skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But XMPP gives you another freedom. The freedom to choose your user experience. User experience describes the way we use something.

I don't think users care about the freedom to choose the UX. They just want a good UX and that's it.

> Slack in turn fails to provide a decent mobile experience.

According the ratings of app stores, users are pretty happy with them.

> PGP has been around in the XMPP community for several years but is currently being reworked into a more modern extension called XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging that promises to make the onboarding easier for novice users.

I don't get how something OpenPGP will make onboarding any easier for XMPP. New XMPP users who might have an automatically generated account somewhere, still start with an empty contact list. Onboarding is definitely the key issue for mobile XMPP.
High Fidelity is supposed to be that open replacement: https://highfidelity.io/

The problem I've run into is that it runs worse on my brand-new computer than Second Life ever did, and that's even on the mostly-empty demo areas they have.
> We are specifically talking about Seattle here, though.

The newspaper is from Seattle, but the driver featured in the article whose numbers were used for the calculations in this thread was actually in Los Angeles.
There is opensim[1], which is used to run thousands of similar 3d worlds (shameless plug[2]), and the upcoming open source highfidelity platform [3].

1. http://opensimulator.org
2. http://opensimworld.com
3. http://highfidelity.io
apparently clever initiative from Uber+Lyft
I would not advise to use or buy pebble if you're concerned about privacy. As a company, they don't seem to be particularly interested in it.

For example: I was investigating some time ago (might have been updated) how to register a new pin in the timeline from the phone and apparently the way to do it was to send the contents of it to Pebble servers. Assuming their app uses the same API, it means every single calendar item you see in your timeline is actually sent (and possibly logged) in their servers.

I raised this point to their support and in pebble forums and got no answer.
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Whether or not determinism and free will are compatible is a very intricate debate that your throwaway remark doesn't do justice to. Look up Compatibilism.
Mayhap's you would like to include all your other anecdotal experiences throughout your life to strangers on the internet?

/gtfo
Yes, it lets hobbyists and amateurs connect with each other.

It doesn't help a well-respected cultural tradition of art continue and give it the tools it needs to continue to exist.

And plenty of people like it. The whole point of art is that often, if it's worth anything, the majority of people don't like it. Comparing art to erotic fanfics really quite makes my point for me -- the character of your argument is laid bare, you aren't willing or capable of making the distinction, it's all mindless entertainment and nothing more. The fight the French are fighting against is the lowest common denominator which replaces art -- valueless trash which is entertaining and nothing more. It is seductive and destructive and valuable monetarily but valueless otherwise.
"I ask a participant(p)"

Good forward planning to allocate a variable to hold a reference to the participant in case you need to refer to them later in the story, though in this case it turned out not to be needed. I need to start doing this in anecdotes. "So I was chatting with a colleague (C), and he mentioned..."
Well, no, I guess not if you switch over to some weak definition of free will.
So these are not actually rem0te, which has a very specific meaning and which people filter on. These are ONSITE Pasadena, Boston, San Diego, and Chicago.
Ah, I stand corrected! But either way, things like car payments, insurance vary widely by geography, so it doesn't seem like applying this particular situation nationwide would prove much.
I have been a happy user of pinboard for years (pinboard.in).
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Modern world eh? I guess ransomware pays most.
Is multi-catch or typed catch statements anywhere on the ES roadmap? These are really convenient, essentially you do:

DB.insert(obj).then(result => {
...
}).catch(UnauthorizedError, e => {
// Will end up here if auth failed
}).catch(UniqueConstraintError, e => {
// Will end up here if there's a conflict in the DB
}).catch(e => {
// Generic catch-all
});

The above is at least available in the Bluebird promise API and greatly improves code organization and readability in my opinion.
Siri is on the Apple Watch. https://www.apple.com/watch/more-to-love/

However, unlike Pebble Core, it requires your phone to be nearby for Internet connectivity.

My theory on Pebble Core is it's a way for Pebble to get experience building products with cellular radios. In another generation or two I wouldn't be surprised if Pebble watches could connect directly to the internet.
That's a pretty short list of US cities to make the claim 'basically there.' https://primenow.amazon.com/onboard?sourceUrl=%2F

It's too bad they haven't expanded faster - Walmart just barely rolled out their curb side pickup service where I live - if Amazon had made it here with same day delivery even just a few months ago we'd be customers for life, but as it is we'll probably stick with Walmart for groceries even when Amazon does eventually get here. (better the devil you know, etc.)
Also, Mediachain Labs is hiring distributed systems engineers!

http://www.mediachainlabs.com/jobs/
Due to a bug in Speaker Deck [ticket filed], slides for this talk aren't yet available, but will be here soon alongside most other PyCon 2016 sessions.

https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016

As a workaround in the meantime, you can access several decks from Google's cache by copying a URL from here, then searching it prefaced by "cache:".

