skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no easy way to tell if your server supports them, either.

False. XMPP has excellent feature negotiation capabilities.

> everyone using Conversations essentially has to use a server that is maintained by the developers

No, you just need to use a server maintained by someone who actually maintains it.

> Otherwise, most of the XMPP featureset they offer simply doesn't work.

Feature negotiation and graceful fallback, is it really that hard?

> I think there needs to be incentive built into the protocol for all servers to maintain a baseline of XEP parity

Incentives, yes. In the (core) protocol? No. I think publishing a new "XMPP Compliance Suite $year" XEP is better than throwing the entire thing out, in a couple of years when everyone suddenly wants a different feature set.

> At least Matrix can provide a clean slate.

A clean slate which will be obsolete in just a few years, and will have to be invented from scratch all over again.
For a company whose primary product is/was the Nest Thermostat, I've found they have been terrible at innovation and keeping up with competition. The product has been virtually unchanged for the last 3-4 years. What have they been up to?

I switched to an Ecobee3 system and found it was far superior in many ways. Alexa integration, remote sensors (for actual temperature measurements in rooms), easier install and compatibility if you don't have power going to thermostat, better wifi, touchscreen interface.

With Google Home coming I wonder what this means for Nest. Maybe it will be fully absorbed into Google?
Just pick yourself up from your boot straps! Or cash in some of that 2m trust your Dad left you. Come on this isn't hard.
This is a good book on it https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Egyptian-Materials-Technolo... not been able to find a copy online though.
Agreed, my cringe-pipes have ruptured. It was nice of Facebook to acknowledge the author of this article on the roof of their headquarters though.[0]

People were suspicious before the film, Facebook is an immoral business, and Mark Zuckerberg is nothing more than the world's most notorious panty-sniffer.

[0]: http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5750966534d59c8547b429f5/...
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Yup, a very useful tool. Along with that, I've got a short list of a few useful boilerplates, in three categories: simple ones for learners, complex ones for full apps, and several that demonstrate specific concepts:

https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
When the Spotlight Is on Gorillas, Paintings and Bad Apples
I've been meditating on finding part time work for a while now. It seems the only options are to become indispensable to an organization before you demand it, and then you can keep it until they replace you, or to become a work from home contractor. If you have a new child and are without a stay-at-home partner, you could possibly prolong the amount of time before being made redundant but that seems to be the only socially acceptable reason to want to work part time. Mothers have been complaining about the absurdity of this situation ever since they joined the workforce. The only way to find respectable part time work while staying within the system is to go after traditionally women only jobs like nursing.
Why couldn't multiple patterns sensitive to different frequencies be printed on the same surface?
Code can be found here https://github.com/digital-certificates
If you can provide me with any well-done research showing that evopsych is anything besides the modern phrenology I'd be surprised.
Richard Stallman on Free Software: Freedom Is Worth the Inconvenience
Robot surgeons are becoming more autonomous
I'm disappointed even with what I purchased, new features aside.

I have two sets of furnace/AC for my house and two Nest thermostats. My wifi access point when I installed it was downstairs, about 10 feet from the downstairs thermostat with nothing but air between the AP and the thermostat (I moved the AP around a bit too). The unit would not connect even though the upstairs unit connected without issue.

Worse, every time I tried to connect it, it would make me re"type" my wifi password. My password is around 30 characters long and contains a mixture of letters, numbers, and symbols. Entering a password on a Nest thermostat is absolutely terrible, which I kind of expect, and which is okay if you only have to do it ONCE. But I was trying to troubleshoot a problem with wifi and it wouldn't remember the password because it wasn't connecting... I ended up changing my wifi password temporarily until I could get it to connect and update, hoping the update would fix whatever the problem was.

