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Apply HN: Chat Ben – Reddit for Video Chat
Url: https://www.chatben.co

Chat Ben is reddit for video chat. On the right side of the screen, you’ll see the person you’re chatting with, and on the left side, you’ll see a particular post (e.g. youtube video, gif, text post, a link, etc.) and you can advance through content together. Chat Ben puts you in a one-on-one video chat with another human being but with a particular piece of content to talk about.

Instead of just throwing you in a chat with a stranger, the content on the left gives you something to talk about and react to. Don’t like it? Just click “next topic” and keep flowing through content! You can leave a video “reaction”, recording a quick video comment that everyone can see, or write a comment on the wall of that post.

I’ll be getting on for a couple hours starting at 7 PM PST tonight (4/26) and again tomorrow (4/27, same time). If you miss this post, just sign up and I’ll email you before the next Chat Ben Night!

My website is still early, but it's been growing! We have a weekly “Chat Ben Night” to get everyone together and make sure there are lots of conversations (last week 111 different reaction videos were uploaded, up from 0 the previous week). I encourage everyone to have a beer, be easy, and chat with a friend or turn a stranger into a friend.

My goal is to put humanity back on the internet. An amazing part of communicating on the internet is the ability to find people all around the world who share the same passions and interests. But too often, the internet is dehumanizing and people hidden behind screens don’t see the humanity in the people they are communicating with. I’d like people to be nice to one another on the internet again, and I think Chat Ben can change the way we interact with people online. As the website grows, I’d like to introduce something like subreddits, and other forms of content like polls, videogames, shared online shopping experiences, and more.

Chat Ben on!

-Ben
Sounds like he didn't get a mortgage. Again, why are you taking this personally or as an attack on your character?
I believe the problem lies with the "typical" business models for software companies.
>Bluetooth might eventually replace it for mainstream use cases.

As somewho who uses Bluetooth audio I strongly disagree. I think Bluetooth audio is going to remain niche until batteries get better. Who wants to have to charge their headphones or Bluetooth (often battery powered) speakers every few days?
Dildos, which will be thrown away in post-orgasmal shame and reprinted a day later
My experience has been that many packages in unstable tend to get a Depends: on an unstable-only libc6, and effectively require a nearly full dist-upgrade to be installable, after a while. At least it was like this a few major versions back, maybe it's less brutal on jessie at the moment.
The NSA is a disgrace. Budget: [classified]. Number of employees: [classified]. Accountability: only being provided by whistleblowers who are risking their freedom by exposing the actions of the organization. I will never understand why abolishing the NSA is not a talking point during this election race.
No, the problem is that people like you don't understand the difference between "Teach men not to rape" and what we do now, which is "Tell men not to rape" but "teach them that they can probably get away with it if they really want to". One is a set of words, forming a common narrative. The other is a set of actions and associated outcomes which contradict the narrative.
Take it the other way, I'm not gonna sink $35k on an EV vehicle (plus yearly insurance) when my current SUV costed me about $10k overall (including maintenance), in which I'm regularly making roadtrips.

And for the sake of argument, I just scored a free third hands 17 years old car. I'm gonna have to fix it, but that's gonna be a great beater.

Oh, and I'll never be able to move by myself, or to move large items (cast iron table saw, drill press, bandsaw etc.) in any EV shit.
> If you are one of the better developers you can and should fight against lazyness and low quality

This can be thought of as a type of error correction. If you don't fix problems as they rise up the chain of command, those problems eventually become policy.

http://ogun.stanford.edu/~bnayfeh/plan.html

(mild language warning, of the form "____ happens")
That sounds like emulating for the sake of emulating. I'm sure even you would hate it if you actually saw it in production. Typing on keyboard is shitty as it is. By making it force touch, it will be much slower to finish a sentence. When people use physical keyboards their fingers are by default resting on the keys. When most users type on mobile, they're not. It's easier to NOT rest fingers on the keys than resting for so many reasons, such as you not being able to see the keys if your finger is covering them.
The amplifier in the headphones can be designed specifically for those headphones. It may well be that a transducer with a bizarre frequency response and an amp/EQ that compensates is a better solution in the end. Where we are now, headphones need to have reasonably flat response (or be called Beats :-) in order to be acceptable. Or perhaps a wildly different impedance makes a better cost performance argument, can't go there now, but with active headphones you can.

It may be a bit like the powered speaker market for PA gear. You can get light weight powered speakers for not a lot of money that perform quite well. The amplifiers do exactly what they need to for the exact speaker, they don't have to be able to handle whatever mystery load you plug into them. They can build in the crossovers and EQ compensation when the signal is small rather than in the speaker cabinets.

Also, noise canceling ear buds become possible when you have power coming to them.