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If you're the author of that site, please fix HTML and/or CSS for code snippets: both IE 11 and MS Edge 25 show your code on a single line.
You're playing this game, every day with every website you go to, every store you visit, every app you use, every interaction you make. Unless you live a (probably less comfortable) life in a rural area. These types of techs for the most part make out lives better.
I get 0.50877 after a while. What's the big deal?
Cheers. It's important to me to convey that we're utilizing the HN "Who is Hiring" threads in a fair and reasonable manner.

I'll do my best to answer any other questions people may have.

Diarmuid
Ad hom attacks aren't fallacious when relating to the credibility of statements and when they are backed up by reasoning.

Blatant name calling isn't welcome, but saying something is naive and then taking the time to explain why and without malice shouldn't be censored.
For a sense of urgency, imagine you're Manny Pacquiao and trying to hit Floyd Mayweather without resorting to this predictable series of left-right punches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZklifGarQc
> However the advantage of being self-employed is that you can deduct expenses such as fuel.

No, its not. If those expenses aren't reimbursed by your employer (which often they are), you can deduct them as a W-2 employee, as well, so there is no benefit on that point to being a 1099 contractor vs. a W-2 employee.
Good start but -- some C++ stuff is wrong, e.g. in the bit on friend functions, a member function prototype is written with an empty block instead of a terminal ";". Subtle, but you know. Also, more subjectively, std::string is described as immutable, but with no further discussion about what that means or how that might work.

Just sayin. Frankly I like how it's not Wikipedianishly drowning in citations and/or demands for same -- but how does it get updated? I immediately tried to expand on those two issues I mentioned but there was no sort of UX recourse for my pedantic urges (FWIW)
Heh! Here, have an upvote.
isn't Siri already on Apple watch?
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Also, Determinism (philosophy) != deterministic (computing)

The former is the metaphysical idea that all events are causally linked, a belief which we can never confirm or refute. The latter describes something's observable degree of predictability.

They're not related concepts at all. This demo has nothing to do with free will, Determinism, or Compatibilism - but it's an interesting study in predictability.
Netflix OSS, Spring Cloud, or Kubernetes? How About All of Them
Billionaires being in control and being somewhat held in check by regulations and laws is infinitely better than regulators and lawmakers being in control (read: having all the power and money) and being held in check by no one.

See North Korea.
It's been a while since I've seen the marquee element in action.
> Pseudocode is not code. Flowcharts are not pseudocode.

Pseudocode is code, no matter what uneducated pitiful code monkeys would say about it. Take any textbook on algorithms, and they would be most likely written in pseudocode.

Also, in your shameful incompetence you apparently ignored (more than once) my reference to DSLs, which are very closely related to the notion of pseudocode. But, since you know nothing about programming even this was cryptic for you.

> You also didn't describe your stack.

I already told you that I'm not going to even answer a question worded in such a disgusting hipstor argot. I told you everything that is relevant. This idiotic "stack" of yours does not matter. I worked for some blue chips, used a very wide variety of technologies, for domains ranging from hardware design and verification to CADs, database engines and compilers, and everyone I worked with did more or less the same - used either a whiteboard or paper most of the time, with very little time on actual coding / designing / soldering / prototyping / whatever.
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It means you were able to fake the algorithm out. Consider a very simple algorithm that guesses based on your previous two characters:

df d
dd d
fd f
ff f

This is presumably much simpler than what the page is doing, but will nonetheless work pretty well on humans by looking for alternations and long runs.

This algorithm is trivially defeated (chance of guessing 0) by the string

ffddffddffdd

Since that holds a pattern just long enough to get the algorithm to guess based on it and then switches.

For a little while, either intentionally or not, you must have been doing a more sophisticated version of this.

With perfect knowledge, it should be possible to get it down to 0.
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You probably mean reader macros. Here are a few resources:

Hyperspec reference for predefined sharpsign reader macros: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dh....

A blog post where Vsevolod Dyomkin creates a reader macro to notate list comprehensions to his liking: http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2013/01/real-list-comprehe...

A blog post where Inaimathi mentions using CLSQL reader macros to facilitate reading SQL expressions in code: http://langnostic.blogspot.com/2011/03/clsql-and-nothing-els...

Let Over Lambda chapter 4 which has various examples: http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap4.html
I don't think I've seen anyone say owncloud is not responsible. Yes, they fucked up, and royally.

