skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wondering, but why not just use XMPP? You can choose any server that you like or trust, or run your own (on your own or third party infrastructure, up to you), and use OTR for end-to-end encryption if you feel you need to¹.

I have been using XMPP since 2000/2001. My current address is nine years old (and I control the server). I have a choice of clients on every platform that I use. All my contacts have the same set of choices regarding provider, accounts, and clients. As a bonus, not just my human contacts but also my infrastructure uses it for messaging and monitoring, so I can literally control some of my servers from my XMPP clients.

There must have been at least thirty major IM "solutions" going in and out of fashion during these 16 years. Individually, each might have been somehow "more convenient", but if start counting the cumulative migration effort, I'm not sure the convenience argument holds much water.

¹ I used it in anger once myself, initiated by one of my contacts. It was an interesting experience.
Would you mind sending me an email (my HN username @stripe.com)? I work on Atlas and I'd be happy to look into what went wrong and what we can do to fix things.
You need proximity to a ton of people to become the Datacenter capital; I doubt Montreal qualifies.
I'm probably just inviting myself to get trolled by replying to this, but this comment is just ridiculously wrong on so many levels.

> The fact that the guy behind it is hyping it via the New York Times, a generalist publication, instead of validating the thing through professional cryptographers (which he isn't) and recognised privacy champions such as the EFF is very telling.

Cryptographer Matthew Green on Signal's crypto and code quality (it was called RedPhone/TextSecure at the time of this writing): https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/03/09/here-com...

Version 1.0 of EFF's Secure Messaging Scorecard gave Signal 7/7: https://www.eff.org/node/82654.

> The thing has not been properly validated or verified (for a start, because there is no design document to validate against, and no published goals to verify against)

Signal has been analyzed, with favorable results, by academic researchers at least twice:

- https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf

> it uses an ad-hoc encryption scheme from a non-cryptographer

Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin probably wouldn't call themselves "cryptographers," but almost anybody in the field would agree that they are experts on applied cryptography.
Looks like the author is a student, so it could be that wide adoption isn't the objective. It's still an excellent resume builder.
That's odd. I know traceroutes don't always show the truth, but when I was there I could route between Victoria and Vancouver without going through the US, at least. No idea about Vancouver to Montreal.
> Before I feel comfortable asserting a dissenting opinion in a public forum, I would much rather discuss the subject among my peers where I don't feel I will be immediately eviscerated for a poorly constructed thought.

While I certainly emphasize with the anxiety of publicly expressing an unpopular opinion, I believe it is, especially in times like these, your moral duty to endure in spite of the repercussions and speak your mind.
Even though I went to Stanford and had direct access to Milgrom's famous prison experiment, the lesson from it didnt hit home until many years later I read this article: https://aeon.co/ideas/the-desire-to-fit-in-is-the-root-of-al...

Now, the phrase "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to remain silent" resonates with me.
Note that the HiFive is a microcontroller-class RISC-V implementation. (Low pin count, 16 KB SRAM, no external memory interface.) This isn't meant to insult it; it's just in a different space from the LowRISC project.
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I imagine that most people don't realize they are not Google customers. If you have paid Google money, then you are a customer. People using Google's 'free' services are not. Only customers will get good support.
I guess they had to custom build a solution for this and screwed it up. The weird thing is that it seems like this should have been caught in testing. Unless it is a form of silent protest from the hapless programmers forced to write this oppression aid. Might even be some IOCCC level trickery at play here where it works in testing and with official IP addresses, but doesn't work for the majority of the population.
> In 1299, zero was banned in Florence, along with all Arabic numerals, because they were said to encourage fraud. Zero could easily be doctored to become nine, and why not add a few zeros on the end of a receipt to inflate the price?

No doubt, the ban was supported by arguments about how it's making everyone more productive by catching problems early and eliminating a whole class of errors.

And so that would be where we can trace the origins of static typing.
It's a black line 1px high at the top of the page above the orange bar. Here's a snapshot of it from 2011:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111006184954/http://news.ycomb...
I'd say that when you've worked at a company > 6 months, you know if your manager cares about you. You know if the management cares about you. Doesn't take much to figure that out.

I think there are 1-1 and public ways of showing care. When an employee has a performance issue and is going through something rough, you have a private conversation, nobody else needs to know (unless they're impacted/frustrated and you let them know some of it to make them cut some slack) and the employee is taken care of.

Perks are a public way of taking a stand and saying I care about people and will provide these perks and won't take them away except in the direst of situations. Providing perks won't make people love you, but it shows you care. They're nice to get and show thoughtfulness. Especially if you're not obnoxious otherwise.
Yes, tracking is a major issue with AR, but it is making a lot of progress as well right now. E.g. the (I believe time-of-flight based) 3D scanners in the Hololens have no issue aligning stuff to the inside of a room, we have the performance to track visual markers quick enough, VR systems like the Vive show precise tracking with active beacons, ...

