skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IM's good if you're at your desk shooting the shit with your friends/coworkers. Unlike the phone, it's asynchronous, so you can reply when it's convenient. You also don't have to worry about eavesdroppers. It's better than SMS because a longer SMS ends up getting split over multiple messages and they can sometimes get stuck in the ether for a while, and you can use your keyboard instead of holding your phone and making it obvious that you're not working. It's better than e-mail because you don't want a gazillion one-sentence emails of BS going back and forth.

I generally keep email for "official" business or more thought-out messages to friends, Hangouts for more banal chit-chat, and I can always go back and search that if it turns into a more important conversation. SMS for the few weirdos who don't do Hangouts, and then voice is an absolute last resort. Real-time telecommunication just demands too much immediate attention- whomever I'm speaking to will say something that leads my mind to wander off and I'll miss a sentence or two, and then I can't go back and re-read what was said. Hate, hate, HATE calls!
If they wanted a more apples to apples comparison in the hardware department, they probably should have added $600 to the monitor price[1] and paid for it by using the same CPU as the iMac (i.e. a 6700k)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Monitor-UP2715K-27-Inch-LED-Lit/d...

Honestly, though, I don't think the point was to do an apples-to-apples hardware comparison. This was on a cost basis only.
So if I'm using dlite now, and I want to transition to Docker for Mac once I get into the Beta...what do I need to do? Fully uninstall dlite? Can they be run side by side? (assuming no)
I built a totally decentralized and secure P2P/DHT communications platform a long time ago called DeOps - https://github.com/swax/DeOps

It let's members of a group create a totally private darknet with a hierarchy of trust among themselves using a chain of signed trust tokens. All packets are encrypted with the key of the receiver and signed by the sender. It even uses random ports and sends filler traffic between nodes to prevent finger printing.

I built on top of it services like IM, VOIP, chat rooms, a versioned file system, mail, message boards, etc.. I had a lot of free time lol. The nodes automatically manage the storage of data around the DHT.
Isn't that, uh.. a pretty big downside?
You are a bayesian analysis with strong priors on the chance of winning. I'm not objecting to your critique (as I don't know much about sports), I just keep thinking of P(data | model).
I haven't looked at it yet but I'm putting my money on the 4K PC kicking the crap out of the Mac, unless the screen kills the PC budget...

EDIT: Yep, for what it's worth, if you are doing retouch for print, pro studios use EIZO screens and they are usually around 2k-3k+ per unit.
I wonder, who in our day is Rockefeller - as it would seem that it might be musk but without being an asshole.

Zuck is just a manipulator and as he is so young, I don't expect his actually legacy to take hold for at least 40 years. But musk is much more a Titan than zuck. Zuck isn't really doing anything outside his comfort zone - but that doesn't mean that oculus won't be a thing in 20 years - but I wouldn't credit that to zuck.
Cheers, wasted the past 2 hours moving off of Mandrill.
Then again, is a system that works 99.5% of the time and delegates stuff to humans 0.5% of the time more or less reliable than a system that relies 100% on humans, with their microsleeps, inattention, mistakes etc.? Has air travel, e.g., become mostly less or mostly more reliable by means of automation?
Ask HN: Which company's developer outreach program impresses you?
What aspects of that make you go "I like these guys and want to use their platform/product/service/tools" (obviously the core product/service/etc needs to be solid)

For example: "Company XYZ because they had product leaders on the forums". Or because they hung out on reddit/r/programming or on stackoverflow #TheirProduct. Or because they had weekly open house conference/video calls etc.

Background: At Crypteron, we're developers ourselves and are designing our developer outreach program, so I'm looking for some community success stories to model after.

Thanks
Sid
Suddenly makes less sense then.
Every device I buy comes bundled with a free browser, along with a long laundry list of other bundled utilities. The idea that a browser is somehow special doesn't stand up, and special if it comes with Windows even less so. Linux also comes with tons of free software that is hard to compete with.

I know for a fact that Netscape was an inferior product to IE. I downloaded IE and uninstalled Netscape. I made an extra effort to not use Netscape anymore, because it was nearly unusable due to crashing. Maybe if Netscape had a better product, I'd be sympathetic.

It's not a conspiracy if an inferior product fails in the marketplace. Happens all the time.
Apply HN: xCollabr – gather collective potential
Often teams/organizations don’t even notice how they have a lot to win in working together because of lack of information about what others have been doing and where they are going.

Our solution ..

Teams currently function as autonomous systems. Through our medium, we want to connect them and enable them to exchange information, discuss on issues affecting them and collaborate on joint initiatives, thereby creating the “Internet of teams”. A new team in an organization should have easy access to relevant institutional knowledge. We wish to enable this cross-pollination of ideas and practices while enforcing various levels of privacy and streamline the process by which tasks are delegated among teams.