Of course, the heap of Apple Earbuds I have whose clickers no longer work doesn't really inspire me about my new active headphone future.
because their competitors stand to benefit. The governments will get the fines and the dead people will get nothing.
Twitter Gains in Users Aren't Enough to Spur Advertising Growth
In theory, yes, but Apple sells premium products at premium prices and many people actually like paying more.

There's inevitably a show-off element to it, but I think there's psychological research to show that people appreciate products more when they pay more for them. (But I can't find any evidence from a quick google....)
Houston seems to be one place its pretty easy to get setup in.
The lawyers that were providing them counsel are anticipating receiving 25% of the settlement. If the Uber drivers did not accept the settlement, the lawyers would have a delayed (ergo more out of pocket expenses) settlement or possibly no settlement.

The lawyer's incentives were not aligned with the drivers' with respect to maximizing the driver's reimbursements.
Because it will never be needed.

The steps go like this:

Driverless car in a dedicated lane. That will be first since it's much easier to build than local driving or mixed long distance. It also covers the most important need (i.e. much less economic reason to make one for local use).

Lots more people see how great that is, so more cars (and trucks) will be rapidly added. That lane will reach capacity, so more lanes will be added.

Within 5 to 10 years driverless long distance will be the norm, and long distance driver cars will be rare. (All the cars will be have mixed modes, with the driver taking over for local streets.)

Every new car will advertise that it includes diverless mode as a feature.

All this will happen so fast there won't be time to perfect a mixed use car.

By the time they do perfect a local driverless car virtually all cars on the market will already have long-distance driverless mode. And the ones that don't will probably get retrofit kits.

So at no point will mixed long distance ever be a thing - by the time the technology is able to do that, there won't be any cars that need it.
ConvNet-Based “End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars”
I think you're mis-applying the theory here and confusing Return on Risk? No matter what you say, if I buy a stock that expects to earn dividends, and I do earn those dividends, and I've realized a 5% dividend yield, I certainly have made a profit. Now, whether I'm getting return on risk is another thing and very well the answer may be no.
Who makes copies using their headphones jack anyhow?
Good point.

Note also that some "laws" may remain as "laws", even in the face of experimental evidence which directly contradicts the predicted results of that law.

Which gives rise to "The Law of Research Funding", in which the amount of funding that can be attracted to support a given law is proportional to the amount of real world experimental evidence which contradicts that law. :)
1) Fair point

2) This is not a valid generalization and represents a leap of logic. I was talking specifically of assassinations.
What would the user do about it? The battery is officially non-replaceable.
Identifying the problem is not defeatist. The concentration of power in government makes it attractive to abuse by the powerful and the rich.

It is not against the law to pollute the environment, and reduce its future habitability. Companies are not charged for adding CO2 or NOX to the environment. That may change n the future, but right now they do not have to pay the people they harm.
I think the video could be better polished... I have this thought that all the big IT companies hire professional video editors nowadays.
ES6 didn't define precisely how module loading worked, one of the reasons it isn't actually implemented yet. And there are actual reasons why the method babel currently uses won't precisely match the actual implementations (see hierarchal v flat dependencies)
I think it definitely would be considered a feature. For example Atom, Brackets, and Visual Studio Code were all written in JS with CSS and HTML and they all for the most part have fairly poor performance. The fact that rust is a highly performant language and is also relatively higher level than C for example, it offers a benefit for the user.
Mozilla has reluctantly begun implementing some -webkit- prefixed APIs and CSS properties (i.e. mapping the prefixed name to the standard unprefixed name) to improve compatibility for mobile websites that assume all mobile browsers are some version of WebKit (including Blink).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170774
It's not really about stopping piracy though. it's about making sure they can sell licenses to manufacturers.
Those problems are just as present in CJS as far as I'm aware though...?

Yet they were solved for that.
That explicit tail recursion syntax is pretty gross. Is there a precedent in any other language?
My guess is that Steam sales prompt people to purchase when they wouldn't have otherwise. I assume (hopefully correctly) that they're A/B testing this stuff and have data on the results.
> Only dumb developers continue to use such things once a standard property is available

There are a LOT of sites which once they get deployed, almost never get touched again. Either because they have no developers available or due to lack of time/interest.

So, what was a good way to achieve X at the time the site was developed is no longer be great five years later.
There is nothing that I agree with here. Crunch = Producer fail. Feature Creep = Producer fail.

The suggestion that "scheduling is hard", no sh*t Sherlock, that's why you don't hire a 20 year old Producer who did one title at this last company.
You can still build your own PC today ;-)

Compaq's pricing was clever. If you bought one, everyone knew you bought it because it was better, not because it was cheaper than the IBM model. (And it was better because Compaq was shipping 386 machines when the IBM PC AT still had a crappy 286.)
Enough money and the goal of making software bug free can make it bug free.

