skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Brillo (Android Things) is the OS. Weave is the communications protocol. You can have Weave without Android Things, or Android Things without Weave.
Decentralized applications and infrastructure.
This is just a bridge to in-memory sqlite accessible from redis connection – it does not emulate sql for redis data - both databases are completely independent, unfortunately.
When will Microsoft buy this company and integrate ReSharper into Visual Studio already? Having to make two payments (one for the IDE and the other for the plugin) instead of one is not very appealing.
The article said FCC heads tend to resign when administration changes, so this seems to be normal (not legally required, but not unusual either)
Were you watching on TV when Challenger broke up?
I've just watched footage of the Challenger space shuttle breaking up in this documentary [0], and although I knew what happened, I've instinctively reacted like I didn't know it was going to happen. You know how they show replays of a sports person getting a nasty injury in slow motion and you react now that you're seeing it properly? Like that.

So, if I'm reacting like that, I can only imagine what it was like for people watching it live. It must have been horrible. Did you watch it happen?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGh9eg2kNgc
The about page is more informative (https://supermariorun.com/en/about.html):

A new kind of Mario game you can play with one hand.
Mario constantly runs forward, while you time your taps to pull off stylish jumps and moves to gather coins and reach the goal!
OVH competes well on price. Ikoula has great perf. Gandi also has some offers. Aruba cloud also.
trouble with the solar yield cos is they have these "sponsors" But those guys are just PV manufacturers who are looking to boost their margins by installing PV and then charging their yieldco top dollar for those projects. It's an obvious conflict of interest.

I've got some PEGI, which is mostly wind power that has less of this conflict of interest.

However, I'd much prefer to simply invest directly in a solar project via a notes (lending club) sort of mechanism. Allow me to sell the notes on an aftermarket if I suddenly need money for another reason.
I generally like Material Design, but sadly I have to agree with you.

Contrary to Bootstrap, you can't just drop in Material Design and expect it to look decent. You actually have to adhere to the design and usage guidelines that come with Material Design to really make something good looking and functionally coherent with it.
I tried Scaphold because all of the shiny promises on their landing page like: out of the box integrations, analytics etc.

Turns out the most basic feature of a BaaS app, the console, is practicaly unusable. Too buggy, too many errors happening. After struggling with it for a while I switched to graph.cool.

The small issues that I had with it were resolved by the team immediately. Smooth sailing from then on
Technically this is their third or forth attempt. There was Android@Home, and Brillo which was also based on Android, but didn't include the Java stack. I'm pretty sure there was another attempt that I've forgotten too.
What's a clean UI ? Gcloud admin implements material design, it looks clean to me.
Well if they thought another company had better odds than GitHub they'd fund that company instead. GitHub has got to where they are at the moment so they must be doing something right, and startups are dead by default - VCs expect startups to be doing at least some things that defy the established wisdom.
Webflow is the best all-in-one tool out there.

There is also Sketch, which is a vector design tool that shines at designing user interfaces. And unlike Photoshop, it is extremely friendly to the web - if you can do something in Sketch, that can be done in CSS.

We're building a tool that converts these designs into code (HTML, CSS, SASS, React, ERB etc). That gives a sort of WYSIWYG workflow for pro users. You can have an expert designer do your design, and then have a developer run with it by generating quality code from them.
New blog by Ian Goodfellow about machine learning security and privacy
The disciplines emerging around mediated control of people through UX, copywriting, transactional email, algorithmic filtering, etc. (from garden variety A/B testing on through Facebook's emotional control experiment and beyond) prompt me to wonder whether that sort of less direct control of people will accrue status as well.
The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)
Used Plug-In Electric Smart Cars – Cheap at $6,000
I would agree with everything you said if I thought I was getting a "real" Super Mario Bros game. I think if you go in the the mindset that you are buying a Mario themed Crossy Road / Temple Run, etc type game you won't be let down.

This is something very simple that non-gamers can play and compete with you. I have many friends who would never step in to a CSGO/Overwatch, SC2, or LoL/HoTS game with me but simple games like this can work. I personally don't find it rewarding alone, but I enjoy being able to compete with friends on something they feel comfortable playing.

Not everyone is a "true gamer". I look forward to exploring Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but a majority of the population won't. There will no doubt be more Mario games, perhaps even on phone, which has more depth. For now however, I see nothing wrong with trying to be more inclusive. In the days before 1 finger mobile games those kind of people really had little choice in what they could play, and more importantly for me, I could never compete with them :)
>Is OVH viable?

Yes. They're getting silly amounts of finance each year. Plus, the CTO/founder is opposed to Internet surveillance.
Why you say unfortunately?

What are your uses cases?