Execution ..

We interviewed 18 student organizations leaders across three campus (including MIT) as part of our market research and when our beta version is complete, we plan to offer them a free trial. First we’ll build a webapp where teams can lay out their vision over some time cycle (e.g a semester for student organizations), visually manage each team member’s tasks, monitor progress, and connect with other teams sharing similar goals.

Team … I’m working on this with a co-founder, Aboubacar Karim. I have extensive experience developping webapps, and have been a co-founder at Airspress, an international peer-to-peer delivery service. Aboubacar Karim has a BA in agroeconomics and we’ve worked together on Airspress.

Vision…

We want to create huge transparent collaboration opportunities. So we consider including VR features in next iterations. These features could include live translation, whiteboards etc.

Differentiating factor: Our unique focus on both inwards and outwards collaboration in a team/organization is the key differentiating factor. We feel that current apps are intra-organizational oriented. But we will give teams the ability to switch context between intra and extra-organizational collaboration.
Atleast you can download : for personal use in Canada last I read.
Experience. There are tons of women in the workforce. It's unexceptional to the point you wouldn't even notice, even in tech.

If you read an article that said "Bob the mailman was beaten to death by local residents because he was good at his job" would you think "Yep, that sounds like the whole story"?
Just signed up for the beta as shipstar. Pretty exciting stuff!
I forget who said it (Neil Tyson?), but something along the lines of: "If you hear a statistic, change the order of magnitude. Does that change how you feel about the fact? If not, the statistic is probably bullshit."
I thought we should be using .local because it was specified in RFC 6762.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
A sketch is available here: https://moqups.com/konoufo1@gmail.com/HbtBvliq
tl;dr : "Turn Messages Into Tasks"

Man, I miss Agenda :( It basically did that automatically.
A slew of updates for your shared inbox
Well, there is no sport or other organized competitive activity I can think of where the best in the world beats the second best in the world more than 95% of the time.
I would recommend watching episode 1 of Louis CKs new show, Horace and Pete, for a discussion about how parties talk about each other, and how they should.
These kinds of "features" are a problem for open source, and I don't know that they are a good idea in general.

It's nice to know how and where your software is being used, but in many environments call-home functionality and auto-update functionality are non-starters.

Any non-user initiated network activity should be explicitly agreed to and available to be easily stripped.

We can and should do a better job with open source software than closed source would-be competition. Even if you aren't a privacy advocate, privacy is a priority of a significant amount of the technical community. It's significant enough that it should be addressed as a forethought to features like this, not an afterthought.

Things like this pop up as negative news entries that people gloss over. The guy who makes the snap decision "don't use brew, it phones home" today could be a CTO who never had that opinion changed three years from now.
I loved my Atari 800XL, and while I had a few computers before it, this is the one I cut my teeth on learning how to program. Its hardware was really interesting and forced you to be quite inventive to get the most out of it.
Exactly. Gaap doesn't necessarily perfectly reflect economics of the company's business. So, the non gaap measures are there to be used in conjunction with, not instead of, gaap
I guess the issue is the driving factor of the iMac cost is the monitor resolution. It would've made more sense (if they didn't need the resolution) to pick a different iMac and spec out a PC at a similar price point.
I'm curious what harm you accuse SO of. Keep in mind that SO dropped the price of kerosene by 70% and kept it down.
>Experience. There are tons of women in the workforce. It's unexceptional to the point you wouldn't even notice, even in tech.

Interestingly, noir_lord noticed and you can see that in his comments on this article. I have the impression that many, many people notice how exceptional and small the presence of women is in tech.

No news article has the "whole" story, so why single this one out? They are necessarily a digest of the events.
Now only if you could do this in China without getting around the Great wall. I take it Iranians have it a tad easier
That doesn't follow. The fact that many websites do this doesn't prove that it isn't malicious. It may not be (it probably isn't), but that has little to do with the complaints made about the change.
> Hard to get enthusiastic about that.

What's a more appealing way to deal with the problem of many people having little or nothing to contribute?
The very first paragraph of that article says:

> The implementation of both approaches on the same network can be problematic, however, so resolving such names via “unicast” DNS servers has fallen into disfavor as computers, printers and other devices supporting zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) have become increasingly common.

Which seems to confirm what the original poster wrote - it sounds like a bad idea using it on OSX where it collides with bonjour.
It is improving but it is still way off in my experience. They said the same thing about voice control and when Apple got behind it I thought it must be solved, but I still hate using it even today.
Bad Predictions
China Curbs Plans for More Coal-Fired Power Plants
Teens Choose Snapchat as Video Takes Over the Marketing World
All businesses rise and fall over time. The popular narrative that, unchecked by government, a business will eventually rise to absorb everything is not borne out by practice.

