skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can watch YouTube in real time with little latency and no buffeting on 3G. Any landline not matching that is a scam.
As a consumer you sort of pay to get access to YouTube, Netflix etc.

The money should flow from the carrier to the content providers, but they saw them initially as a nuisance and later as leechers, despite that they are essentially the product that the carriers are selling and getting paid for in the first place, and they are getting it for free.
So people should just go live in the woods?
More supply than demand only exists for 'free' or 'public' goods. If there are costs of production, nobody (except government) will want to supply more than is demanded, as they will be giving the product away (or paying people) to get rid of it. Garbage is an instance of supply > demand.
I think startups can be considered research, but one has to characterize it fairly. It is not technology research, it is not physics research. Your description of trying "to discover ways to fulfill customer needs, whether customers know they have them or not" is a fair research topic description. Though I personally disagree with it, IMO startups are doing research on how to get rich quick; discovering customer needs is only tangential to the issue and is not usually the best way to reach IPO/exit. Sometimes you get good products that don't suck (e.g. Dropbox), most of the times you get scams that try to capture as much users as possible to enable a good exit (and then product shuts down). So in a way, a lot of startups can be considered experiments in persuading users and investors.
> Patents increase the sharing of information

Do you know of anyone who has had a software development problem, searched a patent database, found a solution in the database, then implemented that solution? I know that I never have, if people actually do that I'd be interested to know what sort of problems they are working on.
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It depends on the application.. you can try running your assemblies through MoMA (mono's migration tool) to see what gets flagged. A lot of the enterprise classes that are tied to windows obviously don't work... There's also no support for WPF iirc, though there is some Silverlight/Moonlight support, but that's another story.

If you're doing web/api services, then mono/.net core are serviceable. Though I would recommend that you have CI/CD setup to use linux/mono if you are going to target that platform... for the most part if it works in linux its' going to work in windows, not so much the other way around.

Take this with a grain of salt, as I've been mostly node.js for a couple years now, though the progress with .Net core and VS Code have my interest.
It might be helpful if you gave a little info about the nature of the nature you're considering. What kind of company are you moving from? What's the role like that you'd be taking on? How does it compare to the role you have now?

I don't have any personal experience in finance, so I can't answer your question, but I'm curious to hear other people's answers.

Also, I'm curious, how does the comp compare, both in relative value and structure?
Ask HN: Feedback on Slack app for innovation discovery
Hi guys, I would like to ask for feedback on a Slack app me and a friend have been working on, available at www.laissez.io

It's an innovation management platform for Slack, basically a Slack bot + external dashboard that allows everyone in the team to pitch ideas, which are displayed as cards.

Right now we are working on adding an internal currency system and a project pipeline for crowdfunding and recruiting collaborators using the currency.

Thanks!
Schelling-point bribery

Kinda reminds me of Eliezer's concept of acausal blackmail
"Progressive" in SF == "f#$* you, I've got mine already".
Shows the importance of server security.

And a reminder that no need to store your bitcoins online.
Have you asked your users?
I wonder, what are wealthy people more likely to do: (1) but a hand made leather bag from a local hipster workshop (which I would do) or (2) buy a 10x more expensive Louis Vuitton bag which was probably made in a giant factory in China? And generalize to other goods/services.

(1) at least supports local economy while (2) supports limited number of middle men.

I'm not saying (2) is bad, but if it's only wealthy people spending their money only on imported goods then it is not good.
and for those of us used to living in cities, living in the middle of nowhere sounds horrendous.
This lacks recognition. So many factors could come into play. E.g.

The downstream effects of house prices has to hit entrepreneurship. Previously a bunch of people would be in a good place to take a couple years off to start a business mid-career. Now people have these huge mortgages where your ability to start a business is hampered by your ability to get a financial buffer to take this year or 2 off. And lets not forget most businesses are created form people mid-career, not the TV typical university dropout.

And small community business, how will they exist in the future. If someone wants to set up a local 'physical presence' vet/daycare type business that are typically mixed into residential areas the threshold is now too high to exist let-alone set up a new business. How can a daycare buy a million+ dollar house and expect to make money paying that back on having 30 local kids being looked after.

Also what is going to happen with social services like retirement and periods of higher unemployment. I suspect society will be less stable as either the government has to foot much higher rent costs (unlikely) or we will see increased population movements during retirement, and now the government has to look after older people that before a family who lived nearby could help out with. And during low employment cycles society can no-longer absorb this downturn if people have large income-to-debt loans. Historically people could 'tighten belts' for a year while things improve, harder when you're neck deep in debt. So we will again see more movement of people, debt default etc. It will serve to exacerbate recessions etc.

