skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "Whole Foods bullshit whatever alternative" is making your own toast with jam

No, I'm not sure where you'd get that idea - WF sells several fancy organic and overpriced 'toaster pastries'.
Interesting! Looking... Does it have file system API? It it similar to NodeJS?
At some point there was a fake uBlock Origin in the Chrome Web Store and it ranked even higher than the original (afaik). Since then I'm a bit wary recommending browser extensions.
"if the government creates new money"

In other words you are asking the government to steal value from people who own debt and give it to people who owe debt. That is neither fair nor an obvious win in the long run.
As other poster said, business cards are important in Asia (not only Japan). Hand it over and receive it with two hands, inspect it carefully, hold it or leave it on the table for a while (don't just stuff it away immediately).

Having said that, I have for a while now used a dedicated email address for business cards to track its effectiveness, and extremely rarely receive anything on there.
I can't be the only one that has almost zero faith the music industry won't ruin Spotify? I'm sure it won't be deliberate, just a combination of stubbornness, greed and living in the past.

Spotify and music is like a library and books. It's fantastic and accessible for listening and discovery. I'm hard pushed to find a friend that didn't use napster or limewire that's moved to Spotify - it's just easy, there and the price is right. And with the exception of a few hold out artists (lost back catalogues, or smaller artists who are unaware of 100% revenue services like distrokid.com) it's pretty complete. It'll be such a shame if it slowly goes the way of the buffalo.
Isn't a possible answer that people's (net of tax) incomes are flat, but they can still afford to increase consumption because these services are government subsidized (directly or indirectly)?
The OP did not make an absurd extreme claim. He or she asked for evidence attempting to diagnose whether it's true. You reject the commenters' anecdotal evidence.
I doubt that FB is doing this, but I'm sure they are knowingly or unknowingly, buying data from someone who does.
Actually it's 12km. But that's beside the point. Unterschleißheim is not part of Munich itself, so in regards to the corporate tax it does make a difference to both cities where it is paid (and we are talking about millions of euros here).
100 year old 1917 Stanley Steamer still runs
How is it "absurd extreme" though ?

Things like Amazon Echo exist and are used for all sorts of purposes, including making purchases and being available for law enforcement.

Gmail is an advertising company who actively listens in on the conversations you have on on their services (i.e. gmail) and uses it to display ads.

Facebook is an advertising company and data mines the hell out of all the data about you they can get their hands on to be able to sell targeted ads.

The specific use-case of "listening to you talk with your mouth, analyzing it and then showing you ads based on it" might not be explicitly be mentioned in the Facebook TOS, but it's the very natural extension of their business model keeping in pace with technology.
It is. The farmer's complaint is that they have to do it.
If I assume for a moment that the microphone actually is being listened to for ad keywords… why would it have to be Facebook, specifically, who's listening? It could be another rogue service feeding back to Facebook.
I get the complaint, but some of those cliched "In the footsteps of..." books are actually pretty good. I recently read Douglas Mack's "Europe on Five Wrong Turns A Day", in which the author tries to visit Europe in the modern day using a 1963 copy of Arthur Frommer's classic "Europe on Five Dollars a Day". It wasn't just the obvious "things are more expensive now", but really about how the whole idea of travel is so different from in the 1960s.
Although I do agree for a niche field AI. My original question is how do you get ahead of giants in a generic way once you come out of that niche. If we imagine internet as a book - google has that complete book in its servers with more understanding than any one. A niche field might be equivalent to a line in that book.
I think your right. There might be a chance that one day an all encompassing communication mechanism that can do video, audio, group and 1on1 data as well as instant and fire and forget could potentially slowly replace email given time and delivery.

But how it gets delivered matters, it can't be locked up in IP and sold by a company because its competing with free and open standard and that means there isn't any practical money in it directly. The only competitor to email is the updated open standard that is better.

There can be a better email standard, it can be delivered in a more modern way and have the "isms" improved and be able to do it all. What it can't be is anything but another open standard and free.
Thanks.

1. Windows laptop, I take it? Or any laptop?

2. Even if specifics are hard to provide, a pointer to best information, a clear statement that "Any concrete advice about crossing borders is hard to give right now" (in fact that exact phrase strikes me as excellent), and perhaps a pointer to a larger document with laws pertaining to specific countries. Ranked, say, by interest and/or travel volume. World Bank has listings: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?year_high_de...

3. Even people providing legal aid may have support teams who could assimilate the information. Out-of-document link here. Think staged information delivery.

7. It's an effective format for communciation. There are several generators (caveat emptor) as well. For MacOS, it would be easy to create a local generator using wordlists (I've done same on Linux). The problem is actually that the system dictionaries are generally too comprehensive and have really obscure words in them. A GUI wrapper around a Very Simple Shell Script would tend to give good outputs.
That's missing the point. The author wanted to test the write speed and found that mkfile was not a good tool to test with.
I think Spotify will die in 5-10 years, but not because of royalty fee woes. We will not go back to the "buy a song for $1" model of the early 2000s.

