skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An Essay on Wealth and Freedom
If we reach a level where people get arrested for using an app, it doesn't really matter how many there are. See Turkey.
Might be worth notifying personalities like Michael Geist about this and act as a voice.
It's the multi touch trackpad for me. Nothing else compares.
They're referring to an open 3rd Party API platform - not giving away their secret sauce.
I find it hard to believe Trump wouldn't, or hasn't, done exactly as Hertz has done. This seems like an all too common stratagem for upper echelons within a business to convince shareholders that the books are healing.
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Indeed. Slack thinks they're an "open platform" because they have an "open API" that lets people contribute more data to their closed silo.
That is the million BTC question. Bitcoin, on its own, could "change the world". Other blockchain apps could be influential even if the network/reach of Bitcoin stays at its current level. It's unclear which implementation (if any) will be the winner in the long run.
Attribution is difficult, but your comment shows a lack of understanding. Everyone already knows that you can't attribute activity based solely on the geographical association of IP addresses.
RFIDs are set almost to eliminate lost luggage
Yes, but direct-to-home doesn't need to pay urban rent or salaries for its distribution centers. There must be some other factor. Perhaps the costs of maintaining a reliable e-commerce site?
How did slack take away your email?

I treat slack as an async alternative to voice and video... maybe I'm doing it wrong?
If that were really the case, wouldn't paying the price for their premium package that has a 0% chance of having advertisements be better than using an adblocker which clearly has a greater than 0% chance at seeing ads?
The big difference between the Floppy and the USB/3.5mm/whatever is that the Floppy Drive was a device and these are ports. People might have been excited about new peripherals that fill the vacuum created by removing the floppy. But no one gets excited about having to buy a new dongle.

Going from wired to wireless is bigger than depreciation, because wires have physical functions beyond transferring data (keeping earbuds together).

The thinner-Thinner-THINNER mantra sounds very much like applied to cellphones in the pre-smartphone era. Which movie will make fun it in a Zoolander-esque way? When will we snap back and realize usability trumps style in the end.
The UK had a mass shooting back in 2010, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings
It's a fringe of society so people get abusive. I thought once you worked for a porn company you would almost never get out of the industry.
That's 12 hours of battery life in optimal settings. Being connected to wifi/downloading, watching videos, playing games, or doing anything computationally expensive will significantly reduce that battery life to a couple of hours.
This comes across as sour grapes from Slack.

Also, if you want to talk about "open solutions" then make your own solution open.
Inside Magic Leap, the Secretive $4.5B Startup Changing Computing Forever
Yes, it will be repeated until accepted as truth.

This is the same kind of 'truth' that led us to war in Iraq over WMDs.
They retracted that and apologized. It's unreasonable to just hold this over their heads, and in general use it to dismiss their entire project, which they have been working on for half a decade, mostly with no salary, because of one badly phrased sentence from one contributor which was then retracted.

I also think if you read the rest of what they're saying, it's probably is true that we will only get Linux GUIs which are competitive with Windows or Mac when people are willing to fund their professional development. OSS works exceptionally well for lower level components, or for components targeted at developers, because everyone involved benefits. For a professional developer a contribution acts as a good mechanism to raise your profile within the community and improve your ability to earn a decent salary elsewhere. For a company, running open source projects means they can solicit contributions and improve their profile; they contribute to other projects because it gives them a base to be able to build their products. We don't expect or find that OSS developers of high profile projects are starving in garrets, they are in fact leaders of their communities, highly prized and in-demand.

But these mechanisms do not have the same force when the consumer of the software is a general user, not a developer in the same field. i.e. when you're writing software in C++ which is then going to be used by graphic designers or artists, or by a casual user. In those case, the direct reputational benefits just aren't there, and that's why those sort of projects often struggle to take off. And on top of that those projects also involve a lot of painstaking and arguably boring work to get everything polished to a fine sheen. Krita for instance is excellent, but it has found a way to fund development through yearly crowdfunding. I think the same applies to Linux GUI's, that ultimately you need some pot of money able to support developers, which moves around according to the desires of informed consumers. In my opinion, that's what it will take for desktop Linux to become a serious mass market alternative to Mac and Windows.
Massive +1 to this. And enabling vsync manually in any flavor of linux I've ever used makes the framerate tank.

I don't know what magic MacOS does under the hood, but no other linux distro I've EVER used comes close, with the possible exception of Gnome. Unfortunately Gnome is ugly as sin.
> I love your new coat, Microsoft, it doesn't even make you look that fat!

