skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for something similarly priced to scaleway in US too. Have a ton of services with them, but can't find an alternative at lower latency.
> The only thing they can spew out is the story about the girl
> that got her Hijab pulled, which turned out to be fake.

You honestly believe that there was one single incident, and it was fake? This is an honest question: where do you get your news from?
538342. Had a weak / compromised password for ages, I'm surprised to have been able to access my account and change to a stronger password. I'm not sure the popularity of 6 digit accounts and the password compromise times overlapped much though.

Had some great times chatting to people all around the world on ICQ. I think I still have a couple of FB friends from that era.

I was bouncing an idea of an IRC like pager app around in my head in the months before I became aware of ICQ (but well after it was already developed).
Are you making any money on it?
The vowel shift[1] finished around the time the Dodo was discovered[2], so that's a fun story but it's wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
Hand-drawn flora and fauna illustrations are definitely not appreciated enough these days! One of my favourites is John Lewin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewin
And though most people are probably familiar, the Voynich Manuscript is also very beautiful.
Google is making a big machine learning and AI push in cloud services
Are Venn Diagrams Limited to Three or Fewer Sets? [pdf]
> getting things done

or perhaps getting things 'medium'
On a side note I read that book too & loved it.
None.

Healthy social time would depend on how well you get along with the people.

I'd say a majority of time would with someone / people you get along very well with would be the most healthy.
Woah, this is a big deal.

I played with IronWorkers a lot and even built some tooling around spinning up a worker and long polling an IronCache waiting for output (yes, it was a little gnarly). I'm really excited to play with this.
I have found the hacker groups at Berkeley off-putting for the exact reasons you mentioned (kind of silly to have an entrepreneurial club where the end goal for 99% of members is a desk job). The best that I know of are the incubators on campus themselves, though that is a bit different than I think what you're looking for.

If you're looking for classes I'd recommend checking out SCET, the club community around it seems to be growing too.
MemSQL is a transactional database (system of record).

Spark is a way of processing data, ideally stored in a system of record (Hive/HDFS/S3/MemSQL etc).

They're not the same.
Back in 1993, I used to hang out in an advanced VR lab of the time, with many options to try. Once I played Descent for 3 hours, with a shitty VFX-1 headgear.

Even then, returning back to reality was painful.
To be fair, their mobile app not being open source is probably the least of all the criticisms. That's not really an expected thing.
I won't tell you to 'produce some spectacles' but Snapchat has been incredibly blunt about their goals. They claim to be reinventing the camera, and with AR, that probably means lots of R&D $. So probably not spectacles, but their next camera products.
Ask HN: Custom Build PC (Workstation) recommendations for programmers
After the disappointing Mac updates lately, I have been thinking of building a PC for work instead.

What are your recommendations for a custom build nowadays?
If she wants a diamond so badly, she can spend her own money on it.

If I really want a sports car, I don't expect my fiance to buy it for me. If I want a cellphone, I don't expect my girlfriend to buy it for me and pay for the service.
> Most of those DEPEND on some proprietary google app that's not part of AOSP.

Do you have something to support this ?
Many apps use Play Services (I guess that's what you are referring to but can usually also work fine without it.
For example on the app I work on, we are integrated with chromecast if you have play services available, if not, we just never display the icon.
Yes, it's 633 squadron. Somewhere on YouTube is that film overlaid with the Star Wars audio - it's a practically perfect match.
Wow, yeah...that thread has some pretty harsh comments.

Perhaps somewhat driven by Cockroach Labs home page, which mostly describes the product as they intend it to be, not as it currently is. The github page, blog posts, etc, are very transparent about the current beta status, but the home page is a bit marketing heavy.

Not trying to be overly critical, but rather, thinking it might be the reason for the harsh commentary. (commenters not seeing that the product isn't yet at a 1.0 release)
Reading more about it, I think you're right.
Good question-- I'd say Nymeria (https://www.nymeria.io) at the moment, mostly because it's something I took from start to finish (nothing is ever finished), but you probably get the point.

