skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is starting to seem fairly specific -- machine learning with memory safe languages that have AOT compilation to native code. It's not even, memory-safe languages that are performant -- because Java would totally match that requirement.

What I'm suggesting here is that there is nothing really remarkable about it, from either a research or implementation perspective, given the achievements of the Java community in recent years.
Further to the point, here are their GitHub repos: https://github.com/wireapp
"The best way to do good in the world is not to be a philanthropist. It’s to be a good capitalist. The need to 'give back' is generally chiefly a sign that people took too much to begin with."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTAE5m3ZO2E
I think Android 6 changed this to make users granting permissions explicitly when running app. But, it might take years for phones and apps to upgrade to android 6.
Disclaimer: I worked for this company.

StarLeaf (https://www.starleaf.com/) is a great alternative for businesses.
If the images are small enough SVG versions of these would be nice as preloaded images while the originals download.
That's a terrible name if he's planning to monetize this tho.
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&conte... says PayPal takes $0.30 per transaction plus 2.2%, so that's a full 1/3 of my dollar gone there.
I'd like to encourage founders who are participating in this to consider directing at least some of their pledges to support open source software. I don't think there are any YC companies which would have existed if it hadn't been for a large amount of open source software; if you want to maximize the impact of your donations, helping the projects which build tools the next generation of startups will rely on is a pretty good way to go.

(At Tarsnap, I mostly fund the FreeBSD Foundation and other BSD-related organizations, but that's primarily because those are the groups whose work I am most familiar with and can judge most effectively. There are plenty of other organizations doing great work with open source software which can benefit from funding; but of course I'd love to see everybody here supporting the FreeBSD Foundation too.)
Wait, THAT'S why people want to use AMP? I set up AMP on my personal site for a couple weeks because I thought there was an SEO benefit (I didn't see any, so I removed it -- lowering page weight by something like 7x).

I had no idea that the reason it seemed pointless was because it was for ad infrastructure.
An idle core will definitely use less power than one constantly processing. That is what drains the battery in your laptop. I'd rather not spend my battery power if it can be done on the server instead.
The History and Evolution of Marketing Influencers
I've been wondering how to actually uninstall default installed apps. I'd value the disk space a lot more than the app functionality.
AT&T Claims Breakthrough in Multi-Gigabit Broadband
> This is an indication to the user that the site has certain traits (particularly, the UX they experience with AMP sites), and that if they like those traits, they should pick the site over others, and conversely if they dislike those traits, they should favor sites without the indicator over those with it.

You can make a website load like AMP without going through AMP. This is not an indication of a UX trait, this is an indication of using Google's technology and nothing more.

If you have Website A using AMP and Website B not using AMP but able to load in the same way, the Google search is going to show a label next to Website A and not Website B. Do you feel that this is fair? Or another way to force operators to now generate an AMP version of their website? Because I see this as the latter.

> No, its information (the same as providing, e.g., [PDF] notations), not "indirect ranking". How it affects behavior, like a file-format flag, is dependent on the value (positive or negative) the user ascribes to the trait it provides notice of.

Ranking determines where a website shows up and affects user behavior by users choosing the higher ranked websites. This has the same behavior without reordering things. I would call that a form of ranking but this is just splitting hairs; we're saying the same things.
How is that different for publishers that use any other third party script or service?

The Economist landing page alone uses 22 different such services.
I tried using the native share button in Safari successfully.

For the article I was on, it sent a URL like this in the message:

https://www.google.com/amp/{original_page_url}/amp/?client=safari

The full url is [0].

For me, that successfully redirects to the non-AMP version on desktop. Though of course it's confusing to not be able to share the original page url on Facebook / Twitter / etc.

Update 1: Actually it didn't work. Safari threw an SSL related error and redirected to the Mac Rumors homepage. Not sure if it's a quirk of that link yet.

Update 2: It breaks in Chrome on OS X too:

> Your connection is not private

> Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.macrumors.com (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

I do not encounter this error visiting the original page [1] directly in either browser on OS X.

Update 3: The SSL issue may be Mac Rumors specific. A sample article from TechCrunch [2] redirects fine for me.

[0]: https://www.google.com/amp/www.macrumors.com/how-to/macos-si...

[1]: http://www.macrumors.com/how-to/macos-sierra-apple-watch-unl...

[2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/macos...
Maybe it wouldn't be such a dud if there was the possibility of using any of this outside the walled garden of filling your house only with Apple products.

Once upon a time apple.com advertised their OS by showing off what you could create with it and how it was based on open technology. Now it's just about how the computer and its flock of gadgets can entertain and do your thinking for you, if only you give in to the mothership.
Social Media Debate Video: Snapchat VS. Instagram Stories
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, believe you're talking about the search result redirects that Google does; which is different, because the user get redirected the the real URL.