It is possible to have in SQLite the keys from redis, however it does require a level of complexity that must be justified.
I guess no politics week ended :(. Can we please bring it back.
Hasn't Russia invaded Ukraine? Isn't Russia helping Assad?
I agree. The minimum requirements for Brillo were already infeasible for most products. Now they want to use Java? Most IoT devices run on a Cortex-M or similar with less than 1 MB of RAM.

That said, you don't have to use Android Things. I guess it's more a case of "if you have a system that runs Linux anyway, why not use Android Things?".
Then why post it here?

What does this repo do? Why would anyone want to request access with a description of what it is?
You could regard underpaying employees as unethical behaviour in itself. Not entirely unrelated
I used lending robot. I used the middle of their risky / safe bet slider, tending toward the conservative side.

I'm going to end up LOSING MONEY as many of LC's loans are going delinquent.

Joy.
Show HN: AirChat – abusing AirDrop on OS X to allow chatting to nearby users
Tanzanian Arrested for Not Revealing Identity of Whistleblowers on His Platform
(Vernacular - "Language of the slave").

It's far more complicated that "need its own vernacular internet". The internet is an emergent thing, and what one sees are just the symptoms. This is also the reason India's literacy is so low (even compared to Africa/Middle East).

If India wasn't a linguistic apartheid regime, we'd already have seen a native ecosystem which is lacking quite badly. This needs fixing at the state and political levels, which I have exactly zero hope of ever happening. This despite having some nauseously xenophobic organizations like ShivSena (in Maharashtra), the DMKs (in TN), the KaRaVes (in KA). This is in addition to the "nationalistic" organizations like RSS and BJP at the central level.

These orgs are essentially vehicles which instrumentalize the widespread disaffection from the apartheid state, in order to put themselves in power (Advani's use of Ayodhya is a nice study). If you study their policies carefully however, you realize they plan to do precisely nothing that is the cause for the inequity.

This is not different from the independence movement, where a bunch of Brown folk wanted to run the colony.

Digital India, be in no doubt, is meant for the 200 million Brown sahibs, who do know English. The rest are peasants who have been at the losing side of the inflationary system today, and of the cruel taxation system of the British, kept at bay via endless subsidies (a dog hardly bites a master ?) and mutual bickering.

There is zero empathy from the former class, and these pretentious people are the source of endless pain for the red-pilled; it is very disappointing to live in communities where the kids start speaking English before anything native, and worse when the state hold such clones in such high regard.

May kek not have mercy on the clones (apologies for the 4ch lingo).

Technical:

I think Sailfish has better localization than Android. Keyboard is a disaster everywhere, since no one in India uses native language keyboard/input. They are very rare, if at all available, and next to no one knows they exist - it's in fact easier to find such resources in the US than within in India. Swarachakra is too crowded and very very information inefficient (unlike the 5-vowel Japanese system its based on), which leads me to believe even their creators don't use it actively.

The lack of feedback means that the ITRANS layout is very very bad, and unusable (xkeyboard moth-balled most layouts due to disuse).

Again, the roots of the problem lie with the education & state policies that are reinforced via state violence. China gets this right because India is a colony & it isn't.

(Downvote all you want clone people; सत्यमेवजयेत् !)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237411
How long could Elsevier survive a German boycott?
How long could German academia survive without these journals?
I wonder why Edge didn't uptake. Possibly licensing costs, or maybe the timing of it was a little earlier than where we are starting to build more immersive experiences with HTML5/JS and are starting to desire the use of tooling to making it easier.
Goldlist Method
I pay 3.34 EUR/per user per month. I use Gmail in my company domain - which is IMHO superior to outlook because of tags, which are more expressive than outlook folders. I use apps (some of them not available on Office365 at all - like forms/surveys, websites), calendar synced with mobile, google drive and group conference in hangouts with screen sharing (not working in Office365 in skype on linux - no good app for that)

Since use mostly linux - desktop version of Office365 is useless for me.

To sum it up: one third Office price - no functionality lose for me and some functions not available in Office at all.
Indeed, “provably” being the key word. If I, the compiler developer, prove (in the mathematical sense) that the transformation is functionally identical, I don’t need the compiler to run any experiments to verify it. A proof is much more solid than running a few experiments.
I tried mirror writing when I was young because my mom could do it. The muscle strain was the reason I didn't keep up with it (right handed). That, and having to think more when trying to read it ;-)
There shouldn't even be a debate between people who approve of reversing aging and those who do not. Whoever doesn't approve... when the treatment will finally be available... just don't use it! I'll use my freedom of decision and my money to extend my life, thank you! If you want to die, go ahead.
Concerning Stephen Hawking’s Claim  That Philosophy Is Dead (2012) [pdf]
Very well put. I've been tackling a similar problem with my product Protoship UIPad - "Find the optimal HTML and CSS for an image". By optimal I refer to code that a skilled developer would write themselves and will be happy to own and maintain themselves. We've seen terrible code generators - they make our lives harder and have no market.