That said, now that they're installed and connecting, they're fine, I guess. But the "wow" factor is pretty much over for me, and with what I've heard about the smoke alarms, I doubt I'll be buying another Nest product.
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN. Please don't do this again. It's bad that someone stole from you and I'm sorry that it happened. But your reaction here wasn't helpful.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11823933 and marked it off-topic.
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Is Paying Up the Only Response to Ransomware?
sorry still have seen dozens of those in opengl, cant care less. 'large field of research linked', specify large
trouble was already taken
Regardless of the semantics, one can only hope the change is for the better. Nest can't lose much goodwill at this point.

Previously, on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11435245
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, and we ban accounts that do this. Please don't respond to a bad comment by making the thread still worse.
Perhaps. If one is a socially incompetent developer, it's quite possible that one might find advice from another socially incompetent developer to be more relevant and actionable than advice from a socially competent developer.
Google's slide toward doing wrong started earlier, and you can argue over when, but I'd attribute it to Gmail.

It's one thing to have my search history. It's another to have my search history, identity, and email.

I resisted the pull of Gmail for a long time. Yes, I created an account (to forstall others from doing so, and, oddly, a highly distinctive name proved taken in multiple iterations, or at least unavailable, when I tried registering it). I've simply moved to using email very little.

G+ put the stink in though. I really wanted to like the service. I used it early on, and still do. I wanted it to be the anti- Facebook (which I do not use, or trust).

But multiple from the top decisions made, and still make it, exceptionally difficult to like. Sadly, there's little better (and I've looked).
"While we hope you will reconsider your malicious stance against human rights"...and you've lost me.
I rather like my 20 year old super basic thermostat. It works. It doesn't require wifi. It doesn't consume any power whatsoever. It's never been bothered by bugs that magically turn my house into a sauna or a freezer. It was dirty cheap. It'll last forever.
What seems to be the issue here? If you can get a machine to do something that a human can do then you give that human the opportunity to place his focus, time and attention elsewhere.
Something rather big has changed since the regulations were put into place (sometimes fairly recently, my city didn't cap taxi plates until the mid-90s). It used to be most taxis were gotten by hailing, and some by phoning. Neither allowed you to verify anything about the cab that eventually picked you up. Apps change this greatly, and now when I ask for an Uber I have reason more reason to trust that the person picking me up is an Uber driver, and has met the standards they established and I can verify in some way, than I ever did that the cabbie who picked me up is the one I called, or that they're a legally sanctioned taxi if I hailed it.

This change is glossed over in this discussion a lot, but it is the single most important distinction between the old and new systems, and it definitely should reduce the barrier to entry when it comes to regulatory reasons.

I'm absolutely in favour of maintaining extremely strict controls over vehicles that can pick people up off the street with no prior arrangement. Loosening that is a bad idea, and it's not really at issue in the current debate.
I will second the statement that Jacob is an able and skilled developer.

I have worked with him on projects long ago, however, so he can certainly have chosen where to focus his time and attention. Just because you don't see him code, don't assume he can't (replying to Grandparent of course)
> Even triple has the right prefix.

Unlike, say, three?
There's a crucial difference; OpenSSL was designed to be secure. ImageMagick was designed to support hundreds of codecs and thousands of operations.

You can't pivot design on 1.25 million lines of code (est.) very quickly after 25 years of feature-first development process.

I'm a bit skeptical it will happen at all; it would be a multi-million dollar undertaking. Better to describe its design scope and tradeoffs, and get people to use it properly - sandbox it if it's on the server.

I started Imageflow to solve that problem - a server-focused design with strict design rules: security is first, followed by visual quality, followed by performance. We've kept the codebase to just 10kloc and we are 50% feature complete, but need to get a lot more momentum on Kickstarter to make completion possible. See https://www.imageflow.io
Which is? (For those who don't want to sift through a nine page article)
You don't usually walk next to traffic; where I live, if you bike anywhere for transportation it is next to dangerous idiots driving death machines (Texas).
Good lord, that grey text on white background is awful. I had to change it using dev tools to finish the article.
Ok I accept that answer at face value.

