skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Nexus 6 user it's not big enough and I dread the eventual shift back to a smaller device. So far the Pixel's features and cost aren't compelling me to switch. Particularly since I'm also a Fi customer and their punitive data rates prevent casual photo uploads.

My basic use test is activity based: would I take this phone cycling, kayaking, to the beach, etc? Hell no. At a minimum it would need a drybox and I'd be afraid of triggering a costly moisture-related repair to a $900 phone due to some wayward sweat or water.
Contract work is not the same as salaried work. I made about €640 per day on my last project, but I spend a lot more on tax, insurance, retirement fund and my financial buffer than a salaried employee. Salaries tend to be a lot lower than freelance rates. At least in Netherland.
In addition of having your friends and colleagues being a reference, we want to also give you hard data about the libraries you are (considering) using like issue tracker stats, stack overflow answer rates, mailing list activity ... This is just a glimpse of what we want to build. We have a vision that we want to build with our users. As a result, the product will certainly be different from what initially intended.
The overtime regulations vary from union to union, but generally there's an upper limit – you can work 50 hours a week (and get compensated in some form), but not 90.
> more and more Moral Fashion Police on the democratic side of the isle

This hits the nail on the head. It's a moralistic sort of righteous indignation and it's profoundly, dangerously illiberal.

In addition, many of these are the same people who are pleased that HRC is not being challenged over the revelations in the email leaks so far.

I want whoever takes office to have been vetted as much as possible by journalists. How could anyone want their "side" to win so badly that they'd prefer their own candidate evade accountability (or vindication!) for alleged wrongdoing?

There has been very little adversarial press behavior toward either candidate... the press in this election has simply focused on stories that will get lots of clicks, such as those about sex, money, etc.
It currently contains proprietary code. But there will be a later version open sourced.

I didn't mean to be snarky though, in my eyes, it was just a fact
I don't need people to get in line politically. I would be content with them not bundling millions of dollars for Donald Trump before getting up on stage at the RNC and claiming, as Thiel did, to speak for Silicon Valley in claiming that Trump is the only honest candidate in the race. I'm a simple sort of guy. My needs are not complicated.
I'm crushing it. The harder I work, the luckier I get. This is why the US has more billion dollar startups. This isn't my first rodeo. 25% more is nothing, try 50%. Eventually, work will set me free.
All these weird antiquated ceremonies and traditions remind me of Doug Stanhope's take on the UK still having a monarchy @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctOHo4RzZEc - tiny quote: "for gods sake is this a country or a renaissance festival, what kind of Dungeons and Dragons bullshit is that?"
I subscribe to the WSJ and the one column I have learned to never read unless I want to shake my head at the way the modern media writes tech journalism is Joanna Stern's column. It is tech advice for people uncomfortable thinking for themselves or rightfully fearful they aren't able to keep up with changing technology.

"Hey, grown ups, have you heard about the latest thing? Let me tell you how to Snapchat like the kids are doing!"
I think it's pretty clearly specified which ones are apartments. I travel very frequently and have had various bad experiences with AirBnB. Nowadays I almost always book an apartment via booking.com. It's nice to have an actual customer service who takes care of issues, not always having to pay absurd cancellation fees, not having to wait for approval, and hosts not cancelling at the last moment.
So what? The idea that the developer should care about this is beyond comprehension.
Aren't Jython `None` values essentially `null`s? But, Kotlin, Swift, and others are starting to get it right. Scala will follow suit--the plan is for 'Dotty', the next major version of the Scala compiler, to represent nullable types explicitly as `A | Null` (`A` or `Null`). Without that explicit type there will be no way for a type to hold `null`.

Until that happens, in Scala we continue to work through in the presence of potential nulls by wrapping stuff that comes from Java APIs in `Option`s and never explicitly returning `null` from any Scala APIs.
I've been using emacs for 29 years.
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You really think that opposing Obama because he's black is comparable to opposing Trump because he incites violence and encourages racism and xenophobia and speaks highly of dictators and brags about sexual assault?

You want to rethink that?
Well if as a country you seriously suck at wealth equality and defending basic human and worker rights that 25% seems pretty low. Stupidity after all loves hard work.

Of all this is just old news for researchers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12689472 that's exactly what you stated, and you were wrong. The test case has a zero length array; that it what it is exercising; and that is the locus of the bug, as the headlined article's detailed discussion makes clear.
http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
Hopefully !

We spend a lot of time on our own to scale our Mercurial backend. Currently with the http based vcs-server and gevent we can support a lot of concurrent hg operations, but imho that thing can put it on the next level...

I wonder if it will support all things like phases etc ootb.
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As an owner of a S6E: I'd disqualify those due to unremovable crapware (anything starting with S basically), crappy support for rooting/flashing the phone (ODIN, flash fuse), crappy driver support for 3rd parties (-> No CM, probably never). Touchwiz.