It's easy to be proud of things you take all the way. Congrats to everyone!
Yeah, reading the Magician's Land took me longer than the previous two combined, because as much as I wanted to know what happened next, I also wanted to preserve that feeling of wanting to know what happens next.
Mostly because the app still brings in money. Anybody with a basic understanding of mobile coding could easily duplicate the app in 30 minutes thus streamlining a bunch of competitors I would rather not have.
I used ICQ heavily due to Ultima Online. I stopped using it when I both stopped playing UO and noticed all my real friends used AIM.

Sadly I remember my ICQ number, 3522071, but have long since forgotten my password. Since at the time they either didn't bother with recovery email addresses or it was optional I also have no access to my account.
That could be something I could add. Thanks for the feedback!
There's an answer to this in China. VR is becoming big in China, but not for games. For sales pitches. Right now, foreign real estate selling in VR is a real thing. Coming soon, "Alibaba is committed to making VR the premium shopping experience of the future".
Wikileaks latest insurance files don't match hashes
Mummy of Forgotten Pharaoh Discovered in Ruined Egypt Tomb (2014)
Millennia-old mummy found in Egypt tomb
I'm a professional photographer with about 16K + Instagram followers.

I used snapchat to stream behind the scenes photos and videos and retouching tutorials, but that was a black box.

Yes, I had comments open and I interacted with my friends and fans, but I couldn't tag anyone, or hashtags, discoverability is a serious issues in that platform.

I started using Instagram stories and now I have the same views per snaps that I had on snapchat plus now I can tag brands/models/makeup artists/ etc.

Instagram is going to EAT snapchat, specially for content creators discoverability is everything.
> Hustle tries its best to only work with organizations that are reaching out to people who actually want to hear from them

But I can still receive unsolicited texts, correct? If organization X discovers my phone number, they can add it to their distribution list without my consent?
Almost none of these measures can be unilaterally actioned by the President. They will all require Congress to pass bills. The very same Congress who have been completely incapable of addressing the biggest issues facing the country.

Great ideas though and relevant in many countries in particular around a combined high school/vocational education program.
Ask HN: Do you moonlight?
For those of you with a stable, contract, daily job:

- Do you moonlight (work freelance during off-hours) for other companies?
- Is your 9 to 5 aware that you're moonlighting? Are they (or would they be) OK with it?
- How do you find contracts that are amenable to this kind of schedule?
- Are there any challenges keeping your main job and side job(s) separate?
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Master Password?
https://ssl.masterpasswordapp.com/

Looking into password managers, what do you think of Master Password? Are there any downsides you can see with their implementation?

It doesn't use a vault and has an iOS app.

Considering KeePassX as well, but as far as I can tell there's no mobile support
Thank you for this. I used it for a couple of good years.
Egan's becoming a better author over time, though. Permutation City is a relatively early novel... but I hope you'll look at the others as well, if you haven't already.

I think my favorite has to be Schild's Ladder, just for sheer conceptual interestingness. I ended up writing fanfiction for it.

The best one from a literary standpoint is probably the Clockwork Rocket trilogy, though.
Experts spotted a secret backdoor in Android phones that sends data to China
Why Microdosing LSD Beats Coffee, Adderall, and Other Smart Drugs
> [...] predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future. Let us suppose for a moment that these predictions are correct.

This bit is seems little bit strange to me in that it's actually not necessary at all[1]... a simulation runs on its "own timescale", i.e. it doesn't actually matter how fast/slowly the simulator runs -- the simulation still experiences time advancing at the proverbial dt/dt. This paragraph just seems to be scaremongering to the effect of "it'll happen soon because new processors!"

Regardless: If we're living in a simulation of such fidelity it doesn't really matter if it's "really real" or a simulation; our lives will still start and end inside the simulation. (And I daresay this whole thing is just a trivial rehashing of solipsism with an added tinge of technophilia. I really wish physicists had more interaction with philosophers.)