AMD'd links never redirect, if you click the X you're sent back to Google's results, there's no way to get to the real URL that an average user would easily be able to do, if the link is bookmarked the link it's not the real link, etc.
^ Exactly what I meant.
Interesting translation: "humongous".
Peer review. And it's a moving target, skype used to be the recommended one back in the day, when it was decentralized. Right now openwhisper based systems are one of the better ones we have (so whatsapp and signal) that are sanely accessible with decent features.
Pgslice: Postgres partitioning as easy as pie
The problem with this definition is that it isn't true.

17km/hour is an absolute speed. It is fast for a runner, OK for a cyclist and slow for a car.

"Fast" is relative.
>What annoyed him the most—indeed the principle source of his displeasure with the job—was the image mankind made of him forever gadding about with his trident in the tides. While all the while he sat there in the watery depths endlessly crunching numbers, a trip every now and then to check in with Jupiter was his only break from the eternal monotony, a journey from which, moreover, he generally returned in a rage. He hardly ever got a chance to enjoy his journey through the seven seas, just sped through them on his way to Olympus, never pausing to look around. He liked to joke that he was waiting for the end of the world, then he’d find a free moment right before the end, after completing his final calculation, to take a quick spin in the sea.

see yesterday's thread on the parodox of idleness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534067
Cheers for clearing that up :) I was rather confused by the comment.
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There will be a point in time where reshoring (landing the manufacturing back in the country where goods are sold) becomes viable because human labor wont be used. If China hasnt grown its economy big enough to be a consumer of its own products to maintain employment for its citizens things will get ugly (USSR?). It will be interesting to see how their economy based on being the manufacturing hub of the world survives.
Yes - this is solid advice. Thank you.
Thanks! We try to have cool demos :) We're working on having faster and faster guarantees, but for now we'll guarantee responses within 20 minutes. It's definitely much faster normally.

By default, Scale is built using webhooks/callbacks to return responses. We definitely don't want our API to be blocking, and so we designed it intentionally not to block.
They didn't mention blood spatter analysis! Even on the show Forensic Files, a show (which I love) that always tries to make forensic scientists look like geniuses, the blood spatter "experts" essentially throw horse blood at a wall and see which drops look like the ones at a crime scene. If they make a stabbing motion and manage to cajole the drops to look like the pictures, they say it's clear evidence that the person was stabbed. Totall bullshit. It's no longer admissible in court, but I'm sure tons of people have been wrongly convicted because of it.
Apple Live Photo Support on the Web, by Tumblr
Ask HN: Google Apps vs. Fastmail
I'm trying to decide between Google Apps for work and Fastmail. I have 3 person team. What do you guys recommend?
There are several tutorials out there, but it's a pain.

I have an AT&T branded LG phone, and it came with lots of crapware.

Example of the stuff you have to do:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-lg-g3/general/guide-how-...

Even worse, a "stock" Lenovo K3 Note comes with an unbelievable amount of crap (not surprising to those that followed the Superfish fiasco) - the hardware itself is pretty good and unbeatable at the price point (maybe they subsidize the phone with all that adware?).
Good questions and it's great to hear this take on things.

Cars play a large role in America. I don't know all the history about how it came to be this way, but I can make some guesses...

* America is very big, and a lot of the settlements are spread out by a ways. Cars make those communities less insular because they provide a way to get from one town to another, where biking would take a very long time and significant effort.

* I forget when (was it the Great Depression?), but there was a big government initiative to build interstate highways connecting places together by roads. Again, these were distant places, but by being able to travel by car, they now feel quite a bit closer. Most everyone on HN was born after this gigantic network of roads was already in place, and car culture was firmly cemented in the US.

* Due to the distances involved, getting a drivers license around the age of 16 or 17 is a huge amount of freedom bestowed on children just as they really desire such freedom. I spent a lot of time in a car as a teenager not just because of where we were going, but also since it was a mostly-private space for me and my friends.

* For the above reasons and many many more, America in general has a culture that is very centered on cars, so given that a lot of HN is both American and interested in technology, it makes sense there'd be a lot of autonomous car talk here.

I wish I had grown up somewhere less car-centric. I moved to NYC specifically so that I wouldn't have to rely on cars, and I quite like the public transportation here. When I've gone back to the rural New Hampshire town I grew up in, public transportation doesn't exist and getting anywhere except my immediate neighbor's houses takes a long time via bike, and I remember why I grew up with cars.