At least for known and somewhat controlled environments, tracking seems more or less solved, which applies to many industrial use cases. An example I've heard of: Lockheed and GE have been working on AR setups for airplane building and maintenance, with the idea that it becomes easier for workers to reference parts and look up steps to do, increasing training speed and reducing errors. Documentation says some part is broken, AR can tell you precisely where it is and potentially overlay diagrams with reality -> hopefully less chance for confusion between parts and less time spent looking up manuals. Maintenance worker checks a part and marks it as defective, the system knows which it is and there is less risk for it accidentally being written down wrong (personally, I suspect the current workflow is "look up/write in a paper manual", and you could get most of the way with a tablet computer, but why not go the entire way if tech allows it)

These examples work because a manufacturer already has a precise 3D model of the planes they make and thus can provide the data necessary for the tracking relative to the object, which is what matters in this case.

Apparently various beacon technologies allow sub-meter positioning in buildings/on equipped properties for relatively cheap, in cities GPS+WLAN can get at least rough locations. This could combine well with optical markers or simple image analysis for local, relative movements. That could be enough for navigation aids: an absolute error on a distance is not important as long as it properly tracks local movements. If it tries to guide you to a specific object you of course need better information once you get close.

Which again is interesting for all kinds of workers and potentially the general public. I would love a personalized guiding arrow when travelling through an unknown airport or other complex structure, or a rough target indicator in a city. I don't want to look down on a map on a phone, I don't need all the details, just something to keep track of. (until I think of the privacy implications probably...)

But I would not be surprised if the industry failed to make it simple, interoperable and sleek enough for public use anytime soon, so I'm not holding my breath for AR outside of specialist use and gaming, even though the basic tech is becoming viable right now.
Yep, anywhere within a 2-hour drive of San Jose or San Francisco is crazy. You're lucky to get a single-family home for under a million, or a condo for under about 600. It's a big question of "do you have the right to live in a city you grew up in if you can no longer afford to live there", property tax laws, etc. It creates a situation where people are buying run-down houses I'd consider unlivable for close to a million dollars, and have neighbors who couldn't afford the smallest apartment in a 30 mile radius, but get to stay there and inflict their blight upon the neighborhood from which they are now very much priced out of.

One would think it's a kind move to not tax them on the actual value of their property, but everything else gets more expensive too, so now a quesadilla is $15 at the corner store and they can barely afford to eat, and their options for other housing are in a different state. It's very strange to me that people aren't taxed out of their homes, since if they can no longer pay for anything else in the area, their quality of life goes down dramatically , in a community who mostly just wants them gone, fighting against the merciless tide of economic "progress" just because they grew up there (and sometimes not even).

If you can't afford the rent, you have no say. Property tax is a form of city rent, from my perspective. Why are the rules different? It seems like people just like to pretend they can still afford to be in a place and resist the change for as long as possible rather than accept the world around them.
The CrazyFlie series runs open-source software and has an exposed expandable circuitboard. Haven't looked at them in a while though.
> Can you give an example of changes in community standards on this site which effects cannot be tracked in software?

Story quality, thread quality, community satisfaction...
Would it not be trivial to algorithmically obfuscate this identifying information? As I write this, Im thinking of Ender's siblings finding their voice under the pseudonyms Desmothenes and Locke
Any cognates (even distant ones) in any Indo-European tongues?
OVH is actually located right inside a hydro dam about 15 minutes away from the city: http://www.hydroquebec.com/visit/monteregie/beauharnois.html
Seattle, Austin, and Portland are quickly getting there as well. Denver kinda already is.
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I want to play this game even more now.
It's just a good reminder.
Because the increasing trend is that it is not financially viable for younger families to buy a home. So they would thus not have a mortgage to reverse in the first place.

Rather, they would be stuck paying rent and hopefully have enough savings/Social Security/other income to cover it as long as they needed.
I don't know anyone who disagreed with this basic sentiment. My samples size is larger, both of my parents were military and I did a year contracting for Northrop Grumman and was located on a base working directly with many active duty personnel. It cames up in discussion too.