Now, is the inverse also true? If I take a job with you- can I work 4 day work weeks and stick strictly to the 8 hour workday?

Money is not your only motivator so I don't see why this would be a problem for your employees.
Makes me wonder if GDS is going to do the NHS
A friend of mine builds his own e-bikes and they're incredible. He made a very stylish one, with big tires, that makes him meet lots of people who want to know where to buy one :) He made another one with a suitcase-sized battery pack and tremendous power (20kW) just for fun, but it's fugly with its big boxy battery :) I should have taken pictures :)
The advice on how to handle it from others is awesome - in terms of career advice. I'd like to also add that you should "get out more".

I've had experiences almost exactly like yours. Long hours, lots of pressure from above and below.

I have found that leaving the office and wandering around our neighbourhood for a few minutes (<=10 && <=30) when I'm feeling loaded really helps clear the brain.

What's neat is that when I come back I can usually find one thing I need to knock out from my massive list and close it, done well. It's like I come back with clarity and energy. Of course it depends on making it from the door to your desk before anyone says "do you have a minute?" - then it all goes to heck for me.

I also "escape" at the weekend. Clearing head-space like that puts you in a good mood, lets your sub-conscious solve some of the issues.

Happy people are better workers. Remember that for yourself and more importantly for the team you manage.
Learning to code == Learning about community
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Symphony Commerce | San Francisco | Full-time | VISA

We are a fast growing e-commerce company. Our mission is to provide a scalable, elastic, full-stack commerce platform for major brands. Currently we are at 100 employees. We forecast doubling in size again in the coming year to meet business demand. We are hiring on all major engineering roles. You can find a list of open positions here: https://jobs.lever.co/symphonycommerce

My team is hiring senior or experienced data infrastructure engineers who are experienced with Kafka and Spark. If you are interested, please email me directly at yi (at) symphonycommerce(dot)com
I'd say if you're in SV, have a pretty good background, interview at top-paying public firms like Google/Facebook, get good scores, and negotiate very well, you can expect around

- new grad: ~175k
- 4 years: ~300k
- 6 years: ~350k

Note that I'm including equity, expected cash bonuses, 401k matching, and sign-on bonuses (which I normally divide by 4, since 4 years seems like a typical period to stay at these companies).
It's worth pointing out that the NTPsec project is working hard on reducing the attack surface of NTP classic. At some point there will be few or no reasons to run NTP.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7167

https://www.ntpsec.org
I wonder if the fact that he left a day after a lawsuit was filed was not a coincidence: https://www.theinformation.com/former-nest-employee-takes-ai...
Hammercoin: Bitcoin MMO from the Makers of BitQuest
Overall, gov.uk is really well done; minimalistic but works.

Some things bug me though, as some services are only available during "open hours" (https://www.buysellvehicle.service.gov.uk/sell-private/vehic...): I didn't know that servers needed to sleep.
Reminds me of an old PhysX demo I found in a game years ago.

Can't seem to find much besides this video though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoCbSL2kis4
Maybe read about game theory a little bit.
Hmm, I see how I could be seen as doing that.

Thanks for the reply!
I chose the ecobee3 over the nest, works great, the remote sensors are awesome, and there is just the right amount of configuration possible if you want that, with sensible defaults otherwise
openvpn-install creator here :)

Thanks for the mention!
Flu Vaccinated Mothers Protect Newborn Children According to New Study
Refining: it's a mutual combination of factors, but relative compensation is certainly a strong proxy for some of those factors (skill level, in particular).
I believe there was a 2 year vesting on stock or bonuses at Next. They got acquired around early 2014 so I'm sure that has something to do with it. I expect a whole bunch of others may leave depending on how the new CEO is.
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The most obvious application of single-frequency lenses is in fiber optic communication transceivers (a single-frequency laser, or a series of such lasers in Wavelength Division Multiplexing). From my understanding these are a big source of component cost and failure rates. See e.g. http://www.panduit.com/heiler/InstallInstructions/PN541.pdf
The biggest expense is usually the battery -- the one I got (700 watt hours) was about 500 (with shipping), and it can get me from 30 - 60 miles (hard throttle only vs. taking it easy and pedal assist). Lunacycle is now selling a small size pack that is about 1/2 the capacity of min (about 300 watt hours) for $230, plus $30 shipping, and you will need a charger (another $35 - $70).

