skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whatever is available, and the next most available messenger is SMS

I would argue that at this point it is either Messenger (facebook) or Snapchat.
The “D” in “DNC” Doesn't Stand for Democracy
It would have been nice to have been able to hold Obama accountable with something like this, unless there was and I'm just not aware of it. It'll be a tough 4 years for Trump, that's for sure.
Which makes me wonder what search network ads look like in a hypothetical world in not so distant future if audio interfaces were primary search tool and output for the results.

Personally, at this point I'd rather pay Google a monthly subscription and get everything ad-free. That would align their interests with their users who would then be the customers vs the product and free up Google to do what is best for them in cases where ads may not make sense.
> What you think others will benefit from should have not bearing on regulation in my opinion

That is literally why every regulation gets passed. Because someone thinks someone will benefit.
edit: my experience has been with Erlang deployments, I don't yet know what the landscape is like for Elixir - at least the first part of my comment below can be disregarded. I would assume it's similar to deploying an erlang application, but I don't know for sure.

I think the second part is still possible, since if it can be done for Erlang it can be done for Elixir.

-- Original post --

I haven't found production deployments to be particularly painful, I'd be interested to hear what kind of troubles you've run into.

Runtime configuration is definitely possible - you can deploy configuration files with your application and determine which one you want to load. It's not built-in, but it's a few lines of code to do it manually. You can also always use environment variables, which is arguably a better approach.
I run erlang in production; our deploy is push code, compile, l(foo) from debug shell. (push code and compile driven by Makefile). It doesn't follow the OTP deployment model, but it's easy.
The irony is that foraging for food can be lots of fun. The monotony and sheer volume of work a picker does is what makes it such a bad job.
Atlassian is really good at growing Trello like business. I bet their marketinf/growth folks are salivating.
Low, even for a startup. Those numbers almost imply pre-revenue.

Revenue machines generate $1mil / employee: companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

Startups in growth mode can plausibly run around $100k with the excuse that they're spending cash ahead of revenue. Efficient startups with great revenue growth can do $200k-$400k.

If you're much below $100k, you should have something you're planning to monetize later. It seems that Trello is focused on getting users now and turning on an aggressive pricing model later.
I would like to see this for all of Congress.

Also stick all the bills under a public accessible version control so we can see who is adding what to a bill.
I was just talking about this at lunch, by really weird coincidence. You were leading the funniest GitHub pull request I've ever taken part in. It went something like this:

Me: "I've created a PR to allow .cur and .mid files, like the good ol' days."

You: "Wtf is a .cur?"

Person 2: "It's windows cursor format."

You: "(many paragraphs, tl;dr: Sorry, but we're not recreating Geocities.)"

~ one year later ~

You: "I caved. I've merged, sorry for being a dick."

After so long, I'd completely forgotten about the PR and found it hilarious that you eventually merged my PR. I'm happy to see things continue forward :D
I don't think that it will ever work on PyPy. The data stored in the `co_code` field is a super set of the instructions python understands. The `co_code` data starts with a prelude which is the repl and builtin words, then there is a large chunk of unallocated data (starting as `NOP`) followed by a suffix except block. Once you define a new word from within the interpreted phorth code you will write the address of each word called into the code object at the HERE marker, which starts at the beginning of the `NOP` segment. Basically if you write a word like: `: square dup * ;` then you will be writing the address of `dup` over the first two `NOP`s, then the address of `*` over the next two `NOP`s, finally you write the address of a return procedure over the next two `NOP`s after that. These are not valid instructions for the interpreter loop but the normal interpreter never hits them.
Of course, the current isn't infinite in a superconductor...

In short, V=IR is a simple model and doesn't apply to superconductors (as mentioned in other comments above)
ooooooh you are one of those "FREE MARKET WILL FIX IT" people.

Well, ignoring that the whole idea just makes me suspect you live in a fantasy world, ISPs frequently have regional monopolies. They aren't going out of business because thye provide shitty service because the internet has become something people rely on. Losing it would be a big blow.

Comcast thrives despite being absolutely despised by a large percentage of their customer base.
Basically you're arguing that we could say that "X" in the US is the norm, because worldwide this amount of "X" is the norm, where in this case X = "gender equality".