Still hardly a statistically strong sample, but it is like 100% so unless we both have Major Sampling Bias... and I never met an officer named "bias".
I'm just using CSS Modules myself. That combined with CSS variables using root{--var} is everything I need for my project. I have the luxury of targeting just electron for this one and having a greenfield project like this is great.
The people earning that much are (very) disproportionately distributed in those areas which are also the least affordable.
For completeness, we should add 542393671 (0x20544547) and 1347703880 (0x50545448), i.e., the little endian versions, to the list. Googling those numbers also turns up a lot of people with strange error messages (caused by deserializing "GET " or "HTTP" as a 32-bit integer).
Two questions, I am about to incorporate and I am thinking about doing it in Wyoming instead of my home state of NY, what does Clerky think? And how can I buy some Clerky stock?
You're missing the point; soda is a creature comfort.
If an employer can cut soda, they can cut coffee, and coffee brewing equipment.
They can cut refrigerators, microwaves, and dishwashers. Break rooms can be closed and replaced with cubicle space. Washrooms can be cleaned every other day.
And on and on and on.
Maybe true in aggregate, but not true of many cities these days. For example, you can't touch a new home of any size in the Bay Area for less than about 750k, and that's even a long stretch. 250k for 2,000sqft would be a dream for many here.
Agreed. TANSTAAFL, and I guess it is the old left (as in everyone equal) vs right (free choice) debate.

We get free bread for lunch. Cool, but I don't wanna eat bread.

Coffee is free. Cool, but it is bad quality, my el cheapo espresso machine at home is even better. Plus I'll experience a massive down in the evening. Oh hey, not the employer's problem.

I've never seen free soda anywhere, but the thing is: it is just a lot of sugar, with too little water. I won't drink that if I get paid for it.

At least water is free, and that's important in the summer. I'm free to go grab a cup, and the walk is healthy, too.

Then there's these parties 'for team spirit', with all kind of fried food. Cool. Guess who pays for that?

Screw all this. Like you said; "I'd rather get paid a little bit more."
Chuck Yeager - 47 Thousand followers

Kayne West - 26 Million

That tells me everything I need to know about Twitter.

Q: @GenChuckYeager How big a deal was it that Hughes flew the spruce goose by himself?

A: Wasn't to me
> Don't want to invest my time into something that will eventually sell out

And what do you think the gentleman behind Signal is out there for?

His modus operandi:

* Start a company, call it something catchy, like Whisper Systems.

* Get media coverage and some users.

* Sell to Twitter

* Start a company, call it something catchy, like Open Whisper Systems.

* Get media coverage and some users.

* ...

Start to see a pattern? :-)
YES! get in lads
We provide healthy snacks.
Yoghurt, oatmeal, nuts, bars, trailmix, and of course beer.
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Hey, distributed systems is hard. The network is reliable // the market is rational.
But easier and cheaper than ProctorU? That's the main sell.
Your idea will get stolen, if it's good. Most likely, it's not good and your idea won't get stolen because no one gives a fuck about you and your problems, which is a good thing.

If you are in the .1%, then you probably don't need to getting regurgitated advice from the rest of the 99.9% (i.e. the retards like me that use this website who have no idea what the fuck they are talking about).

How many people use this site monthly, like 100k? Maybe 10k of those people have been in real startups and maybe 1k of those people have gotten non-trivial funding. Out of those 1k, 950 are retards. Out of the 50 people who can give you great advice, they all have other things they would rather be doing, and might not even login for a few weeks.

Shut the hell up and get to work, dude.
I'm not sure about novelty-only, I believe it has very interesting use cases, but I sort of agree on it not being "explosive technology".

To really make an impact in daily life it has to become usable in public, and the chances of the tech industry getting the tech, the applications and the dorkyness-factor of HMDs solved are pretty slim.

I only see it used in professional contexts for quite some time (e.g. Lockheeds and GEs ideas for airplane maintenance workers seem sensible to me even with relatively high cost attached, if it gets really cheap I could see warehouse workers, building maintenance, ...)
> Any treasury bonds held by the federal government (for example, by the Social Security) is money the government owes to itself and has no real-world effect. The only part that matters is treasuries held by private investors.

I do not agree it has no real world effect. That money will need to be paid back to Social Security to pay people out. Its either paid by taxpayers, or by everyone through inflating our way out of the debt. Regardless, its an obligation to be paid.

Stop wasting taxpayer money and start using it to take care of citizens. That's what the role of government is.
It's been a while since I've applied for a job, but I will definitely list it on my resume, still. It doesn't actually seem to be a negative, so I figure there may be some pencil-pusher that needs to see a degree to satisfy some requirement, maybe.

My 10+ years of work experience, 15+ years of non-work experience before that, and my title of "senior software engineer" are plenty to make them seriously consider me for a position, even before I list my accomplishments.

In short, my resume is now filled out enough that it can't hurt and still might help, so it stays on there.
Normally when a government bans something it is by making it illegal.
> While those aren't to the scale of Amazon

Since OP's point was

> Sears could have been what Amazon is today

it's quite relevant that Target, Walmart, Macy's are not nearly to the scale of Amazon.
Also obscure or undocumented file formats.
Whilst I don't disagree with increasing privacy, as a general solution for everybody into the future this method seems a bit brute force and possibly disruptive. If you only use Google search, and don't use other Google services, aren't you simply an IP address to Google? If so, I don't see the harm in the knowing of search trends by geolocation.

