skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Talk did have XMPP functionality, which allowed for SASL. [1] But of course, they killed this off because they wanted to dominate chat and messaging with their own proprietary protocol.

If they had not followed this strategy they would be killing in this market, even whilst supporting XMPP Federation. But they have chosen to release multiple proprietary products, so they aren't the lead in the market. Silly of them really, and it just shows you they aren't really the nimble company they once were.

1. https://developers.google.com/talk/open_communications
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I learnt C from scratch. I'll be using C++ heavily in Unreal Engine, but I'd like to make a standalone project to demonstrate my proficiency in the language.
> I'm not really sure what a BD household robot would even do.

Start with basic tasks - carry grocery bags in from the car, walk the dog, carry heavy things from room to room. Vacuuming, mowing the lawn, etc could be next, then picking up clothes and toys from the floor. Maybe even chasing the kids through the woods, so you can keep an eye on them?
You don't need to do that to ensure those that paid for it receive it, just to stop others.

As a taxpayer I really don't want to spend even more of my money for worse access.
The popular/recommended pattern for using Jenkins pipeline is to abstract the course grained build "steps" out to shell scripts and to use Jenkins pipeline to orchestrate the whole build process by running these steps at the right time (in parallel blocks etc), capturing human approval, making it all "durable" (tolerant of restarts) etc etc. If you find yourself putting lots of complex build logic into a pipeline script, then you're probably doing something wrong.

Doing it this way reduces the tie to the "product" and also means that you can easily test the individual self-contained steps outside of the product.
I read the vive was superior in tech (full room, good controllers, steam), but inferior in hardware-ux (to heavy)

Luckily I have huge traps from lifting, haha.
Everything. I was and still occasionally work in media and you wouldn't believe what is going on. The whole world is fake. It makes me sick. From people pretending to fake stories to fake statistics, yes.

Don't get me wrong. It was always this way. Maybe today it's a little better than in other periods in history but we still didn't evolve much. We're all talk mostly.
But that's the point. Here we're talking about a good edit. If someone makes a good edit they shouldn't need to defend it - other editors should see it's good and defend it themselves.

By asking people to defend their edits on the talk page you're just saying that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anybody with enough time can edit.
ipinfo.io retrieves this information from somewhere.
can I and how obtain this information myself, from the very source?
maybe you know.

can I and how obtain this information myself, from the very source, for a given domain name or company or whatever it is?
Apache Apex Malhar 3.4.0 released – YARN stream and batch processing
Glasgow, Dublin, Heathrow have them too.
Welfare states seem to depopulate recently so if it's true that they produce "unfit" people, they are harming more themselves than anybody else.
It's still no different from charities and nonprofits, they don't get justice for themselfs either. Thiel saw, that Hogan has a strong case and he's willing to fight for it (but doesn't have enough money to do so). [1]
"One example is to bury the opponent with discovery." You think Gawker is so poor it can't afford first class lawyers?
Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[1] http://observer.com/2016/05/peter-thiels-reminder-to-the-gaw...
> They should make a rule: It's forbidden to simply remove things, instead if you want something removed or changed you have to actively research the subject first, and attempt to help make the edit good. Or show that it's incorrect.

[citation needed] was a terrible creation. It made it much easier for people to just tag the bits of articles that they disagree with. Instead they should spend some time trying to find citations.
Apache CommonsRDF 0.2.0-incubating released
> Look, if someone thinks women shouldn't have the right to have an abortion if they choose, you're right, I am not going to tolerate that debate. I don't believe there is a debate.

Which is you being intolerant of other viewpoints.

Let me actually make one of the counterarguments in case you've made up your mind without having heard them all. Suppose there is a family willing to adopt (who wants children but can't have them), and there is a way for someone other than the biological mother to carry the fetus to term (surrogacy, some new technology, etc.) In this context you've lost all the arguments about forcing the mother to do anything, because you're going to remove the fetus, the only question remaining is whether the mother then has the right to insist that the fetus die when there exists the ability to save its life.

Some evil Republicans come along and say no.

Don't you at least want to practice countering that argument, so when the day comes that the hypothetical technology exists you'll know what to say?

> I'm sure there are a lot of topics you don't think are up for debate. We all have our lines in the sand.

There are people who are willing to debate anything.
Yup. There's a lot going on right now with people making tools for sculpture, for design, and even stuff like minecraft is a blast on the vive. I've had mine three weeks and managed to spend 6 hours in it solidly on Saturday - 30 minutes and you need a nap? Please. Better make some ovaltine and put your slippers on.

On the other hand, I can't take more than 30 minutes of holopoint - it's physically intense and leaves you a sweaty wreck.