Slack
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> A lot of what used to be good and impressive about philosophy, as opposed to just a lot of hand-waving, were the parts which had some overlap with science.

This is such a strangely ahistorical point of view. The obvious conterexample: we managed to get a little mileage out of political philosophy, which has no "overlap with science" in the way you mean. Creation of modern democracy and so on.
Right, exactly... how would I stop being upset by being forced into buying expensive hardware?
Not just that, but RideAustin is a non-profit and mimics virtually every feature of Uber. I seriously wonder if non-profit versions of the business will expand into other cities and challenge Uber and Lyfts margins.
>, and our rates are nearly two orders of magnitude[1] less than those rack rates.

$130 / 10 / 10 = $1.30

Did your workplace really negotiate UPS pricing such than you can send a 20 pound large package that's 36x18x24 across 2700 miles to be almost as low as $1.30?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
you are making a lot of assumptions, read up on accuracy here https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/10/bringing-salar...
I don't think such a thing exists, probably because there are few/no applications that target Linux and not OS X that aren't also open source. Can you give an example of an app that is only released as a compiled binary for Linux and not OS X?
Yes, though I'd rather this run on OpenBSD's kernel. I'd want all two of my softwares to span the GPL/BSD divide.
> Revalue Greece debt though, and there goes a whole bunch of European banks with greek debt on their books, and a GFC style cascade failure to who knows where in the system.

If that's true, then one possible solution would be to let the cascade failure happen while the ECB prints enough money to replace the losses in money supply (and then some) and distribute the money equally to everyone in the Eurozone.
Why Emacs 21.3? That's ancient.
I know that some companies are very secretive about it. One big company here in Montreal never advertise that they develop pornographic products. You kind of know it from word of mouth or it's a surprise during the interview. They also change name every other year.

They don't want they employees to be stigmatized for it, I would guess.
no it's an argument against irresponsible patching. the budget allocated to fixing these exploits will be higher at M$ as a result from the backlash
What a patronizing and condescending piece. All I got from this is that Microsoft has launched something in this space that is really worth taking a look at, if it prompts a competitor to write and publish something like this.
Like that time they chose HD-DVD over Blu-ray.
If you have little or no work experience, then your prospective employer will focus on your education. Once you have more experience, then that is what matters the most.

Some advice: internships and engineering coops are really great ways to get experience in your field, while getting that magical degree.
I'm sure they don't allow payment in bitcoin because they want recurring subscriptions.
I though their growth was just fine. I think the fact that you do not need to host it yourself is a force and it also lets them concentrate on exactly one product. I can imagine that providing a supported on premises platform must increase your support team size considerably.
I have. I'm aware I have a strong bias against LinkedIn when it comes to their data-handling. The entire company is built around selling me to recruiters, so I'm very wary about their collection of my employment information.

Edit. For example, I'm not sure if this current policy will continue into the future. It's easy for me to get used to handing them my salary information and for them to change the privacy policy under me.
Wait until PornHub get big into robotic. The army might be pushing big bulky robots but I bet that it's the porn industry that will get us great androids that will end up being used for everyday life.
Isn't the reasonable definition of reproducible for a poll having overlapping margins of error? A useful poll should do that.

The result is qualified, comparisons of results shouldn't ignore that.
Anecdotally, this does sound about right, and it can be frustrating for the academics too. Still, the title is brash, and ten readers completely (and I don't know how that was determined) reading a 25-page journal publication is not insignificant if they are in the same highly specific area and go on to collaborate on useful research.
I don't think getting hacked to death would be as clean a kill, generally, as being shot. I've never witnessed either happen, so I could be wrong.
I am not contesting that the US could be doing better.

What I am contesting is that you are conflating absolute and relative measurements to try to make a point, and that you are reducing such a complex matter into a question of political ideology that governs the countries. Also, lots of weasel-wording there - e.g, "hundreds of deaths" in country of 320+ million people, comparing with countries that are 100x smaller? - which do show a lack of intellectual honesty.

At least that is the impression that it gives when I read your response as some kind of counterpoint to the comment from GP about socialism and the associated bureaucracy.

If I have read your statement correctly and indeed you meant something along the lines of:

- The USA is doing worse than Greece in this one metric.
- Greece has more Socialist/Welfare-state inclinations than the US.
- Therefore if we want to improve this one metric we ought to adopt more Social-Democratic policies

Consider this: the best country in the list you provided is Estonia, the country with the "Most Competitive Tax System in the OECD"[1], which would basically be an argument that all countries should be like Estonia - a polar opposite from Greece.