Edit to add: America is also heavily invested in cars and the culture that follows. The train system throughout the country has been in a terrible state for a looooooong time, and there's not much hope of it ever getting better due to the fact that we're so invested in cars. Some cities and towns have better public transportation support, but most don't. Some cities and towns have better support for bicycles and pedestrians, but most don't. There are occasional pushes to change things, but there's always heavy resistance due to just how deep into cars we are, and just how many people and local governments would truly need to get on the same page to make meaningful change.
> The right title is the boring one, "Pre-auth Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Metasploit".

That title is plenty interesting to me. If I run a product, I would normally not expect it to have security issues (unless it's from Adobe or something really old). Take Wireshark: I've seen them fix stuff like this so, yeah, I do expect Wireshark to be fine to run on untrusted networks as long as I'm not trying to wiretap the NSA's traffic. Similarly with Metasploit, I expect to be able to run that without being sploited myself.
Make stroke of a brush a geometric primitive and you have an interesting painter.
I was working in an App which builds Apps to local businesses. When it was ready, I realized that local businesses don't need an App at all. It was a f* moment. So I pivoted the App to build websites too, which makes much more sense to local businesses. I wish I had have this realization earlier.
Maybe you aren't a great engineer?
DDoS Mitigation Firm Has History of Hijacks
Is Google or anyone else making any effort whatsoever to explain this AMP thing to anyone other than Web developers? For weeks, I thought AMP was some sort of news service. I would get news articles that were apparently from someone else, but they said "AMP" so I figured it was some kind of syndicator or something. I tapped on the "AMP" and the lightning bolt thing and nothing happened. So I gave up on figuring out what it was and then I stumbled on some story like this one.

Does Google just not care that people do not know what this thing is?
Hillary Clinton IT Guru Posted Server’s Security Keys to Public
I'm listening to these, but I'm not listening to every episode of them.

Startup/Business

- startups for the rest of us

- the startup for the rest of us

- a16z

- startup

- kalzumeus (patio11's podcast)

Tech podcast

- hanselminutes

- software engineering daily

- hello internet

Comedy/Other

- my dad wrote a porno

- the great debates

- hello internet

- surprisingly awesome

- hardcore history

- 99% invisible
Dear younger self, here are four tips for reaching your goals
There are not insignificant complexities involved in hiring people multinationally.
Might be wrong, but my understanding is that China currently leads the world in robotic labor; meaning all robotic labor preformed by robots own by Chinese companies regardless of where the robots are.
If those extra bytes drop you from two packets to one, that's a _significant_ reduction in traffic

(which, IIRC, was the original rationale behind that style guide rule)
Seems a little unlikely, given that Google Analytics is already on 50-60% of the Internet and many mobile apps. Analytics is a much more effective tracking mechanism than AMP.
Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/1174/
Top 5 Best Databases for Web Developers 2016
I would love to write a new version of the GEM AES to run on RISC-V, on top of some kind of lightweight realtime OS.
We recommend you don't upgrade to macOS 10.12 Sierra
<_> is for when you want to specify the outer type of a generic, but don't feel like explaining the inside. So if something could infer to a Vec<i32> or a Set<i32>, instead you can say Vec<_> and have it infer the inner type.
If the market crashes or they cannot raise needed funds, they could easily turn around and begin charging $1 per certificate per year and still be a much better value than other CAs.
I call these "I'm so great" interfaces. When the creator thinks their thingy is so awesome that all the users will drop any other way of doing things and so they are free to generously cannibalize and dismember everything.

Google had another 'im-so-great' interface with hangouts a while back - trying to deprecate the separation of carrier sms, carrier mms, voip sms, and hangouts messages and combine them in some way where you don't know where things are coming from or where they are going ... so things hit carrier sms sometimes ... thus not being combined on all devices as before.

They took a working thing and made it broken in the name of making it work in the way they broke it.

I call things that make goals they set out to achieve less achievable a "car without wheels". The idea is that they are asking you to swap your wheeled vehicle for one without wheels that will just sit there on blocks.

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another car without wheels, mobile reddit.

They've removed the "share a link" feature. On wikipedia reddit is described as "a social media, social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website".

They've removed the first 3 of those 5 goals in their mobile interface.

This is distinct from a 'no you can't' interface such as the soundcloud app and mobile site where you can't delete tracks on your profile. If you only have a phone (many people do), you'd have to "view as desktop" to delete and even then, it barely works...

I'm sure it's a single web request and a single menu item ... this isn't a huge development effort - they already have a hamburger menu for your tracks ... it could just be tacked on there. Really easy ...