And arguments like that in some cases raise a valid point. But when "X" is morally repugnant, your argument appears cold, calculating and statistical.
...if you expect to have new future partners and if you expect that you haven't been infected much already. This is why insurance companies don't cover the costs beyond a certain age, I believe.
I can't believe the CEO of Gitlab has time to read all these threads. Do you use an HN bot yourself to see Gitlab mentions?
Stop projecting your own voice into the other person’s text
What do you mean? Couldn't you sign up for a Business Class account? [1]

[1] https://trello.com/pricing
I'm afraid, not this time.
Medical devices and emergency services are a red herring. They're the ISPs' "think of the children" play.
This site has estimates for agricultural workforce over time:
https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-employment/

It is impressive to see how small the fraction has gotten already.
What's with that garbage at the bottom right? I'm trying to read your article. Why would I want to talk to you before reading your article? Made me stop reading.
It's the same thing for practical purposes if it achieves the same aim.
yes absolutely I believe that is how investments get decided on big corporations. think about it, the only goal of any CEO is to drive the stock price up. investing on sexy projects create hype and drives the stock prices up, the more you get media coverage about your new project and more people here about it, there going to be more investors and stock prices are going higher !
No. My dad is a peach farmer. Human workers are more expensive than automation, but not only that: they are difficult to find and come with tons of regulation and legal risk.

Peach harvesting machines exist and my dad would love to use them, however they bruise the peaches too much to be used. Current machines simply shake the tree and let all the peaches fall into a net. Also, those machines are single purpose but picking is not the only labor intensive task. Thinning, propping, and pruning also require a lot of labor.

GP has been downvoted, but I think they're right to some extent. There is huge potential for robotics in farming, and although some projects exist I think there is underinvestment relative to other areas. Some of the most advanced and productive farms in the world are less than two hours drive from the heart of Silicon Valley, yet I see no collaboration there.
This may speak more to the uselessness of what it means to be attached to a paper more than any one person.

It still seems like the authorship is a means to an end of eyeballs. Academia drags its body slowly on....
What is an example of a medical device that needs a physically separate network?
Any feedback on the tool would be highly appreciated!
It's funny how two people can read the same article and come away with opposite impressions. I didn't see anything in the article mourning the loss of these jobs. I won't mourn the displaced jobs either. They're physically demanding, don't offer steady employment, and don't pay very well.

I didn't see anything like Luddism expressed or implied in the article. Is it Luddism if articles about labor saving technology don't always tack on a fairy tale ending that goes "...and the surplus workers lived happily ever after, assured that Lump of Labor is a fallacy and that there's no such thing as demand satiation."?
Why doesn't this exist? It seems like an instant win.
There's probably a billion+ dollar market for this, especially if you can GUI-fy it enough. My guess is a good test group would be paralegals. If they can "click together" contracts with up to date modules you're probably on the right track.

Super long term it could also be interesting if you could provide a fill in the blanks mask for clients that generates your contracts (a simple workflow where they fill in some details like names, corp, state etc. and a "what do you want")
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We read quite a bit on here about robots and machine learning replacing jobs. Yet productivity growth seems to be almost stagnant, last I heard. So judging by the statistics, this is as yet not a real, large scale phenomenon.
>Lavabit believes in privacy and will always ensure your digital freedom.

>Asks for your credit card information on the same page.

Wew, at least let us use buttcoin, Levison.
I don't know all that much about Mr. Singhal, so I have no idea if this may be true in his case, but I suspect that great engineers are frequently not the best judges of a company's prospects, especially when there are numerous factors other than the strength of their technology that will determine how they perform.

With respect to Uber, regardless of anything else, they have lots of cash with which to compensate key hires, and plenty of interesting problems to work on. That might be enough.
Okay...the top two publicly visible leaders in the space leaving in the same timeframe could mean something. Perhaps in this case it does not. I don't think either of us knows for sure. It does, however, pique my interest in what the group direction is now.

What of the decision to not replace Matt with a specific role or person? Is that not interesting?

And, again, I mentioned many other observations, not just Amit and Matt.

Edit: If the primary driver was lack of expertise in the ML direction, Uber seems an odd place to land, doesn't it?
Userbase is large enough already... problem ia more of a monetization one?
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So it was acquired with a multiplier of 106x its revenues. WOW
> Because voting isn't important

Voting is absolutely important. It makes it easier to gauge the community's reaction to issues, PRs, and comments, and cuts down on "me too" type comments which might otherwise clutter issues.

> plaintext is easier to deal with than markdown

Markdown _is_ plain text. I've been writing all my comments up to this point in Markdown. Did you notice?

> Plaintext works in a terminal and with embedded patches and inline replies and so on.