But enough money and the goal of making it infinitely flexible, having all the possible features, or the most perfect UX that a team can not decide on what it is will only make the software more bloated than it's reasonable, and fill it with bugs.
Technically, web developers should never had to have worried about writing code with prefixes - prefixed properties were never intended to be used for production apps. :)
Given up? No. Prioritized development speed over bug prevention? Yes,
Well there's also the effect that new money flowing into the stock market as a whole ends up chasing a finite set of stocks thus tending to raise prices.
No it didn't, the peace process continued even under the "right wing" government which was elected after wards.

It crumbled for many reasons but the assassination wasn't one of them.
> I apologise for the poor communication.

Try apologizing for your poor behavior. You didn't "communicate poorly;" you offended people who used your software, and betrayed their trust. You can either make this thing opt-in, or "ease the opt-out process" and continue being a jerk.
> What is Kafka?

> Apache Kafka is a distributed commit log for fast, fault-tolerant communication between producers and consumers using message based topics. Kafka provides the messaging backbone for building a new generation of distributed applications capable of handling billions of events and millions of transactions

Can anyone translate this into meaningful English for me?
Also don't miss the Valve OpenVR SDK, here's their "hello world" sample:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/tree/master/samples/...

if you want something a bit more low-level than Unity. There was one tiny change I had to make, change "LoadTexture" to "LoadTexture_Async", there's a couple of pull requests with the details.

I can't wait to start making vr stuff.
Harm reduction. As it turns out, it's really easy to stick your fingers in your ears and go "the spec says X so tough cookies", but in the real world decisions tend to be made based on actual user impact, and the impact of killing the prefixed variant for some things would be rather large because there are a lot of developers that made decisions which didn't match the intent of the spec.
> TIL: about the rope data structure[1]. Never heard of it in decades in the industry.

And if you've used JavaScript, you may have been using them without realizing it—JS engines will choose rope representations for strings if they observe that the usage patterns would benefit from them.
Uber settles for = 0.0015% of their last valuation;

Lawyers make: $25 million

Drivers (he victim) get: $25 (or $12 in MA)
It's a distributed message queue.
By that logic, CPython should track usage stats too.
CMU’s computer science dean on its poaching problem
You have to keep in mind where we are. HN isn't a group of people who read bell hooks and Gloria Steinem. HN is a group of men who boycotts Github for hurting their fee fees.

If I don't concede on class issues then my comment would have been flagged and downvoted into oblivion. I hope at least it got a couple of people do think about gender and race.

Anyway, I upvoted every one of your comments. Thank you for fighting the good fight. I really don't have the energy to argue with ignorant people anymore.
Redlining is part of the immense capital transfer from blacks to hashtag-not-all-whites that America is famous for. Understanding this capital transfer is useful in considering why economic inequality persists today -- and you can certainly use it to figure out why parts of Appalachia and the South have such poor white populations as well.

It sounds like you're pretty emotional about your grandparents' life, and that's cool; it shouldn't preclude discussion of history that acknowledge the intentionally differential effects of Reconstruction, federal support for homeownership, federal sentencing laws for drug crimes, voting law, etc. These are all facts in history that have effects on what is possible now, because they have determined what we're starting from. Why say that the Armenians are still allowed to be traumatized about what happened in the 1920s while black Americans aren't allowed to talk about mortgages in the 1980s? It just isn't very logical. We should be able to talk about all of this.
Sorting esp. if your data has some kind of natural sort order can increase compression (in columnar stores), decrease index size (bitmap or fancy bitmap indexes) or lower query execution time (data is cluster vs random read).

Here's one paper: Sorting improves word-aligned bitmap indexes, http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3751
This is really common among open source projects. I frequently come across feature lists containing "Written in X" for many different values of X. In fact, was just complaining about it to a friend of mine just last night. He pointed out that for open source projects, it really can be a feature: when attracting contributors, the source language is important. It's also important for people who just want to study the source for some reason or another. It can also be an indicator for how readily portable it is: a program written in C is going to be much more easily ported than one written in Visual Basic, for example.
I've had to clarify this several times before on HN* - for the current generation of electrical vehicles well-to-wheel efficiency is not higher than for hybrid gasoline vehicles, meaning that unless the electrical power necessary to support them is generated from non-fossil fuel sources there is no net benefit.