But it will die because of the moonopolistic and anti-competitive practices of the popular OSes:
Apple preinstalls Apple Music, Google Play music, and Microsoft Groove (all 3 clones of Spotify). This agressive, monopolistic behaviour will kill Spotify, just like MS rival browsers with Netscape.
Do you have a local butcher? Whole Foods has nice meat, but I've always gotten better from a butcher shop (though I generally only go there when, as you said, the meat is the feature of the meal).
I think that Slack would argue that they are disrupting email. We have many fewer internal emails at work now - most are directed at clients.

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc. Are strong contenders for replacing email to friends.

Not trying to avoid your question, but I think the future of email isn't a better protocol or SMTP client enhancement, it's apps that provide a better way of communicating a given task.

As it turns out, the major feature of email (being able to message anyone) is also a huge drawback (communications inundated with spam).
The removal of corporate bullshit signatures and legal disclaimers that are 10x the size of the actual email content.

Oh, and secure end-to-end encryption that is simple to set up and use safely.
Totally lost here.

What service is this SaaS actually selling? What are people paying money for?
Possibly email addresses that won't accept more than 200 plain text chars, so real people get to the point quickly and spam becomes easier to determine.
We have viable replacements - our habits just haven't caught up to the tools.

Corporate e-mail assigns each employ a revocable identity, groups employees into roles, and allows people to have private and public conversations. Tools like Slack have become ubiquitous at software companies, and they provide the _exact_ same functionality, with a foundation on realtime communication that I believe is more productive. We still use e-mail for corporate announcements and engagement when we really don't have to, and I think we'll stop as we get better at it.

e-mail is just one piece of the corporate communication story though - document creation and storage are another "standard" feature. Slack's "Plus" plan is $12.50/user/month [0]. Premium G-Suite and Microsoft's Office 365 are $10/user/month and $12.50/user/month [1] [2]. You can tell just be the price tags and features that these companies are competing for shares of the same corporate communication pie.

Slack right now is a player partly because the can backfill their shortcomings here by integrating with G-Suite tools. You can see Slack trying to backfill with Posts, Slack Calls, and I'd bet they're working on other high leverage features (they have a lot of catch-up to do) to stay competitive as the core of their platform faces competition from the likes of Microsoft Teams and open source alternatives [3].

On thing e-mail is better at is person to person contact outside the context of any organization. e-mail succeeds because I need one piece of information to contact you (a public address), and I can be contacted by one public address as well, no matter the tribe (gmail, outlook, etc.). Maybe a global chatroom with name-spaced public address would be a decent alternative?

[0] https://slack.com/pricing
[1] https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en_us/pricing.html
[2] https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-all-microsoft-offi...
[3] http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/27/5-open-source-alternatives...
Terrorism as performance art, successfully gaining the sympathies of the population (provided it isn't too extreme) and driving the government to give the terrorists what they want?

This is the kind of thing I'd expect in Yemen or Somalia, not western Europe.

I think I'm shocked mainly because I never viewed the cultural differences between the US and Europe as being this large. Admittedly I've only been to France once; I suspect in the UK or Netherlands (places I'm more familiar with) attitudes would be a lot closer to US.
On my iPad, the Privacy settings for Microphone do not even have entries for the official FB or Twitter apps, so I'm not sure how this could be done on iOS. So I wonder if the user is using a different platform in question?
> The depreciating nature of real estate in Japan is okay because they're a nation of savers

They were a nation of savers (15+ years ago).

Dec 2014: "Japan’s savings rate turns negative for first time"

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30603313

Chart:

http://i.imgur.com/X3uwYCp.png

The Japanese Government had to shift to Yen debasement to deal with their debt because there was no longer enough of a savings base to sell their immense debt requirements into. The Japanese famously own most of their debt, previously funded by that high savings rate. The consequence of that debt and Yen destruction, is the Japanese standard of living is being hammered.

Their savings rate has fallen from ~15% in 1990, to basically 0%-2% now. This is happening simultaneously while their consumer economy struggles along as it has for decades. What happened? They've debased the Yen so much, and Japan has fallen so far behind on economic growth (they climbed above the US on GDP per capita by 1988, were 50% higher by 1995, and will soon be 50% below the US), that the high cost of living in eg Tokyo now consumes too much of their incomes to be able to save like they used to.

Today, Japan's GDP per capita is comparable to where it was in the early 1990s. In that time, China has increased its GDP 20 fold, South Korea and the US have roughly tripled their GDP. South Korea should catch Japan on per capita GDP in the next decade at the rate things are going (30 years ago there was 6x gap between them). Japan's GDP per capita is about 20%-25% lower than it was in 1995.