So does Markdown. The difference is that Markdown can _also_ be rendered as pretty, fully-formatted text in a web browser.
> i think it can probably be summed up with the sentence

Hmm ... for anyone reading it, the article covers a lot more than the specifications for selling your dataset.
I did some kaggle contests using image stuff.

With regards to nlp, I have a site that is using a spider to collect headlines for stocks and I have been working on clustering, sentiment analysis, and text summarization. But it's I haven't completed it.

http://www.teslanewsfeed.com/
Downvotes happen. Maybe someone fat fingered. Maybe someone doesn't like you because of a different post. No point in dwelling on it, and in any event often enough it swings back later.
Why do you say that? Last I checked money still had a lot of utility in our society.
It very possibly depends on your local laws, but I would check with a lawyer in your country before pushing that limit.
I have a hard time figuring out where Neil Cybart fits into the world of Apple punditry and analytics. He seems to have ambitions to succeed in both areas, but I don't think he has much traction.

Technical folks like us don't care very much about Cybart's views on the Apple executive inner sanctum -- we're more interested in the Apple ecosystem of development tools, products, and services, and where they fit into the larger high-tech universe. Besides, he wants us to pay him to read his punditry. Heaven forbid!

Wall Street investors and analysts probably don't trust him much and don't value his perspective -- to them, he's a maverick and an outsider. Some of them may subscribe to his newsletter, but I doubt if they take it seriously.
Not really. Most spreadsheets(~88%) have errors.

"Sorry, Your Spreadsheet Has Errors (Almost 90% Do)"

https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2014/09/how-to-reduce-spread...

The 2008 source article is

"What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors"

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/Mypapers/whatknow.htm
> How do you incentivize "produce less goods/generate less profit"[1]?

Simple, you make the fines bigger.

Until the fines become an existential threat to the company, the fines are too small.

Once the fines actually start impacting the returns, everybody inside the company will start paying more attention.
It's worked very well in many markets.
no free plan this time?
pity.
I would be ok with arguments against net neutrality except:

1. There is no competition in any given market for the most part. ISPs are defacto monopolies in most places. When the same politicians arguing against net neutrality are trying to pass laws prohibiting municipal broadband, it makes no sense.

2. ISPs have benefited from, and depend on, resources and favors granted to them by the public. They run cable on public land, have benefited from right-of-way laws, and have received financial assistance. The internet itself is fundamentally a publicly developed resource. It's ludicrous to argue that they aren't legally obligated to the public interest at some basic level. Want to get rid of net neutrality? Fine. But then I should be able to charge you unlimited amounts for running your cables over my land. So should the city.

3. Legally, it makes no sense for ISPs to argue that they can discriminate packets for one purpose but not another. So if they can discriminate between packets, they should be legally responsible for all traffic on their network. Child porn happening on your network? You're legally responsible because you didn't actively filter it, just as if child porn creation was happening in my house, I'd be responsible.

I don't really understand why all these things aren't being argued. How did we get to some idea that ISPs just invented the internet and built it completely on their own land, using their own resources, with no assistance, and are somehow simultaneously totally unresponsible for anything that occurs on their networks, and that it would be unfair for the government to offer competing services?

If ISPs want to gid rid of net neutrality, they should be held accountable for the true consequences.
You might be able to fix that with something like babel-plugin-lodash which can be ran over your code (and deps) to enforce cherry-picking across the board.

https://github.com/lodash/babel-plugin-lodash
Code for Magma Mail Server: https://github.com/lavabit/magma

Code for DIME (Dark Internet Mail Environment):https://github.com/lavabit/libdime
I completely disagree with this.

I run a startup here in India. Practically speaking the main problems that we face are more administrative in nature. We spend almost 40-60 percent of our time sorting out issues from accounting, raising capital, convincing investors to back ideas here from India and most importantly educating them.

More protectionism will definately mean a lot more difficulty in convincing international investors from looking seriously at us since at the end of the day, they need to be able to take out money if the want to.

What we need desperately is a strong administrative and LEGAL framework to support business; This will really raise investor confidence both domestic and international. And overall give people the ability to compete at a global level.

Indians are brilliant and dont need handouts or protection.. All we need is an decent environment and we can take anyone on.
> "No man is better than a machine, and no machine is better than a man with a machine."

This concept also is popular in the military AI R&D world where the human-computer combination is called a 'centaur' (based on what I've read; I'm not of that world).
Trustful seems like a strange way to refer to the insecure mode. It is indeed full of trust, but not in the way a normal read would suggest: it requires full trust in Lavabit's hosting provider and administrator.