That I find myself restating this over and over is just a testatement to how effectively Electrical Vehicles have been marketed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10525863
The resubmission was more lucky: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11573213 (91 points, 9 hours ago (3 hours later), 16 comments)
I am not advocating that Apple needs to buy a bank, just noting that they have resources to buy pretty much any bank.
Exactly, this is not a company fighting against some force-of-nature problem, curing the sick, or fighting poverty... Explanations for why Postmates doesn't execute well on self-made problems shouldn't hold a lot of water.
If they can't be bothered to fix their code, then those web sites surely wouldn't mind if browsers eventually started popping up a dialog that says "This web site content may be abandoned or no longer supported by [domain]. Proceed with caution!" upon loading outdated code. That would be one way to handle this and direct user complaints to the right party.
The taste of spice is pain. Capsaicin triggers your tongue's pain receptors, not its olfactory receptors.
Woah. I've never seen an elevator without a phone. Like maybe in a developing country but in the UK that seriously isn't in the building code?
Unfortunately, debug-time-function-bodies isn't an "officially" supported flag, so improving it isn't a high priority right now.

...That said, we'd be more than happy to take improvement PRs in this area, if you're feeling up for it!
Remote Work: Your Time Is Your Product – Track and Bill Accordingly
I've wondered why there isn't a "big player" in the cloud space for this. Felt like a hole.

My operating theory is that the people who would really make use of something like this have grown beyond managed offerings and would take it in house. For smaller operations Redis is more than enough for pub/sub. Ditto for SQS for externally triggered eventing.
Interesting article, but it is bad in one very large way.

Paleos say we should eat the diet our bodies evolved for. Anti-paleos argue that paleo diets differed enormously.

That is quite correct, but there is one very important thing all the paleo diets had in common. That is that they included no refined carbohydrates. That leads to the possibility that our bodies are poor at handling them, and indeed there is a good deal of evidence that is the case.

I am sure the author is quite aware of all that, but he carefully avoids addressing the issue. The closest he comes is attacking the idea that sugar is poison, a claim, as everyone knows, is metaphorical, not what is literally meant.

The fact that he never addresses the refined carbohydrate problem makes me mistrust his motives, and the objectivity of the rest of his arguments. Perhaps is being paid by the refined carbohydrate industry.
The problem lies with the amount of financial resources available to software users. Users can afford buggy software. They can't afford non-buggy software except for a very small number of uses.
The buffering tends to be pretty bad for me, not very aggressive or just bad. The initial loading takes a little long, especially considering I'm on fiber at work right now. This 1080p video isn't buffering very quickly. Switching stream quality takes a bit long, even switching down to 360p.

At home Steam struggles on game trailers, usually after going fullscreen for some reason; if I don't go fullscreen it can be okay.
>>Epsilon.

Was it not the case that people would have assigned very low probability to Fermat's last theorem too, at least before Wile's first version of proof? But then with Wile's first version, they would have assigned very large probability (1-epsilon, may be).

I am confused as to what benefits do we derive from assigning such probabilities? I am certainly missing something big here.
Piano plays itself
"Forked it and successfully released their own variants" is a stretch (Amazon Fire Phone), especially when Google specifically prohibits vendors that get access to Google Play to fork Android.
ERROR IN OR NEAR CARD 1, COLUMN 1.
0C7 ABEND.
ABORT.
CORE DUMP FOLLOWS:
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You should read this: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... - it's long, but it's one of the most impactful essays I've read on software engineering in years.
> I will never understand why abolishing the NSA is not a talking point during this election race.

That's an awfully defeatist attitude.
As another poster said, it's open source and written for fellow hackers, so language is a feature. Imagine if emacs was written purely in C++.
Less excusable is showing a top-down view of the solar system and failing to include Makemake's orbit on it.
> This includes VR/AR, less someone else gets to the the brand reputation throne first (like HTC or Microsoft).

I think HTC's got it for at least a year. It may continue longer. They'd need to do something wrong to lose the lead. MS Hololens is too expensive at the moment to get much reach. And I could make many comments about how Oculus/FB messed up a bit recently. However, I think everyone, including HTC, hopes that Oculus finds its stride again. More competition is better for everyone and will advance VR tech and the market reach faster. Gates and Jobs are on record saying Microsoft, Apple, and the world wouldn't have been as good without each other.
Are you familiar with the history of feminism?

First wave and second wave of feminism were both coopted by upper middle class white women. Third wave, the current one, pays some attention to intersectionality, but mainstream feminism doesn't challenge the status quo enough. That's why there is backlash against Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In.

A quote from the wiki page: "Black feminism is a school of thought which argues that sexism, class oppression, gender identity and racism are inextricably bound together"

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

However, people on HN bring up class to derail conversation about race and gender, but that's a different can of worms.
While I disagree with the original comment - your airbags analogy does not work here, airbags were not created to work around a law, there is a law on emissions and vw deliberately built a workaround to "comply" with a law on tests, but they knew that outside the test facility their cars would violate that law.
No company info, no T&Cs. Sounds legit. Just missing a possibility to verify whether my CC data has been stolen.