[1] I could imagine an argument for positing that e.g. Quantum Computing would be necessary, but the "enormous amounts of computing power" phrasing is incredibly vague, so who knows what the actual premise is?

EDIT: Trim pointless "who said what" bit.
> While it is easy to build with cairo-gtk2 as the backend, that code path, as I wrote in a sibling comment, reliably crashes for me anytime I try to do File-Open.

That points towards GTK2 support possibly not being functional, which could be a good reason why they don't provide a build for it, even if they wanted to.

It sounds like the real problem here is that Mozilla is changing stuff that some people don't want changed. I don't think the solution is to ask Mozilla to produce a GTK2 build, but to ask them to fix anything they've broken. If they've decided to move towards GTK3, then that's their choice, and presumably they have reasons for that choice. I don't think it's out of line for them to expect to support a single working build for an architecture/OS combo. That said, they can and should be notified and pressured to fix any regressions. Additionally, if the change is something people don't want, Mozilla should be notified of that (although I suspect there are technical reasons for the change that most people are ignoring).
They cannot make large product announcements or changes in the "quiet period" between when the IPO is publically filed and when it goes live. This is a rumor of a private filing, not the public filing, so yes Spectacles are well in the clear. You can make large announcements right up till the day the IPO is published on the SEC website.

This is because you are not supposed to solicit people to buy your shares before it goes public.
Microsoft has to address the amount of crapware vendors ship and the permissions they have and deffinitely plays some games of chicken with them to try to keep windows market share.

While it makes sense to hit the vendors directly to the extent possible, it also costs these platforms trust when most of the ways users end up with them have them compromised from day one. I.e. do I give relatives a list of vendors I think might be safe to use without a complete wipe and fresh install? For windows that is impossible.
So I pay $47 and you do "unlimited small development jobs" for me? Too much to be true.
Might have cheered Trump? WikiLeaks has an email attachment with Hillary/DNC's strategy on GOP contenders[1] where they state their strategy of "elevating" certain candidates to push "more established candidates to the right". Additionally they want to make it seem that these more "extreme" candidates represent the mainstream of the Republican Party.

"There are two ways to approach the strategies mentioned above. The first is to use the field as a whole to inflict damage
on itself similar to what happened to Mitt Romney in 2012. The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the
lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we
don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more “Pied Piper” candidates who actually
represent the mainstream of the Republican Party. Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to:
• Ted Cruz
• Donald Trump
• Ben Carson
We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them
seriously."

Oops.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1120
So part of the product can involve hiring a random human to play the part of the love interest, with the VR putting an attractive face and voice on their actions. Heck, that person can even be another customer getting the exact same thing out of you, chosen because your google/facebook profile suggests your personalities are sufficiently compatible.
My current team is glorious: 1 hour every other week.

I've been on teams that average 3 hours per day. Honestly I'd bring a laptop and work through them. If there's that much information to distribute, I probably don't care about most of it.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I love the way Evan and Snapchat, er Snap, communicate as a company. They are incredibly tight lipped, but also very honest and blunt. They've talked about this IPO for years, and made no secret about becoming a camera company.
>If it's another physical action within known physical laws, then nothing interesting is happening and it's a failure of the experimental setup

I'm not sure what makes you think this. There's no failure in science when an effect is observed and it's explainable within the frame of current theory. If that was the case every experiment I've done would have been a 'failure.'
Can you eloborate on this? Why did you have to use assembly and how did you decrypt it? Hiw did you find the key?
Just a reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Show HN: I'm a self-taught developer and this is my first app
Asana introduces Boards, a native Trello competitor
افلام 2017
Ah… I did some more looking around and found out that the “Off” option actually did still exist¹ in the release version of Windows 10 Enterprise. However, it seems like some update to Windows 10 changed the label from “Off” to “Security”² instead. I can only think of two possible explanations for the change:

• Microsoft removed the already existing capability to completely turn off Telemetry for some reason, or

• the “Off” label wasn’t accurate in the first place, so Microsoft changed it to something less misleading

In any case, it seems like Microsoft has no plans to include a way to fully turn off telemetry on Windows 10 Enterprise anytime soon³.