Some people blame the lack of population growth on Japan's inability to grow its economy. Germany has tripled its economy with zero population growth. Austria has tripled its economy with 10% population growth. Sweden has had sub 20% population growth over 30 years, and tripled their economy (South Korea has performed similarly on both metrics). There are far too many examples of low population growth countries substantially boosting their economies, for that to be the primary issue (especially given Japan's population growth was a mere 10% between 1980 and 1995, despite a huge leap in economic output).

Hysterical deflationary economists have proclaimed for two decades that Japan was suffering vicious deflation. The fact is, they haven't actually suffered much deflation, their CPI has been more flat than down meaningfully the last 30 years. Chopping the Yen to pieces to deal with debt, is rapidly inflating away their economic position in the world, while the lack of falling prices is crushing their standard of living (prices have stayed expensive, while real disposable income has fallen, eradicating savings).
Yeah, that draft was abandoned though, but some of the ideas have been incorporated in the CSS3 display model.
Rails is f*cking boring I love it
Please don't "disrupt" the last open standard alive in online communication.
The thing that will kill email is its lack of encryption. I'm surprised to see on here that nobody is talking about encryption, but it's very important. Most companies are not using it, and the email encryption options available are far too clunky to be used effectively. Key negotiation needs to be built into the protocol, ala Signal.
I don't think it can be killed. I do think you can make an email++, but agree with the other comment that it would have to only be for business. I think the thing that is missing is more structure and management capabilities. The only problem is how do you have it be interoperable with an email clients that don't have your new thing. One thing you have to start with is what are the things that really really suck with email, imo: inability to opt-out of threads, no ability to say what type of email it is (INFO, REQUEST, PITCH, COMPLETE, etc.), no ability say that a response/work is required and by whom and by what date, hard to not lose the important facts of the email after 25 replies, etc....

Quite frankly I can think of a bunch of other things as well. I don't have time right now but I would look at adding structured data at the top of the email that you can parse but shows up nicely as text in other clients, for example (assuming html email, just off the top....)

<div style="color:white;">
<div id="type">REQUEST</div>
<div id="response">No</div>
<div id="duedate">14Feb2016</div>
<div id="assignee">bob@example.com</div>
<div id="keypoint-1">We don't have a good backup procedure</div>
<div id="keypoint-2">We've never tested our backups</div>
<div id="keypoint-3">We've never built a clone network from our backup</div>
</div>

You can now parse/search/filter based on this data. You can manage tasks right in email and have a button to say "done" that sends an email back to the originator that they know it is done. There are a lot of other things too but I need to go do work now :(. I'll monitor this thread if you want to discuss further. (/sigh, I wish HN had integrated private messages)
Which platform was your FB app installed on? iOS does not provide mic access to FB at all, it's not even in the privacy options as that app has never requested mic access.
BTW, I assumed you meant "ligatures" (for joined letters)? (Not sure what "ligations" are - maybe autocorrect... :-)
Wow, that's an impressive levels of paranoia! :)

I used to have to do w/o the web for the longest time - but fortunately not w/o email!

So in desperate cases I used my telephone for web access and copy/pasted stuff into an email to myself@company.

In the mean time I do have web access there, but I had to ask the head of department to e-sign his approval on the application. Fortunately, he's a cool and reasonably guy and signed it no questions asked.
From the audiblemagic.com Website linked to by another commentator:

"The Leading Automated Content Recognition Solution"

"Content ID Software & Information Services for Networks, Cloud Platforms, Devices & Apps"

"Make your smart device, application, or platform content aware in the presence of media streams or ambient audio."

Ambient audio. In other words, they turn your phone into a listening device then analyze what it hears for commercial purposes, albeit supposedly only for picking up the sound of copyrighted material.
I thought it was "serverless"? what does "sharding" have to do with anything? I'm sorry but it seems like you throw around some vocabulary that doesn't describe your project properly, to make it look bigger than it really is. That's nice marketing but it does not feel like there is much effort put into it, when I looked at your bash script.
I think people are already making a big impact by moving back to urban centers, increasing the demand for transit and housing. I'm astonished by the number of new developments going up in Minneapolis.
Email has its problems, but it is one of the cornerstones of authentication messages exchange. Are you going to shake this one?
does Slack have an on premise option? because I think many corporate customers would definitely pay for it, despite all the cloud/saas hype. there are still orgs out there that dont want their comms outside their premises.
Better email.

An email can contain multiple arbitrary payloads. It's almost like HTTP, except it's asynchronous. We already have the infrastructure to deliver messages from anyone to anyone. Why keep trying to destroy it when we could take advantage of the existing infrastructure instead? I don't see anyone rallying to disrupt HTTP. Why all the obsession with disrupting email?