A decent hub motor kit starts off at around $350 from a reputable vendor, you can either put on a front or rear hub motor. I've heard good things about the Golden Motor's magic pie kit (and variations) -- this is a direct drive from $325 to $375 or so, but since it is direct drive I would put it on the back wheel myself. The only front wheel conversion I would do would be a geared motor.
List of Elixir books
Show HN: React Native RevMob Monetization Package
I think you may be describing the difference between newspaper-style journalism on the one hand and magazine-style journalism on the other.

That said, I pretty much agree with you. I've lost my patience for magazine-style journalism.
> But I'm talking about the decision-making process.

So am I. The decision making process that goes into "social/political" things is pretty much economic.

> We don't decide whether global warming needs to be addressed using a profit-maximization algorithm.

Social/political decision making is aggregating individual efforts to maximize the world's alignment with each individual's own preferences.

There's no difference between this and economic decision making.

> It's a moral question.

"Morality" is just one subset of personal preferences against which people act to optimize. The distinction between it and other subsets of preferences (like "aesthetics", etc.) is arbitrary.
Exactly, thanks, its old knowledge
The most question begging headline you will see this week.
I love that he put "leaving the next" in quotes. He was leading that company down the drain and got fired, they just dont want to make it look that way. They have had so much bad press the past year, from nest employees complaining of a hostile work environment to customers complaining about products being intentionally bricked. This news is shocking only in that it took this long to happen
Working at Facebook sounds like joining a cult
+1 For Ecobee. After wanting a "smart" thermostat for some time and researching and researching nothing really blew my socks off. But the Ecobee was the closest one to impressing me. So I finally pulled the trigger for downstairs. It's been doing great and I love the features. So now it's time to put one upstairs.

If you are thinking of the Ecobee, do it! :)
We started Imageflow (https://www.imageflow.io ) in C to design the C ABI for interop with all the host languages, but we're swapping out components for Rust every time it's possible/practical.
I'd say this thread is not a bad first approximation for what you are asking for (but note that high side has a lot of variance and is very much context, person, and importantly, timing dependent and the uniquely highs are always underrepresented in these threads, almost by definition):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449

As a skilled junior person without having/being known for specific connections/expertise, probably the best generic advice, if your goal is purely optimizing for salary $$$ [and I wouldn't blame anyone for this, but I'd say there are many other factors to optimize for as well], is to get offers at various places, while making sure at least a couple bigcos are included, and play the standard negotiation game (they don't really negotiate with you; they negotiate with each other over you). Also, don't be afraid to jump ship early on when you get a better sense of the numbers you can command and avoid inertia. Inertia can be a big hinderance, especially very early on when a recent decision with much less data is made; a course correction might be essential.

P.S. people who make the real $$$s, don't do that by optimizing for a (risk-free) "salary" taken from an employer, so always keep that in mind.
You create an account on the site. Why complicate it?
I read about "facebook's motives" and other companies motives, and suspicions about this and that in the media and I think - why do people bother? Companies like Facebook and Google and Apple have billions of users and 99.999% of them just do not give a shit about any of this drama. If they didn't like Facebook (or Android, or... etc) they'd just stop using it.

I guess it's just "gotta write a story....gotta make a dollar...gotta get some ad impressions" or whatever, but..really..does anyone actually give a shit?
I have always thought -- without any evidence -- of it as an American Thing. Like Farenheit temperatures.