As for your inquiry, unfortunately, I haven’t seen a more in-depth analysis of what being sent than the one at the link you’ve posted (although it actually does go into a bit more detail than just the part you’ve quoted here). There is this⁴, although it’s just a list of hostnames and IP addresses; there was no packet inspection done, so it doesn’t make it clear what’s actually being sent.

――――――

¹ — http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/window...

² — http://i.imgur.com/ubCQrWk.png

³ — http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/02/11/microsoft...

⁴ — https://voat.co/v/technology/835741
Short fiction does not pay good money, and that I know of he doesn't publish novels which is where it is POSSIBLE to make a decent to great wage (but quality is no guarantee of making good money).
Edward Snowden Calls for 'Digital Democracy' in Trump Era
Woah! I loved Miranda IM. Thank you so much!
Gore Vidal wrote Creation as penned by the Persian ambassador in Athens in the 5th century BC.

Highly amusing. Seen from that viewpoint, the Greeks were just a bunch of pirates and cattle raiders on the edges of real civilization.
a) also for r&d/acquire technology for AR/VR, we're just getting a taste of where they can go
Yeah it was 100% fun, no malicious intent. Judging by the downvotes, people don't find it amusing. I can see that now that I'm not a dumb teenage... but it made for fond memories none the less! And the fact that pretty non-technical 15 year olds could pull that off in a matter of minutes, probably drove companies to take security a bit more seriously (hopefully)!
Thank God we got this new Google press release to the top of HN so we can all help them teach their AI for free.
If you like what you wrote (I do) in terms of people falling for robots, then watch if you haven't: Ex-Machina and Her (2013).
>Android Studio + Java is probably as good as a commercial IDE gets when it comes to code editing, generation, and refactoring.

It is only when I started using Kotlin (with it's slightly weaker IDE plugin) that I realized how good AS is out of the box for Android development.
Jetbrains and Google are doing an awesome work at providing a first grade IDE.
Please don't drop flamewar-style comments into unrelated threads like this.
MAGNIFICENT analysis.
Kinda the point now a days. Everyone wants platform lock-in.
Considering Arrival only got something like half as many screens no it was not nearly as hyped. Frankly I don't think the distributor understood what they had their hands on.
Can some one tell me why they use "confidentially"? When they have been talking about this for months and everyone in the tech/social business knows about it.

I guess it's confidential since they didn't blast fireworks and cannons.

Anyhow, I say that they will soon(if not now) be known as the cool social network while Facebook will live as the old but reliable techie social network , similar to the Apple/Microsoft delineation.
"(UINs used to be rather expensive, by the way)"

Anyone know what the author means by "expensive" in this context? It's a six digit number, exclusive to ICQ, how could it be "expensive"?
The effectiveness of drugs like pembro varies with cancer type and other factors. Here's a recent study where patients exhibited only a 56% response rate: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1603702

The field is extremely promising and it's worth exploring fully, especially considering that even good responders can suffer relapses due to subclonal evolution.
I think the key is in the last quoted sentence: there isn't one model. There are many, and they are generated in different ways with differing emphasis on different data sets. They gain confidence when these seem to agree with each other and the acceptable physical knowledge already understood. They also check the sanity of the model to make sure that it is consistent with what has already been observed. In that way anyone may gain confidence that multiple approaches are converging on similar results.