Businesses do rise for a period of decades, however, and can do a lot of damage along the way should they decide to leverage monopoly or otherwise kill competitors unfairly.
It's not only true for crypto. In general the base of many inventions is finding a solution that transcends a core contradiction instead of just living with the tradeoff.
The article also leaves out the cost of their IT guy's time to assemble the custom PC components. How much does an hour of Joseph WU's time cost? How many hours did it take for him to order, receive, unpack, and then assemble the components?
Your original premise, as I understood it, was to send a message to a group of people and possibly have people comment on it. With your new proposal, the recipients would not be able to see each other's responses.

It also will shift the burden solely to you to answer any questions or provide clarification. If recipients were able to see other recipient responses, they could do some of the work for you.

But, for all the use cases I can think of with regards to sending messages to multiple recipients, I cannot really think of a good reason to prevent recipients from seeing other recipient responses barring some communication of a personal nature.
I'm one of those "zero inbox" people. To me, an E-mail sitting in my inbox is a distraction-- a task I potentially have to do today. My system is pretty simple: I skim through each one. If it looks like something I have to do or respond to today, I give it a red flag. If it looks like something I have to do or respond to tomorrow, I give it an orange flag. If it's a multi-person thread wherein I'm waiting for more info from someone else, I flag it yellow. Anything else gets no flag. For all of them, I archive them away after I've read them to prevent them from becoming inbox-distractions.

Then at the end of the day, I'll review my red flags and do them, review my orange flags and do the ones I can, and review my yellow flags and ping them all to remind them to respond. Seems to work decently, but I often find I end up with a lot of yellow-flagged items because other people don't have as good E-mail habits.
Rockefeller had a peculiar face, and it wasn't helped by his alopecia episode. You can see where the lizard people conspiracies find fodder.
Whew. Almost blew the cover of your seasteading community there for a moment.
Sure, but an (acqui)hiring bonus is balanced by the time spent creating the acquired company. I'd think of it as being part signing bonus and part back pay.
The cost was nearly free for the basic protections. High-assurance design or components applied in otherwise commercial. We call this medium assurance but it's quite effective in practice. Even high-assurance projects like LOCK program said A1-class requirements only added around 30-40% to the cost of otherwise solid, development process. That's not bad for software that should rarely fail, get hacked, or be unrecoverable. I'd pay $150 for Windows instead of $100 or so. :)

Meanwhile, methods like Cleanroom and Eiffel showed great reductions in defects and problems while around same cost and time to market due to reduced debugging. Sometimes faster or cheaper slightly. Sometimes slightly more cost or time. Not much of a difference and low technical debt meant it got cheaper to improve over time.

So, your argument might apply if we're talking keeping legacy software at full speed on cheapest hardware with zero modifications. That really puts high-assurance in a box. Yet, if you're talking dramatically improving assurance of isolation or recovery at the least, then you can do it for a significant, but not heavy, additional cost.

And remember much of those exorbitant costs came from straight-up inventing the stuff on the spot. Proven examples to draw from in the literature, including full designs, should drop that many fold. GEMSOS was $15 million over 2-5 years. seL4 was about $5 million over 2-4. A handful of academics put together Muen in SPARK pretty quickly so maybe a few hundred K to a million there. See how the costs drop as we do similar jobs with improved tools and prior examples?
Has to do with DRM right? Same thing with spotify on the web.
My father is a truck driver. He made his living driving vehicles and doing heavy lifting and menial work. Truck driving is just the latest evolution in his "career" and I'm ever grateful to him for battering his body in various ways to ensure I had every opportunity available to myself.

We talk a lot about his job. It's not fun. He works long hours, a lot of it is mundane driving, and he sits idle a lot of the time.

I think he would be the first to agree that automation of his job is inevitable and likely necessary, given the dangers of truck driving. Hurling a multi-ton vehicle to and fro is a dangerous task at the best of times.

But therein lies the rub. We are just now reaching the point where we as a society are getting comfortable with automated cars. I think people will be less comfortable with the idea that the truck next to them has no human in it, and could experience some kind of glitch with catastrophic consequences. HN readers will understand that these cars are still a ways away, since the last 10% of the work required for true automation will take a lot longer to develop.

Trucks are way more complicated to drive. Once they're up to cruising speed, they're easy. But it's everything leading up to that point which is hard. Dealing with gear changes, airbrakes, load shifting, other vehicles that will inevitably cut you off, and much more.