As a kid I learned on TV about a pharaoh named Tutenkhamon, and at some point became aware of some Egyptian named "King Tut", who must surely be the same dude.

Though come to think of it, now that we have this interweb thingy, it's worth checking...
SFMOMA elevates software to art
It must vary by state. Here in Indiana, it is free.
Intelligent Systems Are Not Stupid
I also use Nyr's script to setup OpenVPN, which is also running on DigitalOcean.

I have read that DigitalOcean have a strong stance against torrenting though, so have only downloaded a few times through my VPS.

Was considering moving to AWS, but I'm not sure Amazon would be any happier, and I'd probably end up with a big bill at the end due to bandwidth usage!
I think Viking swords were made hundreds of years after this, when the basics of iron production were known in most parts of the world?
It was worth the read for me to learn about this story alone in my opinion https://www.quora.com/How-did-Chris-Putnam-get-hired-at-Face...
They're bikes. Good to get from a to b like any other bike.

During my daily commute from and to work I think about one in ten I pass / pass me is an electric motor supported bike. It seems that mostly elderly people are riding them, but more and more people under 50 are using them as well.

Note that e-bikes here are normal bikes with an electric motor to assist the cyclist to keep a (slightly faster than) normal pace. Personally, I dislike the e-bikes who behave like mopeds/scooters and go 30km/h or more because they're dangerous. Especially on bike path given the difference in speed between regular cyclists and these electric monsters.
It's funny you proved ryanSrich's point, but then again I worked at FB.
I played wurm and hit up notch on IRC. Suggested some gamejam ideas before I personally could code. My claim to fame :p
Absolutely. When you're at a certain executive level, you no longer get fired, you get "asked to resign". No doubt Google was done with him.
Not sure why you are being down voted, unless people are reading some kind of undertone I'm not seeing.
Let's build an entire synthetic human genome, says group of scientific bigwigs
> we're still conflating link titles and headlines

They're the same thing everywhere I go: Google News, Hacker News, newspaper websites, articles reposted on Facebook . . . Where are you going that they're different?

> they should NOT summarize the contents of the article (otherwise why would anyone even click through?)

For the details. If an article is interesting to me, I will click it. Won't you?

- Arch Linux adopts systemd
- More and more developers trying out Rust
- Useful shell one-liners

I would click each of these. They're a little vague, but I made them up in a hurry. Still, I my clickbait radar would not have gone off on any of them.

There are three kinds of stories: 1) the kind I want to read in depth (like on programming or photography), 2) the kind I want to know usually just the gist (like the economy, politics, world news), and 3) the kind I don't even care to know the gist about (like some celebrity gossip, a diet fad that the writer already knows is ineffectual, etc.)

I just want the headline to convey whether, after I read the whole article, I will think it was worth it. The problem with clickbait is that it arouses your curiosity for everything, but at the end you feel the same way you feel after eating candy.
Actually, the image rendering parts are far less difficult than the codec parts. You need the whole system in an operation graph in order to do the right thing to every image. Also, GIMP's scaling is still completely wrong - something I'm ashamed I haven't fixed yet.
Well, it's based on some totally arbitrary assumptions, such as that people in VR wouldn't typically be aware that they are in VR.

This is certainly not the case nor the intention with video games (from which the whole argument is extrapolated), no matter how realistic they can get
He is listed by Tanja Lange as one of her PhD students: http://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/
Would you mind sharing what VPS service you use?

I currently use DigitalOcean, and pay via PayPal. So would be nice to get away from that. The only other cloud provider I have experience with is AWS.
The issue is that the only jobs that seem to be vanishing through such "opportunities" (what a weasel word) are all unskilled labor (easiest to automate). Sure, doing work in the car instead of driving home in California freeway traffic for an hour a day is an opportunity, except that's not the problem here...

Most people that work unskilled labor jobs today aren't qualified to work alternative skilled jobs.

A large class of unemployed (and unemployable) workers is a nightmare situation and is detrimental in any economy.