Can't say this enough, talk to a lawyer.
Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics [pdf]
That's rather Magical thinking right there. In some situation those would be your only choices.

Hypothetically, you can slightly adjust the comet's orbit and save ~10% of the global population or do nothing. You have 30 seconds to decide and failure to act within 30 seconds kills everyone. The longer you wait the more people die.

PS: Sure, your unlikely to be in that situation. But, the earth is a finite system and physics does not care. Or as someone on Easter Island learned you can cut down the last tree.
If you read the opinion, instead of the PR, it makes clear exactly what I said, with citations and everything. So I'm just going to assume you didn't bother to read it.

The EFF has done literally nothing here except the press release and blaming a court that already took the EFF's position once and got beat down for it. I don't applaud them when they know this, and write a press release blaming the court, instead of complaining how hamstrung they are by precedent.

This is not effective advocacy in and way, shape, or form.