As to motion controllers "perhaps being more intuitive" - I'm guessing he hasn't used them. They're not "more intuitive" they're your damned hands, joining your head in another world. I mean, I suppose hands are useful in interacting with the world.

I strapped my 90 year old granddad in, and he was immediately having a blast flipping burgers in job simulator - and this is a guy who fumbles with his iPad.

So - motion controllers are not "perhaps more intuitive", unless you count your hands as "perhaps more intuitive" to pick things up with than your mouth.

Other "game changer" stuff - altspace vr is the nearest thing to Stephenson's metaverse I can conceive of - it's not like sitting at home chatting on irc watching a stream of something with others - it's like meeting people and going somewhere.

It's all well and good going "I'll wait five generations", but a) you're missing out on pre-september vr and b) if nobody buys devices there won't be five generations.
You're missing the sarcasm.
> Today we solve the stuff that's possible to solve, the low-hanging fruit of problems. Tomorrow, the next problem we try to tackle is ten times bigger, a hundred times harder, we need machines a thousand times more powerful...

Nah, if you can't handle the huge amount of data, it's possible to just switch to a sparse model or do MC-like sampling. Take AlphaGo as an example for that - a huge state space, yet it was tractable to beat the human expert. That way the network doesn't scale linearly with the size of the domain being learned.

These kinds of solutions don't rely on improving the hardware. What is needed is datasets, competitions and grants to get people to try and improve state-of-the-art results on them. It's been demonstrated that when a good benchmark appears, a lot of papers follow and top results improve massively. Another useful component would be simulators for training agents in RL.

A promising direction is extending neural networks with memory and attention, in order to focus its work more efficiently and to access external knowledge bases. As we improve on these knowledge bases and ontologies, all we have to learn is how to operate on them.

Thus, improvements can come in various ways, by sampling, sparsity, external knowledge bases, better research frameworks, and improving the hardware (such as having a better GPU card or a dedicated device) is just one factor.
Since we invitably have legislatures heavily influence (and sometimes fully captured) by moneyed interests, often the best we can hope for is competition between the different factions of moneyed interests to shape policy such that the outcome is triangulated to be somewhat more beneficial to the public than if one faction had unchecked influence. Until the last 20 years or so, the media and telecoms industry were separate factions that had some competing interests and sometimes served as a checked on one another. Now they're merged/merging into media telecoms conglomerates, but the tech industry has recently risen as a competitor with even more directly competing interests.

It'll be interesting to see how the lobbyist wrangling behind the scenes works out. The tech industry is the new kid on the block, especially in terms of their presence in Washington DC, and it takes time to build up relationships and influence in politics. It's not quite as quickly scalable as the tech industry is used to, but they also have vastly more resources.
"Sub-marine", surely?
just like most engineers I applied to Google multiple times

Is this really like "most" engineers? My own experience is the opposite, I have been contacted multiple times by Google recruiters trawling LinkedIn or whatever, none of whom were aware of any of the others. I know a few Googlers and as far as I am aware none of them "applied", they were all contacted.
It is probably about time to get rid of nations within the EU and just call the place Europe. Soon after we can get rid of the other nations and call this place Earth.
It's almost as if the basis of racism is completely arbitrary and unfounded!
A post like the parent and a reply of the guidelines happens multiple times per weekend. I wonder when the complainers will notice the pattern and accept it.
I agree they're great but they are not your hands. I was still pressing the wrong button all the time. I need gloves not wands
> aDSL speeds have been pretty flat since they removed the requirement, even though newer DSL technologies are available.

Playing devil's advocate here.

How would they increase adsl speed if it's very much distance-related? It tops out at 24Mbps and even then in ideal conditions.

Those newer DSL technologies require laying fiber closer to the customer and that's a nontrivial investment.
Why Do Charities Lead the Way in Presentation Skills?
> The spirit and character of a people comes from their DNA.

Would you then suggest that a country of mixed-nationality immigrants, like Canada, can never have a national identity? Do you believe that the patriotic affinity between Canadians is somehow lesser than that between Germans, because we don't share a well-defined genetic heritage?

You're right, Turks have integrated poorly in Germany. Temporary foreign workers were brought over en masse and ghettoized to fuel the economic rejuvenation of the nation; unsurprisingly, many chose to stay. Too many to integrate properly. The result is a huge chasm between German-born Turks and Germans, with resentment on both sides. But this was the result of a poorly-executed policy, albeit one that may have been necessary at the time; either way, it's not the normal way that immigration happens in Germany or other countries.
Or just use a $2 Arduino clone, a 12V pump and a 50¢ TTL MOSFET.. And you'll even be able to add soil moisture sensors to compensate for external factors like air temperature/humidity
is this a problem specific to the US or is it a global problem? I'm aware that US laws make it more expensive to bring a medication to market, but i'm wondering if other less restrictive markets could breed more innovation.
Tax reductions are set against the payments though, so only really well earning parents actually benefit from them.