If you like Apple, the iPhone is great I guess. If you like Samsung, the S6/S7 series might be great. I'd definitely agree that the hardware is superb in both cases, but would disqualify these devices (in my world, for my use cases and preferences) due to software concerns.
This reminds me of the infamous slashdot post about the iPod right after it was first announced:

> . No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
Ok but how do you associate Hash2 with a user account when the user logs in?
I wouldn't consider the Weibo payment system "strong"... it seems to be based on alipay and I've never heard of anyone using it instead of Wechat or Alipay.
But other than that indeed Weibo is now very different from twitter, they've continued to evolve while twitter has staid essentially the same for all these years... 140 character limit and all.
This is unfortunate. I agree with the YC leadership. It seems wrong to me to punish anyone for their political beliefs.

However, I can't blame Project Include for cutting ties with an organization which appears to support someone that is now actively working against them.

One thing's certain, Trump has been incredibly divisive across a surprising variety of communities.
I dont' find this to be a good thing, not something you should brag about...
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OK, Mill, On Liberty, chapter 2:

> But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in or opposition to it. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

> [some pages later:] For a long time past, the chief mischief of the legal penalties is that they strengthen the social stigma. It is that stigma which is really effective, and so effective is it that the profession of opinions which are under the ban of society is much less common in England, than is, in many other countries, the avowal of those which incur risk of judicial punishment.

My understanding of Mill is quite against this claim, and especially your claim upthread 'There is no work of political philosophy anywhere that suggests we should be able to say whatever we'd like "without fear of repercussions".' He was arguing directly this idea that it's enough for free speech that the state not suppress it.
Another less-than-fond memory was our LAN. (20 year old memories, so take all of this with a grain of salt.)

At the time, all of the R&D teams (the company was effectively two halves, R&D and ISP) were on a single physical network.

Roughly 2000 computers, all on a 10-base-2 network.

If you've never had the misfortune of working with 10-base-2, lucky you. I'd never seen it before, and never since. Didn't take much to bring it down.

Whenever I'd lose contact with our NFS server (NFS, sigh) I'd check my transceiver; if the yellow light was pegged, that typically meant someone in a nearby data closet had bumped the Appletalk repeater and we could count on several minutes of misery.

It seemed remarkable that the company largely responsible for building the Arpanet, who as an ISP was responsible for how many thousands of users I had no idea, had such a rickety network for its own employees.
You're suggesting a dichotomoy that isn't there. They assuredly focused on his life, not the length of it directly, in the article. It's simply customary as a suggestion of who and how someone died when it's particular ages.
Who uses SD card anyway? I mean seriously pretty much everything is cloud hosted now days, so 64-128GB is not enough?
I can't even read this article through the google workaround. HN should seriously consider banning WSJ.
Agreed. Watched the Pixel announcement, looked at the price, bought a Nexus 6P. Nothing in there that excites me hardware wise and a quick look at the Nexus subreddit yesterday noted that most of the software improvements are available on 6P anyway.

Edit: And what I really wanted was for my LG G4 to actually be fixed rather than for the retailer to give up and give me a credit. Loved that thing.
Are you replying to the correct comment, or do Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden offer $300 per month insurance that doesn't cover the first $10,000?

edit: and anyway, your link vehemently disagrees with you on "extreme."

"While higher health care spending generally leads to better health outcomes, this is famously not the case in the United States. The country, which is one of the world's wealthiest, spends by far the most on health care. The United States spends around $8,700 per capita each year on health care, more than double the OECD average and well more than second place Switzerland.

"Despite the high spending, Americans are not anywhere near the world's healthiest. More than 35% of Americans are obese, one of the highest rate in the world, and exceptionally high compared with other countries spending the most on health. The United States is also the only top 10 country for health spending where the life expectancy does not exceed 80 years. Also, perhaps as a consequence of poor economic and social factors as well as the inefficient spending, adverse health outcomes such as infant mortality have increased in the United States. While in 2000, the incidence of infant mortality in the United States was lower than the OECD average, today it is higher."
This article appears to neglect the impact of craigslist and similar services on classified ad revenue. With that revenue gone newspapers are in trouble, mistake or not.
> Only 2 years updates

This part is simply atrocious. I am using iPhone 5s just fine with latest version ios. Google should admit clearly on their online store that they do not have wherewithal to work with Network operators, hardware vendors to keep OS updated for at least 3-4 years.
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As far as I know, if you just use symmetric AES 256 it shouldn't be a problem for a while. The potential (I repeat that, see Aaronson's post I linked to earlier) problem is "just" the use of the public keys.