But then again, I could have completely misread what you meant. Please correct me if I misinterpreted any of your statements.

[1]: http://taxfoundation.org/blog/estonia-has-most-competitive-t...

(Note to down-voters: do you really think that anything I wrote is so offensive or damaging to the forum, to the point that it deserves to be in negative mark? Gee, I know it is election season for most of you, but let's please keep a HN a place where people can have an honest discussion?)
gices a whole new meaning to the term "first person shooter"
I'd rather be exposed to and write product code for an interview, than be stuck white-boarding unrelated problems the whole day.
That's a pretty cool idea for Mattermost to have triggers that go off on new account creation.

Maybe a customizable welcome email as well for new team members.
MoMA makes most exhibition catalogs since 1929 available on the internet
> In fact, I think most innovations in technology come from either the military, video games or porn.

Also, finance. Machine Learning for trading algos, Bitcoin/Blockchain etc.
Chrome is a browser offered for free by what's essentially an advertising company. How could we expect it to be on the cutting edge of the fight against advertising?

They only tolerate ad-blocking plugins as long as it's necessary to retain power users. For instance, they aren't tolerated on Android.
> How did slack take away your email?

Through network effects and corporate norms.
I'd be curious to learn more about that as well. I've had recruiters for MindGeek reach out to me several times and the whole "separate company but really just an arm of the porn company" thing seemed a little strange. It made sense when the recruiter explained not everyone wants a porn company on their resume, but they went so far as to have a fake company website and and everything to really sell it. What else do they do that's sketchy?
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Slack really needs to gift open source projects with a large userbase who use Slack 100% free, with the catch being no private rooms or something, fully web searchable.
Yes, I found that strange. After reading the first few words ("Congratulations on today’s announcements.") my first thought was, "What announcements?" .. then after reading for 30 more seconds the second reaction was, "Slack is scared and not happy about this", which is something that wouldn't have crossed my mind had they not written this.
In Israel it definitely is a way to dodge taxes.
So it has come to this
Thanks for sharing your xp. I always thought that working for ManWinn (the proprietors of PornHub and Brazzer etc) in Montreal would be an interesting xp. Wasn't even thinking about the technical challenges but thought maybe in a business where you are selling a primal human desire, you cannot be coy and hide behind the usual BS startup-speak, "changing the world by bringing joy to the inspired accountants and internet markers of the world via artisanal book-keeping SaaS/AdWords campaign dashboards written in GoFluxReduxGoRustEmberElixir and handcrafted in California, lightly dressed with material responsive design"... "No, we're the proprietors of amateur and Brazzer Network-produced porn using PHP and web-design from the 90's (yes complete with the old plain pop-up's but none of that new subscription modal pop-up dark pattern), but our customers' penises do not care - in fact they love it."

When you're building software for a specialized field like finance, health care etc., the end-impact is always obscured by layers of product managers, business analyst and the domain where you have no knowledge - web development in porn seems like a good biz to be into where "I'm not only the Hair Club president, but also a client."
workarounds exist sure, they aren't replacements for that app's workflow
Note that this this only intercepts websocket requests in the DOM window context. It could be potentially be bypassed by using workers which have access to websocket APIs.

The real solution is for chrome to add support to their request filtering.
I was also confused reading that piece - if anything, it helped market the existence of something by Microsoft.

This piece would've been better released after Microsoft announced something IMO. Timing seems wrong.
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Why Sequoia joined Accel and Matrix to bet $6M on one-year-old Zarget
It's the idolization of the flow state that I take issue with. Flow, as the article states, has advantages.

But the tech industry puts it on a pedestal, to the detriment of teams and active collaboration. It discourages discussion and communication for fear of disrupting a precious, fragile work-state; it makes those who don't get into that zone feel lesser-than and like they are failures; and it makes those that do get into that zone chase it with single-minded zeal and drive themselves to exhaustion in the process.

To paraphrase another commenter from a different channel, the "fetishization of overwork" that comes with the constant, heady pursuit of flow is what I push back against. Flow itself is fine. The culture surrounding I find very problematic.
If everybody had an account with the central banks, sure. For now the SUs only have access to the major-banks sandbox, and playing around in this sandbox does nothing except cause asset inflation.
Snowden revelations made "conspiracy theories" plausible regarding cyber security, operations and media reporting.
Why do these topics always come up? Because places overcharge, make things too complicated or use insecure services...