At the end of the day, we all have a price for convenience - I knowingly use Facebook even though I hate the loss of privacy.
Just tried to send the form to apply [1] but it seems to be broken. It says please complete all required fields despite that I completed all of them (double checked)

1. https://assistant.google.com/developer/eap/
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You know things are looking bad when the post reporting on censorship is censored.
Think Sears is bad, try KMart.
Every time I read something about Sears troubles, it makes me remember this metafilter comment from 2007: http://www.metafilter.com/62394/The-Record-Industrys-Decline...

Excerpt:

"...In 1984 [Sears] starts a joint venture with IBM called Prodigy, an online computer service, sort of a prototype AOL. In 1985, Sears launches a new major credit card, the Discover card. For the next eight years, the only credit card you can use at Sears is Discover.

At this time, the early 80's Sears is the largest retailer in the U.S.

By 1993, the 100th anniversary of the Sears Catalog, Sears had built up considerable goodwill in the mind of consumers. They weren't the lowest price, but they had what you needed at good prices and the service was second to none. […]

This is 1993. In quite possibly the greatest example of corporate shortsightedness, Sears shut down it's mail-order business in a cost cutting measure. It spins off Allstate that same year, and soon dumps Dean Witter and Coldwell Banker.

In 1993, Sears had the most extensive and sophisticated mail-order retail operation on the planet and they closed it.

Two years later, Amazon.com launched, and was soon selling everything that sears sold through it's catalog. By the late-90's Walmart's push of low-cost China imports killed Sears retailing. Online banking takes off. Credit card use surges as mail order and retail purchases are shifted online.

Sears had its own computer network in 1993. They had access to IBM, they should have understood the power of the internet. All they had to do was shift the catalog online instead of killing it off, promising in store returns and the same Sears satisfaction guaranteed. Discover could have been the credit card of choice for security and protection online. Dean Witter could have been what Schwab, E-Trade and Ameritrade became. Back in the mid-late 90s when many people were hesitant to use credit cards online, Sears could have been a familiar face online."
You might find this an interesting read: http://www.recode.net/2016/12/5/13842608/former-google-ventu...
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True. But in a car, it typically takes 2 people doing something wrong for a wreck to occur. I prefer to give myself a chance and be one of those with a choice, and to be able to train myself, and so on. On a plane, it's outside of my control. Furthermore, the failure is much more likely to be mechanical, and often at that point there's nothing anyone can do, even with the best-trained pilot in the world. So many people (maintenance personnel for instance) have to do their job well to keep the plane in the sky.

I also have almost no fear of being in a car wreck because I still find it highly unlikely a wreck would kill or seriously injure me. I have a safe car and have lost (and regained!) control of cars plenty of times in my life without incident. Hell, I even choose to race cars in circle for fun! I only fly because I HAVE to.

Motorcycles obviously feel more dangerous to me and I have greater reservations whenever I ride one.

Ironically, I am posting this from a UA flight.

I was once on a flight that lost an engine. That was fun. We took a "normal single-engined" tour of LA, and a "normal single-engined landing" 45 minutes later. The lack of concern was both reassuring and terrifying. I expected the pilots to spin the plane on a dime and drop it back down the runway the same way we came, emergency landing, rather than keep the thing flying on one engine.
Legos are dope as fuck.
Flatbed and LTL freight prices will fall through the floor. You can't yet automate those kinds of freight because the cargo is so diverse and handling isn't something AI can do yet.
Previewing is always a very frequent work, I just try it, can save my time every time. Good work!
They raced to the bottom with their hallowed store brands, cut corners to make margins and in the end shattered the value of the name of appliances like Kenmore or tools like Craftsman.

If you've built a brand on the idea of durability and reliability, and then build shoddy products that coast on the reputation, that reputation goes away and leaves you with a brand that no one wants to buy.

I've been looking at a new fridge, and I'd consider a Chinese Haier over a Sears Kenmore, ceteris paribus.

It used to be that Sears was mighty because of the catalog; then they were mighty because of logistics; then they were mighty because of the iron-clad house brands. Now Amazon is the new catalog, Walmart beats them on logistics, and their brands are mud. Sears has nothing. You'll see a Sears bankruptcy within 5 years.
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Here we go, a node version that uses a least-latency load balancer and doesn't exhibit the problem:

https://github.com/spion/fpco-article-examples

Its an interesting benchmark, but it needs more work to give a more accurate picture. It would be nice if it:

* used wrk to measure requests and latency percentiles
* percentage of "slow" requests was tweakable
* number of workers per core was tweakable

Then we could generate a nice chart that shows latency percentiles as fn of % of slow requests and workers per core, and compare with Haskell.