And combining the lower-bit algorithms into the bigger ones is relatively easy, as an example from the 56-bit DES a 3DES with security of around 112 bits was made and (is still) used:

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

edit: re: the early collisions with 64-bits etc: If I understand, the problem happens only when the soon-enough rekeying doesn't:

https://sweet32.info/

I agree it's better to avoid these altogether.
While there is a chain of command that could potentially stop a rogue president from unilaterally ordering a nuclear strike, at the end of the day the POTUS has an immense power in his ability to order a nuclear strike.
> If it was $1.25 million for Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or even George W Bush, there would have no complaint

Are you kidding ? when Condoleezza Rice got a seat on DropBox's board, people here on HN very much complained and said how they were going to "drop" Dropbox because someone on its board was on the wrong political side.

I'm not republican but it's pretty clear in most US tech circles,especially in the Silicon Valley, you just cannot be republican or people will be out to get you. Trump or not, that's a fact and it's ridiculous.
Indeed. Just think of the social safety net and universal healthcare we could have in the US if we taxed the highest marginal income rates appropriately.

EDIT: And how much more holiday/vacation time we'd have if it was mandated at the federal level.
Maybe using a harder hash does not incentivize people mining it, reducing its growth and liquidity?
I think I'll keep my Nexus 5X for another year or two until the specs of midrange phones surpass it, and then I'll probably go for a Sony or Motorola device, probably whatever the 2018 iteration of the Xperia X or Moto G will be (I favor Sony's hackability but Moto's aesthetic). I'll be pretty bummed to have to leave Project Fi, because it's the best carrier I've ever had, but I'm not buying a Pixel, and my 5X won't last forever.

What Google is asking for the Pixel is way too much money. On top of that, I absolutely cannot stand how metal-and-glass phones feel in my hands. I have sensitive skin, and every time I've held an iPhone I feel it digging in and causing me pain. Here's the thing, though: because of the iPhone's popularity, an iPhone user who doesn't like its feel can get any kind of case they can imagine. A simple Google Image Search turns up dozens, if not hundreds, of different leather and suede cases. Searching Etsy turns up options for hand-stitched leather. You can even get an iPhone case that doubles as a stuffed animal, if you really want something soft (seriously: do a Google Image Search for plush iPhone case). The Pixel will never reach that level of popularity. It will never be popular enough for there to be even a quarter of the cases available for it as there are iPhone cases (I'm skeptical it'll have even an eighth of the amount).

I also just don't trust Google to seriously make an "appliance phone". Look, Apple is very, very good at making phones that are basically consumer appliances. Google doesn't know how to do that. They've dressed the Pixel up as one, and given it a price and a fuselage to match, but they don't have the experience, and they don't have the app ecosystem. Even their first-party apps are horrendously inconsistent with one another. The reality is that if you want an appliance phone, you should buy Apple, and if you want a hackable gadget for geeks, you should get either an older Nexus phone or buy Sony.
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I'd love to buy one if only I could. Still no Google products in Mexico.
I wouldn't be that sad. Bad docs may be a good objective reason not to use Scala, but there may well be even better objective reasons to use it, like doing data science with Spark, or even building resilient fault-tolerant systems with Akka. The final calculation will, as always, rest with each potential user.
My experience is the polar opposite. I have Windows software that was released for windows 98 that still works today. Other than stuff that heavily relied on DRM, most of the Windows software I own still runs just fine.
Not waterproof/resistent
If it was Verizon or AT&T or some other ISP doing this there would be outrage. But I guess it's cool if it's Google.
Smartphone addiction is part of the design
I'm against Trump but this holier-than-thou grandstanding demanding shunning anyone who supports Trump is tiring and small-minded. It's a symptom of a society intolerant of other political beliefs. Moreover, do you think ostracizing 40% of society for their political beliefs is really going to improve our political future? It's easier to cut out people we disagree with than arguing with their beliefs (civilly).

Let's take the high road and stick to impassioned, reasoned arguments against Trump's beliefs and actions.
I have two phone requirements: stock Android and <5" screen. The Pixel comes so close. If it were cheaper, I would compromise on the screen size. As it is, I just bought a new battery for my 2013 Gen 1 Moto X for $5 instead.
A colossal mistake... from which point of view? Never had we available such a huge source of fresh news. Maybe that's not the best for newspaper industry, but as far at it lasts (and no serious signs of disruptions have shown up), let's enjoy it!