But in the end, you can't trust them to not fuck up. You have to trust that they will make a mistake, so be prepared for it. Doing backups right is just really hard.
"No results found for list comprehension in python"

https://syntaxdb.com/reference/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...
Why Apple Watch sucks:

- ugly design
- overpriced
- no clear killer app

Why smart watches are inevitable:

- payments
- swiping through subways, doors, hotels, airports
- effortless exchanges between individuals (replacing business cards and cash transactions)
- absorbing the fitness market Fitbit etc

Recently I've been getting very annoyed at Apple's terrible software quality. I've also had an opportunity to use Android, and I've found it a far _inferior_ experience (unfortunately).

I want to leave Apple but it's still the best option, even after a year of tanking quality.

Conclusion: we need a new Apple.
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rulers would have their faces printed on gold coins because it was (and kinda still is with bills) one of the best promotional medium: it ensures that everybody know the face of their dear ruler and unconsciously accept it because it is printed upon every fucking shekkel they pass around.
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It's entirely possible that either the stock or market may be volatile, but that's in addition not, instead of, the drop in value resulting from a dividend payout. So, if we have a $100 stock with a 3% yield paid 4x a year, then the stock will drop $0.75 on the ex-date. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you have some combination of market/stock volatility that moves the stock $4 in either direction. So, in the case of the stock going up $4, on the ex-date, it would go up $3.25. In the case of the stock going down $4, on the ex-date it would go down $4.75.

Yes - it's true that if you are just looking at a stock chart, it might be hard to eyeball the date of the dividend if there is a lot of volatility, but, presuming that volatility is evenly distributed over various stocks dividend dates, there is no way to avoid having the stock drop down by the value of the dividend. I guarantee you there is a pretty large number of investment bankers who have all sorts of models that arbitrage that kind of variance, pretty much eliminating any gap, should it exist for more than a few seconds after opening.

I don't understand how the ex-date could occur after the distribution date. The whole idea behind the ex-date, is that is the date on which the dividend belongs to the seller, not the buyer. I.E. If I buy the stock on (or after) the ex-date, I do not get the dividend, it belongs to the seller. Depending on the exchange, it's usually two business days prior to the date of record set by the board of directors. (At least on the SGX, the exchange I'm familiar with). So how could you place the ex-date after the distribution date? What would the date of record be in that case?

Here is my favorite resource on this topic - http://www.spdrs.com.sg/education/files/SPDRU%20Dividend%20D...
Yes, there will always be some intolerance, whatever the "norm" and "deviation" are. Let's see it as a necessary part of diversity, which in turn is a necessary part of evolution.

Even xenophobia, as an extreme form of intolerance, has its roots, often far in the past, when it was somehow relevant for that particular society.
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The accompanying slides will be available here soon* alongside most other PyCon 2016 sessions.

https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016

*Currently blocked by a bug in Speaker Deck [ticket filed]

As a workaround in the meantime, you can access several decks from Google's cache by copying a URL from here, then searching it prefaced by "cache:".

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&r...
This is the list of high quality software engineering books generated by AI Optify data science team.

We have taken a data approach by scraping web to collect important signals for more than 100's of software books and feed those signals to a ranking algorithm to score/rank the highest quality books.
So, just for one point on a graph... I didn't really need the Star Trek salt and pepper shakers and Star Trek ice cube trays that I bought last night. If Amazon search had been down last night instead of this morning, it's a safe bet I wouldn't have bought them.
Sometimes paying for RHEL isn't a bad thing.
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The brave world of super-commuters
I'm up to about 65/35 loyalty/lock-in. It's almost like I keep expecting them as a faceless BigCo to fuck something up and piss me off ... but they never do. The very few minor issues I've had with orders they've resolved beyond my expectations. It's .. hard to stay mad.

This is in stark contrast to many other faceless BigCo's that I've stopped using entirely, or only use out of necessity but loathe every interaction with. (eBay, PayPal, Comcast, Verizon, etc.)
Except that your original number is based on 28 hrs work not 40 hrs. And many people who make minimum wage, especially those that choose to be drivers, aren't full-time, and they don't receive any benefits.
They should make one for VR. A certified Vive VR box that Just Works, with great Steam integration.
+1

would love more "explicit (in code) best practices" if possible even a "recommended default approach"

i understand that a full "framework" is not the way to for the community. but a few default standards would be good as guidance for newcomers and to manage expectations of coders coming into existing projects
When I try to install it npm just hangs

command:

npm i --save-dev reactpack

node version:

v0.12.6

npm version

2.11.2

uname -a

Linux gentoo-1 4.4.0-22-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 12 22:03:46 UTC 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
You can only deduct those expenses as a W-2 employee if you itemize vs taking the standard deduction. Most people don't itemize.
And it won't. Alexa CAN NOT run on Pebble watches. Alexa needs a proper mini-PC like a smartphone or raspberry pi to run. Let's not forget Pebble watches are just mini-programmable controllers that run a modified version of FreeRTOS and have a nice compact screen that fits on your wrist, and a mic.