Also these higher prices skew the economy. When people are tied up in these ever increasing loan/income ratios there will be less spending on dining, holidays, hobbies etc. It will weaken the economy by concentrating the spend in limited areas.

From this I really believe we should be talking seriously about ensuring affordable housing for owner occupiers. Residential investment need to be discouraged (note I'm not saying stopped) as a speculative asset class. I've seen a few suggested methods to achieve this but I feel the simplest is to place a yearly 'asset tax' on non-owner occupied residential property (I would also include farms). Having a % tax would make it easy to adjust to find the right balance given economic cycles change. Also this would encourage property hoarders not in heavy debt to sell for lower taxed asset classes. This I feel is important as most solutions focus on controlling the investment lending side which is limiting in reach. And the 'add supply' will always be a limited case solution.

Good luck. It seems most western governments have stopped caring about looking past the most immediate budgets.
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In my case I have been fighting for my colleagues salary too, since they're "linked" by company policy.

It works because even though he's not asking for more money I can tell them what the cost of replacing us is, and I can tell them if one of us leaves the other is more than likely to follow.
But all the world is following up China with the stupidest idea ever, reinventing a CLI in a chat..
Seriously, we had this interfaces in IRC bots about 20 years ago..
And now it seems the holy grail of technology..
> good luck bringing children to school in car if they have serious case of motion sickness

That's maybe the worst excuse I've ever heard.

At least it's the worst for the last... 3 years probably.
I was simply unaware of that. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Bugfixes:

TLS: switch off SSL session id when client cert is used
TLS: only reuse connections with the same client cert
curl_multi_cleanup: clear connection pointer for easy handles
include the CURLINFO_HTTP_VERSION man page into the release tarball
include the http2-server.pl script in the release tarball
test558: fix test by stripping file paths from FD lines
spnego: Corrected miss-placed * in Curl_auth_spnego_cleanup() declaration
tests: Fix for http/2 feature
cmake: Fix for schannel support
curl.h: make public types void * again
win32: fix a potential memory leak in Curl_load_library
travis: fix OSX build by re-installing libtool
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Not for software, but I have looked at patents for physical machines to try to figure out how to do something well (card shuffling machines).
No ones mentioned this yet, but with good (mongo-like) query interface, this can add an important database to the offline-first movement.

(Right now pouchdb or gundb are the only available options.)
>In Bitcoin, what's gone is gone.

that's true with US cash too. the problem with some of these exchanges is that they essentially have these buildings with $50M+ cash sitting inside them, but they are NOT also running bank vault level security, quality-wise, to protect that stash. some are better than others, but it makes sense that the worst of them will be run by underqualified people.

I've had the opportunity to look/study behind the scenes at a few major Bitcoin websites, early on, and... let's just say you never wanted to learn how the sausage in the sausage factory gets made. "This PHP kinda works on my box... Let's ship!"
> it will take Chrome and IE/Edge years to match.

Or just a few months to fork and improve. I'd really like to see the Chrome and Firefox teams converge over Servo. But maybe Google suffers from too much NIH syndrome to do that at this point.
Clickable non-shortened link:

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Many, many of the people injecting money into Vancouver already speak a second language just fine. French would be a third at least.
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One niggle, you still may have issues with Windows explorer, so if it's a path you need to navigate to, be careful... That said, I still don't get why .Net 1.0 didn't do this, I also don't get why they haven't fixed Windows explorer's long file/directory name support.
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What about tennis grandslams, nba, badminton etc.?The fundamental point is that players matter, executiveso don't .
Have you seen the thing about how there are no rich Americans?[1] No matter how big my house and expensive my car, I'm not rich, heavens no, that guy over there has a bigger house and a shinier car, he's rich. And of course he'll tell you the same thing.

$200k/year is most definitely rich by the standards of most of America. If you think that's silly, hang out with someone who makes $30,000 a year and think about how much $200,000 would change their lives.

[1]http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/03/03/how_americans...
Eventually, Microsoft is making a common base that is supposed to be available in all .NET implementations.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/standard/li...

Think of it as the Compact Profiles introduced in Java 8.
the problem is on the merchant side. if you're selling $1 bowls of noodle in a small town, buying a POS to read cards is pretty darn expensive, the CC fees are expensive, and there is no real incentive to be the first guy on the block with a POS.
> Every step of the way programs can do less but are safer for the OS.

The important thing here is that it's a tradeoff, not an universal good. And a tradeoff that I personally don't like very much. Doing fun and interesting things keeps getting harder and harder because you have to jump through increasing amount of security hoops. For instance, reading and writing memory of other programs enabled you to do tweaks that are now almost impossible to perform.