If you're going to operate in "trustful" mode, lavabit isny offering any real security wins over any other mail host.
I agree with this comment, so why was it deleted?
If you read the blog, you'd see that the system he's suggesting is somewhat more robust than a spreadsheet. His example at the end is the Google Forms builder, which at least does a modicum of input validation, unlike your typical direct-entry spreadsheet.

And the point is not to completely dismiss the idea with a glib soundbite like that, but to actually take seriously building tools like spreadsheets that allow non-technical users to build data-driven systems.
I stopped reading when the chatbox obscured the screen also. I'm confused on what the author is trying to achieve.
Snarly! Suspected as much.
Yeah. Most people (well, back in the DOS days anyway) who don't know what a "7-bit encoding" is would refer to code pages as "ASCII". I'm sure I did that hundreds of times myself (I didn't know better until I was what, 20?) and I've seen it thousands of times, not exaggerating. Just look at how many "[extended] ASCII games" there are.
I wonder if there are no updates or they are simply not pushed. Similar thing happened to Telegram [1]. Client is open-source and functional, but Google Play version is not what you can build from the source.

Explain Lavabit page phrases it like Magma supports only Trusted mode: "We envision Trustful mode as the mode of choice for businesses, which have regulatory requirements, data retention practices, and unique needs like escrow keys. Lavabit’s free and open source server, Magma, supports these users." Are other modes supported?

[1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

[2] https://lavabit.com/explain-lavabit.html

UPDATE: https://twitter.com/kingladar/status/822583975067713536

"The website is live, but it will take another day or so to finish deploying magma, and get the latest code into Github."

Looks like code is just not pushed yet, it was just withheld until release.
Is there any person as trustworthy as Ladar Levison for a service like email or chat?

To my knowledge, he is one of the few that has gone to the mat for his users.
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Obviously this wasn't about revenue!

A sane valuation is 2x-10x revenue, so their bet is that this quickly can be turned into something that generates $30m a year. You could think about this as incremental to a business with $400mm a year in revenue: are there enough people using Trello that, with a few points of integration, could be convinced to switch to Atlassian products? You'd "only" need to add 10% to your growth for this year to feel like this is worth it.

Realistically, this is probably more of a strategic play. Atlassian wants to own the development workflow, and Trello is one of only a couple players in this space that are entrenched enough to be attractive. If you assume the market for dev tools is $100b (think total value of Github's market + Slack's market + StatusPage's + ...), buying a dominant market share in one of ~10 major products for half a billion isn't crazy. As Trello-type tools move from "a good way to interact with the business" to "crucial for all development teams", this may just be a way to keep themselves from dying. Success is merely being a player in this space.
The tech industry ignores it because it will never return the home run that VC capital needs.

Merely profitable businesses don't fit into the tech ecosystem very well.
> what's wrong with mailing lists?

* They have no relation to code. It's difficult to discuss patches.
* I don't want to make my email public (mailing lists are public).
* The interface for threaded conversations is almost always terrible.
* It's trivial to get your concerns ignored. This is much harder will pull requests (but still possible).

> UI-wise, each dev is free to access their mail however they like.

If they all suck equally, I'm not sure this is a good thing. I certainly don't want to waste my own time coding around the deficiencies of a medium that wasn't built for holding complex conversations.

> As for GitHub pull requests, I've never actually seen the appeal.

Well, they make it super easy to leave comments on code and iterate before accepting. I've literally never seen this happen quickly via a mailing list: it's either poor quality when it's accepted, or it takes forever to merge.

Most of all, though, if I need to figure out how to generate and mail a patch, I'm not going to even bother looking up the mailing list: I know it's not worth my time. This is exactly the type of problem git is good at solving; why resist?
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OP. Yea, that was interesting on my end using chat. I probably would hate that on your end as much you did. I did have some pretty fun conversations though. I removed it, because that got exhausting.
Another explanation for their leaving is that the overall strategy around Search is changing and now outside of those two individuals' realm of expertise.

I work for Google but this is pure speculation on my part.
In the end we did, but it was ultimately a donation, because none of paid features was useful in our case.
Any reason I shouldn't sign up right now?

edit: Signed up. Half off for life is a sweet deal.
IIRC those exist for law firms and they are called knowledgebases or knowledge management (which also are broader technical terms). I came across them years ago doing some research, though I didn't look into them deeply.

Management can be difficult: Each 'module' needs a maintainer, someone responsible for keeping it updated, fixing problems, finding ways to integrate new concepts and requirements, etc. Based on what I know of law firms, finding attorneys with the time and attention for that can be difficult.