I should go off and make a list of these mobile design anti-patterns.
This is exactly it. The problem has just got out of control and this is _one_ solution. It is also something that could be experimented with. Just AMP a few things and see how it goes.
“Agility and Robustness: Clojure Spec” by Stuart Halloway (Strange Loop) [video]
I recently replaced my paid SSL certs using LE. I took what I would have paid in SSL costs over the next two years and donated it instead.
Is there a website that can generate a mock interview?
I am wondering if there is an app or website out there that can generate a set of mock interview questions based on scanning through my resume and the job description of the application?
I just remembered that Y Combinator has accepted several job boards in the past.

Maybe you can contact the founders of TheMuse, for example? (https://www.themuse.com/)
Very brilliant. Somehow Kafka's writing appeals to many people around the world, and everyone feels it's close to their experience, even though of course there is no 'right' meaning in the stories. After reading his work for a long time, I think he touched upon some general psychological mechanisms, which is why we can relate.

Really beautiful prose too - feels like you can't change anything without making it worse.
I'm only out of a job if you can successfully get to work without using the roads owned by the local road association. And if you can do that, so can I, so I wouldn't be paying that cost. But this is SF we're talking about, so that seems unlikely - transportation is extremely monetizable.

Alternatively, maybe you're taking a worse route to work and willing to suffer a worse commute, in which case fine, you're just willing to work for lower pay than I am. I'm only out of a job if you're an equal-quality employee despite being willing to work for lower pay, in which case one of us is being stupid (either you are undercharging, or I am overcharging) and could just choose to stop being stupid.
> "scroll to top" by tapping the title bar is completely broken

This is because the scrolling is in a container rather than the body. It's a tough problem on many mobile pages using sliding drawers for example, which rely on overflow based scrolling. There's no event, that I'm aware of, for a web app to listen for for tapping that UI element on iOS.

Ultimately, it's a non-standard convenience introduced on iOS only. Maybe someone else here has solved this :)
Oh boy. Let's replace statistics with guesses off of graphs!

That visible "zone of stupidity" is based on how long it takes to make a conversion which has everything to do with how your product works, and nothing to do with how statistics works. There is absolutely no difference between the graph you expect that leads to an accidental wrong decision and one that detects a correct difference - the patterns that you think you see don't mean what your brain will decide they do.

And more importantly, if you stop in 1/4 of the time that you would have been willing to run the test, the potential loss when you are wrong is twice the worst errors that you could make if you put more effort into it.

Have you ever been in an organization that rolled out an innocuous looking change that killed 15% of the business? I have. Over the 10 months it took to find the offending subject line, there was, shall we say, "significant turnover in the executive team".

Math exists for a reason. Either learn it, or believe people who have learned it. Don't substitute pretty pictures that you don't understand, then call it an explanation.
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If the car crashes you die.

> A life-critical system or safety-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in one (or more) of the following outcomes:

> death or serious injury to people,

> loss or severe damage to equipment/property

> environmental harm
> What annoyed him the most—indeed the principle source of his displeasure

Shouldn't that be "principal"?
What are your requirements? I use both services and thinking to completely migrate to fastmail. They have an amazing support and all functionality I need in terms of email and calendar. Also I have some accounts which only get used occasionally. You can then pick a smaller account for less money than google apps for work. Additionally I like that they don't use my data like google does.

Happy to have a chat and explain my use case. Don't have the time now to do an in-depth comparison.
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Noone is a pretty smart guy. But there are questions that no one, not even he, can answer.
This might be worth reading, but it is largely an advert for their product "Assembly CORE." The graphs only seem to exist to show that you need to buy their product (they have little substance beyond that).

The topic itself is interesting but without real and unbiased raw data on defects, it is hard to even discuss it.
Google Analytics is supported by AMP.[1]

[1]: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/extended/amp-analy...
I too feel google results gave been getting worse in the past 6 years. It's hard to describe, but it feels like the internet is somehow getting smaller.

But duck duck go results are still noticeably worse, sadly.
Site is down and I couldn't find a google cache of the article. :/
Aldous Huxley vs. George Orwell
Skype is broken.

A while ago I saw multiple charges on my MSN account which is linked to my skype account. It was for Skype credits through some odd russian account that was messaging me on skype and some how getting my account to purchase credits. I quickly changed my password and removed my CC from my account.

When I tried to get the issue resolved no one from Microsoft's support was able to help me because I couldn't verify the date I opened up my skype account (it was a long time ago I couldn't remember)

I managed to get my money back only when I went to Visa and told them these charges were fraudulent. Microsoft returned my money the next day and I haven't used skype since then.
They also probably don't include BAH and BAS as salary since they are considered reimbursements. Just as you wouldn't include cost of barracks as part of your salary if you lived there. BAH and BAS are a very large part of compensation.
Dear WP,

If you don't think that Snowden's actions were ethical, then your best recourse is very simple: don't print -- and implicitly, generate ad revenue from -- his disclosures.
If robots can be put anywhere, you put them where your customers are.