And then when you get to your destination, manoeuvring a 50' trailer is no easy task, even for a trained driver like my dad.

It will happen, and it should happen. But it won't be easy, nor soon. Of course, I'd be happy to be wrong, and I'm sure my dad would be too.
If I'm not too late to the party can you please add me too? My ID is "khoury".
I think you have hit the nail on the head. With the HN exposure all the better.

Any team that gets an offer should come back and ask for +50% since they have as a united team the upper hand.
Found it:
"How would you define a liberal? Like, to you, what is a liberal? - Just P.C., f..cking fake, animal rights, and gay agenda, always pushing the liberal agenda. They hate Christians and they hate white men. You know why? 'Cause they don't think it through. And they think they're better than everyone else and that they should tell everyone else how to think. They're just f..cking assholes.

Okay. How would you define a conservative?

Uh, just Jesus everything and they hate gay people and racist but pretending they're not, and they're selfish and they only care about money and they think everyone has to do their conservative Christian sh1t.

See, the fact that you start out by seeing each other like that, I mean, how could you possibly ever respect each other or agree on anything?

Yeah, well, they do that, I don't. (scoffs)

You just said you do. You just described us with a string of insults.

Just like you did.

Yeah--

Okay, okay, okay. This is getting interesting. Now, you, define conservative.

Conservative means values. Having values and sticking to 'em and defending what's right and not just saying what somebody said is right that year, you know what I mean? There's-- there's things in this world that are right and wrong and always have been. And you have to respect where this country came from, and you have to hold on to that. And the fact that country and God and life, those are all sacred things. And people should respect each other, and government is there to facilitate, all right? It's not there to control people. And the way you get the best out of people is to make room for their strengths, not by overcompensating for their weaknesses.

Well, that sounds reasonable. That sounds like something most people can respect, right?

Yeah.

Now, define liberal.

Just being open to things outside yourself, having your eyes open and thinking about others, and being aware that our planet is precious and we're responsible for that. And people need to listen to each other. And be decent and tolerant and that a diverse community is a strong community. And sometimes the little guy needs a hand. And we're a strong enough country to do that, and so we should.

Okay, how's that sound?

Sometimes, yeah. Yeah, okay.

Yeah? So, if you start by taking his definition of himself and he starts with your definition of you, don't you stand a better chance, have a better shot at getting to some sort of consensus?"

Read more at: http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=568&t...
USD is down 15.3% from ten years ago. That's a far cry from 50%.
What's the difference with Freesynd?
ZFS's killer features are keeping your data safe and actually having incredibly configurable pool setups as well as a plethora of filesystem features. Benchmarks aren't the only factor. tmpfs does great as a filesystem under benchmarks, that doesn't mean you should use it to store your data.
I preferred 3.0.3 SE. The standard editions seemed more stable and faster than the gold editions, and I really didn't need the extra functionality. Unfortunately with the 4.0 series everything was folded into the Communicator suite.

One big problem a lot of people forget is how quickly the web was moving back then. 3.0 came out in mid-1996, and soon there were many sites that wouldn't work with 2.0. 4.0 came out in mid-1997 (technically before 3.0.3), and by late 1998 I had to upgrade to the 4.0 series, because a lot of the web didn't work in 3.0.

It was actually DoubleClick that made me switch to IE - they started serving Javascript that hung every version of Netscape, which broke a lot of the web.
In theory, however the alternatives are very limited in comparison. Things like CMYK support are pretty vital when doing prepress work, but have been deemed low priority by developers of programs like GIMP. So in order to learn a huge amount of the workflow, they'd end up needing to use a program like photoshop anyways.
People are very particular about their music. Doesn't it make sense that a service built for niche genres doesn't have broad appeal? I fucking love soundcloud and they nailed their product years ago, so I'm really excited to see what deals they've been cooking up the past year or so.

I bought Soundcloud Go the day it was available.
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The only solution I can see is making sure you have their email addresses and reach out to them with meaningful emails. They all still have email addresses.

One of my favourite things is reconnecting with people after time apart. With tools like Facebook, this rarely happens any more. It feels weird not to see someone for a while, then you reconnect in person and know too much about what's gone on in their lives. It takes the intimacy out of the person-to-person conversation of catching-up.

I'd rather get the yearly email update from old friends, than to track their lives voyeuristically through the web.
Would love to be fast tracked. Docker ID is tkinz27
The sole value of your "product" is to actively harm the vendor's product. It doesn't provide any other value (unless you want to claim that it can be sold for educational purpose).
Thanks, easier just to ask. How might this be different in the end than existing marketing automation solutions?
My complaint isn't that they 'misled' people into thinking their printing solution is better than it is.

My complaint is that they force people to use it because they support no other printing system.