I understand the need for change, now that a computer is expected to be connected and running untrusted third-party code by default. But we've lost something with that change, and I wish for a way to get it back.
I think it's time to give BitSquare a go. Distributed exchange, FLOSS, no single point of failure. Not suitable for fast trading due to transfer of real money on every trade, but totally fine if you just want to buy or sell cryptocurrency.
>That the patches were rejected categorically and someone presumably spent consideralbe development time on them

These were obviously generated programattically. I refuse to believe otherwise.
Wechat/Alipay change China a lot. Now I rarely use credit card. Not all gas stations accept credit card, but every one of them happily takes wechat. In many restaurants you can order in wechat and pay with it.

Not that I love the idea of a monolithic app controlling everything in our life, but the next big thing to take its place need to live up to its level of convenience.
Especially in lambda expressions for LINQ methods...
The bus itself is trivial to build.

The main challenge of this sort of project is to come up with a concept that's outside the proverbial box, and then sell the concept to public officials high enough in the regime's hierarchy to get them on board and have them sponsor the project to make it happen in the political level.

For such a bus to be able to circulate, traffic codes need to be adjusted, signaling must be tweaked, public roads need to meet stricter requirements, and the public needs to be educated. These are all political challenges.

Building the bus is the easy part.
It never really went away.

Its foundation XAML + .NET API has always been around in different forms.

The only issue is the implementation isn't 1:1 compatible across all its variants.
does anyone else remember seeing a concept video for this years ago?

super cool.
Metering water seems reasonable but there are upfront costs to more widespread adoption (financial + political/social) + a bureaucratic layer (with all the associated complexity/corruption issues) that would need to be implemented for metering plus nationalisation, so while I'm [quite possibly naïvely] personally in favour, it opens a very large can of worms.
What do you think Vancouver was before we poured bitumen all over it?

Also the idea that people in Yaletown/Gastown should go live in old factories and warehouses seems to have just fine.
I wonder why they don't fund proper studies. Maybe because the effect is too obvious to question? My oral hygienist can tell whether I floss regularly or not, so there must be an observable difference in plaque buildup. Subjectively my gums also feel better and bleed less when I floss regularly.
ex-IT workers who left these places say "My job went to India and my home went to China."
8 percent of the total housing market is being bought by billionaires, that's my understanding of the article.
I read through most comments here, and nobody seems to say this so I do. This article is BS, Silicon Valley might not be the cutting edge in mobile, but neither is China. You can't just write a generic article because of few small advances.
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I'm moving from a software company in the Bay Area where I work as a data scientist. The new role is a quantitative researcher ("quant"). The comp offered is considerably higher than the current one.
I don't know for QR codes, but swish payments (pay things on phone) are very popular in Sweden. I can swish my local fruit seller, the bar tenders and my friends in a matter of seconds.

As far as I know Sweden is generally more advanced in this kind of technologies than what I see in Hong-Kong.
AOT compilation for free instead of having to buy Excelsior JET, J9, Atego, ....

Ability to write SIMD code.

Real value types and ability to write almost C++ like code with structs and pointers, in case performance requires ask for it.

No JNI, rather developer friendly P/Invoke, RCW and C++/CLI for interoperating with native code.

No need to go fetch a VM plugin from somewhere, just to be able to debug the quality of machine code being generated.

Powerful desktop stack that is actually used.

F# is much better than Scala for those that enjoy ML languages and is available by default. No need to ask for permission to install it.

Ability to target the HoloLens, XBox, iOS and Android.
Right - the challenge is that with dynamic typing and without schema validation, it's incredibly easy to break any strongly typed client/consuming application. You think you are dealing with a `List<Number>`, you have Go/Java/Haskell/whatever apps which are consuming that in a strongly typed fashion using their idiomatic record types, and then suddenly a user accidentally sends in a single value which turns the tree of values into a `List<Number|String>`, and all your consuming apps break.

Given that schema validation ("does this instance match this type?") is simpler to implement than schema inference ("what is the type of this instance?"), it's surprising to me to deliver inference first...
I would like to see more of this kind of "Here's how I see it in the positive and negative" discussion on HN. Kudos for sharing the opposing sides of your own opinion.
You are right, by "community" I meant the core team and not the reddit community. they have been awesome (except the core team). I got a lot of positive feedback about the todo manager and the book. My apologies for the unclear comment.