I chose to solve this by using Sketch, which has rich layer information - is it a text, is it centered, is it a rectangle, what is its background color etc. Sketch also has layer names, which can be mapped to component oriented CSS. The difficulty is in finding the optimal positioning for this, which we solve a little algorithmically and also through user annotations. You can read more about my approach and its trade-offs here: https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/protoship-uipad-design...
I have tried both, and I have to say I prefer:

https://github.com/rgcr/m-cli#the-difference

* Glances can easily be installed and run separately (as a Docker container, even).
* I don't want or need mysql tools bundled.
* I prefer the CLI for m-cli (particularly I don't like using a colon in a command name).

I also wasn't particularly impressed with @guarinogabriel's tone or content in this GH issue on the competing project:

https://github.com/rgcr/m-cli/issues/43
I would think the idea has merit if rather than purpose-built rails, the existing rail infrastructure is retrofitted (and built out) to act as a storage mechanism with freight that already has to move anyway. If that's done though, a proof of concept would need to be built first. So I wish these guys all the best, despite the fact that the economics look kind of silly on the surface.
> Remember the left-pad farce? Part of the cause was idiotic split to microdependencies, but part was that everybody used external network for their build process.

Another part was using location-addressable storage for dependencies, rather than content-addressable. If dependencies used something like magnet links, IPFS, etc. then nobody would really care if some particular machine stopped serving some particular file.
Reader view.

Also, you're not missing much: Cade Metz is shilling for Overstock again, much like he has for nearly ten years now.
Points 1 and 2 I'm not _entirely_ sure if I agree with them (I agree there is a problem with racism, but I'm not sure I agree with your conclusions about what is and is not racist as a result), but point 3 is the only one I feel I need to respond to.

> 3. I don't know where you got the idea that diversity efforts are about hiring one group of people, but you're mistaken.

This thread is about hiring managers that have publicly stated they only hire minorities, and GitHub having internal presentations where they say that "white middle managers have no empathy".

I agree that diversity requires hiring a diverse group of people you hire (by definition). But that's not what the GitHub hiring managers appear to think (and that was the whole point of this thread).
This kind of stuff should serve as a warning to all tech companies: the only way you can avoid PR shitstorms is by not hiring women.
Startup idea for someone: A search engine that only indexes decentralized, self-hosted stuff. No Github, FB, etc. Hell, go ahead and delist all sites using Google Analytics.
You're right!
Thanks very much.
> Why is it stupid, dangerous and short sighted? People say those things about cloud vendor locking like it's a obvious truth

It depends on the relationship you have with these cloud vendors. If it is a custom contract , with penalties if the host screws up , then by all means, lock yourself in as much as you like. But most clients aren't in any position to negotiate with Amazon. Worse, a well known vendors doesn't hesitate to shut down paid accounts without notice. Imagine your business depends on a specific component of that vendor's stack ... you are screwed.

> The primitives and constraints imposed by a cloud provider often make your life easier even if you migrate to bare metal or another cloud.

Provided you can "migrate" to something else at first place. Look at all these sorry folks building their "serverless architecture" on Amazon. They depend entirely on Amazon services and SDK. There is no migration path to something else.
> I can't imagine how you would even implement a string as anything other than a rune array.

You can also implement strings using a tree data structure. We do this in an implementation of Ruby that I work on because it can make concatenation faster.
I'd pay for public repos (I don't need private repos, all of my code is free software). In fact, I would _donate_ $30/mo to GitLab if I used their services enough (unfortunately the projects I maintain live on GitHub and I don't have the authority to change that).

I have no problem donating to free software (I donate $10/mo to Neovim, $10 to SirCmpwn (sway), and other bits and bobs here and there -- as well as donating my time to openSUSE, runC and the OCI). The only condition is that I have to use it enough that I feel that they are owed some money to make the software even better.
Hi, I can recommend using the Chrome extension 'Reedy' which allows you to blast through this at 800-1200 words/minute. You can start slower and gradually increase the speed, but once you get the hang of it, an article like this takes no more than what an ordinary article would have taken to read normally.
These things happen at most companies .. people get jealous and have different ways of dealing with it .. it's up to management to handle it well, but since no one talks about it, there is no management for it ..
World's hottest borehole nearly complete
How about just not hiring assholes?

If you must hire an asshole, keep them somewhere they can't do any damage to the culture.
There were a lot of concerns when Mr Wheeler took over and he greatly surprised everyone. Let's be patient and see what happens next.
Great release and VS2017 RC support to play with! Also, can't wait for Rider IDE. Hope it will include all the latest goodies!
Really looking forward to watching the development of this. Ultra low latency, high quality signal compression and network based (which I assume this is based on other comments) distribution is hard. It has a lot of use cases outside of this scenario.