We could use different Content-Types to embed all sorts of structured information in an email, and standardize the hell out of it. A schedule for an event. An item to go on your TODO list. A link to click for confirmation. If you can express it in JSON, you can attach it to an email. And the resulting messages will be 100% backward compatible with old email clients, just like newer versions of HTTP.

There are endless possibilities for email as long as you don't try to get everyone on your own proprietary platform. Otherwise you will be just another messaging service that has nothing to do with email, and email users will happily ignore you. Don't fall into that pitfall. You need to make your solution an essential part of people's email workflow, rather than trying to steer people toward a different workflow.
Google Wave is definitely going to change how we do email and instant messaging and also document collaboration.

Oh, whoops, for a second I thought it was last decade.
Yes happened to me. I was discussing about a food item (Anchovies fish) within a day or two I saw some ad about restaurants famous for Anchovies. It was very surprising for me because I havent searched or even typed those words in my mobile.
So the best offer the WSJ can provide is "All Access Digital" for $198 over 12 months, after which the price is doubled to $396 for the same length of time. That means, eventually, you'll be spending about $33 a month just to read what are mostly AP stories without even the guarantee of an ad-free experience.

How is this attractive?
Incident Pit
No one liked Cantor
McLaren P1 requires an ancient Compaq laptop to service, because nothing else will connect to the car.

http://jalopnik.com/this-ancient-laptop-is-the-only-key-to-t...
I drove through some farmlands in California on vacation a few years ago, and the magnitude is astonishing. Never seen anything close in Europe.
Some years ago I picked up the habit from a predecessor of testing such things with dd instead, that way you can experiment with the effect of different block sizes, so like -

dd of=/dev/zero of=/ddtest.out myfile bs=64k count=65536
Coincidence. FB has over a billion daily users and each one communicates dozens of concepts per day - if each person sees numerous ads per day then it's a statistical certainty that someone, somewhere happens to get an ad that matches up with something they mentioned earlier in that day or week. This is the same reason why everyone has a story about a dream that came true.
There's a fairly well known graphic of all the companies that have taken chunks of Craigslist and to varying degrees supplanted them:

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4dd4d1cf4bd7c8c90f0...

Email is being disrupted similarly.

Slack/Chat -> Intra-team communications. But also sales inquiries (those ubiquitous: 'We're here to help!' toaster style popups on every company site) and status notifications (for instance StatusPage was bought by Atlassian in large part to merge into HipChat).

Internal Social -> Many people are familiar with Yammer (which is FB for within a company), but other services like Salesforce, etc have versions of this internally. You could also consider services like Jive in this.

External Social -> I've run some fairly substantial mailing lists and social accounts. For something like a non emergency information sender ("Weekly GoLang Tips!") it's about evenly split with people signing up for the newsletter vs signing up on Twitter.
"[0] says downtown NYC is upwards of $2k, hitting $3-4k in certain areas (1 bedroom). My impression is that there's not much of a way of avoiding this.
...
But you can easily find cheaper places if you're willing to be a bit further from the station (nobody wants to be a 12 minute walk from the station), or if you're willing to live near the less fun stations on the Yamanote. "

I'm not familiar with Tokyo neighborhoods, but it sounds like you are comparing apples and oranges. Manhattan is not the same as NYC--there are four other boros. Not all of that has subway access but huge swaths of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens do. I live in a one bedroom in Queens, 3 blocks from the subway, for less than $1500/month.
I don't like that it is just a composition of bash and the filesystem. I'd just do this:

id=$(uuidgen)

echo '{"hi":"mom"}' | jq . > id

cat id
Zulip and Mattermost are alternatives that can be hosted (they're both open source software).

[0] https://about.mattermost.com/
[1] https://zulip.org/server.html
It's called IRC/Jabber + whatever web/GUI/CLI UI is desired. Many companies deploy it internally.
With the backend powered by NodeJS, of course.
You can also get a buffer overflow in Python and Java by abusing their equivalents of "unsafe".
No external library is used in these modules just Perl5 native regex engine.

NB. I think thats also same for Parsec (built out of Haskell's parser combinators)

BTW - Damian created both of them, Regexp::Grammars was his replacement for his Parse::RecDescent.
Thx for the link to the paper. It is a useful read in its own right.

It provides an overview of other processing framework,
explains why C++ was chosen, explains various bottlenecks and their affect.

I had worked with KMeans before, and happy to see as part of bench-marking, as it seems one of the more widely used approaches for unsupervised learning.

In my view, Thrill is similar in composite-ability and integration into existing code objectives to Python's Dask
Author here. I'm on the road today so latency will be high but I'm happy to answer any questions people have. Also, a shameless plug: I'm still coding in and writing about Lisp. Some currently active projects:

https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib

https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP

https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/tweetnacl...

And I just finished (but have not yet published) a Lisp implementation of the Signal double-ratchet. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll publish that too.
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