When you look at the Go ecosystem there are two classes:
1. core team (the elites)
2. others (us plebeians)

The parent post has a brilliant line, which made me laugh for half hour:

>I wanted to check an invariant; how does Go do assertions? Fuck you, you’re a bad programmer. That’s how.

the others are awesome, my interaction with the core team was far from pleasant. They are rude and outright snarky. They focused on the book title more than the content and didn't even bother to read the content. I mean they did take a cursory glance, but the others on reddit were amazing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3zle8c/i_am_writing...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/suraj...

This is how I got banned from the subreddit. Anyways Good for me, I stopped browsing reddit that much.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4lj0yn/congrats_bra...

On the last link, click the downvoted comments, I deleted few comments, but yeah, that's about it, I got banned because I questioned the elites, it is called bullying!

Later I spoke with that guy himself, turns out he wasn't being rude :-D
It's funny, but with JS I write pretty defensively to prevent null references...

function frob(foo) {
return (foo && foo.ary || [])
.map(...)
}

Even though I know everything that will call frob exists and has ary, that doesn't mean it won't change or work otherwise... one of the things I like about how shorting works in JS... though the "?" conditional null thing in C# is pretty damned close.
One of my buddies here in China (who's been here for ever) told me that the China always say that we in the West talk too much. That we talk talk talk and never actually get anything done. In China people just do thing - often stupid things, but it's often the quickest way to learn how to do it right.
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And earthquakes. Let's not forget earthquakes.
Not what I meant, was just saying it seem to apply mostly to Vancouver (maybe Victoria, to a much lesser extent) and not BC as a whole.

But that's not how jokes work I guess!
This type of stance alone is worth the extra cost of an iPhone or Mac over their less expensive competition (at least to me). I can buy Apple products with confidence.
> Also: this thing being wider gives it about three times the floor area relative to a train, so it would require about thrice the number of doors to get passengers in and out efficiently.

Not exactly. Longer stopping times are enough to get people off and on.

> How do you do that while keeping it structurally safe?

There are no possible structural issues. In fact, building this sort of bus is more trivial than a regular bus, as size and weight constraints aren't nearly as important as regular buses.
In my opinion it depends. Here we are talking about really the same idea, and shariff is something I already used. It also is a few steps further, it has a backend to get vote counters and plugins for several frameworks, like Serendipity, Drupal and Wordpress (now, that is something which might have stolen the spotlight, and I opted to not mention that here).

But no, to your question, I don't think it is a new phenomenon or unwanted to mention related projects in comments. That's why I did not even consider that it might hurt op, thanks for chiming in. But yes, shariff should probably have its own thread, the ones I found are old and did get no attention. I'll re-submit it.
Yeah didn't Signal spend a bit of work trying to avoid exposing users?

If you have an existing Telegram device (registered before target registered), then how do they register? And wouldn't both devices get notified? Also how would they know which numbers to register?

Just fundamentally seems like the software can notify you of how many devices have access, and make that visible on any change and when installing on a device. Perhaps even offering to kill existing devices.
They have a strong image advantage too.

They are the only company to put the user's rights, privacy and best interests first and foremost.

For years they were the only ones to carry the open source flag in the browser space. They had the Mozilla Suite when other browsers were closed, they came out with Firefox which was a blast at the time, and now Servo.

They don't play to a corporate agenda, but tend to do «what is right».
I write one page pitches for notable ideas I have, it's also good to force yourself to elaborate on it while also being concise.

Feel free to steal any of them: http://munfred.com/pitches.html
> a.) cars don't follow traffic lights

They do, if these rules are enforced by a 40t vehicle that can crush them to death.

> b.) people create unofficial extra lanes

See a).

> c.) scooters are everywhere. and they ignore lights/lanes

Se a).

> d.) people don't pay attention to traffic lights nor cars when they cross.

See a).
I'm hoping that via CoreCLR's use of libuv, that these changes will make it in there, and by extension node... would make a lot of windows + node.js users very happy, to say the least.
Busses and trucks don't fit under it, so it cannot pass it and vice versa. Traffic lights and bridges have to be adapted or avoided.

It could work on longer straight roads, no corners.
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And easily fixed. Put multiple warning signs, then hang some chains set at this height limit on roads leading in as a warning (nice loud crash but limited damage), followed by a nice solid bar blocking the section of the road this operates.
This is all in the greater thread's context of whether you are more likely to get rich working for someone else or yourself. Sure, only the top engineers get paid $300k+/year, but an even smaller number of founders are able to pull that sort of effective salary. I'd wager that these days a smart engineer is financially better off at a big co than even starting a startup.

For more specifics, large, prestigious companies such as Google have salary and equity bands based on levels. The majority of engineers at Google are going to be above $200k total comp (salary + bonus + equity). Here's a glassdoor link for context: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engi...
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