I suspect the reasons are more social ones. Examples:

Having children is not being valued highly, having a career is. Imagine a woman proudly announcing to some gala aquaintances that she has 4 children. In a lot of countries, this would be the norm. In Germany, the woman would be deemed low-class.

Lack of family cohesion, thus as a parent, you are on your own. Compare this to the luxury of letting the grandparents take care of the kids multiple times a week/month.

Consumerism. A German thinks he has to have it all. Kids are percieved as a threat to that. We are very good at making our own lives miserable by not valuing family and friends over having the newest car/stereo/boat.

Perfectionsm. Parents think they have to get everything right and only the best things for their kids (again, THINGS). And the society thinks the same - a mother should be perfectly dressed, handling her two perfectly dressed kids with ease and loving devotion 24/7, never just let them play on their own but instead already teaching them latin. AND of course, having a stellar career AND a slender waist at the same time.
Sure you can, for a few years, the trick is to time your exit just before you have to deliver, and just as the next tech fashion is getting started.

The Cloud guys are doing the same thing, right now. As are the DevOps snake oil salesmen. In fact if you can pull off DevOps Machine Learning in the Cloud, you will make a fortune before the music stops.
The German example above is exaggerated (I live in Berlin myself).

Italy, like most of southern Europe, has a huge problem with youth unemployment that Germany & the UK generally do not share.
Blame the taxes for that.

They should keep helping people avoid taxes as this is the right thing to do. Tax is unethical by its very nature (it is theft, regardless of justifications).

That said, they could very well facilitate a tax-free art gallery environment trying to build mecas of fine art galleries.
And some people do enjoy mowing their lawn themselves or cooking themselves. But I think most do not. And it would mow the lawn in the middle of the week when it is the least disrupting to neighbors. And it's one thing for Mum to enjoy cooking. But if the family has a choice between Mum's specialty (a bunch of potatoes floating in grease) and an electronic Gordon Ramsay with skills and recipes for every kind of cooking in the world, they might vote for the latter.
Phoenix's sky train connects to the east economy parking lot, before continuing to the light rail. Wikipedia says it's being extended to the rental car center on the west side of the airport. When this is finished, they won't need to run busses anymore.

It's perfectly useful, especially for people who park at the airport's economy lot. But the graph on this page makes Phoenix's train seem useless.

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

(When Terminal 4 was designed/built in the late-80's, they left space for a people-mover-tunnel. When they came back 20 years later to build the people-mover, they realized there wasn't enough space for the tunnel. They built an elevated people mover instead. This is/was the only/first airport train to go over an active taxiway.)
I remember I tried a VR device in 2000. It consisted of a VR glass with two mini CRT monitors. There was a frame with a bike seat and cable with motors hanging from the ceiling. To fly through the remarkable good 3D world (for its day) there was a heavy glove with some cables attached. It was powered by a Silicon Graphics/SGI super computer standing next by. I never got the same immersive experience that allows one to fly in VR 3D since than. Flying downwards through a mediaeval city 3D environment felt really like being Superman because the whole body was oriented by servo motors. I could fell the blood going in my head. And had the slight fear that the heavy glove falls of my arm. So flying upwards or horizontal gave a better and more rewarding feeling.

Nowadays these VR glasses are still heavy, but smaller due to LCD. But we will never get the full immersive experience without a device that moves the body accordingly to the 3D experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area
You make good points. Personally I have problems timing flights even with "fast" airports. I usually end up at the airport way too early. But then I'm not so much of a frequent flyer and my employer asks me to take the train to nearby destinations (mostly ZRH -> FRA). I don't mind watching the landscape rolling by while working.

Yes, for some connections you'd have to change in Bern.
Yeah, I personally have never found the weather icons to be very useful for many of the same reasons already outlined in this long sub-thread. If that's because I didn't "understand" them properly, well then that's a signal of UX failure imo.

I personally think that if users have to think too hard about what an icon (or status indicator) means, then something's not right with it and you need some other visualization for conveying whatever message it is you're trying to be convey.

For me, the weather icons have never passed that test because, at this stage, I've heard multiple people on different occasions say that they find them confusing. That, to me, tells me that they don't work and a different visualization is needed.
People complain about that with Apple too 'these days'. So if the biggest mobile players and one of the biggest web players are bad at design/ux is it just the few people in the world who care about this kind of thing all being on HN or is there some objective measure for this? I'm asking because I don't see it and I know almost no-one who does, then again I am and know mostly hardcore techies (who prefer text only interfaces) or people who do not work in IT and both really do not see it.
I'm by far not a measure of the bottom of the poor. I don't have kids (as single mother), I'm not addicted to alcohol or substances, I can manage my money well and I'm intelligent. That filters out a lot of the risk factors for real poverty.
Also: I don't have any debt that needs to be paid off! So many people have, and it's easy to fall into debt.