I don't block ads to stop creators from getting paid... I block ads because 99% of them are irrelevant, waste my time and are a massive attack vector.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/05574633295/forbe...
> Wait until PornHub get big into robotic

Westworld springs to mind
So much scare-mongering went into this vote and it's a big reason why Prop 1 failed. No one was scammed by anybody.

Uber and Lyft chose to leave Austin. You can argue endlessly why they were forced out, but somehow other services managed to pop up and make the business work.
Well, they actually did have (veiled) connections to various mafias. They had associates who just hung out all day in strip clubs and solicited girls (with the consent of the owners). Where do you think all those eastern European and Latina chicks starring in porn come from? Strip clubs are an entirely different level of shady.

Also, at the company I worked at, they had a sort of level of employee where you were "made". You got to go on lavish trips (the owner had a private jet) and dinners with executives. At that point, you had a job for life as long as you didn't fuck them over.
I've never met anyone who designs ASICs or FPGAs professionally that thought HDL was software. I'm not sure it is contentious.
Just to clarify, that wasn't the point I was trying to make. The point is that Dell is using a much smaller battery, Windows (uses more battery in comparison to MacOS), a high-end / high TDP CPU and still managing 5 hours. Apple would be able to manage the 10 hours. Using SO-DIMM DDR4 (1.2v) would sacrifice a few mm of thinness and a few minutes of battery life at best.
Yeah, because I trust LinkedIn with privacy.
Seems like the standard 2 phone screens + 5 onsite interviews.
There's a lot of benefit in being able to reuse the imperative language structures that people know and "love". I think it is more a writability thing.

I've been working to teach Promise thinking to another developer. Promises (and callbacks) are "easy" from a functional programming background, but for someone without much of a functional programming background like my colleague, it's certainly confusing. There is a rigor needed in writing Promises (and callbacks) in knowing what is in each closure and making sure that the return values of individual callbacks are in the "right shape" for the next callback in the chain.

Loops with Promises involve confusing things like higher level combinators like Promise.all and Promise.race, and that requires more new sorts of reasoning about return types than a "traditional" `for (let thing of list) { let result = await doThe(thing); /* do something with result */ }` loop.

Not that a need for things like Promise.all and Promise.race goes away with async/await but that it moves from being a must need to learn on the first pass of writing an algorithm out to being a performance optimization in advanced scenarios that can be done easier by someone more senior and/or in a later pass of code writing (such as a code or performance review).

It makes the learning curve to "doing asynchronous code right" a lot less sharp, smoothing out some of the complexity, and that can be a huge win for any team with a mixture of developers of different skill levels and skill sets.
How Could We Create a Second Earth?
Shouldn't the shipping costs be based on where you're shipping to rather than where you're browsing from? Or am I misunderstanding?
The tone I got from it is, "How dare you compete with us!"

This whole idea, from writing the letter to publishing it as a full page ad in the paper, seems bizarre and misguided.
A happy little binary tree: learning to code from Bob Ross
Amelia Earhart's last chapter was as a heroic castaway
How is matrix different from IRC?
I'm researching matrix and am curious how it differs from traditional IRC server setups. Any help would be appreciated.
Wouldn't the solution in either case be to sell the house and move somewhere you can find a job?
Absolutely it does. There are good reasons why respect for the principle of equal rights among nations is enshrined in international treaties. Germany has been the biggest benefactor of that, and a German minister shouldn't ride roughshod over the will of the people of another nation.

> at the risk of losing every bit of credibility as a debtor

This mentality about debtor and creditor nations within the EU will eventually destroy the Euro.
Slack somehow became the de facto standard for "internal IRC" but i do think it does many things not particularly well. Then writing an article like this as if their product is the reinvention of human communication feels patronizing and VERY cringy (to me anyway).
> teaching people those intentions

why do we need to teach people though? If its obvious that gratitude is good why can't we simply adopt it in an instant. Unless you mean 'anti gratitude' is inherent to all human minds and needs to be constantly suppressed and overpowered through practice.
Corollary: Realize that you have a belief system, too, and therefore that, when the other person has different beliefs, they aren't necessarily the one who's wrong.
$200k house, $6k tax bill, so about 3% a year on the value of your home. That's similar to what you'd pay in urban Texas where property taxes are the primary way that state/local government gets funded. Only NY State has income tax on top of this (plus city income tax if you live in/near NYC), and Texas does not.
Can you explain the difference between an open and a closed 3rd party API?