That, and there are metric crap-tonnes of data to work with of all sorts. Just ungodly amounts of it.
I don't know about tech billionaires but I know my life, as a consumer, has become much better since Uber/Lyft and Airbnb has been available. I remember how I visited some US city on a business trip in early 90-s and got stuck because no taxi wanted to go where I wanted to go and had to call my coworkers and drag one of them from his family and beg him drive me (I still feel guilty about it). I remember how much it costed me to visit the same place without and with AirBnb, and how I rented a very nice cottage in a rich neighborhood for half a price I previously paid for a so-so hotel. So for me, a non-billionaire, it's a very obvious benefit.

I don't mind discussing the basic income idea. What I mind is the idea that all technological improvement should cease before we have basic income because it could put some people out of their jobs. That sounds like pure technophobia and Ludd worship.
What if there is a purpose behind your addiction?
I really like email as a discovery channel for new products personally. Is there something else or another format you prefer?
For what its worth, Egan has written a few works that follow up on, and expand, the ideas presented in Permutation City. Most notably Diaspora and Schild's Ladder. So there's more to enjoy after you finish it :-)
how many people use instagram to take pictures of their boobs and send them out? how many people use snapchat to take pictures of their boobs and send them out? how many people have both instagram and snapchat, but only take pictures of their boobs and send them out via snapchat?

finally, how much are pictures of boobs worth?
Eve Online becomes free for first time
I'm former ICQ backend developer (2010 - 2014).

I started to work at Mail.Ru in 2010, when Mail.Ru bought ICQ from AOL.

I was enjoyed working with ICQ backend code-base written by AOL (although to be honest not all code was high quality).

Here are some quick facts about ICQ backend infrastructure:

1) ICQ servers has over 2'700'000 lines of code which is written in C and C++;

2) ICQ has its own TCP/IP implementation which works in the user space;

3) Concurrency based on event-driven model (epoll), each instance handles many requests semi-simultaneously;

4) About 60 different interconnected internal services;

5) Each kind of backend service is a cluster of more than a hundred of instances;

6) C core-code is written in old-school style and I liked that;

7) OSCAR protocol is defined in TCL files. Our custom build system created C-functions which pack/unpack OSCAR messages;

8) Huge portion of core code-base was dedicated to create very scalable distributed server architecture;

Note that all publicly available information in the Internet about ICQ protocol describing legacy binary protocol called OSCAR. Native modern mobile client uses HTTP based protocol which supports recently added features.

According to Mail.Ru Group audited annual report, in December 2013 ICQ had 11 million monthly active users.

P.S. I would prefer not to discuss marketing/business side of ICQ because I personally had fundamentally different opinion from AOL/Mail.Ru product owners. I was quite happy with plain minimalist Pidgin ICQ client. Also, I'm not aware of new features this guy describing. Many things in code-base may be changed since I left the company.
Here's mine

This week: http://assets.avi.io/screen-shot-2016-11-15-nxdbb.png

Last week: http://assets.avi.io/screen-shot-2016-11-15-cf4x3.png

The week before: http://assets.avi.io/screen-shot-2016-11-15-p3gt7.png

I typically work around 40-45 hours a week, flexible hours when I work from home and normal hours when I'm at the office (twice a week).

When I am not injured (like now), I have 10-15 hours on the bike a week doing anywhere between 150-250miles a week and racing over the weekend.

I never work weekend, ever. I do however sometimes hack weekend nights after the kids are in bed and I am inspired.
This is transparently a government sales marketing flyer. Why are we discussing it?
With their 15 second looping videos, they're already eating up the leftovers of Vine.
>6 apps with 40% more lines of code has shown that it costs 30% more to develop on Android.

Wow, my brain hurts after reading something that stupid
I'm fully aware this is anecdata. But I can tell you I'm not alone on this. I just shared my experience. Sorry.
If it is based solely on mass, then I don't think so. A submerged submarine is almost neutrally buoyant[0]. It has the same average density as the water around it. Therefore, the mass of the ship is the same as the mass of the water it displaces, and a gravimeter wouldn't observe anything different.

[0] Err, almost. There is no such thing as perfectly neutral buoyancy. In practice, they are very slightly heavy and fly though the water as a lifting body.