It looks a bit like software development: Microsoft educated users to ship crap (people think that having to reboot is fine!) and we ended up having to maintain crap.
FPGA designer (and embedded sys FW) living in Italy here, must say that tech jobs are possibly some of the few jobs that you can be safe to find here!
Now, if tech means webdev I have friends that struggle to pay the bills by freelancing with that, but going down the stack you find much more demand (I have personally found A LOT of demand for EE).
Consider that I'm speaking from the northern part of Italy, no idea about the south tech-jobs situation.
As they just did to all the Nexus users, where last year's phone buyers won't get software-only features like the Google Assistant, just to encourage new phone purchases.
> Mussolini

This is the type of thing that really bothers me. Not only is that a ridiculous comparison, it's completely baseless and anti-intellectual. Trump has made a few off hand fascist remarks, but nothing that could substantiate him establishing legal dictatorship. So why even make that comparison? Just fuel the witch hunt?
"some anonymous individuals at a newspaper"
...you mean professional journalists who actually report on subjects of their expertise?
The V20 is also running 7.0 Nougat, and is available now, which the author failed to mention - in fact, she says the Pixel's the only one running it.
People keep claiming that this sentiment is "profoundly illiberal". Those people should read more liberal philosophy, because it is not as if this is the first time this issue has come up. You can bring it back to John Stuart Mill if you like, but (very unsurprisingly) it's also one of the major themes of post-World-War-2 liberal philosophy. We are not required to tolerate intolerance when intolerance poses a threat to society.

If you don't believe Trump's intolerance poses a real threat, you're on safe ground arguing against appeals agains Trump. But Altman and Graham do not agree with you.
Certainly societal segregation is part of freedom of speech. John stuart mill is a key refefence to this. His general principle is that government should only step in to prevent harm but sometimes segregation based on belief can be that harm (his 'tyranny of the majority')

Now nobody we are talking about is struggling to survive based on their beliefs but whether its right to start segregating people for their views is definitely a freedom of speech issue.
Completely agreed having lived and worked in all 3. Canada is the sweet spot.
That sounds like your typical slashdot comment. By the law of large numbers, one of them is bound to become infamous.
I'm about to turn 31, and I make a decent salary as a Senior Software Engineer. I'm deeply considering going to live on a few acres and go full subsistence to avoid this rat race. Software isn't fun anymore, our generation probably won't retire.

The worst part is that crippling medical bills and college loan repayment are destroying us financially.

I think I'd be happier surviving what I can do myself than to keep doing this bullshit much longer.
> > The U.S.’s shift from traditional pensions to 401(k) plans makes it harder for Americans to know when it’s safe to retire.

Maybe I am misinterpreting but nobody is in a financial position to retire but continues working because of market volatility. Bonds are that volatile, and nobody with half a brain is heavily exposed to stocks if they have a high 6-/low 7-figure 401(k) and are planning on using that money for retirement income.
And what does it mean to be 'Chinese'? I am asking, because in way or another, that formula you've mentioned, it parts, the wheat its made of (or whatever else), this plane, its parts, its materials... Some of them, probably a lot are in one way or another 'Chinese'.
Sounds like LG V20 works better for you. It has replaceable battery, SD slot, and higher price than the iPhone!
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>I find it astonishing how positive Bloomberg tries to spin this:

>People earn a wider range of incomes in the U.S., so “workers have an incentive to try harder to move up the job ladder because a promotion is worth more,” said Dora Gicheva

I do not view it as a positive spin. I could take the exact same statement and use it to point out the problem in the US.

Almost everyone I know in the US, regardless of their current income, is trying to get a promotion, simply because one is available.
> I'm really unclear about why this is exciting to people... it seems like an iPhone that runs android.

That's exciting to me. There are some people who highly value Apple's HW engineering but don't want to deal with the closed ecosystem.
You should direct that question to the person who made the comparison. I agree with it, but I think you'll understand this thread more if you ask the person I'm referencing.
The Pixel is 32 & 128, and +$100 for the 128GB option. A MicroSD card does not cost $100, and offers far more space.
You get the Google "crapware" on almost any Android device. (contractually mandated by Google)

The other crap that the vendors bolt on is always on top of that.

PS: I have the One Plus Two. Great device, very happy. Good price. No replaceable battery either, though.
Alternatively, you could consider paying for articles you want to read...
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> Also hoping unlimited high-res storage for photos in the cloud becomes a standard across all vendors. I know you aren't supposed to trust these services with your precious files, but I've been a horrible steward of my own photos and I'm always out of space on the device.

I, personally, absolutely refuse to use cloud storage of my photographs (or any data, really) that doesn't involve client-side encryption. Am I actually that concerned about my photographs themselves? No, not really — but it is the principle of the thing, as well as uncertainty about what the future might bring.

I feel the same way about my location history and other data. Can I guarantee that no government or employer for the rest of my life will penalise me for having attended a political meeting, a church or anything else? I really don't think so.

Once given to someone else, data can never be pulled back. None of us can know the future, and so it makes sense to be as conservative as possible about what we let go of.
Are you going to back up any of your claims?