It's easy to mess it up though. If you don't show up to appointments to the Jobcenter, they will give you less money. Suddenly you get 90% of the benefits (which is measured as minimum amount of money you need to survive per month). Do it again and you get only 60% for multiple months. Do it again, 30%. Still not showing up? They throw you out, including rent payments and health insurance.

Again, while I'm considered poor in the statistics, I'm not part of the group that's at risk of ending up without any benefits money or be homeless.

My city of about 260k population has over 900 homeless people according to the friendly volunteers of a homeless shelter. I know that because we sometimes bring food over to those places, if they're happy to accept it (not all of them do). That happens because I'm responsible for my town @ https://foodsharing.de/ - we rescue food from supermarkets that they'd throw into the bin otherwise. While being active there saves me some good cost of living, the amounts of food are huge and we have to distribute it too, mainly to homeless shelters in town.
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Actually In all analysis seen so far it mostly is way slower to do the Java EE style (biomorphic, megamorphic) and instead use normal classes, static class functions instead of polymophism. So actually a flat level is way faster than any sane stuff which is mostly done in a lot of Enterprise software.
>He's thinking philosophically

He's not thinking, he's typing. What he's typing is not a stream of consciousness nor shared with only himself, so he's obviously looking for some form of discussion (whether that's primarily because he wants to influence others is hard to say). However he's doing it while being combative and insulting. If that's what he wants then I'm here to provide.

>We should be quite free to think and discuss things in an objective way without having to continuously show that we agree with contemporary morals.

I agree completely however taking up this cause in the comment section of a tech forum, without putting any substantial argument down first, and then resorting to calling people brainwashed is a poor way to go about it. In fact by doing so that seems to be him saying he not only doesn't agree with contemporary morals but looks down on those that do.

>What we do know is that our current set of morals is somewhat arbitrary and could easily be full of "evil" things that make us no better than slaver owners.

I acknowledged in the post you're replying to that the conventional source of morality is intuitive emotion not well thought out concepts.
What are the differences between marketing and branding?
The article just said that Formula 1 "appreciates the need for speed", which I read as more of an offhand joke than a serious statement that F1 has unusual bandwidth or latency requirements.
I suppose Tails should at least update its support page regarding fingerprinting[1].

[1] https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/index.en.html#fi...
Where is your dividing line here?

You say "[a] country filled with Arabs, Africans, and Afghans isn't Germany" and then question someone who wants to preserve their child's Israeli and Austrian heritage.

Trying to use genetic heritage to determine nationality is an unproductive use of one's time. You would be right in saying that the native populations of South Germany and Austria are similar genetically, but native North Germans are more similar genetically to the Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. Perhaps you also argue for those nationalities to identify as German?

I wrote the preceding sentences before checking your comment history (and remembering the neo-Nazi reference of your username). Now that I have, I can see why you would have a problem with non-Caucasians identifying as German and German parents wanting their children to remember their non-German heritage.
And I don't see anything negative in that
Of course there's nothing wrong with that.

What I found strange was that you thought he would want to identify with a neighboring political entity(Austria) instead of just as Germanic-European and Ashkenazi-European.

Also what I saw occuring was this symptomatic absurdity that occurs from our genuine desire to not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Which is acting like a migrant from Afghanistan or Syria is the same thing as an immigrant from Austria(!) or even Israel, Askenazim are mostly European.

In our fervor to not repeat past mistakes, we are willfully blinding ourselves to the fact that not all people are the same. And the kinds of societies that result when different peoples form societies are very different.

Thinking all these muslim migrants are going to somehow become model germans is madness.

The sad irony is, who do you think the biggest anti-semites in Europe are today? Muslim migrants and the Muslims already in Europe...
Linux kernel coding style
I did.what difference does it make? The editor claims "vandalism", reverts it and noone else ever sees it or cares.

Simple conflict of interest and the feeling of "owning" an article.
What does it take to be a developer?
Text messages are very slow, and nobody minds. People on iMessage don't see the difference.

It's more a metter of perception. When you click on a mail, it takes a lot of time to type, then your UI have a delay to say it's sent, then you have this time taken by many clients to move your mail to the proper folder. But a proper mail-chat client would just make the message appear as sent, then to all the stuff in background, and you would just not see it slower than other chat. The time people take to answer you message is usually the bottleneck, not the network.
> There are oodles of self watering planters which rely on a reservoir and gravity.

Do you have any recommendations?