I know there's some really interesting work being done in the broadcast space (e.g. BBC R&D with VC-2 [1]) and the various low-latency implementation of H.265 which seems to be driven by UAV use. Are you guys/girls expanding on something existing for the codecs used or going down a completely different route?

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/vc-2
Bioinspired robotics
Related reading: Misspent Youth and the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton. A series of sci-fi books where "rejuvenation" technology plays a significant role, its impact on society and human risk taking.
New gTLDssince last Tuesday
In the 1980s, Irish workers in a large supermarket refused to handle South African goods because of apartheid

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/how-11-striking...
Counter-example: In the 1980s, Irish workers in a large supermarket refused to handle South African goods because of apartheid

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/how-11-striking...
Active / Active Failover between two facilities is something everyone wants until they realize how expensive it all is.
The "No Meaningful Process" is shocking in a company of Apples size - in the UK they would get the book thrown at them at a tribunal for that.

Sounds like Her boss and Hr failed I wonder if things Like brexit and Trump have made closet racists fell they can be more open
> If we live two dozen more years that means someone will have to pay for those retirements.

You're assuming that we'd just extend life rather than slow or partially reverse ageing as the article describes. You would assume that people would work for longer if this was the case. You may even get a "better" (from an economics point of view) ratio of working life to retirement time.
Ah, I was under impression that it emulates SQL nature for redis data (kind of like an extension to InnoDB Memcache architecture). Anyways nice work @siscia, thanks for sharing !!
I've build a couple of startups and sold out, worked for a couple of well known ones as early employees and now reside in an architecture position. This magical free time never appears, particularly when your business is suddenly return focused after your capital comes in. The low capital cost of the services your are integrating typically is used as a justification to utilise them more.

Then a client comes along dangling a few million quid/dollars etc who wants it somewhere else for regulatory compliance or wants to self host it and you have to turn them away.

It's not about making your life easier in the short term, it's about building a solid business foundation and continuation plan and a good DR strategy. A lot of people don't consider this and crash and burn and it's not pretty.

Edit: your approach is known among my circles as the "Ferengi badass" approach.
> Oh boy. I take it you've never actually moved datacenters before? Last time I did it in 2007 it took weeks of planning, and the time before that in 1999 it was months of planning.

That's nothing compared to a business that chooses to use a specific component that cannot be migrated from one host to another. If your architecture is truly distributed then migration is painless, because your system is designed around it.
There's a really simple solution to this: Have a cultural policy that what's normal/acceptable is to delay having children for quite a while, and then to have only one child per couple.

One child per couple means that the total population caps out at double the current population (a population of 32 would have 16 children, who'd have 8, who'd have 4, who'd 2, then 1 person who's SOL - 32+16+8+4+2+1=63). A single order of magnitude is an acceptable loss, and everyone gets a child of their own.

Note: Not as in "literally force people to have only one child", just make it frowned upon like smoking generally is - most people won't care enough to defy it, and in the long term it should be enough. Although IMO families like the Duggars[1] shouldn't be provided immortality unless they start using birth control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_Kids_and_Counting
No its have proper procedures and training for all mangers FFS its not rocket science.
That seems to be the rule. Whatever past government set a lower standard, the new government can take that as useful approved governing tool.

Really people wonder why politician sometimes fight for nonsensical minor tweaks that look like a waste a taxpayer money, but that's exactly it. Most of the government way of working is ruled by tradition rather than law and new laws are created in case of abuse.

After a few cycle of those little games affecting both big parties, they will most likely get tired of it and vote a law that prevent that to ever happen again.
Even from a purely philosophical perspective I have a great appreciation for material design. Even if it's not their intent, they're normalizing and standardizing art / design for non-artists and non-designers. Sounds like a pretty ambitious thing to me. I hope they succeed with it.
unfortunately yes ... and they don't think about consequences ...
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Somewhat relevant: It seems like Google is using [1] for some of their projects...

[1] https://getmdl.io/showcase/index.html
It is expensive. Unless your product makes a ton of cash.
Decimal Time
Am I the only one who thinks Material Design and its derivatives is just plain ugly? If I see a website created with this style, I press Ctrl+W close to speed of light.
The rich aren’t so different any more
I remember reading a few years ago how GitHub and StackOverflow were the new resumes. You needed a good profile on both to have any chance of getting hired.

It just goes to show that having a profile on a website does not define who you are as a developer. Websites go under, and better ones will rise up. I hope GitHub does stay around... I do not care for their "politics" but I like their service.
Do you believe that "dumping" in the hopes of obtaining a monopoly is a real thing that happens or at least happened? (e.g. Standard Oil)

Leaving aside the question of what their intentions are, do VCs do something economically equivalent?

And now bringing back intentions, if the economic effects (and the resulting impact on customers) are the same, does the intention matter?
https://material.io/ has completely janky scrolling behavior in Firefox 50 on a 2015 MBP. Unacceptable