TL;DR: you need a smartphone to run Alexa.
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I'm a bit confused - this didn't actually install a shell script that can be run ?
The five phases of migrating to Google Cloud Platform
I guess titles no longer matter, eh? For Elizabeth she is "Office Manager" (per linkedin) and she was deans list all semesters at Cornell. Is this like starting in the mail room at CAA? [1]

[1] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-mailroom-sec...
Been using async/await like sweetjs macro "task" in production for around 1.5yrs (https://github.com/srikumarks/cspjs). This code would read -

task getUsersWithFriends() {
users <- getUsers();
catch (e) {
return trySomethingElse(users);
}
// Everything below is protected by the catch above.
withFriends <- filterUsersWithFriends(users);
return withFriends;
}

.. with errors propagating to nodejs style callbacks automatically. No need for overheads like "promisifyAll" either. cspjs turns the task into a state machine. Better semantics for catch and finally where you can retry operation from within catch clause (ex: exponential backoff).

disclosure: author of cspjs. couldn't help shameless plug since this was being touted as the "future" in the original post!
The Google/Oracle decision was bad for copyright and bad for software
The Many Worlds hypothesis provides a partial answer to some issues of consciousness, via kind of solipsism: "I am the only mind which exists: in my fold of the Many Worlds complex". This reconciles the problem of why everyone's consciousness is pinned to oneself: what causes your consciousness to be confined to yourself and inaccessible to me and vice versa. Basically, there is no hidden context variable for that; in fact, the universe in which you're conscious is devoid of my consciousness. (Plain solipsism consists of denying that there is any other consciousness anywhere, which is very different, and has entirely different ethical/moral implications.) The hypothesis is essentially that the subjective phenomenon of consciousness is something of which a single instance arises in any universe. That's okay; we have multiple parallel universes, and therefore multiple instances of consciousness. A variation on the Anthropic Principle then explains why "you are you and not someone else". (If you were someone else, you might still be asking that question---as that someone else.)
There is no real difference between the two. If you were a robot working effectively 365 days a year you would be able to command a proportionally higher salary/wage. "Paid" time off is as much of a lie as "employer" payroll taxes.
This was my first thought when I read it. How do you aim it(?).
It may reach the point of fixing the court process eventually, but understanding why it's an issue is also an important first step.

The how this issue is going to be fixed will probably be a long time coming, unfortunately. Give it time.

An interesting first step would be to include more transparent disclosure of the third parties who speculate on these court cases. Thiel very obviously knew this would backfire if it became public, which is why they kept it secret for so long.
N.B.: I agree with pretty much the entirety of your post. My point was, and I still stand by it, merely that OLPC (hardware) was developed because nothing else in the price and performance (particularly battery performance) existed at the time. The relatively poor hardware was, unfortunately, necessary to achieve the 20 hour battery life that it could pull off. It's important to recall that one of the major targets for the device was areas with poor power infrastructure. The 4 hour life of the Classmate PC would not have been conducive to that environment.

However, I agree with the rest of your post. I was much more interested in the project from when I first heard about it (2005 or 2006) and lost a lot of interest once netbooks (and similar) came about, at reasonable costs, a couple years later. OLPC would have been much better off if they had focused on their software and curricula components, particularly being OS agnostic as much as possible (I recall a lot of teeth-gnashing about the idea of distributing Windows to 3rd world countries, particularly from FOSS zealots of the time). Let the hardware and OS vendors compete, provide a compelling suite of software, tools, and digital library that they (vendors) can all ship on their own systems instead.
> Look, clearly we’re machines governed by the laws of physics. We’re computers made of meat, as Marvin Minsky put it.

This really seem inescapable to me. The remaining arguments all seem like smokescreens. Being able to copy computer programs? Reproducing the running state of even a moderately complex distributed system is effectively impossible, so this argument bothers me not at all.

Even if there is some quantum gravitational aspect of human consciousness, the idea that you'd be able to distinguish between that and a reasonable computational approximation of it seems far-fetched at best.

That said, I feel that we are extremely far away from producing a computer-based consciousness. Even human consciousness needs a couple of years of full-speed processing to reach the point at which it could even vaguely be considered conscious by adult standards. Most likely 5-10 years after we give up on the notion of creating an AI we'll discover that we created one 15 years ago but just haven't yet been able to recognize it as an emergent property of a hugely complex system.
Huge shoutout to Sama! This, plus Elizabeth Rhodes and Matt Krisiloff recently, it really feels like Sam has taken the reins of YC and is passionately pushing the organization further, far past what many of us probably imagined. I'm sure PG couldn't be happier with his chosen successor.